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  • Iranian Imbroglio

    This spring has been a time when the tom-toms of war were beating loudly. Retired air force generals with close links to the Pentagon appeared on television to draw lines on the map of the vast territories between the Mediterranean, the Caspian Sea and the Indian Ocean showing how high flying drones would identify nuclear installations U.S. bombers would destroy them. The US Navy dispatched a ... Read more

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  • TransAtlantic Man

    Among the highlights of this autobiography are interviews with such world leaders as General De Gaulle, Pinochet, Castro, Nelson Mandela, and Gorbachev. While serving 30 years in the British Parliament one of Sir Eldon's pet projects was building the Chunnel in the English Channel to France. After moving to Southern California 20 years ago he headed the World Affairs Council and wrote a daily ... Read more

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    Malalai Joya has been called "the bravest woman in Afghanistan." At a constitutional assembly in Kabul in 2003, she stood up and denounced her country's powerful NATO-backed warlords. She was twenty-five years old. Two years later, she became the youngest person elected to Afghanistan's new Parliament. In 2007, she was suspended from Parliament for her persistent criticism of the warlords and drug ... Read more

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  • The Downing Street Years

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    This first volume of Margaret Thatcher's memoirs encompasses the whole of her time as Prime Minister - the formation of her goals in the early 1980s, the Falklands, the General Election victories of 1983 and 1987 and, eventually, the circumstances of her fall from political power. She also gives frank accounts of her dealings with foreign statesmen and her own ministers. ... Read more

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  • Sleeping with the Devil

    How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude

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    “Saudi Arabia is more and more an irrational state—a place that spawns global terrorism even as it succumbs to an ancient and deeply seated isolationism, a kingdom led by a royal family that can’t get out of the way of its own greed. Is this the fulcrum we want the global economy to balance on?”In his explosive New York Times bestseller, See No Evil, former CIA operative Robert Baer exposed how ... Read more

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  • Pakistan on the Brink

    The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan

    by Ahmed Rashid ...
    The leading journalist on Pakistan lays out America's options with Pakistan and Afghanistan in the post-Bin Laden years.What are the possibilities-and hazards-facing America as it withdraws from Afghanistan and as it reviews its long engagement in Pakistan? Where is the Taliban now in both these countries? What does the immediate future hold and what are America's choices as President Obama ... Read more

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  • Descent into Chaos

    The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia

    by Ahmed Rashid ...
    The classic account of America's experience in Afghanistan, explaining the rise of the Taliban in the aftermath of America's failed war on terrorism--essential reading to understand the collapse in Afghanistan today. From the author of the #1 NYT bestseller Taliban."[A] brilliant and passionate book."—The New York Review of BooksA blistering critique of American policy—a dire and prescient warning ... Read more

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  • A History of Modern Britain

    by Andrew Marr ...
    A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. This edition also includes an extra chapter charting the course from Blair to Brexit.It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. In each decade, ... Read more

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  • Games without Rules

    The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan

    by Tamim Ansary ...
    By the author of Destiny Disrupted: An enlightening, lively, accessible, history of Afghanistan from 1840 to today, from the Afghan point of view, that illuminates how Great Power conflicts have interrupted an ongoing, internal struggle to take form as a nation.Five times in the last two centuries, some great power has tried to invade, occupy, or otherwise take control of Afghanistan. And as Tamim ... Read more

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  • Margaret Thatcher

    The Autobiography

    Published in a single volume for the first time, Margaret Thatcher is the story of her remarkable life told in her own words--the definitive account of an extraordinary woman and consummate politician, bringing together her bestselling memoirs The Downing Street Years and The Path to Power.Margaret Thatcher is the towering political figure of late-twentieth-century Great Britain. No other prime ... Read more

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  • Magnificent Delusions

    Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding

    The relationship between America and Pakistan is based on mutual incomprehension and always has been. Pakistan -- to American eyes -- has gone from being a quirky irrelevance, to a stabilizing friend, to an essential military ally, to a seedbed of terror. America -- to Pakistani eyes -- has been a guarantee of security, a coldly distant scold, an enthusiastic military enabler, and is now a threat ... Read more

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  • Iron Lady: The Thatcher Years

    The Thatcher Years

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    Allowing you to uncover the woman behind the 'Iron Lady' image, 'Iron Lady: The Thatcher Years' takes a thorough yet lighthearted look at the life and times of Britain's longest-serving twentieth-century prime minister. As both the first woman to become leader of a European country and the first British premier to achieve re-election for three consecutive terms, Margaret Thatcher's legacy is such ... Read more

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