Middle East category: 7830 books
All the Shah's Men
An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
With a thrilling narrative that sheds much light on recent events, this national bestseller brings to life the 1953 CIA coup in Iran that ousted the country’s elected prime minister, ushered in a quarter-century of brutal rule under the Shah, and stimulated the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and...
Nasser's Gamble
How Intervention in Yemen Caused the Six-Day War and the Decline of Egyptian Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2012
Nasser's Gamble draws on declassified documents from six countries and original material in Arabic, German, Hebrew, and Russian to present a new understanding of Egypt's disastrous five-year intervention in Yemen, which Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser later referred to as "my Vietnam." Jesse...
Dark Forces
The Truth About What Happened in Benghazi
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
The New York Times bestselling author of Shadow Warriors investigates the tragedy of Benghazi to answer the questions: what really happened—and why?
We know the Obama administration’s story, of a demonstration caused by an Internet movie that went out of control. But what actually did happen...
War Journal
My Five Years in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
In the most dramatic and intimate account of battle reporting since Michael Herr's classic Dispatches, NBC News's award-winning Middle East Bureau Chief, Richard Engel, offers an unvarnished and often emotional account of five years in Iraq.
Engel is the longest serving broadcaster in Iraq...
The Siege of Mecca
The 1979 Uprising at Islam's Holiest Shrine
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
In The Siege of Mecca, acclaimed journalist Yaroslav Trofimov pulls back the curtain on a thrilling, pivotal, and overlooked episode of modern history, examining its repercussions on the Middle East and the world.
On November 20, 1979, worldwide attention was focused on Tehran, where the Iranian...
The Road to Fatima Gate
The Beirut Spring, the Rise of Hezbollah, and the Iranian War Against Israel
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
The Road to Fatima Gate is a first-person narrative account of revolution, terrorism, and war during history’s violent return to Lebanon after fifteen years of quiet. Michael J. Totten’s version of events in one of the most volatile countries in the world’s most volatile region is one part war...
by Sheldon Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
Militant Islamic believers represents a small, but significant percentage of those who embrace the Muslim religion, it is powerful, well financed, and according to their own statements, hopeful of destroying the United States who they see as the Great Satan, the usurper of Muslim lands, the pilferer...
Scars of War, Wounds of Peace
The Israeli-Arab Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2006
Former Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami was a key figure in the Camp David negotiations and many other rounds of peace talks, public and secret, with Palestinian and Arab officials. Here he offers an unflinching account of the Arab-Israeli conflict, informed by his firsthand knowledge of the...
Live by the Sword
Israel's Struggle for Existence in the Holy Land
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Live by the Sword portrays Israels struggle for existence in the Holy Land since becoming an independent Jewish state in 1948. Lieutenant Colonel James Rothrock draws on his military experience, travels in the Middle East, and academic background to present an authentic picture of the Jewish peoples...
by John C. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
TOURS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT BATTLE IN HISTORY This is not a history book! It is not unlikely that this book will get me killed and I would not dismiss the danger to its publishers. If you have the courage to print and distribute it there is no doubt that it will be one of the all-time best sellers in...
Kill Khalid
The Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
“Meticulously researched . . . This is the definitive chronicle of the Middle East crisis during the Clinton years and in the post-9/11 era” (Publishers Weekly).
“Providing a fly-on-the-wall vantage of the rising diplomatic panic that sent shudders through world capitals,” Kill Khalid...
Whose Promised Land
The Continuing Conflict Over Israel and Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has profoundly affected the Middle East for almost seventy years, and shows no sign of ending. With two peoples claiming the same piece of land for different reasons, it remains a huge political and humanitarian problem. Can it ever be resolved? If...
Thirteen Days in September
The Dramatic Story of the Struggle for Peace
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
A dramatic, illuminating day-by-day account of the 1978 Camp David conference, when President Jimmy Carter convinced Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to sign a peace treaty--the first treaty in the modern Middle East, and one which endures to this day.
With...
The Way of the Strangers
Encounters with the Islamic State
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
What does ISIS really want? This is the definitive account of the strategy, psychology, and fundamentalism driving the Islamic State.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY FOREIGN AFFAIRS •“Worthy of Joseph Conrad . . . gripping, sobering and revelatory.”—Tom Holland, New Statesman
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