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The Fifth Act: America’s End in Afghanistan
By Elliot Ackerman
A painful, essential read from perhaps the only author who could’ve written it.
War and Me: A Memoir
By Faleeha Hassan; translated by William Hutchins
A heartfelt if impersonal recollection of life in Iraq.
Dark Voyage: An American Privateer’s War on Britain’s African Slave Trade
By Christian McBurney
The hunt for immoral yet lucrative cargo during the Revolutionary War.
Burning Man
By Frances Wilson
An unusual, challenging portrait of the once-canonical author.
Our Own Worst Enemy
By Tom Nichols
Burn it down or grow up and save it?
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators
By Martin Edwards
Whodunit fans should dive into this broad, if not deep, informative pool.
City on the Edge: Hong Kong under Chinese Rule
By Ho-fung Hung
Does a profitable past augur a bountiful future?
Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man’s Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust
By Jerry Stahl
A writer soothes his sadness at Auschwitz. Really.
