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Boko Haram: Inside Nigeria's Unholy War

By Mike Smith

Unmodern Men in the Modern World: Radical Islam, Terrorism, and the War on Modernity

By Michael J. Mazarr

Rebels

By Peter de Rosa

The Lord's Resistance Army: Myth and Reality

By Tim Allen, Koen Vlassenroot

The West and the Rest: Globalisation and the Terrorist Threat

By Roger Scruton

Europe's Angry Muslims

By Robert S. Leiken (Director, Immigration and National Security Program, Director, The Nixon Center)

God's Terrorists

By Charles Allen

Political Terrorism: Theory, Tactics and Counter-Measures

By Grant Wardlaw

The Dublin Bombings and the Murder Triangle

By Joe Tiernan

Why Not Torture Terrorists?: Moral, Practical and Legal Aspects of the "Ticking Bomb" Justification for Torture

By Yuval Ginbar (Legal Adviser, Amnesty International)

Blood and Sand: The BBC security correspondent's own extraordinary and inspiring story

By Frank Gardner

Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from the Inside by the Man Who Ran It

By Ken Alibek, Stephen Handelman

A Secret History of the IRA

By Ed Moloney

Biological Weapons: From the Invention of State-Sponsored Programs to Contemporary Bioterrorism

By Jeanne Guillemin

The Informer

By Sean O'Callaghan

SAS: The Illustrated History

By Barry Davies

Dead Man Running

By M MCGARTLAND

Fault Lines: Journeys into the New South Africa

By David Goodman, Paul Weinberg

Arafat: From Defender to Dictator

By Said K. Aburish

Operation Valkyrie: The Plot To Kill Hitler

By Philipp von Boeselager

One Morning In Sarajevo: The true story of the assassination that changed the world

By David James Smith

Northern Spy: A Reese Witherspoon's Book Club Pick

By Flynn Berry

Unequal Conflict: Palestinians and Israel

By John Gee

Night Letters: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and the Afghan Islamists Who Changed the World

By Chris Sands, Fazelminallah Qazizai

After the Caliphate: The Islamic State & the Future Terrorist Diaspora

By Colin P. Clarke (Carnegie Mellon University)

The Making of a Human Bomb: An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance

By Nasser Abufarha

Promised Land: Peasant Rebellion in Chalatenango, El Salvador

By Jenny Pearce

The Taliban at War: 2001 - 2018

By Antonio Giustozzi

Kidnapped: And Other Dispatches

By Alan Johnston

Taliban Narratives: The Use and Power of Stories in the Afghanistan Conflict

By Thomas Johnson