false 86739 0 0 1489051 1 <![CDATA[آخرين سفر شاه]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184161155m/1489051.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184161155s/1489051.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1489051._ 3.17 35 86739 3.72 147 28 2007 150092 081541224X 9780815412243 5 <![CDATA[Sideshow, Revised Edition: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172210282m/150092.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172210282s/150092.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/150092.Sideshow_Revised_Edition_Kissinger_Nixon_and_the_Destruction_of_Cambodia 4.28 25 86739 3.72 147 28 1986 240464 0743200284 9780743200288 2 <![CDATA[Deliver Us from Evil: Peacekeepers, Warlords and a World of Endless Conflict]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173035830m/240464.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173035830s/240464.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/240464.Deliver_Us_from_Evil_Peacekeepers_Warlords_and_a_World_of_Endless_Conflict 3.76 21 Deliver Us from Evil is very much an on-the-ground book, full of reportage and descriptions of world leaders such as UN chief Kofi Annan. It includes a strong point of view: the dewy-eyed, do-gooder mentality that drives so much contemporary international relations is, as far as Shawcross is concerned, deeply wrongheaded. Peacekeeping missions often find that there's no peace to keep, and expectations of what they can accomplish soar far too high. "Today 'humanitarianism' often rules. It becomes a sop to international concern, and then it can be dangerous," writes Shawcross. Coupled with a world of instant media, where CNN broadcasts live from the killing fields, humanitarianism fuels a strong desire to have immediate reconciliation between warring factions. But it's a delusional goal, says Shawcross, pointing to the American Civil War and how long (even after Appomattox) it took North and South to reconcile fully. There's no reason to think other torn nations will respond more quickly. Peacekeeping missions often promise a heaven on earth they cannot deliver. "In a more religious time it was only God whom we asked to deliver us from evil," concludes Shawcross. "Now we call upon our own man-made institutions for such deliverance. That is sometimes to ask for miracles." --John J. Miller ]]> 86739 3.72 147 28 2000 181277 067168745X 9780671687458 3 <![CDATA[Shah's Last Ride]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172503000m/181277.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172503000s/181277.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/181277.Shah_s_Last_Ride 4.13 15 86739 3.72 147 28 1989 6634223 1400043042 9781400043040 6 <![CDATA[The Queen Mother: The Official Biography]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255633560m/6634223.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255633560s/6634223.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6634223-the-queen-mother 3.50 12
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon—the ninth of the Earl of Strathmore’s ten children—was born on August 4, 1900, and, certainly, no one could have imagined that her long life (she died in 2002) would come to reflect a changing nation over the ourse of an entire century. Now, William Shawcross—given unrestricted access to the Queen Mother’s personal papers, letters, and diaries—gives us a portrait of unprecedented vividness and detail. Here is the girl who helped convalescing soldiers during the First World War . . . the young Duchess of York helping her reluctant husband assume the throne when his brother abdicated . . . the Queen refusing to take refuge from the bombing of London, risking her own life to instill courage and hope in others who were living through the Blitz . . . the dowager Queen—the last Edwardian, the charming survivor of a long-lost era—representing her nation at home and abroad . . . the matriarch of the Royal Family and “the nation’s best-loved grandmother.”

A revelatory royal biography that is, as well, a singular history of Britain in the twentieth century.]]> 86739 3.72 147 28 2009 892647 0743226763 9780743226769 3 <![CDATA[Queen and Country: The Fifty-Year Reign of Elizabeth II]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179245187m/892647.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179245187s/892647.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/892647.Queen_and_Country_The_Fifty_Year_Reign_of_Elizabeth_II 3.42 12 The U.K. is now not quite so united, not quite so British, not nearly so powerful as it was in the time of her father, George VI. Elizabeth has struck many observers as a lonely, aloof soul, struggling valiantly to hold a difficult family together while assuring her nation that the constitutional monarchy remains relevant in the modern world.

Over half a century of rule, Shawcross suggests, the queen has risen to every occasion and capably led both the British Commonwealth and the royal family, even if both have given her plenty of troubles in the bargain. This well-written and nicely illustrated portrait does a fine job of showing the many ways she has earned the affections, respect, and consent of her people. --Gregory McNamee

]]> 86739 3.72 147 28 2002 549251 0671641034 9780671641030 2 <![CDATA[Sideshow]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/549251.Sideshow 4.60 5 86739 3.72 147 28 1979 460207 0671606409 9780671606404 0 <![CDATA[The Quality of Mercy: Cambodia, Holocaust and Modern Conscience]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1242939044m/460207.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1242939044s/460207.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/460207.The_Quality_of_Mercy_Cambodia_Holocaust_and_Modern_Conscience 4.33 3 86739 3.72 147 28 1985 194467 0671552317 9780671552312 0 <![CDATA[The Shah's Last Ride: The Fate of an Ally]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/194467.The_Shah_s_Last_Ride_The_Fate_of_an_Ally 3.67 3 86739 3.72 147 28 1988 7029257 0330434306 9780330434300 1 <![CDATA[Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7029257-queen-elizabeth-the-queen-mother 3.00 2 86739 3.72 147 28 2010