WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
Immovable Object: North Korea’s 70 years at War with American Power
Exposé of Washington's malign operations on Korean Peninsula over the decades
Cruise missiles on display
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JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
AS AB Abrams points out in his book Immovable Object, by launching a war on Korea in 1950, the United States and its allies succeeded in preventing the imminent peaceful reunification of the country and the holding of elections.
According to sources ranging from the CIA to the Kremlin, the elections would have brought about a democratic victory for the North Korean government, due to its considerable popularity among the southern population.
But, just as later in Vietnam, US aggression prevented a popularly elected government peacefully and democratically reunifying the country.
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