8 Best russia books like War in Ukraine: Conflict, Strategy, and the Return of a Fractured World by Hal Brands

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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…

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1. 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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2. Why the Allies Won

By: Richard Overy

3.73

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Richard Overy's bold book begins by throwing out the stock answers to this great question: Germany … read more

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3. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine

By: Serhii Plokhy

3.87

Format: 268 pages, Hardcover

Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political… read more

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4. The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB

By: James Risen , Milton Bearden

3.11

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

A landmark collaboration between a thirty-year veteran of the CIA and a Pulitzer Prize-winning jour… read more

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5. Blowing Up Russia: Terror from Within

By: Alexander Litvinenko , Yuri Felshtinsky , None

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Blowing Up Russia contains the allegations of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko against his former spymas… read more

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6. 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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7. 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

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8. 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

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9. 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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Cover of New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West by David E. Sanger

10. New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West

By: David E. Sanger

4.37

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adv… read more

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11. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

By: Jonathan Blitzer

4.49

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more

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Cover of Invasion: The Inside Story of Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival by Luke Harding

12. Invasion: The Inside Story of Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival

By: Luke Harding

4.13

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

New York Times bestselling author of Collusion and The Snowden Files Luke Harding's personal, front… read more

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13. The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

By: Simon Shuster

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Time  correspondent Simon Shuster delivers the definitive account of the Russian invasion of Ukrain… read more

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14. 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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Cover of Losing the Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East by Philip H. Gordon

15. Losing the Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East

By: Philip H. Gordon

3.87

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

One of Foreign Affairs' Best of Books of 2021 and "Books For The Century"! "Book of the Week" on Fa… read more

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16. Sentinel (Armored, #2)

By: Mark Greaney

4.38

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

An African coup may force Josh Duffy to choose between his mission and his family in this intense t… read more

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"One of the men had been hurt; Mandy heard him cussing in English in the front passenger seat throughout the entire drive, using words she'd learned from her dad,"

-Mark Greaney, Sentinel (Armored, #2)

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17. Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy

By: Craig Whitlock

4.39

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Craig Whitlock’s masterful account of one of the biggest publi… read more

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"After a decade of U.S. wars and surging defense budgets, an expectation of special treatment had taken root in the Navy. Many officers felt they were owed something extra for enduring long deployment…"

-Craig Whitlock, Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy

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18. 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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19. The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free

By: Pete Hegseth

4.48

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

Real men fought for our freedoms. It’s time we fought for theirs. Pete Hegseth joined the Army t… read more

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"Rights are not rights when they are contingent on the favor of government or political leaders."

-Pete Hegseth, The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free

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20. The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.24

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is ab… read more

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Cover of World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century by Dmitri Alperovitch

21. World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century

By: Dmitri Alperovitch

4.34

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A leading national security expert, who publicly predicted Vladimir Putin's intention to launch a f… read more

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22. I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv

By: Illia Ponomarenko

4.31

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A raw, irreverent account of a young Ukrainian reporter on-the-ground as his country heroically def… read more

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"So many millions of men and women, from high-ranking officials to regular folks like us, making the moral choice of not giving in to the dark—but doing what was right, no matter what."

-Illia Ponomarenko, I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv

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23. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

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24. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

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25. Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

By: Luis Elizondo

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The former head of the Pentagon program responsible for the investigation of UFOs—now known as unid… read more

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Cover of Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

26. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more

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Cover of At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House by H.R. McMaster

27. At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House

By: H.R. McMaster

4.08

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

A revealing account of National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster’s turbulent and consequential thirte… read more

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28. 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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Cover of Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War by Raj Shah

29. Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War

By: Raj Shah

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A riveting inside look at an elite unit within the Pentagon—the Defense Innovation Unit, also known… read more

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30. In Too Deep (Jack Reacher, #29)

By: Lee Child

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors Lee Child and… read more

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31. War

By: Bob Woodward

4.43

Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three … read more

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"President Trump had secretly sent Putin a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines for his personal use as the virus spread rapidly through Russia."

-Bob Woodward, War

"Overall, Hamas killed more than 1,200 Israelis and dragged more than 240 hostages and back across the border into underground tunnels in Gaza. It was the deadliest attack in Jewish history since the …"

-Bob Woodward, War

"In the 2020 election, Trump received 74 million votes, more than any presidential candidate in history with the exception of Joe Biden, who won 81 million votes. Biden secured the Electoral College w…"

-Bob Woodward, War

"The second high-profile Trump critis was retired General Stanley McChrystal, who had commanded U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan a decade earlier. McChrystal had recently appeared on CNN and called…"

-Bob Woodward, War

22 Top history books like War in Ukraine: Conflict, Strategy, and the Return of a Fractured World by Hal Brands

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The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War

Jim Sciutto

4.01

Transform Your Habits

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

Chris Miller

4.44

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Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Transform Your Habits

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

Steve Coll

4.44

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The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

Yascha Mounk

4.08

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Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land

Jacob Mikanowski

4.09

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The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination

Stuart A. Reid

4.40

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Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

David H. Petraeus

4.06

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