The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology
10 best books like The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology (Fritz Stern): The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, The Journey to the West, Volume 1, Infantry Attacks, White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet War 1919-1920 and The Miracle on the Vistula, Power, Inc.: The Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Government- —and the Reckoning That Lies Ahead, The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848, Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia: English Translation, Andean Tragedy: Fighting the War of the Pacific, 1879-1884, The Philippine War, 1899-1902, Spawn of the Winds
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright's remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews...
The Journey to the West, Volume 1
| Author | Wu Cheng'en |
| ISBN | 0226971503 |
First published in 1592, The Journey to the West, volume I, comprises the first twenty-five chapters of Anthony C. Yu's four-volume translation of Hsi-yu Chi, one of the most beloved classics of Chinese literature. The fantastic tale recounts the sixteen-year pilgrimage of the monk Hsüan-tsang...
| Author | Erwin Rommel |
| ISBN | 1853677078 |
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel exerted an almost hypnotic influence not only over his own troops but also over the Allied soldiers of the Eighth Army in the Second World War. Even when the legend surrounding his invincibility was overturned at El Alamein, the aura surrounding Rommel himself remained unsullied....
White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet War 1919-1920 and The Miracle on the Vistula
| Author | Norman Davies |
| ISBN | 0712606947 |
In White Eagle, Red Star, distinguished historian Norman Davies gives us a full account of the Polish-Soviet War, with its dramatic climax in August 1920 when the Red Army—sure of victory and pledged to carry the Revolution across Europe —was crushed by a devastating Polish attack. Since known...
| Author | David Rothkopf |
| ISBN | 0374151288 |
The world's largest company, Wal-Mart Stores, has revenues higher than the GDP of all but twenty-five of the world's countries. Its employees outnumber the populations of almost a hundred nations. The world's largest asset manager, a secretive New York company called Black Rock, controls assets...
| Author | Martin Dugard |
| ISBN | 0316166251 |
Few historical figures are as inextricably linked as Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. But less than two decades before they faced each other as enemies at Appomattox, they had been brothers--both West Point graduates, both wearing blue, and both fighting in the same cadre in the Mexican War. They...
Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia: English Translation
ENGLISH TRANSLATION The book is a Russian textbook on geopolitics. It systematically and detailed the basics of geopolitics as a science, its theory, history. Covering a wide range of geopolitical schools and beliefs and actual problems. The first time a Russian geopolitical doctrine. An indispensable...
Andean Tragedy: Fighting the War of the Pacific, 1879-1884
| Author | William F. Sater |
| ISBN | 0803243340 |
The year 1879 marked the beginning of one of the longest, bloodiest conflicts of nineteenth-century Latin America. The War of the Pacific pitted Peru and Bolivia against Chile in a struggle initiated over a festering border dispute. The conflict saw Chile’s and Peru’s armored warships vying...
The Philippine War, 1899-1902
| Author | Brian McAllister Linn |
| ISBN | 0700612254 |
This year begins the centennial of the Philippine War, one of the most controversial and poorly understood events in American history. The war thrust the U.S. into the center of Pacific and Asian politics, with important and sometimes tragic consequences. It kept the Filipinos under colonial overlordship...
| Author | Brian Lumley |
| ISBN | 0515045713 |
Titus Crow and his faithful companion and record-keeper fight the gathering forces of darkness-the infamous and deadly Elder Gods of the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Cthulhu and his dark minions are bent on ruling the earth. A few puny humans cannot possibly stand against these otherworldly evil gods,...
American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent
The explosive memoir of a Muslim American FBI agent fighting terror from the inside
It's no secret that federal agencies are waging a broad, global war against terror. But for the first time in this memoir, an active Muslim American federal agent reveals his experience infiltrating and bringing...
Forensics: True Crime Scene Investigations
| Author | Zakaria Erzinçlioğlu |
| ISBN | 0760740763 |
I have always been interested, in a moderately morbid way, with criminal forensics, and I very much enjoyed reading this non-fiction book, not least because it was written by someone in Great Britain, which puts another spin on the subject.
After introducing the reader to Locard's Principle,...
