Good book and I am so glad I read it. The narrative covers the time frame of sometime just before  2020, when Joe Biden won the Presidency of the US, through 2020 when Trump lost the election (and his mind, I think) through 2024 when he won the presidency for reals. That era would include the latest Palestinian/Israeli war as well as the Russo-Ukraine conflict. This is all told by Bob Woodward, the 

War 
by Bob Woodward 
October 2024
Read by Robert Petkoff
Rating – 9.5 / history-biography 

The word “War” in the title could be referring to the Israel-Palestinian conflict which is still going on, or it could be the Russia-Ukrainian fighting of the same general time period.  Russia invaded Ukraine in February of 2022 and on October 7, 2023, Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group which holds power in some areas,  charged out of Gaza and onto Israeli lands and neighborhoods.  

The narrative starts in 1989 when Trump is being interviewed by Woodward about some- thing unstated, (to get his personality)but using interviews and news sources the book tells Woodward’s tale. It’s more the story of US foreign policy from both the presidencies of Donald Trump and Joe Biden with an emphasis on Biden.  And the “War” could be either one because neither of them is over yet.  And we don’t quite ever know where mots of the quoted sources are from because that’s the way Woodward has had to work for much of his career.  He gets to the reality but his sources don’t want to reveal themselves.  
There are a few maps if they help but there’s a whole gallery full of photos – mostly colored and glossy. Some of them give a real flavor of life in those times. 

This is a book I savored and it could certainly do with another read but …