Red Line: The Unraveling of Syria and America's Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World
By: Joby Warrick
4.36
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
By: Lawrence Wright
3.00
Format: 12 pages, Hardcover
Ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorkerrecall the path terror in the Middle East has … read more
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2. The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
By: David E. Hoffman
4.16
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Handcomes the riveting story of a sp… read more
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3. 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi
By: Mitchell Zuckoff
3.44
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
The harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of B… read more
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4. Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence
By: Bill O'Reilly , Martin Dugard
4.27
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
Told through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Great Britain’… read more
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5. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
By: Steve Coll
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The news-breaking book that has sent shockwaves through the Bush White House, Ghost Warsis the most… read more
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6. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
By: Lawrence Wright
4.16
Format: 208 pages,
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7. American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent
By: Kevin Maurer , None
3.19
Format: 292 pages, Audio CD
The explosive memoir of a Muslim American FBI agent fighting terror from the inside It's no secret … read more
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8. Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat
By: Giles Milton
3.44
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
Six gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machine In the spring of 1939, a top-secre… read more
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9. Het zijn net mensen: beelden uit het Midden-Oosten
By: Joris Luyendijk
4.95
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Vijf jaar lang was Joris Luyendijk correspondent voor de Arabische wereld. Hij liep vluchtelingenka… read more
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10. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
11. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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12. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
13. The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir
By: Samantha Power
4.34
Format: 592 pages, ebook
Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Power, widely known as a relentless advocate for promoting human rig… read more
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"The world is filled with broken places. Pick your battles, and go win some."-Samantha Power, The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir
"Agency. Self-determination. Dignity. Solidarity. We could not discount the potential impact of even one such altered perspective on a young girl, her family, and, eventually, on an entire community."-Samantha Power, The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir
"The ugly political winds in the United States contrasted sharply with the earnest gravity of the occasion. Donald Trump had launched his campaign for president on a platform that blatantly stoked fea…"-Samantha Power, The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir
14. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
By: Nathan Thrall
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more
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15. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
By: Patricia Evangelista
4.18
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more
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16. Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016
By: Steve Coll
4.21
Format: 779 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction • Nominated for the National Book A… read more
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- terrorism
17. Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
By: Kim Ghattas
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Black Wave is a paradigm-shifting recasting of the modern history of the Middle East, telling the l… read more
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"Beyond the headlines about war and death, the region is alive with music, art, books, theater, social entrepreneurship, advocacy, libraries, cafes, bookshops, poetry, and so much more, as old and you…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"If Beirut was the supermarket of the left in the 1970s, where Marxists, communists, Egyptians, Iraqis, and all the Palestinian factions debated and theorized, published and drank in bars arguing over…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"Every king had tried to put his imprint on the city and the mosque; some were worse than others. King Faisal had been a parsimonious man and the expansion works reflected as much—measured and reasona…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"Although our countries have been changed by the hegemonizing influences of both Iran and Saudi Arabia, the headlines in the Western media have always reduced matters of extraordinary depth and comple…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
18. The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
By: Craig Whitlock
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 The #1 New York Times bestselling investigative story of how th… read more
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"To reinforce the message, Obama administration officials touted statistics that distorted what was really happening on the ground. The Bush administration had done the same, but Obama staffers in the…"-Craig Whitlock, The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
"Ryan Crocker, who served as the top U.S. diplomat in Kabul under both Bush and Obama, said the gusher of contracts to support U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan virtually guaranteed that extortion, …"-Craig Whitlock, The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
19. Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power
By: Bradley Hope
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters comes a revelatory look at the inner workings of t… read more
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20. Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
By: Sierra Crane Murdoch
3.76
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009, she found her home, the Fort Berthold Indi… read more
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"Percy and Lissa shared a father, but as far as Lissa was concerned, calling him her “half brother"-Sierra Crane Murdoch, Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
"Her precociousness hardened into defiance, and her defiance broke into a reckless rage that scared even her own mother."-Sierra Crane Murdoch, Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
"The casino was at the center of a constellation of transactions. I saw fishermen come to fish the lake; a woman looking for a job; elders cracking crab legs at the casino buffet—one of two restaurant…"-Sierra Crane Murdoch, Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
"The tribe was unprepared for the boom, he believed. After centuries of colonization—of federal entities weakening and displacing tribal institutions—it did not have the resources, let alone the exper…"-Sierra Crane Murdoch, Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
21. Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
By: David Zucchino
4.43
Format: 426 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize winner, David Zucchino, comes a searing account of the Wilmington riot and coup… read more
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22. Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin's Spies
By: Gordon Corera
4.27
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The full, explosive story for the first time: Putin’s espionage campaign against the West, how i… read more
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23. Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
By: Matthew Campbell
4.24
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“A triumph of investigative journalism.” —Tom Wright, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billio… read more
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24. Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
By: Keith Thomson
3.80
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Discover the “fascinating and outrageously readable” account of the roguish acts of the first pirat… read more
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25. The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
By: Christian Brose
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For generations of Americans, our country has been the world's dominant military power. How the US … read more
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"Defense companies spent less money on research and development and more on armies of lawyers, lobbyists, accountants, and consultants to help them comply with the Pentagon's growing acquisition burea…"-Christian Brose, The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
"These were the very same systems that Marshall wrote in 1992 would be "progressively less central to military operations" because they would become large, vulnerable targets as US adversaries develop…"-Christian Brose, The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
26. The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
By: Ben Rhodes
4.30
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
This is a book about two people making the most important decisions in the world. One is Barack Oba… read more
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"For a moment, we all just stared out the window at the crowds. “I’m reading a good book now,"-Ben Rhodes, The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
"I watched the speech backstage on the teleprompter. Obama paused for a moment, and I saw the text freeze. “I’m going off script here for a second,"-Ben Rhodes, The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
"He said we had to find a way to reach Muslims who “didn’t think it was such a great thing to have a McDonald’s down the street and American pop culture on their television."-Ben Rhodes, The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
"And then Obama said what he believed: that people should be equal under the law; that citizens should be free to criticize their government and protest peacefully; that voters should have the freedom…"-Ben Rhodes, The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
27. Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
By: Rachel Maddow
4.35
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
In 2010, the words “earthquake swarm” entered the lexicon in Oklahoma. That same year, a trove of M… read more
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"A trained Soviet KGB operative then heading its successor outfit, the FSB, Putin had done the sitting Russian president the memorable favor of successfully derailing the criminal investigation into t…"-Rachel Maddow, Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
"It's easy to look back on those strange days at the end of September 2003 and identify the warnings signs about Putin and Russia that American policy makers missed. But it would be unfair to them, an…"-Rachel Maddow, Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
28. War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
By: Ronan Farrow
4.15
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
American diplomacy is under siege. Offices across the State Department sit empty, while abroad the … read more
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"What happened to the missing prisoners? How did these men and boys end up in such a tomb, in such a place? And, a question no one inside the US government wanted to touch for more than a decade after…"-Ronan Farrow, War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
29. Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear
By: Carl L. Hart
4.04
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"Hart's argument that we need to drastically revise our current view of illegal drugs is both power… read more
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"The key is to keep the focus on people's actions, on their behaviors, rather than speculate about their motives. Trying to determine what's in a person's head or heart is a pointless distraction. It'…"-Carl L. Hart, Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear
30. The Spymaster of Baghdad: A True Story of Bravery, Family, and Patriotism in the Battle against ISIS
By: Margaret Coker
4.36
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the former New York Times bureau chief in Baghdad comes the gripping and heroic story of an el… read more
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31. Red Line: The Unraveling of Syria and America's Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World
By: Joby Warrick
4.36
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Black Flags comes the thrilling unknown story of America’… read more
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