Books

This site contains a list of all the books I'm reading throughout the year. Comments and reviews for each one will be compiled in a dedicated post at the end of each year.

  • “Dakhil - Inside Arabische Clans” by Mohamed A. Charour, Marcus Staiger
  • “D-Day” by Antony Beevor
  • “Das Reich: The March of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Through France, June 1944” by Max Hastings
  • “Japan’s Infamous Unit 731” by Hal Gold
  • “The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the U.S., and Iran s Global Ambitions” by Arash Azizi
  • “The Gatekeepers” by Dror Moreh
  • “The Islamic State in Africa: The Emergence, Evolution, and Future of the Next Jihadist Battlefront” by Jason Warner
  • “Tribe of Hackers Security Leaders: Tribal Knowledge from the best in Cybersecurity Leadership” by Marcus J. Carey, Jennifer Jin
  • “The End: Hitler’s Germany 1944 - 1945” by Ian Kershaw
  • “Meat Grinder: The Battles for the Rzhev Salient, 1942–43” by Prit Buttar
  • “A Murder in Marienburg”, “A Massacre in Marienburg” by David Bishop
  • “The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change” by Camille Fournier
  • “Spies and Lies” by Alex Joske
  • “Kilo” by Toby Muse
  • “Autistisch? Kann ich fliessend!” by Stephanie Meer-Walter
  • “Trügerische Ruhe” by Nicolas Stockhammer
  • “A State in Denial: British Collaboration with Loyalist Paramilitaries”
  • “The Weaponisation of Everything” by Mark Galeotti
  • “The Russian FSB - A Concise History of the Federal Security Service” by Kevin P. Riehle
  • “The Nature of Technology” by W. Brian Arthur
  • “Eichmann in Jerusalem” by Hannah Arendt
  • “Slow Productivity” by Cal Newport
  • “Ardennes” by Antony Beevor
  • “D-Day” by Antony Beevor
  • “Bandit Country” by Toby Harnden
  • “Abrechnung” by Peter Longerich
  • “Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944” by Antony Beevor
  • “Unrestricted Warfare: Two Air Force Senior Colonels on Scenarios for War and the Operational Art in an Era of Globalization” aka “Unrestricted Warfare: China’s Master Plan to Destroy America” by Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui
  • “Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security” by Sarah Chayes
  • “How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict” by Nina Jankowicz
  • “Look Away” by Jacob Kushner
  • “The Future of War: A History” by Lawrence Freedman
  • “Moneyland: Why Thieves And Crooks Now Rule The World And How To Take It Back” by Oliver Bullough
  • “Kleptopia” by Tom Burgis
  • “Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations: The Art of Analyzing Hacked and Leaked Data” by Micah Lee
  • “Dead Aid” by Dambisa Moyo
  • “Soldaten - Protokolle vom Kämpfen, Töten und Sterben” by Sönke Neitzel, Harald Welzer
  • “Das Schattenregime” by Christian Neef
  • “Say Nothing” by Patrick Radden Keefe
  • “Industry of Anonymity Inside the Business of Cybercrime”
  • “Russia’s Wars in Chechnya” by Mark Galeotti
  • “The Cold War: A World History” by Odd Arne Westad
  • “A Short History of Russia: From the Pagans to Putin” by Mark Galeotti
  • “The Darth Putin Guide to Being a Master Strategist: 13 Rules on How to Think, Act, Dress & Date Like a Master Strategist” by .. Darth Putin
  • "The Hundred Year War for Palestine" by Rashid Khalidi
  • "Blood in the Fields - Ten Years Inside California's Nuestra Familia Gang" by Julia Reynolds
  • "Criminals, Nazis, and Islamists - Competition for Power in Former Soviet Union Prisons" by Vera Mironova
  • "Power On The Inside - A Global History of Prison Gangs" by Mitchel P. Roth
  • "Rinsed" by Geoff White
  • "SPIES - The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West" by Calder Walton
  • "Stakeknife's Dirty War" by Richard O'Rawe
  • "UVF - Behind the Mask" by Aaron Edwards
  • "Eisenhorn: Magos" by Dan Abnett
  • "Ravenor", "Ravenor Returned", "Ravenor Rogue" by Dan Abnett
  • "Murder by Mail: A Global History of the Letter Bomb" by Mitchel P. Roth, Mahmut Cengiz
  • "Target Tehran" by Yonah Jeremy Bob, Ilan Evyatar
  • "For the Emperor", "Caves of Ice", "The Traitor's Hand" by Sandy Mitchell
  • "The New Nobility - The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB" by Andrei Soldatov, Irina Borogan
  • "There's a War Going On But No One Can See It"
  • "Der Falsche Rocker - Die Unglaubliche Geschichte eines Deutschen V-Mannes" by Udo Müller
  • "Harpoon - Inside The Cover War Against Terrorism's Money Masters" by Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, Samuel M. Katz
  • "Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercises - From Planning To Execution" from Robert Lelowski, John Hollenberger
  • "Cyber Mercenaries - The State, Hackers, and Power" by Tim Maurer
  • "Hybrid Warriors - Proxies, Freelancers and Moscow's Struggle for Ukraine" by Anna Arutunyan
  • "Jenseits von Putin - Russlands toxische Gesellschaft" by Gesine Dornblüth, Thomas Franke
  • "Gideon's Spies - The Secret History of the Mossad" by Gordon Thomas
  • "The Compatriots - The Russian Exiles Who Fought Against the Kremlin" by Andrei Soldatov, Irina Borogan
  • "Putins Angriff auf Deutschland - Desinformation, Propaganda, Cyberattacken" by Arndt Freytag von Loringhofen, Leon erlenhorts
  • "The Red Web - The Kremlin's Wars on the Internet" by Andrei Soldatov, Irina Borogan
  • "The Making of The Modern Middle East - A Personal History" by Jeremy Bowen
  • "Russian Intelligence - A Case-based Study of Russian Services and Missions Past and Present" by Kevin P. Riehle
  • "Active Measures - The Secret History of Disinformation & Political Warfare" by Thomas Rid
  • "The Iran Wars - Spy Games, Bank Battles, and the Secret Deals that Reshaped the Middle East" by Jay Solomon
  • "The Battle for Your Computer: Israel and the Growth of the Global Cyber-Security Industry" by Alon Arvatz, Eylon Levy
  • "Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem and Russia’s Remaking of the West" by Luke Harding
  • "Russia's War" by Jade McGlynn
  • "Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria" by Sam Dagher
  • "The Language of Cyber Attacks: A Rhetoric of Deception" by Aaron Mauro
  • "Russian Information Warfare: Assault on Democracies in the Cyber Wild West" by Bilyana Lilly