Fall Preview

Marching Toward Hell, by Michael Scheuer (Free Press, Feb.). A former CIA counterterrorism expert offers a fierce indictment of the war in Iraq.

Revolution of Hope, by Vicente Fox and Rob Allyn (Viking, Oct.). America, take down this wall. By the former president of Mexico.

Turning Back the Clock, by Umberto Eco (Harcourt, Nov.). The novelist and Nobel winner ruminates about our troubled times.

History

Churchill and the Jews, by Martin Gilbert (Henry Holt, Oct.). The prime minister's lifelong commitment to Jewish rights.

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, by David Halberstam (Hyperion, Sept.). Epic history from the late, lamented journalist.

The Day of Battle : The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944, by Rick Atkinson (Holt, Oct.). The sequel to his award-winning An Army at Dawn.

The FBI, by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones (Yale, Sept.). Splitting duties between the FBI and the CIA in 1947 was a big mistake, J. Edgar Hoover was not as important as you think, and other revelations.

The Great Experiment, by Strobe Talbott (S&S, Jan.). How mere tribes became great nations.

Red Moon Rising, by Matthew Brzezinski (Times, Sept.). The launch of Sputnik and the rise of the space age.

The Rest Is Noise, by Alex Ross (FSG, Oct.). A history of the 20th century through its remarkable music.

Return to Dragon Mountain, by Jonathan D. Spence (Viking, Sept.). The surprisingly modern era of Ming dynasty China, as seen through the life of a 17th-century intellectual.

The Siege of Mecca, by Yaroslav Trofimov (Doubleday, Sept.). The harrowing 1979 raid on Islam's holiest shrine may have signaled the birth of al-Qaeda.