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1	Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam more books like this by Gordon M Goldstein add to wishlist 'I had a part in a great failure. I made mistakes of perception, recommendation and execution. If I have learned anything I should share it'. These are not words that Americans ever expected to hear from McGeorge Bundy, the national security adviser to presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. But in the last years of his life, Bundy - the ... see all copies from £10.43! new only from £11.58! \| first editions
2	The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us and What We Can Do about It more books like this by Joshua Cooper Ramo add to wishlist Drawing upon history, economics, complexity theory, human immunology, psychology, and his own extraordinary experiences, Ramo delivers a brilliant new paradigm for understanding the dangerous--and dangerously unpredictable--new global order. see all copies from £7.31! new only from £7.31!
3	From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 more books like this by George C Herring add to wishlist The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation in print. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize-winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of prestigious Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. From Colony to Superpower is the only thematic volume commissioned for the series. Here George C. Herring ... see all copies from £14.25! new only from £15.11!
4	A People's History of American Empire: A Graphic Adaptation more books like this by Howard Zinn, Ph.D., Mike Konopacki, Paul Buhle add to wishlist Shifting from world-shattering events to one family's small revolutions, the story of America in the world is now told in vibrant comics form. This version opens with the events of 9/11 and then jumps back to explore the cycles of U.S. expansionism. see all copies from £7.44! new only from £7.44!
5	Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide more books like this by Samantha Power add to wishlist This study of genocide in the 20th century examines America's pattern of reluctance to intervene--including in the Holocaust, in Cambodia, and in Bosnia. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. see all copies from £3.09! new only from £8.05! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis more books like this by Robert F Kennedy add to wishlist This volume presents Senator Robert F. Kennedy's perspective on the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, 13 days during which the world seemed on the brink of nuclear war. Kennedy was U.S. Attorney General at the time, which gave him a firsthand perspective on his brother's negotiations with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. see all copies from £5.26! new only from £8.65! \| first editions
7	Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq more books like this by Stephen Kinzer add to wishlist An award-winning author tells the stories of the audacious American politicians, military commanders, and business executives who took it upon themselves to depose monarchs, presidents, and prime ministers of other countries with disastrous long-term consequences. see all copies from £5.58! new only from £7.81! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East more books like this by David Fromkin add to wishlist This history charts the post-World War I efforts by the Allies to deal with the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and how decisions made then influenced the region's history and geopolitics for the rest of the century (and beyond). These efforts included creating new states and entities, including what was to become Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and, later, ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £10.41! \| first editions
9	Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire more books like this by Chalmers Johnson add to wishlist This highly critical report on America's foreign policy sounds a warning call that there may be a price to pay for what the author sees as a long-standing imperiousness by which the United States conducts itself among nations. see all copies from £4.95! new only from £5.57! \| first editions
10	Palestine Peace Not Apartheid more books like this by Professor Jimmy Carter add to wishlist President Carter, who was able to negotiate peace between Israel and Egypt, has remained deeply involved in Middle East affairs since leaving the White House. He has stayed in touch with the major players from all sides in the conflict and has made numerous trips to the Holy Land, most recently as an observer in the Palestinian elections of 2006. ... see all copies from £2.56! new only from £5.06! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy more books like this by Zbigniew Brzezinski, Professor Brent Scowcroft add to wishlist The two most respected figures in American foreign policy define the international challenges facing the next president. This will be the must-read foreign policy book of the season. America's status as a world power and the nature of power itself are at historic turning points. In traditional terms, the US is the most powerful force in ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £5.57! \| first editions
12 view cover	Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq more books like this by Michael Scheuer add to wishlist Michael Scheuer is the author of Imperial Hubris, which was a New York Times hardcover bestseller for fifteen weeks and stirred up attention in every national and local media outlet. He is a veteran CIA counterterrorism analyst who for many years headed the Osama bin Laden unit. In Marching Toward Hell, Scheuer offers a scathing and frightening ... see all copies from £4.96! new only from £4.96! \| first editions
13 view cover	The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy more books like this by John J Mearsheimer, Stephen M Walt add to wishlist Mearsheimer and Walt describe the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the U.S. provides to Israel. In this important work, they argue that this support cannot be fully explained on either strategic or moral grounds, but is due largely to the political influence of a few. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £5.73! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Out of Captivity: Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle more books like this by Mark Gonsalves, Keith Stansell, Mark Deakins (Read by) add to wishlist On February 13, 2003, a plane carrying three American military contractors - Marc Gonsalves, Tom Howes, and Keith Stansell - crashed in the mountainous jungle of Colombia. Dazed and shaken, they awoke battered and covered in blood with automatic rifles pointing at their faces. As of that moment they belonged to the terrorist organization known as ... see all copies from £7.58! new only from £9.76! \| first editions
15 view cover	The Irony of American History more books like this by Reinhold Niebuhr add to wishlist Forged during the tumultuous but triumphant postwar years when America came of age as a world power, "The Irony of American History" is more relevant now than ever before. Cited by politicians as diverse as Hillary Clinton and John McCain, Niebuhr's masterpiece on the incongruity between personal ideals and political reality is both an indictment ... see all copies from £8.21! new only from £12.13!
16 view cover	The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power more books like this by Max Boot add to wishlist A thrilling account of the forgotten wars of American history, and an eye-opening argument about the military's future role. . Max Boot's new book is a history of those smaller, undeclared wars that, he argues, have always played a key role in American international affairs. This story, he shows, has special relevance to the current "war on ... see all copies from £5.94! new only from £8.56! \| first editions
17 view cover	The Last Lion, Volume 2: Winston Spencer Churchill Alone 1932-1940 more books like this by William Manchester add to wishlist In the second of his three-volume biography, Manchester challenges the assumption that Churchill's finest hour was as a wartime leader. During the years 1932-1940, Churchill stood almost alone against Nazi aggression. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £19.51! \| first editions
18 view cover	Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude more books like this by Robert Baer add to wishlist A former CIA case officer, who served for years in the Middle East, presents a disturbing portrait of the house of Saud, and asserts that for years Washington, in return for favorable oil contracts, has overlooked Saudi Arabia's corruption and its connections to terrorism. see all copies from £3.09! new only from £7.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	The Tragedy of American Diplomacy more books like this by William Appleman Williams add to wishlist One of the first modern historians to integrate economic realities into the study of American foreign policy, William Appleman Williams has been a diplomatic historian of major influence since the first publication of The Tragedy of American Diplomacy. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.57! \| first editions
20 view cover	Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad more books like this by John Bolton add to wishlist The son of a Baltimore fireman and the first person in his family to go to university, with scholarships to Yale College and Yale Law School, John Bolton candidly recounts his sixteen month tenure as US Ambassador to the United Nations, his Senate confirmation battle, and the highlights of his career in public service in two prior Republican ... see all copies from £3.09! new only from £3.09! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power more books like this by Robert Dallek add to wishlist In this epic and revelatory biography, a distinguished historian probes the lives and times of two unlikely leaders whose partnership dominated the world stage and changed the course of history. 16-page b&w photo insert. see all copies from £3.20! new only from £5.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour more books like this by Andrei Cherny add to wishlist Cherny presents a masterfully told story of the unlikely men who came together to make the Berlin Airlift one of the great military and humanitarian successes of American history. see all copies from £5.68! new only from £7.97! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire more books like this by Niall Ferguson add to wishlist From one of "Time's" "100 People Who Shape Our World" comes a provocative examination of the American way of empire. see all copies from £3.57! new only from £6.59! \| first editions
24 view cover	The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War more books like this by Professor Andrew J Bacevich add to wishlist In this provocative new book, Andrew Bacevich warns of a dangerous dual obsession that has taken hold of Americans, conservatives and liberals alike. It is a marriage of militarism and utopian ideology - of unprecedented military might wed to a blind faith in the universality of American values. This perilous union, Bacevich argues, commits ... see all copies from £7.08! new only from £8.09!
25 view cover	Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World more books like this by Walter Russell Mead add to wishlist From one of our leading experts on foreign policy, a full-scale reinterpretation of America?s dealings--from its earliest days--with the rest of the world. It is Walter Russell Mead?s thesis that the United States, by any standard, has had a more successful foreign policy than any of the other great powers that we have faced--and faced down. ... see all copies from £9.54! new only from £18.64! \| first editions

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