The Opinionated Old Cow
First, is the title. It may be meant as a disclaimer, as a warning, self-deprecating, an honest self-assessment or all of the above. On reading the book, in fact, she often accomplishes all of the above in her 43 Ruminations. In the…
Exceptional Circumstances
Editor’s Note: We have received two reviews for James Bartleman’s latest book – one from a former FS and editor of bout de papier, Harold Hickman, and one from an active FS David Kyffin. Since their reviews complement each other well we…
The Wrong Enemy
THE WRONG ENEMY: AMERICA IN AFGHANISTAN, 2001-2014, by Carlotta Gall, 2014, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 352 pp, $37.00
Guerilla Communications and Spokespersonry
GUERILLA COMMUNICATIONS, by Eduardo del Buey, 2014, Friesen Press, Victoria, B.C., 155 pp.
A Quiet Kill
A QUIET KILL: A FORSYTH AND HAY MYSTERY, by Janet Brons, TouchWood Editions, 2014, 192 pp., $14.95.
Don’t Tell the Newfoundlanders
NEWFOUNDLAND’S CONFE- DERATION WITH CANADA, by Greg Malone, 2012, Viking Canada Edition [2014], Toronto, 314 pp., $22.00.
How We Lead – Canada in a Century of Change
For many of us, there is not much to cheer about these days in Canadian foreign policy, but we can’t say it’s boring. Blogs, newspaper editorials and op-eds clang with the vigorously opposing views of those denigrating or praising the Harper world…
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
RETURN OF A KING: THE BATTLE 1 FOR AFGHANISTAN by William « Dalrymple, 2013, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 568 pp., $22.00.
So Much for Democracy
In Kari Jones’ latest book for young adults she draws on the experience of a foreign service posting in Ghana with her family at the end of the 1970s, a period which coincided with the first coup by J.J. Rawlings. This should…
Escaping Iran – A True Account of the Best Bad Idea
Just when you thought there couldn’t possibly be another book or film about the Canadian Caper, along comes another one. This book has a unique angle, though. It’s a personal account by Mark Lijek who, along with his wife Cora and four…
