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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The diaries 1938-1943 Edited by Simon Heffer
[PDF file]: […] in Menzies and Churchill at War (London: Paragon House, 1987). Channon’s comments seem to bolster this assessment. 20 21 Her nickname was due to her thick, dark brown hair. 22 Channon had written The Ludwigs of Bavaria (1933), an account of the Wittlesbachs. 14 Given its date, was the message ‘Mrs Woolly well now […]
Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail by Abby Innes
[PDF file]: […] the Department of Social Policy and Intervention (DSPI), University of Oxford; and Mark Blyth, Professor of International Economics at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, Rhode Island, have all praised it.5 There is a summary of the book’s thesis on the LSE website6 and a pseudonymous review from a Scottish […]
The Spy Who Would be Tzar: The Mystery of Michal Goleniewski and the Far-Right Underground by Kevin Coogan
[PDF file]: […] of the Soviet bloc-NATO spy contest in the post-war years. For example: George Blake, Heinz Felfe, the putative post-war survival of ‘Gestapo’ Muller, an apparent clandestine Red- Brown post-war network called Hacke, and James Angleton’s curious fixation on the Soviet defector Anatoly Golitsyn. Apart from the Angleton-Golitsyn material, much of the rest of this […]
Murder in Cairo
[…] in Naval Intelligence during the war and, under the pseudonym Richard Deacon, published nearly 60, often unreliable, books on 1 2 Harold Evans, My Paper Chase, (Little Brown, New York, 2009) 1 ‘controversial topics on which verifiable evidence was scarce’.3 A former telex operator related how he had been grilled by an MI6 officer […]
The Balfour Declaration, and, Moment of Truth
[PDF file]: […] part on the West Bank in three chapters. The first, ‘Can the Current Palestinian Leadership and Its Institutions End the Occupation?’ is led off by Nathan J Brown with responses by Diana Buttu and Glenn E Robinson. Subsequent chapters on Gaza follow the same formula, one chapter asking if Hamas can be part of […]
View ffrom Bridge 89
[…] that just after the election of the original NuLab, in 1997, I commented that Labour was led by three ‘not very bright Thatcherites’.43 One of them, Gordon Brown, is still talking about poverty here without betraying the slightest awareness that he had any role in this country’s economic decline.44 Hey Gordon, you were in […]