The Phoney Victory: The World War II Illusion
By: Peter Hitchens
4.07
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Was World War II really the 'Good War'? In the years since the declaration of peace in 1945 many my…
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1. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
By: Tim Weiner
3.94
Format: 514 pages, Hardcover
For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its t… read more
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- audiobook
"To the CIA, everyone's an outsider."-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
"Their attempts to make sense of the world had carried heat but little light."-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
"The ability to represent failure as success would become an Agency tradition."-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
"It takes 5 to 7 years to turn a novice into a case officer capable of working in the capitals of the world."-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
2. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
By: Christopher Hitchens
3.96
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
God Is Not Great makes the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the maj… read more
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"Actually, the “leap of faith"-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
"Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it."-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
"The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey."-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
3. Stranger in a Strange Land
By: Robert A. Heinlein
3.92
Format: 525 pages, Paperback
NAME: Valentine Michael Smith ANCESTRY: Human ORIGIN: Mars Valentine Michael Smith is a human … read more
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"Secrecy begets tyranny."-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
"Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness."-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
"He's an honest politician--he stays bought."-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
"Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution."-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
4. The Hydrogen Sonata (Culture #10)
By: Iain M. Banks
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
They are, truly, probably, End Days for the Gzilt civilization. An ancient people, they helped set … read more
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5. The Blair Years: Extracts from the Alastair Campbell Diaries
By: Alastair Campbell
4.40
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A revelatory account of Tony Blair's tumultuous leadership, The Blair Years gathers extracts from t… read more
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- nonfiction
6. No One Left To Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family
By: Christopher Hitchens
3.89
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
In No One Left to Lie To, Christopher Hitchens portrays President Bill Clinton as one of the most i… read more
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7. Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the First Age of Terror
By: Bryan Burrough
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of , an account of the battle between the FBI & revolutionary movement… read more
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- history
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8. The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
By: Raymond Chandler
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
A couple of missing wives--one a rich man's and one a poor man's--become the objects of Marlowe's i… read more
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9. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
By: Philip K. Dick
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Jason Tavener woke up one morning to find himself completely unknown. The night before he had been … read more
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10. Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses
By: Theodore Dalrymple
4.50
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
This new collection of essays bears the unmistakable stamp of Theodore Dalrymple's bracingly clears… read more
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11. War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier
By: Adam Parfrey , Smedley D. Butler
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Major General Smedley D. Butler was a military hero of the first rank, the winner of two Medals of … read more
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12. Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
By: Paul Theroux
2.86
Format: 442 pages, Paperback
In Dark Star Safarithe wittily observant and endearingly irascible Paul Theroux takes readers the l… read more
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13. The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
By: Douglas Murray
4.19
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
The Strange Death of Europeis a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the ac… read more
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14. Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)
By: William Gibson , Bruce Sterling
4.06
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Ten tales, from the computer-enhanced hustlers of Johnny Mnemonic to the technofetishist blues of B… read more
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"It was hot, the night we burned Chrome."-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)
"You are exhibiting symptoms of urban singles angst. There are cures for this. Drink up. Go."-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)
"It was one of those nights, I quickly decided, when you slip into an alternate continuum, a city that looks exactly like the one where you live, except for the peculiar difference that it contains no…"-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)
"If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We c…"-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)
15. Autobiography
By: Morrissey
3.96
Format: 286 pages, Paperback
Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder … read more
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16. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
By: Edmund Conway
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more
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"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
17. Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War
By: Tim Bouverie
4.36
Format: 461 pages, Kindle Edition
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER • A gripping new history of the Bri… read more
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18. Better to Live
By: Alastair Campbell
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Last Christmas I almost killed myself. Almost. I've had a lot of almosts. Never gone from almost to… read more
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19. The Phoney Victory: The World War II Illusion
By: Peter Hitchens
4.07
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Was World War II really the 'Good War'? In the years since the declaration of peace in 1945 many my… read more
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- world war ii
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20. One Party After Another: The Disruptive Life of Nigel Farage
By: Michael Crick
4.11
Format: 400 pages, ebook
'Enormously readable...excellent' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times'A superb piece of thorough journa… read more
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21. Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them)
By: Jack Posobiec
4.18
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
If you don’t understand communist revolutions, you aren’t ready for what’s coming. The old rules … read more
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"freedom cannot exist in the sociopolitical sense without shared culture and shared value systems that agree on what freedom is and from what (or Whom) it derives"-Jack Posobiec, Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them)
"Consider Elon Musk, the sole protector of anything like freedom of speech on the internet, who has been subjected to cruel and unusual lawfare by unhuman bureaucrats and activists."-Jack Posobiec, Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them)
