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Jerusalem
by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Simon Sebag Montefiore read history at Cambridge University. His books have been published in more than thirty-five languages. Potemkin: Catherine the Great’s Imperial Partner was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson, Duff Cooper and Marsh Biography prizes in Britain. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar was awarded the History Book of the Year Prize at the British Book Awards. Young Stalin won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, the Costa Biography Award (U.K.), le Grand Prix de la...
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The Great War For Civilisation
by Robert Fisk
Best-selling author and journalist Robert Fisk, based in Beirut as Middle East Correspondent of The Independent, has lived in the Middle East for almost three decades and holds more British and international journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent. His last book, Pity the Nation, a history of the Lebanon war, was published to great critical acclaim.
Peace To End All Peace
by David Fromkin
Featuring a new afterword offering an updated assessment of the region, a twentieth anniversary edition of the acclaimed study of the Middle East traces the influence of the Allies on Middle East politics during and after World War I and the legacy of the era on the shifting political unities and divisions of today.
Six Days Of War
by Michael B Oren
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East is a 2002 non-fiction book by American-Israeli historian Michael Oren, chronicling the events of the Six-Day War fought between Israel and its Arab neighbors. Widely praised by critics, the book won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for history and spent seven weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list.
From Beirut To Jerusalem
by Thomas L Friedman
The New York Times Middle East correspondent profiles this troubled region, describing the everyday horrors of Beirut, the intricacies of Arab politics, Arab-Israeli relations, and American perceptions of the region.
A Savage War Of Peace
by Alistair Horne
ALISTAIR HORNE is the author of eighteen previous books, including A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954—1962, The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916, How Far from Austerlitz?: Napoleon 1805—1815 and the official biography of British prime minister Harold Macmillan. He is a fellow at St. Anthony’s College, Oxford, and lives in Oxfordshire. He was awarded the French Legion d’Honneur in 1993 and received a knighthood in 2003 for his work on French history.
A History Of the Arab Peoples
by Albert Hourani
In a bestselling work of profound and lasting importance, the late Albert Hourani told the definitive history of the Arab peoples from the seventh century, when the new religion of Islam began to spread from the Arabian peninsula westwards, to the present day. It is a masterly distillation of a lifetime of scholarship and a unique insight into a perpetually troubled region. This updated edition by Malise Ruthven adds a substantial new chapter which includes recent events such as 9/11, the US invasion of...
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Arab and Jew
by David K Shipler
Rhidian Brook was born in Tenby, South Wales. The Testimony of Taliesin Jones received the Somerset Maugham and Betty Task Awards and was short-listed for the Welsh Novel of the Year. He is also the author of the novel Jesus and The Adman.
What Went Wrong? - Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response
by Bernard Lewis
For many centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement--the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe, a remote land beyond its northwestern frontier, was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief from which there was nothing to learn or to fear. And then everything changed, as the previously despised West won victory after victory, first in the battlefield and the marketplace, then in...
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Leap Of Faith
by Queen Noor
rt of a man and his nation. Born into a distinguished Arab-American family, Lisa Halaby was a strongly independent young woman. After studying architecture at Princeton, her work on projects in the Middle East gave her a profound understanding both of the links between the environment and social problems, and also of the tumultuous history of the Arab nations. Then, in 1974, her life took a very different turn, when her father introduced her to the world's most eligible bachelor, King Hussein of Jordan....
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Bible and Sword
by Barbara W Tuchman
Barbara W. Tuchman (1912–1989) achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmermann Telegram and international fame with The Guns of August—a huge bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Her other works include Bible and Sword, The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China (for which Tuchman was awarded a second Pulitzer Prize), Notes from China, A Distant Mirror, Practicing History, The March of Folly, and The First Salute.
Lords Of the Horizons
by Jason Goodwin
The Ottoman Empire has exerted a long, strong pull on Western minds and hearts. For over six hundred years the Empire swelled and declined; rising from a dusty fiefdom in the foothills of Anatolia to a power which ruled over the Danube and the Euphrates with the richest court in Europe. But its decline was prodigious, protracted, and total. Lords of the Horizons charts the Ottoman Empire's swirling history; dramatic, detailed and alive - a journey, and a world all in one.
A History Of Islamic Societies
by Ira M Lapidus
An accessible worldwide history of Muslim societies provides updated coverage of each country and region, in a volume that discusses their origins and evolution while offering insight into historical processes that shaped contemporary Islam and surveying its growing influence.
Power, Faith and Fantasy
by Michael B Oren
Includes bibliographical references (p. [693]-741 and index.
The Middle East
by Bernard Lewis
In a sweeping and vivid survey, renowned historian Bernard Lewis charts the history of the Middle East over the last 2,000 years, from the birth of Christianity through the modern era, focusing on the successive transformations that have shaped it. Elegantly sritten, scholarly yet accessible, The Middle East is the most comprehensive single volume history of the region ever written from the world's foremost authority on the Middle East.
Islamic Imperialism
by Efraim Karsh
From the first Arab-Islamic Empire of the mid-seventh century to the Ottomans, the last great Muslim empire, the story of the Middle East has been the story of the rise and fall of universal empires and, no less important, of imperialist dreams. So argues Efraim Karsh in this highly provocative book. Rejecting the conventional Western interpretation of Middle Eastern history as an offshoot of global power politics, Karsh contends that the region's experience is the culmination of long-existing indigenous...
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Middle Eastern History Books & Ephemera
What Went Wrong?: The Clash between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East
by Bernard Lewis
Paperback / softback. New. A bestselling account of why the Islamic world has been losing the conflict with the West for 300 years - and the frustration and humiliation this has produced.
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SGD 14.99
Neue Menschen auf alter Erde : eine Pal�stinafahrt
by Salten, Felix (1869-1945)
Berlin : Paul Zsolnay Verlag, 1925. First Edition. Softcover. Poor paperback copy with wear and tear. Cover detached. Text remains in fine condition. Physical description; 275 pages ; 20 cm. Subjects; Salten, Felix 1869-1945. Travel. Palestine Description and travel. Middle East Palestine.
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SGD 21.42
Rommel? Gunner Who? a Confrontation in the Desert
by Milligan, Spike
Book Club Associates, 1974 198 pp wwith B&W illustrations. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. DJ is bright, undamaged save for some rubbing spine ends.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.
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SGD 12.41
From Babel to Dragomans. Interpreting the Middle East.
by LEWIS, BERNARD
New York.: Oxford University Press.. 2004.. xiv + 438pp, notes, dustjacket, upper edge trifle foxed, remainder mark lower edge, a very good hardback copy. .
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SGD 27.03
North African Cooking : Exotic Delights from Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Egypt
by Hilaire Walden
London: New Burlington Books, September 1995. Hardcover. Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Jacket spine faded, otherwise clean and bright. No tears, creases, or folds. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 128 pages. 100 recipes. Color illustrations.
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SGD 20.61
Cobra II
by Michael R. Gordon; Bernard E. Trainor
Nwe York: Pantheon, March 2006. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xxxii + 603 pages.
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SGD 17.85
The Arab Balance of Power (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East)
by Alan R. Taylor
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, June 1982. Trade Paperback. First Edition; Third Paperback Printing, 1987. Very Good+. Inventory/price marks on half-title page, otherwise unmarked. Spine square and tight. Cover clean and crisp. Foxing to closed edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 165 pages.
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SGD 17.85
Power, Faith, And Fantasy: America In The Middle East, 1776 To The Present
by Oren, Michael B
New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Hardcover. 2007. 3rd Printing. 8vo 778pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations .
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SGD 25.95
Underground to Palestine
by Stone, I. F
NY: Boni & Gaer. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Pages and jacket toned, jacket chipped and . worn.. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Reddish brown illustrated cloth. The Jewish-American journalist traveled on a ship that evaded British blockades of Palestine in bringing Jewish refugees in. He writes a sympathetic account of the movement to establish a Jewish state in Palestine in the several years before Israel was founded. Illustrations. Author bio and photo on rear jacket flap. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall;...
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SGD 89.62
The Baz-nama-yi Nasiri
by Husam al-Dawlah Taymur Mirza
(Persian) Falconry.Husam al-Dawlah Taymur Mirza. The Baz-nama-yi Nasiri. A Persian Treatise on Falconry, translated by D. C. (Douglas Craven) Phillott, 1st edition, Bernard Quaritch, 1908, One of 500 copies.Description: halftone illustrations in the text, original publisher's green pictorial cloth with gilt reproduction of ancient Persian ms. with falconer on horseback, gilt-lettered spine, one minor worm hole through bottom margin first few pages, 8vo 25.5 x 17 cm. Kept in, and comes with, non adhesive...
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SGD 3,692.75
History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey Volume 1, Empire of the Gazis: the Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire 1280-1808
by Shaw, Stanford J
Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 1976. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover in a dust jacket with light wear and chipping, black marker on front dj panel. Describes how the Ottoman Turks, a small band of nomadic soldiers, managed to expand their dominions from a small principality in northwestern Anatolia on the borders of the Byzantine Empire into one of the great empires of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe and Asia, extending from northern Hungary to southern Arabia and from the...
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SGD 34.47
Adventures in the Galilee
by Biber, Yehoash
The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1973 The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1973 149 pp with B&W drawings in text. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. DJ is intact with some rubbing. First English Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Berg, Assaf. Slender Octavo.. First English Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Berg, Assaf.
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SGD 20.68
Children of the Kibbutz: A Study in Child Training and Personality
by Melford E. Spiro
Schocken Books, 1972. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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SGD 10.59
The Great War For Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
by Fisk, Robert
Knopf, 2005. VG to VG-/VG-. Hardcover. DJ: some rubbing & edgewear; small chips/creases/closed tears at edges/corners; tiny spots on top edge. Book: some rubbing & edgewear; smudge on bottom edge; some yellowing; otherwise overall clean & tight. 1107 pages Keywords: 1400041511
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SGD 17.92
THE OTTOMAN CENTURIES ~ The Rise And Fall Of The Turkish Empire
by LORD KINROSS
NY: Quill, 1979. FINE condition in FINE covers. NY. Quill / Morrow. SOFTCOVER. 1979. FIRST Paperback Edition. AS NEW, bound in origianl orange pictorial stiff paper wraps. Square and tight, UNREAD, NO spine creasing. Map artist Dyno Lowenstein. Cover photo by Bryn Campbell, design by Lucy Fehr. 638 pages. Illustrated. Stored in Archival sleeve.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/Fine Original Wraps.
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SGD 41.36
Cleopatra
by Ludwig, Emil
Viking Press, 1937-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8x6x1. Very good first edition in clipped good dust jacket. Binding is good and pages are age appropriately tanned but clean. Dust jacket is bright but has some chipping particularly at the corners and at the spine. Protected and looks nice in a clear mylar jacket.Great gift for the history lover!
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SGD 30.72SGD 24.57
Through Persia by Caravan
by Arnold, Arthur
NY: Harper and Brothers. Fair with no dust jacket; Musty, silverfish and water damage to boards, . boards heavily worn at spine and corners, hinges cracked, pages toned.. 1877. Hardcover. 491pp + 8pp of publisher ads at rear. Brick red cloth. An account of the author's 1875 travels through Poland, Russia, and Persia. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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SGD 48.25
A History of Iraq, Third Edition
by Charles Tripp
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, September 2007. Trade Paperback. Third Edition. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 386 pages.
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SGD 26.13
The Faithful City - The Siege Of Jerusalem 1948
by Joseph Dov
The Hogarth Press, 1962T. hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. The Hogarth Press 1962 edition. Pages clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to dust jacket, price clipped.
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SGD 25.87
The Reckoning : Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein
by Sandra Mackey
New York & London: W. W. Norton, May 2002. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Dust stains to top edge and light shelfwear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 415 pages. To the dismay of many in the West, the first Gulf War ended with Saddam Hussein still in control. This prescient title considered what the future of Iraq would be without Saddam Hussein: even more unstable and more problematic to the secrurity of the United States.
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SGD 17.16
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
by Michael B. Oren
Hardback. New. A gripping and authoritative history of the Six Day War based on extensive research into new Arab, Israeli, Soviet, nad U.S. sources - published for the 35th anniversary of the conflict.
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SGD 52.92
Israel
by Ludwig Lewisohn
Boni & Liveright, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/None. First edition, second printing. Pages are tanned and unmarked aside from previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Topstain is faded and soiled. Boards are edgeworn. Corners are bumped and significantly frayed, exposing material beneath buckram. Spine ends are softened, chipped, and frayed. Spine is soiled and slightly cocked. Lettering on cover is faded but still legible. Lettering on spine is deeply browned and faded. Binding is...
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SGD 27.57
The Saudis : Inside the Desert Kingdom
by MacKey, Sandra
Signet Books, 1990. Very good paperback . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.
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SGD 11.72
Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant, gravées sur les tableaux peints d’après nature en 1707 & 1708, par les ordres de M. de Ferriol, Ambassadeur du roi, à la Porte. Et mis au jour en 1712 & 1713 par les soins de M. Le Hay.
by LE HAY
Paris, Basan, 1714.
Folio [500 x 338 mm] : (1) engraved title, (1) l. of foreword, xiv pp., (1) p. of engraved music and 102 plates including 3 on double-page. Bound in full brown morocco, triple gilt fillet on the covers, spine ribbed and richly decorated, a bit faded, edges gilt. Binding from the XIXth century.
First issue of the most beautiful book about the nations of the Levant executed under the Regency.
Cohen, 619 ; Colas, 1819 ; Blackmer 591 ; Lipperheide, 1413; Graesse, Trésor de livres rares,... Read more about this item
Folio [500 x 338 mm] : (1) engraved title, (1) l. of foreword, xiv pp., (1) p. of engraved music and 102 plates including 3 on double-page. Bound in full brown morocco, triple gilt fillet on the covers, spine ribbed and richly decorated, a bit faded, edges gilt. Binding from the XIXth century.
First issue of the most beautiful book about the nations of the Levant executed under the Regency.
Cohen, 619 ; Colas, 1819 ; Blackmer 591 ; Lipperheide, 1413; Graesse, Trésor de livres rares,... Read more about this item
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SGD 36,927.50
The Land of Sacred Story
by Lemley, John
Albany, NY: Self Published. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, spine sunned, frontispiece foxed . and waterstained.. 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Blindstamped purple cloth binding titled in gilt at spine. x, 514pp, numerous black and white photo reproductions. Frontispiece engraved portrait of the author and his facsimile signature. An account of the author's travels with his family to the Holy Land and surrounding region. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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SGD 27.57
![The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land. From My Private Journal, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/474/876/20876474.0.m.1.jpg)
