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Khomeini's Ghost: The Definitive Account of Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Revolution and Its Enduring Legacy by Con Coughlin
$40.00 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
This is a compelling, authoritative account of Ayatollah Khomeini and his baleful legacy from the bestselling author of Saddam: His Secret Life.On 1 February 1979 Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran to a tumultuous welcome and the Iranian revolution that that he masterminded has become one of the defini ...Show more
Highway to Hell by John Geddes
$15.00 NZD
Category: Special Forces
An SAS soldier's account of the biggest mercenary army to be assembled since the American War of Independence - the 30,000 'private military contractors' hired to fight in Iraq. "Anyone entering Iraq must travel the road from Amman to Baghdad along the Fallujah by-pass and around the Ramadi Ring Road. I ...Show more
Spoken from the Front by Andy McNab
$15.00 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
Spoken from the Front will tell the stories of what Andy McNab describes as modern-day heroes fighting modern-day wars'. It will recount the courage and hardship of British servicemen and support staff as they have faced the unique difficulties posed by the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan. Andy will int ...Show more
Twice Armed : An American Soldier's Battle for Hearts And Minds in Iraq by R. Alan King
$65.00 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
As unconventional as any soldier this side of T. E. Lawrence, R. Alan King was particularly well suited for the new kind of war being waged in Iraq. Armed with a Palm Pilot, a Koran, and a nuanced respect for Middle Eastern culture, King arranged the capture or surrender of almost a dozen of the most-wa ...Show more
House to House : An Epic of Urban Warfare by David Bellavia
$15.00 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
On the night of November 10, 2004, a U.S. Army infantry squad under Staff Sergeant David Bellavia entered the heart of the city of Fallujah and plunged into one of the most sustained and savage urban battles in the history of American men at arms. With Third Platoon, Alpha Company, part of the Army's Ta ...Show more
In the Shadow of Saddam by Mikhael Ramadan
$10.00 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
In the Shadow of Saddam presents the memoirs of the first of the Iraqi dictator''s doubles. His face alte red by plastic surgery, Ramadan survived several assassinati on attempts, before becoming actively involved in the anti-S addam faction. '
The Shia Revival : How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future of Islam by Vali Nasr
$30.00 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
The "New York Times" bestseller: "Historically incisive, geographically broad-reaching, and brimming with illuminating anecdotes."--Max Rodenbeck, "New York Review of Books" Profiled on the front page of the "Wall Street Journal," Iranian-born scholar Vali Nasr has become one of America's leading comme ...Show more
Live from Baghdad by Robert Wiener
$10.00 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
In a field crowded with quickie, instant books, here is a substantial book on the CNN offers both an overview of the war and his personal, quite moving inside view of the experience of the war. Photographs.
Revolution Day : The Real Story of the Battle for Iraq by Rageh Omaar
$20.00 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
Rageh Omaar reported from Iraq for six years prior to the conflict in 2003. He evaded the official minders to meet ordinary Iraqis, finding out how they lived under Saddam's brutal regime. Then war came, and - instead of retreating - he chose to stay in Baghdad, to see firsthand the country he loved cru ...Show more
Frontline : The true story of the British mavericks who changed the face of war reporting by David Loyn
$29.95 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
'No story is worth a life' is the journalist's rule - but the boys at the Frontline news agency broke rules for a living. Frontline went where other news organizations feared to tread, bringing back footage of war zones that seared itself across the screens of millions of TVs in the 1990s. But the ...Show more
Desperately Seeking Paradise : Journeys of a Sceptical Muslim by Ziauddin Sardar
$10.00 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
Ziauddin Sardar, one of the foremost Muslim intellectuals in Britain, learned the Koran at his mother's knee in Pakistan. As a young student in London he set out to grasp the meaning of his religion, and, hopefully, to find 'paradise', his quest leading him throughout the Muslim world, from Iran to Chin ...Show more