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  The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe)

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  • A definitive work
  • A literary style of writing makes this a fast-paced yet historically packed summary of a long history for the control of south central Asia. The context of this history on current events is...
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  • More Tedium From Peter Hopkirk
  • "Reads like a novel" Come on, folks! The yellow pages of any phone book are far more exciting. This text takes a subject of great potential, & reduces it to the dried up dust of a Central Asian...
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  • the english version of the great game
  • This book describes a geographical area and historical period not well known to a majority of Italian readers. For this reason its recent translation and pubblication for the Italian Adelphi...
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  The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia

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  • Required Reading
  • Stunning, meticulous, profoundly disturbing, and an invaluable resource to assure mankind is reminded of its evil capacities
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  • GOOD JOURNALISM, BAD HISTORY
  • This book cannot be classified as history.To write something based mostly on a myriad of interviews does not qualify it under the category of scientific research.It distorts and minimizes the...
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The "dean of Cold War historians" (The New York Times) now presents the definitive account of the global... more

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  The Cold War: A New History

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  • Reasonable Approach to a Difficult Project
  • In the introduction, Gaddis sets the context for this book: the topic is not familiar to young people, and various students and others familiar with his scholarship wished for a much shorter, more...
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  • A Well Considered History of the Cold War
  • John Lewis Gaddis' book "The Cold War, A New History" accomplishes what it sets out to do very nicely- provide a general overview of the events, personalities, and issues at stake in the US-USSR...
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  • Only partially successful
  • I picked up "The Cold War: a New History" on my way to an airport and read it over several days and several flights. As I tend to do, immediately after purchasing it I put a privacy cover over the...
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The Nazi siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1944 was one of the most gruesome episodes of World War II. Nearly three... more

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  The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad

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  • The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad is a harrowing and horrible trip to the lowest circle of Dantean Hell
  • The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad was published in 1969 to wide acclaim. It is today considered the definitive work on the siege of the Northern Palymyra "Leningrad (now know as St...
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  • A Classic Shows its Age
  • Straight up, the Siege of Leningrad lasted either 872 or 880 days, depending on whether you begin the count from the German capture of Mga or Shlissel'burg, not 900 days. I guess "The 880 Days"...
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  • Posted:Nov-14-2006

  • the 900 days;
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    St. Petersburg in the past 3 years, both guides highly recommended this book. It is incredibly well written, both the background leading up to the atack as well as the...
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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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  • 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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A landmark collaboration between a thirty-year veteran of the CIA and a Pulitzer Prize?winning journalist, The Main... more

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  The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB

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  • Posted:Mar-31-2008

  • The Ending of An Age
  • To many Americans, the CIA and KGB are things of a James Bond movie. Lots of sex and violence with the KGB being at best stupidly evil. In addition,many Americans today think of the CIA as almost...
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  • Posted:Mar-08-2008

  • Cabul wasn't so important in USSR's defeat
  • I read this regular book, here in Brazil.This book was writen by two CIA's men.This book is about the last years of Cold War.The years between 1985 and 1991 are the focus of this regular book.
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  • Posted:Jan-09-2008

  • Disjointed narrative makes for tough sledding
  • There's lot of spy vs. spy folklore here but it's presented in a format that really jumps around, making it unnecessarily confusing. The story of the CIA's operations in Afghanistan could have...
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  ALEXEI and RASPUTIN

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  • Posted:May-19-2009

  • Fact or Fiction
  • I am a very big fan of the last Romanovs and prefer truth rather than some truth and fiction.There is not a lot about Rasputin in the book,therefore the title is somewhat deceiving.I found the book...
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The Battles of Sitka (1802 and 1804) were seminal events in the history of the Tlingit people, the multicultural... more

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  Stalin's Children: Three Generations of Love, War, and Survival

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  • Interesting Subject Material
  • For me, this book held a lot of promise. I have always been fascinated by this era and love biographies. However, for the casual reader such as myself, it was hard to get into and absorb.
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  • Good Personel History of the Soviet Union
  • There are at least dozen excellent reviews that have preceded this one, so I won't duplicate them. I suggest that you refer to them for a general review of the book.
    
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  • If you're in the mood for egocentric literature....
  • If you're in the mood for egocentric literature, then you're in for a treat. These 287 pages take you on a downward spiral beginning with the author's father who apparently was very wanted by the...
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The definitive work on Stalins purges, The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968.... more

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  Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA...

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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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