History.

Confronting America — What Has to Change

Bill O'Reilly, Josh Hammer · Macmillan Audio · Bill O'Reilly's Confronting Series

Confronting America — What Has to Change

Bill O'Reilly, Josh Hammer · St. Martin's Press · Bill O'Reilly's Confronting Series

A Shadow Over the World — Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Rise of Fascism, and the Making of America's World War II

William I Hitchcock · Simon & Schuster

Tomorrow Is Yesterday — Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine

Hussein Agha, Robert Malley · Picador

Spies — The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

Calder Walton · Simon & Schuster

<b><b><i>Foreign Policy</i> Best Book of 2023</b><br> <b><i>Foreign Affairs</i> Best Book of 2023</b><br> <br><b>The “riveting” (<i>The Economist</i>), secret story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China.</b></b><br><br><i>Spies</i> is the history of the secret war that Russia and the West have been waging for a century. Espionage, sabotage, and subversion were the Kremlin’s means to equalize the imbalance of resources between the East and West before, during, and after the Cold War. There was nothing “unprecedented” about Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election. It was simply business as usual, new means used for old ends.<br> <br>The Cold War started long before 1945. But the West fought back after World War II, mounting its own shadow war, using disinformation, vast intelligence networks, and new technologies against the Soviet Union. <i>Spies</i> is a “deeply researched and artfully crafted” (Fiona Hill, deputy assistant to the US President) story of the best and worst of mankind: bravery and honor, treachery and betrayal. The narrative shifts across continents and decades, from the freezing streets of St. Petersburg in 1917 to the bloody beaches of Normandy; from coups in faraway lands to present-day Moscow where troll farms, synthetic bots, and weaponized cyber-attacks being launched woefully unprepared West. It is about the rise and fall of Eastern superpowers: Russia’s past and present and the global ascendance of China.<br> <br>Mining hitherto secret archives in multiple languages, Calder Walton shows that the Cold War started earlier than commonly assumed, that it continued even after the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, and that Britain and America’s clandestine struggle with the Soviet government provided key lessons for countering China today. This “authoritative, sweeping” (Fredrik Logevall, Pulitzer Prize­–winning author of <i>Embers of War</i>) history, combined with practical takeaways for our current great power struggles, make <i>Spies</i> a unique and essential addition to the history of the Cold War and the unrolling conflict between the United States and China that will dominate the 21st century.

Touching All the Bases — A Story of Power, Purpose, and Surviving the Bronx

Dave Winfield, Alan Maimon · Matt Holt Books

The Mantle of the Prophet — Religion and Politics in Iran

Roy P. Mottahedeh · Oneworld Publications

Empire of the East — Poland-Lithuania 1500-1700

Vincent Rospond · Winged Hussar Publishing

Racist by Design — Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration Control

Kelly Lytle Hernandez · W. W. Norton & Company

A Short History of the Gaza Strip

Anne Irfan, Muhammad Shehada · W. W. Norton & Company

The Eternal Forest — A Memoir of the Cuban Diaspora

Elena Sheppard · St. Martin's Griffin

The Eye of the Mind — Vision, Memory, and Meditation in Seventeenth-Century Ukrainian Preaching

Maria Grazia Bartolini · Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute · Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies

Soul — A Brief History of Black Cultural Life

Christopher Freeburg · Yale University Press

Saudi Arabia — A Modern History

David Commins · Yale University Press

Ground Forces in the Korean War 1950–53 (3) — The Republic of Korea Army and the United Nations Command

Benjamin Lai, Johnny Shumate · Osprey Publishing · Men-at-Arms

Target Stopped — The History of the Modern Tank

Sam Cranny-Evans · Osprey Publishing

Rocks & Minerals

DK · DK · Science and Secrets of Natural History

Shadow Before the Flame — The Hindenburg Disaster and the Prelude to War

Catherine Grace Katz · Viking

Rock* — A Mainstream Alternative History of Alternative Mainstream Music

Chuck Klosterman · Da Capo

King's Secretary — William Paget and the Last Years of the Reign of Henry VIII

Andrew Johnston · Yale University Press

History by a Hair — -

Crown · Crown

The SS 'Wiking' Division in World War II

Massimiliano Afiero, Ramiro Bujeiro · Osprey Publishing · Elite

Westport 1864 — Price's Raid and the Midwest's Greatest Battle

Brian Lane Herder, Marco Capparoni · Osprey Publishing · Campaign

Cold War City — A History of West Berlin

David E. Barclay · Princeton University Press