Results for: books tagged ‘Dictators’
Pinochet in Piccadilly: Andy Beckett
In October 1998, the erstwhile Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London, charged with crimes against humanity by a Spanish magistrate. But over the 16 months that Pinochet ... More
The River of Lost Footsteps: Thant Myint-U
For nearly two decades Western governments and a growing activist community have been frustrated in their attempts to bring about a freer and more democratic Burma - through sanctions and ... More
The Wild Goose Chase: Rex Warner
The Wild Goose Chase, published in 1937 and Rex Warner’s first novel, was a groundbreaking piece of fiction. The novel follows three brothers whose journey is a dazzling original political ... More
The Ministry of Special Cases: Nathan Englander
Kaddish Poznan chips the names off gravestones for a living, removing traces of disreputable ancestors for their more respectable kin. His wife Lillian works in insurance, earning money when people ... More
The Bloody White Baron: James Palmer
The astonishing lost story of the insane mystic who conquered Mongolia in 1920 and led a cavalry army against the Bolsheviks in Moscow. More
Death of the Dark Hero: David Selbourne
The title is taken from an extraordinarily prophetic observation made by Heinrich Heine in 1842. 'Communism, though little discussed now and loitering in hidden garrets on miserable straw pallets, is ... More
Stalin's Nemesis: Bertrand Patenaude
The story of one of the twentieth century’s most notorious political murders: the assassination of Leon Trotsky. Trotsky was the charismatic intellectual of the Russian Revolution, and a brilliant writer ... More
The Feast of the Goat: Mario Vargas Llosa
Urania Cabral, a New York lawyer, returns to the Dominican Republic after a lifelong self-imposed exile. Once she is back in her homeland, the elusive feeling of terror that has ... More
The Last King of Scotland: Giles Foden
What would it be like to become Idi Amin's personal physician? Giles Foden's bestselling thriller is the story of a young Scottish doctor drawn into the heart of the Ugandan ... More
The Brutal Friendship: F. W. Deakin
This famous and important book was first published in 1962. With disarming modesty, the author describes it as ‘a book by an Englishman, in part based on German documents, on ... More
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