by Robert Fisk
Bibliographies, like dictatorships, lack perfection. Does a biography of Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, fall under “Palestine” or “Middle East History”? Do books on the Iran–Iraq War come under Iran or Iraq? I have included one work on the execution of deserters in the 1914–18 war and another on the Chinese labour force in the same conflict— both of which are relevant to the chapter on my soldier father. Clearly, they fall under no Middle East category. I have tried, therefore, to list books and documents under subjects as well as countries so that the reader can search for them more easily.
General
Charney, Israel. Encyclopaedia of Genocide, 2 vols. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 1999.
Chomsky, Noam. Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance. London: Hamish Hamilton, 2003.
——. 9/11. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2001.
——. Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World A fairs. London: Pluto Press, 2000.
——. World Orders, Old and New. London: Pluto Press, 1994.
Dallas, Roland. King Hussein: A Life on the Edge. London: Profile Books, 1999.
Ghadaffi, Moammar. Escape to Hell and Other Stories. London: Blake, 1999.
Gilbert, Martin. The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy. London: Collins, 1986.
Halliday, Fred. Two Hours That Shook the World: September 11, 2001: Causes and Consequences. London: Saqi Books, 2002.
Kalashnikov, Mikhail. From a Stranger’s Doorstep to the Kremlin Gates: A Word from the AK Man. Moscow: Military Parade Ltd., 1997.
Makiya, Kanan. Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising and the Arab World. London: Jonathan Cape, 1993.
Meissonnier, Martin, Frédéric Loore, and Roger Trilling. Uranium Appauvri: La Guerre Invisible. Paris: Laffont, 2001.
Minghella, Anthony. The English Patient (screenplay). London: Methuen, 1997.
Morris, James. The Market of Seleukia. London: Faber & Faber, 1957.
Rodinson, Maxime. Mohammed. London: Penguin, 1971.
Ruthven, Malise. Islam in the World. London: Penguin, 1984.
Said, Edward. Orientalism. New York: Vintage Books, 1979.
Steinbeck, John. Once There Was a War. London: William Heinemann, 1959.
Summerskill, Michael. China on the Western Front: Britain’s Chinese Work Force in the First World War. London: Michael Summerskill, 1982.
Woodhouse, C. M. Something Ventured. London: Granada, 1982.
Yallop, David. To the Ends of the Earth: The Hunt for the Jackal. London: Corgi, 1994.
Middle East History
Antonius, George. The Arab Awakening: The Story of the Arab National Movement. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1969.
Armstrong, Karen. Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today’s World. London: Paper-mac Macmillan, 1991.
Chomsky, Noam. Middle East Illusions. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.
——. Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhood. London: Fontana/Collins, 1974.
Cohen, Michael J. Palestine: Retreat from the Mandate, The Making of British Police 1936–1945. London: Paul Elek, 1978.
Cooper, Artemis. Cairo in the War 1939–1945. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1989.
Cragg, Kenneth. The Arab Christian: A History in the Middle East. London: Mowbray/Cassell, 1992.
Fournie, Pierre, and Jena-Louis Riccioli. La France et le Proche-Orient 1916–1946: Une chronique photographique de la présence française en Syrie et au Liban, en Palestine, au Hedjaz et en Cilicie. Tournai, Belgium: Department Beaux-Livres/Voyage des Editions Casterman, 1996.
Fromkin, David. A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East 1914–1922. London: André Deutsch, 1989.
Gouraud, Philippe. Le General Henri Gouraud au Liban et en Syrie 1919–1923 . Paris: l’Harmattan, 1993.
Green, Stephen. Living by the Sword: America and Israel in the Middle East 1968–1987. London: Faber & Faber, 1988.
Heikal, Mohamed. Sphinx and Commissar: The Rise and Fall of Soviet Influence in the Middle East. London: Collins, 1978.
Hirst, David. The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East. London: Faber & Faber, 1984; and New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, Nation Books, 2003.
Housepian, Marjorie. Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a City. London: Faber & Faber, 1972.
Howard, Harry N. The King-Crane Commission: An American Enquiry into the Middle East. Beirut: Khayats, 1963.
Maalouf, Amin. The Crusades Through Arab Eyes. New York: Schocken Books, 1984.
Menocal, Maria Rosa. The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain. New York: Little, Brown, 2002.
Runciman, Steven. A History of the Crusades, 3 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951, 1952, 1954.
Shlaim, Avi. The Politics of Partition: King Abdullah, the Zionists and Palestine 1921–1951. Oxford University Press, 1990.
——. War and Peace in the Middle East: A Concise History. London: Penguin, 1995.
Warner, Geoffrey. Iraq and Syria 1941. London: Davis-Poynter, 1974.
Wheatcroft, Andrew. Infidels: A History of the Conflict between Christendom and Islam. New York: Random House, 2004.
Zadka, Saul. Blood in Zion: How the Jewish Guerrillas Drove the British out of Palestine. London: Brassey’s, 1995.
Afghanistan
Borovik, Artyom. The Hidden War: A Russian Journalist’s Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan. London: Faber & Faber, 1990.
Burnes, Lt. Col. Sir Alexander. Cabool: A Personal Narrative of a Journey To, and Residence In that City, in the Years 1836, 7 and 8. Original publisher unknown, 1841; reprinted Karachi: Indus Publications, 1986.
Cooley, John K. Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism. London: Pluto Press, 1999.
Fullerton, John. The Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan. Hong Kong: Far Eastern Economic Review, 1986.
Griffiths, John C. Afghanistan: A History of Conflict. London: André Deutsch, 1981.
Macrory, Patrick. Signal Catastrophe: The Story of the Disastrous Retreat from Kabul 1842. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1966.
Miller, Charles. Khyber: The Story of the North West Frontier. London: Macdonald & Jane’s, 1977.
Mills, H. Woosnam. The Pathan Revolt in North West India. Lahore: Civil and Military Gazette Press, 1897, reprinted Lahore: Sang-e-Meel Publications, 1979.
Newell, Nancy Peabody and Richard S. The Struggle for Afghanistan. London: Cornell University Press, 1981.
Rashid, Ahmed. Taliban: Islam, Oil and the New Great Game in Central Asia. London: I. B. Tauris, 2001.
Sykes, Brig. Gen. Sir Percy. The Right Honourable Sir Mortimer Durand, P.C., G.C.M.G., K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E. London: Cassell, 1926; reprinted Lahore: Al Biruni, 1977.
Warburton, Sir Robert. Eighteen Years in the Khyber 1879–1898 . London: John Murray, 1900, reprinted Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1975.
Algeria
Aggoun, Lounis, and Jean-Baptiste Rivoire. Francealgérie, crimes et mensonges d’Etats: Histoire Secrète, de la guerre d’indépendance à la “troisième guerre” d’Algérie. Paris: La Découverte, 2004.
Behr, Edward. The Algerian Problem. London: Penguin, 1961.
Borge, Jacques, and Nicolas Viasnoff. Archives de l’Algérie. Paris: Michele Trinckvel, 1995.
Connelly, Matthew. A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria’s Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post–Cold War Era. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Galibert, Léon. L’Algérie: Ancienne et Moderne depuis les premiers établissements des Carthaginois jusqu’à la prise de la smalah d’Abd-El-Kader. Paris: Furne, 1844.
Horne, Alistair. A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954–1962. London: Pan Books, 2002.
Soouaidia, Habib. La Sale Guerre. Paris: La Découverte, 2001.
Armenia
Balakian, Peter. The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response. London: Heinemann, 2004; New York: HarperCollins, 2003.
——. Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.
Dadrian, Vahakn N. The History of the Armenian Genocide: Ethnic Conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus. Oxford and Providence: Berghahn Books, 1995.
Lang, David Marshall. The Armenians: A People in Exile. London: Unwin, 1988.
Walker, Christopher J. Armenia: The Survival of a Nation. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1980.
Egypt
Heikal, Mohamed. Cutting the Lion’s Tail: Suez Through Egyptian Eyes . London: André Deutsch, 1986.
——. Autumn of Fury: The Assassination of Sadat. London: André Deutsch, 1983.
——. The Road to Ramadan. New York: Ballantine, 1975.
Hirst, David, with Irene Beeson. Sadat. London: Faber & Faber, 1982.
Love, Kennett. Suez: The Twice Fought War. London: Longman, 1969.
Lucas, W. Scott. W. Divided We Stand: Britain, the U.S. and the Suez Crisis. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1991.
Shaw, Tony. Eden, Suez and the Mass Media: Propaganda and Persuasion During the Suez Crisis. London: I. B. Tauris, 1996.
El-Shazly, Saad. The Crossing of Suez: The October War (1973). London: Third World Centre for Research and Publishing, 1980.
Vatikiotis, P. J. The History of Modern Egypt: From Muhammad Ali to Mubarak. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1991.
The Gulf
Abukhalil, As’ad. The Battle for Saudi Arabia: Royalty, Fundamentalism, and Global Power. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2004.
Aburish, Said K. A Brutal Friendship: The West and the Arab Elite. London: Indigo, 1998.
Holden, David, and Richard Johns. The House of Saud. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1981.
Iran
Bill, James A. The Eagle and the Lion: The Tragedy of American–Iranian Relations. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988.
Bullock, John, and Harvey Morris. The Gulf War: Its Origins, History and Consequences. London: Methuen, 1989.
Ebtekar, Massoumeh, as told to Fred A. Reed. Takeover in Tehran: The Inside Story of the 1979 U.S. Embassy Capture. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2000.
Graham, Robert. Iran: The Illusion of Power. London: Croom Helm, 1978.
Halliday, Fred. Iran: Dictatorship and Development. London: Penguin, 1979.
——. The Imposed War: Defence versus Aggression, 5 vols. Tehran: War Information Headquarters, Supreme Defence Council, 1983–87.
Kapuscinski, Ryszard. Shah of Shahs. London: Pan, 1986.
Al-Khomeini, Imam Ruhallah al-Musawi. The Greatest Jihad: Combat with the Self. Tehran: Islamic Thought Foundation, 1995.
——. The Last Message: The Political and Divine Will of His Holiness. Tehran: Imam Khomeini Cultural Institute, 1992.
——. Manifest of the Islamic Revolution. Tehran: Ali Akbar Ashtiani, 1987.
Rogers, Will and Sharon. Storm Center: The USS Vincennes and Iran Air Flight 655. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1992.
Roosevelt, Kermit. Countercoup: The Struggle for the Control of Iran. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979.
Shawcross, William. The Shah’s Last Ride: The Story of the Exile, Misadventures and Death of The Emperor. London: Chatto & Windus, 1989.
Iraq
Attiyah, Ghassan R. Iraq: 1908–1921. A Socio-Political Study. Beirut: Arab Institute for Research and Publishing, 1973.
Aziz, HRH Gen. Khaled bin Sultan bin Abdul, with Patrick Seale. Desert Warrior: A Personal View of the Gulf War by the Joint Forces Commander. London: HarperCollins, 1995.
Bellamy, Christopher. Expert Witness: A Defence Correspondent’s Gulf War 1990–1991. London: Brassey’s, 1993.
de la Billière, Gen. Sir Peter. Storm Command: A Personal Account of the Gulf War. London: HarperCollins, 1992.
Cockburn, Andrew, and Patrick Cockburn. Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein. New York: HarperCollins, 1999.
Heikal, Mohamed. Illusions of Triumph: An Arab View of the Gulf War. London: HarperCollins, 1992.
Hussein, Saddam. Social and Foreign A fairs in Iraq. London: Croom Helm, 1979.
Kelly, Michael. Martyr’s Day: Chronicle of a Small War. London: Macmillan, 1993.
Makiya, Kanan. Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq (written under the name of Samir al-Khalil). London: Hutchinson, 1989.
Parish, Daphne, with Pat Lancaster. Prisoner in Baghdad. London: Chapmans, 1992.
Pollack, Kenneth M. The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq. New York: Random House, 2002.
Popovic, Alexandre. The Revolt of African Slaves in Iraq in the 3rd/9th Century. Princeton, N.J.: Markus Wiener, 1999.
Rampton, Sheldon and John Stauber. Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush’s War on Iraq. London: Constable & Robinson, 2003.
Ritter, Scott (and William Rivers Pitt). War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn’t Want You to Know. London: Profile Books, 2002.
Schwarzkopf, Gen. H. Norman, with Peter Petrie. The Autobiography: It Doesn’t Take a Hero. London: Bantam Press, 1992.
Simons, Geoff. The Scourging of Iraq: Sanctions, Law and Natural Justice . London: Macmillan Press, 1998; New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.
Timmerman, Kenneth R. The Death Lobby: How the West Armed Iraq. London: Fourth Estate, 1992.
Winstone, H. V. F. Gertrude Bell. London: Barzan Publishing, 2004.
Woodward, Bob. The Commanders. London: Simon & Schuster, 1991.
Zucchino, David. Thunder Run: Three Days in the Battle for Baghdad. London: Atlantic Books, 2004.
Lebanon and Syria
Fisk, Robert. Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War. London: André Deutsch, 1990; updated editions from Oxford University Press, 2003, and New York: Nation Books, 2003.
Khoury, Gérard D. La France et l’Orient Arabe: Naissance du Liban Moderne 1914–1920. Paris: Armand Colin, 1993.
Longrigg, Stephen Hemsley. Syria and Lebanon under French Mandate. London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1958; reprinted Beirut: Librairie du Liban, 1968.
Saad-Ghorayeb, Amal. Hizbullah: Politics and Religion. London: Pluto Press, 2002.
Salibi, Kamal. A House of Many Mansions: The History of Lebanon Reconsidered. London: I. B. Tauris, 1988.
Seale, Patrick. Asad: The Struggle for the Middle East. London: I. B. Tauris, 1988.
Van Dam, Nikolaos. The Struggle for Power in Syria: Politics and Society under Asad and the Ba’th Party. London: I. B. Tauris, 1996.
Yammine, Antoine. Quatre Ans de Misère: Le Liban et la Syrie Pendant la Guerre. Cairo: Imprimerie Emin Hindie, 1922.
Israel and Palestine
Abbas, Mahmoud (Abu Mazen). Through Secret Channels. London: Garnet, 1995.
Aburish, Said K. Arafat: From Defender to Dictator. London: Bloomsbury, 1998.
Ashrawi, Hanan. This Side of Peace: A Personal Account. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
Bethell, Nicholas. The Palestine Triangle: The Struggle between the British, the Jews and the Arabs, 1935–48. London: André Deutsch, 1979.
Chomsky, Noam. The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians. London: Pluto Press, 1983.
Elpeleg, Zvi. The Grand Mufti: Haj Amin al-Husseini, Founder of the Palestinian National Movement.London: Frank Cass, 1993.
Gilbert, Martin. Israel: A History. London: Doubleday, 1988.
Gilmour, David. Dispossessed: The Ordeal of the Palestinians 1917–1980. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1980.
Hass, Amira. Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege. New York: Henry Holt, 1996.
Heikal, Mohamed. The Secret Channels: The Inside Story of Arab–Israeli Peace Negotiations. London: HarperCollins, 1986.
Hersh, Seymour. The Samson Option: Israel, America and the Bomb. London: Faber & Faber, 1991.
Hirst, David. The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East. New York: Nation Books, 2003.
Khalidi, Walid, ed. All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington, D.C
.: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992.
Kimmerling, Baruck. Politicide: The Real Legacy of Ariel Sharon, London, Verso 2006.
Morris, Benny. The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1945–49 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
——. Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist–Arab Conflict 1881–1999. London: John Murray, 1999.
Nazzal, Nafez. The Palestinian Exodus from Galilee 1948. Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1978.
Said, Edward. The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination 1969–1994. London: Chatto & Windus, 1994.
——. The Question of Palestine. New York: Times Books, 1979.
Schleifer, Abdullah. The Fall of Jerusalem. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972.
Shahak, Israel. Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years. London: Pluto Press, 1994.
——. Open Secrets: Israeli Nuclear and Foreign Policies. London: Pluto Press, 1997.
Sharon, Ariel, with David Chanoff. Warrior: An Autobiography. London: Macdonald, 1989.
Journalism
Arnett, Peter. Live from the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Baghdad. 35 Years in the World’s War Zones. London: Bloomsbury, 1994.
Cameron, James. Point of Departure: Experiment in Biography. London: Granada, 1980.
