Samuel M Katz Key problems, conflicts, and decisions in Israel's past and present are analyzed in this fully documented, dramatic history of the turbulent events that have shaped the crisis...

Nicholas Blincoe The town of Bethlehem carries so many layers of meaning--some ancient, some mythical, some religious--that it feels like an unreal city, even to the people who call it...

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...

Laura Secor “Deeply moving…A first-rate, highly readable intellectual history.” – The Wall Street JournalThe drama that shaped today’s Iran, from the Revolution to the present day. In 1979, seemingly overnight—moving at...

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

Ahmed Rashid The classic account of America's experience in Afghanistan, explaining the rise of the Taliban in the aftermath of America's failed war on terrorism--essential reading to understand the collapse...

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...