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WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
Gordon Parsons' best books of the year
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
THE UNIQUE horror of WW2 still hangs like a pall over the contemporary world and East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity — a remarkable combination of personal memoir, detective thriller and historical research — is another grim reminder of it.
International human rights lawyer Phillippe Sands was inspired to embark on this exhaustive quest by the total silence of his Jewish grandfather on his life before the war.
He came from Lemburg, now Lviv in Ukraine, one of those places that became the billiard ball of 20th century warfare. His grandson’s curiosity led to the discovery that this was also the home of two remarkable legal minds who were to shape modern international law.
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