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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... |
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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.... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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 |
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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... |
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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... | | | |