• The best books on Veterans - The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
  • The best books on Veterans - A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
  • The best books on Veterans - Station Island by Seamus Heaney
  • The best books on Veterans - Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey
  • The best books on Veterans - Empire City by Matt Gallagher

The best books on Veterans, recommended by Phil Klay

While many of us in the West commemorate the contribution of war veterans and the soldiers who lost their lives on our behalf, there’s also a tendency to see war as something distant and unconnected with our daily lives. Here Phil Klay, veteran of the US Marine Corps and award-winning novelist, recommends books that help bridge that gap—and capture the complicated relationship between soldiers and the societies on whose behalf they fight.

  • The best books on The Cold War - The Cold War: A World History by Odd Arne Westad
  • The best books on The Cold War - For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War by Melvyn P Leffler
  • The best books on The Cold War - Russia and the Idea of the West by Robert English
  • The best books on The Cold War - The Enigma of 1989: The USSR and the Liberation of Eastern Europe Jacques Lévesque (trans. Keith Martin)
  • The best books on The Cold War - Reagan and Gorbachev by Jack Matlock

The best books on The Cold War, recommended by Archie Brown

American military and economic superiority cannot explain why the Cold War came to an end in the late 1980s and early 1990s. According to the historian Archie Brown, you need to accept the primacy of politics and human agency both in the USSR and the West. He chooses five books to understand the Cold War and offers some broader reflections on the qualities of good political leadership—then and now.