 | The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
Buy new: £7.79 / Used from: £6.50 Robert Fisk is Humanity's Witness to the unspeakable attrocities committed in the last 50 years. A modern day sage.
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 | Behind the War on Terror: Western Secret Strategy and the Struggle for Iraq by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
Buy new: £8.37 / Used from: £4.99 Nafeez Mosaddeq applys the Occams Razor to political analysis. His blade is so sharp it cuts away all the misinformation about Iraq.
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 | The Clash of Civilizations: And the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington
Buy new: £4.57 / Used from: £5.02 The bible of the neo-cons. They didn't light the fire, just added tons of dynamite to it...
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 | Hegemony or Survival : America's Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky
Buy new: £3.58 / Used from: £2.25 Chomsky. One of the many 'left' intellectuals who oppose the neo-con agenda with facts. Informative though sometimes a bit dull...
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 | Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror by Michael Scheuer
Buy new: £2.68 / Used from: £2.41 A CIA insider's point of view regarding the "war on terror". An analysis of al Qaida and UBL, and the rational basis for their motivations and strategies.
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 | Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World by Edward W. Said
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.30 A Great work from the pen of the late Edward Said. Describes in detail how a large section of the media manipulates information regarding Islam and Muslims for a desired end. Train to hate...
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 | The Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire by Arundhati Roy
Buy new: £4.01 / Used from: £3.55 Roy is another 'left' intellectual who opposes the neo-con/corporate agenda in these collection of dynamic essays. She's also a talented writer and activist who stands up while others just talk.
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 | The World is Flat: The Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century by Thomas Friedman
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £6.59 Interesting in parts, even if a bit of propaganda. Globalisation seems to be an irreversible process. Who are the winners and who are the losers? Where is it heading? Doesn't answer this..
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 | Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power by Victor Davis Hanson
Buy new: £6.13 / Used from: £3.98 Hanson is a military historian who describes with the help of landmark battles (i.e. 'the ones we won') to prove that the 'West' will crush all enemies.This could be renamed 'Resistance is futile'
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 | Tactics of the Crescent Moon: Militant Muslim Combat Methods by H. John Poole
Buy new: £7.62 / Used from: £6.85 Poole is no armchair historian. A US army marines trainer. He understands the effectivness of the Attrition model of warfare. Some startling conclusions that are coming true in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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 | Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism by Robert Anthony Pape
Buy used from: £6.05 Facts, facts, facts. And then some more facts. What is 'suicide'? what is 'suicide bombing'? Confused? Pape, a professor of political science is an expert on the subject. Available at Amazon.com
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 | The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Buy new: £2.85 / Used from: £3.64 The comprehensive masterpiece on War and its strategies.
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 | War Is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated General by Smedley D. Butler
Buy new: £2.21 / Used from: £3.22 A popular American General tells it like it is. Remember that war is a racket, a deception, conducted for the benefit of the few. Thats why you need 'trigger events' to generate mass hysteria.
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 | Sharing the Promised Land: Interwoven Tale of Israelis and Palestinians by Dilip Hiro
The Israeli-Palestinian Imbroglio from a neutral point of view. The fire will continue to rage until this problem is resolved.
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 | Forcing God's Hand: Why Millions Pray for a Quick Rapture and Destruction of Planet Earth by Grace Halsell
Buy new: £6.13 / Used from: £6.81 There are some powerful groups in USA who dream of Armageddon and who want to quicken it, bring it about. This is a fact. You know Who Mr Walker belongs to this cult.
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 | The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Saqi Essentials)
Buy new: £10.49 / Used from: £4.95 History time. Amin Maalouf is one of my favourite writers of historical fiction. Here he writes the defintive historical account of the Crusades as written by the Arab chroniclers.
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 | The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.66 Can't be interested in history and not read Gibbon. Covers the rise of Islam, the Crusades, Mongols and the fall of Byzantium.
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 | A History of Civilizations by Fernand Braudel
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £4.00 A good overview, written some years ago, so some bias is obvious. Was it in this book that I read that Europe is not a seperate continent but a peninsula of Asia? Puts things in perspective.
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 | A Short History of the World (Penguin Classics) by H.G. Wells
Buy new: £4.51 / Used from: £7.71 Another very good history book, written by a visionary. Broad in scope and well written, I enjoyed it.
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 | Millennium: A History of Our Last Thousand Years by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Buy used from: £0.64 An epic take on history of the last 1000 years, viewed in snapshots of different eras. The historian takes a long term perspective (imagine viewing the events from sometime far in the future).
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 | From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest by T. Z. Lavine
Buy new: £1.56 / Used from: £0.06 An engrossing book on philosophy. I really enjoyed it when I first read it many years ago. First time I heard of Descartes, Hume, Hegel, Sartre, etc. I learnt to ask 'How do you know?'
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 | The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History. (Abridged Edition): An Introduction to History (Bollingen Series (General)) by Ibn Khaldun
Buy new: £9.90 / Used from: £10.98 What is history? How do you study and analyze societies? The insights of Ibn Khaldun, while well known in academia are generally unknown to the public. He defined it. A political Scientist of Genius.
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 | The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization: The Classical Age of Islam Vol 1 (Venture of Islam) by Marshall G.S. Hodgson
Buy new: £13.00 / Used from: £16.91 A masterful 'trilogy' on the history of Islam. A detailed account and a great historical work equal to that of Gibbon
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