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Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 by Ian Black
RRP: £16.99£12.28ECONOMIST, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES AND GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'Comprehensive and compelling ... A nuanced, landmark study that has deservedly won plaudits from both Palestinian and Israeli historians' Justin Marozzi, The TimesA century... -
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs by Marc David Baer
RRP: £14.99£9.57Shortlisted for the Wolfson History PrizeA Sunday Times Paperback of the YearThe Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic-Asian antithesis of the Christian-European West. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans' multiethnic,... -
Spies of No Country: Israel's Secret Agents at the Birth of the Mossad by Matti Friedman
RRP: £12.99£8.43"Wondrous . . . Compelling . . . Piercing." -The New York Times Book Review Award-winning writer Matti Friedman's tale of Israel's first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the... -
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe 9781851685554
RRP: £12.99£9.34Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe's groundbreaking book revisits the formation of the State of Israel. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred and around a million men, women, and... -
After The Eagles Landed: The Yemenites Of Israel *now Available Thru Waveland Press *waveland Tel#-708-634-0081 by Herbert S. Lewis
RRP: £39.99£36.71This book portrays aspects of the life of a community of over 1,200 Jews who were either born in Yemen, or who were, in 1975-77, the young sons and daughters of immigrants from Yemen. It contains implications for the important and currently debated topic... -
The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace by Michael Scott-Baumann 9781615199501
RRP: £16.95£11.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615199501Author Michael Scott-BaumannFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint ExperimentPublisher Experiment -
Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth by Noa Tishby
RRP: £10.99£7.25A "fascinating and very moving" (Aaron Sorkin, award-winning screenwriter of The West Wing and The Social Network) chronological timeline spanning from Biblical times to today that explores one of the most interesting countries in the... -
Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba by Teresa Aranguren 9781642599800
RRP: £35.00£24.04A unique, stunning collection of images of Palestine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and a testament to the vibrancy of Palestinian society prior to occupation.This book tells the story, in both English and Arabic, of a land full of... -
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance by Rashid I. Khalidi
RRP: £11.99£8.68THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Shortlisted for the 2020 Cundill History Prize 'Riveting and original ... a work enriched by solid scholarship, vivid personal experience, and acute appreciation of the concerns and aspirations of the contending parties... -
Battleground: 10 Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East by Christopher Phillips 9780300263428
RRP: £18.99£16.94The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire region. More than a decade ago, the Arab Spring had raised hopes of a new beginning but instead... -
A History of the Arab Peoples: Updated Edition by Albert Hourani
RRP: £14.99£10.05In 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... -
A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East’s Long War by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
RRP: £25.00£18.02SELECTED BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAUNTS BOOKS AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023ONE OF PROSPECT'S POLITICS & REPORTAGE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR'Exquisite . . . A genuine, melancholy masterpiece'... -
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes by Tamim Ansary
RRP: £14.99£8.37We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely different narrative for a thousand years. In Destiny Disrupted , Tamim Ansary tells the rich story of world... -
The One That Got Away by Chris Ryan
RRP: £10.99£8.02Eight members of the SAS set off on the mission. Only one evaded capture.This is his true story.The SAS mission conducted behind Iraqi lines is one of the most famous true stories of courage and survival in modern warfare. Late on the evening of 24... -
Black Sea: Coasts and Conquests: From Pericles to Putin by Neal Ascherson
RRP: £10.99£8.02Black Sea is a homage to an ocean and its shores and a meditation on Eurasian history, from the earliest times to the present. It explores the culture, history and politics of the volatile region which surrounds the Black Sea. Ascherson recalls the... -
Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities by Bettany Hughes
RRP: £14.99£9.97THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Life-filled and life-affirming history, steeped in romance and written with verve' GUARDIAN 'Richly entertaining and impeccably researched' Peter Frankopan Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories... -
Kings of Shanghai by Jonathan Kaufman
RRP: £12.99£8.48'A masterpiece of research, The Last Kings of Shanghai is a vivid and fascinating story of wealth, family intrigue, and political strategy on the world stage from colonialism to communism to globalized capitalism' Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of... -
Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia by Donald Rayfield
RRP: £17.99£13.35Georgia is the most Western-looking state in today's Near or Middle East and, despite having one of the longest, most turbulent histories in the Christian or Near Eastern world, no proper history of the country has been written for decades. Eminent... -
The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923 by Sean McMeekin
RRP: £16.99£12.28'An outstanding history ... one of the best writers on the First World War' Simon Sebag MontefioreShortlisted for the Duke of Westminster Medal for Military LiteratureThe Ottoman Endgame is the first, and definitive, single-volume history of the Ottoman... -
The Story of Israel: From Theodor Herzl to the Dream for Peace by Martin Gilbert
RRP: £20.00£13.09The Story of Israel is an illuminating book that explores the nation's history. Seventy years after Israel declared independence on 14 May 1948, the dramatic events before and since this point form an extraordinary period of history. From Theodor Herzl's... -
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence
RRP: £10.99£8.02Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the autobiographical account of T.E. Lawrence - also known as 'Lawrence of Arabia' - of his service in the Arab Revolt during the First World War, published in Penguin Modern Classics.Although 'continually and bitterly ashamed'... -
Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom by Norman Finkelstein 9780520318335
£18.12"In its comprehensive sweep, deep probing and acute critical analysis, Finkelstein's study stands alone."-Noam Chomsky "No one who ventures an opinion on Gaza . . . is entitled to do so without taking into account the evidence in this... -
The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire by Ryan Gingeras 9780141992778
RRP: £12.99£9.34'A tour de force of accessible scholarship' The Guardian'Impressive ... It is a complicated story that still reverberates, and Gingeras narrates it with lucid authority' New StatesmanThe Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history... -
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry That Unravelled the Middle East by Kim Ghattas
RRP: £12.99£8.43'Blistering' Sunday Times'Indispensable' Observer'Fascinating' The Times'Brilliant' Peter Frankopan'Revelatory' Lindsey HilsumA timely and unprecedented examination of how the modern Middle East unravelled, and why it started with the pivotal year of... -
The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories by Ilan Pappe 9781786073419
RRP: £12.99£9.34Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2017 A powerful, groundbreaking history of the Occupied Territories from one of Israel's most influential historians From the author of the bestselling study of the 1948 War of Independence comes an... -
The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition by Ibn Khaldun
£15.54The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406), this monumental work established the... -
Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore
RRP: £14.99£11.35A new, updated, revised edition of JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY, the wider history of the Middle East through the lens of the Holy City, from King David to today. The story of Jerusalem is the story of the world.Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital... -
The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Jonathan Schneer 9781408809709
RRP: £16.99£12.28In the middle of the First World War, the British War Cabinet approved and issued a statement in the form of a letter that encouraged the settlement of the Jewish people in Palestine. Signed by the Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour, the Balfour... -
The Sun Egg by Elsa Beskow 9781782507253
RRP: £12.99£10.21A mysterious orange egg has fallen into the woods. "It's a sun egg!" declares the elf who finds it nestled on the forest floor. Soon she and her friends discover what it really is; but not before the sun egg is lost and little elf begins a... -
The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories by Ilan Pappe
RRP: £20.00£14.69Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2017 A powerful, groundbreaking history of the Occupied Territories from one of Israel's most influential historians From the author of the bestselling study of the 1948 War of Independence comes an... -
Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
RRP: £18.00£12.84A SUNDAY TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR "Masterly and brilliant"-Simon Sebag Montefiore "A book of vast scope and stunning insight."-Anthony Sattin, Spectator "Commanding erudition and a swashbuckling style define this history of the Arabs"-Justin... -
The Crusader States by Malcolm Barber
RRP: £19.99£18.16The only full account of life and culture in the twelfth-century crusader states, where religious battles raged and civilizations collided When the armies of the First Crusade wrested Jerusalem from control of the Fatimids of Egypt in 1099, they... -
Policy of Deceit: Britain and Palestine, 1914-1939 by Peter Shambrook 9780861546329
RRP: £35.00£33.09‘The most comprehensive and incisive exposure of the origins of the British betrayal of Palestine’ Ilan Pappe In this eye-opening book, Peter Shambrook delves into the secret correspondence between the British High Commissioner in Egypt, Sir Henry... -
A History of the Ottoman Empire by Douglas A. Howard
RRP: £29.99£27.80Covering the full history of the Ottoman Empire, from its genesis in post-Mongol Eurasia to its dissolution after the Great War in Europe, this textbook takes a holistic approach, considering the Ottoman worldview - what it was, how it came together, and... -
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk 9781841150086
RRP: £19.99£13.73Robert Fisk's bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis. The history of the Middle East is an epic story of tragedy, betrayal and world-shaking... -
New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq by Orit Bashkin
£20.41Although Iraqi Jews saw themselves as Iraqi patriots, their community-which had existed in Iraq for more than 2,500 years-was displaced following the establishment of the state of Israel. New Babylonians chronicles the lives of these Jews, their urban... -
Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn by Daniel Gordis 9780062368751
£13.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062368751Author Daniel GordisFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria by Alia Malek
RRP: £13.99£9.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568588445Author Alia MalekFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 368gDimensions(mm) 155mm * 229mm *... -
Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappe
RRP: £10.99£9.19In this groundbreaking book, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation, the outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel. The... -
A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Second Edition by Mark Tessler 9780253220707
£31.99Mark Tessler's highly praised, comprehensive, and balanced history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the earliest times to the present-updated through the first years of the 21st century-provides a constructive framework for understanding recent...