Vijay Prashad - 'Washington Bullets'
This excellent book on CIA, coups, and assassinations, is weighed, loaded with fact, and is (remarkably so) briefly written.
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Laurence Rees - 'Hitler's Charisma'
Terrific writing from a masterful historian makes this another great addition to the pantheon of books about World War II and human nature.
Tom Roston - 'The Writer's Crusade, Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five'
Youthfully sprawled but too free, a somewhat interesting portrait of Vonnegut's masterpiece.
