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Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
As we have seen in our own time, nothing threatens the liberal and moderate aspect of Islam so much as aggressive Western intrusion and interference in the East, just as nothing so dramatically radicalises the ordinary Muslim and feeds the power of the extremists: the histories of Islamic fundamentalism and Western imperialism have, after all, ofte
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Sir Henry Garraway,
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
commercial bravado undermined by political reticence,
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
Alderman Sir Thomas Smythe,
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
The capacity to utilize and defend against violence is the crucial variable that alters life at the margin.
James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
I couldn’t easily summarize Vincent’s politics, other than to say that they were individualistic.
Peter Hessler • Other Rivers
Lawrence of Arabia: The definitive 21st-century biography of a 20th-century soldier, adventurer and leader
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