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THE MIDDLE EAST IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS by Fred Halliday CUP, 16.99 £, pp. 392, ISBN 0521597412 For many people in the West, the Middle East is a source of perplexity [...]

THE PRINCE by William Simpson Harper Collins, £19.99, pp. 480, ISBN 9780060899868 . £15.99 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, the Talleyrand of […]

THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ : WINNING THE WAR, LOSING THE PEACE by Ali A. Allawi Yale, £18.99, pp. 518, ISBN 9780300110159 . £15.19 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 Ali […]

THE TRIBES TRIUMPHANT : RETURN JOURNEY TO THE MIDDLE EAST by Charles Glass HarperCollins, £25, pp. 472, ISBN 0007131623 . £20 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 Charles Glass, an [...]

BUNKER 13 By Aniruddha Bahal. 345 pp. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $24. THE novel of espionage appears to do best when powerful nations think they are doing badly. [...]

John Buchan: Model Governor General by J. William Galbraith Dundurn, 26.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 533, ISBN 9781459709379 Spectator Bookshop, 25.99 [pounds sterling] When John Buchan was appointed Governor General of [...]

JAMES BUCHAN on the reviled historian David Irving -- 'half scholar, but the wrong halves' THE HOLOCAUST ON TRIAL: HISTORY, JUSTICE AND THE DAVID IRVING LIBEL CASE D D Guttenplan [...]

NAZI PROPAGANDA FOR THE ARAB WORLD by Jeffrey Herf Yale University Press, 20 £, pp. 335, ISBN 9780300145793 For the impartial reader, this book is doubly disagreeable. An account of [...]

Crude World: the Violent Twilight of Oil Peter Maass Allen Lane, 288pp, [pounds sterling]20 The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions [...]

ORIGINS: A MEMOIR by Amin Maalouf, translated by Catherine Temerson Picador, 16.99 £, pp. 404, ISBN 9780330442480 [telephone] 13.59 £ (plus 2.45 £ p&p) 0870 429 6655 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The [...]

OSAMA: THE MAKING OF A TERRORIST by Jonathan Randal 1. B. Tauris, 15 £, pp. 346, ISBN 03 75708235 [telephone] 12 £ (plus 2.45 £ p&p) 0870 429 6655 Osama: [...]

THE UNFOLDING OF LANGUAGE by Guy Deutscher Heinemann. 20 £, pp. 360, ISBN 0434011355 * 18 £ (plus 2.25 £ p&p) 0870 800 4848 The origin of language is one [...]

FROM BABEL TO DRAGOMANS by Bernard Lewis Weidenfeld, 20 £, pp. 438, ISBN 0297848844 Now in his late eighties, Bernard Lewis is one of the last representatives of a once […]

On Glasgow and Edinburgh by Robert Crawford Belknap Press, Harvard University, $35, pp. 344. ISBN 9780674048881 Glasgow and Edinburgh are so nearby that even in the 18th-century Adam Smith could [...]

The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack Obama by Michael Gordon and Bernard Trainor Atlantic Books, 30 £, pp. 779, ISBN [...]

The Shah by Abbas Milani Palgrave Macmillan, 14.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 496, ISBN 9781403971937 Towards Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (1919-1980), the last or most recent Shah of Iran, there are two [...]

CROSSING MANDELBAUM GATE by Kai Bird Simon & Schuster, 17.99 £, pp. 424, ISBN 978184737933 As a five-year-old in the Arab quarter of Jerusalem in the 1950s, Kai Bird overheard [...]

The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism David Harvey Profile Books, 256pp, [pounds sterling]14.99 The prevailing ideology of the modern west--which is political economy--is in the doghouse. Having [...]