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Outpost of Occupation
How the Channel Islands Survived Nazi Rule 1940-1945
Barry Turner
Aurum 2010
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In June 1940 Britain demilitarized the Channel Islands, and within days they were under full German military occupation. The story of the years which In June 1940 Britain demilitarized the Channel Islands, and within days they were under full German military occupation. The story of the years which followed serves as a kind of counterfactual history, offering an insight into how the mainland might have fared if it too had suffered invasion. Turner's book is rich in personal testimonies highlighting the islanders' privations, their efforts at resistance and their resentment at both their abandonment and the post-war witch-hunt in search of collaborators. ...more
 

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The Goldstone Report
The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict
Adam Horowitz; Lizzy Ratner; Philip Weiss (Edited by)
Nation 2011
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Judge Goldstone's report on the Israeli incursion into Gaza in the winter of 2008-9 is among the most controversial in the long history of that confliJudge Goldstone's report on the Israeli incursion into Gaza in the winter of 2008-9 is among the most controversial in the long history of that conflict. This volume presents an edited version of the text alongside essays by Rashid Khalidi, Naomi Klein, Jules Lobel and others. Tempering moral outrage with clinical analysis, this crucial historical document concludes that war crimes were committed by both sides, but that Israel had launched 'a deliberately disproportionate attack'. ...more
 

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Assia Djebar
Out of Algeria
Jane Hiddleston
Chicago University Press 2012
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Real Enemies
Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11
Kathryn S Olmsted
Oxford University Press 2009
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Osama Bin Laden

Michael Scheuer
Oxford University Press 2011
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Bush's Wars

Terry H Anderson
Oxford University Press 2011
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The Road to Fatima Gate

Michael J Totten
Encounter 2011
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Architects of Power
Roosevelt, Eisenhower and the American
Philip Terzian
Encounter 2010
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Bowing to Beijing

Brett M Decker (Edited by)
Regnery 2011
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Politics, Society Christianity in Vichy France

WD Halls
Berg 1995
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Dominion or Decline
Anglo-American Naval Relations on the Pacific, 1937-1941
Ian Cowman
Berg 1997
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The Devil Came on Horseback
Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur
Brian Steidle; Gretchen Steidle Wallace
PublicAffairs 2007
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Chief of Station, Congo
A Memoir of 1960-67
Larry Devlin
PublicAffairs 2007
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Tibet and China in the Twenty-first Century
Non-Violence versus State Power
John Heath
Saqi 2005
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John Heath's overview lends a clear perspective to the Chinese occupation of Tibet, reviewing how it has arrived at its current state since Mao ZedongJohn Heath's overview lends a clear perspective to the Chinese occupation of Tibet, reviewing how it has arrived at its current state since Mao Zedong's decision to invade and discussing cultural, political and economic changes within the country. ...more
 

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Stories and Scenes from Mount Lebanon

Mahmoud Khalil Saab
Saqi 2004
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