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RogueBeaver
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« on: July 16, 2011, 12:59:15 PM »
A few things...

Gladstone by Morley.

Both English volumes ( Citizen of the World and Just Watch Me)on Trudeau.

English's Pearson bio.
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« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2012, 03:49:23 PM »
The Massie trilogy, currently partway through Nicholas and Alexandra having finished the other 2.
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« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2013, 07:35:04 PM »
Alistair Horne's The Savage War of Peace is the latest book I'm reading from my Xmas haul. Been interested in the Algerian War of Independence for a few years now.
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« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2014, 11:12:10 PM »
Just finished Anne Applebaum's Iron Curtain.
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« Reply #4 on: July 07, 2014, 10:07:14 PM »
« Edited: July 07, 2014, 10:08:57 PM by RogueBeaver »
Charles de Gaulle by Eric Roussell. Also recently finished The Life and Death of the Spanish Republic by Henry Buckley,  A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes, and The Failure of the Action Liberale Nationale by Patricia Dirkes.
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« Reply #5 on: August 12, 2014, 10:27:00 PM »
Si l'Union Nationale m'était contée, by Mario Cardinal et al, and Memoires by Georges-Emile Lapalme. The former is an oral history by political scientists interviewing prominent politicians from the Duplessis era... nothing really new to me but I was interested in how everyone rated their colleagues. Lapalme's memoirs are boring as hell, if useful as a peek on that side of the aisle. The PLQ then, like the PCQ decades earlier, was a pathetic joke somewhat in awe of the omnipotent dynasty facing them across the aisle... though to his credit Lapalme doesn't engage in too much self-aggrandizement.
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« Reply #6 on: August 30, 2014, 09:04:38 PM »
« Edited: August 30, 2014, 09:27:07 PM by RogueBeaver »
Warlords: Borden, Mackenzie King and Canada's World Wars by Tim Cook.
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« Reply #7 on: September 13, 2014, 12:39:49 PM »
Louis St. Laurent, Canadian by Dale Thomson. Excellent, breezy read.
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« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2015, 08:43:21 PM »
The Big Red Machine: How the Liberal Party Dominates Canadian Politics by Stephen Clarkson.
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« Reply #9 on: April 28, 2015, 10:03:24 PM »
Luis Francia's A History of the Philippines
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« Reply #10 on: May 15, 2015, 10:00:42 PM »
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography by Charles Moore.
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« Reply #11 on: June 25, 2015, 07:31:52 AM »
Antony Beevor's The Battle for Spain and Max Boot's Invisible Armies. Enjoying Beevor so far.
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« Reply #12 on: March 01, 2017, 06:16:39 PM »
Halberstam's (yuge fan of his) The Powers That Be.
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