18 best-selling nonfiction books like Understanding the India-China Border: The Enduring Threat of War in High Himalaya by Manoj Joshi

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Understanding the India-China Border: The Enduring Threat of War in High Himalaya

By: Manoj Joshi

4.50

Format: 391 pages, Kindle Edition

In the summer of 2020, China and India came near to war. The nuclear-armed adversaries both massed …

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1. My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Who can forget our beloved gentleman's personal gentleman, Jeeves, who ever comes to the rescue whe… read more

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"Come on," he said. "Bring the poker." I brought the tongs as well. I felt like it."

-P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)

"I had one of those ideas I do sometimes get, though admittedly a chump of the premier class."

-P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)

"What a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean."

-P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)

"It was one of those jolly, peaceful mornings that make a chappie wish he'd got a soul or something"

-P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)

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2. The Sympathizer

By: Viet Thanh Nguyen

3.83

Format: 28 pages, Hardcover

The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as five other awards, The Sympathizeris … read more

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  • asia
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3. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

By: Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the ato… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

4. World Order

By: Henry Kissinger

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Henry Kissinger offers in World Ordera deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and gl… read more

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5. Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age

By: Peter Paret , Felix Gilbert , Gordon A. Craig

3.68

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

The essays in this volume analyze war, its strategic characterisitics and its political and social … read more

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6. Spies in the Himalayas: Secret Missions and Perilous Climbs

By: Kenneth J. Conboy , None

3.75

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Legendary Indian climber M. S. Kohli and historian Kenneth Conboy chronicle for the first time the … read more

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7. Life Is Short And So Is This Book

By: None

3.00

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

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8. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
"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

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9. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
"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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10. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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11. Hindus in Hindu Rashtra (Eighth-Class Citizens and Victims of State-Sanctioned Apartheid)

By: Anand Ranganathan

4.48

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

To those who claim we are now living in a totalitarian, fascist, Hindu Rashtra, one must What kind… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"The concept of justice is like memory. It keeps getting passed on until it is realised."

-Anand Ranganathan, Hindus in Hindu Rashtra (Eighth-Class Citizens and Victims of State-Sanctioned Apartheid)

"To me, the mark of civilisation is this unquenchable thirst of man to demand justice for his ancestors; to correct a historical wrong. For that exemplifies a continuity; an idea, a memory that can ne…"

-Anand Ranganathan, Hindus in Hindu Rashtra (Eighth-Class Citizens and Victims of State-Sanctioned Apartheid)

"And to those who now call this nation a Hindu Rashtra, run by religious zealots and fascists, to those I ask: In which theocratic state would religious zealots wait for half a millennium and even the…"

-Anand Ranganathan, Hindus in Hindu Rashtra (Eighth-Class Citizens and Victims of State-Sanctioned Apartheid)

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12. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

By: Sathnam Sanghera

4.10

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"

-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"

-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

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13. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.54

Format: 535 pages, Hardcover

The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, b… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"The truth was, Librium and Valium were marketed using such a variety of gendered mid-century tropes—the neurotic singleton, the frazzled housewife, the joyless career woman, the menopausal shrew—that…"

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

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14. Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It

By: Kashmir Hill

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The story of a small AI company that gave facial recognition to law enforceme… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. War of Lanka (Ram Chandra, #4)

By: Amish Tripathi

3.65

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

LANKA WILL BURN. DARKNESS WILL PERISH. BUT CAN LIGHT ENDURE? INDIA, 3400 BCE. Greed. Rage.… read more

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"Fresh drops of grief do not cause any ripple in an ocean of anguish."

-Amish Tripathi, War of Lanka (Ram Chandra, #4)

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16. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. Breaking the Mould: Reimagining India's Economic Future

By: Raghuram G. Rajan

4.08

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

Where is India going today? Is it surging forward, having just overtaken the United Kingdom to beco… read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. The Pashtuns: A Contested History

By: Tilak Devasher

4.05

Format: 711 pages, Kindle Edition

The Pashtuns are perhaps the largest ethnic group in the world without a country of their own. They… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. The Ultimate Goal: A Former R&AW Chief Deconstructs How Nations Construct Narratives

By: Vikram Sood

4.42

Format: 481 pages, Kindle Edition

In The Ultimate Goal, Vikram Sood, former chief of India's external intelligence agency, the Resear… read more

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

-Vikram Sood, The Ultimate Goal: A Former R&AW Chief Deconstructs How Nations Construct Narratives

"Bhutto seemed to be preparing for a ‘1000-year war’ with India, even if his people had to eat grass to finance the quest for the Islamic Bomb"

-Vikram Sood, The Ultimate Goal: A Former R&AW Chief Deconstructs How Nations Construct Narratives

"Intelligence is not a science, certainly not a natural science. It is an art or a craft, and as such it cannot be governed by the basic tenets of logic."

-Vikram Sood, The Ultimate Goal: A Former R&AW Chief Deconstructs How Nations Construct Narratives

"Monarchs, autocratic rulers and democracies have used informers and agents provocateurs for the security of their realms, to wage war and for their own protection against assassins."

-Vikram Sood, The Ultimate Goal: A Former R&AW Chief Deconstructs How Nations Construct Narratives

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20. India versus China: Why They Are Not Friends

By: Kanti Bajpai

4.32

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

Why have relations between India and China, which\ncomprise nearly forty per cent of the world’s po… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. India's China Challenge: A Journey through China's Rise and What It Means for India

By: Ananth Krishnan

4.42

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

Ananth Krishnan first moved to China in the summer of 2008. In the years that followed, he had a ri… read more

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  • nonfiction
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22. Turmoil In Punjab: Before and After Blue Star: An Insider's Account

By: Ramesh Inder Singh

4.25

Format: 704 pages, Kindle Edition

Punjab went through a politically turbulent period between 1978 and 1994, triggered by the rift bet… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. Friends with Benefits: The India-US Story

By: Seema Sirohi

4.37

Format: 607 pages, Kindle Edition

Thirty years ago, when veteran journalist Seema Sirohi first arrived in Washington DC, bilateral re… read more

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24. How China Sees India and the World

By: Shyam Saran

4.23

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Saran questions, among other things, the Chinese claim that it was the most important and influenti… read more

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"India will resist a hierarchical order in Asia and a world dominated by China."

-Shyam Saran, How China Sees India and the World

"When India and China became, for the first time in history, next-door neighbours after China’s occupation of Tibet in 1950, neither country had any close familiarity with the other."

-Shyam Saran, How China Sees India and the World

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25. China's India War: Collision Course on the Roof of the World

By: Bertil Lintner

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The first book to put the Sino-Indian border dispute and the 1962 war into its rightful historical … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. Understanding the India-China Border: The Enduring Threat of War in High Himalaya

By: Manoj Joshi

4.50

Format: 391 pages, Kindle Edition

In the summer of 2020, China and India came near to war. The nuclear-armed adversaries both massed … read more

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  • asia
  • history
  • nonfiction
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27. Nehru, Tibet and China

By: Avtar Singh Bhasin

4.22

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

On 1 October 1949, the People’s Republic of China came into being and changed forever the course of… read more

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  • history
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28. The Body by the Shore

By: Tabish Khair

3.46

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A novel of suspense and intrigue set in the post-pandemic world Harris Maloub, a killer with an er… read more

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29. A Dismantled State: The Untold Story of Kashmir After Article 370

By: Anuradha Bhasin

3.90

Format: 564 pages, Kindle Edition

On 5 August 2019, the status of Jammu and Kashmir was altered by revoking Articles 370 and 35A, con… read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. Strategic Challenges : India in 2030

By: Jayadeva Ranade

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In the shifting sands of contemporary geopolitics, this edited volume puts the spotlight firmly on … read more

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31. The McMahon Line: A Century of Discord

By: J.J. Singh

3.95

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Sir Henry McMahon, a British colonial administrator, drew a line along the Himalayas at the Simla C… read more

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  • history

15 Best history books like Understanding the India-China Border: The Enduring Threat of War in High Himalaya by Manoj Joshi

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4.00

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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara

4.37

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Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller

4.44

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4.48

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Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits

Rahul Pandita

3.43

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Anand Ranganathan

4.48

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Why Bharat Matters

S. Jaishankar

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Revolutionaries: The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom

Sanjeev Sanyal

4.63

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