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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Prophet Muhammad—Part 1
I have read two biographies of the Prophet Muhammad over the years. For Ramadan 2026, I am reading two recently published biographies. Muhammad and the…
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Cairo Geniza—Part 1
The term “Cairo Geniza,” to the initiated, refers to a repository of priceless ancient texts found in 1896 in a synagogue in Cairo. These texts…
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Lord Denning The Judge and the Law, 1984
Lord Devlin, in an insightful foreword to this book of essays on Lord Denning’s contribution to the law, said, in the beginning paragraph, that there…
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Hankow, Shanghai and Chinese Society in the 18th century
Hankou, also spelled Hankow, is one of the three Imperial towns (the other two are Wuchang and Hanyang) that merged to become modern-day Wuhan City,…
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Names chosen for military operations – Part 1
The name given to a military operation is taken very seriously. The US military strike on Iran on 28 Feb 26 is named Operation Epic…
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