| 1. |  | The Places In Between
from Harvest Books
Price: $11.20
Customer Review:
I read this book right after having seen "Charlie Wilson's War", so the impact on my knowledge of Afghanistan is probably influenced by the light and ironic interpretation of the movie.
Rory Stewart a journalist and former fellow of the Carr Center for Human Right's Policy has written a diary... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq
from Harcourt
Price: $8.49
Customer Review:
I cannot recommend Mr. Stewart's book highly enough. He was deputy governor of a region in Iraq for a year, starting late 2003.
A British national with a great deal of experience in Asia and the Middle East (he walked across Afghanistan in 2002, and recounted the experience in The Places in... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | Arabian Sands (Penguin Classics)
from Penguin Classics
Price: $10.20
Customer Review:
I live most of the year in Saudi Arabia and saw this book at a local bookstore. I was attracted by the cover, reviews, inside photography, and the author's opening comments. I purchased it hoping I would get a greater understanding of the world I live in before the influence of Western... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | The Road to Oxiana
from Oxford University Press, USA
Price: $10.85
Customer Review:
Byron had an hysterical knack for seeing right into the souls of the various persons he met on his journeys...it didn't matter who the person was or of what ethnic group or nationality - none were spared the naked opinions of Mr. Byron, and the result is perhaps one of the best books I have read in... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | Places in Between
from Harcourt
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| 6. |  | From Africa to Afghanistan: With Richards and Nato to Kabul
from Witwatersrand University Press
Price: $24.23
Customer Review:
The title of Mills' book has an imperial ring to it, as Christopher Coker of the London School of Economics tells us, for there is something intrepid about the author, who traveled from his native South Africa to Afghanistan to serve as a senior civilian advisor to General David Richards, North... more info | 2.5 / 5.0
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| 7. | ![]() | The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq
from Recorded books
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| 8. |  | Occupational Hazards: My Time Governing in Iraq
from Picador
Customer Review:
This is a great book but be warned - this is published under another title: "The Prince of the Marshes". "Occupational Hazards" is the UK version of the book.
That being said, if the Iraq war interests you in any way, even if you are a partisan of the pro-war or anti-war persuasion, read this... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | The Prince of Marshes
from Penguin
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| 10. |  | The Prince of the Marshes
from Houghton Mifflin
Price: $8.80
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