Two very different books to read from US News 2005-10-17
Both pages I marked in the 2005-10-17 US News & World Report mentioned books I want to read.
"World Watch: What the KGB owes to Monty Python"
In 1992, the senior KGB archivist, Vasili Mitrokhin, was smuggled out of Russia by British agents along with one of the biggest collections of secret documents ever obtained by western intelligence agencies. British historian Christopher Andrew was granted exclusive access by Mitrokhin to his archive and wrote an acclaimed 1999 history of the KGB, The Sword and the Shield. In his second book based on the archives, The World Was Going Our Way ($30), he examines the KGB's machinations in the Third World.
The Smart Chart feature in the same issue mentions 3 pop-up books. The second one, One Red Dot by David Carter, looks fun.
Orbs, moving gears, and baskets invite a hunt for the crimson circle.