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Tuck's work is an attempt at the rehabilitation of Karl Radek, a sidekick of Lenin's who fell victim to Stalin's vengeance in the 1930s. Though not a full-scale academic biography, it is satisfying and fast-moving without being superficial, and offers an intellectually intriguing thesis. . . . Where others have seen betrayal, Tuck sees Radek the mischief maker. Although Radek implicated many guiltless people and testified to lies, Tuck argues Radek's performance was a master stroke of mischief making, turning the tables against Vyshinsky, showing up and revealing the truth about the show...

Der Krieg in der Ukraine setzt neue Maßstäbe in der militärischen Auseinandersetzung. Smarte-Waffen, intelligente Raketenabwehrsysteme, tragbare und infrarotgelenkte Panzerabwehrlenkwaffen, Satelliteninformationen, Standorterkennungen der Handys von Soldaten oder Drohnen, entscheiden über Leben oder Tod, Sieg oder Niederlage. Der erfahrene Kriegsreporter und Rüstungsexperte Jay Tuck schreibt über seine persönlichen Erfahrungen in der Ukraine und seiner vorherigen Einsätze im Irak, er vergleicht die Funktion der jeweiligen Waffensysteme und Strategien und misst ihre Wirksamkeit an...

Lily, Molly, and Inez are women of a certain age, of a certain bearing, of a certain class. Late one dire night, Molly telephones from Connecticut to catch Lily up with the news: Inez's corpse -- near-naked but wearing boots -- has been discovered propped up "like a broom" in a corner of her Soho loft. It is an occasion ripe for an all-night heart-to-heart conversation, bouncing deliriously from one evasion to the next -- until the pair of talk-crazy, talk-weary women have successfully diverted themselves with all the wonderfully vagrant stuff of life . . . with everything, in fact, except...

The year is l854. In Paris, Francisco Solano -- the future dictator of Paraguay -- begins his courtship of the young, beautiful Irish courtesan Ella Lynch with a poncho, a Paraguayan band, and ahorse named Mathilde. Ella follows Franco to Asuncion and reigns there as his mistress. Isolated and estranged in this new world, she embraces her lover's ill-fated imperial dream -- one fueled by a heedless arrogance that will devastate all of Paraguay.
With the urgency of the narrative, rich and intimate detail, and a wealth of skillfully layered characters, The News from Paraguay recalls the...