by David Halberstam (1972)
The classic analysis of how the brilliant technocrats and intellectuals of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations led America into the catastrophic quagmire of the Vietnam War.
David Halberstam
David Halberstam’s masterwork on the Korean War, portraying the brutal winter battles against Chinese forces, the hubris of General MacArthur, and the ordinary soldiers caught in the opening clash of the Cold War.
John Lewis Gaddis
Pulitzer Prize-winner John Lewis Gaddis delivers the definitive one-volume narrative of the forty-five-year ideological struggle that divided the world and brought humanity to the brink of nuclear extinction.
Barbara W. Tuchman
Barbara Tuchman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic reconstructing the fateful first thirty days of World War I in the summer of 1914, when imperial hubris and rigid military timetables plunged civilization into catastrophe.
David E. Hoffman
The Pulitzer Prize-winning history of how Reagan, Gorbachev, and secret Soviet scientists grappled with biological warfare labs, automated doomsday retaliation systems, and the nightmare of loose nuclear weapons.