Sean McMeekin Books in Order
Sean McMeekin has written 9 books, published between 2003 and 2024. The first book is The Red Millionaire: A Political Biography of Willy Münzenberg, Moscow’s Secret Propaganda Tsar in the West (2003) and the newest is To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 9
- Published
- 2003–2024
- Pages on record
- 3,452 in 7 of 9 books
- Reading time
- 58–86 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,452 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 9 titles with a page count on record.
Sean McMeekin writes modern political history. Nine books are catalogued between 2003 and 2024, starting with a political biography of the communist propagandist Willy Munzenberg and ending with To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism (2024). The run includes The Berlin-Baghdad Express (2010), The Russian Origins of the First World War (2011), July 1914: Countdown to War (2013), The Ottoman Endgame (2015), The Russian Revolution: A New History (2017) and Stalin's War (2021). Subjects record the Ottoman Empire from 1288 to 1918, the causes of the First World War, communism and propaganda. Seven books have a recorded length, median 480 pages.
How many Sean McMeekin books are there?
Sean McMeekin has 9 books, released between 2003 and 2024.
Sean McMeekin Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 9 Sean McMeekin books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1The Red Millionaire: A Political Biography of Willy Münzenberg, Moscow’s Secret Propaganda Tsar in the West2003 · 416 pages · confirmed 1/420034161/4
- 2History's Greatest Heist: The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks2008 · 302 pages · confirmed 1/420083021/4
- 3The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power2010 · 496 pages · confirmed 1/420104961/4
- 4The Russian Origins of the First World War2011 · 344 pages · confirmed 1/420113441/4
- 5July 1914: Countdown to War2013 · 480 pages · confirmed 1/420134801/4
- 6The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908 - 19232015 · 550 pages · confirmed 1/420155501/4
- 7The Russian Revolution: A New History2017 · confirmed 1/42017–1/4
- 8Stalin's War: A New History of World War II2021 · 864 pages · confirmed 1/420218641/4
- 9To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism2024 · confirmed 1/42024–1/4
Sean McMeekin books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Standalone books
9 books9 Sean McMeekin titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Sean McMeekin books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 9 Sean McMeekin books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Sean McMeekin
Start with The Red Millionaire: A Political Biography of Willy Münzenberg, Moscow’s Secret Propaganda Tsar in the West (2003), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Sean McMeekin book?
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism (2024) is the newest Sean McMeekin book released so far.
Is there a new Sean McMeekin book coming?
No next Sean McMeekin book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Sean McMeekin at a glance
- Still publishing
- Sean McMeekin published a book as recently as 2024.
- Release pace
- Sean McMeekin books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
- Length
- 3,452 pages across the 7 of 9 books with a recorded length, a median of 480 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Sean McMeekin books, 5 of 9, were published in the 2010s.
What the Sean McMeekin books are about
7 of the 9 Sean McMeekin books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: history is tagged on 4 of 7. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- History 4 of 7 books
- Politics and government 2 of 7 books
- Turkey, history, ottoman empire, 1288-1918 2 of 7 books
- World war, 1914-1918, causes 2 of 7 books