Nick Hordern
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Recent reviews
Saving Lieutenant Kennedy: The heroic story of the Australian who helped rescue JFK by Brett Mason
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War and Punishment by Mikhail Zygar & Russia's War Against Ukraine by Mark Edele
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Zelensky by Serhii Rudenko & A Message from Ukraine by Volodymyr Zelensky
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The New Emperors: Power and the princelings in china by Kerry Brown
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Kicking the Kremlin by Marc Bennetts & Putin and the Oligarch by Richard Sakwa
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The Reporter and the Warlords: An Australian at Large in China’s Republican Revolution by Craig Collie
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Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell in and out of Love with Vladimir Putin by Ben Judah
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Australia’s Asia: From Yellow Peril to Asian Century edited by David Walker and Agnieszka Sobocinska
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