Grenadiers: The Story of Waffen SS General Kurt "Panzer" Meyer (Stackpole Military History)


Kurt Meyer - 2001
    Meyer saw intense combat across Europe. This work features his account, conveying the reality of war as well as the bravery of the young men he commanded.

George F. Kennan: An American Life


John Lewis Gaddis - 2011
    In the late 1940s, George F. Kennan—then a bright but, relatively obscure American diplomat—wrote the "long telegram" and the "X" article. These two documents laid out United States' strategy for "containing" the Soviet Union—a strategy which Kennan himself questioned in later years. Based on exclusive access to Kennan and his archives, this landmark history illuminates a life that both mirrored and shaped the century it spanned.Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Biography

The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky


Isaac Deutscher - 1965
    His extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible mark on the revolutionary consciousness. Yet there was once a danger that his life and influence would be relegated to the footnotes of history. Published over the course of ten years, beginning in 1954, Deutscher’s magisterial three-volume biography turned back the tide of Stalin’s propaganda, and has since been praised by everyone from Tony Blair to Graham Greene. In this definitive work, now reissued in a single volume, Trotsky’s true stature emerges as the most heroic, and ultimately tragic, character of the Russian Revolution.

The General: Charles De Gaulle And The France He Saved


Jonathan Fenby - 2010
    This is a magisterial, sweeping biography of one of the great leaders of the 20th century - General Charles De Gaulle.