Bismarck: A Life
10 best books like Bismarck: A Life (Jonathan Steinberg): Leonardo da Vinci, Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, Diplomacy, Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage, On China, Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia, Stalin, Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814, Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
| Author | Walter Isaacson |
| ISBN | 1501139150 |
Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo's genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful...
Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
From Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham comes a sweeping yet intimate biography of George H. W. Bush. Based on rigorous research, hours of private interviews, and extraordinary access to Bush’s diaries and to his family, Destiny and Power paints a vivid and...
| Author | Henry Kissinger |
| ISBN | 0671510991 |
A brilliant, sweeping history of diplomacy that includes personal stories from the noted former Secretary of State, including his stunning reopening of relations with China.
The seminal work on foreign policy and the art of diplomacy.
Moving from a sweeping overview of history...
| Author | Douglas C. Waller |
| ISBN | 1416567445 |
He was one of America's most exciting and secretive generals, the man Franklin Roosevelt made his top spy in World War II. A mythic figure whose legacy is still intensely debated, "Wild Bill" Donovan was director of the Office of Strategic Services (the country's first national intelligence agency)...
| Author | Henry Kissinger |
| ISBN | 1594202710 |
In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book-length to a country he has known intimately for decades, and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape. Drawing on historical records as well as his conversations with Chinese leaders over the past...
Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia
| Author | Michael Korda |
| ISBN | 0061712612 |
T.E. Lawrence (1888-1935) first won fame for his writings and his participation in the British-sponsored Arab Revolt of WWI, but the adventurer known even in his day as "Lawrence of Arabia" is remembered today mostly as the subject of the 1962 film masterpiece based on his life. This splendid page-turner...
| Author | Robert Service |
| ISBN | 0674022580 |
Overthrowing the conventional image of Stalin as an uneducated political administrator inexplicably transformed into a pathological killer, Robert Service reveals a more complex and fascinating story behind this notorious twentieth-century figure. Drawing on unexplored archives and personal...
| Author | Dominic Lieven |
| ISBN | 0713996374 |
Tho much has been written about Napoleon's doomed invasion of Russia & the collapse of the French Empire that ensued, virtually all of it has been from the Western perspective. Now, taking advantage of never- before-seen documents from the Russian archives, Lieven upends much of the conventional...
| Author | Christopher Clark |
| ISBN | 0674023854 |
Iron Kingdom traces Prussia's involvement in the continent's foundational religious and political conflagrations: from the devastations of the Thirty Years War through centuries of political machinations to the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, from the enlightenment of Frederick the Great...
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
| Author | Steve Coll |
| ISBN | 1594201641 |
The rise and rise of the Bin Laden family is one of the great stories of the twentieth century; its repercussions have already deeply marked the twenty-first. Until now, however, it is a story that has never been fully told, as the Bin Ladens have successfully fended off attempts to understand the family...
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
| Author | Candice Millard |
| ISBN | 0804194890 |
From New York Times bestselling author of Destiny of the Republic and The River of Doubt, a thrilling narrative of Winston Churchill's extraordinary and little-known exploits during the Boer War
At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime...
| Author | Henry Kissinger |
| ISBN | 1594206147 |
Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen of the modern era—advising presidents, traveling the world, observing and shaping the central foreign policy events of...
