Thursday 23 November 2023
CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR
9-915
1/8: The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History. Hardcover – May 16, 2023 by Serhii Plokhy (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Russo-Ukrainian-War-Return-History/dp/1324051191
Despite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the war―and why has it unfolded in previously unimaginable ways? Ukrainians have resisted a superior military; the West has united, while Russia grows increasingly isolated.
Serhii Plokhy, a leading historian of Ukraine and the Cold War, offers a definitive account of this conflict, its origins, course, and the already apparent and possible future consequences. Though the current war began eight years before the all-out assault―on February 27, 2014, when Russian armed forces seized the building of the Crimean parliament―the roots of this conflict can be traced back even earlier, to post-Soviet tensions and imperial collapse in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Providing a broad historical context and an examination of Ukraine and Russia’s ideas and cultures, as well as domestic and international politics, Plokhy reveals that while this new Cold War was not inevitable, it was predictable.
Ukraine, Plokhy argues, has remained central to Russia’s idea of itself even as Ukrainians have followed a radically different path. In a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international order, and a resurgence of populist nationalism, Ukraine is now more than ever the most volatile fault line between authoritarianism and democratic Europe.
915-930
2/8: The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History. Hardcover – May 16, 2023 by Serhii Plokhy (Author)
930-945
3/8: The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History. Hardcover – May 16, 2023 by Serhii Plokhy (Author)
945-1000
4/8: The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History. Hardcover – May 16, 2023 by Serhii Plokhy (Author)
SECOND HOUR
10-1015
5/8: The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History. Hardcover – May 16, 2023 by Serhii Plokhy (Author)
1015-1030
6/8: The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History. Hardcover – May 16, 2023 by Serhii Plokhy (Author)
1030-1045
7/8: The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History. Hardcover – May 16, 2023 by Serhii Plokhy (Author)
1045-1100
8/8: The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History. Hardcover – May 16, 2023 by Serhii Plokhy (Author)
THIRD HOUR
1100-1115
1/4: The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War by Peter Stansky (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Socialist-Patriot-George-Orwell-War/dp/150363549X
An incisive demonstration of how Orwell's body of work was defined by the four major conflicts that punctuated his life: World War I, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Cold War. Few English writers wielded a pen so sharply as George Orwell, the quintessential political writer of the twentieth century. His literary output at once responded to and sought to influence the tumultuous times in which he lived—decades during which Europe and eventually the entire world would be torn apart by war, while ideologies like fascism, socialism, and communism changed the stakes of global politics.
1115-1130
2/4: The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War Paperback – January 17, 2023 by Peter Stansky (Author)
1130-1145
3/4: The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War Paperback – January 17, 2023 by Peter Stansky (Author)
1145-1200
4/4: The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War Paperback – January 17, 2023 by Peter Stansky (Author)
FOURTH HOUR
12-1215
1/4: Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret Wars by Brett Forrest (Author)
When Billy Reilly vanished, his parents embarked on a desperate search for answers. Was their son’s disappearance connected to his mysterious work for the FBI, or was it a personal quest gone wrong? Only when Wall Street Journal reporter Brett Forrest embarks on his own investigation does a picture emerge: of the FBI's exploitation of US citizens through a secretive intelligence program, a young man's lust for adventure within the world's conflicts, and the costs of a rising clash between Moscow and Washington.
Sept. 11th roused Billy Reilly's curiosity for religions, war, and the world and its people beyond his small town near Detroit. Online, Billy taught himself Arabic and Russian. His passions led him into jihadi Internet forums, attracting the interest of the FBI.
An amateur drawn into professional intelligence, Billy became a Confidential Human Source, one of thousands of civilians who assist FBI agents with investigative work, often at great hazard and with little recourse. When Russia stirred rebellion in Ukraine, Billy set out to make his mark.
In Russia, Billy's communications dropped. His parents, frantic, asked the FBI for help but struggled to find answers. Grasping for clues, the Reilly family turned to Brett Forrest. Commencing a quest of his own, Forrest applied years' worth of research, along with decades of extensive experience in Russia, illuminating the inner workings of the national-security machine that enmeshed Billy and his family, picking up the lost son's trail.
A masterwork of reporting, composed like a thriller, blending political maneuvering and international espionage, Lost Son illustrates one man's coming of age amid new global dangers.
1215-1230
2/4: Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret Wars Hardcover – May 23, 2023 by Brett Forrest (Author)
1230-1245
3/4: Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret Wars Hardcover – May 23, 2023 by Brett Forrest (Author)
1245-100 am
4/4: Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret Wars Hardcover – May 23, 2023 by Brett Forrest (Author)
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