21 Best nonfiction books like The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage by Vikram Sood

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The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

By: Vikram Sood

3.88

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

In God we trust, the rest we monitor . . .A former chief of India's external intelligence agency, t…

"There are no victory parades, and no one would light a lamp for the unknown agents."

-Vikram Sood, The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

"There are no victory parades, and no one would light a lamp for the unknown agents."

-Vikram Sood, The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

"There are no victory parades, and no one would light a lamp for the unknown agents."

-Vikram Sood, The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

"Quite often, an individual act of commitment and courage makes the difference between war and peace or victory and defeat."

-Vikram Sood, The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage by Vikram Sood , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Autobiography of a Yogi

By: Paramahansa Yogananda

4.24

Format: 503 pages, Paperback

This acclaimed autobiography presents a fascinating portrait of one of the great spiritual figures … read more

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"Who am I? The great inquiry indeed."

-Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

"Todo tiene su momento, y cada cosa su tiempo bajo el cielo"

-Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

"You have come to earth to entertain and to be entertained."

-Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

"The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery"

-Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

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2. India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

By: Ramachandra Guha

4.39

Format: 912 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"In 1951 Dec 20th, Nehru, while campaigning for the first democratic elections in India, took a short break to address a UNESCO symposium in Delhi. Although he believed democracy was the best form of …"

-Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

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3. Aghora: At the Left Hand of God (Aghora)

By: Robert E. Svoboda

4.26

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

Aghora: At the Left Hand of God is the first book in the Aghora trilogy. Written almost entirely in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • india
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4. The Immortals of Meluha (Shiva Trilogy, #1)

By: Amish Tripathi

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

1900 BC. In what modern Indians mistakenly call the Indus Valley Civilisation. The inhabitants of t… read more

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  • india
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5. The Jim Corbett Omnibus.

By: Jim Corbett

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Jim Corbett's riveting accounts of shikar in the Himalayan foothills have kept generations of reade… read more

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6. 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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  • espionage
  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history

7. Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service

By: Michael Bar-Zohar , Nissim Mishal

4.10

Format: 9 pages, Hardcover

The Mossad is widely recognized today as the best intelligence service in the world. It is also the… read more

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8. Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between

By: Thomas Cathcart , Daniel Klein

3.36

Format: None pages,

Death has gotten a bad rap. Its time to take a closer look at what the Deep Thinkers have to say on… read more

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9. 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

By: Chetan Bhagat

3.80

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

Love marriages around the world are simple: Boy loves girl. Girl loves boy. They get married. In In… read more

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10. The Annihilation of Caste

By: B.R. Ambedkar

3.50

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

"What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India." --Ana… read more

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11. India’s Most Fearless: True Stories of Modern Military Heroes

By: None , Shiv Aroor

3.62

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

The Army major who led the legendary September 2016 surgical strikes on terror launch pads across t… read more

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12. A History of India, vol. 1: From Origins to 1300 (A History of India #1)

By: Romila Thapar

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A full account of Indian history from the establishment of Aryan culture to the coming of the Mugha… read more

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13. Choices: Inside the Making of Indian Foreign Policy

By: Shivshankar Menon

4.00

Format: 258 pages,

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14. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more

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"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

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15. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

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16. The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

By: S. Jaishankar

3.96

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The decade from the 2008 global financial crisis to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic has seen a real t… read more

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"Being an ethical power is one aspect of the India Way."

-S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

"Many friends, few foes, great goodwill, more influence. That must be achieved through the India Way."

-S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

"India is today on a voyage of self-discovery and the lessons of Awadh are its surest compass in that quest."

-S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

"Unlike other nations that rose earlier in Asia, China is much harder to fit into the Western-led global order."

-S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

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17. Doglapan: The Hard Truth about Life and Start-Ups

By: Ashneer Grover

3.80

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

This is the unfettered story of Ashneer Grover-the favourite and misunderstood poster boy of Start-… read more

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18. The Lover Boy of Bahawalpur : How the Pulwama Case was Cracked

By: Rahul Pandita

3.99

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

Inside the world of the jaish-e-mohammed – from the Parliament attack to the Pulwama bombing in Feb… read more

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19. India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution

By: J. Sai Deepak

4.46

Format: 472 pages, Hardcover

India, That Is Bharat, the first book of a comprehensive trilogy, explores the influence of Europea… read more

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"The spiritual character of the relationship between indigeneity and nature is an emotion that the coloniser can at best exoticise but can never relate to."

-J. Sai Deepak, India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution

"Rest of the world was not living in the Dark Ages before Pax Europaea or European Peace, and will certainly not plunge into ignorance and darkness after the demise of Pax Europaea. Therefore, it is t…"

-J. Sai Deepak, India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution

"Until a decolonial approach is employed by experts and ‘intellectuals’, we will continue to see the entrenchment of colonialised identities and fissures, which began with an anti-Brahmin slant but wh…"

-J. Sai Deepak, India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution

"The ‘modern’, ‘rational’, ‘scientific’, Christian European coloniser could not get himself to acknowledge that the lived experience and traditional knowledge of native societies gathered over millenn…"

-J. Sai Deepak, India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution

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20. The Silent Coup: A History of India's Deep State

By: Josy Joseph

4.39

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

‘They were not expected to behave like the terrorists they were hunting. Even in the thickest fog o… read more

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21. ट्वेल्थ फेल | Twelfth Fail | 12th Fail

By: Anurag Pathak

4.23

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

ट्वेल्थ फेल | TWELFTH FAIL | 12th Fail Book by Anurag Pathak read more

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22. The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

By: Daniel Z. Lieberman

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Why are we obsessed with the things we want and bored when we get them? Why is addiction "perfect… read more

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"It’s better to be smart than strong."

-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

"Success inspired confidence; confidence produced success."

-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

"Having a confident expectation of success can make obstacles melt before your eyes."

-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

"As the German philosopher Arthur Schoppenhauer wrote, "Dreams are brief madness and madness a long dreams."

-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

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23. Kitne Ghazi Aaye, Kitne Ghazi Gaye: My Life Story

By: K.J.S. 'Tiny' Dhillon

4.38

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

He has extensively served in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) and the North-East of India. He has the distinct… read more

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24. The Khalistan Conspiracy: A Former R&AW Officer Unravels the Path to 1984

By: G.B.S. Sidhu

4.20

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

The author, a former Special Secretary of India's external intelligence agency, the Research and An… read more

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25. The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State

By: Declan Walsh

4.16

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times’s most distinguished international correspondents. His el… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • pakistan
"Zia perished in 1988"

-Declan Walsh, The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State

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26. R. N. Kao: Gentleman Spymaster

By: Nitin A. Gokhale

3.93

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Somewhere deep in the archives of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) in the heart of New … read more

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27. The Spy Chronicles: RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace

By: A.S. Dulat

3.30

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

Pointing to the horizon where the sea and sky are joined, he says, 'It is only an illusion because … read more

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28. A Life in the Shadows: A Memoir

By: A.S. Dulat

3.51

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

No Indian spymaster has, until now, written a memoir. A.S. Dulat is the first to do so, and in A Li… read more

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  • india
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29. India's Power Elite: Caste, Class and Cultural Revolution

By: Sanjaya Baru

3.58

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

India's Power Elite is a study of the nature of power and elitism in postcolonial India. Its point … read more

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30. The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

By: Vikram Sood

3.88

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

In God we trust, the rest we monitor . . .A former chief of India's external intelligence agency, t… read more

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  • espionage
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  • pakistan
  • india
  • nonfiction
"There are no victory parades, and no one would light a lamp for the unknown agents."

-Vikram Sood, The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

"Quite often, an individual act of commitment and courage makes the difference between war and peace or victory and defeat."

-Vikram Sood, The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

"A displayed ability by a state to protect its interests and project its powers earns its respect, not pious statements or rhetoric."

-Vikram Sood, The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

"Often, intelligence officers on assignments abroad from different countries might get along with each other than with their own colleagues."

-Vikram Sood, The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

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31. The New World Disorder and the Indian Imperative

By: Shashi Tharoor

3.94

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

The world is in a state of disorder. As we approach the end of the second decade of the twenty-firs… read more

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