The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the US, and Iran's Global Ambitions
By: Arash Azizi
3.52
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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1. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small … read more
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"Achievement was worthy of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state. However great a citizen might become, however great he might wish to become, the truest…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of barbarians, she had a duty to propagate them; that …"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"Honour, in the Republic, had never been a goal in itself, only a means to an infinite end. And what was true of her citizens, naturally, was also true of Rome herself. For the generation that had liv…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"It was an article of faith to the Romans that they were the most morally upright people in the world. How else was the size of their empire to be explained? Yet they also knew that the Republic's gre…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
2. The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power
By: Kim Ghattas
4.00
Format: 4 pages,
An inside story of Hillary Clinton's time as Secretary of State, anchored by Ghattas' own perspecti… read more
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3. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943
By: Antony Beevor
4.32
Format: 494 pages, Paperback
The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also chan… read more
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4. Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
By: Joby Warrick
3.64
Format: None pages, ebook
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick reveals how the strain of militant Islam now raising i… read more
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5. A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962
By: Alistair Horne
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the colla… read more
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6. The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
By: Peter Hopkirk
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Hopkirk's spellbinding account of the great imperial struggle for supremacy in Central Asia has bee… read more
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7. The Shadow of the Sun
By: Ryszard Kapuściński , Klara Glowczewska
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule… read more
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8. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
By: Steve Coll
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more
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9. Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria
By: Sam Dagher
4.29
Format: 564 pages, Hardcover
In spring 2011, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turned to his friend and army commander, Manaf Tla… read more
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"Bit by bit, the uprising that had brought out the best in Syrians and projected their aspirations and yearnings was vanishing as pain, vengefulness, and war took over. It was yet another page from th…"-Sam Dagher, Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria
10. 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
11. The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People
By: Walter Russell Mead
4.22
Format: 672 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of God and Gold and Special Providence, a groundbreaking new work that o… read more
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12. 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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13. MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman
By: Ben Hubbard
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
MBS is the untold story of how a mysterious young prince emerged from Saudi Arabia’s sprawling roya… read more
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14. The Acquirer's Multiple: How the Billionaire Contrarians of Deep Value Beat the Market
By: Tobias E. Carlisle
4.00
Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition
The Acquirer’s How the Billionaire Contrarians of Deep Value Beat the Market is an easy-to-read ac… read more
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15. Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics (Quarterly Essay, #93)
By: Lech Blaine
4.17
Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition
Where will Dutton lead the Coalition? A portrait of Peter Dutton, as well as a modern interrogatio… read more
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16. The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace
By: Adi Schwartz
4.41
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Two prominent Israeli liberals argue that for the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians to e… read more
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17. Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior
By: Ric Prado
3.96
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The Explosive National Bestseller A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil … read more
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18. The Political Thought of Xi Jinping
By: Steve Tsang
4.17
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative examination of "Xi Jinping Thought"--now the official dogma of the Chinese Communi… read more
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19. The Zulus at War: The History, Rise, and Fall of the Tribe That Washed Its Spears
By: Adrian Greaves
3.80
Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition
By tracing the long and turbulent history of the Zulus from their arrival in South Africa and the e… read more
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20. The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the US, and Iran's Global Ambitions
By: Arash Azizi
3.52
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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21. Highway to Hell: Climate Change and Australia's Future
By: Joëlle Gergis
4.40
Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition
What will the climate crisis mean for Australia? What is the price of our inertia?Australia is in p… read more
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