Random House
Title: The War that Ended Peace: The Road to 1914
Author: Margaret MacMillan
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The War That Ended Peace brings vividly to life the military leaders, politicians, diplomats, bankers, and the extended, interrelated family of crowned heads across Europe who failed to stop the descent into war: in Germany, the mercurial Kaiser Wilhelm II and the chief of the German general staff, Von Moltke the Younger; in Austria-Hungary, Emperor […]
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Title: Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
Author: Robert D. Kaplan
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On the world maps common in America, the Western Hemisphere lies front and center, while the Indian Ocean region all but disappears. This convention reveals the geopolitical focus of the now-departed twentieth century, but in the twenty-first century that focus will fundamentally change. In this pivotal examination of the countries known as “Monsoon Asia”—which include […]
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Author: Robert D. Kaplan
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In Mediterranean Winter, Robert D. Kaplan relives an austere, haunting journey he took as a youth through the off-season Mediterranean. The awnings are rolled up and the other tourists are gone, so the damp, cold weather takes him back to the 1950s and earlier—a golden, intensely personal age of tourism.
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Title: Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts: The American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground
Author: Robert D. Kaplan
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In this extraordinary book, Robert D. Kaplan lets readers experience up close the American military worldwide in the air, at sea, and on the ground: flying in a B-2 bomber, living on a nuclear submarine, and traveling with a Stryker brigade on missions around the world. Provided unprecedented access, Kaplan moves from destroyers off the […]
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Title: Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground
Author: Robert D. Kaplan
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In Imperial Grunts, Kaplan provides an unforgettable insider’s account not only of our current involvement in world affairs, but also of where America, including the culture of its officers and enlisted men, is headed. This is the rare book that has the potential to change the way readers view the men and women of the […]
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Title: The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War
Author: Robert D. Kaplan
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When “The Coming Anarchy” was published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1994, it was hailed as among the most important and influential articulations of the future of our planet, along with Francis Fukuyama’s “The End of History” and Samuel P. Huntington’s “The Clash of Civilizations.” Since then, Robert Kaplan’s anti-utopian vision of the fault lines […]
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Title: The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century
Author: Robert D. Kaplan
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The bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts takes readers on a journey through troubled regions where age-old cultural rivalries threaten to reshape the world of tomorrow. From West Africa to the fundamentalist enclaves of Egypt and Iran to the culturally explosive lands of Central Asia, the people who will remake our world tomorrow are profiled.
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Title: The Revenge of Geography : What the map tells us about coming conflicts and the battle against fate
Author: Robert D. Kaplan
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This book offers a new prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what may lie ahead for continents and countries around the world. The author builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the past to look back at critical points in history, and then to […]
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