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Under a Mushroom Cloud : Europe, Iran and the bomb by Emanuele Ottolenghi
$20.00 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
Six years ago in Washington, the National Council of the Resistance in Iran (NCRI) revealed to a stunned world how advanced Iran's nuclear programme was. In just a few years, Tehran could have a nuclear arsenal. But the international community is divided on this threat. Russia and China view Iran as a t ...Show more
Military Lessons of the Gulf War by Bruce W. Watson
$10.00 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
WMD Mirage by WHITNEY CRAIG
$15.00 NZD
$54.99 (72% off)
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
The WMD Mirage features the soon-to-be-released official report from the bipartisan Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction-named by President Bush to try to prevent similar policy debacles in Iran and North Korea. It also includes the offi ...Show more
Explaining the Iraq War: Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence by Frank P. Harvey
$49.95 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
The almost universally accepted explanation for the Iraq War is very clear and consistent - the US decision to attack Saddam Hussein's regime on March 19, 2003 was a product of the ideological agenda, misguided priorities, intentional deceptions and grand strategies of President George W. Bush and promi ...Show more
Desert Shield to Desert Storm: Second Gulf War by Dilip Hiro
$19.95 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
During the first two weeks of the air campaign in January 1991, the allies dropped more conventional explosives on Iraq and Kuwait than in the whole of World War II. This book analyzes the complex political-economic motivation and diplomatic manoeuvring that preceded the 42-day conflict. The author show ...Show more
The War We Could Not Stop by R RAMESH
$20.00 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
'The first confirmed casualty of Operation Iraqi Freedom was neither Iraqi nor American nor even British. Ahmed al-Baz was a Jordanian taxi driver on the busy road from Baghdad to Amman. Nobody knows if he had time to be scared . . .' It took just three weeks for the second Gulf War to shake the world. ...Show more
The Gulf Conflict, 1990-91: Diplomacy and War in the New World Order by Lawrence Freedman
$39.95 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
This is an updated account of the events which led up to and followed Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. The authors aim to answer the many questions that still remain about the events of late 1990 and early 1991 - why did Saddam Hussein invade Kuwait, was a combination of sanctions and diplomacy a viable alter ...Show more
Target Basra by Mike Rossiter
$15.00 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
In the dead of night on 20 March 2003, Royal Navy Marines from 40 and 42 Commando board a fleet of twenty helicopters. With faces blackened and mouths dry at the thought of what lies ahead, they have been given the job of capturing the oil pipelines and pumping stations through which 90 per cent of Iraq ...Show more
The Iraq Wars and America's Military Revolution by Keith L. Shimko
$15.00 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
Many saw the United States' decisive victory in Desert Storm (1991) as not only vindication of American defense policy since Vietnam but also confirmation of a revolution in military affairs (RMA). Just as information-age technologies were revolutionizing civilian life, the Gulf War appeared to reflect ...Show more
Thunder Run : Three Days in the Battle for Baghdad by David Zucchino
$15.00 NZD
$39.95 (62% off)
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
This is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second 'Tusker' Brigade of the Third Infantry Division of the US Army punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high speed charge to Saddam Hussein's Presidential Palace.
The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
$10.00 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
* Many books have already been written about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and about the War on Terror - how they happened and why, how they've succeeded and failed. The Forever War is not that kind of book: rather than argument or hand-wringing, Dexter Filkins offers us a kaleidoscopic tour of the ...Show more
The March Up by Ray Smith
$5.00 NZD
Category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East and War on Terror
In the first book to come directly from the front lines of the war in Iraq, this is an insider's look at the dramatic sequence of events that unfolded during the 1st Marine Division's 22-day assault from Kuwait to Baghdad. Taking us straight to the front lines, The March Up follows the famed 1st Mar ...Show more