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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The epic story of how America turned the world economy into a weapon, upending decades of globalization to confront a new authoritarian axis—Russia, China, and Iran. "Deftly written, Chokepoints is a compelling and dramatic narrative about the new shape of...

This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how events, people, and institutions are shaped by currents that sometimes reach back hundreds of years. The book covers the complex history of the diverse societies and economies of Iran against the background of dynastic changes, revolutions, civil wars, foreign occupation, and the rise of the Islamic Republic.

Bloomsbury presents The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan, read by Mike Grady. The No. 1 Sunday Times and international bestseller – a major reassessment of world history in light of the economic and political renaissance in the re-emerging east For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in...

The definitive history of Iran, from the ancient Persian empires to today. “Michael Axworthy’s deft untangling of the country’s history, from the advent of Zoroastrianism to the 1979 revolution, is a stunning achievement.” -Guardian Iran is a land of contradictions. It is an Islamic...

Brought to you by Penguin. A prescient, thoughtful and chilling examination of the current state of the world If there are lessons from history, now is the time when we need to heed them, so that we do not end up in another Great Power war because of the fatal combinations of jingoism, fear...

THE HORMUZ GAMBIT: When the World's Most Dangerous Waterway Became a Weapon A Novel by VB Darshan Twenty-one miles. One waterway. One decision that set the world on fire. February 28, 2026. American and Israeli aircraft open the skies over Tehran. The Supreme Leader is dead before dawn. Within hours, the Strait of Hormuz — the narrow corridor through which nearly a fifth of the world's oil flows daily — is mined, blockaded, and weaponized. Oil crosses a hundred dollars a barrel. Two of the world's three critical shipping chokepoints close simultaneously. The global economy, built on the...

struggling with a recession . . . European nations at risk of defaulting on their loans . . . A possible global financial crisis. It happened before, in the 1970s. Oil Kings is the story of how oil came to dominate U.S. domestic and international affairs. As Richard Nixon fought off Watergate...

A former member of the State Department's Policy Planning Council, Polk describes a country and a history misunderstood by many in the West. While Iranians chafe under the yolk of their current leaders, they also have bitter memories of generations of British, Russian, and American espionage, invasion, and dominance. There are important lessons to be learned from the past, and Polk teases them out of a long and rich history and shows that it is not just now, but for decades to come that an understanding of Iran will be essential to American safety and well-being. 

Informed by unparalleled access to still–secret documents, interviews with top field commanders, and a review of the military’s own internal after–action reports, Cobra II is the definitive chronicle of America’s invasion and occupation of Iraq—a conflict that could not be lost but one...

A major new history of revolutionary Iran, from the 1940s to the present Iran’s revolution in 1979 shook the world. The Pahlavi dynasty came crashing down, and the Islamic Republic rose in its place. But what led to this seismic event? How did the revolutionary movement gain such strength? And...

"I'm not going to start a war. I'm going to stop wars." That was the promise Donald Trump made to the American people. Millions of us believed him. We voted for a non-interventionist "America First" agenda, expecting an end to the era of world-historic catastrophes in the Middle East. Instead, we got Operation Epic Fury. In Mistake of the Century, the author of the maritime thriller Chokepoint returns to deliver a blistering, data-driven critique of the 2026 Iran War. This isn't a partisan hit piece—it is a cry for sanity from a former supporter who watched a "Candidate of Peace" ...

Bloomsbury presents The Silk Roads written and read by Peter Frankopan. Spellbinding ... a pitch-perfect treasure' LoveReading4Kids Set your sails east with this stunningly original new history of the world. Peter Frankopan, number one bestselling author and historian, explores the connections...

How three key figures in Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran built ruthless irregular warfare campaigns that are eroding American power. In Three Dangerous Men, defense expert Seth Jones argues that the US is woefully unprepared for the future of global competition. While America has focused on building...

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of that negotiation — told not through the lens of traditional diplomatic history, but through the framework that Trump himself used to understand and execute it: The Art of the Deal. Those principles, applied to a geopolitical context with nuclear-armed implications, produced what this book calls War as Deal-Closing: a methodology in which military force is not the endpoint of strategy but the punctuation in a negotiation — deployed not to destroy the adversary but to create the conditions under which a favorable agreement becomes possible....

The Islamic Republic of Iran has been a threat to its people, the Middle East, and America for forty-five years. It’s time for a change. Since 1979, the Khomeinist regime has oppressed its own population while waging wars and terrorism against Arabs, Israel, Middle East minorities, and the United States. It expanded its military power across the region and created an international terror web. American policy toward Tehran since Carter culminated, under Obama, in offering the Islamic Republic a deal of partnership, empowering the Ayatollahs even further. The Iranian people rose several ...

In the 19th century, the world was Europeanized. In the 20th century, it was Americanized. Now, in the 21st century, the world is being Asianized. The “Asian Century” is even bigger than you think. Far greater than just China, the new Asian system taking shape is a multi-civilizational order...

What happens when a democracy changes the subject at the exact moment accountability is closing in? Epic Distraction investigates the week America’s attention pivoted from mounting pressure over the Epstein files to military escalation with Iran—and asks what that shift revealed about war, media, money, and power. Beauregard Calhoun Bragg examines Operation Epic Fury not as a simple conspiracy, but as a case study in how modern crises function: threat narratives narrow debate, cable news rewards spectacle, Congress funds consequences after the fact, and debt-financed war allows ...

What happens when the world's most important waterway closes? Every day, seventeen million barrels of oil pass through a twenty-one-mile strip of water between Iran and Oman. It powers factories, fills fuel tanks, and feeds billions through the fertilizers that grow their food. It is called the Strait of Hormuz, and almost nobody talks about it - until it's too late. Hormuz Shutdown is a fast-paced geopolitical breakdown of the crisis the world is not prepared for. What would actually happen if Iran closed the Strait? Not in theory. Step by step, hour by hour, from the moment an oil tanker ...

Penguin Audio presents Has the West Lost It? by Kishore Mahbubani, read by Jonathan Keeble. The West's centuries-old status as the centre of global wealth and power is coming to an end. As the new powers - China and India from Asia and others from Africa and Latin America - rise to the top of...

In this rich, fascinating history, John Ghazvinian traces the complex story of the relations of these two powers back to the Persian Empire of the eighteenth century--the subject of great admiration of Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams--and an America seen by Iranians as an ideal to emulate...