Sniper
10 best books like Sniper (Nicolai Lilin): I Want To Live: The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin's Russia, Within the Whirlwind, The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama, The Complete Works of Isaac Babel, 7000 Days In Siberia, Napoleon: A Biography, Narcocorrido: A Journey into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas, I Have America Surrounded: A Biography of Timothy Leary, Escobar: The Inside Story Of Pablo Escobar, The World's Most Powerful Criminal, The Stone Roses: War and Peace
I Want To Live: The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin's Russia
| Author | Nina Lugovskaya |
| ISBN | 0618605754 |
Recently unearthed in the archives of Stalin’s secret police, the NKVD, Nina Lugovskaya’s diary offers rare insight into the life of a teenage girl in Stalin’s Russia—when fear of arrest was a fact of daily life. Like Anne Frank, thirteen-year-old Nina is conscious of the extraordinary dangers...
| Author | Evgenia Ginzburg |
| ISBN | 0156976498 |
It wasn't easy to finish this book. After reading "Into the Whirlwind" it was hard to bear more blows to Eugenia's life: one guard sends her back to tree felling, the other one on a walk across the taiga, a walk that lets her contemplate suicide. But the rewards of going all the way to the last page were stunning....
| Author | Thomas Laird |
| ISBN | 0802118275 |
The Story of Tibet is a work of monumental importance, a fascinating journey through the land and history of Tibet, with His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama as guide. Over the course of three years, journalist Thomas Laird spent more than sixty hours with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in candid, one-on-one...
| Author | Isaac Babel |
| ISBN | 0393328244 |
Finally in paperback, this "monumental collection; gathers all of Babel's deft and brutal writing, including a wide array of previously unavailable material, from never-before-translated stories to plays and film scripts" (David Ulin, Los Angeles Times). Reviewing the work in The New Republic,...
| Author | Karlo Štajner |
| ISBN | 0552134864 |
This is a curious book,
a victim of Stalin's purge, the author spent 18 years in Siberian labor camps and prisons.
He was starved, beaten, and grossly overworked.
He states at the beginning that he wrote the book "without analysis",
but doesn't say why he made this choice.
...
| Author | Frank McLynn |
| ISBN | 1559706708 |
Napoleon Bonaparte's character and achievements have always divided critics and commentators. In this compelling biography, Frank McLynn draws on the most recent scholarship and throws a brilliant light on this most paradoxical of men--as military leader, lover, and emperor. Tracing Napoleon's...
| Author | Elijah Wald |
| ISBN | 0060505109 |
This book explores the world in which one of the oddest and most interesting trends in Latin music over the last 30 years has risen, the narcocorrido. Narcocorridos are Mexican ballads about the daring deeds of cross-border drug traffickers. Tracing the narcocorrido from its birth during the Mexican...
| Author | J.M.R. Higgs |
| ISBN | 1569803153 |
President Nixon called him the most dangerous man in America, while Terence McKenna believed he made more people happy than anyone else in history. Few People have divided opinion as strongly as Dr. Timothy Leary. Leary, a brilliant behavioral psychologist, persuaded millions to tune in, turn on,...
Escobar: The Inside Story Of Pablo Escobar, The World's Most Powerful Criminal
| Author | Roberto Escobar Gaviria |
| ISBN | 0340951095 |
Murderer, philanthropist, drug dealer, politician, devil, saint: many words have been used to describe Pablo Escobar, but one is irrefutable - legend. For the poor of Colombia, he was their Robin Hood, a man whose greatness lay not in his crimes, but in his charity; for the Colombian rich he was just...
The Stone Roses captures the magic—and chaos—behind the UK band's rise, fall, and recent resurrection.
The iconic Brit pop band The Stone Roses became an overnight sensation when their 1989 eponymous album went double platinum. It was a recording that is still often listed as...
| Author | Robin Kirk |
| ISBN | 1586482076 |
More Terrible Than Death is a gripping work that maps the dramatic new relationship between the United States and Colombia in human terms, using portraits of the Colombians and Americans involved, the author's experiences in Colombia as a writer and human rights investigator and an insider's analysis...
| Author | Uwe Timm |
| ISBN | 3423133163 |
In Toni Morrisons Roman Menschenkind geistert ein Opfer der Sklaverei noch Jahre später am Ort des Geschehens herum. Auch Uwe Timms älterer Bruder spukt Jahrzehnte nach seinem Tod durch dessen Träume. Nur, dass er zu den Tätern zählt -- anfänglich. Als Angehöriger der SS-Totenkopf-Division...
The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West
| Author | Edward Lucas |
| ISBN | 0230606121 |
In late 1999 when Vladimir Putin was named Prime Minister, Russia was a budding democracy. Multiple parties campaigned for seats in the Duma, the nation’s parliament. The media criticized the government freely. Eight years later as Putin completes his second term as president of Russia and announces...
One Soldier's War In Chechnya
| Author | Arkady Babchenko |
| ISBN | 1846270405 |
One Soldier’s War is a visceral and unflinching memoir of a young Russian soldier’s experience in the Chechen wars that brilliantly captures the fear, drudgery, chaos, and brutality of modern combat. An excerpt of the book was hailed by Tibor Fisher in the Guardian as “right up there with Catch-22...
The Shaman's Coat: A Native History of Siberia
| Author | Anna Reid |
| ISBN | 0802776760 |
The fascinating history of an unknown people
A vivid mixture of history and reporting, The Shaman's Coat tells the story of some of the world's least-known peoples-the indigenous tribes of Siberia. Russia's equivalent to the Native Americans or Australian Aborigines, they divide into...
Comandante: Myth and Reality in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela
| Author | Rory Carroll |
| ISBN | 1594204578 |
The inside story of Hugo Chavez’s rule and complex legacy.
Few leaders in our time have been as divisive and enigmatic as the late Hugo Chavez. In Comandante, acclaimed journalist Rory Carroll tells the inside story of Chavez’s life, his time as Venezuela’s president, and his legacy....
| Author | Philip Short |
| ISBN | 0805066381 |
When the Nationalists routed a ragtag Red Army on the Xiang River during the Long March, an earthy Chinese peasant with a brilliant mind moved to a position of power. Eight years after his military success, Mao Tse-tung had won out over more sophisticated rivals to become party chairman, his title for...
The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia (Yale Nota Bene)
| Author | Tim Judah |
| ISBN | 0300085079 |
A solid and even-handed history of the Serbian people from antiquity until the end of Yugoslavia. Who would've thought that such a small people would have such a grand idea of their historical destiny? The Greater Serbia ideology that led to the 1990s war has deep roots going back into medieval history....
| Author | Andrey Kurkov |
| ISBN | 1846553989 |
Semyon is disturbed. He has woken up in the living room with blood on his shirt, an angry wife and no idea where he was the night before. After waking to find his boots and overcoat damp on several mornings in a row, Semyon realises his excursions are a nightly occurrence. Concerned for his own safety and...
The Great Betrayal: The Memoirs of Africa's Most Controversial Leader
| Author | Ian Douglas Smith |
| ISBN | 1857821769 |
A fascinating and gripping account of the life and times of Rhodesia's last prime minister. Not only does it have a biographical section exploring Smith the man, but the real meat is the geo-political storm that eventually made Rhodesia's existence unsustainable. A remarkable portion of African...
| Author | Viktor Suvorov |
| ISBN | 0671689177 |
A book written by a defected USSR agent who wrote about his ex army corps, the infamous Spetsnaz, its history, training programs, skill sets, gear and war methods. He also shared his view on Russia's diplomatic vision: "The Soviet leadership and the Soviet diplomatic service adopt a philosophical...
| Author | Richard Holbrooke |
| ISBN | 0375753605 |
When President Clinton sent Richard Holbrooke to Bosnia as America's chief negotiator in late 1995, he took a gamble that would eventually redefine his presidency. But there was no saying then, at the height of the war, that Holbrooke's mission would succeed. The odds were strongly against it.
...
Hidden Dangers: Mexico on the Brink of Disaster
Mexico is undergoing economic and political changes that lie like landmines ready to explode beneath Uncle Sam's footsteps.
By the close of the first decade of the twenty-first century Mexico-United States relations had begun to shred. The leaders of the two countries shared a master-servant...
| Author | Mark Urban |
| ISBN | 1408702649 |
The cover made it look like the usual Iraq/Afghanistan soldier's memoirs. It is not, Mark Urban is in fact a journalist and this book is a look at the intelligence and political battles faced behind the scenes.
I found the book pretty interesting despite it not being the usual bombastic tale...
| Author | Andrey Gelasimov |
| ISBN | 1611090695 |
Masterfully translated from the original Russian by award-winning translator Marian Schwartz, Thirst tells the story of 20-year-old Chechen War veteran Kostya. Maimed beyond recognition by a tank explosion, he spends weeks on end locked inside his apartment, his sole companions the vodka bottles...
