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No Higher Honor: Saving the USS Samuel B. Roberts in the Persian Gulf
Like its World War II namesake of Leyte Gulf fame, USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG 58) was a small combatant built for escort duty. But its skipper imbued his brand-new...
Never Forgotten: The Search and Discovery of Israel's Lost Submarine
After the submarine DAKAR went down somewhere in the Mediterranean, Israel spent 31 years searching for the 69 officers and crew. Newly purchased from the Royal Navy, along with two...
The Vicar of Baghdad: Fighting for peace in the Middle East
"I live with a price on my head ...The kind of people that I spend my time engaging with are not usually very nice. On the whole nice people do...
Black Saturday: An Unfiltered Account of the October 7th Attack on
Fox News war correspondent Trey Yingst shares his gripping, firsthand account of the events of October 7, 2023, and the ensuing war, offering riveting insight and fresh facts that clarify...
Black Saturday: An Unfiltered Account of the October 7th Attack on
Fox News war correspondent Trey Yingst shares his gripping, firsthand account of the events of October 7, 2023, and the ensuing war, offering riveting insight and fresh facts that clarify...
Den of Spies: The Untold Story of Reagan, Carter and the Treason that
Argo meets Spotlight , as New York Times bestselling author Craig Unger reveals his thirty-year investigation into the secret collusion between Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign and Iran, raising urgent...
The Generals' War: The Inside Story of the First Gulf War
In 1991, while one war was being waged against Iraq, another was being fought amongst the American generals leading the operation. The Generals' War offers unvarnished portraits of the top...
Diary of a Crisis: Israel in Turmoil
Diary of a Crisis explores the past tumultuous and traumatic year in Israel-Palestine. The eminent historian Saul Friedlander began a diary of Israeli politics in January 2023 as the country...
Den of Spies: The Untold Story of Reagan, Carter and the Treason that
Argo meets Spotlight , as New York Times bestselling author Craig Unger reveals his thirty-year investigation into the secret collusion between Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign and Iran, raising urgent...
12 Strong Film Tie-in
Now a major motion picture from Jerry Bruckheimer starring Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon! "A thrilling action ride of a book" ( The New York Times Book Review )--the New...
Cosmopolitan Radicalism: The Visual Politics of Beirut's Global
Exploring the intersections of visual culture, design and politics in Beirut from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, this compelling interdisciplinary study critically examines a global conjuncture in Lebanon's history,...
Elusive Peace: How the Holy Land Defeated America
Ehud Barak's election as Prime Minister of Israel on 17th May 1999 and his determination to conclude a peace deal with the Palestinians inspired both Israeli voters and the international...
Authors Take Sides On Iraq
This book records the contemporary opinions and reactions of over 170 distinguished authors to two of the most contentious issues of our times, the Gulf War of 1991 and the...
America's Great Game: The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East
"An absorbing account of romantics enchanted by Kiplingesque myths and the Lawrence of Arabia legend, who cynically harboured the self-contradictory ambition of democratizing the Arab world and Iran while arrogating...
The Tale of a Wall: Reflections on Hope and Freedom
A Palestinian prisoner's memoir of thirty years' captivity, and a love letter to the wall that encircles and comforts him This is the story of a wall that somehow chose...
The World After Gaza
From the award-winning writer and thinker, an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza, its historical conditions, and moral and geopolitical ramifications Memory of the Holocaust, the ultimate atrocity of...
The Arabs: A History - Revised and Updated Edition
The extraordinary story of the Arab world, from defeat and colonization to independence and astonishing wealth. Eugene Rogan has written an authoritative new history of the Arabs in the modern...
The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution and the Making of the Modern
An exciting, iconoclastic history of the final years of the Ottoman Empire, published for the centenaries of many significant WW1 events The Ottoman Endgame is the first, and definitive, single-volume...
Shah of Shahs
With a new introduction by Christopher de Bellaigue Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the nature of revolution...
America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present
In the eighteenth century, Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams greatly admired the Persian Empire, while Iranians regarded America as an ideal their own government might emulate. Beginning there, how...
Two Scoops of Hooah!: The T-Wall Art of Kuwait and Iraq
Within the pages of this book you will see how cement structures, intended for barriers, are transformed into pictorial walls that identify military units and honour service members who gave...
The Military and Police Forces of the Gulf States: Volume 1 the
This book provides an overview of the military forces, and their antecedents, of the Arabian Gulf States. Most were British Protected States, resulting in their armed forces being heavily influenced...
Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean
WINNER OF THE 2024 SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARDIts name means 'centre of the world', and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has formed the shared horizon of innumerable cultures....
The Dissident Mullah: Ayatollah Montazeri and the Struggle for [...]
The Iranian cleric Ayatollah Montazeri (1922-2009) played an integral role in the founding of the Islamic Republic in the wake of the Iranian Revolution of 1978/9. Yet at the time...
Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East
'ROBERT FISK HAS BEEN REPORTING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST WITH INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDING...AND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE' NOAM CHOMSKYIn this final work from renowned journalist Robert Fisk, he picks up reporting...
Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East
Author: Robert FiskFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 820g, 672 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024'ROBERT FISK HAS BEEN REPORTING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST WITH INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDING...AND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE'...
The Future of Iraq: Dictatorship, Democracy, or Division
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
ISIS: A History
Author: Fawaz A. Gerges Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The Islamic State stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. However, its most striking and...