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The Whitlam mob
By Mungo MacCallum. 2014
A delightful portrait gallery that evokes a turbulent time.In The Whitlam Mob, Mungo gives a sharp, witty and very personal…
account of the main characters of the Whitlam years - from Gough and Margaret to Lionel Murphy, Bill Hayden and Jim Cairns. Due attention is also given to 'the other mob' in opposition - Malcolm Fraser, Billy McMahon, John Gorton and more.Replete with anecdote, analysis and gossip, The Whitlam Mob addresses some crucial questions: What was the night of the long prawns? Who was the parliament's leading pants man? And who was 'the toe-cutter'?Accompanied by a selection of cartoons and photos, this is Mungo at his best: vivid and barbed, nostalgic but always clear-eyed.The closed circle: an interpretation of the Arabs
By David Pryce-Jones. 2009
As the violence of the Middle East has come to America, many Westerners are stunned and confounded by this new…
form of mayhem that appears to be a feature of Arab societies. This important book explains how Arabs are closed in a circle defined by tribal, religious, and cultural traditions.Churchill's grand alliance: the Anglo-American special relationship 1940-57
By John Charmley. 1995
The Pearl Harbor myth: rethinking the unthinkable (Military Controversies Ser.)
By George Victor. 2007
Did U.S. intelligence know of Japan's coming attack on Pearl Harbor? Did President Roosevelt know? If so, why did he…
withhold warnings from the commanders in Hawaii? The answers are embedded in the cogent analysis of The Pearl Harbor Myth. Based on voluminous data that does not appear in other books on the topic, it discusses in detail Roosevelt's developing strategy-both military and diplomatic-and his secret alliances to save the world from Hitler. It contains a wealth of fresh material on secret diplomacy; on secret military strategy, planning, and intelligence; and on disguised combat operations that began six months before the Pearl Harbor attack.Jihadi John: the making of a terrorist
By Robert Verkaik. 2016
The only journalist to interview 'Jihadi John' reveals how Mohammed Emwazi went from London teenager to world's most wanted terrorist.…
When Islamic State's black-masked executioner, 'Jihadi John', was revealed to be Mohammed Emwazi, a 26-year-old IT graduate from west London, senior security editor Robert Verkaik was shaken more than most. In 2010 he'd interviewed this man. At the time Emwazi had claimed MI5 were ruining his life. He was desperate for his story to be told, believing that going public might force the security services to leave him alone. Verkaik's investigation into the making of 'Jihadi John' leads him to the disturbing questions that Emwazi left behind. What led him, and many other young Muslim men, to come to Verkaik for help in the first place? And why do hundreds of other Britons wish to join Islamic State? Frightening, thought provoking and urgent, Jihadi John assesses the threat IS poses to the UK and examines how the actions of our security services might help create the same enemy we're trying to defeat.The blood never dried: a people's history of the British Empire
By John Newsinger. 2013
News from nowhere: and other writings (Classics Ser.)
By William Morris. 1993
William Guest falls asleep after returning from a meeting of the Socialist League and awakes to find himself in a…
future society based on common ownership and democratic control of the means of production. In this society there is no private property, no big cities, no authority, no monetary system, no divorce, no courts, no prisons, and no class systems. This agrarian society functions simply because the people find pleasure in nature, and therefore they find pleasure in their work.Eve and the new Jerusalem: socialism and feminism in the nineteenth century
By Barbara Taylor. 1993
In the early nineteenth century, radicals all over Europe and America began to conceive of a 'New Moral World', and…
struggled to create their own utopias, with collective family life, communal property, free love and birth control. In Britain, the visionary ideals of the Utopian Socialist, Robert Owen, attracted thousands of followers, who for more than a quarter of a century attempted to put theory into practice in their own local societies, at rousing public meetings, in trade unions and in their new Communities of Mutual Association. Barbara Taylor's brilliant study of this visionary challenge recovers the crucial connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. In doing so, it opens the way to an important re-interpretation of the socialist tradition as a whole, and contributes to the reforging of some of those early links between feminism and socialism.Stalin's other war: Soviet grand strategy, 1939-1941
By Albert Loren Weeks. 2002
On June 22, 1941, just less than two years after signing the Nazi-Soviet Agreements, Adolf Hitler's German army invaded the…
Soviet Union. The attack hardly came as a surprise to Josef Stalin; in fact, history has long held that Stalin spent the two intervening years building up his defenses against a Nazi attack. With the gradual declassifying of former Soviet documents, though, historians are learning more and more about Stalin's grand plan during the years 1939-1941. Longtime Soviet expert Albert L. Weeks has studied the newly-released information and come to a different conclusion about the Soviet Union's pre-war buildup - it was not precaution against German invasion at all. In fact, Weeks argues, the evidence now suggests Soviet mobilization was aimed at an eventual invasion of Nazi Germany. The Soviets were quietly biding their time between 1939 and 1941, allowing the capitalist powers to destroy one another, all the while preparing for their own Westward march. Stalin, Weeks shows, wasn't waiting for a Nazi attack_Hitler simply beat him to the punch.Churchill's deception: the dark secret that destroyed Nazi Germany
By Louis C Kilzer. 1994
Churchill's Deception is the gripping story of how Winston Churchill outwitted Adolf Hitler into invading the Soviet Union - a…
move that changed the course of World War II. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Louis C. Kilzer has uncovered documentation which exposes this great and untold story, adding a new dimension to the legacy of Winston Churchill. Churchill's Deception describes how Great Britain shunned opportunities to end the war because it sought to dismember Germany, not merely to destroy Hitler. German generals were ready to topple the Fuhrer in 1939 and 1940, but only if Britain agreed not to take advantage of a civil war that would follow. England did not agree. And because of Hitler's own obsession about obtaining a pact with Great Britain, he offered to return his Western conquests in exchange for guarantees concerning Germany's interests in the East.Racing the enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the surrender of Japan
By Tsuyoshi Hasegawa. 2006
In the first international history of the end of World War II in the Pacific - the only book to…
fully integrate the roles of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan - Tsuyoshi Hasegawa traces an intricate diplomatic and military end game as he shatters standard accounts of the Japanese surrender.The unlucky Australians
By Frank Hardy. 2006
Story of Wave Hill strike 1966/67 for equal rights, conditions existing before strike; migration of Gurindji tribe to Wattie Creek,…
building their own village; information from Dexter Daniels, Aboriginal Union organiser, Vincent Lingiari, leader of Gurindji, Captain Major, Robert Tudawali.The pathology of power
By Norman Cousins. 1987
In this book, a seasoned commentator on world affairs discusses the way power in government becomes enlarged, exploited, and institutionalized--not…
just as the result of external dangers, real or contrived, but as the result of the way the arms race spills over into and dominates foreign policy.In his "Secret Speech" of February 1956 Nikita Khrushchev accused Joseph Stalin of immense crimes. Khrushchev's speech was a body…
blow from which the worldwide communist movement never recovered. It changed the course of history.JFK and the end of America: inside the Allen Dulles/LBJ plot that killed Kennedy
By Tim Fleming. 2018
JFK and the End of America is the culmination of Tim Fleming’s 50 years of research into the Kennedy assassination.…
The book makes the case that Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill the president. Rather, an elaborate plot, concocted and executed by a sinister, covert cabal, took Kennedy’s life. The plotters who stood to gain the most from JFK’s death – Lyndon Johnson and Allen Dulles – were abetted by powerful interests in government, business, and the military. Kennedy was moving America toward a permanent peace state, threatening the national security/military establishment whose existence is dependent on a permanent war state. Since 1963, we have been at war or under a threat of war, spending nearly six of every ten tax dollars on defense. It is vital to expose the truth of who killed Kennedy and why, if we are to understand the real history of America since 1963. Fleming draws a straight line from Dallas to the political and cultural divide that afflicts us today.The illusion of victory: America in World War I
By Thomas J Fleming. 2003
In this book, acclaimed historian Thomas Fleming undertakes nothing less than a drastic revision of America's experience in World War…
I. He reveals how the British and French duped Wilson and the American people into thinking the war was as good as won, and there would be no need to send an army overseas. He describes a harried president making speech after speech proclaiming America's ideals while supporting the Espionage and Sedition Acts that sent critics to federal prisons. Meanwhile, a government propaganda machine created a hate-driven "war will" that soon spilled over into attacks on ethnic Americans. On the Western Front, the Allies did their utmost to turn the American Expeditionary Force into cannon fodder. At the Paris Peace Conference, the cynical Europeans mocked Wilson and his ideals, and browbeat him into accepting the vengeful Treaty of Versailles, sowing the seeds of World War II.How to read the Bible book by book: a guided tour
By Gordon D Fee, Douglas K Stuart. 2002
The Morgenthau Plan: Soviet influence on American postwar policy
By John Dietrich. 2013
The Morgenthau Plan, the Allies' post-war policy that preceded the Marshall Plan, devastated what remained of Germany after the war…
was officially over. Was this 'economic idiocy' or intentional destruction of a surrendered country? The current work documents the drafting and implementation of the Morgenthau Plan, a plan that was designed to completely destroy the German economy, enslave millions of her citizens, and exterminate as many as 20 million people.Mao's last dancer
By Cunxin Li. 2003
In 1961, three years of Mao's Great Leap Forward - along with three years of poor harvests - had left…
a rural China suffering terribly from disease and deprivation. Li Cunxin, his parents' sixth son, lived in a small house with twenty of his relatives and, along with the rest of his family, subsisted for years on the verge of starvation. But when he was eleven years old, Madame Mao decided to revive the Peking Dance Academy, and sent her men into the countryside searching for children to attend. Chosen on the basis of his physique alone, Li Cunxin was taken from his family and sent to the city for rigorous training. What follows is the story of how a small, terrified, lonely boy became one of the greatest ballet dancers in the world.The grand old man of Australian politics: the life and times of Sir Henry Parkes
By Travers Robert, 1932-. 1992