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Father of Lions: How One Man Defied Isis and Saved Mosul Zoo by Louise Callaghan 9781789540772
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Callaghan's portrayal of a city under siege is many-layered and brilliantly told' Sunday Times Iraq, 2014 As ISIS laid terrible siege to Mosul, a zoo on the eastern edge of the Tigris was kept open against all odds. Under the stern hand of the... -
Father of Lions: How One Man Defied Isis and Saved Mosul Zoo by Louise Callaghan
RRP: £20.00£17.62'Callaghan's portrayal of a city under siege is many-layered and brilliantly told' Sunday Times Iraq, 2014 As ISIS laid terrible siege to Mosul, a zoo on the eastern edge of the Tigris was kept open against all odds. Under the stern hand of the... -
The Tablet of Destinies by Roberto Calasso 9780141998459
RRP: £10.99£7.77An immersive and mesmerizing narrative that reimagines the Mesopotamian myth of the Great FloodA long time ago, the gods grew tired of humans and decided to send a flood to destroy them. But Ea, the god of fresh underground water, didn't agree. He... -
Fighting for the French Foreign Legion: Memoirs of a Scottish Legionnaire by Alex Lochrie 9781783376155
RRP: £12.99£9.09The author describes how he joined the French Foreign Legion, without being able to speak any French and very close to the age limit. He takes the reader through the vigorous selection procedure, the relentless recruit regime and then elite Second... -
Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library: The Ashrafiya Library Catalogue Konrad Hirschler 9781474426398
RRP: £32.99£27.62This book discusses the largest and earliest medieval library of the Middle East for which we have documentation the Ashrafiya library in the very centre of Damascus and edits its catalogue.About the AuthorKonrad Hirschler is Professor of History of... -
The President's Gardens by Muhsin Al-Ramli
RRP: £8.99£6.20One Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Kite Runner in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. "A contemporary tragedy of epic proportions. No author is better placed than Muhsin Al-Ramli, already a star in the Arabic literary scene, to tell this story. I read it in one... -
Through the Lens: Latif Al Ani's Visions of Ancient Iraq by Pedro Azara 9780691973920
RRP: £35.00£27.74A beautifully illustrated exploration of how Latif Al Ani's photographs and contemporary Iraqi artists continue to challenge the colonial appropriation of Iraq's ancient pastBeginning in the early nineteenth century, Mesopotamian and early Islamic ruins... -
Pride and Power: A Modern History of Iraq by Johan Franzén
RRP: £75.00£66.39The story of Iraq is one of resistance. In this groundbreaking study, Johan Franzen offers a contextual modern history of the country, its creation and its struggle for sovereignty. Iraq's contemporary history is a tale of a diverse people thrown... -
The Secrets of Abu Ghraib Revealed: American Soldiers on Trial by Christopher Graveline 9781597974417
RRP: £31.00£25.00On April 28, 2004, 60 Minutes II broadcast the now-infamous photos of prisoner abuse by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib. The news quickly spread worldwide, undermining the U.S. presence in Iraq. Despite several Department of Defense investigations and... -
All Our Broken Idols by Paul M.M. Cooper
RRP: £9.99£8.77'Superbly told' The Times 'Richly imagined' Sunday Times 'An engrossing, seamlessly written deliberation on the enduring power of art' Mail on Sunday Assyria, in the reign of Ashurbanipal. For Aurya and Sharo, every day is a struggle for survival... -
The Iran-Iraq War: The Greatest Land War of the Late Twentieth Century by Tom Cooper
RRP: £59.95£35.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804511565Author Tom CooperFormat PaperbackImprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Challenger 2: British Main Battle Tank of the Gulf War by Robert Griffin 9781526756572
RRP: £16.99£12.28The pioneering tank crew of the First World War would be astonished by the advances made in the design of armoured fighting vehicles over the last 100 years which have resulted in the Challenger 2, the current main battle tank in service with the British... -
Iraq War: Operation Iraqi Freedom 2003 by Anthony Tucker-Jones 9781781591659
RRP: £16.99£12.28The Iraq War is a visual record of the American-led Operation Iraqi Freedom of 2003, which resulted in the dramatic overthrow of dictator Saddam Hussein. In a striking sequence of photographs Anthony Tucker-Jones shows how this was achieved by the... -
Desert Storm Volume 2: Operation Desert Storm and Aftermath by Ted Hooton
RRP: £16.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336356Author Ted HootonFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Murder of Al-Husayn: Maqtal Al-Husayn by Rafic Laboun 9780692587058
RRP: £14.00£12.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692587058Author Rafic LabounFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Fatima BooksPublisher Fatima BooksWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm -
The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq by Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt
RRP: £21.99£19.19A new history of Middle East oil and the deep roots of American violence in Iraq. Iraq has been the site of some of the United States' longest and most sustained military campaigns since the Vietnam War. Yet the origins of US involvement in the country... -
Enemy on the Euphrates: The Battle for Iraq, 1914-1921 by Ian Rutledge 9780863561702
RRP: £10.99£7.40In 1920 an Arab revolt came perilously close to inflicting a shattering defeat upon the British Empire's forces occupying Iraq after the Great War. A huge peasant army besieged British garrisons and bombarded them with captured artillery. British columns... -
We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah by Patrick O'Donnell
£11.19Five months after being deployed to Iraq, Lima Company's 1st Platoon, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, found itself in Fallujah, embroiled in some of the most intense house-to-house, hand-to-hand urban combat since World War II. In the city's bloody... -
The Iran-Iraq War - Volume 4: Iraq'S Triumph by Tom Cooper 9781911512455
RRP: £19.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911512455Author Tom CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer 9780571230440
RRP: £12.99£8.56The Assassins' Gate recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq. The consequences of that policy are shown in the author's vivid reporting on the ground in Iraq, where he... -
Only Cry For the Living: Memos from the ISIS Battlefield by Hollie S. McKay 9781942549635
RRP: £18.99£12.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942549635Author Hollie S. McKayFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint Di Angelo PublicationsPublisher Di Angelo Publications -
Baghdad at the Centre of a World, 8th-13th Century: An Introductory Textbook by Emily Selove 9781944296155
RRP: £25.74£19.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944296155Author Emily SeloveFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Theran PressPublisher Theran PressWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm -
Out of Iraq by Lewis Alsamari 9780552155397 [USED COPY]
£17.10Aged 17, Lewis Alsamari was conscripted into the Iraqi army. Things went from bad to worse once his superiors discovered his ability to speak English, and Lewis was selected for Saddam's elite, top secret intelligence service, an offer he literally could... -
The Conquest and Islamization of Iraq by Hüseyin Gökalp 9781666929270
RRP: £85.00£74.51This book examines the early Muslim conquests that started with the first caliph, Abu Bakr, and accelerated during the reign of the second caliph, Omar. During this time, the Sassanids were destroyed, the political and commercial order of Rome was turned... -
Law and (Dis)Order in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the 59th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale Held at Ghent, Belgium, 14-19 July 2013 by Katrien De Graef 9781575068428
RRP: £133.95£118.77Mesopotamia is often considered to be the birthplace of law codes. In recognition of this fact and motivated by the perennial interest in the topic among Assyriologists, the 59th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale was organized in Ghent in 2013... -
The Spymaster of Baghdad: A True Story of Bravery, Family, and Patriotism in the Battle Against Isis by Margaret Coker
RRP: £16.99£12.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062947413Author Margaret CokerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Dey Street BooksPublisher Dey Street BooksWeight(grams) 135g -
Untersuchungen Zur Transtextuellen Poetik: Assyrischer Herrschaftlich-Narrativen Texte by Johannes Bach
RRP: £64.95£55.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789521095030Author Johannes BachFormat PaperbackPage Count 552Imprint Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus ProjectPublisher Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus... -
Middle Babylonian Texts in the Cornell Collections, Part 2: The Earlier Kings by Elena Devecchi
RRP: £92.95£81.05This volume completes the publication of Middle Babylonian texts from the Rosen Collection that date to the Kassite period, a project that was initiated by Wilfred H. van Soldt with CUSAS 30 in 2015. In this book, Elena Devecchi provides full... -
From the Workshop of the Mesopotamian Scribe: Literary and Scholarly Texts from the Old Babylonian Period by Jacob Klein
RRP: £98.95£88.12This volume presents first editions of a variety of cuneiform tablets from the Old Babylonian period belonging to the collection of the late Shlomo Moussaieff. It makes available for the first time three texts representing varying levels of Mesopotamian... -
Ur in the Twenty-First Century CE: Proceedings of the 62nd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale at Philadelphia July 11-15, 2016 by Grant Frame
RRP: £108.95£96.79The city of Ur-now modern Tell el-Muqayyar in southern Iraq, also called Ur of the Chaldees in the Bible-was one of the most important Sumerian cities in Mesopotamia during the Early Dynastic Period in the first half of the third millennium BCE. The city... -
The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq by Patrick Cockburn 9781844671649
£19.85In February 2003, Patrick Cockburn secretly crossed the Tigris river from Syria into Iraq just before the US/British invasion, and has covered the war ever since. In The Occupation, he provides a vivid and disturbing picture of a country in turmoil, and... -
Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia by Zainab Saleh
RRP: £21.99£19.19With the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqis abroad, hoping to return one day to a better Iraq, became uncertain exiles. Return to Ruin tells the human story of this exile in the context of decades of U.S. imperial interests in Iraq-from the U.S. backing of... -
Poppies of Iraq by Brigitte Findakly 9781770462939
RRP: £17.99£12.14Poppies of Iraq is Brigitte Findakly s nuanced tender chronicle of her relationship with her homeland Iraq, co-written and drawn by her husband, the acclaimed cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. In spare and elegant detail, they share memories of her middle... -
Christianity in Iraq: From Tolerance to Massacre, Persecution and Genocide by Suha Rassam 9780852448595
£18.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852448595Author Suha RassamFormat PaperbackImprint GracewingPublisher GracewingWeight(grams) 508g -
An Introduction to Akkadian Literature: Contexts and Content by Alan Lenzi
RRP: £35.95£32.05This book initiates the reader into the study of Akkadian literature from ancient Babylonia and Assyria. With this one relatively short volume, the novice reader will develop the literary competence necessary to read and interpret Akkadian texts in... -
Reclaiming Iraq: The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern State by Abbas Kadhim
RRP: £19.99£17.54While some scholars would argue that there was no "Iraq" before King Faysal's coronation in 1921, Iraqi history spans fourteen centuries of tribal communities that endured continual occupation in their historic homeland, including Mongol invasions in the... -
War Crime or Just War?: The Iraq War: 2003-2005 by Nicholas Wood 9780952844310 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952844310Author Nicholas WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint South Hill PressPublisher South Hill Press -
Gilgamesh: A Captivating Guide to Gilgamesh the King and the Epic of Gilgamesh by Captivating History 9781647483531
RRP: £29.99£18.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647483531Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 102Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm)... -
Learning from the History of British Interventions in the Middle East by Louise Kettle 9781474437967
RRP: £27.99£26.01Drawing on a wealth of previously unseen documents, sourced by Freedom of Information requests, together with interviews with government and intelligence agency officials, Louise Kettle questions whether the British government has learned anything from... -
When All the Lands Were Sea: A Photographic Journey Into the Lives of the Marsh Arabs of Iraq by Tor Eigeland 9781566569828
RRP: £19.99£19.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566569828Author Tor EigelandFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, IncWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm)...