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Eric Lee is a London-based author, historian and political activist. He has written three books on the 20th century history of Georgia plus others on World War II, the Vietnam War, and the labour movement and the Internet. He is the founding editor of LabourStart - the news and campaigning website of the international trade union movement, which he founded in 1998. He's a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK) and a member of the Historical Writers Association and the Society of Authors. ...more

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	The Experiment: Georgia's Forgotten Revolution 1918-1921 3.77 avg rating — 90 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler's Revenge, April–May 1945 3.96 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2020 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Operation Basalt: The British Raid on Sark and Hitler's Commando Order 4.22 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Campaigning Online and Winning: How LabourStart's ActNOW campaigns are making unions stronger by Eric Lee (Goodreads Author), Edd Mustill 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The August Uprising, 1924: The Georgian Anti-Soviet Revolt and the Birth of Democratic Socialism 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Britain's Plot to Kill Hitler: The True Story of Operation Foxley and SOE by Eric Lee (Goodreads Author), Ian Kershaw (Introduction) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How Internet Radio Can Change the World: An Activist's Handbook 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saigon to Jerusalem: Conversations With U.S. Veterans of the Vietnam War Who Emigrated to Israel it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1992	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Labour Movement and the Internet: The New Internationalism 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Eric Lee rated a book it was amazing Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is one the great works of anti-Stalinist literature. It is an attempt by the ex-Communist Koestler to imagine how Soviet interrogators squeezed confessions out of men like Zinoviev, Kamenev and Bukharin — men who had led the revolution and had t ...more
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Eric Lee rated a book it was amazing The Collaborators (The Cormorant Trilogy, #1) by Michael Idov	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Everything I might say about this briliant book would be a spoiler, so I won't say anything at all. This is Burke's first novel and may she write many more of this calibre. I loved every page of it. ...more
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Eric Lee rated a book liked it Warsaw 1920: Lenin’s Failed Conquest of Europe by Adam Zamoyski	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is essentially two books, one of which I loved and one which I did not love. The opening chapters and the conclusion are superb. They tell the extraordinary story of how the Polish army managed to stop the Red Army just before it was about to co ...more
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Eric Lee rated a book it was amazing Animal Farm by George Orwell	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I must have first read this book as a teenager many, many years ago and unlike most novels I read, it stuck in my head. But there was one scene I forgot: the Terror. When the animals stepped forward one by one and ‘confessed’ that they had conspired ...more
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Eric Lee rated a book it was amazing The Wizard of the Kremlin by Giuliano da Empoli	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I’ve categorised this book as ‘Fiction’ but I’m not really sure. The book is mostly a monologue delivered by Vladimir Putin’s (fictional) right hand man. If I learned that it was based on a true person, or even ghost written for one, I’d believe it. ...more
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