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Don’t Mess with the Mossad

Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations

By Ronen Bergman

Owen Bennett-Jones

Losing Battle

Unwinnable: Britain’s War in Afghanistan 2001–2014

By Theo Farrell

Piers Brendon

No Honest Mistake

Iraq: The Cost of War

By Jeremy Greenstock

Richard Cockett

Where Will It End?

ISIS: A History

By Fawaz A Gerges

Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS

By Joby Warrick

Blood Year: Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror

By David Kilcullen

Hazhir Teimourian

The BBC Tribe at War

The Wars Against Saddam: Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad

By John Simpson

Hazhir Teimourian

Conquest In Double Time

The Iraq War

By John Keegan

In The Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat in Iraq

By Rick Atkinson

Michael Burleigh

Full Spectrum Dominance

Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire

By Niall Ferguson

Patrick Hennessey

Pull Up a Sandbag

A Million Bullets: The Real Story of the British Army in Afghanistan

By James Fergusson

Adrian Weale

Murkywater

War PLC: The Rise of the New Corporate Mercenary

By Stephen Armstrong

Caroline Moorehead

The Innocent Dead

Killing Civilians: Method, Madness and Morality in War

By Hugo Slim

Patrick Porter

The Drones Club

Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield

By Jeremy Scahill