The Putin Interviews : Oliver Stone Interviews Vladimir Putin by Robert (FRW) Oliver (CON); Scheer Stone
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Series: Showtime Documentary Films
Academy Award winner Oliver Stone was able to secure what journalists, news organizations, and even other world leaders have long coveted: extended, unprecedented access to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Putin Interviews are culled from more than a dozen interviews with Putin over a two-year span ...Show more
The Holocaust: An Unfinished History by Laurence Rees
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Based on twenty-five years of meeting survivors and perpetrators, The Holocaust is a sweeping new history that combines first-person testimony with the latest academic research to investigate how history's greatest crime was made possible. Laurence Rees argues that a series of escalations compounded int ...Show more
Incorrigible Optimist (HB) by Gareth Evans
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
A colourful and central figure in Australian politics for two decades-described by Bob Hawke as having 'the most acute mind' of any of his ministers-Gareth Evans has also been applauded worldwide for his contributions, both as Foreign Minister and in later international roles, to conflict resolution, ge ...Show more
The Reef: A Passionate History by Iain McCalman
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
The Great Barrier Reef, argues Iain McCalman, has been created by human minds as well as coral polyps, by imaginations as well as natural processes. In this landmark book he charts our shifting perceptions of it, from the terrifying labyrinth that almost sunk Cook's Endeavour to a fragile global treasu ...Show more
Red Sky at Noon by Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Series: The Moscow Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
Imprisoned in the Gulags for a crime he did not commit, Benya Golden is doomed to die in the dreaded Kolyma camps until, with the onset of war, he joins a penal battalion made up of murderers and criminals to fight the Nazis. They have been promised their freedom - but in order to earn this they must fi ...Show more
Crossing the Line: Australia's Secret History in the Timor Sea by Kim McGrath
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
For fifty years, Australia has schemed to deny East Timor billions of dollars of oil and gas wealth. With explosive new research and access to never-before- seen documents, Kim McGrath tells the story of Australia's secret agenda in the Timor Sea, exposing the ruthlessness of successive governments. ...Show more
Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein by John Nixon
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
A riveting, revealing and news-making account of the CIA's interrogation of Saddam, written by the CIA agent who conducted the questioning. In December 2003, after one of the largest, most aggressive manhunts in history, US military forces captured Iraqi president Saddam Hussein near his hometown of Tik ...Show more
Inglorious Empire: what the British did to India by Shashi Tharoor
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannons, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalized racism, and caus ...Show more
Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama by David Garrow
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
The definitive account of Barack Obama's life before he became the 44th president of the United States - the formative years, confluence of forces, and influential figures who helped shaped an extraordinary leader and his rise - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bearing the Cross. Barack Obama's ...Show more
The Vandemonian War by Nick Brodie
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: Adult
Britain formally colonised Van Diemen's Land in the early years of the nineteenth century. Small convict stations grew into towns. Pastoralists moved in to the aboriginal hunting grounds. There was conflict, there was violence. But, governments and gentlemen succeeded in burying the real story of the Va ...Show more
The Queen, Her Lover and the Most Notorious Spy in History: The Intriguing True Story of Queen Victoria's Secret by Roland Perry
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Long before her successful marriage to Prince Albert, Princess Victoria had an affair with the dashing Scottish 13th Lord Elphinstone. After the liaison was exposed, Elphinstone was banished to India, appointed Governor of Madras, which allowed Victoria's mother to engineer a royal union for her with Pr ...Show more
No is Not Enough by Naomi Klein
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Trump, as extreme as he is, is less an aberration than a logical conclusion - a pastiche of pretty much all the worst and most dangerous trends of the past half century. A one-man megabrand, with wife and children as spin-off brands . . . ' Remember when it all seemed to be getting better? Before Trump ...Show more