Books by Gordon Thomas and Complete Book Reviews
Gordon Thomas, Author . St. Martin's/ Dunne $26.95 (430p) ISBN 978-0-312-37998-8
Two famous British institutions will celebrate their centenaries in 2009: the Security Service and the Secret Intelligence Service, better known as MI5 and MI6. They maintain an aura of secrecy, a touch of sophistication and a hint of melodrama even
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Gordon Thomas, Author Carol Publishing Corporation $21.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-55972-059-5
At least six weeks before the June 1989 massacre of pro-democracy students and workers in Tiananmen Square, President George Bush knew that China's rulers were leaning toward the use of military force to crush the protest, charges the author. In the
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Gordon Thomas, Author Bantam Books $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05357-9
William Buckley, the American murdered in Beirut in 1985 after his kidnap and torture by Arab extremists, was identified in the U.S. media as a ``political attache'' or ``journalist.'' Basing his extraordinary investigative coup on interviews with...
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Gordon Thomas, Author HarperCollins Publishers $20 (392p) ISBN 978-0-06-017971-7
Thomas ( Enola Gay ) draws on 35 years of journalistic experience in the Middle East for this first work of fiction. Some years after the 1990-91 Gulf War the world's leaders have changed but the Middle East still festers. Terrorist Khalil Raza now...
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Gordon Thomas, Author Pharos Books $19.95 (289p) ISBN 978-0-88687-632-6
Thomas ( Enola Gay ) promises more here than he delivers. Opening with the shocking disclosure that worldwide there are probably more than 200 million men, women and children living in some sort of slavery, peonage or other economic bondage, he...
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Gordon Thomas, Author St. Martin's Press $25.95 (354p) ISBN 978-0-312-19982-1
The discipline of Israel's Mossad is legendary: members and former members fiercely guard the intelligence agency's methods and rarely talk to journalists. But many, apparently, did talk to Thomas, a former reporter for Britain's Daily Express,...
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Gordon Thomas, Author, Martin Dillon, Author . Carroll & Graf $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1078-2
In 1991, British media tycoon Robert Maxwell died in mysterious circumstances off his yacht in the Canary Islands. The official cause of death was drowning, but this intriguing, if somewhat overreaching, investigative work argues that Maxwell died...
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Gordon Thomas, Author . St. Martin's Griffin $16.95 (616p) ISBN 978-0-312-36152-5
Among the world's most respected and feared intelligence services, the Israeli Mossad encompasses shadowy networks of katsas
(case officers) often operating undercover, from Washington to Tehran to Beijing. The third update of this well-received
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Gordon Thomas. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-60421-9
Sometimes referred to as “Hitler’s Pope,” Pope Pius XII has long been accused by Jews and Christians of standing by silently while Hitler killed millions of Jews. Drawing upon Vatican archival material available to only a few scholars (the rest of...
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Gordon Thomas and Greg Lewis. Caliber, $30 (580p) ISBN 978-0-451489-04-3
Journalists Thomas and Lewis (Shadow Warriors of World War II: The Daring Women of the OSS and SOE) provide an engrossing and accessible history of Germans who risked, and mostly lost, their lives opposing the Nazi regime, effectively countering the
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