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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
Nicholas Stix, Uncensored: The Death of a President
Randolph was planning on giving a radical leftwing speech written by Stanley Levison, a communist advisor to both Randolph and King, but as historian David Garrow tells in his biography, Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., ... Kennedy repeatedly jeopardized national security, both as a naval intelligence officer during World War II, and while President, due to his obsessive womanizing. By contrast, even Nixon's sworn enemies have failed to find any evidence of his ...
http://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2009/11/death-of-president.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
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
The Books In Sync Blog: Books In Sync Announces Mystery Thriller ...
He died in the Great War. You cannot imagine how happy she felt, my poor, dear, old mother. So she asked me—can you imagine?—to get in contact with a reliable medium—I believe that is what they call such people—and have them try to get in touch ... That is why I decided to contact you for help. The problem is, he or she would have to talk to my mother directly—she will not have it any other way—and tell her the details..." Book Details: Genre: Mystery Thriller/Espionage ...
http://booksinsync.blogspot.com/2009/11/books-in-sync-announces-mystery.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/
Stromata Blog: Purgatory on Earth
After 30 books, one might fear that Discworld is in danger of fatigue. Au contraire, this witty, vigorous tale of the culmination of an ages-old conflict between dwarfs and trolls, with Sam Vimes and Ankh-Morpork in the middle, ..... 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 ...
http://stromata.typepad.com/stromata_blog/2009/11/purgatory-on-earth.html
Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: Four more new books from ...
Mixed with interesting details about Japanese history and culture, the biography traces Nagai's spiritual quest as he studied medicine at Nagasaki University, served as a medic with the Japanese army during its occupation of Manchuria, and returned to Nagasaki to dedicate himself to the science of ... It has all the hallmarks of a best-selling fictional thriller: espionage, conspiracy, a struggle against evil powers, undercover work by dark of night... but it's all true. ...
http://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2009/11/four-more-new-books-from-ignatius-press.html
