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13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi.13 Hours presents, for the first time ...
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13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi. 13 Hours presents, for the first time e...
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A Dying Colonialism
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Frantz Fanon's seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution. Psychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fano...
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A Brief History of the Mediterranean: Indispensable for Travellers
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A wonderfully concise and readable, yet comprehensive, history of the Mediterranean Sea, the perfect companion for any visitor — or indeed, anyon...
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Algeria and France, 1800-2000: Identity, Memory, Nostalgia
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /The relationship between Algeria and France that formed during the 132 years of colonial rule did not end in 1962 when Algeria gained its indepen...
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Algerian Diary: Frank Kearns and the "Impossible Assignment" for CBS News
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Frank Kearns was the go-to guy at CBS News for danger- ous stories in Africa and the Middle East in the 1950s, ‘60s, and early ‘70s. By his own a...
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Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The ancient Egyptians are an enduring source of fascination -- mummies and pyramids, curses ...
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Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness
HardcoverOriginal price $37.99Original price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Since the Second World War, Arab armed forces have consistently punched below their weight. They have lost many wars that by all rights they should...
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Back From Tobruk
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In 1941 photographer Croswell Bowen joined American Field Service volunteer ambulance drivers and served alongside the British Eighth Army during...
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Barbary Captives: An Anthology of Early Modern Slave Memoirs by Europeans in North Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans, both male and female, were abducted by pirates, sold on the slave market, and ensla...
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Byzantine Cavalryman Vs Vandal Warrior: North Africa Ad 533-36
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00Original price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Fully illustrated, this enthralling study explores how the Vandals in North Africa attempted to defend their kingdom against the resurgent Byzantin...
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Darfur: A 21st Century Genocide
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Praise for the 2005 Edition: "A passionate and highly readable account of the current tragedy that combines intimate knowledge of the region's hist...
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Great Kingdoms of Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A groundbreaking, sweeping overview of the great kingdoms in African history and their legacies, written by world-leading experts. This is the fir...
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Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$135.99$135.99 - $135.99Current price $135.99| /Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia by Nigusie Kassaye W. Michael examines the political history of the last Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie ...
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I Am Still with You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance, and History
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /"Powerful and transcendent" --Chigozie Obioma "Both epic and intimate" --Margo Jefferson A deeply moving, lyrical journey through the author's ho...
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Killing Contention: Demobilization in Morocco During the Arab Spring
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Like other countries in the Middle East and North Africa, Moroccans were inspired by the events in Tunisia and Egypt in 2011. Nine days after the o...
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Out of Exile: Narratives from the Abducted and Displaced People of Sudan
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /Millions of people have fled from conflicts and persecution in all parts of this Northeast African country, and many thousands more have been ensla...
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Rosa's Bus
HardcoverOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Set in the present day, Rosa's Bus tells the story of an old man and his young nephew visiting the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan. Rosa Parks, now a...
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Subversives and Mavericks in the Muslim Mediterranean: A Subaltern History
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Subaltern studies, the study of non-elite or underrepresented people, have revolutionized the writing of Middle Eastern history. Subversives and ...
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The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Churchill's first major historical work is still considered one of his most riveting. -- Library JournalIt's a great read. -- The Washington Examin...
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The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars: Old Wars and New Wars [Expanded 3rd Edition]
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Expanded third edition of this key text on the complex underlying conditions of the civil war from the 1960s to the present day, including a new ...
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Understanding Revolutions: Opening Acts in Tunisia
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Based on empirical and theoretical investigation, and original insight into how a local protest movement developed into a revolution that changed a...
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War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this World War II military history, Rommel's army is a day from Cairo, a week from Tel Aviv, and the SS is ready for action. Espionage brought t...
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Women, Gender, and the Palace Households in Ottoman Tunisia
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /In this first in-depth study of the ruling family of Tunisia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Kallander investigates the palace as a sit...
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