10 must-read biography books like Midnight in Moscow: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia's War Against the West by John Sullivan

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Midnight in Moscow: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia's War Against the West

By: John Sullivan

4.12

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A memoir of service by the most recent U.S. ambassador to Moscow, John Sullivan, who was on the dip…

If you liked the biography plot in Midnight in Moscow: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia's War Against the West by John Sullivan , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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

1. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal by William J.  Burns

2. The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal

By: William J. Burns

4.27

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

From America's "secret diplomatic weapon" (The Atlantic), comes a memoir of service for five Presid… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West by David E. Sanger

3. 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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  • politics
  • russia
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain by Peter S. Goodman

4. How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain

By: Peter S. Goodman

4.25

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Part Michael Lewis, part The Way Things Work: From the New York Times’s Global Economics Correspond… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv by Illia Ponomarenko

5. 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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  • russia
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"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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6. 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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  • politics
  • russia
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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.

Cover of The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House by Nancy Pelosi

7. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House

By: Nancy Pelosi

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs by Luis Elizondo

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

9. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War by Raj Shah

10. 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

Similar categories in Raj Shah's Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War book and John Sullivan's Midnight in Moscow: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia's War Against the West

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World by Ben Macintyre

11. The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World

By: Ben Macintyre

4.51

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling tick-tock recounting one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue att… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Midnight in Moscow: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia's War Against the West by John Sullivan

12. Midnight in Moscow: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia's War Against the West

By: John Sullivan

4.12

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A memoir of service by the most recent U.S. ambassador to Moscow, John Sullivan, who was on the dip… read more

Similar categories in John Sullivan's Midnight in Moscow: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia's War Against the West book and John Sullivan's Midnight in Moscow: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia's War Against the West

  • russia
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War by H.W. Brands

13. America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War

By: H.W. Brands

4.37

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands narrates the fierce debate over Amer… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success by Russ Buettner

14. Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

By: Russ Buettner

4.56

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell New York Times exposé of then-P… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Targeted: Beirut — The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror by Jack Carr

15. Targeted: Beirut — The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror

By: Jack Carr

4.65

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The first in a new in-depth nonfiction series examining the devastating terrorist attacks that chan… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering by Malcolm Gladwell

16. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

By: Malcolm Gladwell

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Black Saturday: An Unfiltered Account of the October 7th Attack on Israel and the War in Gaza by Trey Yingst

17. Black Saturday: An Unfiltered Account of the October 7th Attack on Israel and the War in Gaza

By: Trey Yingst

4.60

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

Fox News war correspondent Trey Yingst shares his gripping, firsthand account of the events of Octo… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Seventh Floor (Damascus Station, #3) by David McCloskey

18. The Seventh Floor (Damascus Station, #3)

By: David McCloskey

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Six CIA officers. Dear friends and cherished enemies. For a quarter century they have stolen other … read more

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19. 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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  • russia
  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"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

"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

"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

Cover of Patriot: A Memoir by Alexei Navalny

20. Patriot: A Memoir

By: Alexei Navalny

4.50

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate pric… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"If you have a criminal conviction, you are barred from running for office."

-Alexei Navalny, Patriot: A Memoir

"When corruption is the very foundation of a regime, those who battle it are extremists."

-Alexei Navalny, Patriot: A Memoir

"All schooboys had been to the stores and had noticed the long queues, and knew that the most used word in the Soviet lexicon was "shortage."

-Alexei Navalny, Patriot: A Memoir

"A serious political leader cannot simply decide to turn his back on a huge number of his fellow citizens because he personally dislikes their views."

-Alexei Navalny, Patriot: A Memoir

Cover of The Price of Power: How Mitch McConnell Mastered the Senate, Changed America, and Lost His Party by Michael Tackett

21. The Price of Power: How Mitch McConnell Mastered the Senate, Changed America, and Lost His Party

By: Michael Tackett

4.22

Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition

A Simon & Schuster book. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

20 must-read history books like Midnight in Moscow: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia's War Against the West by John Sullivan

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

Transform Your Habits

The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal

William J. Burns

4.27

Transform Your Habits

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

David E. Sanger

4.37

Transform Your Habits

How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain

Peter S. Goodman

4.25

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17 must-read audiobook books like Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War by Raj Shah

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

Transform Your Habits

The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

Victor Davis Hanson

4.32

Transform Your Habits

The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power

Dana Mattioli

4.10

Transform Your Habits

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

David E. Sanger

4.37

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