Worldbuilder's Book Club 2023 - hosted by quartzen

Diplomacy, Military Conflict, and International Relations
Choose a book on the topic of international relations in peacetime or wartime, including topics such as diplomacy, military conflict, or colonialism contemporary or historical.
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Passport to Hell: The Story of James Douglas Stark, Bomber, Fifth Reinforcement, New Zealand Expeditionary Forces by Robyn Hyde

Passport to Hell: The Story of James Douglas Stark, Bomber, Fifth Reinforcement, New Zealand Expeditionary Forces

Robyn Hyde

320 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction biography classics historical literary slow-paced
Dark Waters: An Insider's Account of the Nr-1, the Cold War's Undercover Nuclear Sub by Lee Vyborny, Don Davis

Dark Waters: An Insider's Account of the Nr-1, the Cold War's Undercover Nuclear Sub

Lee Vyborny, Don Davis

missing duration info • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history science technology informative tense medium-paced
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

Iris Chang

360 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history dark informative sad slow-paced
The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA by Liza Mundy

The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

Liza Mundy

480 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history challenging informative inspiring medium-paced
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das

Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire

Nandini Das

440 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction historical
The Forever War by Dexter Filkins

The Forever War

Dexter Filkins

11 hours, 38 minutes • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative medium-paced
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder by David Grann

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder

David Grann

329 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime adventurous dark informative medium-paced
Tour of Duty: Samurai, Military Service in Edo, and the Culture of Early Modern Japan by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis

Tour of Duty: Samurai, Military Service in Edo, and the Culture of Early Modern Japan

Constantine Nomikos Vaporis

336 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
The King's Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road by Xin Wen

The King's Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road

Xin Wen

400 pages • missing pub info (editions)

dark mysterious tense medium-paced
They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate by James Verini

They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate

James Verini

304 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced