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Task Force Black: The Explosive True Story of the Secret Special Forces War in Iraq

March 22, 2015

When American and British forces invaded Iraq in March 2003, select teams of special forces and intelligence operatives got to work looking for the WMD their governments had promised were there. They quickly realized no such weapons existed. Instead they faced an insurgency—a soaring spiral of extremism and violence that was almost impossible to understand, […]
Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel

March 22, 2015

2014 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Notable Book AwardIn Goliath, New York Times bestselling author Max Blumenthal takes us on a journey through the badlands and high roads of Israel-Palestine, painting a startling portrait of Israeli society under the siege of increasingly authoritarian politics as the occupation of the Palestinians deepens.Beginning with the national elections carried […]
Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World’s Most Notorious Nazi

March 22, 2015

Hunting Eichmann is the first complete narrative of a relentless and harrowing international manhunt. When the Allies stormed Berlin in the last days of the Third Reich, Adolf Eichmann shed his SS uniform and vanished. Following his escape from two American POW camps, his retreat into the mountains and out of Europe, and his path […]
The Trident: The Forging and Reforging of a Navy SEAL Leader

March 22, 2015

Decorated US Navy SEAL lieutenant Jason Redman served his country courageously and with distinction in Colombia, Peru, Afghanistan, and Iraq, where he commanded mobility and assault forces. He conducted over forty capture/kill missions with his men in Iraq, locating more than 120 al-Qaida insurgents. But his journey was not without supreme challenges—both emotional and physical. […]
Air Force: Eagle in the Sky (Israeli Air Force)

March 22, 2015

“Eagle in the Sky” is a story about an era of agony and victory and about generations of air fighters who etched a glorious chapter in the annals of air warfare and the Israeli Air Force – with incredible bravery, loyalty and professionalism, giving their hearts and souls and sometimes their lives, for a cause […]
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

March 22, 2015

In 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-old, journeyed to Israel, with the goal of seeing the beloved old stone house, with the lemon tree behind it, that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found the house he was greeted by Dalia Ashkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college […]
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics)

March 22, 2015

Hannah Arendt’s portrayal of the terrible consequences of blind obedience, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil contains an introduction by Amos Elon in Penguin Classics. Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi SS leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a […]
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West

March 22, 2015

A gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today.The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history and the end of the Byzantium Empire. Roger Crowley’s readable and comprehensive account of the battle between Mehmet II, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, and Constantine XI, […]
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East

March 22, 2015

Published with a new afterword from the author–the classic, bestselling account of how the modern Middle East was createdThe Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts–including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis, and the violent challenges posed by Iraq’s competing sects–are rooted in the […]

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