🕊️ 1990s Bosnia

Wrenching accounts of the Bosnian War's sieges, ethnic cleansing, and the stubborn persistence of humanity amid Europe's worst atrocity since World War II.

Black Butterflies

by Priscilla Morris • 2022

An artist remains in Sarajevo as war descends, painting through the siege while her city burns.

4.21

14k+

🏚️ Siege Survival 🎨 Wartime Art 👩‍🎨 Artist Protagonist

Black Butterflies 90%

An artist remains in Sarajevo as war descends, painting through the siege while her city burns.

by Priscilla Morris 2022

4.21

14k+ ratings

🏚️ Siege Survival 🎨 Wartime Art 👩‍🎨 Artist Protagonist

The Quiet Librarian

by Allen Eskens • 2025

A librarian who survived a Bosnian massacre learns her friend's killer murdered her family too.

4.13

36k+

📖 Dual Timeline 🔪 Trauma And Revenge 🏠 Found Family

The Quiet Librarian 90%

A librarian who survived a Bosnian massacre learns her friend's killer murdered her family too.

by Allen Eskens 2025

4.13

36k+ ratings

📖 Dual Timeline 🔪 Trauma And Revenge 🏠 Found Family

Kate & Frida

by Kim Fay • 2025

A bookseller's reply to a Paris writer sparks a friendship by mail, tested by war.

3.97

5k+

📝 Epistolary Novel 👯 Female Friendship 📚 Books About Bookstores

Kate & Frida 89%

A bookseller's reply to a Paris writer sparks a friendship by mail, tested by war.

by Kim Fay 2025

3.97

5k+ ratings

📝 Epistolary Novel 👯 Female Friendship 📚 Books About Bookstores

Shadowplay

by Tim Marshall • 2003

Europe's last war wasn't decided by bombs but by spies, media spin, and a stolen election.

3.87

4k+

🏛️ Balkan History 🎙️ War Correspondence 📡 Propaganda And Media

Shadowplay 89%

Europe's last war wasn't decided by bombs but by spies, media spin, and a stolen election.

by Tim Marshall 2003

3.87

4k+ ratings

🏛️ Balkan History 🎙️ War Correspondence 📡 Propaganda And Media

The Trigger

by Tim Butcher • 2014

Everyone knows the assassin who sparked World War I, but almost everything they know is wrong.

3.81

4k+

🗺️ Balkan History 💣 World War One 🔫 Political Assassination

The Trigger 88%

Everyone knows the assassin who sparked World War I, but almost everything they know is wrong.

by Tim Butcher 2014

3.81

4k+ ratings

🗺️ Balkan History 💣 World War One 🔫 Political Assassination

The Bridge on the Drina

by Ivo Andrić • 1945

One Bosnian bridge. Four centuries. Empires fall, wars rage, and a town's fate is written in stone.

4.33

26k+

🏛️ Balkan History 👨‍👩‍👦 Generational Saga 🌉 Place As Protagonist

The Bridge on the Drina 88%

One Bosnian bridge. Four centuries. Empires fall, wars rage, and a town's fate is written in stone.

by Ivo Andrić 1945

4.33

26k+ ratings

🏛️ Balkan History 👨‍👩‍👦 Generational Saga 🌉 Place As Protagonist

Big Boys' Rules

by mark-urban • 1992

Britain's covert war on the IRA: informers, bugged weapons, ambushes the state called self-defense.

3.87

326

🇮🇪 The Troubles 🪖 Counterinsurgency 🕶️ Covert Warfare

Big Boys' Rules 87%

Britain's covert war on the IRA: informers, bugged weapons, ambushes the state called self-defense.

by mark-urban 1992

3.87

326 ratings

🇮🇪 The Troubles 🪖 Counterinsurgency 🕶️ Covert Warfare

Free

by Lea Ypi • 2021

Communism collapsed. Freedom arrived. The pyramid schemes began, and a nation tore itself apart.

4.31

26k+

🏛 Post-Communist Transition 🌍 Balkan History 👧 Coming Of Age Memoir

Free 87%

Communism collapsed. Freedom arrived. The pyramid schemes began, and a nation tore itself apart.

by Lea Ypi 2021

4.31

26k+ ratings

🏛 Post-Communist Transition 🌍 Balkan History 👧 Coming Of Age Memoir

1001 Nights in Iraq

by Shant Kenderian • 2005

How does a Chicago teen end up in Saddam's navy, dodging American bombs, praying for capture?

3.93

146

🏜️ Gulf War 🔗 Pow Memoirs 🌍 Identity In Exile

1001 Nights in Iraq 87%

How does a Chicago teen end up in Saddam's navy, dodging American bombs, praying for capture?

by Shant Kenderian 2005

3.93

146 ratings

🏜️ Gulf War 🔗 Pow Memoirs 🌍 Identity In Exile

The Miracle of the Kurds

by Stephen Mansfield • 2014

After surviving genocide, a forgotten people built the freest, most hopeful society in Iraq.

4.09

335

🏔️ Kurdish History 🏗️ Postwar Reconstruction 🕊️ Genocide And Recovery

The Miracle of the Kurds 87%

After surviving genocide, a forgotten people built the freest, most hopeful society in Iraq.

by Stephen Mansfield 2014

4.09

335 ratings

🏔️ Kurdish History 🏗️ Postwar Reconstruction 🕊️ Genocide And Recovery

The Idiot

by Elif Batuman • 2017

A Harvard freshman discovers that email can spark a love affair words alone cannot sustain.

3.64

110k+

🎓 Campus Novel 📚 Intellectual Attraction 💔 Unresolved Longing

The Idiot 86%

A Harvard freshman discovers that email can spark a love affair words alone cannot sustain.

by Elif Batuman 2017

3.64

110k+ ratings

🎓 Campus Novel 📚 Intellectual Attraction 💔 Unresolved Longing

When the Clock Broke

by John Ganz • 2024

David Duke, Ross Perot, and the early 1990s road from the Cold War to Trump.

4.07

5k+

🏛️ Political History 🐘 Right-Wing Movements ⚔️ Culture Wars

When the Clock Broke 86%

David Duke, Ross Perot, and the early 1990s road from the Cold War to Trump.

by John Ganz 2024

4.07

5k+ ratings

🏛️ Political History 🐘 Right-Wing Movements ⚔️ Culture Wars

Warsaw Boy

by Andrew Borowiec • 2014

He defied the Nazis at 15, fought in the Warsaw Uprising at 16, then survived the camps.

4.09

180

🇵🇱 Polish History ⚔️ Wwii Eastern Front 🕵️ Resistance Movements

Warsaw Boy 86%

He defied the Nazis at 15, fought in the Warsaw Uprising at 16, then survived the camps.

by Andrew Borowiec 2014

4.09

180 ratings

🇵🇱 Polish History ⚔️ Wwii Eastern Front 🕵️ Resistance Movements

Say Nothing

by Patrick Radden Keefe • 2018

The peace deal that asked everyone to forget, and the one murder that couldn't stay buried.

4.47

174k+

☘️ The Troubles 🇮🇪 Irish Republicanism 🕯️ The Disappeared

Say Nothing 86%

The peace deal that asked everyone to forget, and the one murder that couldn't stay buried.

by Patrick Radden Keefe 2018

4.47

174k+ ratings

☘️ The Troubles 🇮🇪 Irish Republicanism 🕯️ The Disappeared

Spies of the Balkans

by Alan Furst • 2010

1940 Salonika: a police fixer smuggles Jewish refugees to safety as Nazi spies close in.

3.94

7k+

🕵️ Espionage Noir 🚪 Escape Network 🛡️ Reluctant Hero

Spies of the Balkans 86%

1940 Salonika: a police fixer smuggles Jewish refugees to safety as Nazi spies close in.

by Alan Furst 2010

3.94

7k+ ratings

🕵️ Espionage Noir 🚪 Escape Network 🛡️ Reluctant Hero

Once Upon a Time in Russia

by Ben Mezrich • 2015

A mathematician, a protege, and a poisoned teacup: the making and unmaking of Russia's oligarchs.

3.86

5k+

📉 Post-Soviet Russia 💰 Oligarchs 🏭 Privatization Scandals

Once Upon a Time in Russia 86%

A mathematician, a protege, and a poisoned teacup: the making and unmaking of Russia's oligarchs.

by Ben Mezrich 2015

3.86

5k+ ratings

📉 Post-Soviet Russia 💰 Oligarchs 🏭 Privatization Scandals

Witness to Surrender

by Siddique Salik • 1977

East Pakistan's end: an insider's log of mutiny, guerrilla war, and the birth of Bangladesh.

3.86

246

🪖 Military Memoir 🌏 South Asian History ⚔️ Civil War

Witness to Surrender 86%

East Pakistan's end: an insider's log of mutiny, guerrilla war, and the birth of Bangladesh.

by Siddique Salik 1977

3.86

246 ratings

🪖 Military Memoir 🌏 South Asian History ⚔️ Civil War

The Small Boat of Great Sorrows

by Dan Fesperman • 2003

A Bosnian exile in Berlin goes undercover to trap a war criminal who knew his father.

4.01

808

🔍 Hunting War Criminals 🧬 Inherited Guilt 🕵️ Undercover Operation

The Small Boat of Great Sorrows 86%

A Bosnian exile in Berlin goes undercover to trap a war criminal who knew his father.

by Dan Fesperman 2003

4.01

808 ratings

🔍 Hunting War Criminals 🧬 Inherited Guilt 🕵️ Undercover Operation

Lajja

by Taslima Nasrin • 1993

A demolished mosque in India turns a Hindu family in Bangladesh into targets overnight.

3.55

6k+

🔥 Communal Violence 💢 Religious Extremism 🏚️ Family Under Siege

Lajja 86%

A demolished mosque in India turns a Hindu family in Bangladesh into targets overnight.

by Taslima Nasrin 1993

3.55

6k+ ratings

🔥 Communal Violence 💢 Religious Extremism 🏚️ Family Under Siege

Eastward to Tartary

by Robert D. Kaplan • 2001

From Budapest to the Caspian, a journey through lands where history refuses to end.

4.05

2k+

🗺️ Travel Writing 🌍 Geopolitical Analysis 🏚️ Post-Communist States

Eastward to Tartary 86%

From Budapest to the Caspian, a journey through lands where history refuses to end.

by Robert D. Kaplan 2001

4.05

2k+ ratings

🗺️ Travel Writing 🌍 Geopolitical Analysis 🏚️ Post-Communist States

Partisans

by Nicole Hemmer • 2022

Reagan's heirs built a media insurgency that ran on outrage and treated compromise as betrayal.

4.17

475

🏛️ American Conservatism 🔄 Political Realignment 📻 Conservative Media

Partisans 86%

Reagan's heirs built a media insurgency that ran on outrage and treated compromise as betrayal.

by Nicole Hemmer 2022

4.17

475 ratings

🏛️ American Conservatism 🔄 Political Realignment 📻 Conservative Media

Black Garden

by Thomas de Waal • 2003

One Soviet province started an ethnic war in 1988 by voting to secede. The stalemate remains.

4.25

835

⚔️ Caucasus Conflicts 🔥 Post-Soviet Wars 💔 Ethnic Conflict

Black Garden 86%

One Soviet province started an ethnic war in 1988 by voting to secede. The stalemate remains.

by Thomas de Waal 2003

4.25

835 ratings

⚔️ Caucasus Conflicts 🔥 Post-Soviet Wars 💔 Ethnic Conflict

Escape from Saddam

by Lewis Alsamari • 2007

He escaped the army, the wolves, and Saddam's Iraq. Then his family was arrested for it.

4.05

270

🏴 Life Under Dictatorship 🧳 Refugee Memoirs 🛂 Illegal Immigration

Escape from Saddam 86%

He escaped the army, the wolves, and Saddam's Iraq. Then his family was arrested for it.

by Lewis Alsamari 2007

4.05

270 ratings

🏴 Life Under Dictatorship 🧳 Refugee Memoirs 🛂 Illegal Immigration

The Drone Eats with Me

by Atef Abu Saif • 2015

War from the kitchen table: Gazan father's diary of feeding his family while the bombs fall.

4.40

452

🕊️ Palestinian Memoir 📓 War Diaries ⛓️ Occupation Literature

The Drone Eats with Me 86%

War from the kitchen table: Gazan father's diary of feeding his family while the bombs fall.

by Atef Abu Saif 2015

4.40

452 ratings

🕊️ Palestinian Memoir 📓 War Diaries ⛓️ Occupation Literature

An Ordinary Man

by Paul Rusesabagina • 2006

Rwanda, 1994: a hotel manager faced militias with nothing but a telephone and saved 1,200.

4.19

7k+

🇷🇼 Rwandan Genocide 🌍 African Memoir 🕊️ Genocide Survival

An Ordinary Man 86%

Rwanda, 1994: a hotel manager faced militias with nothing but a telephone and saved 1,200.

by Paul Rusesabagina 2006

4.19

7k+ ratings

🇷🇼 Rwandan Genocide 🌍 African Memoir 🕊️ Genocide Survival

Rebel Hearts

by Kevin Toolis • 1995

Colonial wounds, British dirty war, family bonds: inside the IRA, violence was an inheritance.

4.10

936

☘️ Irish Republicanism 💣 The Troubles ⚔️ Guerrilla Warfare

Rebel Hearts 86%

Colonial wounds, British dirty war, family bonds: inside the IRA, violence was an inheritance.

by Kevin Toolis 1995

4.10

936 ratings

☘️ Irish Republicanism 💣 The Troubles ⚔️ Guerrilla Warfare

Black Hawk Down

by Mark Bowden • 1999

Two helicopters shot down in Mogadishu turned an hour-long mission into an 18-hour street battle.

4.31

69k+

🏙️ Urban Warfare 🪖 Special Operations 📰 War Journalism

Black Hawk Down 86%

Two helicopters shot down in Mogadishu turned an hour-long mission into an 18-hour street battle.

by Mark Bowden 1999

4.31

69k+ ratings

🏙️ Urban Warfare 🪖 Special Operations 📰 War Journalism

Kremlin Rising

by Peter Baker • 2005

Putin didn't seize Russia. Russians handed it to him, desperate for order after a decade of chaos.

3.90

332

🇷🇺 Post-Soviet Russia 🔒 Authoritarian Consolidation 📺 State Propaganda

Kremlin Rising 86%

Putin didn't seize Russia. Russians handed it to him, desperate for order after a decade of chaos.

by Peter Baker 2005

3.90

332 ratings

🇷🇺 Post-Soviet Russia 🔒 Authoritarian Consolidation 📺 State Propaganda

The Pianist from Syria

by Aeham Ahmad • 2017

After his piano-in-the-rubble videos went viral, the hard part began: getting out alive.

4.27

2k+

🏚️ Syrian Civil War 🫒 Palestinian Diaspora 🎹 Art As Resistance

The Pianist from Syria 86%

After his piano-in-the-rubble videos went viral, the hard part began: getting out alive.

by Aeham Ahmad 2017

4.27

2k+ ratings

🏚️ Syrian Civil War 🫒 Palestinian Diaspora 🎹 Art As Resistance

The Oligarchs

by David E. Hoffman • 2002

When the Soviet state collapsed, a few insiders already knew the blueprints for plunder.

4.16

1k+

🪆 Post-Soviet Russia 🤝 Crony Capitalism 🇷🇺 Russian History

The Oligarchs 86%

When the Soviet state collapsed, a few insiders already knew the blueprints for plunder.

by David E. Hoffman 2002

4.16

1k+ ratings

🪆 Post-Soviet Russia 🤝 Crony Capitalism 🇷🇺 Russian History

The Finest Hotel in Kabul

by Lyse Doucet • 2025

One Kabul hotel, open since 1969: kings, communists, warlords, the Taliban. The staff never left.

4.15

3k+

🏛️ Afghan History 🕌 Middle East Politics 🔍 Microhistory

The Finest Hotel in Kabul 85%

One Kabul hotel, open since 1969: kings, communists, warlords, the Taliban. The staff never left.

by Lyse Doucet 2025

4.15

3k+ ratings

🏛️ Afghan History 🕌 Middle East Politics 🔍 Microhistory

The Boy on the Wooden Box

by Leon Leyson • 2013

Youngest on Schindler's list, he needed a wooden box just to reach the factory levers.

4.38

30k+

🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs 👦 Child Survivor 🧱 Ghetto Life

The Boy on the Wooden Box 85%

Youngest on Schindler's list, he needed a wooden box just to reach the factory levers.

by Leon Leyson 2013

4.38

30k+ ratings

🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs 👦 Child Survivor 🧱 Ghetto Life

Surrender or Starve

by Robert D. Kaplan • 1988

A Marxist regime weaponized famine in Ethiopia. The West's life-saving aid also financed the war.

3.67

474

🌍 Horn Of Africa 🏛️ African Politics 🍂 Political Famine

Surrender or Starve 85%

A Marxist regime weaponized famine in Ethiopia. The West's life-saving aid also financed the war.

by Robert D. Kaplan 1988

3.67

474 ratings

🌍 Horn Of Africa 🏛️ African Politics 🍂 Political Famine

Zeitoun

by Dave Eggers • 2009

A canoe made him a Katrina hero. Then the state labeled him a terrorist and he vanished.

4.05

80k+

🌀 Hurricane Katrina 🚫 Islamophobia ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction

Zeitoun 85%

A canoe made him a Katrina hero. Then the state labeled him a terrorist and he vanished.

by Dave Eggers 2009

4.05

80k+ ratings

🌀 Hurricane Katrina 🚫 Islamophobia ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction

Zoli

by Colum McCann • 2006

Symbol to the state, outcast to her people, a Roma poet walks into exile.

3.70

4k+

🏕️ Roma Culture ✍️ Poet Protagonist 🔴 Communist Era Europe

Zoli 85%

Symbol to the state, outcast to her people, a Roma poet walks into exile.

by Colum McCann 2006

3.70

4k+ ratings

🏕️ Roma Culture ✍️ Poet Protagonist 🔴 Communist Era Europe

Mother Tongue

by Demetria Martínez • 1990

An activist shelters a Salvadoran poet from death squads. Their love is a sanctuary under siege.

3.82

672

🖤 Chicana Literature 🖤 Latin American Diaspora 🖤 Intergenerational Trauma

Mother Tongue 85%

An activist shelters a Salvadoran poet from death squads. Their love is a sanctuary under siege.

by Demetria Martínez 1990

3.82

672 ratings

🖤 Chicana Literature 🖤 Latin American Diaspora 🖤 Intergenerational Trauma

Black Flags

by Joby Warrick • 2015

How a petty Jordanian criminal became the world's most hunted terrorist and the blueprint for ISIS.

4.32

17k+

🕌 Jihadist Movements 🔎 Terrorist Biography ☯️ Sectarian Conflict

Black Flags 85%

How a petty Jordanian criminal became the world's most hunted terrorist and the blueprint for ISIS.

by Joby Warrick 2015

4.32

17k+ ratings

🕌 Jihadist Movements 🔎 Terrorist Biography ☯️ Sectarian Conflict

Portrait of a Turkish Family

by Irfan Orga • 1950

Fire, famine, and madness: one Turkish family's slow destruction inside the collapse of an empire.

4.23

2k+

🏛️ Ottoman Decline 🇹🇷 Early Republic Turkey 🧠 Maternal Mental Health

Portrait of a Turkish Family 85%

Fire, famine, and madness: one Turkish family's slow destruction inside the collapse of an empire.

by Irfan Orga 1950

4.23

2k+ ratings

🏛️ Ottoman Decline 🇹🇷 Early Republic Turkey 🧠 Maternal Mental Health

The Last Warlord

by Brian Glyn Williams • 2013

America's first 9/11 victory relied on laser bombs and a brutal Uzbek warlord fighting on horseback.

4.30

120

🇦🇫 Afghan History 🎖️ Military Biography ⚔️ Guerrilla Warfare

The Last Warlord 85%

America's first 9/11 victory relied on laser bombs and a brutal Uzbek warlord fighting on horseback.

by Brian Glyn Williams 2013

4.30

120 ratings

🇦🇫 Afghan History 🎖️ Military Biography ⚔️ Guerrilla Warfare

A Handful of Hard Men

by Hannes Wessels • 2015

Fewer than 200 Rhodesian soldiers faced 10,000. They won every battle and still lost the war.

4.28

1k+

⚔️ Special Forces 🎯 Counter-Insurgency 🥷 Covert Operations

A Handful of Hard Men 85%

Fewer than 200 Rhodesian soldiers faced 10,000. They won every battle and still lost the war.

by Hannes Wessels 2015

4.28

1k+ ratings

⚔️ Special Forces 🎯 Counter-Insurgency 🥷 Covert Operations

In Europe's Shadow

by Robert D. Kaplan • 2016

A thirty-year journey through Romania uncovers the imperial ghosts that haunt Europe's new Cold War.

3.8

1k+

🏰 Romanian History 🥶 Cold War History 🗺️ Geopolitics

In Europe's Shadow 85%

A thirty-year journey through Romania uncovers the imperial ghosts that haunt Europe's new Cold War.

by Robert D. Kaplan 2016

3.8

1k+ ratings

🏰 Romanian History 🥶 Cold War History 🗺️ Geopolitics

Bloodlands

by Timothy Snyder • 2010

14 million murdered between Hitler and Stalin, a zone where each regime's massacres fed the other's.

4.39

20k+

🌍 Eastern Europe 🏭 Soviet History 🥀 Mass Starvation

Bloodlands 85%

14 million murdered between Hitler and Stalin, a zone where each regime's massacres fed the other's.

by Timothy Snyder 2010

4.39

20k+ ratings

🌍 Eastern Europe 🏭 Soviet History 🥀 Mass Starvation

The Sleepwalkers

by Christopher Clark • 2012

Why Europe's leaders, watching the storm gather in 1914, walked their nations straight into it.

4.24

14k+

🌍 Wwi Origins 📜 Diplomatic History 🤝 Alliance Politics

The Sleepwalkers 85%

Why Europe's leaders, watching the storm gather in 1914, walked their nations straight into it.

by Christopher Clark 2012

4.24

14k+ ratings

🌍 Wwi Origins 📜 Diplomatic History 🤝 Alliance Politics

De ce este România altfel?

by Lucian Boia • 2012

A country formed centuries late, borrowed Europe’s surface, ruled by myth: a diagnosis of Romania.

3.84

3k+

🏛️ Romanian History 🗳️ Balkan Politics 🏴 National Identity

De ce este România altfel? 85%

A country formed centuries late, borrowed Europe’s surface, ruled by myth: a diagnosis of Romania.

by Lucian Boia 2012

3.84

3k+ ratings

🏛️ Romanian History 🗳️ Balkan Politics 🏴 National Identity

Storia dell'Italia contemporanea 1943-2019

by Umberto Gentiloni Silveri • 2019

Moro, Mafia bombs, Tangentopoli: Italy's republic keeps dying but never gets buried.

3.09

📜 Italian History 🇪🇺 Postwar Europe 🌐 Cold War Politics

Storia dell'Italia contemporanea 1943-2019 Summary

Storia dell'Italia contemporanea 1943-2019 85%

Moro, Mafia bombs, Tangentopoli: Italy's republic keeps dying but never gets buried.

by Umberto Gentiloni Silveri 2019

3.09

46 ratings

📜 Italian History 🇪🇺 Postwar Europe 🌐 Cold War Politics

Broken April by Ismail Kadare

by Ismail Kadare • 1978

After a blood killing, a mountaineer has thirty days before the ancient code demands his life.

4.00

9k+

🩸 Blood Feud ⚰️ Doomed Protagonist 🥀 Impossible Longing

Broken April by Ismail Kadare 85%

After a blood killing, a mountaineer has thirty days before the ancient code demands his life.

by Ismail Kadare 1978

4.00

9k+ ratings

🩸 Blood Feud ⚰️ Doomed Protagonist 🥀 Impossible Longing

The Padre

by Jennifer O'Leary • 2023

Gaddafi's cash. A parking timer. A priest. These built the IRA's most reliable bombs.

4.02

455

⚔️ The Troubles 🇮🇪 Irish Republicanism 🔫 Arms Trafficking

The Padre 85%

Gaddafi's cash. A parking timer. A priest. These built the IRA's most reliable bombs.

by Jennifer O'Leary 2023

4.02

455 ratings

⚔️ The Troubles 🇮🇪 Irish Republicanism 🔫 Arms Trafficking

The Envoy

by Zalmay Khalilzad • 2016

An Afghan immigrant becomes America's envoy in the Muslim world, finding a crisis wars cannot solve.

3.64

163

🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy 🌍 Middle East Politics 📜 Diplomatic Memoir

The Envoy 85%

An Afghan immigrant becomes America's envoy in the Muslim world, finding a crisis wars cannot solve.

by Zalmay Khalilzad 2016

3.64

163 ratings

🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy 🌍 Middle East Politics 📜 Diplomatic Memoir

The Art of Political Murder

by Francisco Goldman • 2007

Bishop Gerardi proved the Army's guilt. Two days later he was dead, his garrison floor mopped.

4.15

1k+

🇬🇹 Guatemalan Civil War 🎯 Political Assassination 📋 Truth Commissions

The Art of Political Murder 85%

Bishop Gerardi proved the Army's guilt. Two days later he was dead, his garrison floor mopped.

by Francisco Goldman 2007

4.15

1k+ ratings

🇬🇹 Guatemalan Civil War 🎯 Political Assassination 📋 Truth Commissions

The Yank

by John Crawley • 2022

From US Marine to IRA gunrunner: Whitey Bulger opened doors. An informant slammed them shut.

4.07

200

🇮🇪 The Troubles ☘️ Irish Republicanism 🪖 Guerrilla Warfare

The Yank 85%

From US Marine to IRA gunrunner: Whitey Bulger opened doors. An informant slammed them shut.

by John Crawley 2022

4.07

200 ratings

🇮🇪 The Troubles ☘️ Irish Republicanism 🪖 Guerrilla Warfare

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