Uprooted: How Breslau Became Wroclaw During the Century of Expulsions
Book
With the stroke of a pen at the Potsdam Conference following the Allied victory in 1945, Breslau,...
Filipino Studies: Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora
Martin F. Manalansan and Augusto Espiritu
Book
After years of occupying a vexed position in the American academy, Philippine studies has come into...
Combat Aircraft of the United States Air Force
Book
From its humble beginning in August 1907, when the U.S. Army Signal Corps created its Aeronautical...
My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent Into Darkness
Book
On the early morning of March 16, 1968, American soldiers from three platoons of Charlie Company...
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Movies of the 70s
Book
The Birth of the Blockbuster How the prodigies of the 1970s revolutionized cinema The 1970s: that...
50 Speeches That Made the Modern World: Famous Speeches from Women's Rights to Human Rights
Book
Throughout history, great speeches have produced great change. From inciting violence and asserting...
The World of James Bond: The Lives and Times of 007
Book
This book presents an insightful and thoroughly entertaining exploration of the political context of...
Nova Lituania (2019)
Movie
It's late 1930's. Foreseeing the upcoming war in Europe, Lithuanian geographer Feliksas Gruodis...
Awix (3310 KP) rated The Kingmaker (2019) in Movies
Dec 18, 2019
Much of the movie concerns Mrs Marcos holding forth on her achievements as mother of the world, bringer of world peace, ender of the cold war (and so on), intercut with other people with perhaps a stronger grip on reality pointing out what actually went on. Intended criticisms just ping off Mrs Marcos' elephantine self-regard; the effect is blackly comic more than anything else. But the film moves on to consider her attempts to make her son president of the Philippines, with all the re-writing of history and political corruption this entails: it seems the world may hear from her again. Intelligently made, eye-openingly weird, ultimately rather chilling.
The Spy Who Changed the World
Book
The world first heard of Klaus Fuchs, the head of theoretical physics at the British Research...