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Life with Captain Bob
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Category: Book reviews
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Among the least edifying spectacles of the aftermath of Mr Robert Maxwell's death was the speed of the overnight conversion of his flagship newspaper, the Daily Mirror, from docile servant to exposer of the publisher's many sins.
Passions at war
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Category: Book reviews
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Few conflicts in the 20th century have stirred political conscience and fired literary imagination as much as the Spanish Civil War. W.H. Auden was among thegeneration of writers andjournalists for whom the Civil War - which they perceived as a straight encounter between good and evil - provoked the resolution many were seeking in serious literature: it made "action and its nature clear".
Intelligence services in the information world
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Category: Book reviews
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For an intelligence professional who served a succession of British governments loyally over a 35-year career, Michael Herman is disarmingly, and perhaps unwittingly revealing about the self-perpetuating and inclusive nature of spies.
Power, Macbeth-style - Jimmy Burns on General Pinochet and the seamier side of Chilean politics.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Category: Book reviews
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For nearly four decades, Hugh O'Shaughnessy has reported on the politics of Latin America with an intuition and commitment few colleagues have been able to equal.
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