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God's War on Terror: Islam, Prophecy and the Bible

By Walid Shoebat, Joel Richardson

Nelson Mandela: The Man and the Movement

By Mary Benson

The Anatomy of a Moment

By Javier Cercas

The Sewing Circles of Herat: My Afghan Years

By Lamb, Christina

A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers

By Lawrence Weschler

The Thistle and the Drone: How America's War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam

By Akbar Ahmed

In the Shadow of No Towers

By Art Spiegelman

The Lazarus Heist: Based on the No 1 Hit podcast

By Geoff White

Against the Stranger: Lives in Occupied Territory

By Janine Di Giovanni

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

Terror and Resistance: Study of Political Violence

By Eugene Victor Walter

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

By Vic Gatrell (University of Cambridge)

The NSA Report: Liberty and Security in a Changing World

By President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, The, Richard A. Clarke, Michael J. Morell, Geoffrey R. Stone, Cass R. Sunstein

Hostage in Iraq

By Norman Kember

Politics and Strategy: Partisan Ambition and American Statecraft

By Peter Trubowitz

Ideals and Ideologies: A Reader

By Terence Ball, Richard Dagger

Making Sense of Suicide Missions

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