World Events


Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
All the Light We Cannot See
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
Argo: How the CIA & Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
The Kite Runner
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: How Churchill's Secret Warriors Set Europe Ablaze and Gave Birth to Modern Black Ops
The Tower of Babel
All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard-Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy
Elizabeth Harrower
It was such a relief to think about world affairs! Like coming out of solitary confinement.
Elizabeth Harrower, The Watch Tower

Jean Baudrillard
Few world events are emblematic of a life, and form part of one's biography on the same footing as, and sometimes more profoundly than, personal events. I pride myself on having cut a single swathe from the Wall Street Crash of 1929 to the collapse of the Twin Towers in September 2001. From the one event to the other, there is something like a meteoric short-cut through an advancing globalism, following out its fateful course with an inexorable logic, beyond wars and 'historical' events, beyond ...more
Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004

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