War and peace plots

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

Hitler’s spy chief: – the Wilhelm Canaris mystery Richard Bassett London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2005, £20   This is a full and very well researched biography of one of the great enigmatic figures of the spy world in the 30s and 40s. The author, former foreign correspondent of The Times in Berlin and Prague, provides … Read more

A ‘great venture’: overthrowing the government of Iran

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

This is a slightly abridged version of part of chapter four of Mark Curtis’s book The Ambiguities of Power: British Foreign Policy since 1945 (Zed Press, 1995) reviewed below. In August 1953 a coup overthrew Iran’s nationalist government of Mohammed Musaddiq and installed the Shah in power. The Shah subsequently used widespread repression and torture … Read more

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