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[–] Spaceape 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

If you like it vitriolic. Gore Vidal Armegeddon a series of essays focussed on the figures in the eighties.

I'm not much use on the dry historical political stuff I grew up reading all the stuff from my parents generation Churchills Second World War Rise and Fall of the Third Reich etc

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers Paul Kennedy was one I used to read for a sense of the long game in world political history