Cyril Connolly: Journal and memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

PRYCE-JONES, DAVID

Memoirs

Collins

Published 1981 Holt Rinehart & Winston

Paris in the Third Reich: A History of the German Occupation, 1940-1944

History

Europe

HarperCollins, Publishers

In his visits to the Middle East since the 1967 June War, Pryce-Jones, a British journalist and novelist, has seen a great many Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan, Syria and on the West Bank. He finds them generally quite decent, at least relatively. Indeed the non-refugee poor often try to get in; conditions in the camps have tended to improve in the past few years and refugees have heavily entered the labor force. Pryce-Jones also examines the political mechanisms of Israeli occupation, especially the courts and prisons. He concludes that the torture reports principally reflect Arab lack of respect for fact (noting that ""The Westerner too is stuck with the stories he is told and those he tells himself""). He points to the Arabs' double humiliations when the Israeli occupiers turned out to be less than fiends, and identifies a kolubuja (""everything hurts"") syndrome which ""the bedside manner of the foreigner tends to bring out"" in the Arabs. The main fact of life on the West Bank is a ""slippery and unwilling slide into toleration"" which has unmanned the fedayeen resisters' popular base. Pryce-Jones has little to say about the 1970 Jordanian civil war apart from its further weakening of the fedayeen. The book's descriptions make this one of the most distinguished books on the history of the region.

The Face of Defeat: Palestinian Refugees and Guerillas

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

Explores the legacy of civil war and despotic regimes crippling Arab nations and points to tribal culture and a complex code of shame, honor, and power-challenging that feed the onging political and religious battles

The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Harperperennial

Mylar protected dustjacket is tattered at edges and price clipped. Boards edgeworn. Corners bumped.

Evelyn Waugh and His World

Little,Brown

The After-Noon Sun

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

The Arabs are at the centre of the Islamic world. This book should appeal to those wishing to gain a better understanding of the reasons behind the attacks on America on September 11.

The Closed Circle

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Orion Publishing Co

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Face of Defeat: Palestinian Refugees and Guerrillas

Weidenfeld and Nicolson

THE FACE OF DEFEAT Palestinian Refugees and Guerrillas

Quarter Books

The England commune

Quartet Books

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