Sunday, 23 June 2013

Review: Hsiao-Hung Pai, Invisible - Britain's Migrant Sex Workers

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I greatly admired Nick Broomfield's film Ghosts based on the researches of Hsiao-Hung Pai into the lives (and deaths) of Chinese mi...
Wednesday, 19 June 2013

Review: Brian Jones, Failing Intelligence

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"We know that he [ Saddam Hussein ] has stockpiles of major amounts of chemical and biological weapons ..."   Tony Blair on...
Sunday, 9 June 2013

Review: Calder Walton, Empire of Secrets

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It took me a long time to read this 350 + page book. It's not a gripping tale, but the outcome of an academic engagement with the hi...
Saturday, 13 April 2013

Review: Oliver Bullough, The Last Man in Russia

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When I saw this book on the table at Waterstones, I bought it at once: I had read Oliver Bullough's Let Our Fame Be Great ,  an i...
Tuesday, 9 April 2013

Review: Emil Draitser, Agent Dmitri - The Secret History of Russia's Most Daring Spy

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I like Spy books but the first half of this one left me uneasy. I took me some time to work out why but I think the problem is this. ...
Sunday, 17 March 2013

Review:Christopher de Bellaigue, Patriot of Persia - Muhammad Mossadegh and a Very British Coup

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The title is surprisingly misleading: it was an American coup, directed by Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt dispensing an awful lot of...
Monday, 4 March 2013

Review: James Barr, A Line In The Sand

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I am shocked. From the time in 1918 - when they were granted League of Nations mandates to run the former Ottoman Middle East -  until...