Patrick Hennessey

Not As Good As You Think

The Gamble: General Petraeus and the Untold Story of the American Surge in Iraq, 2006–2008

By Thomas E Ricks

Michael Burleigh

Shades of Grey

The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism

By Ron Suskind

Caroline Moorehead

Ghosts of Abu Ghraib

Standard Operating Procedure: A War Story

By Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris

Patrick Hennessey

Pull Up a Sandbag

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

By James Fergusson

Jason Burke

A Reliable Witness

The Forever War: Dispatches from the War on Terror

By Dexter Filkins

Peter Oborne

The Thing About…

What Next? Surviving the Twenty-First Century

By Chris Patten

Roderick Matthews

Hostages to Fortune

The Meadow: Kashmir 1995 – Where the Terror Began

By Adrian Levy & Cathy Scott-Clark

Conor Gearty

In the Chains of Command

The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay

By Jess Bravin

The General: The Ordinary Man Who Challenged Guantanamo

By Ahmed Errachidi with Gillian Slovo