James Fergusson In April 2006 a small British peace-keeping force was sent to Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. Within weeks they were cut off and besieged by some of the...

David Fromkin The critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling account of how the modern Middle East came into being after World War I, and why it is in upheaval todayIn...

Jack Fairweather Tony Blair always claimed that history would judge his decision to invade Iraq. This revelatory and at times jaw-dropping account of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan reveals...

Naomi Comay December 31, 2005 by Printing Miracles

Barbara W Tuchman From Barbara W. Tuchman, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August , comes history thru a wide-angle a fascinating chronicle of Britain’s long relationship with Palestine...

Elias Chacour As a child, Elias Chacour lived in a small Palestinian village in Galilee. The townspeople were proud of their ancient Christian heritage and lived at peace with their...

Ann Voskamp and Tonia Peckover Explore the Holy Land Includes CD April 30, 2008 by Bramley Books

Ralph S Hattox Drawing on the accounts of early European travelers, original Arabic sources on jurisprudence and etiquette, and treatises on coffee from the period, the author recounts the colorful...

Toby Harnden January 1, 2011 by Quercus

Nikolaos Van Dam Following the Arab Spring, Syria descended into civil and sectarian conflict. It has since become a fractured warzone which operates as a breeding ground for new terrorist...

Neil Asher Silberman A study of the beginnings of biblical archaeology examines its historical background and the cultural conditions which influenced its development. January 1, 1982 by Knopf

Donald B Redford Covering the time span from the Paleolithic period to the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C., the eminent Egyptologist Donald Redford explores three thousand years of uninterrupted...