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1	Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw more books like this by Mark Bowden add to wishlist In a gripping, up-close account, acclaimed journalist Mark Bowden, author of "Black Hawk Down, " exposes the details of how U.S. military and intelligence operatives covertly led the mission to find and kill the world's most dangerous outlaw: Colombian cocaine cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £8.98! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	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 £12.32! \| first editions
3	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 £8.39! new only from £8.39! \| first editions
4	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 £14.78! new only from £15.11!
5	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 £5.93! new only from £5.93! \| first editions
6	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 £1.97! new only from £6.59! \| first editions
7	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
8	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 £8.47! \| first editions
9	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 £6.55! new only from £7.21! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	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 £5.32! new only from £5.57! \| first editions
11 view cover	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 £2.55! new only from £5.06! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 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 £5.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK more books like this by Lamar Waldron, Thom Hartmann add to wishlist Historians, conspiracy theorists, director Oliver Stone, and the general public have long speculated on the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963. Was it payback--or blowback--for the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 or the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962? Was the Mafia involved? Or the CIA? Did the Warren Commission Report ... see all copies from £2.74! new only from £6.54! \| first editions
14 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 £8.63! new only from £9.02!
15 view cover	Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department more books like this by Dean Acheson add to wishlist In these memoirs by the former Secretary of State, Dean Acheson sees himself as having been "present at the creation" of the American century. Acheson's policies were praised by many and damned by others, including Joseph McCarthy. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £13.07! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 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
17 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 £7.23! new only from £7.97! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 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 £6.25! new only from £10.43! \| first editions
19 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 £7.29! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower more books like this by Robert Baer add to wishlist The bestselling author of "Sleeping with the Devil" returns with a frighteningly prescient look at how Iran is on the cusp of becoming a superpower every bit as potent as Russia or China--and one America will soon have to make major concessions to in order to preserve its security. see all copies from £6.39! new only from £6.39! \| first editions
21 view cover	Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America more books like this by Cullen Murphy add to wishlist Esteemed editor and author Murphy draws nuanced lessons about how America might avoid Rome's fate. In lively, richly detailed historical stories based on the latest scholarship, the ancient world leaps to life and casts the contemporary world in a provocative new light. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £5.88! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Longitudes and Attitudes: The World in the Age of Terrorism more books like this by Thomas L Friedman add to wishlist The essays in this collection, by the Foreign Affairs columnist for the New York Times, provide analysis and perspective on issues and events relating to September 11. Most were written during Friedman's extensive travels throughout the Middle East and the world. Included is the never-before-published "Diary: Travels in a World Without Walls." A ... see all copies from £4.95! new only from £5.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	The bank of fear more books like this by David Ignatius add to wishlist London-based Coyote Investment is rumored to be a front, laundering billions of dollars for Iraqi rulers. Investigator Sam Hoffman hopes computer analyst Lina Alwan will help him, but his interest in her attracts the attention of Iraqi hit men, and Lina must run for her life. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £65.61! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation more books like this by Michela Wrong add to wishlist Scarred by decades of conflict and occupation, the craggy African nation of Eritrea has weathered the world's longest-running guerrilla war. The way international power politics can play havoc with a country's destiny gives the story of Eritrea a resonance and a tragic dimension beyond imagining. see all copies from £3.89! new only from £6.70! \| first editions
25 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 £5.57! new only from £5.57! \| signed copies \| first editions

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