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  • False Prophets

    British Leaders' Fateful Fascination with the Middle East from Suez to Syria

    by Nigel Ashton ...
    Britain shaped the modern Middle East through the lines that it drew in the sand after the First World War and through the League of Nations mandates over the fledgling states that followed.Less than forty years later, the Suez crisis dealt a fatal blow to Britain's standing in the Middle East and is often represented as the final throes of British imperialism. However, as this insightful and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • King Hussein of Jordan: A Political Life

    by Nigel Ashton ...
    A towering figure in the history of Jordan, King Hussein reigned for nearly half a century, from his grandfather’s assassination in 1953 to his own death in 1999. In this fascinating biography, Nigel Ashton recounts the eventful life of the king who not only survived but flourished amidst crisis after crisis as ruler of a poor desert nation surrounded by powerful and hostile neighbors. Hussein ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Iran-Iraq War

    New International Perspectives

    Edited by Nigel Ashton, Bryan Gibson ...
    Series series Cold War History
    This volume offers a wide-ranging examination of the Iran–Iraq War (1980–88), featuring fresh regional and international perspectives derived from recently available new archival material.Three decades ago Iran and Iraq became embroiled in a devastating eight-year war which served to re-define the international relations of the Gulf region. The Iran–Iraq War stands as an anomaly in the Cold War ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    America's War in Afghanistan

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    “How we got to where we are in Afghanistan.”—Matthew Kaminski, Wall Street JournalThis definitive account of the American experience in Afghanistan “[zeroes] in on what went awry after America’s successful routing of the Taliban in late 2001” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) to explain how a growing sanctuary for insurgents in Pakistan and a collapsing government in Kabul catalyzed the Taliban ... Read more

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  • A Road Unforeseen

    Women Fight the Islamic State

    by Meredith Tax ...
    A secular feminist army courageously challenges the Islamic StateIn war-torn northern Syria, a democratic society—based on secularism, ethnic inclusiveness, and gender equality—has won significant victories against the Islamic State, or Daesh, with women on the front lines as fierce warriors and leaders.A Road Unforeseen recounts the dramatic, underreported history of the Rojava Kurds, whose all ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Subverting Syria: How CIA Contra Gangs and NGOs Manufacture, Mislabel and Market Mass Murder

    by Anthony Cartalucci ...
    An E-book to beat the bombing - Expose the Big Lie in time to stop the war. Syria's situation is truly serious, under ruthless attack by enemies within and without. The so-called Syrian uprising is actually a cynical US-engineered plot using mercenaries, wahhabi fanatics and corrupt NGO's. They are determined to smash this independent Arab socialist state where oil wealth is spent on human welfare ... Read more

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  • Burning Country

    Syrians in Revolution and War

    by Robin Yassin-Kassab, Leila Al-Shami ...
    *Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2017*In 2011, many Syrians took to the streets of Damascus to demand the overthrow of the government of Bashar al-Assad. Today, much of Syria has become a war zone where foreign journalists find it almost impossible to report on life in this devastated land.Burning Country explores the horrific and complicated reality of life in present-day Syria with ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Struggle for Egypt

    From Nasser to Tahrir Square

    by Steven A. Cook ...
    The recent revolution in Egypt has shaken the Arab world to its roots. The most populous Arab country and the historical center of Arab intellectual life, Egypt is a lynchpin of the US's Middle East strategy, receiving more aid than any nation except Israel. This is not the first time that the world and has turned its gaze to Egypt, however. A half century ago, Egypt under Nasser became the ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Why We're Losing the War on Terror

    by Paul Rogers ...
    The war on terror is a lost cause. As the war heads towards its second decade, American security policy is in disarray – the Iraq War is a disaster, Afghanistan is deeply insecure and the al-Qaida movement remains as potent as ever with new generations of leaders coming to the fore.Well over 100,000 civilians have died in Iraq and Afghanistan, many tens of thousands have been detained without ... Read more

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  • Yemen Endures

    Civil War, Saudi Adventurism and the Future of Arabia

    by Ginny Hill ...
    Why is Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, involved in a costly and merciless war against its mountainous southern neighbor Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East? When the Saudis attacked the hitherto obscure Houthi militia, which they believed had Iranian backing, to oust Yemen's government in 2015, they expected an easy victory. They appealed for Western help and bought ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Shadow Wars

    The Secret Struggle for the Middle East

    by Christopher Davidson ...
    For more than a century successive US and UK governments have sought to thwart nationalist, socialist and pro-democracy movements in the Middle East. Through the Cold War, the ‘War on Terror’ and the present era defined by the Islamic State, the Western powers have repeatedly manipulated the region’s most powerful actors to ensure the security of their own interests and, in doing so, have given ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Unthinkable

    Iran, the Bomb, and American Strategy

    by Kenneth Pollack ...
    The world’s foremost expert on Middle Eastern relations examines Iran’s current nuclear potential and charts America’s future course of action. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD