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Terror and Resistance: Study of Political Violence

By Eugene Victor Walter

Michael Collins and the Making of the Irish State

By Gabriel Doherty, Dermot Keogh

The Black Banners Declassified

By Ali Soufan

Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale

By Sean O'Driscoll

Insurgency and Counterinsurgency: A Global History

By Jeremy Black

Faith and Duty: The True Story of a Soldier's War in Northern Ireland

By Nicky Curtis

Just War on Terror?: A Christian and Muslim Response

By Brian Wicker, David Fisher

Dying to Win: Why Suicide Terrorists Do It

By Robert A. Pape

The Terrorism Reader

By David J. Whittaker

The Forever War

By Dexter Filkins

A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique

By William Finnegan

The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

By Masha Gessen

The Gardener of Lashkar Gah: The Afghans who Risked Everything to Fight the Taliban

By Larisa Brown

The Scattering Time: Turkana Responses to Colonial Rule

By John Lamphear (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin)

The Dying Sahara: US Imperialism and Terror in Africa

By Jeremy Keenan

The Dark Sahara: America's War on Terror in Africa

By Jeremy Keenan

Hostage: Complete Story of the Lebanon Captives

By Con Coughlin

Pakistan on the Brink: The future of Pakistan, Afghanistan and the West

By Ahmed Rashid

Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan To A More Dangerous World

By Christina Lamb

Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists

By Joan Smith

A Farewell to Arms?: From War to Peace in Northern Ireland

The Siege: Three Days of Terror Inside the Taj

By Adrian Levy, Cathy Scott-Clark

The War on Terrorism and the American 'Empire' after the Cold War

By Colas, Alejandro, Saull, Richard

See No Evil: The True Story of Ground Soldier in the CIA's Counterterrorism Wars

By Robert Baer

Ideals and Ideologies: A Reader

By Terence Ball, Richard Dagger

Northern Ireland Peace Process: A Chronology

By Paul Bew, Gordon Gillespie

Making Sense of Suicide Missions

By Diego Gambetta (, Professor of Sociology and Official Fellow of Nuffield College, University of Oxford)

The Lazarus Heist: Based on the No 1 Hit podcast

By Geoff White

Mythomania: Tales of Our Times, From Apple to Isis

By Peter Conrad

Conspiracy on Cato Street: A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency London

By Vic Gatrell (University of Cambridge)