A Bond Beyond Politics
Why does the US support Israel through thick and thin? This question is the subject of two books—Our American Israel by Amy Kaplan, 2018, and…
A Bond Beyond Politics
Why does the US support Israel through thick and thin? This question is the subject of two books—Our American Israel by Amy Kaplan, 2018, and…
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A Friend In Deed
The friendship between Lu Xun and a Japanese bookstore owner in Shanghai. This book examined the close friendship between the most famous Chinese intellectual of…
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Gandhi by Ved Mehta
Gandhi is a many-faceted man. His views change constantly. He explains that he grows from truth to truth. And yet, he was fastidious in checking…
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The learning curve – Iran
Iran has learned from the 2025 war and from the US how to leverage its strength. From Trump’s forced “takeover” of the Panama Canal from…
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Persia
Persia is a name given to Iran by the Greeks during the classical age. Iran is the original name for the country. However, the term…
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Regime Change Between Myth and History
Can regime change in Iran be done from the air? Khomeini: Life of the Ayatollah by Baqer Moin, 1999. Trump believes he can create regime…
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Inside Hitler’s High Command
This book by Geoffrey P. Megargee, published in 2000, is an eye-opener. I read it in Dec 2002, having bought it at Times bookstore, Centrepoint…
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The Moon Landing—The Race into Space
The public believes (wrongly) that President John F. Kennedy is the president who is solely responsible for the first successful moon landing in history. Actually,…
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A World History of War Crimes
Is an attack on a country without a declaration of war a war crime? The Tokyo war crimes trials, 1946-48, ruled that Hideki Tojo, the…
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A Problem from Hell
This book won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 as well as other book prizes. I read this book in 2003. It is a tour de…
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