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From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War

10 best books like From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War (Robert M. Gates): How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future, The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra, The Archer's Tale, Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World, Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround, Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans, Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580, Return to Me, Enron, When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
AuthorSteven Levitsky
ISBN1524762938
Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies in Europe and Latin America, and they believe the...
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra
AuthorToby Wilkinson
ISBN0747599491
I have to say, I really enjoyed this book. My professor may have derisively called it "popular history", but I still love this book.

From first picking it up, it became hard every time I had to put it down. The combination of fluid, easy writing and the fact that this book is packed to the rafters...
The Archer's Tale
AuthorBernard Cornwell
ISBN0060935766
From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, now available in paperback—the first book in the Grail Series--a spellbinding tale of a young man, a fearless archer, who sets out wanting to avenge his family's honor and winds up on a quest for the Holy Grail.

At dawn on Easter morning...
Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World
AuthorSharon Waxman
ISBN0805086536
A journey across four continents to the heart of the conflict over who should own the great works of ancient art

Why are the Elgin Marbles in London and not on the Acropolis? Why do there seem to be as many mummies in France as there are in Egypt? Why are so many Etruscan masterworks in America? For...
Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround
AuthorLouis V. Gerstner Jr.
ISBN0060523794
In 1990, IBM had its most profitable year ever. By 1993, the computer industry had changed so rapidly the company was on its way to losing $16 billion and IBM was on a watch list for extinction -- victimized by its own lumbering size, an insular corporate culture, and the PC era IBM had itself helped invent.

Then...
Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans
AuthorWendell Potter
ISBN1608192814
Wendell Potter is the insurance industry's worst nightmare.

In June 2009, Wendell Potter made national headlines with his scorching testimony before the Senate panel on health care reform. This former senior VP of CIGNA explained how health insurers make promises they have no intention...
Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580
AuthorRoger Crowley
ISBN0571232302
Cervantes, of the "Don Quixote" fame, was in one of these battles. He was a 24-year-old volunteer.

Now I know that hundreds of years ago the Mediterranean Sea and its surrounding land areas were considered the center of the world and were a battleground for two great conflicting forces: the...
Return to Me
AuthorLynn Austin
ISBN0764208985

After years of watching his children and grandchildren wander from their faith, Iddo's prayers are answered: King Cyrus is allowing God's chosen people to return to Jerusalem. Jubilant, he joyfully prepares for their departure, only to learn that his family, grown comfortable in the pagan culture...
Enron
AuthorLucy Prebble
One of the most infamous scandals in financial history becomes a theatrical epic. At once a case study and an allegory, the play charts the notorious rise and fall of Enron and its founding partners Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, who became reviled figures from the financial scandal of the century, with...
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
AuthorRoger Lowenstein
ISBN0375758259
With a new Afterword addressing today’s financial crisis

A BUSINESS WEEK BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

In this business classic—now with a new Afterword in which the author draws parallels to the recent financial crisis—Roger Lowenstein captures the gripping roller-coaster ride...
The Wolf of Wall Street
AuthorJordan Belfort
ISBN0553805460
By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could, on drugs, sex, and international globe-trotting. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids waiting at home, and the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers...
Jerusalem: The Biography
AuthorSimon Sebag Montefiore
ISBN0297852655
Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today’s clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel–Palestine...
Antony and Cleopatra
AuthorAdrian Goldsworthy
ISBN0297845675
The love affair between Antony and Cleopatra is one of the most famous stories from the ancient world, and has been depicted in countless novels, plays and films. As one of the three men in control of the Roman Empire, Antony was perhaps the most powerful man of his day; while Cleopatra, who had already...
Legionary
AuthorGordon Doherty
ISBN1908147016
The Roman Empire is crumbling, and a shadow looms in the east...376 AD: the Eastern Roman Empire is alone against the tide of barbarians swelling on her borders. Emperor Valens juggles the paltry border defences to stave off invasion from the Goths north of the Danube. Meanwhile, in Constantinople,...
Forged: Writing in the Name of God
AuthorBart D. Ehrman
ISBN0062012614
s/t: Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are
Bart D. Ehrman, the New York Times bestselling author of Jesus, Interrupted and God's Problem reveals which books in the New Testament were not passed down by Jesus' disciples, but were instead forged by other hands--and why this centuries-hidden...
Cruising Attitude: Tales of Crashpads, Crew Drama, and Crazy Passengers at 35,000 Feet
AuthorHeather Poole
ISBN0061986461
Real-life flight attendant Heather Poole has written a charming and funny insider’s account of life and work in the not-always-friendly skies. Cruising Attitude is a Coffee, Tea, or Me? for the 21st century, as the author parlays her fifteen years of flight experience into a delightful account...
Chainsaw: The Notorious Career of Al Dunlap in the Era of Profit-at-Any-Price
AuthorJohn A. Byrne
ISBN0066619815
Before there was Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling at Enron, before Bernie Ebbers at WorldCom, or Dennis Kozlowski at Tyco, there was Al Dunlap -- the notorious business executive whose actions foreshadowed a ruinous period in business when illusion seemed to matter more than reality.

Al Dunlap --...
Rise of the New World Order: The Culling of Man
AuthorJ. Micha-el Thomas Hays
***The paperback version of this book is 626 pages, not 445***

The same occult group of people who have been ruling over humanity for thousands of years continue to do so to this day. The Luciferian one world government of Biblical prophecy is unfolding behind the scenes as you read this, and...
Aetius: Attila's Nemesis
AuthorIan Hughes
ISBN1848842791
In AD 453 Attila, with a huge force composed of Huns, allies and vassals drawn from his already-vast empire, was rampaging westward across Gaul (essentially modern France), then still nominally part of the Western Roman Empire. Laying siege to Orleans, he was only a few days march from extending his...
Laughs, Luck...and Lucy: How I Came to Create the Most Popular Sitcom of All Time (with "I LOVE LUCY's Lost Scenes" and rare Lucille Ball audio)
AuthorJess Oppenheimer
Jess Oppenheimer, the man Lucille Ball called the "brains" of "I Love Lucy", gives us a rare first-hand look at television history as it was being made. A rich entertainment resource, "Laughs, Luck…and Lucy" features a hilarious memoir, and scores of rare photos, three never-before-published...
The Life of Belisarius: The Last Great General of Rome
AuthorPhilip Henry Stanhope
ISBN1594160198
Serving the Byzantine Emperor Justinian during the 6th century A.D., Belisarius defeated a superior Persian force that threatened to extinguish Constantinople; his small army next drove the Vandals out of the ancient Roman provinces of North Africa and forced the Visigoths to retreat from Italy,...
Kingdom of the Damned: Rebellion in Judea
AuthorJames Mace
**Previously Titled 'Kingdom of the Damned: Rebellion in Judea'**

In the year 66 A.D. the Roman province of Judea exploded in rebellion. Far from being a revolution of unified peoples, the various Jewish factions of Sadducees, Zealots, Sicarii, and Edomites are in a state of civil war; as...
Roman Passions: A History of Pleasure in Imperial Rome
AuthorRay Laurence
ISBN1847250327
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Arab Winter Comes to America : The Truth about the War We're in
AuthorRobert Spencer
ISBN1621572048
An outstanding book by Robert Spencer

Robert Spencer is an outstanding scholar of Islam who has been reporting about the evil effects of Islamic terrorism for decades. This book reference the now infamous failed Arab Spring, but this is not about what went wrong in Egypt, Sudan and Tunisia,...
Serpent on the Rock
AuthorKurt Eichenwald
ISBN0767923847
During Wall Street's crime wave in the 1980s, no single brokerage firm, banker or trader destroyed the financial security of more people than Prudential Bache Securities. The losses from all the celebrated insider scandals add up to a fraction of the damage caused by The Rock-- the costliest securities...
Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom
AuthorTom Holland
ISBN0316732451
Tom Holland provides a thoroughly readable history, showing a sharp grasp of the history of the Dark Ages, as well as a passion for his subject. He reviews the history of Europe roughly from 900 CE to 1000.
Always in the background is the alarm about the possible end of the world, Armageddon and the...
Hitler: Biographie
AuthorPeter Longerich
Die große Hitler-Biographie. Eine Darstellung, die neue Maßstäbe setzt


Tyrann, Psychopath, Vollstrecker eines rassenideologischen »Programms« – oder gar charismatischer »Führer«, dem seine Anhänger »entgegengearbeitet« haben? Peter Longerich geht in seiner...
Sean Connery
AuthorMichael Feeney Callan
ISBN0753508656
Among European actors Sean Connery is unparalleled in his achievements. Having extended his career from theatrical successes through every genre of film, as James Bond he became the backbone of the most lucrative movie franchise in history.
Born in an Edinburgh tenement, Sean Connery later...
Markets Never Forget (But People Do): How Your Memory Is Costing You Money--And Why This Time Isn't Different
AuthorKenneth L. Fisher
Sir John Templeton, legendary investor, was famous for saying, "The four most dangerous words in investing are, 'This time it's different.'" He knew that though history doesn't repeat, not exactly, history is an excellent guide for investors. In Markets Never Forget But People Do: How Your Memory...
Cruise Confidential: A Hit Below the Waterline: Where the Crew Lives, Eats, Wars, and Parties: One Crazy Year Working on Cruise Ships
AuthorBrian David Bruns
In Cruise Confidential, Brian David Bruns spills the dirt — or in this case, the dirty water — on those romantic, fun-filled vacations at sea. His hilarious chronicle of the year he spent working for Carnival Cruise Lines takes readers down into the areas where the crew works and lives, leaving readers...
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