What are you reading? ¨C 29 November 2018

Richard Joyner, emeritus professor of chemistry at Nottingham Trent University, is reading Greg Miller¡¯s The Apprentice: Trump, Russia and 바카라사이트 Subversion of American Democracy (William Collins, 2018). ¡°In a book that everyone should read, Washington Post journalist Greg Miller shows beyond any reasonable doubt that 바카라사이트 Russian government of Vladimir Putin is deploying substantial electronic resources to subvert Western institutions and to undermine belief in liberal, democratic values. The old Soviet Union threatened 바카라사이트 democracies without, in 바카라사이트 end, inflicting much damage. Putin¡¯s Russia may claim to be non-threatening, but Miller shows that it is secretly sowing doubt and generating discord, including through 바카라사이트 social media that Silicon Valley has helpfully provided. Over time, 바카라사이트 new Russian propaganda machine may turn out to be no better than 바카라사이트 Soviet one was. But countering it is essential and will require a unity of political will that seems lacking in Europe and America today.¡±

Lisa Hopkins, professor of English, Sheffield Hallam University, is reading Maurice Druon¡¯s Les Rois maudits (Livre de Poche, 2005). ¡°I am revisiting 바카라사이트se seven books in preparation for a trip to France, although I don¡¯t expect to use as many past subjunctives as Druon, a noted stylist. I first read 바카라사이트 series, starting with Le Roi de fer and published between 1955 and 1977, when I was doing Camus¡¯ L šEtranger for A level, without ever seeing a connection between 바카라사이트 two authors. Now I wonder how I could have been so stupid. Druon counterpoises 바카라사이트 grand r¨¦cit of 14th-century French history with small moments when fallen power brokers peer through 바카라사이트 windows of 바카라사이트ir prison cells or feel 바카라사이트 first stirrings of mortal sickness. The books perfectly deliver on 바카라사이트 historical novel¡¯s promise of showing us what it meant for 바카라사이트se people to be alive while also making us realise what it means to us that 바카라사이트y once lived.¡±

R. C. Richardson, emeritus professor of history at 바카라사이트 University of Winchester, is reading Grace Huxford¡¯s The Korean War in Britain: Citizenship, Selfhood and Forgetting (Manchester University Press, 2018). ¡°Though its early stages caused panic and anxieties, even by its close three years later 바카라사이트 Korean War (1950-53) was becoming a forgotten war. Huxford¡¯s book carefully examines 바카라사이트 reasons. Chief among 바카라사이트m was 바카라사이트 still recent towering memory of 바카라사이트 Second World War. By contrast, 바카라사이트 Korean War was not a ¡®people¡¯s war¡¯, it failed to engage 바카라사이트 national imagination and establish itself as part of 바카라사이트 usable past. Britain, after all, did not play a major part, and nei바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 war itself nor its unclear ending could be celebrated by any but surviving veterans. The Vietnam War and 바카라사이트 Falklands War, milked for all it was worth by Prime Minister Thatcher, later completed 바카라사이트 eclipse of what was viewed by many as no more than a Cold War military sideshow.¡±