The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan
10 best books like The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan (Gregory Feifer): A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal, History of the Peloponnesian War, Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, The Wild Shore, The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal, Obama's Wars, Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of our Times, In the Line of Fire, Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War, Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
| Author | Ben Macintyre |
| ISBN | 0804136637 |
Master storyteller Ben Macintyre’s most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century’s greatest spy story.
Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain’s counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height...
History of the Peloponnesian War
| Author | Thucydides |
| ISBN | 0140440399 |
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its author's ambitious claim. Thucydides himself (c.460-400 BC) was an Athenian and achieved the rank...
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
| Author | Henry Louis Gates Jr. |
| ISBN | 0525559531 |
The New York Times bestseller.
A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American...
| Author | Kim Stanley Robinson |
| ISBN | 0312890362 |
2047: for 60 years America has been quarantined after a devastating nuclear attack. For the small community of San Onofre on the West Coast, life is a matter of survival: living simply on what the sea and land can provide, preserving what knowledge and skills they can in a society without mass communications....
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal
| Author | Ben Mezrich |
| ISBN | 0385529376 |
The high-energy tale of how two socially awkward Ivy Leaguers, trying to increase their chances with the opposite sex, ended up creating Facebook.
Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends–outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school...
In Obama’s Wars, Bob Woodward provides the most intimate and sweeping portrait yet of the young president as commander in chief. Drawing on internal memos, classified documents, meeting notes and hundreds of hours of interviews with most of the key players, including the president, Woodward tells...
Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of our Times
| Author | George Crile |
| ISBN | 0802141242 |
Charlie Wilson's War was a publishing sensation and a New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times bestseller. In the early 1980s, a Houston socialite turned the attention of maverick Texas congressman Charlie Wilson to the ragged band of Afghan "freedom fighters" who continued, despite...
| Author | Pervez Musharraf |
| ISBN | 0743283449 |
According to "Time" magazine, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf holds "the world's most dangerous job." He has twice come within inches of assassination. His forces have caught more than 670 members of al Qaeda in the mountains and cities, yet many others remain at large and active, including...
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
| Author | Svetlana Alexievich |
| ISBN | 0393336867 |
Winner of the Nobel Prize: “For her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.” —Swedish Academy, Nobel Prize citation
From 1979 to 1989 a million Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed 50,000 casualties—and the youth and...
Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto
| Author | David Kushner |
| ISBN | 0470936371 |
Inside the making of a videogame that defined a generation: Grand Theft Auto Grand Theft Auto is one of the biggest and most controversial videogame franchises of all time. Since its first release in 1997, GTA has pioneered the use of everything from 3D graphics to the voices of top Hollywood actors and...
| Author | Donald Rayfield |
| ISBN | 0375757716 |
Stalin did not act alone. The mass executions, the mock trials, the betrayals and purges, the jailings and secret torture that ravaged the Soviet Union during the three decades of Stalin’s dictatorship, were the result of a tight network of trusted henchmen (and women), spies, psychopaths, and...
| Author | James N. Rowe |
| ISBN | 0345314603 |
When Green Beret Lieutenant James N. Rowe was captured in 1963 in Vietnam, his life became more than a matter of staying alive.
In a Vietcong POW camp, Rowe endured beri-beri, dysentery, and tropical fungus diseases. He suffered grueling psychological and physical torment. He experienced the...
Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front
| Author | Günter K. Koschorrek |
| ISBN | 0760321981 |
For the German soldier fighting under Hitler, keeping a diary was strictly forbidden. So Gunter Koschorrek, a fresh young recruit, wrote his notes on whatever scraps of paper he could find and sewed the pages into the lining of his winter coat. Left with his mother on his rare trips home, this illicit...
Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
| Author | Robert M. Gates |
| ISBN | 0307959473 |
From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vividly written account of his experience serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Before Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House in 2006, he thought he’d left Washington...
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
| Author | Ronen Bergman |
| ISBN | 1400069718 |
The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF’s targeted killing programs, from the man hailed by David Remnick as “arguably [Israel’s] best investigative reporter”
The Talmud says: “If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first.” This instinct...
Jumping from Helicopters: A Vietnam Memoir
In 1967, at age nineteen, John Stillman—refusing to wait for the draft—voluntarily enlisted in the Army to aid his fellow countrymen in one of the most opposed involvements in our nation’s history: the Vietnam War. Quickly falling in love with the rush of being a paratrooper with the 101st Airborne,...
| Author | Don Charlwood |
| ISBN | 1876425245 |
For Empire
Hundreds of educated young Australian men in their early 20’s volunteer to fight and defend the Empire in 1939. Trained as aircrew in the snows of Canada they are destined for Bomber Command in Britain to take part in the mass ‘area bombing’ of German and Italian cities. The...
Mary Queen of Scots' Downfall: The Life and Murder of Henry, Lord Darnley
| Author | Robert Stedall |
| ISBN | 1473893313 |
In the early hours of 10 February 1567 a large explosion ripped through the Provosts lodgings at Kirk o' Field, Edinburgh, where Mary Queen of Scotland's consort, Henry Lord Darnley, was staying. Darnley's body was found with that of his valet in a neighboring garden the next morning. The Queen's husband...
