POLITICAL SCIENCE / General from William Robertson

New York: PublicAffairs, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Trenchant, brilliantly incisive and boldly analytical, this is both a celebration of American military strength and a thoughtful critique of US geo-strategy. Described as a vital contribution to the on-going debate on the best way to secure the future for America and a gripping narrative of events in the… Read more about this item

London: Headline, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. In this remarkable new book, the author examines the key period in Hitler's life which transformed him from an aimless drifter and frustrated artist, into a charismatic public speaker and absolute ruler of the most powerful fascist state in European history. This was the two months Hitler spent being treated… Read more about this item

London: Constable & Robinson , 2005. First UK Edition. Paperback. Good +. Radical and controversial look into the 'facts' surrounding the 9/11 attacks. Whether you believe any of the conspiracy theories discussed in this book, the details are both grimly fascinating and chillingly plausable at times. The truth - or just the ramblings of over imaginative… Read more about this item

London: Bloomsbury, 1988. First UK edition. Hardcover. Good/good. The full story behind America's secret funding of Contra guerrilas in Nicaragua. Everyone has heard of Oliver North, but in this work the author exposes the foot-soldiers behind his 'neat idea', revealing sordid details of drug smuggling, illegal arms deals, assassinations and plots to involve the US directly in… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfelf & Nicolson , 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. London: Weidenfelf & Nicolson , 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Hardback. 1st edition. Very Good/Very Good. Translated from the Russian by David Gurevich, this is the first full biography of Boris Yeltsin, and a rare glimpse inside the Soviet power structure, by… Read more about this item

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990. Third Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/good +. Autobiography of American-born author who would become best known spokesperson/apologist for the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War. Full of telling political and social insights. Contains 324 pages, 24.5 x 15.5cm, with introduction by Brian Kahn. Blue cloth boards with… Read more about this item

Manchester : Baseline , 1992. Paperback. Good +. Good+/-. An investigation and clear analysis of current (at time of publication) health reforms, including alternative ways forward. Size, 19.5 x 13.5cm, 117 pages. Ex-library, front endpaper removed, some library markings. Illustrared card covers in fair-to-good condition. Internally, good+: clean, bright and unmarked in excellent… Read more about this item

London: Boxtree , 1990. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Very Good/Very Good Jacket. Transcripts of six key television interviews by Brian Walden in 1989. Walden is widely regarded as one of the most incisive political interviewers in British TV history whose fair but tough questioning left many a politician lost for words for the first time in… Read more about this item

London: The Bodley Head , 1989. Hardcover. Fair/good. Fair/Good. The author's now classic in-depth look at the murky world of security agents and the dirty tricks they carry out in our name. He argues that most espionage is ultimately fruitless and asks, for instance, whether MI5's record on spy-catching can justify its frequent - and… Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus , 1991. First English language edition. Hardcover. Good +/very good. Insightful biography of the ex-Soviet leader. Translated from the German by Peter Tegel. Size, 24 x 15.5cm, 260 pages, 6 pages of b&w photos. Ex-library, front endpapers neatly removed, some library markings. Black cloth boards in very good pictorial dust jacket.… Read more about this item

London: Mitchell Beazley , 1988. Paperback. Fine. An important compilation of six major essays and some 400 articles by influencial scientists and writers on environmental themes. The essays are, Man and the Natural Order, by Donald Worster & Jack E.Meyerhoff; The Politics of Food Aid, by Lloyd Timberlake; Nuclear Energy After Chernobyl, by Peter Bunyard; Man and… Read more about this item

London: Viking, 1987. Hardcover. Fine/very good. A fascinating look 'behind the doors' of the Bank of England. Horribly shaken by the secondary banking crisis in the 1980s, the disastrous purchase of the Johnson Matthey Bank and ensuing scandal, and shocked by the 'Big Bang', the Bank is no longer in complete control of the City. Once able… Read more about this item

London: BBC Publications , 1986. Second edition. Hardcover. Fine/good. Based on characters from the hilarious BBC TV series, 'Yes Prime Minister'. Green leatherette boards in gilt-titled dust jacket. Jacket shows minor shelf wear. Internally, Fine: clean, bright and unmarked in excellent bindings. Looks, feels and smells like new inside.

London: Regency, 1995. Paperback. Very Good. An official publication to mark the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations. Looks at the many and varied projects which come under the UN banner, the aims and constitution of the organization, etc, etc. Size, 29.5 x 21cm, 320 pages, illustrated throughout with colour photos. Ex-library, front endpaper removed, some… Read more about this item

London: HarperCollins , 1993. Paperback. Good. Good/-. Analysis of today's guerrilla movements world-wide. Takes the reader into the mind of the revolutionary as never before. Equally shocking and touching by turns. Size 19 x 13cm, 270 pages. Ex-library, front endpaper removed, some library markings. Pictorial laminated card covers showing faint creases within… Read more about this item

Dingle: Brandon , 1995. Revised. Paperback. Fair. Fair/-. A personal statement on the meaning and motivation of modern Irish republicanism from the Sinn Fein leader. Mostly deals with the period of the 1960s to publicaton date. Size, 21.5 x 13.5cm, 256 pages. Ex-library, front endpaper removed, some library markings. Pictorial laminated card covers in… Read more about this item