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From the managing editor of the Washington Post, a news-breaking account of the CIA's involvement in the covert wars... more

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  Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion...

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  • Essential with THE LAST PHARAOH
  • Essential with THE LAST PHARAOH in order to understand how America is being underminded by its own so called allies such in Egypt. It was on eof the Black Holes and rife with torture. Unbelievable....
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  • Posted:May-16-2009

  • Hard reading
  • Hard book to read. Author uses a lot of big words that were unnecessary, making the reading go really slow. Not like other books of it's kind, where you can't put them down because they are so...
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  • Posted:Jun-22-2008

  • Factually Incorrect
  • The only way this book would score more than one star is if people buy it as a work of fiction. It is riddled with factual holes and just plain wrong information, I don't know if this was by design...
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From an award-winning 60 Minutes reporter comes the extraordinary story of the largest and most successful CIA... more

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  Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History

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  • Gonzo, Important, and LONG
  • It has happened to me a few times in life that I've gotten into a car as a passenger, only to find out within minutes that the driver was reckless, intoxicated, or both. The subsequent ride...
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  • Posted:Apr-27-2009

  • Interesting, but way too long
  • This is a very interesting book filled with an insiders look into the CIA and covert operations. That said, it was hard for me - a book worm - to finish this book because it kept meandering all...
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  • Posted:Jul-22-2008

  • Poorly written, excrutiatingly detailed
  • This book was really interesting at first, but I couldn't keep reading beyond a few hundred pages. The author keeps saying the same things over and over and over again (I got it, Charlie Wilson...
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Throughout human history. certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As Tom Standage relates with... more

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  A History Of The World In Six Glasses

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  • Posted:Sep-12-2009

  • Great idea. Needs a great writer.
  • This is a fun book with a nice premise. Sadly, the early chapters are heavy going. The writing is, well, dull. When my son saw this book had been included on his mandatory summer reading list,...
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  • Posted:Sep-03-2009

  • Engaging and Educational
  • An easy-to-read, engagng and fascinating book, and a fascinating approach to history, viewing empires and historical events through the key beverage of the time. Not only did I learn a great deal...
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  • Posted:Mar-30-2009

  • Ugh!
  • The author has no knowledge of verbs besides "to be;" consequently, the prose sits like flat beer. The topic had such potential--what a pity that the author doesn't.
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This book is a clear introduction to the Russian Army of 1914-18 and the events on the Eastern Front during that... more

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Josef "Sepp" Allerberger was the second most successful sniper of the German Wehrmacht and one of the few private... more

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  Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knight's Cross

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  • Posted:Jul-31-2009

  • I read it and threw it in the trash!
  • I am very well read on the Eastern Front and found this book to be horrible. I would like to save you the time and your money and steer you clear of this awful book. The plot line was plodding and...
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  • Readable, even enjoyable, but.....
  • I have of recent times taken to reading memoirs or stories of snipers and their roles within the battlefield strategy. It is facinating how a well placed individual (or team),with the appropriate...
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  • Posted:Nov-15-2008

  • Terrible editorial review, but....
  • I am buying this book, out of interest in the subject...
    But I must say the editorial review is terrible; the subject of the Eastern Front (as we call in the US) is complicated and there were...
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Edited and translated from the Russian by Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova Knopf Canada is proud to present a... more

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  A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945

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  • New insight
  • This book offers an interesting insight into the writer Vasily Grossman and contains a fine selection of some of his best writings during the war. A worthy publication that brings an important...
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  • Posted:Feb-01-2008

  • Scattered impressions that don't make up for a book
  • Parragraphs of intense live experiences on the Eastern Front are interspersed with the introduction and analyses of historian Mr. Beevor. If it had been in a linear sort of narrative, so we could...
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A History of Russia: Peoples, Legends, Events, Forces is a comprehensive narrative conceived and developed after the... more

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  A History of Russia: Peoples, Legends, Events, Forces

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  • Balanced history of Russia
  • I was very interested in History when I was at school and used to read a lot about ancient Greece, Rome and Middle Ages. This was greatly accessible in USSR. A few years ago I started reading...
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This unique work concentrates on Soviet Communism as a religious phenomenon. The author argues that communism is a... more

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A re-examination of the libel case in which Lord Aldington was accused and cleared of knowingly handing over refugees... more

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The German invasion of Russia was Hitler's biggest gamble in his quest for "Lebensraum" in the East--and it was at... more

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  Stalingrad: The Infernal Cauldron, 1942-1943

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  • Yes, a good photo book and some fair information
  • This is a fair book. I would go as far telling the average WWII buff that this book should only be checked out of your local library.
    
    The one big problem with this book is it gives no...
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  • Posted:Dec-21-2004

  • Not Engaging
  • I am not going to repeat observations made by earlier reviewers and which I felt were quite accurate (e.g. nice pictures, dry prose, errors etc..). I am an avid WW2 reader and I must say that this...
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  • Posted:Jun-08-2003

  • Good but not great.
  • I was pleased to see Dr Joel Hayward's review of this book below. His own book "STOPPED AT STALINGRAD: The Luftwaffe and Hitlers Defeat in the East" (also available from Amazon.com) is, alongside...
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Coming at a time of enormous transformations in the one-time Communist bloc, this volume provides a much-needed... more

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The processes of transition from communist rule in Eastern Europe and the dilemmas of reform in the Soviet Union... more

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During the Sino-Japanese war of 1937-1945, the Chinese people suffered great degradation at the hands of the... more

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The German Army conducted offensive military operations more effectively than any other in the twentieth century. Its... more

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  German Panzers on the Offensive Russian Front: North Africa 1941-1942

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  • An excellent account of German panzer tactics
  • Stolfi does an excellent job at describing why the German panzers were so effective during the first three years of the Second World War. Stolfi believes that the Germans succeded in armor warfare...
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n this pioneering analysis of diffuse underclass anger that simmers in many societies, Joan Neuberger takes us to the... more

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Tank and mechanized forces spearhead Red Army operations from the gates of Stalingrad to the center of Berlin. This... more

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  Red Army Tank Commanders: The Armored Guards (Schiffer Military Aviation History)

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  • Interesting topic
  • Analysis and history of the unknowns behind the Russian losses and final victories with their armoured units. Quite detailed as to the leaders performances through out, but suffers from some poor...
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  • Excellent biographies
  • This book contains in depth biographies of the commanders of the 6 Tank Armies that took part in the war on the Eastern Front within the Red Army. There are few such works in the West that...
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States like Russia and Ukraine may not have gone back to totalitarianism or the traditional authoritarian formula of... more

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  Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World

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  • Posted:Nov-05-2006

  • A re-interpretation of the nature of post-Soviet politics
  • Without doubt, this book will have a formative influence on future post-Soviet studies and should lead to re-assessment of many former findings on post-Soviet politics. To be sure, Wilson has...
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The Languages of the Former Soviet Republics describes the evolution of each of the languages of the 14 non-Russian... more

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