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Eric Lee

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Eric Lee is a London-based author, historian and political activist. He has written three books on the 20th century history of Georgia plus others on World War II, the Vietnam War, and the labour movement and the Internet. He is the founding editor of LabourStart - the news and campaigning website of the international trade union movement, which he founded in 1998. He's a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK) and a member of the Historical Writers Association and the Society of Authors. ...more

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	The Experiment: Georgia's Forgotten Revolution 1918-1921 3.77 avg rating — 91 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler's Revenge, April–May 1945 3.96 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2020 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Operation Basalt: The British Raid on Sark and Hitler's Commando Order 4.22 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Campaigning Online and Winning: How LabourStart's ActNOW campaigns are making unions stronger by Eric Lee (Goodreads Author), Edd Mustill 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The August Uprising, 1924: The Georgian Anti-Soviet Revolt and the Birth of Democratic Socialism 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Britain's Plot to Kill Hitler: The True Story of Operation Foxley and SOE by Eric Lee (Goodreads Author), Ian Kershaw (Introduction) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How Internet Radio Can Change the World: An Activist's Handbook 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saigon to Jerusalem: Conversations With U.S. Veterans of the Vietnam War Who Emigrated to Israel it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1992	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Labour Movement and the Internet: The New Internationalism 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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I didn't think I'd go for true crime, or Texas history, and yet this wonderful book deserves the five stars I just gave it. Jeff Guinn writes beautifully, telling a strangely moving story about life on the margins of America in the years of the Great ...more
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This is one the great works of anti-Stalinist literature. It is an attempt by the ex-Communist Koestler to imagine how Soviet interrogators squeezed confessions out of men like Zinoviev, Kamenev and Bukharin — men who had led the revolution and had t ...more
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