Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts
The American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground
Written by Robert D. Kaplan

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3458-1 (1-4000-3458-2)

In Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts, acclaimed journalist Robert D. Kaplan continues his exploration of the American military's challenging and varied commitments around the world.

From protecting sea lanes, to providing disaster relief, to preparing for potential military confrontation with North Korea and Iran, Kaplan describes the astonishing, vital, and often... Read more >

Imperial Grunts
On the Ground with the American Military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and Beyond
Written by Robert D. Kaplan

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3457-4 (1-4000-3457-4)

In this landmark book, Robert D. Kaplan, veteran correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and author of Balkan Ghosts, shows how American imperialism and the Global War on Terrorism are implemented on the ground, mission by mission, in the most exotic landscapes around the world.

Given unprecedented access, Kaplan takes us from... Read more >

Mediterranean Winter
The Pleasures of History and Landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia, and the Peloponnese
Written by Robert D. Kaplan

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 8, 2005
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-71433-7 (0-375-71433-2)

In Mediterranean Winter, we journey with Robert Kaplan through the Mediterranean, basking in the glow of gypsum lamps and the lime-washed mosques of Tunisia; and to Jugurtha's Table, a giant mesa 45-miles southwest of the Algerian border. We travel to the 5th Century Doric Temple at Segesta, to Palermo, a "city... Read more >

The Secret Agent
A Simple Tale
Written by Joseph Conrad
Edited by Peter Mallios
Introduction by Robert D. Kaplan

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: December 14, 2004
Price: $10.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7305-1 (0-8129-7305-4)

In reexamining The Secret Agent in a post-9/11 world, Robert D. Kaplan praises Joseph Conrad’s “surgical insight into the mechanics of terrorism,” calling the book “a fine example of how a savvy novelist may detect the future long before a social scientist does.”

This intense 1907 thriller–a precursor to works by... Read more >

Taras Bulba

Written by Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Peter Constantine
Introduction by Robert D. Kaplan

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $11.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7119-4 (0-8129-7119-1)

This is the first new translation in forty years. Set sometime between the mid-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century, Taras Bulba is Gogol’s epic tale recounts both a bloody Cossack revolt against the Poles (led by the bold Taras Bulba of Ukrainian folk mythology) and the trials of Taras Bulba’s two sons.

As Robert... Read more >

Surrender or Starve
Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea
Written by Robert D. Kaplan

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 11, 2003
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3452-9 (1-4000-3452-3)

Robert D. Kaplan is one of our leading international journalists, someone who can explain the most complicated and volatile regions and show why they’re relevant to our world. In Surrender or Starve, Kaplan illuminates the fault lines in the Horn of Africa, which is emerging as a crucial region for America’s... Read more >

Warrior Politics
Why Leadership Requires a Pagan Ethos
Written by Robert D. Kaplan

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 7, 2003
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72627-9 (0-375-72627-6)

"One of the most thought-provoking and profound books that I have recently read. As readable as it is stimulating." —Henry Kissinger

In Warrior Politics, Kaplan mines the best of the lessons from past figures that include Sun-Tzu, Thucydides, Machiavelli, and Churchill for modern-day world leaders confronted with the complex challenges of today's... Read more >

Soldiers of God
With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Written by Robert D. Kaplan

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 27, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3025-5 (1-4000-3025-0)

World affairs expert and intrepid travel journalist Robert D. Kaplan braved the dangers of war-ravaged Afghanistan in the 1980s, living among the mujahidin—the “soldiers of god”—whose unwavering devotion to Islam fueled their mission to oust the formidable Soviet invaders. In Soldiers of God we follow Kaplan’s extraordinary journey and learn how... Read more >

Eastward to Tartary
Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus
Written by Robert D. Kaplan

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 23, 2001
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70576-2 (0-375-70576-7)

Kaplan takes us on a spellbinding journey into the heart of a volatile region, stretching from Hungary and Romania to the far shores of the oil-rich Caspian Sea. Through dramatic stories of unforgettable characters, Kaplan illuminates the tragic history of this unstable area that he describes as the new fault line... Read more >

The Coming Anarchy
Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War
Written by Robert D. Kaplan

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 13, 2001
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70759-9 (0-375-70759-X)

The end of the Cold War has not ushered in the global peace and prosperity that many had anticipated. Environmental degradation is causing the rampant spread of famine and disease, and a rising number of nations are being torn by violent wars of fierce tribalism and trenchant regionalism. Our newest democracies... Read more >

Lord Jim & Nostromo

Written by Joseph Conrad
Introduction by Robert D. Kaplan

Format: Trade Paperback, 816 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: April 18, 2000
Price: $29.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75489-0 (0-375-75489-X)

Originally published in 1900, Lord Jim is one of Joseph Conrad's most complex literary masterpieces. The story of a young sailor whose moment of cowardice haunts him for the rest of his life, Lord Jim explores Conrad's lifelong obsessions with the nature of guilt and the possibility of redemption.
        Nostromo is considered... Read more >

An Empire Wilderness
Travels into America's Future
Written by Robert D. Kaplan

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 7, 1999
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-77687-1 (0-679-77687-7)

With the same prescience and eye for telling detail that distinguished his bestselling Balkan Ghosts, Robert Kaplan now explores his native country, the United States of America. His starting point: the conviction that America is a country not in decline but in transition, slowly but inexorably shedding its identity as a... Read more >

The Ends of the Earth
From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy
Written by Robert D. Kaplan

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 28, 1997
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75123-6 (0-679-75123-8)

Author of Balkan Ghosts, Robert D. Kaplan now travels from West Africa to Southeast Asia to report on a world of disintegrating nation-states, warring nationalities, metastasizing populations, and dwindling resources. He emerges with a gritty tour de force of travel writing and political journalism. Whether he is walking through a shantytown... Read more >