King's Counsel: A Memoir of War, Espionage, and Diplomacy in the Middle East, Hardcover - Jack O'Connell

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Saudi Arabia, with its US alliance and abundance of oil dollars, has a very different economic story to that of Iran, which despite enormous natura...

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The 1970s Middle East conflict is the setting for this high-octane thriller by the author of The Chill Factor.

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Through the narrations of war-injured individuals and MSF humanitarian workers, the book explores healing and rehabilitation process in all its com...

This important reference offers readers a thorough understanding of the nature of the various conflicts that have erupted in the Middle East and No...

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Double Cross in Cairo uncovers the heroic exploits of one of the Second World War's most closely guarded secrets.

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Can you hear it, the hiss of water wiggling its way out into the world uncaptured, wasted, wanton? British-Egyptian Sabrina Mahfouz grew up with am...

The story of the First World War in the Middle East - and how it swept away five hundred years of Ottoman rule to lay the foundations for the troub...