Books

INEVITABLY, Rezso Kasztner, the Hungarian zionist lawyer who negotiated with Hitler's Holocaust manager Adolf Eichmann to save Jewish lives, will be compared with Oscar Schindler.

MEET Scottish band The Ossians. Connor is their drug-addled, immature thieving frontman.

TOM MELLEN learns how the 'security-industrial complex' is cashing on our politicians' promises to protect us from harm.

WRITTEN to accompany John Pilger's documentary The War on Democracy, this publication gives an overview of continued US intervention in its "backyard" since the 1800s, providing the context to understand the "revolt at the ballot box" in Latin America in recent years.

THE editor of these 21 essays on "the way forward after Iraq" acknowledges the contribution of Geoffrey Howe, "whose razor-sharp mind has helped to finesse so many judgements." Enough said?

A YOUNG Cambodian woman endures the barbarism of the Khmer Rouge, until the Vietnamese army smashes Pot's monster.

STEVE ANDREW explores different Jewish attitudes to Israel.

LET Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie is one of those rare things - a book that provides, through the example of an extraordinary life, a template on how one could or should live one's own life, much like US classics such as The Autobiography of Malcolm X or Jack Kerouac's On The Road.

THIS study of the fragile peace during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis supports the statement of US secretary of defence Robert McNamara that thermonuclear war was prevented by luck.

EXPOSES of the mess that the US is making of the Iraq ocupation have been fairly frequent lately.