The Secret Way to War
The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War's Buried History
Written by Mark Danner
Preface by Frank Rich

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: New York Review Books
On Sale: April 4, 2006
Price: $11.95

Winner, 2006 Carey McWilliams Award, given by the American Political Science Association

At the beginning of May 2005, just before the British elections, the London Times published the so-called Downing Street memo, the leaked secret minutes of a July 2002 meeting of senior British foreign policy and security officials. The memo suggested... Read more >

Torture and Truth
America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terrror
Written by Mark Danner

Format: Trade Paperback, 600 pages
Publisher: New York Review Books
On Sale: October 31, 2004
Price: $24.95

Includes the torture photographs in color and the full texts of the secret administration memos on torture and the investigative reports on the abuses at Abu Ghraib.

In the spring of 2004, graphic photographs of Iraqi prisoners being tortured by American soldiers in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison flashed around the world... Read more >

Defeat
Napoleon's Russian Campaign
Written by Philippe-Paul de Segur
Translated by J. David Townsend
Introduction by Mark Danner

Format: Trade Paperback, 200 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $17.95

In the summer of 1812 Napoleon gathered his fearsome Grande Armée, more than half a million strong, on the banks of the Niemen River. He was about to undertake the most daring of all his many campaigns: the invasion of Russia. Meeting only sporadic opposition and defeating it easily along the... Read more >