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| City of Oranges: Arabs and Jews in Jaffa | ||
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| 'LeBor is scrupulously fair to both sides. Based on interviews with several generations of Muslim, Jewish and Christian families, his book is a moving testament to the resilience of human beings in the face of violence.' Sunday Times, Paperback Pick of the Week. |
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| 'LeBor is an unusually skillful collector of tales, an abundantly empathetic listener. Like a good saga, City of Oranges draws the reader in to know the fate of each of the families.' Esther Solomon, Haaretz | ||
| 'Honest, direct narrative, based on scrupulous reporting with real historical depth. Shows what could happen if only the fundies and zealots would try peace.' Denis MacShane, Prospect Magazine Books of the Year, 2006. | ||
| 'Outstanding... a clear-eyed study of one of the great cities of the eastern Mediterranean... an excellent and courageous book.' Mark Cocker, The Guardian | ||
| 'Adam LeBor traces the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians with commendable even-handedness.' Rebecca Seal, The Observer | ||
| 'This book is for anyone who loves the Middle East, but also for those who do not yet know it... LeBor succeeds in telling us the story of ordinary people living in extraordinary times, and by doing that, tells us the painful story of Palestine itself.' Janine di Giovanni, The Independent on Sunday | ||
| 'The most significent recent contribution to the literature. The curious reader with no ideological axe to grind, but an interest in the people and their fate could do no better than start here... it is in the stories that the future lies and Adam LeBor has magnificently and sympathetically told them.' Linda Grant, The Independent | ||
| 'City of Oranges brings us something quite different: the sound of ordinary people trying to get on with their lives in the middle of interminable conflict.' Anthony Sattin, The Sunday Times | ||
| 'Some writers have a way with words, others an unerring nose for research. LeBor has both - plus compassion for the sufferings on all sides.' Madeleine Kingsley, The Jewish Chronicle | ||
| 'An astute and balanced history of the area with real people... LeBor brilliantly tells us how we got there.' David Aaronovitch, The Times | ||
| 'Engrossing... LeBor uses the deeply moving experience of individuals as a lens through which to explore the complex history of Israel and Palestine in the twentieth century.' Melissa McClements, Financial Times, Summer Reads 2006 | ||
| 'This is an enjoyable and useful book for everyone browsing through the hitherto unknown pages of the life of Jaffa's Arab society.' Eyad Abushakra, Asharq Alawsat | ||
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| 'LeBor writes Jaffa's past as a sprawling family saga... City of Oranges is an engaging, well-constructed book.' Gershom Gorenberg, New York Times, Editor's Choice. |  |
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| 'Some readers will argue with some opinions Mr. LeBor records... But few will find a more humane account of one of history's more dehumanizing stories.' Emily L. Hauser, Dallas Morning News. | ||
| 'This is narrative journalism at its best: in-depth reporting that reads like well-written fiction, well-researched and with rich detail, but never over-zealously academic or tedious, providing broad historical context, complexity and insight.' Eetta Prince-Gibson, Jerusalem Report (pdf). | ||
| '[A] gripping, dynamic history of the city of Jaffa... LeBor shows us how these conflicts blend together to create a functioning, imperfect, vital community in the Middle East.' Jewish Book World, winter 2007. | ||
| 'English journalist LeBor (The Times) has achieved the near-impossible... Dotted with delightful period details, it gives individual opinion free rein, reporting contradictions without judgment... those looking for a well-rounded and truly human insight into the conflict will enjoy this account.' Starred review, Publishers Weekly. | ||
| 'From extensive personal interviews, memoirs, and private archives, [LeBor] creates vivid portraits of these six families to illustrate the narrative of twentieth-century Arab-Jewish and Palestinian-Israeli relations... With striking conviction and eloquence, the six families share with LeBor their extraordinary, centuries-old histories and diasporas as they found themselves on different sides of violently divisive issues and events while living within this small, seaside city.' Starred review, Booklist. | ||
| 'Drawing on the memories of Jewish, Muslim and Christian families with roots in the ancient Arab city, journalist LeBor does much to give a sense of the "intricacy of a century-old struggle."... A provocative, ultimately hopeful view of a tormented place.' Kirkus Reviews. | ||
| Complicity with Evil: The United Nations in the Age of Modern Genocide |
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| 'LeBor is unflinching in his analysis of the failings of the Security Council but also the Secretariat.... His greatest strength is that he avoids ranting polemic, making his judgments with care and always backing them up with evidence.' Fergal Keane, Mail on Sunday (pdf) | ||
| 'LeBor chronicles the UN's pusillanimity in the face of mass murder in Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Darfur... [he] writes honestly and vividly.' Daniel Hannan, The Daily Telegraph | ||
| 'LeBor shows how Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president, has emulated the success of Slobodan Milosevic in running rings round the international community, exploiting its divisions and lack of collective will... and skilfully presenting himself as part of the solution when in reality he is the very heart of the problem.' Edward Mortimer, The Guardian. | ||
| 'All these [UN] absurdities and many more are brilliantly captured in Adam LeBor's compelling indictment.' Brendan Simms, The Evening Standard | ||
| 'A riveting if depressing account of the UN's failure to act on the knowledge that mass murder is taking place.' Nick Cohen, The Observer | ||
| 'LeBor pulls no punches in his indictment of the UN under Annan. With key documents to hand, he rightly identifies the main failings of the system as its lack of accountability and a cult of neutrality in which "all sides are guilty". Anne Penketh, The Independent | ||
| 'Cuts through the the usual waffle and shirking of responsibility officials offer to excuse their gross inadequacy. In a driving and angry tale, he tells the story of each of these three mass murders: who did what to whom, and who failed in their duty to stop them.' Carne Ross, openDemocracy | ||
| 'For the new man in the UN's top chair, Ban Ki-moon, this book is essential reading. For the rest of us, it is a clear-sighted look at how one of our greatest collective endeavours is riddled with our most basic human flaws.' Daniel McLaughlin, The Irish Times (pdf) | ||
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| 'LeBor takes direct aim at U.N. civil servants, arguing that, in the face of genocide in the Balkans and Africa, they have not stood up on behalf of the helpless... Instead of taking personal responsibility, many U.N. officials engage in what LeBor rightly condemns as "buck passing".' Samantha Power, Washington Post (pdf) | ||
| 'A devastating indictment of Annan's lamentable record.' Daniel Johnson, New York Sun | ||
| 'History's judgement of the UN Secretariat and Darfur has already been superbly initiated by by Adam LeBor... LeBor has drawn a ruthless portrait of instutional indifference... an immensely important book.' Eric Reeves, www.sudanreeves.org | ||
| 'LeBor demonstrates a pattern of appeasement, feeble response mechanisms, inertia, bureaucratic infighting within the Secretariat, and lack of political will by the Security Council to stop the killing.' www.unforum.com | ||
| Milosevic: A Biography | ||
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| 'LeBor's highly readable biography provides the best treatment to date of Milosevic's early years.' Marko Attila Hoare, European History Quarterly, 36:3, 2006 (pdf) |  |
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| 'LeBor charts with dexterity and black humour the rise and eventual fall of this provincial Communist functionary.' Marcus Tanner, The Independent (pdf) | ||
| 'It charts a cogent path through the interminable complexities of Balkan politics and the sense of victimhood on which Milosevic's rise to power was based.' Justin Marozzi, The Evening Standard (pdf) | ||
| 'I urge you to read Adam LeBor's excellent new biography of Slobodan Milosevic... a haunting portrait of the man the West said it "could do business with".' Fergal Keane, The Mail on Sunday (pdf) | ||
| 'A valuable account, written with journalistic vigour, but also with a solid command of the facts.' Noel Malcolm, The Sunday Telegraph | ||
| 'This taut, well-constructed biography.' Stephen Robinson, The Daily Telegraph | ||
| 'The best Milosevic biography so far... LeBor has tracked down family members and people who worked with Milosevic, and what really gives his book an edge is his extensive and fascinating interview with Milosevic's wife, Mira.' Tim Judah, The Observer | ||
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| '[LeBor] traces Milosevic's life from schoolboy to defense attorney. What gives special vibrancy to the story, other than brisk, uncluttered prose, are the many interviews he conducted with schoolmates, early business associates, colleagues who served with him, colleagues destroyed by him, family members, and even Mirjana Markovic afer her husband's arrest.' Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs |  |
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| 'Excellent... As LeBor demonstrates with insight and subtlety, Milosevic was neither the grey-suited apparatchik his speeches would imply, nor was he a fiery demagogue.' Laura Secor, The Nation (pdf) | ||
| 'Highly readable... a rewarding portrait which has much to offer all interested readers.' Tom Gross, New York Post | ||
| 'LeBor's biography is straightforward, clearly written, and quite objective, and it should be engaging even to a wide-ranging readership.' Dennis Reinhartz, Review of New Books (pdf) | ||
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