Skip to main content
Search Button
South Africa Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
See your RECOMMENDATIONS
See your RECOMMENDATIONS
See your RECOMMENDATIONS


Books narrated by Max Boot

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results
Skip side bar filters

  • Reagan

    His Life and Legend

    by Max Boot ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES • 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2024INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWashington Post • 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024Best Books of 2024: The New Yorker, The Economist, Chicago Public Library, The Auburn Citizen"This elegant biography of the 40th president stands out for its deep authority and nimble style.... A landmark work." —New York Times, "10 Best Books of 2024""Reagan: His Lif... ... Read more

    R653,65

  • Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present

    An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present

    by Max Boot ...
    As fitting for the twenty-first century as von Clausewitz’s On War was in its own time, Invisible Armies is a complete global history of guerrilla uprisings through the ages.Beginning with the first insurgencies in the ancient world—when Alexander the Great discovered that fleet nomads were harder to defeat than massive conventional armies—Max Boot, best-selling author and military advisor in Iraq ... Read more

    R333,37

  • War Made New

    Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today

    by Max Boot ...
    A monumental, groundbreaking work, now in paperback, that shows how technological and strategic revolutions have transformed the battlefieldCombining gripping narrative history with wide-ranging analysis, War Made New focuses on four "revolutions" in military affairs and describes how inventions ranging from gunpowder to GPS-guided air strikes have remade the field of battle—and shaped the rise ... Read more

    R100,84

  • The Road Not Taken

    by Max Boot ...
    'Judicious and absorbing' New York Times Book ReviewIn this biography of Edward Lansdale (1908-1987), the man said to be the model for Greene's The Quiet American, Max Boot demonstrates how Lansdale pioneered a 'hearts and minds' diplomacy, first in the Philippines, then in Vietnam. It was a visionary policy that, as Boot reveals, was ultimately crushed by America's giant military bureaucracy, ... Read more

    R306,92

  • The Savage Wars Of Peace

    Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power

    by Max Boot ...
    "Anyone who wants to understand why America has permanently entered a new era in international relations must read [this book] . . . Vividly written and thoroughly researched." -- Los Angeles TimesAmerica's "small wars," "imperial war," or, as the Pentagon now terms them, "low-intensity conflicts," have played an essential but little-appreciated role in its growth as a world power. Beginning with ... Read more

    R216,65

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Conquering The Pacific

    An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery

    by Andrés Reséndez ...
    The true story of a colorful and momentous 16th-century voyage, and of the Black mariner whose accomplishment was almost lost to history.It was a voyage of epic scope. In a Spanish plot to break Portugal's trade monopoly with the fabled Orient, four ships set sail from a hidden Mexican port. The smallest of them was guided by Black seaman Lope Martín, one of the most qualified pilots of the era. ... Read more

    R335,44 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The War for the Seas

    A Maritime History of World War II

    by Evan Mawdsley ...
    This "impeccable, myth-busting study" of WWII maritime operations sheds new light on the conflict with sharp analysis and an international perspective (The Sunday Times, UK).Command of the oceans was crucial to winning World War II. By the start of 1942 Nazi Germany had conquered mainland Europe, and Imperial Japan had overrun Southeast Asia and much of the Pacific. How could Britain and distant ... Read more

    R276,22 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • BraveTart

    Iconic American Desserts

    by Stella Parks ...
    **Winner of the 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award (Baking and Desserts)A New York Times bestseller and named a Best Baking Book of the Year by the Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, Bon Appétit, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Mother Jones, the Boston Globe, USA Today, Amazon, and more."The most groundbreaking book on baking in years. Full stop." —<em... ... Read more

    R508,40

  • The History of the Renaissance World

    From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople

    by Susan Wise Bauer ...
    A lively and fascinating narrative history about the birth of the modern world.Beginning in the heady days just after the First Crusade, this volume—the third in the series that began with The History of the Ancient World and The History of the Medieval World—chronicles the contradictions of a world in transition.Popes continue to preach crusade, but the hope of a Christian empire comes to a ... Read more

    R508,40

  • The Great Betrayal

    The Great Siege of Constantinople

    by Ernle Bradford ...
    An engrossing chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the fall of the Holy Roman Empire, from the bestselling author of Thermopylae .At the dawn of the thirteenth century, Constantinople stood as the bastion of Christianity in Eastern Europe. The capital city of the Byzantine Empire, it was a center of art, culture, and commerce that had commanded trading routes between Asia, Russia, and Europe for ... Read more

    R248,62 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lumumba Plot

    The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination

    by Stuart A. Reid ...
    **The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the U.S.-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the newly independent CongoA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The Economist, Financial Times**“This is one of the best books I have read in years . . . gripping, full of colorful characters ... Read more

    R289,21

  • How the World Ran Out of Everything

    Inside the Global Supply Chain

    by Peter S. Goodman ...
    By the New York Times’s Global Economics Correspondent, an extraordinary journey to understand the worldwide supply chain—exposing both the fascinating pathways of manufacturing and transportation that bring products to your doorstep, and the ruthless business logic that has left local communities at the mercy of a complex and fragile network for their basic necessities."A tale that will change ... Read more

    R427,10