Bøker av Tony Shaw

Many aspire to serve with the Special Air Service, arguably the world's most prestigious regiment, but few achieve their aim. In this inspiring memoir the author describes how he left school without any qualifications and embarked on a 30 year career much of it spent in Hereford, including four years in 'The Regiment'.

Hollywood has long enjoyed a "special relationship" with Israel. This book offers a groundbreaking account of this relationship, both on and off the screen. Tony Shaw and Giora Goodman investigate the many ways in which Hollywood's moguls, directors, and actors have supported or challenged Israel for more than seven decades.

Hollywood's Cold War

A righteous reformer committed to the power of education, Horace Mann became a national figure by championing the common school movement. This new look at his work and thought shows that Mann's ideas on civic education have had a lasting impact on the way that we still think today about education and its relation to our civic life. It reassesses Mann's philosophy of civic education and deeply resonates with today's pervasive and highly political debates about the role of education.

The first book-length survey of cinema's vital role in the Cold War cultural combat between the U.S. and the USSR. Focuses on 10 films--five American and five Soviet, both iconic and lesser-known works--showing that cinema provided a crucial outlet for the global "debate" between democratic and communist ideologies.