-Bruce Thornton, “The Indictment of the West”

Ian Baruma and Avishai Margalit, Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies

-Edward Said, Orientalism

-Francis Fukuyama, The End of History

-Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations

-Jaques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence: 1500-present, 500 years of Decline

-David Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations-1998-Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

-Jared Diamond, Germs, Guns, and Steel

-Angel Rabasa, et al, The Muslim World After 911

-Simon Reeve, The New Jackals (5 stars-reads like a novel-deals with 1993 World Trade Center bombing)

-Mark Juergenseger, Terror in the Mind of God

-Robin Wright, Sacred Rage

-Yossef Bodansky, bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America (4 stars)

-Peter Bergen, Holy War Inc. (about bin Laden)

-Laurie Myroie, The War Against America

-James Hoge, How Did This Happen?

-Ahmed Rashid, Taliban (5 stars)

-Peter Marsden, The Taliban

-Johns Cooley, Unholy Wars

-Karen Armstrong, Islam, A Short History

-Bernard Lewis, The Middle East; Cultures in Conflict: Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Age of Discovery; Islam and the West; The Muslim Discovery of Europe; What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East; The Emergence of Modern Turkey. (balance with views of Albert Hourani and Marshall Hodgeson)

-William Cleveland, A History of the Modern Middle East

-Susan Woodward, Balkan Tragedy

-Glenny, Micha, The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers, 1804-1999

-Richard Holbrooke, To End A War

-Brian Moynahan, Rasputin

-Enrique Remarque, All Quiet On the Western Front (WWI)

-Barbara Tuchman, Guns of August (WWI)

-John Keegen, The First World War

-Barbara Tuchman, The Zimmerman Telegram

-David Clay Large, Between Two Fires

-William Manchester, The Last Lion (Winston Churchill)

-Richard Weikart, From Darwin to Hitler

-Alan Clark, Barbarossa

-Wm Shirer, The Rise & Fall of the Third Reich

-Martin Grey, For Those I Loved (The Holocaust, awesome book)

-Elie Wiesel, Night

-Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men

-Daniel Goldhagen, Hitler's Willing Executioners

-David Wyman, The Abandonment of the Jews

-Herman Wouk, The Winds of War

-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb

-William Craig, The Fall of Japan

-Richard Frank, Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire

-John Dower, Embracing Defeat, Japan in the Wake of WWII

-Timothy Maga, Judgment at Tokyo, The Japanese War Crimes Trials

-Leon Uris, Exodus (Jewish migration to Israel in 1948)