To the writers of the National Security Strategy: Here’s your handbook. The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us About Great-Power Rivalry Today by Hal Brands policymakers, it’s both a study and a warning.-Robbie Foot, a scholar at the University of Oxford, has written a meticulous book on how China is working to hash out its own rival vision of the global order at the United Nations, and it’s well worth a read. Throw a stone at random in Washington, and you’ll likely hit someone giving a speech on the threat China poses to the international order. Grab your vyshyvanka out of the closet, and start turning pages.-Jack For the true wonks:Ĭhina, the U.N., and Human Protection: Beliefs, Power, Image by Rosemary Foot But you will be rewarded for your patience, as Plokhy takes readers on a swashbuckling survey through Ukraine’s history, from the ninth-century vikings of Kyivan Rus, whose statues dot the modern hills of Kyiv, to the Nazi occupation and the breakup of the Soviet Union. You’re not in for a Dan Brown-style page turner or a Barbara Kingsolver whodunit when you pick up Plokhy, Harvard University’s top professor of Ukrainian history. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine by Serhii Plokhy
Given how profoundly the conflict shaped China and the Korean Peninsula, it’s a wonder more policymakers in Washington aren’t closely studying the conflict today.-Robbie history spans from the corridors of power in Washington to the unsung heroism of young Marine corporals on the battlefield during the legendary Battle of Chosin Reservoir. Halberstam’s exhaustive research on the “forgotten conflict” in U.S. I started this classic tome on the Korean War during my 15-hour flight to Seoul for a reporting trip this summer, and it was tough to put down even when the jet lag set in. The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam It’s the perfect summer read for any military history buff.-Robbie The oldies but goldies: I burned through this book in about two days. Against All Odds follows four of the most decorated American soldiers in the war and the long scars that the war left on them long after the Allied victory. It’s hard to think of a topic more overcovered in the world of nonfiction than World War II, but Kershaw continues to find fresh ways to look at the war. Bernard Trainor, covers all that and more in his latest book on the counter-Islamic State campaign, taking the war from a napkin sketch in the minds of Pentagon planners all the way to the end of Trump’s presidency.-JackĪgainst All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II by Alex Kershaw wars in Iraq post-1991 with retired Marine Gen. Most Americans likely missed the U.S.-led fight against the Islamic State, save for a few key moments, such as the liberation of Mosul and former President Donald Trump leaving the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces to fend for themselves against a Turkish onslaught. It is jampacked with action and adventure and is a compelling new portrait of British imperial hubris and folly.-Robbieĭegrade and Destroy: The Inside Story of the War Against the Islamic State, From Barack Obama to Donald Trump by Michael Gordon River of the Gods follows an East African and two British explorers as they embark on a yearslong quest to find the source of the Nile River. Millard has already proved herself to be a master of narrative nonfiction through her previous books, and her latest is no exception. River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile by Candice Millard
Here are our favorite picks, starting with new releases and working our way back through time.
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Your SitRep hosts have been working their little fingers to the bone culling through online book deliveries, little free libraries, and stacks of advance book copies at FP’s (now reopened) office to find you beach reads that are so riveting, you won’t even notice how sunburned you are. It’s mid-July, officially the dog days of summer, and that means it’s well past time to catch up on your reading for the year.
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