Brian Urquhart

Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

by Simon Winchester

Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present

edited by Adam Roberts and Timothy Garton Ash

Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name

by Timothy Garton Ash

Winston's War: Churchill, 1940–1945

by Max Hastings

No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations

by Mark Mazower

UN Ideas That Changed the World

by Richard Jolly, Louis Emmerij, and Thomas G. Weiss, with a foreword by Kofi A. Annan

The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War

by Nicholas Thompson

A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East— from the Cold War to the War on Terror

by Patrick Tyler

Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East

by Rashid Khalidi

The Irony of American History

by Reinhold Niebuhr, with an introduction by Andrew J. Bacevich

The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism

by Andrew J. Bacevich

The Freedom Agenda: Why America Must Spread Democracy (Just Not the Way George Bush Did)

by James Traub

A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East

by Kenneth M. Pollack

A Billion Lives: An Eyewitness Report from the Frontlines of Humanity

by Jan Egeland

Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad

by John Bolton

Independent Diplomat: Dispatches from an Unaccountable Elite

by Carne Ross

The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857

by William Dalrymple

Ends of British Imperialism: The Scramble for Empire, Suez and Decolonization

by Wm. Roger Louis

The International Struggle over Iraq: Politics in the UN Security Council, 1980–2005

by David M. Malone

It's Easier to Reach Heaven Than the End of the Street: A Jerusalem Memoir

by Emma Williams

The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East

by Robert Fisk

Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules from FDR's Atlantic Charter to George W. Bush's Illegal War

by Philippe Sands

Lawless World: The Whistle-Blowing Account of How Our Leaders Are Taking the Law into Their Own Hands

by Philippe Sands

War Law: Understanding International Law and Armed Conflict

by Michael Byers

Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq

by Stephen Kinzer

The Management of the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme (five volumes)

a report by the Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme

Manipulation of the Oil-for-Food Programme by the Iraqi Regime (one volume)

a report by the Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme

The Opportunity: America's Moment to Alter History's Course

by Richard N. Haass

The Turbulent Decade: Confronting the Refugee Crises of the 1990s

by Sadako Ogata