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World history: postwar, from c 1945 -
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Storm Front
Storm Front
    In early 1970, the
    Commanding Officer of 22
    SAS flew into the
    strategically critical
    Sultanate of Oman on a
    covert intelligence
    mission. A Communist
    rebellion in the South
    threatened not only the
    stability of the Arabian
    Peninsula but more
    importantly the vital oil
    routes through the
    Persian Gulf. Within six
    months, the Regiment
    arrived in theatre to
    lead a fierce, secret
    war against the
    rebels.

    While from
    a remote RAF airbase in
    the desert, an elite
    band of British pilots,
    flying difficult,
    dangerous missions in
    Strikemaster jets and
    Vietnam-era Huey
    helicopters, were
    scrambled alongside
    them.

    For the
    British soldiers and
    airmen, it was to be no
    easy victory. The enemy
    were well supplied with
    weaponry and training
    from China and the Soviet
    Union, and despite
    confronting the largest
    assault force ever
    deployed by the SAS,
    many months later the
    rebels were still
    fighting back.

    And
    at dawn on July 19th,
    1972, a force of nearly
    300 heavily armed,
    well-trained guerillas
    attacked the little
    fishing port of Mirbat
    without warning.Between
    them and glory stood a
    team of just nine SAS
    men.And the skill of the
    British fighter
    pilots.The scene was set
    for an epic encounter; a
    modern day
    Rorke
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McMafia Brain Shot
McMafia Brain Shot
    In this powerful account,
    Misha Glenny takes us on
    a journey through the new
    world of international
    organised crime. He has
    travelled throughout the
    world - from Japan to
    China to Brazil to the
    USA and has spoken to
    countless gangsters,
    policemen and victims of
    organised crime while
    also exploring the
    ferocious consumer demand
    for drugs, trafficked
    women, illegal labour
    and arms across five
    continents.

    McMafia
    Brain Shot focuses
    on cybercrime in Brazil
    and people trafficking
    from China to Brazil,
    the UK and Europe and
    unpicks the nexus of
    crime, politics and
    money worldwide which
    have become entangled and
    interdependent in
    entirely novel forms
    since the 1980s. It
    argues that conventional
    policing methods are no
    longer appropriate to
    deal with a problem whose
    roots lie in global
    poverty and the ever
    widening divisions
    between rich and
    poor.

    BRAIN
    SHOTS: The byte-sized
    account of international
    crime and globalisation's
    dark
    side
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'A Senseless, Squalid War':
Voices From Palestine 1945 -
1948
    * The troubles in
    Palestine between the end
    of the Second World War
    and the declaration of
    the state of Israel on 14
    May 1948 ruptured Middle
    Eastern history and
    left an indelible mark
    on the modern world.


    * Chronicling
    in gripping detail this
    critical period that led,
    for the Jews, to the
    establishment of their
    national homeland, and,
    for the Palestinians, to
    their Nakba
    ('Catastrophe'), Norman
    Rose's 'A Senseless,
    Squalid War'     gives
    powerful expression to
    all those who took part
    in these stirring
    events:     Britons,
    Jews and Arabs
    alike.

    * The book
    draws on a rich medley of
    official documents,
    private papers,
    biographies, memoirs,
    diaries, letters,
    newspapers, novels,
    songs, plays and
    reminiscences. It
    vividly reconstructs
    the attitudes and
    experiences of the many
    diverse participants    ,
    be they foot-soldiers or
    generals, hawks or
    doves, politicians or
    diplomats, dissidents,
    terrorists, writers,
    teachers, or simply men
    and women on the street,
    each voice telling its
    own story, woven into a
    compelling historical
    narrative that shifts
    seamlessly from one level
    of experience to
    another.

    * A
    diplomatic stalemate
    amidst the horrific
    revelations of the
    Holocaust    ; militant
    guerrilla groups plagued
    by internal divisions on
    both the Palestinian and
    Zionist sides, seeking
    to undermine the British
    presence; Jewish refugees
    in their tens of
    thousands trying to reach
    Palestine on the
    notorious 'death ships'
    from war-torn Europe,
    with tragic - often fatal
    - consequences; the
    mounting tensions that
    culminated in an
    inter-communal 'civil
    war' and later in the
    threat of a 'war of
    extermination and
    momentous massacre'; and
    finally the plight of
    many thousands of
    Palestinians who emerged
    from the war without a
    home.

    * All these
    events, and the voices
    of those who lived
    through them, are
    recreated as never
    before. A Senseless,
    Squalid War'     makes a
    dramatic and original
    contribution to our
    understanding of one
    of the most deep-rooted
    and controversial
    international
    problems     that
    continues to baffle and
    bedevil us to this
    day.
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'A Senseless, Squalid War':
Voice From Palestine; 1890s To
1948
    The events in Palestine
    between the end of the
    Second World War in May
    1945 and the declaration
    of the State of Israel in
    May 1948 ruptured Middle
    Eastern history and left
    an indelible mark on the
    modern world. Today, no
    conflict is felt to be
    more intractable or
    divisive, no dispute so
    fraught with passion or
    infused with so much
    hatred, despite the
    repeated attempts at
    reconciliation between
    Israelis and Palestinians
    in the six decades since
    Israel came into
    being.

    Yet how did
    it feel to witness and
    experience these
    momentous events? In
    'A Senseless, Squalid
    War    ' Norman
    Rose uses contemporary
    sources
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The Bomb: A Life
The Bomb: A Life
    Before the Bomb, there
    were simply 'bombs',
    lower case. Bombs are as
    old as hatred itself,
    but it was the twentieth
    century, one hundred
    years of almost
    incredible scientific
    progress, that saw the
    birth of the Bomb, the
    human race's most
    powerful and most
    destructive discovery.
    Since 8.14 a.m. 6 August
    1945, when a lone B-29
    aircraft appeared over
    the skies of Hiroshima
    and destroyed a city,
    the Bomb has haunted our
    dreams and threatened our
    existence.

    In
    this magisterial account,
    Gerard DeGroot gives us
    the life story of the
    Bomb, from its birth in
    the turn-of-the-century
    physics labs of Europe to
    a childhood in the New
    Mexico desert of the
    1940s, from adolescence
    and early adulthood in
    Nagasaki and Bikini,
    Australia and Siberia to
    unsettling maturity in
    test sites and missile
    silos all over the globe.
    The Bomb killed hundreds
    of thousands outright,
    condemned many more to
    lingering deaths and made
    vast tracts of land unfit
    for life. For decades it
    dominated the psyches of
    millions, becoming a
    touchstone of popular
    culture, celebrated or
    decried in mass political
    movements, films, songs
    and books.


    DeGroot has
    captured the Bomb's short
    but vastly significant
    life in all its scope,
    providing us with an
    astonishingly vivid
    portrait of the times and
    the people - from Teller
    to Oppenheimer, Truman
    to Reagan - whose legacy
    still governs our world.
    By turns horrific,
    awe-inspiring and blackly
    comic, The Bomb
    is never less than
    compelling. For there is
    as yet no sign of the
    Bomb's retirement. And
    its death might be ours
    too.
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Dark Side of the Moon: The Magnificent Madness of the American Lunar Quest
Dark Side Of The Moon: The
Magnificent Madness Of The
American Lunar Quest
    For a very brief moment
    during the 1960s,
    America was moonstruck.
    Every boy dreamed of
    being an astronaut; every
    girl dreamed of marrying
    one. But despite the best
    efforts of a generation
    of scientists, the
    almost foolhardy heroics
    of the astronauts, and
    35 billion dollars, the
    moon turned out to be a
    place of 'magnificent
    desolation', to use Buzz
    Aldrin's words - a
    sterile rock of no
    purpose to anyone. In
    Dark Side of the
    Moon    , Gerard DeGroot
    reveals how NASA cashed
    in on the Americans'
    thirst for heroes in an
    age of discontent and
    became obsessed with
    putting men in space.
    Landing on the moon, it
    was argued, would be
    good for the economy,
    for politics, and for
    the soul. It could even
    win the Cold War. Drawing
    on meticulous archival
    research, DeGroot cuts
    through the myths
    constructed by the
    Eisenhower, Kennedy and
    Johnson administrations
    and sustained by NASA
    ever since and exposes
    the truth behind one of
    the most revered fictions
    of American history.
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Spycraft
Spycraft
    Secret instructons
    written in invisible
    ink.
    Cigarettes that
    fire bullets.
    Covert
    communications
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Dark Side of the Moon: The Magnificent Madness of the American Lunar Quest
Dark Side Of The Moon: The
Magnificent Madness Of The
American Lunar Quest
    For a very brief moment
    during the 1960s,
    America was moonstruck.
    Every boy dreamed of
    being an astronaut; every
    girl dreamed of marrying
    one. But despite the best
    efforts of a generation
    of scientists, the
    almost foolhardy heroics
    of the astronauts, and
    35 billion dollars, the
    moon turned out to be a
    place of 'magnificent
    desolation', to use Buzz
    Aldrin's words - a
    sterile rock of no
    purpose to anyone. In
    Dark Side of the
    Moon    , Gerard DeGroot
    reveals how NASA cashed
    in on the Americans'
    thirst for heroes in an
    age of discontent and
    became obsessed with
    putting men in space.
    Landing on the moon, it
    was argued, would be
    good for the economy,
    for politics, and for
    the soul. It could even
    win the Cold War. Drawing
    on meticulous archival
    research, DeGroot cuts
    through the myths
    constructed by the
    Eisenhower, Kennedy and
    Johnson administrations
    and sustained by NASA
    ever since and exposes
    the truth behind one of
    the most revered fictions
    of American history.
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Spycraft
Spycraft
    Secret instructons
    written in invisible
    ink.
    Cigarettes that
    fire bullets.
    Covert
    communications
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