Can anything new be said about the second world war? Unexpectedly the answer is yes. Here are just a few of the surprising facts that I learned from this revelatory book. The... Read more »
The CIA smuggled the Guardian Weekly to eastern bloc countries during the cold war, a new book reveals. Copies of this newspaper were sent as part of a broader secret programme that... Read more »
Book News: War leaves scars on Lebanese publishing Read moreUS prisons ban reading materials at alarming pace BookBrowse News – The Full Story War leaves scars on Lebanese publishing Dec 13 2024... Read more »
“I had an innate sense as a child that the war was a deep part of who my parents were, so tied up in how they told stories and how they understood... Read more »
A Bosnian actor who was deported from Serbia this week has said he believes he was expelled for writing openly about his experience in the war in the 1990s and that “there... Read more »
Losing Hearts and Minds explores the loss of British power and prestige in colonial Singapore and Malaya from the First World War to the Malayan Emergency. During this period, British leaders relied... Read more »
A thorough analysis of the right-wing interests contributing to the downfall of American democracy Read moreUS prisons ban reading materials at alarming paceThe war on American democracy is at a fever pitch.... Read more »
Oleksandr Mykhed and his wife Olena lost their home when the Russians invaded Ukraine. Before February 2022 he had never held a gun in his hands. But a week before the invasion,... Read more »
How is popular knowledge of war shaped by the stories we consume, what are the boundaries of this knowledge, and how are these boundaries policed or contested by journalists producing knowledge from... Read more »