I am so at home in Dublin, more than any other city, that I feel it has always been familiar to me. It took me years to see through its soft charm to its bitter prickly kernel - which I quite like too.

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Torturing for Democracy

Farrel Corcoran

Poisoner-in-Chief: Sidney Gottleib and the CIA Search for Mind Control, by Stephen Kinzer, Henry Holt & Co, 368 pp, $30, ISBN: 978-1250140432

When the guns fell silent at the end of World War II, the Nuremberg Doctors Trial began to do its work, investigating war crimes committed by Nazi medical scientists across Europe. Heinrich Himmler, the principal architect of the Holocaust, had committed suicide in his cell and Josef Mengele, who directed medical experiments at Auschwitz, had disappeared. The defendants in the dock were senior doctors who had supervised extreme experiments and ma