Books by Steve Coll
“The Achilles Trap is a rigorous, expertly controlled account of what Steve Coll calls the ‘march to disaster’—the US’s decades-long dealings with Saddam Hussein, characterized by fateful miscalculations and misunderstandings on both sides—a ‘cascade of errors’, as Coll puts it—and culminating in the catastrophically misjudged American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003″ Read more...
The Best Politics Books of 2024: The Orwell Prize for Political Writing
The Bin Ladens
by Steve Coll
Bin Laden had 53 siblings, none of whom went down the route that he went. This is a portrait of his family, many of whom took opposed approaches to life
Interviews where books by Steve Coll were recommended
The best books on Osama bin Laden, recommended by Peter Bergen
Many thought that 9/11 was the start of an Al-Qaeda assault on the West, but it turned out to be Bin Laden’s Pearl Harbor – a victory that led to strategic defeat – says Peter Bergen, one of the few reporters who met the Saudi-born militant.
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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
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Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
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Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence
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The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
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The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain
by Matthew Longo
The Best Politics Books of 2024: The Orwell Prize for Political Writing
The Best Politics Books of 2024: The Orwell Prize for Political Writing
The Orwell Prizes are the UK’s most prestigious prizes for writing about politics, awarded annually to books and articles that best meet George Orwell’s own ambition “to make political writing into an art.” The nonfiction books that made the 2024 shortlist ranged from evolution to political philosophy, from memoir to the Middle East.
