rvanstel, if you are really interested in history and geopilitics as your profile says, I'd recommend you the book Tragedy and Hope 101 by Plummer from this list. It is a short reader for a large treatise on the history of our time. It describes how the US and British diplomacy manipulated the world and directed the course of great historical events and wars. For example, it was their decision to support and install communist regime in China in order to oppose the USSR.