The Great Thaw

The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the end of the Cold War

By Archie Brown

The Long Arm of the Chairman

Maoism: A Global History

By Julia Lovell

Will China Rule the Waves?

Asian Waters: The Struggle over the Asia-Pacific and the Strategy of Chinese Expansion

By Humphrey Hawksley

The Greatest Game

Zbigniew Brzezinski: America’s Grand Strategist

By Justin Vaïsse (Translated by Catherine Porter)

On Grand Strategy

By John Lewis Gaddis

All Tomorrow’s Battles

The Future of War: A History

By Lawrence Freedman

Fighting Fit

War: What Is It Good for? The Role of Conflict in Civilisation, from Primates to Robots

By Ian Morris

Do The Right Thing

Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq

By John Dower

Force For The Good

Moral Combat: A History of World War II

By Michael Burleigh

History’s Crooked Lives

The Legacy of the Second World War

By John Lukacs

A Sour War

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

By David Halberstam

The Economist’s Progress

The Age of Turbulence

By Alan Greenspan

They Deserved Each Other

Nixon: The Invincible Quest

By Conrad Black

Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power

By Robert Dallek

How to Fight a Cold War

George Kennan: A Study in Character

By John Lukacs

Tipping Points

Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940–1941

By Ian Kershaw

Bella, Horrida Bella

War in Human Civilisation

By Azar Gat

Alibis of Aggression

The War of the World: History’s Age of Hatred

By Niall Ferguson

Most Of Us Survived

The Cold War

By John Lewis Gaddis

Out of Step with History

The Kennan Diaries

By Frank Costigliola (ed)