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Sebastian Junger From the author of The Perfect Storm, a gripping book about Sebastian Junger's almost fatal year with the 2nd battalion of the American Army. | Roberto Saviano The Camorra are Italy's other organised crime syndicate; the award-winning author is now in hiding. |
Anthony Swofford In the West, many have become convinced that it is possible to fight a war largely without casualties. Swofford's brutally honest account of life as a marine ('jarhead') in the... | George Orwell; Jeremy Paxman Presents an account of the author's experience as a police officer in imperial Burma. This collection features the essays that include classics such as "My Country Right or Left", "How... |
Lawrence Wright A thorough exploration of the personalities and world events that led to the formation of Al-Qaeda and ultimately to the horrific events of 9/11. | John Pilger A selection of articles, broadcasts, and books extracts that revealed important and disturbing truths, ranging from across many of the critical events, scandals, and struggles. This book bears witness to... |
Michela Wrong A story of grim comedy amid the apocalypse and a celebration of the sheer indestructibility of the human spirit in a nation run riot: Michela Wrong's vision of Congo/Zaire during... | Ian Frazier; Robert Macfarlane Reportage resists easy definition and comes in many forms, but it reveals hidden truths about people and events that have shaped the world we know. This book is a journey... |
George Packer Talking about Iraq war, this title recounts how the US set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq, showing the... | Ryszard Kapuscinski; Neal Ascherson After the deposition of Haile Selassie in 1974, which ended the ancient rule of the Abyssinian monarchy, Ryszard Kapuscinski travelled to Ethiopia and sought out surviving courtiers to tell their... |
Steve Coll The news-breaking book that has sent schockwaves through the White House, Ghost Wars is the most accurate and revealing account yet of the CIA's secret involvement in al-Qaeada's evolution. | Norman Mailer Reissue of a modern classic - the book that catapulted Norman Mailer to fame on its first publication in 1948. |
Peter Robb Using the art, food and the books of Brazils nineteenth-century writer, Machado de Assis, this work is about its history of slavery and the multicultural but disturbed society that was... | Kenneth Cain; Heidi Postlewait; ... Aiming to be brutal and moving in equal measure, this book explores pressing global issues, while not losing a sense of the personal. Critical of the West's indifference to developing... |
Ahmed Rashid Explores the volatile and dangerous region in the world. In this story of squandered opportunities, misguided alliances and double-dealing, the author pinpoints with chilling accuracy where the true threat to... | Paul Preston A study of how the war correspondent came of age. It examines the problems - political, professional and personal, faced by some of the century's greatest war correspondents both within... |