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Trident K9 Warriors: My Tale from the Training Ground to the
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The New York Times bestseller featured on 60 Minutes , this is the first book to take readers inside the world of elite Navy SEAL dogs. As a Navy SEAL...
Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden
Despite the saturation of global media coverage, Osama bin Laden's own writings have been curiously absent from analysis of the "war on terror." Over the last ten years, bin Laden...
The Exile: The Stunning Inside Story of Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda
Startling and scandalous, this is an intimate insider's story of Osama bin Laden's retinue in the ten years after 9/11, a family in flight and at war. From September 11,...
War & Peace & War: Twenty years in Afghanistan
'Andrew North has a deep empathy and understanding for Afghanistan and has seen sides of it - both good and horrifying - that very few international observers have encountered' -...
KANDAK: Fighting with Afghans
From the author of the top ten bestseller The Junior Officers' Reading Club. When Patrick Hennessey returned home from Afghanistan, battle-worn, exhilarated, unsure if he'd see anything like it in...
The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages from
The thrilling retelling of a real-life hostage rescue mission, by SAS hero and million-selling author, Andy McNab. It is 2012 and in Northern Afghanistan, an international crisis has erupted. A...
Uzbekistan: Tashkent Bukhara Khiva and the Golden Road to Samarkand
From the blue-tiled splendor of Tamerlane's Samarkand to the holy city of Bukhara, which boasts a mosque for each day of the year, and beyond to the desert-girdled khanate of...
Against the Law
A special forces agent-turned-strip club bouncer with a side hustle as a hitman for the New York mob seeks out a deadly drug lord in the poppy fields of Afghanistan....
Zoya's Story: A Woman's Struggle for Freedom in Afghanistan
Zoya grew up in Kabul during the wars that ravaged Afghanistan. The daughter of activists, she was to lose both parents to the mujaheddin at an early age. She then...
The Snow Hare
'Wonderful . . . a vivid and endearing pictures of family life' The Times 'Heartbreaking and heartwarming in equal measure, this is an esquisite, compelling study of survival and emotional...
Rescuing Afghanistan
Afghanistan is the forgotten theatre of operations in the 'War on Terrorism'. Rapidly eclipsed by the war in Iraq, it nonetheless remains a key element in the struggle over the...
Boy Giant: Son of Gulliver
A stunning new story of hope, humanity and high-seas adventure for children and adults everywhere from Sir Michael Morpurgo, the nation's favourite storyteller and multi-million copy bestselling author of WAR...
The Long Way Home -- Overland From Mongolia to Madrid
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Susan Carmichael worked as a media advisor for an international project in Mongolia, training reporters and editors, and working with nomadic herders on the harsh Mongolian steppe. During her time...
An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan
The best travel writing debut in years-an instant classic.Struck by the iniquity of a big country invading a small one, Jason Elliot went to Afghanistan to see what the Russians...
The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA
Created in the aftermath of World War II, the Central Intelligence Agency relied on women even as it attempted to channel their talents and keep them down. Women sent cables,...
Behind the Burqa: Our Life in Afghanistan and How We Escaped to
Advance Praise for Behind the Burqa "Whenever and wherever adults make war, children die and women are subjected to fear and humiliation. This is true of Afghanistan too. Read this...
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...
Dead Men Risen: The Welsh Guards and the Real Story of Britain's War
WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2012. This is the gripping story of the men of the Welsh Guards and their bloody battle for survival in Afghanistan in 2009. Underequipped and...
Bullet Proof
FIVE TOURS OF DUTY. ONE HEROIC ACT. SECONDS FROM DEATH... AFGHANISTAN, FEBRUARY 2008- in an out-of-control, dangerous country torn apart by war, littered with Taliban guerrilla forces and thousands of...
The Afghans: Three lives through war, love and revolt - from the
'Asne Seierstad is the supreme non-fiction writer of her generation' Luke Harding 'As an exploration of the social fabric of Afghan life, this book takes some beating' Daily Telegraph 'An...
War at the Top of the World: The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir and
In War at the Top of the World, veteran foreign correspondent Eric Margolis presents a revelatory history of the complicated and volatile conflicts that entangle one of the most beautiful...
Retreat from Kabul: The Catastrophic British Defeat in Afghanistan,
Using research from contemporary letters, dispatches and journals, Patrick MacRory provides a compelling and gripping account of what became known as the First Afghan War, the culmination of which was...
Ladakh: The Culture and People of "Little Tibet"
Over the course of five years, photographer David Vaala embedded himself in Ladakh, a mountainous corner of Northwestern India, to capture "Little Tibet": its landscapes, culture, and people. More than...
Cables from Kabul: The Inside Story of the West's Afghanistan Campaign
A frank and honest memoir by Britain's former ambassador to Kabul which provides a unique, high-level insight into Western policy in Afghanistan. For three years, from 2007 until 2010, Sherard...
The Afghans: Three lives through war, love and revolt - from the
'Asne Seierstad is the supreme non-fiction writer of her generation' Luke Harding 'As an exploration of the social fabric of Afghan life, this book takes some beating' Daily Telegraph 'An...
The Man Who Loved Siberia
Siberia, to me, is a fairy-tale land. Fritz Dorries set out on his first trip to Eastern Siberia in 1877, when there were still blank spaces on maps of the...
The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages from the Taliban
The thrilling retelling of a real-life hostage rescue mission, by SAS hero and million-selling author, Andy McNab. It is 2012 and in Northern Afghanistan, an international crisis has erupted. A...
Boys in Zinc
Mesmerizing, haunting stories from the Soviet-Afghan War collected by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan...
The Lost Pianos of Siberia: A Sunday Times Paperback of 2021
A critically-acclaimed Sunday Times and Spectator book of 2020, and a major new literary voice. Siberia's history is traditionally one of exiles, bitter cold and suffering. Yet there is another...
Barbarians at the Wall: The First Nomadic Empire and the Making of
The untold story of the first nomadic empire and the making of China. 'Man does for the reader that most difficult of tasks- he conjures up an ancient people in...
Shadow of the Silk Road: (Vintage Voyages)
VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Colin Thurbon's beautiful prose unfolds along the Silk Road, unearthing a richly layered past...
Owls of the Eastern Ice: The Quest to Find and Save the World's
The Times Nature Book of the Year 2020 - A breathtaking portrait of Russia's remote far eastern forest, and of the world's most extraordinary owl The forests near to where...
The Road to Oxiana
New to Penguin Classics In 1933 Robert Byron began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran to Oxiana--the country of the Oxus, the ancient name...
Parwana: Recipes and stories from an Afghan kitchen
'Parwana stole my heart' - Diana Henry 'Parwana tells many stories ... it is a celebration: the recipes in it bulge with colour and flavour and life ...' - Nigella...
The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages from
The thrilling retelling of a real-life hostage rescue mission, by SAS hero and million-selling author, Andy McNab.It is 2012 and in Northern Afghanistan, an international crisis has erupted.A group of...
Radio Free Afghanistan: A Twenty-Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice (SIGNED)
An FT Best Book of the Year'Saad Mohseni is one of the most remarkable figures in modern Afghanistan - brave, entrepreneurial, with a knack for imagining the impossible - he...
Dark Music: The gripping new thriller from the author of THE GIRL IN (SIGNED)
A gripping new thriller from the bestselling author of THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER'S WEB"A classic murder mystery . . . one Holmes himself would have loved to solve" Independent"Fans...
The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages from
The thrilling retelling of a real-life hostage rescue mission, by SAS hero and million-selling author, Andy McNab.It is 2012 and in Northern Afghanistan, an international crisis has erupted.A group of...
Homeland Elegies: A Barack Obama Favourite Book
AN ECONOMIST, NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEAR'Outstanding... it is hard to convey the breadth and brilliance of this work' Observer'A beautiful novel about an American...
Farewell to The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul: the unmissable final
THE LITTLE COFFEE SHOP OF KABUL CAPTURED THE HEARTS OF MILLIONS READERS WORLDWIDE. NOW, THE COFFEE SHOP DOORS WELCOME YOU HOME ONE LAST TIME...Kabul, August 2021Sunny Tedder is back...
The Afghans: Three lives through war, love and revolt - from the
'Asne Seierstad is the supreme non-fiction writer of her generation' Luke Harding'As an exploration of the social fabric of Afghan life, this book takes some beating' Daily Telegraph'An astonishing feat...
The Muslim Question and Russian Imperial Governance
From the time of the Crimean War through the fall of the Tsar, the question of what to do about the Russian empire's large Muslim population was a highly contested...
Court and Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs
A sweeping survey-the first of its kind-of the artistic, cultural, and technological achievements of the vast Seljuq empire Rising from humble origins as Turkic tribesman, the powerful and culturally prolific...
The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages from
The thrilling retelling of a real-life hostage rescue mission, by SAS hero and million-selling author, Andy McNab.It is 2012 and in Northern Afghanistan, an international crisis has erupted.A group of...
The Cautious Traveller's Guide to The Wastelands: THE INSTANT SUNDAY
A breathtaking historical fantasy set onboard the Great Trans-Siberian Express 'I urge everybody to pick up a copy' STUART TURTON'Be warned - once you step into The Cautious Traveller's Guide...