Making the Unipolar Moment: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order
By: Hal Brands
4.11
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In the late 1970s, the United States often seemed to be a superpower in decline. Battered by crises…
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1. Red Storm Rising
By: Tom Clancy
4.20
Format: 224 pages, Audio Cassette
"Allah!"With that shrill cry, three Muslim terrorists blow up a key Soviet oil complex, creating a … read more
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2. Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
By: Stephen Kotkin
3.97
Format: 976 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world It has th… read more
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"Russia was a genuine great power, but with a tragic flaw. Its vicious, archaic autocracy had to be emasculated for any type of better system to emerge. Unmodern in principle, let alone in practice, t…"-Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
3. Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy
By: Eri Hotta
3.96
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking history that considers the attack on Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective an… read more
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4. The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
By: Adam Tooze
4.20
Format: 42 pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking new history, Adam Tooze provides the clearest picture to date of the Nazi wa… read more
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5. Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
By: Gordon S. Wood
3.70
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our na… read more
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6. The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power
By: Max Boot
3.65
Format: 432 pages,
America's "small wars," "imperial wars," or, as the Pentagon now terms them, "low-intensity conflic… read more
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7. Timeline
By: Michael Crichton
3.87
Format: 489 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In an Arizona desert, a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-fou… read more
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"In reality, time doesn't pass; we pass. Time itself is invariant. It just is. Therefore, past and future aren't separate locations, the way New York and Paris are separate locations. And since the pa…"-Michael Crichton, Timeline
"Because in the late twentieth century, you couldn't seriously ask other people to think that you believed in honor and truth, and the purity of the body, the defense of women, the sanctity of true lo…"-Michael Crichton, Timeline
"In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A …"-Michael Crichton, Timeline
"But where will this mania for entertainment end? What will people do when they get tired of television? When they get tired of movies? We already know the answer—they go into participatory activities…"-Michael Crichton, Timeline
8. Legacy
By: James Kerr
4.17
Format: 128 pages,
Champions do extra. They sweep the sheds. They follow the spearhead. They keep a blue head. In Lega… read more
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9. Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II
By: Eric Foner , Roger Daniels
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
Part of Hill and Wang's Critical Issues Series and well established on college reading lists, PRISO… read more
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10. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
By: Vladislav M. Zubok
4.26
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to … read more
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11. 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
12. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
By: Katja Hoyer
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more
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13. The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
By: Malcolm Gladwell
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war In The Bomber Ma… read more
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"Revolutions are birthed in conversation, argument, validation, proximity, and the look in your listener’s eye that tells you you’re on to something."-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
"I'm drawn again and again to obsessives. I like them. I like the idea that someone could push away all the concerns and details that make up everyday life and just zero in on one thing - the thing th…"-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
"The more you invest in a set of beliefs - the greater the sacrifice you make in the service of that conviction - the more resistant you will be to evidence that suggests that you are mistaken. You do…"-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
14. Crucible of Hell: The Heroism and Tragedy of Okinawa, 1945
By: Saul David
4.22
Format: 423 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning historian, Saul David, the riveting narrative of the heroic US troops, bonde… read more
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15. By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783
By: Michael J. Green
4.40
Format: 760 pages, Hardcover
Soon after the American Revolution, the United States began to recognize the strategic significance… read more
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16. 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
17. Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb
By: James M. Scott
4.40
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies o… read more
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18. Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
By: Mary Elise Sarotte
4.25
Format: 568 pages, Hardcover
A leading expert on Cold War foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia … read more
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19. Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
By: Craig L. Symonds
4.65
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most distinguished naval historians, the first wartime biography in a half-century … read more
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20. The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941 (Dangerous Nation Trilogy)
By: Robert Kagan
4.47
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
A comprehensive, sweeping history of America's rise to global superpower--a follow up to the author… read more
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21. The Cold War In The Third World
By: Robert J. McMahon
3.59
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The Cold War in the Third World explores the complex interrelationships between the Soviet-American… read more
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22. Making the Unipolar Moment: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order
By: Hal Brands
4.11
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In the late 1970s, the United States often seemed to be a superpower in decline. Battered by crises… read more
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