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On Saudi Arabia
Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines--and Future
Written by Karen Elliott House
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $16.95
Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines--and Future
Written by Karen Elliott House
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $16.95
With over thirty years of experience writing about Saudi Arabia, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and former publisher of The Wall Street Journal Karen Elliott House has an unprecedented knowledge of life inside this shrouded kingdom. Through anecdotes, observation, analysis, and extensive interviews, she navigates the maze in which Saudi citizens find themselves trapped...
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The Dispensable Nation
American Foreign Policy in Retreat
Written by Vali Nasr
Read by Stephen Hoye
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $40.00
In a brilliant and revealing book destined to drive debate about the future of American power, Vali Nasr questions America’s dangerous choice to engage less and matter less in the world.
Vali Nasr, author of the groundbreaking The Shia Revival, worked closely with Hillary Clinton at the State Department on Afghan... Read more >
American Foreign Policy in Retreat
Written by Vali Nasr
Read by Stephen Hoye
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $40.00
In a brilliant and revealing book destined to drive debate about the future of American power, Vali Nasr questions America’s dangerous choice to engage less and matter less in the world.
Vali Nasr, author of the groundbreaking The Shia Revival, worked closely with Hillary Clinton at the State Department on Afghan... Read more >
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The Dispensable Nation
American Foreign Policy in Retreat
Written by Vali Nasr
Read by Stephen Hoye
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $20.00
In a brilliant and revealing book destined to drive debate about the future of American power, Vali Nasr questions America’s dangerous choice to engage less and matter less in the world.
Vali Nasr, author of the groundbreaking The Shia Revival, worked closely with Hillary Clinton at the State Department on Afghan... Read more >
American Foreign Policy in Retreat
Written by Vali Nasr
Read by Stephen Hoye
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $20.00
In a brilliant and revealing book destined to drive debate about the future of American power, Vali Nasr questions America’s dangerous choice to engage less and matter less in the world.
Vali Nasr, author of the groundbreaking The Shia Revival, worked closely with Hillary Clinton at the State Department on Afghan... Read more >
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The Dispensable Nation
American Foreign Policy in Retreat
Written by Vali Nasr
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $28.95
In a brilliant and revealing book destined to drive debate about the future of American power, Vali Nasr questions America’s dangerous choice to engage less and matter less in the world.
Vali Nasr, author of the groundbreaking The Shia Revival, worked closely with Hillary Clinton at the State Department on Afghan... Read more >
American Foreign Policy in Retreat
Written by Vali Nasr
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $28.95
In a brilliant and revealing book destined to drive debate about the future of American power, Vali Nasr questions America’s dangerous choice to engage less and matter less in the world.
Vali Nasr, author of the groundbreaking The Shia Revival, worked closely with Hillary Clinton at the State Department on Afghan... Read more >
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The Dispensable Nation
American Foreign Policy in Retreat
Written by Vali Nasr
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $14.99
In a brilliant and revealing book destined to drive debate about the future of American power, Vali Nasr questions America’s dangerous choice to engage less and matter less in the world.
Vali Nasr, author of the groundbreaking The Shia Revival, worked closely with Hillary Clinton at the State Department on Afghan... Read more >
American Foreign Policy in Retreat
Written by Vali Nasr
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $14.99
In a brilliant and revealing book destined to drive debate about the future of American power, Vali Nasr questions America’s dangerous choice to engage less and matter less in the world.
Vali Nasr, author of the groundbreaking The Shia Revival, worked closely with Hillary Clinton at the State Department on Afghan... Read more >
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Return of a King
The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
Written by William Dalrymple
Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $30.00
The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
Written by William Dalrymple
Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $30.00
From William Dalrymple—award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer—a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the West’s greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of neocolonial ambition, folly and hubris that has striking relevance to our own time.
With access to newly discovered primary sources from archives in Afghanistan...
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Return of a King
The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
Written by William Dalrymple
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $15.99
The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
Written by William Dalrymple
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $15.99
From William Dalrymple—award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer—a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the West’s greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of neocolonial ambition, folly and hubris that has striking relevance to our own time.
With access to newly discovered primary sources from archives in Afghanistan...
Also available as a
hardcover.
The Six Day War 1967: Jordan and Syria
Written by Simon Dunstan
Illustrated by Peter Dennis
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
Osprey's examination of Jordan and Syria's involvement in the Six Day War (1967). Following the lightning destruction of the Egyptian forces at the outbreak of the Six Day War, Israel turned to the forces of Jordan and Syria, with whom Egypt had signed a mutual-defence pact, and who had now entered... Read more >
Written by Simon Dunstan
Illustrated by Peter Dennis
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
Osprey's examination of Jordan and Syria's involvement in the Six Day War (1967). Following the lightning destruction of the Egyptian forces at the outbreak of the Six Day War, Israel turned to the forces of Jordan and Syria, with whom Egypt had signed a mutual-defence pact, and who had now entered... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Brokers of Deceit
How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East
Written by Rashid Khalidi
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $25.95
An examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, through three key historical moments
For more than seven decades the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people has raged on with no end in sight, and for much of that time, the United States... Read more >
How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East
Written by Rashid Khalidi
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $25.95
An examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, through three key historical moments
For more than seven decades the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people has raged on with no end in sight, and for much of that time, the United States... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Brokers of Deceit
How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East
Written by Rashid Khalidi
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $25.95
An examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, through three key historical moments
For more than seven decades the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people has raged on with no end in sight, and for much of that time, the United States... Read more >
How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East
Written by Rashid Khalidi
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $25.95
An examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, through three key historical moments
For more than seven decades the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people has raged on with no end in sight, and for much of that time, the United States... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Sex and the Citadel
Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
Written by Shereen El Feki
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $28.95
Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
Written by Shereen El Feki
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $28.95
If you really want to know a people, start by looking inside their bedrooms.
As political change sweeps the streets and squares, the parliaments and presidential palaces of the Arab world, Shereen El Feki has been looking at an upheaval a little closer to home—in the sexual lives of men and women...
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eBook.
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Sex and the Citadel
Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
Written by Shereen El Feki
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $14.99
Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
Written by Shereen El Feki
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $14.99
If you really want to know a people, start by looking inside their bedrooms.
As political change sweeps the streets and squares, the parliaments and presidential palaces of the Arab world, Shereen El Feki has been looking at an upheaval a little closer to home—in the sexual lives of men and women...
Also available as a
hardcover.
When the Birds Stopped Singing
Life in Ramallah Under Siege
Written by Raja Shehadeh
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $13.99
The Israeli army invaded Ramallah in March 2002. A tank stood at the end of Raja Shehadeh's road; Israeli soldiers patrolled from the roof toops. Four soldiers took over his brother's apartment and then used him as a human shield as they went through the building, while his wife tried to... Read more >
Life in Ramallah Under Siege
Written by Raja Shehadeh
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $13.99
The Israeli army invaded Ramallah in March 2002. A tank stood at the end of Raja Shehadeh's road; Israeli soldiers patrolled from the roof toops. Four soldiers took over his brother's apartment and then used him as a human shield as they went through the building, while his wife tried to... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Israeli F-15 Eagle Units in Combat
Written by Shlomo Aloni
Illustrated by Chris Davey
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
Diplomacy, politics and national trauma has dominated the frontline career of the Israeli F-15 to date. In the wake of the losses suffered in the October 1973 Yom Kippur War, the Israeli government opted for technology in an effort to reassure a traumatised population that they would never suffer a surprise... Read more >
Written by Shlomo Aloni
Illustrated by Chris Davey
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
Diplomacy, politics and national trauma has dominated the frontline career of the Israeli F-15 to date. In the wake of the losses suffered in the October 1973 Yom Kippur War, the Israeli government opted for technology in an effort to reassure a traumatised population that they would never suffer a surprise... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Forts of Judaea 168 BC-AD 73
From the Maccabees to the Fall of Masada
Written by Samuel Rocca
Illustrated by Adam Hook
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $13.95
This book analyzes the fortifications of Hasmonaean and Herodian Judaea from the middle of the second century BC, when the Maccabees rebelled against their Seleucids overlords and established an independent state, until the end of the Jewish-Roman War in AD 73. Read more >
From the Maccabees to the Fall of Masada
Written by Samuel Rocca
Illustrated by Adam Hook
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $13.95
This book analyzes the fortifications of Hasmonaean and Herodian Judaea from the middle of the second century BC, when the Maccabees rebelled against their Seleucids overlords and established an independent state, until the end of the Jewish-Roman War in AD 73. Read more >
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In the Shadow of the Sword
The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
Written by Tom Holland
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $16.00
The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
Written by Tom Holland
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $16.00
A thrillingly panoramic and incredibly timely account of the rise of Islam, from the acclaimed author of Rubicon and Persian Fire.
The evolution of the Arab empire is one of the supreme narratives of ancient history, a story dazzlingly rich in drama, character, and achievement. In this exciting and sweeping history—the...
Also available as an
eBook.
Israeli Mirage III and Nesher Aces
Written by Shlomo Aloni
Illustrated by Mark Styling
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2012
Price: $15.95
Israeli delta fighters pilots have been credited with almost 300 kills between 1966 and 1974, and dozens of them became aces. The Israeli aerial kill exchange rate and overall air-to-air performance was phenomenal. Although the Israeli pilots were flying Mach 2 fighters, they lacked any modern radar equipment and their MiG-21... Read more >
Written by Shlomo Aloni
Illustrated by Mark Styling
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2012
Price: $15.95
Israeli delta fighters pilots have been credited with almost 300 kills between 1966 and 1974, and dozens of them became aces. The Israeli aerial kill exchange rate and overall air-to-air performance was phenomenal. Although the Israeli pilots were flying Mach 2 fighters, they lacked any modern radar equipment and their MiG-21... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Sassanian Elite Cavalry AD 224-642
Written by Kaveh Farrokh
Illustrated by Angus McBride
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2012
Price: $14.95
The Sassanians ruled the last great imperial Empire of Persia before the Arab conquests of the 7th century. Rome’s only equal in the classical world, the Sassanian Empire had an enormous impact on the development of architecture, mythology, arts, music, military tactics and technology. Within the Sassanian military, the cavalry was... Read more >
Written by Kaveh Farrokh
Illustrated by Angus McBride
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2012
Price: $14.95
The Sassanians ruled the last great imperial Empire of Persia before the Arab conquests of the 7th century. Rome’s only equal in the classical world, the Sassanian Empire had an enormous impact on the development of architecture, mythology, arts, music, military tactics and technology. Within the Sassanian military, the cavalry was... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Iranian F-4 Phantom II Units in Combat
Written by Farzad Bishop
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $15.95
Different versions of the jet have provided the backbone of the frontline strength of the Iranian air force since the 1970s, and whole generations of Iranian pilots and ground personnel have been trained to fly and maintain them. Indeed, the type bore the brunt of active combat operations during the long... Read more >
Written by Farzad Bishop
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $15.95
Different versions of the jet have provided the backbone of the frontline strength of the Iranian air force since the 1970s, and whole generations of Iranian pilots and ground personnel have been trained to fly and maintain them. Indeed, the type bore the brunt of active combat operations during the long... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Iranian F-14 Tomcat Units in Combat
Written by Tom Cooper
Illustrated by Chris Davey
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $15.95
So formidable an opponent did the Iraqi airforce consider the F-14 that during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), they ordered their pilots not to engage F-14s and the presence of one in an area was usually enough to empty it of Iraqi aircraft. Officially losses where tiny; only one F-14 was lost... Read more >
Written by Tom Cooper
Illustrated by Chris Davey
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $15.95
So formidable an opponent did the Iraqi airforce consider the F-14 that during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), they ordered their pilots not to engage F-14s and the presence of one in an area was usually enough to empty it of Iraqi aircraft. Officially losses where tiny; only one F-14 was lost... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Saracen Strongholds AD 630-1050
The Middle East and Central Asia
Written by David Nicolle
Illustrated by Adam Hook
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $13.95
The Islamic world developed its own highly sophisticated, effective and varied style of fortification. It drew upon pre-existing Romano-Byzantine, Iranian, Central Asian and Indian traditions of military architecture, plus influences from China, to produce something new and distinctive. In turn, Islamic concepts of military architecture influenced fortifications throughout the Byzantine Empire... Read more >
The Middle East and Central Asia
Written by David Nicolle
Illustrated by Adam Hook
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $13.95
The Islamic world developed its own highly sophisticated, effective and varied style of fortification. It drew upon pre-existing Romano-Byzantine, Iranian, Central Asian and Indian traditions of military architecture, plus influences from China, to produce something new and distinctive. In turn, Islamic concepts of military architecture influenced fortifications throughout the Byzantine Empire... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Yom Kippur War 1973 (2)
The Sinai
Written by Simon Dunstan
Illustrated by Kevin Lyles
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $15.95
Osprey's second title in the study of the Yom Kippur War (1973). Israel’s victory in the 1967 ‘Six Day War’ sowed the seeds of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. At 1400hrs on 6 October 1973 the Egyptian army launched an assault crossing of the Suez Canal. The carefully co-ordinated attack achieved... Read more >
The Sinai
Written by Simon Dunstan
Illustrated by Kevin Lyles
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $15.95
Osprey's second title in the study of the Yom Kippur War (1973). Israel’s victory in the 1967 ‘Six Day War’ sowed the seeds of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. At 1400hrs on 6 October 1973 the Egyptian army launched an assault crossing of the Suez Canal. The carefully co-ordinated attack achieved... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Ghost on the Throne
The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for His Empire
Written by James Romm
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $17.00
The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for His Empire
Written by James Romm
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $17.00
When Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-two, his empire stretched from the Adriatic Sea in the west all the way to modern-day India in the east. In an unusual compromise, his two heirs—a mentally damaged half brother, Philip III, and an infant son, Alexander IV, born after his...
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In the Footsteps of Jesus
A Chronicle of His Life and the Origins of Christianity
Written by Jean-Pierre Isbouts
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $40.00
“Stunning illustrations, photographs, and maps…a vivid and thorough picture of the life and times of Jesus.” –War Cry (the Salvation Army's biweekly magazine)
The Gospels of the New Testament describe the life of Jesus of Nazareth, from his birth in Bethlehem and his travels through Galilee, to his trial and death in Jerusalem. In the... Read more >
A Chronicle of His Life and the Origins of Christianity
Written by Jean-Pierre Isbouts
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $40.00
“Stunning illustrations, photographs, and maps…a vivid and thorough picture of the life and times of Jesus.” –War Cry (the Salvation Army's biweekly magazine)
The Gospels of the New Testament describe the life of Jesus of Nazareth, from his birth in Bethlehem and his travels through Galilee, to his trial and death in Jerusalem. In the... Read more >
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Peace And Its Discontents
Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Peace Process
Written by Edward W. Said
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: October 24, 2012
Price: $11.99
In works such as Culture and Imperialism, Said has compelled us to question our culture's most privileged myths. Now with this impassioned and incisive book, our foremost Palestinian-American intellectual challenges the official version of the Middle East "peace process." "He challenges and stimulates our thinking in every area."-- Washington Post Book... Read more >
Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Peace Process
Written by Edward W. Said
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: October 24, 2012
Price: $11.99
In works such as Culture and Imperialism, Said has compelled us to question our culture's most privileged myths. Now with this impassioned and incisive book, our foremost Palestinian-American intellectual challenges the official version of the Middle East "peace process." "He challenges and stimulates our thinking in every area."-- Washington Post Book... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
