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  • The Department Of Truth

    The Secret British Propaganda Unit That Span Out of Control

    by Nicholas Gilby, James Oliver, Paul Lashmar ...
    This is the story of the Information Research Department, arguably the most influential and yet anonymous department of the British Government you've never heard of. Embedded in the Foreign Office it was Britain's secret Cold War propaganda agency, working closely with MI6, MI5, and the CIA. Set up, initially, as a small unit to fight the spread of communism, it grew into a monster, where almost ... Read more

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    The Department Of Truth

    The Secret British Propaganda Unit That Span Out of Control

    by Nicholas Gilby, James Oliver, Paul Lashmar ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours

    This is the story of the Information Research Department, arguably the most influential and yet anonymous department of the British Government you've never heard of. Embedded in the Foreign Office it was Britain's secret Cold War propaganda agency, working closely with MI6, MI5, and the CIA. Set up, initially, as a small unit to fight the spread of communism, it grew into a monster, where almost ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Deception in High Places

    A History of Bribery in Britain's Arms Trade

    by Nicholas Gilby ...
    Deception in High Places reveals the corruption endemic in Britain's biggest arms deals over the last fifty years.Based on painstaking research in government archives, collections of private and court papers and documents won by the author in a landmark Freedom of Information Tribunal against the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the book illuminates a shadow world of bribery and elite enrichment ... Read more

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  • No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade

    by Nicholas Gilby ...
    One of the few up-to-date works on the whole of the arms trade, this book puts the global trade in weapons in the context of history and includes recent controversial deals, as well as case studies on Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Darfur. It exposes the cynicism, bribery, and insider deals that characterize the conventional trade and the hidden world of torture.Nicholas Gilby led the Campaign Against ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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    by Carmen Boullosa, Mike Wallace ...
    The term Mexican Drug War” misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair.But this diverts attention from the U.S. role in creating and sustaining the carnage. It’s not just that Americans buy drugs from, and sell weapons to, Mexico’s murderous cartels. It’s that ever since the U.S. prohibited the use and sale of drugs ... Read more

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  • Infamous Aircraft

    Dangerous Designs and their Vices

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    An in-depth look at some of the 20th century's notoriously terrible aircraft.Many aircraft, some famous and some rare, gained a reputation for being difficult to fly and sometimes downright dangerous. This book looks at some of the worst culprits over a period spanning World War I to the age of supersonic flight. The following aircraft are included . . .B.E.2: The Royal Flying Corps went to war in ... Read more

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  • The Shadow World

    Inside the Global Arms Trade

    by Andrew Feinstein ...
    The Shadow World presents the behind-the-scenes tale of the global arms trade, exposing in forensic detail the deadly collusion that too often exists among senior politicians, weapons manufacturers, felonious arms dealers, and the military--a situation that compromises our security and undermines our democracy.Now a major PBS documentary"An authoritative guide to the business of war. Chilling, ... Read more

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  • Directorate S

    The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan

    by Steve Coll ...
    **Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction • Nominated for the National Book Award for NonfictionFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars and The Achilles Trap, the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11**Prior to 9/11, the United States had ... Read more

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    Radical Islam, Oil, and the Nuclear Threat

    by Mark Hitchcock ...
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  • Collision 2012

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    by Dan Balz ...
    From the bestselling author of The Battle for America 2008 and longtime Washington Post correspondent, an inside view and analysis of the Obama-Romney presidential raceIn 2008 a bright young candidate triumphed on a theme of change and hope. Four years later an embattled President struggled against an apocalyptically divided and divisive Congress, a war that won’t end, and an economy that casts a ... Read more

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  • The Case for Impeachment

    by Allan J. Lichtman ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Lichtman has written what may be the most important book of the year." — The HillWhat are the ranges and limitations of presidential authority? What are the standards of truthfulness that a president must uphold? What will it take to impeach Donald J. Trump? Professor Allan J. Lichtman, who has correctly forecasted thirty years of presidential outcomes, answers these questions, ... Read more

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  • Arsenals of Folly

    by Richard Rhodes ...
    Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a riveting account of the nuclear arms race and the Cold War.In the Reagan-Gorbachev era, the United States and the Soviet Union came within minutes of nuclear war, until Gorbachev boldly launched a campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons, setting the stage for the 1986 Reykjavik summit and the incredible events that followed. In this thrilling, ... Read more

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