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Realism and Rivals: McCloskey’s The Persian Rings True

Realism and Rivals: McCloskey’s The Persian Rings True

BOOK REVIEW: The Persian: A NovelBy David McCloskey/ W.W. NortonReviewed by: Joe ZacksThe Reviewer: Joe Zacks is the Co-founder and Managing Partner [...] More

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How Dictators Evade Justice — and Why It Still Works: Philippe Sands’ 38 Londres Street

How Dictators Evade Justice — and Why It Still Works: Philippe Sands’ 38 Londres Street

BOOK REVIEW: 38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England, and a Nazi in PatagoniaBy Philippe Sands / KnopfReviewed by: Jean-Thomas NicoleThe [...] More

The Nuclear Age: How the Quest for the Bomb Redefined Power — and Still Shapes Today’s Global Order

The Nuclear Age: How the Quest for the Bomb Redefined Power — and Still Shapes Today’s Global Order

BOOK REVIEW: THE NUCLEAR AGE: AN EPIC RACE FOR ARMS, POWER, AND SURVIVALBy Serhii Plokhy / W.W. NortonReviewed by: Michael J. ArdThe Reviewer: [...] More

High On Hype – A Tabloid Take On Delta Force and Drugs

The Fort Bragg Cartel

High On Hype – A Tabloid Take On Delta Force and Drugs

BOOK REVIEW: THE FORT BRAGG CARTEL: DRUG TRAFFICKING AND MURDER IN THE SPECIAL FORCESBy Seth Harp / VikingReviewed by: Anna M. Gielas, PhDThe [...] More

A Call at 4AM in Israel: Crucial Decisions, Urgent Reading

A Call at 4AM

A Call at 4AM in Israel: Crucial Decisions, Urgent Reading

BOOK REVIEW: A Call at 4 AM: Thirteen Prime Ministers and the Crucial Decisions that Shaped Israeli Politics, 2025,By Amit Segal / Post Hill [...] More

Checkmate, Comrade: Espionage, Surveillance, and the Quiet Rebellion over the Chess Board

Spy's Mate

Checkmate, Comrade: Espionage, Surveillance, and the Quiet Rebellion over the Chess Board

BOOK REVIEW: Spy’s Mate, A NovelBy Brad Buchanan / Thinkers PublishingReviewed by: Jean-Thomas NicoleThe Reviewer — Jean-Thomas Nicole is a Policy [...] More

A Resounding Reaffirmation of Diplomacy

Great Power Diplomacy

A Resounding Reaffirmation of Diplomacy

BOOK REVIEW: Great Power Diplomacy: The Skill of Statecraft from Attila the Hun to KissingerBy A. Wess Mitchell / Princeton University Press – Oct [...] More

From Terrorist to Trial: The Pursuit of Justice

From Terrorist to Trial: The Pursuit of Justice

BOOK REVIEW: RACE AGAINST TERROR: Chasing an Al Qaeda Killer at the Dawn of the Forever WarBy Jake Tapper / Atria BooksReviewed by: Joe ZacksThe [...] More

A Ruthless and Reflective Confrontation About the Price of War

Cry Havoc

A Ruthless and Reflective Confrontation About the Price of War

BOOK REVIEW: Cry Havoc: A Tom Reece ThrillerBy Jack Carr / AtriaReviewed by: Susan GorgioskiThe Reviewer —Susan Gorgioski is a writer who lives in [...] More

Benjamin Franklin’s Failed Canadian Ambitions

He Did Not Conquer

Benjamin Franklin’s Failed Canadian Ambitions

BOOK REVIEW: He Did Not Conquer. Benjamin Franklin’s Failure to Annex CanadaBy Madelaine Drohan/ Dundurn Press, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,Reviewed by: [...] More

Inside the High-Stakes World of State-Sponsored Hostage Negotiations

Inside the High-Stakes World of State-Sponsored Hostage Negotiations

BOOK REVIEW: SWAP: A SECRET HISTORY OF THE NEW COLD WARBy Drew Hinshaw and Joe Parkinson / HarperReviewed by: Joseph AugustynThe Reviewer — Joseph [...] More

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Of Ships And Chips – A Tale of Future War in The Pacific

Red Tide

Of Ships And Chips – A Tale of Future War in The Pacific

BOOK REVIEW: Red Tide: A Novel of the Next Pacific WarBy M.P. Woodward /Naval Institute PressReviewed by: Bill HarlowThe Reviewer —Bill Harlow served [...] More

The MI6 Spy Who Met Hitler

The Spy and the Devil

The MI6 Spy Who Met Hitler

BOOK REVIEW: THE SPY AND THE DEVILBy Tim Willasey-Wilsey / Published in the US by Blink and in the UK by BonnierReviewed by: Michael SmithThe [...] More