Yoysef Kerler's Abi gezunt ("As Long as You're Healthy") took the reader inside his remarkable life of persecution, exile, and safe haven in Israel.
MICHELA WRONG'S first book, which came out in 2000, took the reader on an absurd journey through the Congo under General Mobutu Sese Seko.
"In Fed We Trust," by David Wessel, took the reader behind the scenes in Washington, where politicians and regulators missed all the warning signs.
In possibly the best book ever written about the C.I.A, "The Man Who Kept the Secrets," Powers took the reader on a fascinating journey into the world of secret intelligence gathering and covert action.
In Coral: A Pessimist in Paradise (2007), Steve Jones took the reader on a journey into the history of coral via subjects as diverse as naturalist Charles Darwin, painter Paul Gauguin in Tahiti, atomic bomb testing, and Roman poet Ovid.
Most famously, he published a four-part series, "The Foamy Fields," in 1943, which took the reader inside the Tunisian skirmishes between the Americans and the Germans during the Second World War.
