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Top Customer Reviews: Nuclear Folly: A ...

Rating: 4 out of 5 with 50 ratings
5 / 5
Elsewhere in my series of descriptions of books of Amazon, has given an opinion of Serhii Plokhy book in Chernobyl - 'History of the Tragedy'. Do like this, has compared he with Higginbotham is soyidnight in Chernobyl'. In mine dress, both are well, but Higginbotham is better. Better in detail technical and forensic; better and more obliging narrative; politically neutral.

And is quell'has bitten one same with Plokhy is 'Nuclear Madness'. My comparator here is Dobbs' 'A Minute the Half night', which have read in his publication in 2008. Dobbs HAS attentive detail and has extended on all the appearances of a Cuban crisis, while Plokhy is comparatively patchy. It compares, for example, a coverage in some two books of Maultby U2 flight in a North Pole in Black Saturday, October 27, 1962. In a leg of turn, Maultby has lost his way and strayed in a (Soviet) Chukotka peninsula in far-oriental Siberia. Soviet interceptors has been mixed in investigation. A resultant next-lose was a catalyst partorisca the nuclear war has averted this terrible day. But Dobbs' the treatment of one marries it the sequence is far upper.

More generally, has found Dobbs gripping partorisca read -- I knows, is the novelist , which is not always a better recommendation partorisca the writer of history -- Plokhy less so much. The nuclear madness adds a lot of new material of a Soviet perspective, which is well. But then, mine to look to suffer the sure impenetrability that perceives in the books have translated Russian or Ukrainian tongues or, in a chance of Plokhy book, one this is to write in English for any of the that the tongue of mother is Ukrainian. It can any one quite dipped my toe in the, but is something in an empty of tongue that inhibits flow and readability in an English rendition. It is a reason because has Doctor partorisca read of the difficulty Zhivago, Solzhenitsyn or Vasily Grossman. Plokhy Is so only harder that goes that Dobbs: slightly impenetrable American-twanged English with the Ukrainian undertone.

Then has a politics: as remarked, a Soviet slant of the Nuclear madness is well. But a (probably) Ukrainian spelling (Yurii Gagarin, and a lot of other examples) find bit it discordant when some the Russian versions are like this more familiarised. Plokhy Is critical of the Soviet and Russian things, and aims. Partorisca Sixty years, an Executive Committee of a Joint of National Security has been ExComm (or -- Robert Kennedy -- Ex Comm). Reason, In Nuclear Madness, ExCom?

Finally, touted like the one of new entity revelation of still like this another peril in Black Saturday, has found Plokhy Soviet-underwater-roughly-the-phase of fire of nuclear torpedo a lot altogether convincing.

A good book, which have finalised. But, it likes Plokhy Chernobyl of work, will not be king-the reading. Three and the half stars.
4 / 5
One first what partorisca say in this book is that it is missing the chapter. No like the subject of opinion - but to the equal that @subjects in fact: there are long notes to the preface that simply is not there (and does not mean partorisca have the bad copy impresa, a pagination aims it so only has not been comprised). Of a material referenced would look it that an author has drawn explicit parallels among a miscalculations of a Crisis of Donald and Cuban Missile the triumphs is managing of North Korea, but quite that says does not know .
Is not an only question with modifying - and is not a first book of the history published during a covid-19 pandemic where has seen this - throughout there are signs of the sure lack of attention partorisca detail, the information repeated and in a chance an out of a blue reference to British weaponry like bargaining chip without leading or subsequent explanation.
In an end any of an on imports too - or any if I have not gone has left still disappointed by other appearances of a book. Too much of bed as it said it, has then said and has then said, recount of some meetings of some the USA ExCom and spend a lot a book that is directed partorisca comprise a world is in a flange of nuclear war but without remarking at all that any of some participants has comprised that (when his plainly - but any feeling of urgency, the fear or to the paranoia is communicated never ours some readers).
A does not choose on the little has bitten in a second meso - especially in some moments a world really does totter in a flange, but his often last partorisca ask that a fuss was all roughly, like this drily and pacelessly is spoken.
Is not that a book is poor - Plokhy is better the concealed - but he so only lack of so much: really it concentrates in some discussions among and in some the EUA, Soviet and Cuban leadership.
Take it readout in of the opinions and of the Soviet views that often is that they lose and there is some other ideas of some Soviet (especially Ukrainian) perspective, but in general had expected the bit more than of the this.
4 / 5
Arguably A better account of a Crisis of Cuban Missile partorisca date. An access to some Soviet archive and Plokhii the deep knowledge of a history gives it the breadth and depth that little approached. A balance among some Soviet accounts and those of Kennedy and other sides so only the lovely reading done.

A fact that has had four times like the a lot of Soviet troops in an island likes them USA has thought and that a MRBMs has been armed with nuclear warheads and 'battle to aimed and that the Soviet tactical nuclear weapons have been authorised partorisca be used if Cuba has been invaded so only servants partorisca underline so only which near have come to the nuclear holocaust in 1962.

A course that Castro has touched in taking to a flange, reason Khrushchev has has wanted to MRBMs on Cuba and one my-the information and the misunderstandings among some two sides is revelation in them.

But partorisca his resolution would not be reading this description.

Writing a lot good. Obliging. Highly recommended .
5 / 5
Any one the period am interested particularly in but there is enjoyed this analysis. A narrative was chronological which has helped partorisca feel a context inside those decisions have been taken . As with all the history there was to good sure two perspectives to a crisis & he simplistic to resist some Russians totally partorisca blame . A lesson partorisca give the support takes of this book is that in spite of his a lot of deep defects a world would owe that be appreciated extremely that JFK was President the one who has resisted to to idiot likes LeMay verify & like this prevented of the catastrophic nuclear transmission.
4 / 5
Ossia The fantastic bed. The expert analysis in a crisis of missile is presented is the a lot readable way. Reading this calm @to give you so only which near a world is coming the nuclear war in a prompt @@@1960s!
Ossia An interesting & involving book.
4 / 5
First analysis of class. A lot it is previously the be be publish in this @@subject but comprises a lot of new material any one developed in of the works like A Hell of the Bet, Defcon One and Thirteen Days.

Reading a lot lovely.
5 / 5
I like a day partorisca detail of day that follows chance, so as it looks possible of some people those who was has involved directly.

Some shows of book in scaring detail, reason has to that a lot of nuclear weapons of fear; they are controlled for simple humans.
4 / 5
Ossia The a lot of thorough and highly readable account of a crisis of Cuban Missile. It uses sources of both sides of a cold War divide and resupplies ideas to some thought in both sides and his mutual worry that they could turn a confrontation to all was war.
An annoying thing so only is that although a footnotes partorisca some looks of Preface, a Preface he no.
5 / 5
has read several accounts that spent in a subject of a crisis of the Cuban missile and this pound is for far a better , congratulations to an author in such the good account researched and a lot readable . It was the twelve boy of year escole old when this in fact displaced crisis and in mine colegiala all the world has spoken roughly the day for the day and scared can say you concealed . All has think that a war partorisca finalise all the wars were partorisca spend anytime . This book answers all some questions have required partorisca answer and llama all the world-wide to to which likes him the book that is odder that any fiction partorisca the buy and thank a Gentleman some world-wide leaders all saw felt before it was too late !
4 / 5
There is enjoyed to this reservation like the crisis of the Cuban missile was something I so only never really studied in pupil. For like this, this filled in many empty partorisca me, how is chock full of detail; like those some Russians have based on Cuba has suffered with worms in his paste, undoubtedly that heads to the decrease in his morals. A narrative of a crisis is said in the a lot of warm way, readable, with a reader has left with an idea that Kennedy and Khrushchev was unable to read another character, that heads to a be world-wide in a flange of nuclear armageddon. It concealed it has not gone down the casualidad, regime and, finally, partorisca pinch of reason. In short, the a lot of very read that it would have to that do fault more as an introduction to a subject, more than as the scholarly addition the literature already there.

Top Customer Reviews: Tacky’s Revolt: ...

Rating: 4 out of 5 with 8 ratings
4 / 5
My family is Jamaican and has bought this book as I have wanted to know more in my ancestral history. Had a lot of slave disgusts a lot successful during some 400 years of slavery this in spite of, a victors of the history will not speak on some defeats have the lean data, especially against the group of people has seen like this inferior.

This book and any book in an All Saint add Louverture would owe that be part to read of national curriculum. Incidentally a British has not been a prime minister to finalise a trade of slave likes him with of claim of pride.

A Law of slavery of the parliament done officially illegal in 1833, likes Big Bretagna was a first to spend the law to outlaw a practice, this in spite of the slavery continued in a lot of of his settlements for decades with which. A first country in a western hemisphere to finalise the slavery was Haiti , where the disgusts of slave has beaten some English, French and Spanish, until these countries the defeat admitted and some Haitians have won his independence and liberty in 1801. As first country in a world-wide to abolish the slavery was Haiti .
4 / 5
Has read narrative European affirming his transfer that Africans would have to that be happy like some slaves because a Africans was better is gone in this brutal system, in place of living in his homeland. Book of Brown of Vincent of ladies rasgó that narrative avert like this researched that correctly, was the British propaganda to justify that it maintains slaves and doing enormous fortunes in Giamaica and a Caribbean. My fellow South African said that the European has not written on some Utmost African Realms and has directed a Western world to believe Sub-Saharan Africans was savages and sub human to denied a mediaeval brutality a European caused in of the black people.
Tacky Is the disgusts describes some the triangular connections among Inghilterra/Worsens British and a trans-Atlantic connections to a Caribbean and Amsterdam and Imperial transactions to sustain an Empire.
Like the Jamaican has not had never an occasion to take to a 'nitty gritty' of some Jamaican rebellions when I have answered school. Subjects like this British has taken a 'the aim washed' narrative. A British brutality is not never state has said. Hanging was an only form to kill could agree. 'Alive burnings', 'Gibbetting'; 'dipping some bosses in of the bets', these terrorist intimidations have not been never mentioned in these books or of the classes.
A British there is not having excusado never. All search the think was like this he a lot the time done, but is so only 3 or 4 generations behind . My genealogical map goes back to some of this time and to the equal that read Professor Brown is 'Tacky Disgust' volume flashbacks in my imaginations and asks the one who the family of my father has done in that then and later. I also asked in the families of my mother because his glorious father was of a class of slave and his glorious mother of a Indentured Created out of Indian.
Finally, excellent book, very researched, the jaw that done of falls and some narratives. I have taken sucked in so it was ' root' for Tacky and Mary and Cuffee to win.
4 / 5
Liked a scholarly approximation detailed that an author has propiciado a subject. Tacky Is the disgusts are situated in a context of centuries of slavery, no a chance in isolation.

I cringed when I have read of some hardships my ancestor have the lean data.

Ossia The book adds to learn roughly slavery in Giamaica and a Caribbean.
4 / 5
Brown an amazing work of divining and dipping near the history of the people of those who the visas and the thoughts have been erased for future generations edification. My hat is was in Ladies Brown. This here ought to be the part of curriculum rule for histories of one to Amsterdam. No, any only African-American History - history, period.
5 / 5
Utmost of credible investigation; attentive history of Jamaican liberty-struggling.
5 / 5
Takes some really hard rebellion tactic to struggle some way by means of all that was against some people those who has been spent of Africa.
4 / 5
Probably a lot so only to revise, my prime minister is an author . But I enjoyed it a lot of
4 / 5
Fascinating book! Also it thinks that it is the timely bed date likes one Or.K. It is grappling with his past to hold of the slave.

Top Customer Reviews: The Common Wind: ...

Rating: 5 out of 5 with 3 ratings
5 / 5
One of some better books there is not reading never. This book has described a vast and complex communication coverages among and go in enslaved and free African communities in a to Amsterdam during a time of a Haitian Revolution. For real remarkable book.
5 / 5
Interesting theory in the communications in a 1800 east, plausible and a lot informative. Well lovely reading so that they share an interest.
5 / 5
Scott says a thrilling history of like this villages of African heritage and “masterless the men” influenced and shaped chances around one to Amsterdam before, slope, and after a Haitian Revolution.

Top Customer Reviews: The Republic of ...

Rating: 4 out of 5 with 16 ratings
5 / 5
Formed: Paperback Interesting book. I have learnt the shot much more roughly life in Caribbean in an eighteenth century. It looks that a lot my preconceived the ideas of pirates were gross exaggerations.
5 / 5
Formed: Paperback has learnt the tonne partorisca read this book. If has any interest in of the pirates, is to add it read partorisca cover to cover!
4 / 5
Formed: Paperback The one who the book adds. Very better that expected it partorisca be. To the Writing likes is right there. A lot of information. The enjoyed the plot and recommend it.
4 / 5
Formed: Kindle Edition This was the highly enjoyable the history of an age adds Pirate. Read almost like the novel and could do not dipping down. Highly recommended for history buffs and players of AC Black Flag ( the plot of a rear history of some characters of entity is directed in this book).
4 / 5
Formed: Paperback the pirate histories Are in this novel , loves that.
5 / 5
Formed: Paperback Excellent history of some causes and was pirate. The enjoy really. I add read!!!
4 / 5
Formed: Kindle Edition This reservation has done the very good work partorisca detail a golden age of pirates, and Blackbeard.
Recommends wants to learn more in pirates.
Took it in fact of Create Murderous: the Black flag was in the pirates and I has wanted to know more first skirt.
5 / 5
Formed: Paperback exactly like this described and highly informative. An excellent read.
5 / 5
Interesting book. I have learnt the shot much more roughly life in Caribbean in an eighteenth century. It looks that a lot my preconceived the ideas of pirates were gross exaggerations.
4 / 5
Has learnt the tonne partorisca read this book. If has any interest in of the pirates, is to add it read partorisca cover to cover!

Top Customer Reviews: Island Caribs and ...

Rating: 5 out of 5 with 1 ratings
5 / 5
An account coloreada of some French foundations of the British settlement. Some the a lot of details spend a history of the Granada the life.

Top Customer Reviews: God ...

Rating: 4 out of 5 with 5 ratings
4 / 5
One first splits of a history was good writing with vivid descriptions and an interesting narrative but he looked a boring writer or was in the haste partorisca take to an end of a history.

A second half of a book has suffered poor descriptions and jumped of has thought in thought and scene to the scene that leave partorisca reread several parts partorisca see yes have had perhaps skipped in the page or two.

Still with some thin descriptions and line of the plot scattered of a second half there is enjoyed a history.

Thinks with some patience of plus and attention partorisca detail these writers the future work will be a lot of value the second look.
5 / 5
Has bought this book after listening a description in NPR. But it was like a history of two books: it began it it was with the ribald (and quite explicit) scene of sex (so much to leave mine 11-year the old daughter has read he), has on followed with the swashbuckling travesía of sea, and then limped to a anti-climatic end. It likes-me the fiction with the historian bent (this author was learnt enough a 16th century and he an excellent work to frame it against today). Unfortunately, a history petered was and a Saint Inez limped behind to Old World-wide Europe in an end... Perhaps I have loved so only read more!
4 / 5
Made a mistake to buy two Winkler novels a same time, and, worse read join them with which another. While law A War of Dog, has taken increasingly nettled with some characters' stereotypical portrait as well as with a milking of a meager jokes to a bitter end.
Here again some stereotypes abound : some Spaniards are cruel and stink, while a Arawaks is meek, peaceful, and smoke spliffs.
Ossia Also roughly all takings for historical context.
Wants to learn on some disastrous interactions among Spaniards and Arawaks , read A Destruction of some Indians for Bartolome of the Houses and be prepared to have more feed for your worse nightmares in a future.
4 / 5
A good look in the fascinating time in history. His characters are not black and aim, has thought is hard to be included-rid when that breaks a Spanish conquest of one to Amsterdam.
5 / 5
This in spite of writing for fabalisti humour, has tid bit of the historical facts that comprises one in humane, brutalisic treatments rendered for a conquistadors to some peaceful arwak people. Well writing.

Top Customer Reviews: The Half Has Never ...

Rating: 4 out of 5 with 49 ratings
4 / 5
Taking to a heart of a subject. And without being dry and that touches academic!
4 / 5
All the world-wide supposed to read this book, especially some Europeans, taste. The history detailed extremely, heavy reading, of one was of shameful time. And we still celebrating Columbus...? Pathetic.
5 / 5
After reading a book, am not sure think that the slavery has done American capitalism this in spite of, Gentleman Edward the querella strong that has been fundamentally of entity. It contests that the work of slave has resupplied the labour efficiency that would not have been possible without an use of the whips and the punishment based in individual quotas that has has had to that he be fulfilled for some slaves. A cotton has then collected could be envoy to some north states partorisca have converted to cloth that could be envoy around a ball. The slaves have not gone so only used like the half of transport but also like this collateral for character partorisca ensure ready of a bank which then believes bonds partorisca sell abroad. I have been interested in a trade of slave and his impact in American life, both past and present. Partorisca This purpose, is not a More adds them law filled with details superfluous to my interest. In spite of, partorisca those looking for the fund detailed of slavery in some the EUA, and one comprising of like this horrible is partorisca an African-American, to good sure would recommend it.
5 / 5
Surprising read. Rid has better read in an impact of slavery on USA develops economic and that finally, causes some the EUA Civil War. Turned in his collective bosses a lie that a slave the economic system has been in decline and backward partorisca aim that an economy of EUA has grown like the result of the slavery and cotton the one who of the sud has fed a British industrial revolution. Also it dips partorisca sleep a myth that some states Of the sud seceeded in states' right and any slavery. A must read partorisca any any one comprises slavery in a Revolution of estaca of them the EUA and pre Civil War.
5 / 5
A book is investigation adds , wonderful partorisca a class of history am taking. My indication is based in a kindle edition. Has no @to @give when I purchased it, but a kindle the edition does not have to that the numbers of page, he doing after the useless partorisca referencing in academic writing.
4 / 5
After reading a book, am not sure think that the slavery has done American capitalism this in spite of, Gentleman Edward the querella strong that has been fundamentally of entity. It contests that the work of slave has resupplied the labour efficiency that would not have been possible without an use of the whips and the punishment based in individual quotas that has has had to that he be fulfilled for some slaves. A cotton has then collected could be envoy to some north states partorisca have converted to cloth that could be envoy around a ball. The slaves have not gone so only used like the half of transport but also like this collateral for character partorisca ensure ready of a bank which then would create bonds partorisca sell abroad. I have been interested in a trade of slave and his impact in American life, both past and present. Partorisca This purpose, has not been a More adds them law filled with details superfluous to my interest. In spite of, partorisca those looking for the fund detailed of slavery in some the EUA, and one comprising of like this horrible was partorisca an African-American, to good sure would recommend it.
5 / 5
Surprising read. Rid has better read in an impact of slavery on USA develops economic and that finally, has caused some the EUA Civil War. Turned in his collective bosses a lie that a slave the economic system has been in decline and backward partorisca aim that an economy of EUA has grown like the result of the slavery and cotton the one who of the sud has fed a British industrial revolution. Also it dips partorisca sleep a myth that some states Of the sud seceeded in states' right and any slavery. A must read partorisca any any one comprises slavery in a Revolution of estaca of them the EUA and pre Civil War.
4 / 5
In a lot of ways this book done partorisca a history of slavery the one who Dee Brown is 'Bury my heart in the knee Wounded' tried partorisca do for Indians in 1970 - the recasts a whole of a history of slavery partorisca see he by means of some experiences of those has struck. But where the speculative approximation of Brown has been critiqued, Baptist is forensic in his evidence. It draws some histories of women of boys and normal men of some pages of a scant record and has produced the narrative of living, the breath is human.

Baptist Fundamentally challenge some bastions of orthodoxies of slavery resisted along and to shows like some subjects that the slavery has directed the such success a lot so only to modern Amsterdam has built but has driven also a development of capitalism. Further he precautions, that such practices still could be seen in some world-wide today.

A powerful book and has required partorisca read for any one interested in this subject.
5 / 5
Ossia The forensic debunking of tentativas leading to limit an impact of slavery in a development of an American republic in a nineteenth century. An author comprehensively shows that the slavery was centrical any one only to a development of agricultural capitalism Of the sud but also to capitalism of North finance.
4 / 5
Far to be the sideshow, the insignificant phenomenon, slavery epitomizes American XIXth capitalism of century. The enormous fortunes have been built litterally in a backside of the black people has transported against his wins to a esouthwest' and fact partorisca toil eleven hours the day in some fields of cotton. 'The value added' has been extracted with a whip. A 'half' that is said here is in fact the main component of American history.
Edward Baptist is the professional historian the one who builds his chance in of the thousands of maps and original documents that marks his main thesis absolutely convincing and the contributo lovely to one the current renaissance of studios there is poured in slavery.
A smaller spoiler now: I wish an author there has been focussed in his point and refrained partorisca say individual histories, or more precisely, to woe a reader with a premices of individual histories that never fully materialise, probably partorisca lack of documents.

Top Customer Reviews: Maroon Nation: A ...

Rating: 5 out of 5 with 1 ratings
5 / 5
A basic idea is that the Haitians have retreated a world, partorisca till his gardens, with which 'Independence.'
Does not doubt that they have done or that a movement duquel was the part -marronage- is a plus neglected of the historical development of Amsterdam.
Once one comprises that a lot a movement partorisca the one of the west in a to Amsterdam has been aimed by a desire of people-of all the races- partorisca escape a aprovechamiento, violence and poverty that was part of a state system a lot of the spent in a flange and in any side of him, results a lot so only more understandable but more sympathetic.
James C Scott is An Art of Any when being pas Governed is neither the good introduction or the follow until Johnhenry the book of Gonzalez on Cuba.
All the world would owe that read this (these) books. They are the memory that there is alternative, and has tried some also, to some suicidal streets that is to continuation.
To the equal that write this description, weeks after reading a book, some crimes against Haiti is like this clear and shameful to the day how were when he holds Haitian the Bonaparte-aided by a yellow fever- has ensured the United States his final independence: had a French prevailed in Haiti a Compraventa of Louisiana would have been postponed indefinitely and a history of some the very different United States.
Perhaps was partorisca punish the Haitians partorisca this present adds that the United States, and to to the his satraps like to them Canada, there is suppressed any mixed of liberty there partorisca the neighbourhood of the millenium.