{"product_id":"2940169158588","title":"Our Man in the Middle East: First-hand accounts from the front line","description":"\u003cp\u003eBBC Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen presents a personal history of the Middle East.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver these 25 programmes, Jeremy reflects on the present and the past of the Middle East, after reporting from the region for more than a quarter of a century. He combines first-hand accounts from the front line with an in-depth look into the region's history. He has witnessed endless wars between individuals, religious groups and full-sized states, jostling for military, political and economic power. He has interviewed dictators, fanatics and fundamentalists as well as the ordinary people caught up in their dangerous games. In that time, the past has always been present, providing motivation and political ammunition. Bowen has made headlines himself and he has paid a personal price, coming under fire and losing a colleague in the course of reportingamp;mdash;on the worst day, he says, in his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Giant Awakens: On America's dramatic intervention in the region during the massive military build-up to the first Gulf War\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAll Flesh Is Glass: Bowen recalls the devastation of the first Gulf War, as he witnessed the aftermath of the bombing of a shelter in Baghdad\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRetreat to the Mountains: The story of the Kurds of Iraq\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJerusalem: On the allure and challenge of the Holy City\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRecipe for Disaster: How the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin changed the region's history\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCrossing the Divide: How a gas container explains the divide between the Israelis and the Palestinians\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeath on the Nile: On the trail of Osama bin Laden\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Final Frontier: Looking back to December 1998, when the West sent bombers into Baghdad\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Blunt Instrument: Bowen recalls his tricky dealings with the Iraqi Ministry of Information\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Nearness of Death: Bowen describes the worst day of his working lifeamp;mdash;the day he and his colleagues came under fire from the Israeli Defence Force\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Strike to the Heart: The dark days following 9\/11\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Drums of War: The fallout from the invasion of Iraq in 2003\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Unravelling: On what went wrong, as Iraq descended into chaos in the months after the US invasion in 2003\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGuns and Olive Branches: The life of Yasser Arafat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMissiles and the Ballot Box: Exploring Gaza\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Taste of Fire and Smoke: The impact of religious divisions across the Middle East\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Flash of Nail Varnish: On Iran's strategic position in the Middle East and its attitudes to the West\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Revolving Revolution: The popular revolution in Egypt during the Arab Spring\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnfollow the Leader: The overthrow of Colonel Gaddafi in Libya\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCrossing the Line: The dramatic eruption of opposition to the Assad regime in Syria\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Mini World War: On the many different layers of war in Syria\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOil and Water: The conflict in Yemen and the role of Saudi Arabia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe New Sultan: Turkey's dramatic changes under the leadership of President Erdogan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCruelty Without Borders: On the rise and fall of the Islamic State group\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThrough a Glass Darkly: Bowen looks at some of the lessons of the past 25 yearsamp;mdash;what happens next in the Middle East?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Random House UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47097786663152,"sku":"2940169158588","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169158588_p0.jpg?v=1769893926","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169158588","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}