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Matthew’s 2024 Year in Books
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Matthew Carr
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Flags, Boats and Borders
I never much liked the expression the ‘wrong side of history.’ As much as we might want it to be otherwise, history doesn’t have an intrinsic moral direction leading to the arc of justice or anywhere else. If progress can be made, it can also be undone. Because no matter how enlightened or civilised we think we are, every society contains the potential for barbarism, and when the barbarians ap
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The Devils of Cardona
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2016
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الدين والدم: إبادة شعب الأندلس
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2009
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Black Sun Rising
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2020
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10 editions
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The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism
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2007
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Fortress Europe: Dispatches from a Gated Continent
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2012
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10 editions
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Sherman's Ghosts: Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Way of War
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2015
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4 editions
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The Savage Frontier: The Pyrenees in History and the Imagination
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2018
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My Father's House: In Search of a Lost Past
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2014
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Darwin’s Savages: Science, Race and the Conquest of Patagonia
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Battle Scars (16pt Large Print Edition)
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Jane Stanley's review
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Desert Memories: Journeys Through the Chilean North (Directions):
"The Chilean journalist and writer Ariel Dorfman travels through the northern desert region known as El Norte Grande in his native Chile. It is 2003 and the dictatorship has only been over for a few years. The writer has lived in exile for several yea"
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Lara Stanley's review
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The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves:
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| Excellent and sobering corrective to green new deal Utopianism. Pitron painstakingly reveals the environmental costs of EVs and green technologies in the countries where the metals and minerals that build these technologies are sourced. He also shows ...more | |
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| Detailed in-depth reporting on the difficulties in resolving local environmental concerns and the global rush for ‘green’ minerals. Though mostly concerned with American mining, the issues it raises are also relevant to other countries as the Fourth ...more | |
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| Witty, funny, and extremely well-informed and knowledgeable antidote to ‘ Mars or Bust’ SpaceX fantasies. Well worth reading, and not only for space geeks. | |
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| Witty, funny, and extremely well-informed and knowledgeable antidote to ‘ Mars or Bust’ SpaceX fantasies. Well worth reading, and not only for space geeks. | |
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| A blistering assault on the West’s collusion in the Gaza genocidal that is also a lament and an indictment of the moral collapse of liberalism itself. So much is covered here, and with such searing eloquence: the West’s collusion with Israeli barbari ...more | |
“even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands, and fathers . . . as far as I know, all the fighting men of our army want peace; and it is only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated (friend or foe), that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.”
― Sherman's Ghosts: Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Way of War
― Sherman's Ghosts: Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Way of War
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