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Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot ZoneBy PublicAffairs |
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Hitler's Intelligence Chief: Walter SchellenbergBy Enigma Books |
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ColditzBy Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
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The Secret Life of Laszlo Almasy: The Real English PatientBy Viking
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The Generalship of Alexander the Great (Wordsworth Military Library)By Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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On and Off the Flight Deck: Reflections of a Naval Fighter Pilot in World War IIBy Pen & Sword Aviation |
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AttacksBy Athena Press (UT) |
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Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSSBy Naval Institute Press |
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The Making of a Soviet Scientist: My Adventures in Nuclear Fusion and Space - From Stalin to Star WarsBy John Wiley & Sons
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Architect of Victory: Douglas HaigBy Birlinn Ltd |
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ti_opinion - Letters: Electoral reform
The books' subjects: overwhelmingly war, thrillers, espionage, science, underworld, sci-fi, sports and adventure. The only mention of gender in the children's selection is where one book is described as a "lauded release for boys". ... Your (all male) panel has clearly not sought out the recent pleasures of Janice Galloway's biography This is not about me; nor Haifa Zangana's Iraq memoir Dreaming of Baghdad; or Sara Wheeler's exploration of the Arctic Magnetic North; ...
http://opinion.independentminds.livejournal.com/1408753.html
Stromata Blog: Fr. Daniil Sysoyev, New Martyr, R.I.P.
Fr. Sysoyev was well known for his missionary work among Moslems, had engaged in public debates with Moslem spokesmen, and had written books putting the case for Christianity against Islam. .... The portrayal of real Cold War espionage makes these faults bearable. (***). Tara Ross & Joseph C. Smith, Jr.: Under God: George Washington and the Question of Church and State Thomas Jefferson wasn't the only Founding Father with ideas about church-state relations. ...
http://stromata.typepad.com/stromata_blog/2009/11/fr-daniil-sysoyev-new-martyr-rip.html
The Oxonian Review » Blunt Instrument
The resulting reinvigoration of debates over Blunt's espionage has raised some thorny questions—not just about Blunt's own story, but also about how we understand, recollect, and depict the Cold War. ... In an otherwise worthy biography of Blunt in 2002, Miranda Carter sought to counterpoise Blunt's defection with the inadequacy of British intelligence, which failed to unmask him despite suspicions of communist sympathies and even, rather embarrassingly, ...
http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/blunt-instrument/
Vermeer's Family Secrets: Genius, Discovery, and the Unknown ...
Vermeer, The Sphinx of Delft, is famously a mystery in art: despite the common claim that little is known of his biography, there is actually an abundance of fascinating information about Vermeer's life that Binstock brings to bear on ... MI5's Director of Counter-Espionage in World War II. By Nigel West. This is the first volume of Nigel West's acclaimed presentation of these fascinating diaries from the heart of Britain's Second World War intelligence operations. ...
http://www.routledgepolitics.com/books/Vermeers-Family-Secrets-isbn9780415966641
Nicholas Stix, Uncensored: The Death of a President
In Dallas 46 years ago today, Communist and dishonorably discharged ex-Marine Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated 46-year-old President John F. Kennedy, shooting him from a window in the Texas School Book Depository building, ... unequivocal supporter of West Berlin against Soviet imperialism, and risked nuclear war, when he faced down the Soviets during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. (Due to the statute of limitations, Nixon could not prosecute Hiss for treason or espionage. ...
http://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2009/11/death-of-president.html
A skilled first-century Palestinian poet « The Crawdad Hole
He appears to have written the books in consultation with a large network of Middle Eastern friends and scholars, as well as with his own considerable knowledge and research of ancient Middle Eastern languages and literature. ...
http://crawdad.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/a-skilled-first-century-palestinian-poet/
Paco Enterprises: From the Shelves of the Paco Library
He wrote books ranging from comic fiction to espionage novels, and a fascinating biography of Wing Commander F.F.E. Yeo-Thomas and his exploits working with the Resistance in WWII (The White Rabbit, highlighted in a previous “Shelves” post) . ... The other novel is the cold-war classic, Vespers in Vienna. Published in 1947, the book deals with British Colonel Michael “Hooky” Nicobar, who has received the unpleasant assignment of assisting in the repatriation of displaced ...
http://pacoenterprises.blogspot.com/2009/11/from-shelves-of-paco-library_18.html
Andrew Lownie Literary Agency | A Literary Agency Week
Submit proposal by a music psychologist to a UK editor, a customised US version of a book to some American editors and a biography proposal to several UK publishers giving them the usual month's deadline though I know in my heart of hearts ... Overnight submissions include: a collection of interviews with famous writers; a romantic thriller set in Ireland in 1920s; a World War Two memoir based on transcribed tapes which I suggest be sent to a specialist military list; ...
http://www.andrewlownie.co.uk/2009/11/15/a-literary-agency-week
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Psychic Warrior: Inside the Cia's Stargate Program : The True Story of a Soldier's Espionage and Awakening;David Morehouse -;PsychNotes: Clinical Pocket Guide, 2nd Edition;Darlene D. Pedersen -;Psychoanalysis at the Limit: .... Punisher: Little Black Book;Max Comics -;Punishment: A Comparative Historical Perspective;Terance D. Miethe, Hong Lu -;Purchased for Revenge (Modern Romance);Julia James -;Puritan Iconoclasm during the English Civil War (Studies in Modern British ...
http://blog.lumbungbuku.com/2009/11/daftar-teksbook-w.html
A Pacifist's Love Of War Movies « cinephilia
General George Patton was an imposing, brash, egotistical man but a brilliant tactician and the ideal fodder for a movie biography. Francis Coppola and former military man Edmund North wrote a terrific script that perfectly captured ... start of the Second World War to give audiences a glimpse into the heretofore unknown world of the silent service, it stars Cary Grant as the skipper of a sub that has the unenviable task of sneaking into Tokyo Bay on an espionage mission, ...
http://argento2665.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/a-pacifists-love-of-war-movies/
