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Since the first detainees were transferred there from Afghanistan on January 11 2002, Guantanamo Bay has become the most notorious prison on…
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Dear Mr Stephens While visiting New York recently I read your column in the Wall Street Journal entitled ‘Why Iraqis back…
While there is fervent debate about whether it is useful to compare Iraq today with the earlier American war on Vietnam, one…
Published four years ago, Mark Kurlansky‘s 1968: the year that rocked the world is an engrossing and stimulating general history of a…
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