Content tagged with "middle-east"
Argo: How the CIA & Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
so, here’s the problem with this book: the situation is ultimately just not that exciting. Yes, the movie was apparently great, and the set-up is amazing – diplomats hiding in a hostile country, escaping through disguise, etc. – but in the end, the CIA forged some documents and they all walked out….
A History of the Middle East
Here are some notes I took on the acquisition of this book:
Bought at the little bookstore in White Bear Lake
The Kurds: A People in Search of Their Homeland
Here’s my problem with this book – it wasn’t a history, it was more of a personal memoir. I was expecting the detailed story of the Kurdish people, but instead I got a story about the author and how he interacted with the Kurds over the course of several decades. The author had some history with…
