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James Donaldson’s Book Review – The Forever War by Dexter Filkins

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  • May 17, 2017

The Forever War allows us a visceral understanding of today’s battlefields and of the experiences of […]

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James Donaldson’s Book Review – The Devil We Don’t Know: The Dark Side of Revolutions in the Middle East by Nonie Darwish

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  • August 12, 2015

This was a hard-hitting, straight to the point approach of the various dynamics in the […]

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James Donaldson’s Book Review – Libya and Change: How it Happened by Thomas Hodge

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  • June 9, 2015

This is a short quick read and look at Libya and also the ruling family […]

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James Donaldson’s Book Review – The Rise of Isis: A Terror We Can’t Ignore by Jay Sekulow

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  • April 28, 2015

A quick but relatively insightful look at the “Rise of Isis”.  The terrorist group that […]

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James Donaldson’s Book Review – The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road To 9/11 by Lawrence Wright

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  • November 11, 2014

          http://www.audible.com/search/ref=a_newreleas_tseft?advsearchKeywords=the+looming+tower&filterby=field-keywords&x=0&y=0&sprefixRefmarker=nb_sb_ss_i_0_11&sprefix=the+looming A fascinating look at life in Afghanistan under the […]

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James Donaldson’s Book Review – The Ayatollah’s Beg to Differ: The Paradox of Modern-Day Iran by Hooman Majd

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  • October 1, 2014

http://www.audible.com/pd/Nonfiction/The-Ayatollah-Begs-to-Differ-Audiobook/B002V8H8VI I read this book with a great deal of interest and fascination into the […]

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James Donaldson’s Book Review – Beyond Bin Laden by Jon Meacham

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  • December 7, 2013

  http://www.audible.com/pd/Nonfiction/Beyond-Bin-Laden-Audiobook/B004ZZOIUY   Authors Jon Meacham, James Baker, Karen Hughes, Richard Haas and Bing West […]

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