Hitler’s PriestsBy Kevin SpicerNorthern Illinois University Press, 2008369 pages, $62.08Kasztner’s Train: the True Story of an Unknown Hero of the HolocaustBy Anna PorterScribe, 2008548 pages, $32.95Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto & the Oyneg Shabes ArchiveBy Samuel D. KassowIndiana University Press, 2007523 pages, $66The Complete Maus: A Survivor’s TaleBy Art SpiegelmanPantheon, 1996296 pages, $54.95.
Barry Healy
Battlelines
By Tony Abbott
Melbourne University Press, 2009
$34.99, 187 pages
The Age of Stupid
Directed by Franny Armstrong
With Pete Postlethwaite
In cinemas
Thirty thousand workers at state-owned Chinese steel works Tonghua Iron and Steel Group clashed with 1000 riot police and prevented the company's privatisation, the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy said on July 24.
BaliboDirected by Robert ConnollyBased on the book by Jill JolliffeIn cinemas from August 13
Slaughterhouse FiveBy Kurt VonnegutFirst published in 1969224 pages, $24.95
June 28 was the anniversary of the two bookends of World War I, in which it is estimated more than 15 million people died. On that date in 1914, Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo. Five years later, in 1919, 90 years ago this year, the Versailles Treaty was signed in Paris.
Michael Jackson died a lonely death on June 25. Since then, there has been a near continuous outpouring of grief by millions of fans around the world.
Ratepayers in Perth’s southern suburbs are counting the cost of the collapse of the federal government’s Greenhouse Friendly voluntary carbon offsets trading scheme.
Family First, the small party based on the fundamentalist Assemblies of God church is carving out a niche for itself as an environmental vandal, at the federal and at state levels.
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