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.

Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
#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
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Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
#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
Imperialism: A Study of the History, Politics and Economics of the Colonial Powers in Europe and America (Hardcover)
J. A. Hobson
@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
Is Socialism Possible in Britain?: Reflections on the Corbyn Years
Andrew Murray
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
Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens
#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
Baffy: The Diaries of Blanche Dugdale 1936-1947
Blanche Dugdale
@deargodwhatnow A close relation to Blanche “Baffy” Dugdale presumably…
Paperback, 2021
$37.95$18.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Global Cold War
Odd Arne Westad
@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
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Fascism: 100 Questions Asked and Answered
Oswald Mosley
@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
Slopes of Lebanon
Amos Oz
@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
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Stalin: Breaker of Nations
Robert Conquest
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
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