House of War
The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power

This is a BIG BOOK, covering most of American military history from World War II on, and a bit of earlier history as well. The general theme here is that American foreign policy is to an unacceptable degree determined by the Pentagon and its associated institutions, the Military-industrial-political......more

Using the Pentagon as a unifying focal point, this book explores the history of the cold war from a perspective that generally asserts that the world was darn lucky to have survived its paranoia-fueled excesses. This book flies in the face of the common perception that since we survived the cold war......more

-La historia de un hombre, la de un edificio, la de sus habitantes y además, Historia.- Género. Ensayo. Lo que nos cuenta. Mezclando Historia, biografía y algo de periodismo, relato de la evolución de la visión político-militar de los diferentes responsables de la estrategia de los Estados Unidos de......more

I'd read Carroll's 'Constantine's Sword' previously. This book is quite different. Carroll tells the story of the Cold War, concentrating on the nuclear arms race, punctuating his account with personal asides describing his father's career in the Air Force and his own progression from ROTC to the Ca......more

Another fabulous non-fiction read here. Interesting take on the time period in history from when the pentagon was built. The author/narrator was recalling and researching on events surrounding the rise of the military and funnily enough, his own father and his 'military' career - so this was clearly......more