Category: Middle East
The Iron Wall – Avi Shlaim
April 13th, 2009, No Comments
The Iron Wall Avi Shlaim 670 pages including index published in 2000 Avi Shlaim is an Israeli/British historian, one of a generation of revisionist historians who from the 1980s started tearing down the foundation myths of the state of Israel. History always has political undertones and perhaps nowhere more so than in Israel, which after [...]
Eight O’Clock Ferry to the Windward Side — Clive Stafford Smith
August 17th, 2008, No Comments
Eight O’Clock Ferry to the Windward Side Clive Stafford Smith 307 pages including index published in 2007 Lord knowns there have been a lot of depressing books published about America’s war on terror; not to mention a metric shitload of blogs writing about it, including my own. So what good is yet another book decrying [...]
Ghost Wars – Steve Coll
December 8th, 2007, No Comments
Ghost Wars Steve Coll 230 pages published in 1974 When New York and Washington were under attack on September 11, 2001, it came as a bolt out of the blue, just like that other sneak attack permanently etched in the American psyche, the attack on Pearl Harbour on December 7, 1941. The mythology surrounding both [...]
