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Operation Thunderbolt Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport
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Author: Saul David Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The definitive account of one of the greatest Special Forces missions ever, the Raid of Entebbe, by acclaimed military...
MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman
Author: Ben Hubbard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A Financial Times Book Best Book of the Year 2020 A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year 2020...
Selected Poems
Author: Rumi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Elegant and rich Persian poetry Thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, mystic, scholar and founder of the order of the Whirling Dervishes, Jelaluddin...
India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765
Author: Richard M. Eaton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A magisterial history of the Indian subcontinent The Indian subcontinent might seem a self-contained world. Protected by vast...
Age of Transition: Byzantine Culture in the Islamic World
Author: Helen C. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 In 2012 the Metropolitan Museum of Art presented Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition, a groundbreaking exhibition that...
The History of Alexander
Author: Quintus Curtius Rufus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt, Syria, Persia and India,...
The Histories
Author: Herodotus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 The work that established the study of history in the western world, Herodotus's The Histories is a dazzling contemporary account...
God's Armies: Crusade and Jihad: Origins, History, Aftermath
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Author: Malcolm Lambert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Crusade and jihad are often reckoned to have represented two sides of the same coin: each resonated on the...
Shah of Shahs
Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the...
The Campaigns of Alexander
Author: Arrian Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The most important historical source on one of the most powerful leaders of the ancient world, Arrian's The Campaigns of...
A History of the Crusades II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East 1100-1187
Author: Steven Runciman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Runciman's great Crusades trilogy reissued in Penguin Modern Classics 'The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage...
Running the War in Iraq
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. Author: Jim Molan Format: Paperback...
Sunnis and Shi'A: A Political History
Author: Laurence Louer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic world When Mohammed died in 632...
The Road to Oxiana
Author: Robert Byron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 In 1933 Robert Byron began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran to Oxiana...
The Conference of the Birds
Author: Farid Attar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all...
Spiritual Verses
Author: The Jalaluddin Rumi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Begun in 1262 AD, Masnavi-ye Ma 'navi, or 'spiritual couplets', is thought to be the longest single-authored 'mystical?...
The Monk of Mokha
Author: Dave Eggers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 From San Francisco to Yemen, the gripping true story of a young American immigrant and his quest to resurrect...
A History of the Arab Peoples: Updated Edition
Author: Malise Ruthven Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 In a bestselling work of profound and lasting importance, the late Albert Hourani told the definitive history of the Arab peoples...
The Gamble: General Petraeus and the Untold Story of the American Surge in Iraq, 2006 - 2008
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The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs
Author: Marc David Baer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE A SUNDAY TIMES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 'Magnificent . . . Important and hugely...
People of the Book
Author: Zachary Karabell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 We live in a world polarized by the ongoing conflict between Muslims, Christians and Jews, but - in an extraordinary narrative...
The Reckoning: Death and Intrigue in the Promised Land
Author: Patrick Bishop Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 From the bestselling author of 'Fighter Boys', the true story of two ruthless adversaries and a wartime killing that shook the...
In the Company of Heroes: The Inspiring Stories of Medal of Honor Recipients from America's Longest Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
Author: James Kitfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 An award-winning military journalist tells the amazing stories of twenty-five soldiers who've won the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military...
The Fifth Mountain
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The Gamble: General Petraeus and the Untold Story of the American Surge in Iraq, 2006-2008
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Friendly Fire: How Israel became its own worst enemy
Author: Ami Ayalon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A highly decorated Israeli military officer, leader, and former director of the internal security service, Shin Bet, sees the...
The Trap: terrorism, heroism and everything in between
Author: Alan Gibbons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Terrorism, heroism and everything in between... THE TRAP is a teen thriller about espionage, a missing brother and the...
The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
Author: George Packer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 The Assassins' Gate is the main entrance to the Green Zone, the fortified enclave of Saddam's former palaces that now houses...
The Yellow Wind
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In Baghdad: A reporter's war
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