Planning for Protraction: A Historically Informed Approach to Great-power War and Sino-US Competition (ISSN)
By: Iskander Rehman
4.50
Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Crusade in Europe
By: Dwight D. Eisenhower , Дуайт Эйзернхауэр
4.15
Format: 559 pages, Hardcover
Five-star General Dwight D. Eisenhower was arguably the single most important military figure of Wo… read more
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2. Shakespeare: The World as Stage
By: Bill Bryson
3.81
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
At first glance, Bill Bryson seems an odd choice to write this addition to the Eminent Lives series… read more
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"Even Scientific American entered the fray with an article proposing that the person portrayed in the famous Martin Droeshout engraving might actually be--I weep to say it--Elizabeth I."-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage
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3. Military Strategy: A General Theory of Power Control
By: J.C. Wylie
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Military StrategyRear Admiral J.C. Wylie invented the intellectual framework and terminology wit… read more
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4. Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers
By: Ernest R. May , Richard E. Neustadt
3.63
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Two noted professors offer easily remembered rules for using history effectively in day-to-day mana… read more
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5. Freedom's Forge: How American Business Built the Arsenal of Democracy That Won World War II
By: Arthur Herman
3.99
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Remarkable as it may seem today, there once was a time when the president of the United States coul… read more
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6. Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
By: William Deresiewicz
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking manifesto for people searching for the kind of insight on leading, thinking, and l… read more
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7. The Georgetown Set: The Establishment Elite Who Waged--and Won--the Cold War
By: Gregg Herken
4.00
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
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8. 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
9. The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War
By: Jim Sciutto
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The essential new book by CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto, reporting from the… read more
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10. 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
11. The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943
By: James Holland
4.33
Format: 568 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland’s new book both recasts the controversial Italian Campaign a… read more
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12. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
13. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath
By: Peter Zeihan
4.18
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting… read more
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14. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
15. The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
By: Daniel Yergin
4.20
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A Wall Street Journal besteller and a USA Today Best Book of 2020 Named Energy Writer of the Yea… read more
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"У 1976 в газеті "Вечірній Ленінград" з'явилася стаття про досі невідомого дзюдоїста, що переміг у змаганнях і здобув звання чемпіона. "Люди ще почують про нього в майбутньому", передбачало видання. Т…"-Daniel Yergin, The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
16. The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict
By: Elbridge A. Colby
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Why and how America’s defense strategy must change in light of China’s power and ambition—A Wall St… read more
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"Physical force, especially the ability to kill, is the ultimate form of coercive leverage. While there are other sources of influence, such as wealth, persuasiveness, and charisma, they are all domin…"-Elbridge A. Colby, The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict
"If extensive and global economic engagement and growing wealth have not already persuaded China to change its behavior, it is unclear why it would be more likely to do so as it grows stronger and thu…"-Elbridge A. Colby, The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict
"This is because, if China could establish hegemony over Asia, it could then set up a commercial and trading bloc anchored in the world's largest market that would privilege its own and subordinates' …"-Elbridge A. Colby, The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict
17. On Grand Strategy
By: John Lewis Gaddis
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught… read more
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18. Command: How the Allies Learned to Win the Second World War
By: Al Murray
4.10
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Al Murray's passion for military history and the Second World War in particular has always run para… read more
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19. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
By: Nicole Perlroth
4.34
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
From The New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth, the untold story of the cyberweapon… read more
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"Finding a zero day is a little like entering God mode in a video game. Once hackers have figured out the commands or written the code to exploit it, they can scamper through the world's computer netw…"-Nicole Perlroth, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
20. White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan
By: Mick Ryan
3.92
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
This book "is entertaining, thought-provoking and quite possibly prescient. Not just an engaging ta… read more
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21. The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World
By: Robert Kagan
4.08
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
"An incisive, elegantly written, new book about America’s unique role in the world." --Tom Friedman… read more
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22. Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China
By: Hal Brands
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A provocative and urgent analysis of the U.S.–China rivalry. It has become conventional wisdom that… read more
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23. The Big Show: The Classic Account of WWII Aerial Combat (Pierre Clostermann's Air War Collection Book 1)
By: Pierre Clostermann
4.57
Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition
'THE BIG SHOW is as close as you'll ever get to fighting for your life from the cockpit of a Spitfi… read more
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24. War Transformed: The Future of Twenty-First-Century Great Power Competition and Conflict
By: Mick Ryan
3.94
Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition
War The Future of Twenty-First-Century Great Power Competition and Conflict provides insights for … read more
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25. The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us about Great-Power Rivalry Today
By: Hal Brands
4.02
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
A leading historian’s guide to great-power competition, as told through America’s successes and fai… read more
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26. The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power
By: Robert D. Kaplan
3.82
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tr… read more
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27. Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine
By: Lawrence Freedman
4.16
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
Throughout history, the concept of command -- as both a way to achieve objectives and as an asserti… read more
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28. Planning for Protraction: A Historically Informed Approach to Great-power War and Sino-US Competition (ISSN)
By: Iskander Rehman
4.50
Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition
As Sino-US relations have deteriorated, concerns have grown in Washington over its ability to defea… read more
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29. America's Cold Warrior: Paul Nitze and National Security from Roosevelt to Reagan
By: James Graham Wilson
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In America's Cold Warrior, James Graham Wilson traces Paul Nitze's career path in national security… read more
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30. Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
By: Mick Herron
4.00
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of MI5 agent… read more
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"Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"This is how River Cartwright slipped off the fast track and joined the slow horses."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
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"God,’ said Jackson Lamb. ‘Is it me, or did all the fun go out of everything round about 1979?"-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
31. War in Ukraine: Conflict, Strategy, and the Return of a Fractured World
By: Hal Brands
4.07
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
The war in Ukraine has altered the course of global history. These authors explore how. When Vladi… read more
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