Asian / Middle Eastern History: Postwar, From C 1945 -
BIC code: HBFW3
See also: History & Archaeology
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£12.99After They Killed Our Father: A Refugee From The Killing Fields Reunites With The Sister She Left Behind - - Hardback
Loung Ung picks up where the bestselling 'First They Killed My Father' left off, with her escape from a devastated Cambodia in 1980 at the age of 10, flying to the US as a refugee. The book follows the parallel lives of Loung and her closest sister, Chou, during the 15 years it took for them to be reunited. -
£9.99Before The Taliban: Living With War, Hoping For Peace - - Paperback
The women of Afghanistan have long had to struggle with cultural and religious oppression but the rise of Islamic fundamentalism curtailed these rights further. Mary Smith offers an insight into women's lives before and after the Taliban's rise to power. -
£7.99The Boys From Baghdad: From The Foreign Legion To The Killing Fields Of Iraq - - Paperback
This is an action-packed account of life as a soldier of fortune in the most controversial conflict of our age. Simon Low's eyewitness descriptions of Iraq as it spirals into bloody chaos provide a unique, uncompromising insight into the theatre of war. -
£9.99The Boys From Baghdad: From The Foreign Legion To The Killing Fields Of Iraq - - Paperback
Simon Low presents a fast-moving, first-hand account of a hired gun's experiences in Iraq. -
£17.99Condor Blues: British Soldiers At War - - Hardback
'Condor Blues' offers an account of soldiering in the world's most incendiary climate of Iraq focusing on the lives of two platoons based at the isolated Camp Condor in Iraq's Maysan Province. -
£7.99Condor Blues: British Soldiers At War - - Paperback
'Condor Blues' offers an account of soldiering in the world's most incendiary climate of Iraq focusing on the lives of two platoons based at the isolated Camp Condor in Iraq's Maysan Province. -
£7.99The Deniable Agent: Undercover In Afghanistan - - Paperback
Revealing the truth about what happened in the Intercontinental Hotel and how Colin Berry spent nearly a year in a stinking Afghan jail, being beaten and tortured, this title criticises the efforts of the British Embassy in Kabul, and argues that they could have done much more to get Berry out. -
£7.99First They Killed My Father: A Daughter Of Cambodia Remembers - - Paperback
From a childhood survivor of Cambodia's brutal Pol Pot regime comes a narrative of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl and her family, and their triumph of spirit. -
£7.99Jihad!: The Secret War In Afghanistan - - Paperback
Jihad! provides an account of combat espionage & high adventure, against the backdrop of the last truly wild and lawless country on earth. It sheds light on the sharp edge of the Cold War and the conduct of special operations in the modern era. -
£16.99Jihad!: The Secret War In Afghanistan - - Hardback
In Jihad! Tom Carew describes how, as a serving member of the SAS, he helped the Mujahideen fight the Afghan and Soviet governments' forces during the 1980s.