Product Description: When World War II erupted in 1939, Brazil seemed a world away. Lush, remote, and underdeveloped, the country and its capital of Rio de Janeiro lured international travelers seeking a respite from the drums of the war. Rio: at the end of civilization, as we know it, claimed Orson Welles as he set out for the city in 1942...read more

Product Description: [This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.] Throughout the Second World War, Lisbon was at the very center of the world's attention and was the only European city in which both the Allies and the Axis powers openly operated...read more

Product Description: There is an accepted popular myth about recent Middle Eastern history, that ever since the days of Lawrence of Arabia the British Foreign Office has been heavily prejudiced in favor of the Arab cause in the Middle East and consistently anti-Israel...read more

Product Description: Dr Neill Lochery has worked as an advisor to Middle Eastern politicians on both sides of the political divide as well as elsewhere in the Middle East and is a leading specialist in the politics and history of the area. As neither an Arab nor a Jew he is able to go beyond the traditional narratives employed by partisan writers who dominate much of the current literature on the Middle East...read more

Product Description: Israel is too often seen as the guilty party in the Middle East conflict. Neill Lochery argues that this interpretation, led by the liberal media, is unfair.

Product Description: In May 1996 Binyamin Netanyahu became Israel's first directly elected prime minister amid widespread international concern about the future of the Middle East peace process given his publicly stated opposition to the Oslo Accords...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Israeli Labour Party and its forerunner Mapai dominated the pre-state Jewish organisations in Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. More recently the party has been at the centre of world attention as attempts at peace between the left-wing Israeli government and the PLO have been threatened by the murder in November 1995 of its leader Yitzhak Rabin and the electoral defeat in 1996 of his successor Shimon Peres...read more