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Trade Paperback : $15.95 Buy	Gideon's Spies The Secret History of the Mossad Gordon Thomas St. Martin's Griffin Created in 1951 to ensure the future of an embattled Israel, the Mossad has been responsible for the most audacious and thrilling feats of espionage,...

Trade Paperback : $24.00 Buy	The Seventh Million The Israelis and the Holocaust Tom Segev; Translated by Haim Watzman Picador The Seventh Million is the first book to show the decisive impact of the Holocaust on the identity, ideology, and politics of Israel. Drawing on diaries,...

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The Two O'Clock War

The 1973 Yom Kippur Conflict and the Airlift That Saved Israel

Walter J. Boyne; Foreword by Fred Smith, CEO of FedEx Thomas Dunne Books

It's usually called the Yom Kippur War. Or sometimes the October War. The players that surround it are familiar: Sadat and Mubarak, Meir and Sharon, Nixon and...

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One Palestine, Complete

Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate

Tom Segev; Translated by Haim Watzman Picador

One Palestine, Complete explores the tumultuous period before the creation of the state of Israel. This was the time of the British Mandate, when Britain's...

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Trade Paperback : $22.00 Buy	A Peace to End All Peace The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East David Fromkin Holt Paperbacks The critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling account of how the modern Middle East came into being after World War I, and why it is in upheaval...

Trade Paperback : $21.00 Buy	1949 The First Israelis With a New Preface by the Author; Tom Segev; Translated by Arlen N. Weinstein Picador The founding of Israel in 1948--one of the seminal events of the century--offers a heroic narrative with few parallels in modern history. In 1949, a...

Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	Constantinople City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924 Phillip Mansel St. Martin's Griffin

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	Sacred Geography A Tale of Murder and Archeology in the Holy Land Edward Fox A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book Biblical archeology has for centuries been subject to the manipulations of adventurers, generals, and statesmen, all seeking to further their own aims. Now...

Trade Paperback : $33.00 Buy	The Gates of Gaza Israel's Road to Suez and Back, 1955-1957 Mordechai Bar-On Palgrave Macmillan The secret alliance between Israel, Britain, and France to destroy Nasser's rule in Egypt was a pivotal event in the history of the modern Middle East. The...

Trade Paperback : $19.99 Buy	War Without End Israelis, Palestinians, and the Struggle for a Promised Land Anton La Guardia St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books The struggles of the Israelis and Palestinians - with their terrible histories of disaster and redemption - command the obsessive attention of the world....

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The Yom Kippur War

And the Airlift Strike That Saved Israel

Walter J. Boyne St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books

It's usually called the Yom Kippur War. Or sometimes the October War. The players that surround it are familiar: Sadat and Mubarak, Meir and Sharon, Nixon and...

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1967

Israel, the War, and the Year that Transformed the Middle East

Tom Segev Picador

“A marvelous achievement . . . Anyone curious about the extraordinary six days of Arab-Israeli war will learn much from it.”—The Economist Tom Segev’s...

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The Man Who Would Be King

The First American in Afghanistan

Ben Macintyre Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

The riveting story that inspired Kipling's classic tale and a John Huston movie The true story of Josiah Harlan, a Pennsylvania Quaker and the first...

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Trade Paperback : $24.95 Buy	The Western Shores of Turkey Discovering the Aegean and Mediterranean Coasts John Freely Tauris Parke Paperbacks Resting on two continents, Turkey reflects and absorbs the cultures of both East and West and nowhere is this more evident than along its Aegean and...

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Squandered Victory

The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq

Larry Diamond Holt Paperbacks

“Chilling—and often scathing—detail . . . Should be read by anyone interested in understanding why the United States’ quick military victory has given way to...

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Kabul in Winter

Life Without Peace in Afghanistan

Ann Jones Picador

Soon after the bombs stopped falling on Kabul, award-winning journalist and women's rights activist Ann Jones set out for the shattered city. This is her...

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Trade Paperback : $16.99 Buy	Mullahs, Merchants, and Militants The Economic Collapse of the Arab World Stephen J. Glain St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books A thousand years ago, a vast Arab empire stretched from the Asian steppe across the Mediterranean to Spain, pioneering new technologies, sciences, art and...

Trade Paperback : $13.95 Buy	Defending Israel A Strategic Plan for Peace and Security Martin van Creveld St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books Israel is a tiny country. From tip to toe, it stretches 260 miles long but is only 60 miles at its widest point. Since the days of the British mandate, the...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Saudi Arabia Exposed Inside a Kingdom in Crisis John R. Bradley Palgrave Macmillan Saudi Arabia: land of oil, terrorism, Islamic fundamentalism, and a crucial American ally. John R. Bradley uniquely exposes the turmoil that is shaking the...

Trade Paperback : $24.95 Buy	Morocco The Traveller's Companion, Second Edition Edited by Margaret Bidwell and Robin Bidwell Tauris Parke Paperbacks This book brings together the writings of well-known travellers to Morocco and offers a fascinating picture of Moroccan culture through their eyes. Among those...

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Castles Made of Sand

A Century of Anglo-American Espionage and Intervention in the Middle East

Andre Gerolymatos Thomas Dunne Books

With roots in imperialism and the nineteenth-century mindset of the “Great Game,” Western nations have waged an intricate spy game this past century to...

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Gideon's Spies

The Secret History of the Mossad

Gordon Thomas St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books

Created in 1951 to ensure an embattled Israel’s future, the Mossad has been responsible for the most audacious and thrilling feats of espionage,...

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Yemen Chronicle

An Anthropology of War and Mediation

Steven C. Caton Hill and Wang

In 1979, Steven C. Caton went to a remote area of Yemen to do fieldwork on the famous oral poetry of its tribes. The recent hostage crisis in Iran made life...

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Trade Paperback : $16.95 Buy	Ariel Sharon An Intimate Portrait Uri Dan Palgrave Macmillan A groundbreaking eyewitness account of the key moments in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the perspective of one of its lead players, Ariel Sharon, as...

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