Politics

Yitzhak Rabin

The Battle for Peace
by Linda Benedikt

He was dubbed ‘Mr Security’ by his countrymen, yet Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995) was murdered for what he ultimately failed to deliver: security. It seems that only in death did he become the symbol of what could have been possible: a just peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

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Che Guevara

Life&Times
by Frank Niess

Had he lived Che Guevara would have turned 80 on 14 June 2008. He embodied the dream of a social utopia for a whole generation and became a political icon for many born after his death in 1967. This biography explores the myth and the reality of this enduringly fascinating revolutionary. His daughter Aleida recently denounced the commercialisation of her father's image. 'Something that bothers me now is the appropriation of the figure of Che that has been used to make enemies from different classes. It's embarrassing,' said the eldest daughter from Guevara's second marriage during an internet forum sponsored by Cuba's government ahead of her father's 80th birthday.

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de Gaulle

Life&Times
by Professor Julian Jackson

General Charles de Gaulle, the saviour of France’s honour in 1940 and founder of the Fifth Republic in 1958, was a man of contradictions; a conservative who brought the communists into his government and an imperialist who completed France’s decolonisation.

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Osama Bin Laden

Dead or Alive?
by David Ray Griffin

American foreign policy in recent years has been based, in part, on the assumption that Osama bin Laden is still alive. George W. Bush promised as president that he would get Osama bin Laden ‘dead or alive’ and has been widely criticized for failing to do so. The US’s present military escalation in Afghanistan is said to be necessary to ‘get Osama bin Laden’. The news media regularly announce the appearance of new ‘messages from bin Laden’. But what if Osama bin Laden died in December 2001 – which is the last time a message to or from him was intercepted? In this book, David Ray Griffin examines the evidence for the claim – made by everyone from former CIA agent Robert Baer to Oliver North – that bin Laden is surely no longer with us. He analyses the purported messages from bin Laden and finds that, as many have suspected, they do not provide evidence of bin Laden’s existence after 2001. This leads naturally to the question: if Osama bin Laden did indeed die in 2001, how and why have dozens of ‘messages from bin Laden’ appeared since then? Griffin’s meticulous analysis supports above all one simple and urgent conclusion: if Osama bin Laden is dead, why has so much military and political effort been expended in hunting him down.

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Trotsky

Life&Times
by Dave Renton

Leon Trotsky became the leading spokesman of Russian Revolution, and was the founder of the victorious Red Army of 1918-1921, and did more than anyone to create the early soviet state.Yet Trotsky was out-manoeuvred by Stalin in the struggle to succeed Lenin. In the years followed, he developed the first systematic critique of Stalin's dictatorship. In 1929, he and his wife were forced out of Russia, moving from Turkey to France, and finally to Mexico, where he was brutally assassinated by a Spanish communist in 1940.

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