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Eldorado

This tries to capitalize on the topicality of European illegal immigration, but ends up a pedestrian effort at putting a face on the multitudes that wash up on the continent’s shores each year.

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Ghettostadt by Gordon J. Horwitz

The book is exhaustively researched and while that’s admirable, it's done at the expense of a narrative momentum for an important story that might otherwise appeal to the layperson.

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AK47 by Michael Hodges

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Quantum of Solace by Ian Fleming

The best of Ian Fleming’s work inspired a generation of espionage writers, but sadly, not these stories.

Life and Death in the Third Reich by Peter Fritzsche

Fritzsche shows the systematic breakdown and reshaping of a society, which in part paved the way for the Holocaust.

Eldorado

This tries to capitalize on the topicality of European illegal immigration, but ends up a pedestrian effort at putting a face on the multitudes that wash up on the continent’s shores each year.

Ghettostadt by Gordon J. Horwitz

The book is exhaustively researched and while that’s admirable, it's done at the expense of a narrative momentum for an important story that might otherwise appeal to the layperson.

AK47 by Michael Hodges

A tour across decades and through some of the planet’s worst hellholes to chronicle the impact of the AK47.

Smoking Saved My Life: A Skinny Jewish Kid Comes of Age in the Haze of American Violence

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MetalMatters: The Best New Heavy Metal Albums of January 2021

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