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1) Karl Marx
Author
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
1999
Description
This biography presents Karl Marx as a man of both brilliance and frailty, as a poverty-stricken Prussian emigre who became a middle-class English gentleman, as an angry agitator, as a gregarious and convivial host and as a devoted family man.
3) Marx
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Karl Marx has been portrayed in equal measure both as a political profit who foresaw the end of capitalist exploitation, and as a populist Anti-Christ whose totalitarian legacy has cost millions of lives worldwide. This biography looks beyond these caricatures in order to understand more about the real Karl Marx.
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It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong....
Author
Publisher
Sutton
Pub. Date
2004
Description
The daughter of the leader of the Young Communists League, Rosa Rust left Britain for Moscow when her father went to work for the Comintern. This is her story, of the desperate treatment she faced whilst in the Soviet Union, and of her father's refusal to admit that the workers' state could do wrong.
Author
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Told with humour and lashings of vodka, this is the true story of Jim Riordan, the British spy who ended up playing for Spartak Moscow. Posted to Berlin as part of his National Service, Riordan began to mix with Russian servicemen, and soon fell in love with Russian culture.