‎Middle east‎

‎SK. EDDY S. K.‎

‎The King is Dead. Studies in the Near Eastern Resistance to Hellenism 334-31 BC. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER‎

‎University of Nebraska Press Lincoln NE 1961. 8vo. First Edition with a large folding map as frontispiece and 8 plates on 4; original terracotta cloth gilt back a very good clean in the dustwrapper the latter with one short closed tear. Very scarce especially in this condition. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln NE, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 18347

‎DS. MARGOLIOUTH D. S.‎

‎Cairo Jerusalem and Damascus. Three Chief Cities of the Egyptian Sultans. With Illustrations in Colour by W S S Tyrwhitt and Additional Plates by Reginald Barratt.‎

‎Chatto & Windus 1907. 8vo. First Edition with a coloured frontispiece 57 fine coloured plates and 4 illustrations in the text; original decorative green cloth upper board blocked and lettered in gilt and colours gilt back gilt top covers mildly age-marked else a very good clean copy. Chatto & Windus, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 16927

‎JG. DUNCAN J. G.‎

‎Digging Up Biblical History. Recent Archaeology in Palestine and its Bearing on the Old Testament Historical Narratives. The Croall Lectures for 1928-1929 amplified.‎

‎SPCK 1931. 2 vols 8vo. First Edition with frontispieces and very numerous plates and illustrations in the text some light occasional and inoffensive spotting; original blue cloth gilt backs a remarkably bright clean copy. A comprehensive and detailed survey with a wealth of valuable period photographs. A prominent Egyptologist of his day Duncan worked with Flinders Petrie on Hyksos and the Israelite cities and excavated at Nippur in Babylonia. A lovely copy and uncommon in this condition. SPCK, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 17102

‎MA. MURRAY M. A.‎

‎Petra. The Rock City of Edom.‎

‎Blackie 1939. 8vo. First Edition with 32 plates and 2 full-page maps in the text; original red cloth gilt back covers and edges lightly dust-soiled else a very good clean copy. With personal bookplate and inscriptions on front free endpaper. Blackie, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 15804

‎Lady Hester STANHOPE and M. BRUCE‎

‎The Nun of Lebanon. The Love Affair of Lady Hester Stanhope and Michael Bruce. Their Newly Discovered Letters.‎

‎Collins 1951. 8vo. First Edition; cloth gilt back a very good clean copy in the dustwrapper the latter lightly frayed and creased at edges Collins, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 14814

‎BRITISH MUSUEM‎

‎A General Introductory Guide to the Egyptian Galleries in the British Museum. New Edition Revised and Enlarged. Preface by H.R. Hall.‎

‎Trustees of the British Museum 1930. 8vo. First Edition thus with 233 photographs facsimiles illustrations and maps in the text; original printed boards upper board and backstrip lettered in black a remarkably bright clean copy. Budge then Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities compiled his original guide in 1909 since which time it has been several times revised and updated. A lovely copy of an extensive edition. Trustees of the British Museum, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 14346

‎CL. WOOLLEY C. L.‎

‎Antiquities of Ur. An Introduction to the Seventh Temporary Exhibition of the Joint Expedition of the British Museum and of the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania to Mesopotamia.‎

‎For the British Museum by University Press Oxford 1929. 8vo. First Edition with a plan as frontispiece and 4 plates some very light spotting; original printed wrappers wire-stitched as issued a very good clean copy. Woolley was director of the joint expedition. [For the] British Museum [by] University Press, Oxford, unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 12793

‎J. TALLIS. J. RAPKIN‎

‎Map of Arabia. Facsimile re-issue.‎

‎Felix Rosensteil's Widow & Son for Trident International n.d. c. 1985. Steel-engraved map on ivory stock measuring 12. 25 x 15.5 ins approx. 31.25 x 39.0 cms with engraved surface 8.75 x 11.75 ins approx. 22.0 x 30.0 cms coloured in outline; four coloured vignettes of Arab Women Arab Men with horse Camel and Palm and Mount Sinai illustrations by H. Warren; engraving by J. Rogers; decorative scroll frame incorporating title cartouche a fine copy. Mounted ready for framing in double card mount ivory over blue with gilt frame border. Rapkin's map for Tallis was first issued c. 1856 and contains significantly more detail that that produced for the 'Illustrated Atlas' of 1851. Areas covered include Babylon Basra Cairo Jerusalem Oman Persian Gulf Red Sea and Suez. This high-quality facsimile accurately reflects thetones of the contemporary hand colouring and makes a most attractive map at a fraction of the cost of the original. Felix Rosensteil's Widow & Son for Trident International, unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 5992

‎LAWRENCE T. E‎

‎Seven Pillars Of Wisdom: A Triumph‎

‎Anchor Books New York: 1991. Softcover. Good condition. Some slight staining. Lawrence's account of the campaign in Arabia as the Arabs rose against the Turks with British assistance during World War I. Includes an Index. "This is an amazing book - amazing in the story that it tells but amazing too that it could ever have been written at all." - The New York Times Anchor Books, New York: 1991 paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 94382X1

‎Forbes Rosita‎

‎Forbidden Road Kabul to Samarkand‎

‎New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc. Very Good. 1937. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean bright condition. The spine ends and corners have some beginning bumping and rubbing. There are a couple of small spots of discoloration to the front cover. The text pages are clean and bright. "Rosita Forbes n�e Joan Rosita Torr 16 January 1890 � 30 June 1967 was an English travel writer and explorer. In 1920-21 she was the first European woman to visit the Kufra Oasis in Libya together with the Egyptian explorer Ahmed Hassanein in a period when this was closed to westerners." "The Silk Road or Silk Route was an ancient network of trade routes that were for centuries central to cultural interaction originally through regions of Eurasia connecting the East and West and stretching from the Korean peninsula and Japan to the Mediterranean Sea. The Silk Road concept refers to both the terrestrial and the maritime routes connecting Asia with Africa the Middle East and southern Europe. The overland Steppe route stretching through the Eurasian steppe is considered the ancestor to the Silk Roads." . E. P. Dutton & Co. , Inc. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : A36069

‎VOGLER GARY‎

‎Iraq And The Politics Of Oil: An Insider's Perspective‎

‎University Press of Kansas Lawrence: 2017. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Was the Iraq war really about oil As a senior oil advisor for the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance ORHA and briefly as minister of oil Gary Vogler thought he knew. But while doing research for a book about his experience in Iraq Vogler discovered that what he knew was not the whole story�or even the true story. The Iraq war did have an oil agenda underlying it one that Vogler had previously denied. This book is his attempt to set the record straight. Iraq and the Politics of Oil is a fascinating behind-the-scenes account of the role of the US government in the Iraqi oil sector since 2003. Vogler describes the prewar oil planning and the important decisions made during hostilities to get Iraqi oil flowing several months ahead of schedule. He reveals how amid the instability of 2006 largely fueled by the arrogance of early US decisions the fixing of the Bayji Refinery contributed significantly to the success of the oil sector in the Sunni part of northern Iraq during and after the surge. Vogler gives us an expert insider's view of the largest oilfield auctions in the history of the international oil industry and his account shows how US Forces' focus on a single Iraqi point of failure in 2007 was a primary factor in the record productions and exports of 2012 through 2017. But under the successes so deftly chronicled here a darker political narrative finally emerges one that reaches back to the decision to go to war with Iraq. Uncovering it Vogler revises our understanding of what we were doing in Iraq even as he gives us a critical close-up view of that fraught enterprise. Gary Vogler is president of Howitzer Consulting LLC. From December 2006 to September 2011 he was a senior oil consultant for US Forces in Iraq and before that he served as deputy senior oil advisor CPA for Baghdad and as senior oil advisor ORHA for the Pentagon Kuwait and Baghdad. Vogler a former US Army officer has also worked in management positions at ExxonMobil and Mobil Oil Corporations for over two decades. "After five months of Pentagon planning and six years of implementation in Iraq Gary Vogler discovered the secret oil agenda that sent the United States to war in the Middle East. His revealing and compelling narrative will both surprise and anger many Americans about neoconservative greed dishonesty and treachery. Iraq and the Politics of Oil tells the truth�and the truth about this grave historical blunder is long overdue."�Donald T. Phillipsauthor of Lincoln on Leadership for Today "Mr. Vogler's first hand account of his years working to rebuild the Iraqi oil sector is a must-read for students of post-conflict reconstruction. It demonstrates how even with advanced planning by top industry experts this crucial sector still faced unanticipated bureaucratic infighting political interference Congressional budget constraints and deteriorating security. Mr. Vogler describes in intimate detail how a remarkable group of dedicated Iraqis and Americans came together to try to overcome these challenges providing valuable lessons for the future." �Ambassador Robin Raphel former Deputy Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence: 2017 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 90761X1

‎Cassels Lavender‎

‎The Struggle For The Ottoman Empire 1717-1740‎

‎New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean bright condition. The spine ends have some beginning bumping. The price clipped dust jacket has several small edge tears nicks and some rubbing to the spine ends. "With Constantinople as its capital and control of lands around the Mediterranean basin the Ottoman Empire was at the centre of interactions between the Eastern and Western worlds for six centuries. While the empire was once thought to have entered a period of decline following the death of Suleiman the Magnificent this view is no longer supported by the majority of academic historians. The empire continued to maintain a flexible and strong economy society and military throughout the seventeenth and much of the eighteenth century." . Thomas Y. Crowell Company hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : A35322

‎CHANDRASEKARAN RAJIV‎

‎Imperial Life In The Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone‎

‎Alfred A. Knopf New York: 2006. Hardcover with dustjacket. Like New. An unprecedented account of life in Baghdad's Green Zone a walled-off enclave of towering plants posh villas and sparkling swimming pools that was the headquarters for the American occupation of Iraq. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and internal documents Chandrasekaran tells the story of the people and ideas that inhabited the Green Zone during the occupation from the impreial viceroy L. Paul Brenner III to the fleet of twentysomethings hired to implement the idea that Americans could build a Jeffersonian democracy in an embattled Middle Eastern country. Includes an Index. "An extraordinary vivid and compelling anatomy of a fiasco." -- Rick Atkinson author of An Army at Dawn ISBN: 1400044871. Alfred A. Knopf, New York: 2006 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 89948X1 ISBN : 1400044871 9781400044870

‎TUCHMAN BARBARA. W‎

‎Bible And Sword: England And Palestine From The Bronze Age To Balfour‎

‎Ballantine Books New York: 1984. Softcover. Good condition. From early times the British people have been drawn to the Holy Land through two major influences: the translation of the Bible into English and later the imperial need to control the road to India and access to the oil of the Middle East. Demonstrates that the seeds of the present troubles in the Holy Land commenced many years before the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. Includes an Index. "Barbara Tuchman is a wise and witty writer a shrewd with a lively command of high drama." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer ISBN: 0345314271. Ballantine Books, New York: 1984 paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 54323X2 ISBN : 0345314271 9780345314277

‎Masterman E. W. G. M. D. F. R. C. S. Dr. Ernest William Gurney Masterman‎

‎The Deliverance Of Jerusalem‎

‎New York: George H. Doran Company. Very Good. 1918. Trade Edition. Pamphlet. Possible First American Edition. This is a trade sized pamphlet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The pamphlet formerly belonged to the Pacific Unitarian School for the Ministry in Berkeley CA and has been bound inside a heavy-duty "photomount Pamphlet Binder" cardboard and cloth cover. The pamphlet is in Very Good only condition and was issued thus without a dust jacket. The cardboard cover has a library stock number on a sticker on the front panel. The pamphlet is in clean bright condition inside the binder. There is a bookplate with the school information adhered to the inside front cover of the binder. The front inner hinge of the pamphlet has some light pulling to the staples. The only library markings are on the table of contents page. "In the summer of 1914 the position of things in Palestine was entirely peaceful and certainly among the English American and French any idea that things could ever come to hostility between themselves and the Germans and Austrians or even more with the Turks would have seemed preposterous." The pamphlet covers some of the history of World War I as it related to the sweeping changes in the Levant and mentions some aspects of the issues in Turkey with a tidbit here and there on the Armenian Genocide. It also uses some biblical history as a foil to put the new war in perspective. " Dr. Ernest William Gurney Masterman 1867-1943 . In 1917 was described by the president of the Royal Geographical Society as having "lived on and off -- but mostly on -- for the last twenty years in Damascus or Jerusalem where he has been surgeon to the English Hospital. He is also the Honourary Secretary in Palestine for the Palestine Exploration Fund." Some online sources say that he was secretary of the British Palestine Society but this is probably the result of confusion with his position as secretary of the Palestine Exploration Fund. Masterman at that stage the director of the Jewish Mission Hospital which had been founded by the London Society for Promoting Christianity Among the Jews in 1840 chaired the last meeting of the Jerusalem Literary and Scientific Society which took place at his house on 10 November 1913. The Jerusalem Literary and Scientific Society had been founded in 1849 by James Finn the British Consul in Jerusalem and his wife Elizabeth Anne Finn nee McCaul -- the Palestine Exploration Fund was an offshoot. Masterman was an associate of the archaeologist R. A. S. Macalister prior to the latter's return to Ireland in 1909. " . George H. Doran Company unknown‎

Bookseller reference : A32774

‎Williams Talcott‎

‎Turkey A World Problem of To-Day‎

‎Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company. Near Fine. 1921. Possible First Edition. Hardcover. This book is in Near Fine condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light rubbing and bumping. There is a bit of ground-in dirt to the front cover has well. The text pages are clean and bright. Included is a map as the frontispiece. "Williams was born at Abeih Ottoman Turkey the son of Congregational missionaries. He graduated from Amherst in 1873. Afterwards. he was employed at the New York World and as a correspondent for the New York Sun and the San Francisco Chronicle." Included are sections regarding the massacre of Christians and of Armenians along with another section on the Kurds. " After the war ended a military administration named Occupied Enemy Territory Administration was established in the captured territory of the former Ottoman Syria. The British sought legitimacy for their continued control of the region and this was achieved by obtaining a mandate from the League of Nations in June 1922. The formal objective of the League of Nations Mandate system was to administer parts of the defunct Ottoman Empire which had been in control of the Middle East since the 16th century "until such time as they are able to stand alone." . Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 31974

‎MACDONALD MICHAEL‎

‎Overreach: Delusions Of Regime Change In Iraq‎

‎Harvard University Press Cambridge Massachusetts and London England: 2014. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. In the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq a fair number of Americans thought the idea was crazy. Now everyone except a few die-hards thinks it was. So what was going through the minds of the talented and experienced men and women who planned and initiated the war What were their assumptions Overreach aims to recover those presuppositions. Michael MacDonald examines the standard hypotheses for the decision to attack showing them to be either wrong or of secondary importance: the personality of President George W. Bush including his relationship with his father; Republican electoral considerations; the oil lobby; the Israeli lobby. He also undermines the argument that the war failed because of the Bush administration's incompetence. The more fundamental reasons for the Iraq War and its failure MacDonald argues are located in basic axioms of American foreign policy which equate America's ideals with its interests distorting both in the process and project those ideals as universally applicable. Believing that democratic principles would bring order to Iraq naturally and spontaneously regardless of the region's history and culture or what Iraqis themselves wanted neoconservative thinkers with support from many on the left advocated breaking the back of state power under Saddam Hussein. They maintained that by bringing about radical regime change the United States was promoting liberalism capitalism and democracy in Iraq. But what it did instead was unleash chaos. Michael MacDonald is Frederick L. Schuman Professor of International Relations at Williams College. "In Overreach MacDonald methodically dissects the top ten reasons most often used to explain why the war was a failure and in the process shows each to be self-serving inadequate misleading�or all of the above. He does the same for explanations of why we went to war in the first place."�Scott Beauchamp Bookforum "MacDonald demonstrates vigorously and with intellectual clarity why the tenets of American exceptionalism do not usually translate to other areas of the world with Iraq being just one example. A useful analysis of failed American military initiatives that could inform future debates about interventions in traditionally despotic nations that are also split among historically hostile religious factions."�Kirkus Reviews "With gloomily apt timing as U.S. bombs drop once again on a now deeply fractured Iraq international relations specialist MacDonald analyzes the usual explanations for why the Bush administration launched its invasion of Iraq in 2003 and finds them lacking. MacDonald argues that beyond oil the Israeli lobby or Bush family history the Iraq War and its horrific outcomes owe their existence to a more general trait in U.S. foreign policy namely a tendency to equate the country's values with its interests."�Publishers Weekly "Overreach is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how and why the project of 'regime change' in Iraq not only failed but was incoherent from the outset. With his characteristic political acumen meticulous research practices and marvelously lucid prose MacDonald reveals the tragic political not cultural! blindness suffered by American architects of that project. This is a gripping sad and immensely important story."�Wendy Brown University of California Berkeley "It is easy to forget how many supported the Iraq War in 2002 and 2003. For anyone who wants to remember what happened�and what went wrong�this is an absorbing read. We misunderstood Iraq and the war MacDonald shows because we misunderstood ourselves�profoundly and tragically."�Russell Muirhead Dartmouth College Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London England: 2014 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 83696X1

‎DABASHI HAMID‎

‎The World Of Persian Literary Humanism‎

‎Harvard University Press Cambridge Massachusetts and London England: 2012. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. What does it mean to be human Humanism has mostly considered this question from a Western perspective. Through a detailed examination of a vast literary tradition Hamid Dabashi asks that question anew from a non-European point of view. The answers are fresh provocative and deeply transformative. This groundbreaking study of Persian humanism presents the unfolding of a tradition as the creative and subversive subconscious of Islamic civilization. Exploring how 1400 years of Persian literature have taken up the question of what it means to be human Dabashi proposes that the literary subconscious of a civilization may also be the undoing of its repressive measures. This could account for the masculinist hostility of the early Arab conquest that accused Persian culture of effeminate delicacy and sexual misconduct and later of scientific and philosophical inaccuracy. As the designated feminine subconscious of a decidedly masculinist civilization Persian literary humanism speaks from a hidden and defiant vantage point�and this is what inclines it toward creative subversion. Arising neither despite nor because of Islam Persian literary humanism was the artistic manifestation of a cosmopolitan urbanism that emerged in the aftermath of the seventh-century Muslim conquest. Removed from the language of scripture and scholasticism Persian literary humanism occupies a distinct universe of moral obligations in which "a judicious lie" as the thirteenth-century poet Sheykh Mosleh al-Din Sa'di writes "is better than a seditious truth." Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. "Dabashi provides a rich and varied account of classical Persian literature. Such commanding figures as Ferdowsi the 11th century poet of the 'Shahnameh' or Book of Kings one of the world's great epics stand alongside the mystical lyrical poets Hafiz and Rumi as well as the earthier Sa'di. It is one of Dabashi's accomplishments to demonstrate the unusual continuity of the Persian literary tradition which despite political upheavals and stylistic revolutions�free verse is the norm in contemporary Persian poetry�remains strong even in the teeth of brutal governmental repression."�Eric Ormsby The Wall Street Journal "In The World of Persian Literary Humanism Hamid Dabashi revealed with his usual brilliance yet more aspects of a sophisticated culture to an Anglophone readership."�Pankaj Mishra New Statesman "Dabashi's effortless capacious erudition is obvious all throughout. Even his offhand comments about Ferdowsi's Shahnameh or Muhammad Iqbal's Asrar-e Khodi and dozens of other canonical Persian works are uniformly brilliant."�Steve Donoghue Open Letters Monthly "This is a study of profound erudition deep historical and literary knowledge and professional acumen. Dabashi marshals an impressive amount of historical material blended into a wide historical narrative."�Arshin Adib-Moghaddam "In this fascinating study of the metaphysical concerns of Persian literature Dabashi presents Persian adab as a movement heretical to the ideological dispositions of Islamic empires. He traces the morality that informs the adab of the Persian language and shows how a sustained history of a millennium and a half created an amorphous literary subconscious that remained irreducible to any religious identity. A landmark work that shall nurture all future discourse on the subject."�Musharraf Ali Farooqi "Dabashi is one of the world's most well-versed and learned scholars of Persian history and culture and this book could only be written by someone of his intellectual stature who shows a mastery of Persian literature over a thousand years. His creative and engaging narrative carries the reader through a literary odyssey of great geographic breadth and skillful analysis."�Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet University of Pennsylvania "Elegant as well as passionate Hamid Dabashi's scholarly writings always have a revelatory quality. Yet again he uncovers in his new book an astonishing new world for English readers."�Pankaj Mishra "In this powerfully challenging book Hamid Dabashi not only pays tribute to the achievements of such great Persian writers as Ferdowsi and Sa'di who expressed a subversively humanistic vision in counterpoint to the transcendental Islamic scholasticism of the past but he also shines his intellectual spotlight on influential occidental thinkers ranging from Kant to Said whose humanism whether philosophical or literary fell short of true universality. In a masterful critique of the Eurocentrism he sees as being present if masked in the teaching of Comparative Literature he rescues Persian literature from the 'overextended narratives of Orientalism and ethnic nationalism' and shows how its vibrant aesthetic and spiritual qualities find expression in the work of contemporary writers filmmakers and artists. This important work of cultural history has urgent contemporary relevance."�Malise Ruthven Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London England: 2012 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 77958X1

‎HOWARD ROGER‎

‎The Oil Hunters: Exploration And Espionage In The Middle East 1880-1939‎

‎Hambledon Continuum London / New York: 2008. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. The fascinating stories of the explorers spies and entrepreneurs who led the hunt for oil in the Middle East from the 1880s to the outbreak of the Second World War. The Middle East had long been awash with rumors and legends of oil rumors that gradually seeped into Western Europe. The Greek historian Herodotus had once described the existence of "oil-pits" in Mesopotamia while Jebel Zeit a mountain on the west coast of the Gulf of Suez was known by the ancients as Mons Petroleus. However the discovery that kerosene could be extracted from crude oil and used as fuel for light and heat in the late nineteenth century shifted the hunt for oil into high gear particularly in the Middle East. Against the backdrop of British and Russian � and increasingly American � maneuverings for dominance in the region Roger Howard explores the history of oil exploration in anecdotal style and with a lively pace. He brings to life forgotten figures such as Frank Holmes revered by the Arabs as Abu Naft the "Father of Oil" and Harry St. John Philby father of the famous British double agent Kim Philby as well as figures from the world stage such as Julius de Reuter founder of Reuters News Agency the Armenian oil magnate Calouste Gulbenkian and Chicago-born entrepreneur Charles R. Crane. Throughout the twentieth century the demand for petroleum increased and it eventually became one of the most valuable commodities traded in the world market. The Oil Hunters illustrates how today's oil giants emerged in Persia but also Iraq Mesopotamia Kuwait Saudi Arabia and Egypt. British Petroleum for example was originally the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. Considered by many to be one of the most important events of twentieth century history the discovery of Persian oil in 1908 is related here as a vivid adventure story of exploration and exploitation peopled by eccentrics adventurers and magnates. Roger Howard is a writer and broadcaster specialising in the Middle East. His most recent publication is Iran Oil: The New Middle East Challenge to America 2006. Includes an Index. ISBN: 184725232X. Hambledon Continuum, London / New York: 2008 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 41520X3 ISBN : 184725232X 9781847252326

‎MCKINNON DAN; MOORE EDDIE ILLUSTRATIONS‎

‎Bullseye One‎

‎Berkley Books New York: 1988. Softcover. Good condition. The Target: An Iraqi nuclear reactor is actually a secret atomic bomb factory. Production of plutonium is ready to begin. And if successful Iraq could turn the Middle East into a nuclear Armageddon. The Mission: Israel must act quickly. Only one option remains: an unprecedented surgical strike deep in the heart of enemy territory. The Top Guns of Israel's air force must fly their supersonic F-16 fighter planes hundreds of miles through a lethal gauntlet of SAM missiles anti-aircraft fire and Iraqi jets - to destroy Reactor One. Here's the startling inside story. ISBN: 0425112594. Berkley Books, New York: 1988 paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 75442X1 ISBN : 0425112594 9780425112595

‎AJAMI FOUAD‎

‎The Foreigner's Gift: The Americans The Arabs And The Iraquis In Iraq‎

‎Free Press New York: 2006. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. Offers a brilliant illuminating and lyrical portrait of the ongoing struggle for Iraq and of the American encounter with that volatile Arab land. Ajami situates the currnt unrest within the context of Iraq's recent history of dictatorship and its rich diverse cultural heritage. Includes an Index. "One of the smartest most experienced and wisest Americans about the Middle East." - Dan Rather Houston Chronicle ISBN: 074323667X. Free Press, New York: 2006 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 74027X1 ISBN : 074323667X 9780743236676

‎BODANSKY YOSSEF‎

‎The Secret History Of The Iraq War‎

‎Regan Books New York: 2004. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. Offers an astonishing account of the war and its aftermath - a war that was doomed from the start the author argues by the massive and systematic failures of the American intelligence community. Reveals that nearly every aspect of America's conflict with Iraq has been misunderstood in both the court of public opinion and the White House itself. Includes an Index. ISBN: 0060736798. Regan Books, New York: 2004 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 74911X1 ISBN : 0060736798 9780060736798

‎DOLAN DAVID‎

‎Holy War For The Promised Land: Israel's Struggle To Survive‎

‎Thomas Nelson Inc. Nashville: 1991. Softcover. Very good condition. As the eyes of people around the globe focus on the increasingly explosive Middle East situation veteran reporter David Dolan provides us with unique insights into the underlying causes of the Abar/Israeli conflice and his assessment of what we can expect in the coming days. ISBN: 0840733259. Thomas Nelson, Inc., Nashville: 1991 paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 73921X1 ISBN : 0840733259 9780840733252

‎FISHER SYDNEY NETTLETON‎

‎The Middle East: A History‎

‎Routledge & Kegan Paul London: 1960. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition but dustjacket is worn and pieces of it are missing. This history of the Middle East in Muslim times although it includes a general survey of the area before the birtth of Muhammad and discusses at length the development of Islam places its principal emphasis on the modern period. One of its major contributions is the presentation of sufficiently detailed background material to make the contemporary scene as well as the earlier eras intelligible to the reader; at the same time over half the book is focused on events of the last century and a half. Includes an Index. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London: 1960 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 74389X1

‎CARTER JIMMY‎

‎The Blood Of Abraham‎

‎Houghton Mifflin Company Boston: 1985. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. A portrait that illuminates and explores the central issues regarding the Middle East from many points of view: the United States' neglected but still awaited role as mediator for peace while the Soviets' role expands in the region; Israel's military ascendancy its economic crisis and the internal struggle to define borders of a permanent and secure homeland; Syria's enveloping control over Lebanon and its wuest for pan-Arab leadership; a war-torn and occupied Lebanon's frustrated efforts for sovereignty over its own land; the pursuit of self-determination by uncompromising Palestinians while control of their own destiny slips away; an endangered Jordan and its thwarted hopes to speak for the Palestinians; Egypt's balancing act between expanding peace with Israel and rejoining the Arab world; Saudi Arabia's search for elusive Arab consensus as region events threaten stability. Includes an Index. ISBN: 0395377226. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston: 1985 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 73620X1 ISBN : 0395377226 9780395377222