Hiroshima – John Hersey
On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey’s journalistic masterpiece, tells what […]
Month: June 2017
The Other Side Of Silence: Voices From The Partition Of India – Urvashi Butalia (GA LIB)
The Partition of India in 1947 caused one of the great human convulsions of history. The statistics are staggering. Twelve million people were displaced; a […]
Untold Story 1946 Naval Mutiny: Last War of Independence – Ghanshyam Datt Sharma, 2015
A number of books have been written on the 1946 Royal Indian Navy Mutiny but the true story of this historic event remains untold with […]
All Quiet on the Western Front, Novel by Erich Maria Remarque, 1929, WW I
All Quiet on the Western Front (German: Im Westen nichts Neues, lit. ‘In the West Nothing New’) is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a […]
Cyber War – Richard A. Clarke and Robert Knake, 2010
Author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Against All Enemies, former presidential advisor and counter-terrorism expert Richard A. Clarke sounds a timely and chilling […]
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War – Fred Kaplan
The never-before- told story of the computer scientists and the NSA, Pentagon, and White House policymakers who invented and employ the wars of the present […]
Cyber War – Richard A. Clarke and Robert Knake, 2010
Author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Against All Enemies, former presidential advisor and counter-terrorism expert Richard A. Clarke sounds a timely and chilling […]
Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld – Jeffrey Carr, 2009
When the Stuxnet computer worm damaged the Iranian nuclear program in 2010, the public got a small glimpse into modern cyber warfare—without truly realizing the […]
Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon – Kim Zetter, 2014
Wired journalist Kim Zetter draws on her extensive sources and expertise to tell the story behind Stuxnet’s planning, execution, and discovery, covering its genesis in […]
War And Literature
“Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, […]