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Entries Tagged as 'Misha Glenny'

“McMafia”, Misha Glenny

August 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Crime, Economics, Non-Fiction

Synopsis: Guns, Drugs and Women – Misha Glenny travels from Eastern Europe to South America, Africa, Israel, India, Dubai, Canada, China and Japan tracing the globalisation of crime since the early 1990s. The globalised economy may well be ‘Flat’, but it also casts one hell of a shadow.
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"The Fall of Yugoslavia", Misha Glenny

June 5th, 2009 · No Comments · History, Non-Fiction, Politics

Synopsis: A German, Czech, Serbo-Croat and Greek speaking BBC war correspondent’s first hand account of the collapse of Yugoslavia and its descent into civil war.
My Take: A friend had recommended this book to me as a comprehensive account of recent history of the Balkans so on a sunny afternoon in Bosnia last year, I sat [...]

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