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Dangerous territory

14 April 2012
Pakistan on the Brink Ahmed Rashid

Penguin, pp.256, 20

Fifteen years ago Ahmed Rashid wrote an original, groundbreaking and wonderful book about the Taleban, a subject about which few people at the time knew or cared. Then along came… Read more

Ways of making men talk

24 March 2012
Find, Fix, Finish: Inside the Counter-terrorism Campaign that Killed bin Laden and Devastated al-Qa’eda Aki Peritz and Eric Rosenbach

Public Affairs, pp.356, 18.99

Eric Rosenbach is a former academic who is now deputy assistant secretary of defence in Washington. Aki Peritz used to work for the CIA and now advises the Third Way… Read more

Talking tough

4 February 2012
Justice and the Enemy: From the Nuremberg Trials to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed William Shawcross

Public Affairs, pp.257, 17.99

This thoughtful, challenging and deeply depressing book takes as its launch pad the Nuremberg Trials, in which the author’s father played so prominent a part. Churchill would have executed the… Read more