by John Lewis Gaddis (2005)
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.
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.
Ramachandra Guha
The definitive, monumental history of post-1947 independent India. Ramachandra Guha tells the epic story of how the world’s largest and most diverse democracy survived riots, wars, insurgencies, and poverty.
Martin Meredith
Martin Meredith’s classic panoramic history of post-independence Africa, examining how the optimism of 1960s liberation confronted the realities of civil wars, corruption, foreign intervention, and resilient reform.
Jonathan D. Spence
Jonathan Spence’s masterwork charts four centuries of Chinese history from the rise of the Manchu Qing dynasty to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, documenting China’s turbulent transformation into a modern superpower.