International relations

The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century

The epic successor to Tim Weiner’s National Book Award-winning classic, Legacy of Ashes: a gripping and revelatory history of the CIA in the 21st century, reaching from 9/11 through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to today’s battles with Russia and China – and with the President of the United States.

Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia

‘A sparkling debut by an outstanding young historian’ PETER FRANKOPAN

‘Remarkable … The prose is vivid, the storytelling cinematic’ GUARDIAN

‘This book is a revelation … both original and important’ MISHAL HUSAIN

A history of modern South Asia told through five partitions that reshaped it.

The Spy in the Archive: How one man tried to kill the KGB

The compulsively readable new book from The Rest is Classified host Gordon Corera. About how one man – Vasili Mitrokhin – turned first disaffected dissident and then traitor to the KGB, stealing the most secret Soviet archives and smuggling them to the West.

The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War

‘Entertaining and vivid… This is a gripping account of an intriguing and little-known Cold War moment’ OBSERVER

‘Reads like a thriller’ THE SUN

The astonishing story of the ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.

Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Gaza

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

‘A rigorous and thoughtful study of what has happened on battlefields over the past eight decades’ THE TIMES

‘A hugely important book … elegantly written and persuasively argued’ DAILY TELEGRAPH

Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

A Times History Book of the Year 2022

From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings ‘the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis’ Daily Telegraph

Rigged: America, Russia and 100 Years of Covert Electoral Interference

‘This pioneering and judicious history of foreign intervention in elections should be read by everyone who wants to defend democracy now.’ Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny

The definitive account of covert operations to influence elections from the Cold War to 2016 – and why the threat is greater than ever in 2020.

Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World

From Lt. General H.R. McMaster, former National Security Advisor during Trump’s administration, a bold assessment of the most critical foreign policy and national security challenges of our age.

Collateral Damage: Britain, America and Europe in the Age of Trump

‘Much bigger and more ambitious than a first-person “rise and fall” … Great vignettes and classy analysis from the man who until a year ago sat at the top of the diplomatic tree … There is nothing dusty or dry in his account of dealing with the twin forces of Boris and Donald, and how they’ve shaped politics – and his life’ Guardian

War on Peace: The Decline of American Influence

A book for anyone interested to know more about how the world really works by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow.

‘This is one of the most important books of our time.’ Walter Isaacson

‘A masterpiece’ Dan Simpson, Post-Gazette

THE NEW YORK TIMES #3 BESTSELLER

A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction

‘A devastating indictment’ SUNDAY TIMES

‘An important book, a superb piece of reporting’ OBSERVER

‘With great narrative verve, and a sober and subtle intelligence, she carries us deep behind the scenes of history-in-the-making’ PHILIP GOUREVITCH

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