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From Africa to Afghanistan: With Richards and Nato to Kabul

2 reviews
Greg Mills

Witwatersrand University Press, 2007

Some of the best writing on counterinsurgency...
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 Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) commander from May 2006 to February 2007. "I want to rub off my ...

Places in Between
Rory Stewart

Harcourt, 2006

The Places In Between

146 reviews
Rory Stewart

Harvest Books, 2006

When History Meets the Now
Rory Stewart writes an amazing tale that is both raw, authentic and self-deprecating. His analysis of the cultures of Afghanistan are insightful at times, yet often clouded in his own inability to enter the mist that is Afghanistan. He weaves a story of vignettes that recount lineages, ancient histories, modern bumblings and humorous anecdotes. I was gripped by the ruggedness of his account ...

The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq
Rory Stewart

Harcourt, 2006

Arabian Sands (Penguin Classics)

36 reviews
Wilfred Thesiger

Penguin Classics, 2008

Thesiger's Arabian Sands
I had heard this was the definitive work on the desert country but never had gotten around to reading it. I now have and it is terrific - every thing it's cracked up to be. I had read Michael Asher's biography; I had been in Ethiopia, Oman and Yemen; I traveled in the Hadhramaut -- all of this over fifty years later but still there is the flavor of Thesiger's days. His writing of crossing ...

The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq

56 reviews
Rory Stewart

Harvest Books, 2007

GREAT BOOK!
This book is an honest, intelligent insight to the messes in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the efforts by many - albeit should be all - to do bring those countries to stability. Everyone should read this - politicians (or so called politicians); servicemen/women; leaders and thinkers alike. This is my second title read of Rory Stewart and I hope to read more of his works.

Prince Of The Marshes - And Other Occupational Hazards Of A Year In Iraq

1 review
Rory Stewart

Harcourt, Inc., 2006

The Futility of Democracy in Iraq
Rory Stewart, a 30-year old British diplomat, pulls no punches in this fascinating account of futility in south-eastern Iraq. Despite the best-laid plans of mice and men (Rory is definitely in the later category), the avarice, cunning, deceit, and outright skullduggery of the typical Iraqi leader (at least in Amara) threatens to undo every good thing that Stewart and the Coalition attempt to do ...

Occupational Hazards: My Time Governing in Iraq

1 review
Rory Stewart

Picador, 2007

Great book but be warned - this is published under another title: "The Prince of the Marshes"
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 book. Rory Stewart was a member of the CPA (Coalition Provisional Authority. He functioned as ...

The Prince of the Marshes

Houghton Mifflin, 2007

In August 2003, at the age of thirty, Rory Stewart took a taxi from Jordan to Baghdad. A Farsi-speaking British diplomat who had recently completed an epic walk from Turkey to Bangladesh, he was soon appointed deputy governor of Amarah and then Nasiriyah, provinces in the remote, impoverished marsh regions of southern Iraq. He spent the next eleven months negotiating hostage releases, holding elections, and splicing together some semblance ...

The Road to Oxiana

6 reviews
Robert Byron

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

A classic of travel writing
Please look past the one-star review of the previous reviewer...check out other editions of the book and you'll get a truer picture. Byron was notoriously opinionated but that is what makes the book. If you have delicate sensibilities, you may want to skip this. Byron wasn't comprehensive so you are reading literature here, not a complete guidebook. His strengths were a love of architecture and ...

The Prince of the Marshes
Rory Stewart

Harcourt, 2007

The New York Review of Books (LIV, Number 9/ISSN 0028-7504)
Timothy Garton Ash, John Updike, ...

Rea S. Hederman, 2007

This is one issue of the NY Review... SEE PHOTOS!!

Places in Between
Rory Stewart

Harcourt, 2006

The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq
Rory Stewart

Recorded books, 2007

Complete & Unabridged edition, Case and 11 CDs Set, 12.5 hours, Performed by the author

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