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The Year in Books

January 2006    Each month (except for a summertime hiatus in June and July) a different member of our distinguished panel of book reviewers recommends the best books discussed in Foreign Affairs in the past year. This month, Lawrence Freedman gives his picks for the best books about the military, science, and technology.

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The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
George Packer
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005
Read January/February 2006 review
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Air Power: The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, From Kitty Hawk to Gulf War II
Stephen Budiansky
Viking, 2004
Read March/April 2005 review
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The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam
Martin Windrow
Da Capo, 2004
Read March/April 2005 review
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
Knopf, 2005
Read May/June 2005 review
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Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism
Robert Pape
Random House, 2005
Read September/October 2005 review
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International Governance of War-Torn Territories: Rule and Reconstruction
Richard Caplan
Oxford University Press, 2005
Read November/December 2005 review
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Soldier Dead: How We Recover, Identify, Bury, and Honor Our Military Fallen
Michael Sledge
Columbia University Press, 2005
Read September/October 2005 review

The Year in Books Index

2008: May | April | March | February

2007: November | October | September | August | April | March | February | January

2006: December | November | October | September | August | May | April | March | February | January

2005: December | November | October | September | August | May | April | March | February | January

2004: December | November | October | September | June | May | April | March | February | January

2003: December | November | October | August | July | June | May

 

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