Don Oberdorfer has written a gripping narrative history of Korea's travails and triumphs over the past three decades. The Two Koreas places the tensions between North and South within a historical context, with a special emphasis on the involvement of outside powers.
Roger Lowenstein's The End of Wall Street unfurls a gripping chronicle of the 2008 financial collapse, drawing on 180 interviews with top government officials and Wall Street CEOs. Lowenstein looks to the roots of the crisis to reveal how America succumbed to the siren song of easy debt and speculative mortgages. Combining deep analysis with sizzling narrative, The End of Wall Street charts the…
It’s all here, everything from Bill Clinton and the BBC to those wretched brothers in arms Slobodan Milosevic and Robert Mugabe; from he who enjoyed a tipple or two Boris Yeltsin to Golden Balls Beckham; not forgetting ye aforementioned pasty king himself, John Prescott, the Millibands, John Major and ghastly Mail On Sunday. There’s so much in fact, one cannot help but wonder how the sultan…