North Africa Books


They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan Best Price: $7.68 My favorite little independent bookshop, Latitude 33, recommended I read this when they found...	An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy (The Liberation Trilogy) Best Price: $8.57 The North African campaign has always been overshadowed by the European and Pacific theaters -...	The Wretched of the Earth Best Price: $7.91 Frantz Fanon's political commentary on colonization is the perfect example of revolutionary...	A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 (New York Review Books Classics) Best Price: $8.98 I read Horne's book on Paris and loved it, so I was anxious to read more of his work. This is a...	Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond Best Price: $4.24 Read and be very upset, just like reading about the atrocities being committed against the...



Darfur: A New History of a Long War (African Arguments) Best Price: $11.04 People professionally concerned with genocide prevention and Darfur recommended this short but...	The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality Best Price: $10.11 Don't let the title fool you. Especially if you already believe that Euro-centric history is...	The Rough Guide to Morocco Best Price: $13.74 During a recent visit to Morocco, hitchhiking across the whole of the country from north to...	Emma's War Best Price: $5.00 Nearly a score of years after the events so intimately revealed in this book, the war in the...	White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam's One Million White Slaves Best Price: $6.24 It is obviously an important story and much needed of getting out there to the general reader....



The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan Best Price: $8.99 Warning!!! Don't buy the edition of 'The River War' published by Wildside Press (ISBN...	The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur Best Price: $8.81 This is only the second book to make me furious and wanting to go out and take action. To allow...	The Golden Age of the Moor (Journal of African Civilizations, Vol 11, Fall 1991) Best Price: $20.95 Since when does research done uses ancient historical sources become revisionist. Maybe to those...	Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide, Revised and Updated Edition Best Price: $14.76 Very precise, very clear book. And necessary for anyone who wants to try to understand something...	A Dying Colonialism Best Price: $5.20 The results of this glorious de-colonisation is that since the french have left --over 250.000...

Morocco: The Islamist Awakening and Other Challenges Best Price: $7.00 This isn't a straight history book. It's not really a journalistic piece. It's a combination of...	Rommel's Afrika Korps: Tobruk to El Alamein (Battle Orders) Best Price: $4.50 This is another excellent Osprey publication. As an historical wargamer I have found the Battle...	Libya: From Colony to Independence (Oneworld Short Histories) Best Price: $13.57 In the past half-century, Libya's history has been dominated by the figure of Mu'ammar...	The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt Best Price: $7.54 I expected to really enjoy this book as I found the subject fascinating and new to me. ...	The Journey of the Lost Boys: A Story of Courage, Faith and the Sheer Determination to Survive by a Group of Young Boys Called "The Lost Boys of Sudan" Best Price: $11.00 I have just ordered my third copy of this book as friends are eager to borrow it once they take...

Victory in Tripoli: How America's War with the Barbary Pirates Established the U.S. Navy and Shaped a Nation Best Price: $13.86 Excellent book, despite being about the Navy growing and protecting the Merchant Marine....	Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed Best Price: $21.26 * Three maps * Seventeen plates * Helpful Arabic glossary * Twenty two pages of footnotes *...	Three Empires on the Nile: The Victorian Jihad, 1869-1899 Best Price: $6.95 This concise and well-written book brings together strands of history from other books about the...	Cannae: Hannibal's Greatest Victory (Phoenix Press) Best Price: $6.82 Cannae by Adrian Goldsworthy proves to be an excellent book on the one of the greatest tactical...	Sudan: Race, Religion and Violence Best Price: $11.90 This is one of the most important books on Sudan to come out in recent years and to highlight...

Massacre at Tobruk: The British Assault on Rommel, 1942 (Stackpole Military History Series) Best Price: $10.18 In the late summer of 1942, Rommel's Afrika Korps stood perilously close to breaking through to...	The War Against Rommel's Supply Lines, 1942-43 (Stackpole Military History Series) Best Price: $10.99 Alan Levine's "The War Against Rommel's Supply Lines" (2008 reprint 230-page...	Timbuktu: The Sahara's Fabled City of Gold Best Price: $12.95 _Timbuktu_ by Marq De Villiers and Sheila Hirtle is an engaging history of that fabled Saharan...	Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya Best Price: $7.95 Ms. Elkins does a good job of writing the story of the Mau-Mau rebellion, which was as she puts...	The Battle of the Casbah: Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Algeria 1955-1957 Best Price: $7.47 First, I must admit I've not read the English translation of this book. I read the 2001 Perrin...

The End of Barbary Terror: America's 1815 War against the Pirates of North Africa Best Price: $5.95 While many might believe that the American entanglement with the Islamic world began with the...	A History of Modern Libya Best Price: $3.97 Libya has recently emerged from its diplomatic and economic isolation. It has settled its scores...	Khartoum: The Ultimate Imperial Adventure Best Price: $10.28 To understand the troubles that sprang from the deserts in the last decade, one might trace...	Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity) Best Price: $25.84 Marnia Lazreg is a Professor in the Sociology Department at Hunter College, the City University...	War in Darfur and the Search for Peace (Studies in Global Equity, Darfur) Best Price: $20.00 This important book rbings together the scholarship of many authors to offer insight into all...

My Battle of Algiers: A Memoir Best Price: $4.42 This was a great book! The author presented an evenhanded and accurate account of events. I...	Rommel's Desert War: The Life and Death of the Afrika Korps (Stackpole Military History Series) (Stackpole Military History Series) Best Price: $6.46 It is a very well written book. Not only the history of the North African campaign was...	Exit Rommel: The Tunisian Campaign, 1942-43 (Stackpole Military History) Best Price: $6.52 Bruce Watson's "Exit Rommel" (2007, 220-page paperback) brings a new look to the...	Hanging by a Thread: Cotton, Globalization, and Poverty in Africa (Ohio RIS Global Series) Best Price: $19.99 The textile industry was one of the first manufacturing activities to become organized globally,...	Hannibal's Last Battle: Zama and the Fall of Carthage Best Price: $17.16 The Decisive Engagement Between Rome and Carthage that Determined the Future of the...

Coptic Christology in Practice: Incarnation and Divine Participation in Late Antique and Medieval Egypt (Oxford Early Christian Studies) Best Price: $102.28 Coptic Christology in Practice forges a new path in the study of ancient and medieval...	Genocide in Darfur: Investigating the Atrocities in the Sudan Best Price: $31.76 Let me state for the record, that as a whole, I am not an avid reader;but when I find a book...	Ancient Nubia: Egypt's Rival in Africa Best Price: $29.99 This book, divided in two sections, was compiled during the course of the 1993 exhibition of the...	Emma's War: An Aid Worker, a Warlord, Radical Islam, and the Politics of Oil--A True Story of Love and Death in Sudan Best Price: $8.52 The best thing "Emma's War" by Deborah Scroggins accomplishes is to highlight the...	Morocco: From Empire to Independence Best Price: $11.91 The content of this book is valuable and a worthwhile addition to the world's research on...

The Performance Of Human Rights In Morocco (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights) Best Price: $23.38 Since independence in 1956, large numbers of Moroccans have been forcibly disappeared, tortured,...	From Africa to America: The Journey of a Lost Boy of Sudan Best Price: $5.39 We have been aware of the lost boys for many years but have not known much detail of this epic...	The Rough Guide to Tunisia 7 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) Best Price: $10.51 I'm a editor in Sweden and purchased this guide (together with Lonely Planet Tunisia) after my...	A History of Modern Tunisia Best Price: $23.30 Kenneth Perkins' book traces the history of Tunisia from the mid-nineteenth century to the...	The River War Best Price: $12.89 An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan. 1902 Edition

Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa Best Price: $22.22 Nineteenth-century French writers and travelers imagined Muslim colonies in North Africa to be...	Architecture And Tourism in Italian Colonial Libya: An Ambivalent Modernism (Studies in Modernity and National Identity) Best Price: $50.00 If you are a student or admirer of colonial Italian architecture, then this book is a must. ...	Rommel's North Africa Campaign: September 1940-november 1942 (Great Campaigns) Best Price: $15.19 This is the most information packed book I have ever seen on the desert war (and its from an IT...	Lyautey and the French Conquest of Morocco Best Price: $85.00 Lyautey and the French Conquest of Morocco describes and analyzes the method of colonial...	Conquest of the Sahara Best Price: $22.95 This book attempts to answer the question of why and how the French army took control of the...

Modern Algeria: The Origins And Development of a Nation Best Price: $18.03 Ruedy builds his history of modern Algeria the old-fashioned way, from the ground up, focusing...	Morocco: Globalization and Its Consequences (Mapping the Global Spaces) Best Price: $24.42 The authors discuss the complex ways that globalisation has affected Morocco. There are multiple...

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