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  • How to Lose a Battle

    Foolish Plans and Great Military Blunders

    by Bill Fawcett ...
    Series Book 3 - How to Lose Series
    A remarkable compendium of the worst militarydecisions and the men who made themThe annals of history are littered with horribly bad military leaders. These combat incompetents found amazing ways to ensure their army's defeat. Whether it was a lack of proper planning, miscalculation, ego, bad luck, or just plain stupidity, certain wartime stratagems should never have left the drawing board. ... Read more

    S$ 16.88 SGD

  • The Dead Hand (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy

    by David Hoffman ...
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe first full account of how the Cold War arms race finally came to a close, this riveting narrative history sheds new light on the people who struggled to end this era of massive overkill, and examines the legacy of the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that remain a threat today.Drawing on memoirs, interviews in both Russia and the US, and classified ... Read more

    S$ 8.82 SGD

  • The Age of Hiroshima

    by Campbell Craig, Alex Wellerstein, Sean L. Malloy, David Holloway, Takuya Sasaki, Shinsuke Tomotsugu, Srinath Raghavan, Wakana Mukai, Matias Spektor, Holger Nehring, Kiichi Fujiwara, Avery Goldstein, Sonja D. Schmid, Shampa Biswas, Nina Tannenwald, Francis Gavin ...
    A multifaceted portrait of the Hiroshima bombing and its many legaciesOn August 6, 1945, in the waning days of World War II, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The city's destruction stands as a powerful symbol of nuclear annihilation, but it has also shaped how we think about war and peace, the past and the present, and science and ethics. The Age of ... Read more

    S$ 42.17 SGD

  • Nuclear War

    A Scenario

    by Annie Jacobsen ...
    The INSTANT New York Times bestsellerInstant Los Angeles Times **bestsellerFinalist, Dayton Literary Peace PrizeOne of NPR's Books We LoveOne of Newsweek Staffers' Favorite Books of the YearShortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize**“In Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen gives us a vivid picture of what could happen if our nuclear guardians fail…Terrif... ... Read more

    S$ 7.40 SGD

  • The Doctor of Hiroshima

    His heart-breaking and inspiring true life story

    by Dr. Michihiko Hachiya ...
    With what this poor woman had been through the sight of her crying tore at my heartstrings. What if something should happen to her; who would care for her little baby? To conceal the fear and terror in my heart I left her, trying to put up a cheerful front. But no one could conceal from her the ominous import of the dark spots that had appeared on her chest.***The Doctor of Hiroshima***is the ... Read more

    S$ 16.67 SGD

  • Hiroshima

    by John Hersey ...
    Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author John Hersey's seminal work of narrative nonfiction which has defined the way we think about nuclear warfare. “One of the great classics of the war" (The New Republic) that tells what happened in Hiroshima during World War II through the memories of the survivors of the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city."The perspective [Hiroshima] ... Read more

    S$ 7.40 SGD

  • Question 7

    The extraordinary and original Sunday Times bestseller

    by Richard Flanagan ...
    **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize**From one kiss comes a chain reaction – a masterpiece of memoir from the winner of the Baillie Gifford and the Booker prize‘Extraordinary’ Sarah Perry‘Masterpiece’ Colm Tóibín‘Wholly original. I absolutely loved it’ David Nicholls‘A brilliant, brilliant book’ James RebanksBy way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West’s... ... Read more

    S$ 16.12 SGD

  • Command and Control

    Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

    by Eric Schlosser ...
    **The Oscar-shortlisted documentary Command and Control, directed by Robert Kenner, finds its origins in Eric Schlosser's book and continues to explore the little-known history of the management and safety concerns of America's nuclear aresenal.“A devastatingly lucid and detailed new history of nuclear weapons in the U.S. Fascinating.” —Lev Grossman, TIME Magazine“Perilous and gripping . . . ... Read more

    S$ 13.40 SGD

  • 核戰末日：我們與世界毀滅的距離（電影暖身版）

    Nuclear War: A Scenario

    by 安妮．雅各布森, Annie Jacobsen, 鄭煥昇 ...
    ★ 影視版權由《沙丘》導演丹尼．維勒納夫、傳奇影業重金取得★ 亞馬遜評選年度最佳書籍，近5星滿分好評：驚恐，但必讀！★ 上市首週橫掃各大暢銷榜：《紐約時報》、《洛杉磯時報》、《星期日泰晤士報》、亞馬遜總榜★「執行長日記」podcast訪談，三個月逾600萬觀看人次本書揭露的訊息，直逼大眾「知的權力」的合法邊緣。普立茲獎決選記者訪談50餘位核戰關鍵人物，刻劃最接近真實的末日場景。「本書應是現代人的基本讀物，那些把人類存滅握在手中的政治人物與決策者，更應讀懂本書傳達的訊息。」──《富比士》▎一場警世的寓言戰爭，透視核武的現狀與政策，我們如何在壯大自己的同時，削弱了人類與末日的界線 ▎當北韓朝美國五角大廈發射了第一顆核彈，世界上大部分的文明就注定在72分鐘內毀滅，近六成的生靈將被盡數抹除。本書的唯一起始假設，便是北韓開了「第一槍」，接下來發生的... ... Read more

    S$ 15.88 SGD

  • Black Sun

    Based on a true story, the critically acclaimed Soviet thriller

    by Owen Matthews ...
    **'Outstanding' SUNDAY TIMES'A stunning debut thriller . . . utterly terrifying . . . absolutely riveting' DAILY MAIL'Fascinating . . . fearsome' FREDERICK FORSYTH'Enthralling' FINANCIAL TIMES'Thrilling . . . compelling' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIOREHidden deep within central Soviet Russia is a place that doesn't appear on any ... ... Read more

    S$ 15.14 SGD

  • The Children of Hiroshima

    The True Story Of How I Searched For My Family In The Ruins Of The City

    by Sadako Teiko Okuda ...
    The little boy did not cry or speak. He just stood there and stared at me intensely. With great effort I stood up and tested to see if I could walk with my injured foot. When I did, he came to stand even closer to me and, without saying a word, grabbed my little finger very tightly.Sadako Teiko Okuda was living in Osaki-shimo, an island off the mainland of Japan, when the bomb hit Hiroshima on the ... Read more

    S$ 13.83 SGD

  • Nuclear War

    The bestselling non-fiction thriller, shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize

    by Annie Jacobsen ...
    The Sunday Times bestselling edge-of-your-seat exploration of what would happen in the event of nuclear war, perfect for readers of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.Nuclear war begins with a blip on a radar screen.This is a minute-by-minute account of what comes next.It has to be read to be believed.'A stomach-clenching, multi-perspective, ticking-clock, ... Read more

    S$ 16.12 SGD

  • World War 1: A Complete History of WW1 and its Modern Impact

    by History Brought Alive ...
    Why World War 1 Wasn't Just a War—It was the Beginning of the Modern AgeIf you want to understand World War 1 without getting lost in academic jargon, overcomplicated timelines, or dry textbooks—this book is for you.World War I wasn't just a war between empires. It was a turning point for humanity.It reshaped borders, destroyed monarchies, introduced weapons the world had never seen, and left ... Read more

    S$ 3.82 SGD

  • Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb

    by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm ...
    Trinity, the debut graphic book by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, depicts the dramatic history of the race to build and the decision to drop the first atomic bomb in World War Two—with a focus on the brilliant, enigmatic scientist, J. Robert Oppenheimer."Succeeds as both a graphic primer and a philosophical meditation." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)This sweeping historical narrative traces the spark of ... Read more

    S$ 14.27 SGD

  • Revisiting South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Program

    by David Albright, Andrea Stricker ...
    How did South Africa obtain nuclear weapons? How did the apartheid government dismantle this intensely secret program?In 1989, South Africa made the momentous decision to abandon its nuclear weapons, making it the first and still the only country that has produced nuclear weapons and given them up. Over thirty years, the apartheid regime had created a remarkably sophisticated capability to build ... Read more

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  • The End Is Always Near

    Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses

    by Dan Carlin ...
    Now a New York Times Bestseller.The creator of the wildly popular award-winning podcast Hardcore History looks at moments of societal collapse and other apocalyptic events from the past as a way to frame the challenges of the future.Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will human technology or capabilities ever peak or ... Read more

    S$ 16.01 SGD

  • Bridge of Spies

    A True Story of the Cold War

    by Giles Whittell ...
    The “riveting, meticulously researched, and beautifully written” (Ben Macintyre, author of The Spy and the Traitor) true story chronicles the first and most legendary prisoner exchange of the Cold War, between East and West at Berlin’s Glienicke Bridge and Checkpoint Charlie“A marvelous saga of dangerous missions, helter-skelter innovation, and clandestine activity.”—The Wall Street JournalWho ... Read more

    S$ 7.40 SGD

  • Nuclear Reactions

    How Nuclear-Armed States Behave

    by Mark S. Bell ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    Nuclear Reactionsanalyzes how nuclear weapons change the calculations states make in their foreign policies, why they do so, and why nuclear weapons have such different effects on the foreign policies of different countries.Mark S. Bell argues that nuclear weapons are useful for more than deterrence. They are leveraged to pursue a wide range of goals in international politics, and the nations that ... Read more

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  • Licence Renewed

    A James Bond thriller

    by John Gardner ...
    Series Book 16 - James Bond
    'History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts' Ian FlemingIan Fleming's 007 returns in an original, authorised Bond thriller with a new introduction from Sunday Times bestselling author M J ArlidgeBond has been assigned to investigate one Dr. Anton Murik, a brilliant nuclear physicist who is thought to have been meeting with a terrorist known as ... Read more

    S$ 16.01 SGD

  • Road to Surrender

    Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II

    by Evan Thomas ...
    A riveting, immersive account of the agonizing decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan—a crucial turning point in World War II and geopolitical history—with you-are-there immediacy by the New York Times bestselling author of Ike’s Bluff and Sea of Thunder.“As Christopher Nolan’s movie Oppenheimer shows, the shockwaves reverberate still. The veteran biographer Evan Thomas now enters the ... Read more

    S$ 13.40 SGD

  • Rain of Ruin

    Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan

    by Richard Overy ...
    **A remarkable account of the terrible climax of the Second World War in AsiaA Telegraph Book of the Year 2025**'A short but quietly devastating book, in which Overy adds new perspectives to a subject that has often been approached from a narrowly American angle... Overy's book is a sombre reminder that the border between civilisation and savagery is wafer-thin.' - Philip Snow, Literary ReviewIn ... Read more

    S$ 18.96 SGD

  • Nuclear Folly

    A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

    by Serhii Plokhy ...
    ***Shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History*'An enthralling account of a pivotal moment in modern history. . . replete with startling revelations about the deception and mutual suspicion that brought the US and Soviet Union to the brink of Armageddon in October 1962' Martin Chilton, IndependentThe definitive new history of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the author of ... Read more

    S$ 23.97 SGD

  • The Abyss

    Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962

    by Max Hastings ...
    Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tense international events in modern history—the Cuban Missile Crisis—providing a people-focused narrative that explores the attitudes and conduct of Russians, Cubans, Americans, and a terrified world that followed each moment as it unfolded.In The Abyss, Max Hastings turns his focus to one of the most ... Read more

    S$ 21.46 SGD

  • The End is Always Near

    Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses

    by Dan Carlin ...
    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERDo tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will human technology ever peak or regress? And why, since the dawn of time, has it always seemed as though death and destruction are waiting just around the corner?Combining his trademark thrilling, expansive storytelling with rigorous history and thought ... Read more

    S$ 15.25 SGD