Book Events for npsia

1970s

• The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East by Abraham Rabinovich (1973)

2008 Financial Meltdown

• Spin-free economics : a no-nonsense nonpartisan guide to today's global economic debates by Nariman Behravesh

2011 General Election

• The big shift : the seismic change in Canadian politics, business, and culture and what it means for our future by Darrell Jay Bricker

Afghan Wars

• The 9/11 wars by Jason Burke
• America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy by Ivo H. Daalder (2001-)
• Fifteen days : stories of bravery, friendship, life and death from inside the new Canadian Army by Christie Blatchford (2001-)

Afghanistan War

• First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan by Gary Schroen (2001 -)

Age of Sail

• The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649­-1815 by N. A. M. Rodger

Algerian War

• My Battle of Algiers: A Memoir by Ted Morgan (1962)

American Civil War

• The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy by Russell F. Weigley
• The encyclopedia of military history from 3500 B.C. to the present by R. Ernest Dupuy
• Grant's Secret Service: The Intelligence War from Belmont to Appomattox by William B. Feis (1865)
• Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime by Eliot Cohen (1865)

Anti-apartheid movement

• Long walk to freedom : the autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela

Apartheid

• Long walk to freedom : the autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism by James Piereson (1963-11-22)

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War by John W. Dower (1945)

Attack on Pearl Harbor

• War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War by John W. Dower (1941-12-07)

Battle of Dien Bien Phu

• Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam by Gareth Porter

Battle of Fallujah

• No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah by Bing West (2004)
• We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah by Patrick K. O'Donnell (2004)

Battle of Mirbat

• Storm Front by Rowland White (15-Mar-2012) Paperback by Rowland White

Battle of Mogadishu

• Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden (1993)

Battle of Okinawa

• Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think by Victor Hanson (1945)

Battle of Sphacteria

• The encyclopedia of military history from 3500 B.C. to the present by R. Ernest Dupuy

Battle of the Atlantic

• The Destruction of the Bismarck by David Bercuson (1945)

Battle of Trafalgar

• The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649­-1815 by N. A. M. Rodger (1805-10-21)

Bay of Pigs Invasion

• The Invisible Government by David Wise (1961)
• Decision for Disaster: Betrayal at the Bay of Pigs by Grayston Lynch (1961-04-19)

Bosnian War

• Statecraft: And How to Restore America's Standing in the World by Dennis Ross (1992-1995)

budget process

• Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations by James A. Thurber

Chinese Civil War

• States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China (Canto Classics) by Theda Skocpol (1950)

Chinese Revolution of 1911

• States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China (Canto Classics) by Theda Skocpol

Chinese Revolution of 1949

• States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China (Canto Classics) by Theda Skocpol

Civil war in Afghanistan

• Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll

Cold War

• Cold War Hot: Alternate Decisions of the Cold War by Peter Tsouras
• Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser
• Decision for Disaster: Betrayal at the Bay of Pigs by Grayston Lynch
• Essence of decision : explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis by Graham T. Allison
• The Fifty-Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War by Norman Friedman
• The Invisible Government by David Wise
• Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam by Gareth Porter
• Reagan's War: The Epic Story of his Forty Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism by Peter Schweizer
• Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century by Christian Caryl
• We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (Council on Foreign Relations Book) by John Lewis Gaddis
• The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the the Third World - Newly Revealed Secrets from the Mitrokhin Archive by Christopher Andrew

Creation of Turkey

• Ataturk by Andrew Mango
• Turkey Unveiled: A History of Modern Turkey by Hugh Pope

Crimean War

• Realism And Nationalism 1852-1871 by Robert C. Binkley (1856)

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Essence of decision : explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis by Graham T. Allison (1962)

Cultural Revolution

• Out of Mao's shadow : the struggle for the soul of a new China by Philip P. Pan

End of the World

• America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It by Mark Steyn

Fall of Bagdad

• The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the 1st Marine Division by Ray L. Smith (2003)

Fall of Singapore

• THE EMPORER'S CODES: Bletchley Park and the Breaking of Japan's Secret Ciphers by Michael Smith

First Congo War

• Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa by Jason Stearns (1996-1997)

French and Indian War

• White Devil: A True Story of War, Savagery, and Vengeance in Colonial America by Stephen Brumwell (1763)

French Revolution

• The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner
• States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China (Canto Classics) by Theda Skocpol (1789)

German Reunification

• Statecraft: And How to Restore America's Standing in the World by Dennis Ross (1990)

Great Depression

• The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes
• The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith
• The world in depression, 1929-1939 (History of the world economy in the twentieth century) by Charles Poor Kindleberger
• The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner

Greco-Persian Wars

• Makers of Ancient Strategy: From the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome by Victor Davis Hanson (449 BCE)

Gulf War

• The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today by Thomas E. Ricks (1991-02-28)

Gulf War, 1990-1991

• Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by Anthony Swofford
• Statecraft: And How to Restore America's Standing in the World by Dennis Ross

gun control

• Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations by James A. Thurber

Halifax Explosion

• The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why by Amanda Ripley (1917-12-06)

Hurricane Katrina

• The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why by Amanda Ripley (2005)

Indo-Pakistani War of 1965

• The Discovery of Global Warming: Revised and Expanded Edition (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine) by Spencer R. Weart

Industrial Revolution

• The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner

Interbellum

• The Pacific War, 1931-1945 : a critical perspective on Japan's role in World War II by Saburo Ienaga (1939)

Invasion of Iraq

• The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the 1st Marine Division by Ray L. Smith (2003)

Iran Hostage Crisis

• All Fall Down: America's Tragic Encounter With Iran by Gary Sick (1981)
• The Guts to Try by James H. Kyle (1981)

Iraq War

• The 9/11 wars by Jason Burke
• Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander's War in Iraq (Yale Library of Military History) by Peter R. Mansoor
• Fair Game: How a Top CIA Agent Was Betrayed by Her Own Government by Valerie Plame Wilson
• The threatening storm : the case for invading Iraq by Kenneth M. Pollack
• Generation Kill by Evan Wright (2009-02-27) by Evan Wright (2004)
• America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy by Ivo H. Daalder (2003-)
• In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat by Rick Atkinson (2003-)
• The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the 1st Marine Division by Ray L. Smith (2003-)
• No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah by Bing West (2003-)
• Statecraft: And How to Restore America's Standing in the World by Dennis Ross (2003-)
• We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah by Patrick K. O'Donnell (2003-)
• The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today by Thomas E. Ricks (2011-12-15)

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

• Statecraft: And How to Restore America's Standing in the World by Dennis Ross

Japanese-American Internment

• In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror by Michelle Malkin (1945)

Korean War

• The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today by Thomas E. Ricks (1953-07-27)

Napoleonic Wars

• The encyclopedia of military history from 3500 B.C. to the present by R. Ernest Dupuy
• The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649­-1815 by N. A. M. Rodger (1815)

Nuremberg War Crimes Trials

• The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945-1958: Atrocity, Law, and History by Hilary Earl (1946-10-01)

Oklahoma City Bombing

• Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed--and Why It Still Matters by Andrew Gumbel
• The Third Terrorist: The Middle East Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing by Jayna Davis

Operation Enduring Freedom

• First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan by Gary Schroen

Operation Medusa

• Lions of Kandahar: The Story of a Fight Against All Odds by Rusty Bradley

Operation Rock Avalanche

• War by Sebastian Junger

Origins of World War I

• The origins of the First World War by James Joll
• The War That Ended Peace: The Road To 1914 by Margaret MacMillan

Origins of World War II

• The Origins of the Second World War in Europe by P. M. H. Bell

Outing of CIA Agent

• Fair Game: How a Top CIA Agent Was Betrayed by Her Own Government by Valerie Plame Wilson

Persian Gulf War

• The threatening storm : the case for invading Iraq by Kenneth M. Pollack

Rivonia Trial

• Part of my soul by Winnie Mandela

Russian Civil War

• States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China (Canto Classics) by Theda Skocpol (1921)

Russian Revolution

• Spies & Commissars: Bolshevik Russia And The West by Robert Service
• The War That Ended Peace: The Road To 1914 by Margaret MacMillan
• States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China (Canto Classics) by Theda Skocpol (1917)

Rwandan Genocide

• Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe by Gérard Prunier
• Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa by Jason Stearns
• Shake hands with the devil : the failure of humanity in Rwanda by Romeo Dallaire (1994)

Second Congo War

• Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa by Jason Stearns (1998-2003)

Second Sino-Japanese War

• The Pacific War, 1931-1945 : a critical perspective on Japan's role in World War II by Saburo Ienaga (1945-09-09)

September 11 Attacks

• The 9/11 wars by Jason Burke
• America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy by Ivo H. Daalder
• First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan by Gary Schroen
• The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
• The rise and fall of Al-Qaeda by Fawaz A. Gerges
• 9-11 by Noam Chomsky (2001-09-11)
• Bush at War by Bob Woodward (2001-09-11)
• Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll (2001-9-11)
• Out of the Blue: A Narrative of September 11, 2001 by Richard Bernstein (2001-09-11)
• The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why by Amanda Ripley (2001-09-11)

Seven Years' War

• The influence of sea power upon history, 1660-1783 by A. T. Mahan

sinking of the Bismarck

• The Destruction of the Bismarck by David Bercuson (1941-05-27)

Soviet-Afghan War

• Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll (1989)

Stock Market Crash

• The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith (1929)

U.S. Embassy Bombings in Kenya and Tanzania

• The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright

USS Cole Bombing in Yemen

• The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright

Vietnam War

• Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming by Jonathan Shay M.D.
• On China by Henry Kissinger
• Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam by Gareth Porter
• The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today by Thomas E. Ricks (1975-04-30)
• America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 with Poster (4th Edition) by George C. Herring (1975)

War in Afghanistan

• In Their Own Words: Canadian Stories of Valour and Bravery from Afghanistan, 2001-2007
• Lions of Kandahar: The Story of a Fight Against All Odds by Rusty Bradley
• The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor by Jake Tapper
• War by Sebastian Junger

War on Terrorism

• Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives by Rodriguez Jr. Jose A
• Power, Terror, Peace, and War: America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk by Walter Russell Mead (2001-)

Washington Consensus

• The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy by Dani Rodrik

Watergate Scandal

• Silent Coup: The Removal of a President by Len Colodny

World War I

• The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power by Sean McMeekin
• The encyclopedia of military history from 3500 B.C. to the present by R. Ernest Dupuy
• The War That Ended Peace: The Road To 1914 by Margaret MacMillan
• Great Britain's Great War by Jeremy Paxman (1918)
• The origins of the First World War by James Joll (1918)

World War II

• THE EMPORER'S CODES: Bletchley Park and the Breaking of Japan's Secret Ciphers by Michael Smith
• The encyclopedia of military history from 3500 B.C. to the present by R. Ernest Dupuy
• German Trauma: Experiences And Reflections 1938 To 2001 (Allen Lane History) by Gitta Sereny
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu
• Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park by F. H. Hinsley (1945)
• The Destruction of the Bismarck by David Bercuson (1945)
• The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today by Thomas E. Ricks (1945)
• Hitler's Spies: German Military Intelligence in World War II by David Kahn (1945)
• In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror by Michelle Malkin (1945)
• The Pacific War, 1931-1945 : a critical perspective on Japan's role in World War II by Saburo Ienaga (1945)
• Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think by Victor Hanson (1945)
• The Valour and the Horror Revisited by David J. Bercuson (1945)
• War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War by John W. Dower (1945)
• The British Pacific Fleet: The Royal Navy's Most Powerful Strike Force by David Hobbs (1939-1945)

World War II, Magic

• THE EMPORER'S CODES: Bletchley Park and the Breaking of Japan's Secret Ciphers by Michael Smith

World War II, Pacific Theater

• THE EMPORER'S CODES: Bletchley Park and the Breaking of Japan's Secret Ciphers by Michael Smith
• In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror by Michelle Malkin (1945-09-02)
• The Pacific War, 1931-1945 : a critical perspective on Japan's role in World War II by Saburo Ienaga (1945-09-02)
• Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think by Victor Hanson (1945-09-02)
• War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War by John W. Dower (1945-09-02)

World War II, Ultra

• Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park by F. H. Hinsley

WTO Protests of 1999

• The WTO After Seattle by Jeffrey J. Schott

Yom Kippur War

• The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East by Abraham Rabinovich (1973)