An indispensable page-turning history of the Al Quaeda movement, by one of The New Yorker's best narrative journalists.

A young Englishman's account of serving as Deputy Governor of Maysan and Dhi Qar—two provinces in the Marsh Arab region of Southern Iraq—during the Paul Bremer era immediately after the U.S. invasion is an instant classic of colonial literature.

Riveting TV account of British history that makes the Battle of Hastings as exciting as Saving Private Ryan.

Warren Beatty's brilliant, romantic sweep about the journalist John Reed and the Bolshevik revolution in Russia.