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James Vaughan Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

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Historian of UK-Israel relations, British decline, and propaganda @InterpolAber. Captain at Clwb Criced Aberystwyth. Blues harmonica. Idolises Walter Horton.

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Book Cover for: Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens
James VaughanJames Vaughan

#OnThisDay 1928: Charles Dickens’ son on the controversies attending his father’s representation of Jewish characters - Fagin in Oliver Twist and Riah in Our Mutual Friend… https://t.co/Li6VtDysjG

Paperback, 2017

$28.79$14.40 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens
James VaughanJames Vaughan

#OnThisDay 1928: Charles Dickens’ son on the controversies attending his father’s representation of Jewish characters - Fagin in Oliver Twist and Riah in Our Mutual Friend… https://t.co/Li6VtDysjG

Paperback, 2008

$6.95$3.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Imperialism: A Study of the History, Politics and Economics of the Colonial Powers in Europe and America (Hardcover), J. A. Hobson

Imperialism: A Study of the History, Politics and Economics of the Colonial Powers in Europe and America (Hardcover)

J. A. Hobson
James VaughanJames Vaughan

@BobBorsley Boer War and Aliens Act era was dreadful on the British left. Got a bit of coverage not long ago when Corbyn was getting stick (slightly unfairly I thought on that specific occasion) for writing an intro to J.A. Hobson’s Imperialism.

Hardcover, 2018

$30.99$15.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Is Socialism Possible in Britain?: Reflections on the Corbyn Years, Andrew Murray

Is Socialism Possible in Britain?: Reflections on the Corbyn Years

Andrew Murray
James VaughanJames Vaughan

Sunday Times review of Andrew Murray’s ‘Reflections on the Corbyn Years’ describes it as “the most fluent…account to have emerged from the left” and I’m happy to say I initially misread this as “the most affluent”

Paperback, 2022

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens

Our Mutual Friend

Charles Dickens
James VaughanJames Vaughan

#OnThisDay 1928: Charles Dickens’ son on the controversies attending his father’s representation of Jewish characters - Fagin in Oliver Twist and Riah in Our Mutual Friend… https://t.co/Li6VtDysjG

Paperback, 1998

$13.00$6.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Baffy: The Diaries of Blanche Dugdale 1936-1947, Blanche Dugdale

Baffy: The Diaries of Blanche Dugdale 1936-1947

Blanche Dugdale
James VaughanJames Vaughan

@deargodwhatnow A close relation to Blanche “Baffy” Dugdale presumably…

Paperback, 2021

$37.95$18.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Global Cold War, Odd Arne Westad

The Global Cold War

Odd Arne Westad
James VaughanJames Vaughan

@Hunor10 @Steve_Cooke Odd Arne Westad talks a bit about that in the sections on El Salvador and Nicaragua in his excellent book on The Global Cold War.

Paperback, 2007

$34.99$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Fascism: 100 Questions Asked and Answered, Oswald Mosley

Fascism: 100 Questions Asked and Answered

Oswald Mosley
James VaughanJames Vaughan

@kickybarr @MikeGal041 Calling a British MP the tool of “Masters in Tel Aviv” is straight out of the Oswald Mosley/ Gordon Canning/ BUF playbook. Absolutely disgraceful. That’s fascism not anti-fascism.

Paperback, 2019

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Slopes of Lebanon, Amos Oz

Slopes of Lebanon

Amos Oz
James VaughanJames Vaughan

@BarbaraRich_law @LeahFHardy @v_j_freeman There’s a great example of Amos Oz taking someone to task for equating Nazism with Israeli human rights abuses on the West Bank. From The Slopes of Lebanon, I think… https://t.co/jPJd7qOf51

Paperback, 2012

$15.99$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Stalin: Breaker of Nations, Robert Conquest

Stalin: Breaker of Nations

Robert Conquest
James VaughanJames Vaughan

Any opportunity to reprise Robert Conquest’s limerick… There was an old bastard called Lenin Who did one or two million men in That’s a lot to have done in But where he did one in That old bastard Stalin did ten in https://t.co/ySIxGSxki5

Paperback, 1992

$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book