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Guests of the Ayatollah - The First Battle in the West's War with Militant Islam by Mark Bowden
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In 1979, the Ayatollah Khomeini's followers abducted fifty-two American citizens and held them hostage for 444 days. The crisis that followed is a watershed in modern history. Acclaimed author Mark Bowden tells this shocking and unforgettable story through the eyes of the hostages, their Iranian captors ...Show more
Guests of the Ayatollah : The first battle in the West's war with militant Islam by Mark Bowden
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1979, the Ayatollah Khomeini's followers abducted fifty-two American citizens and held them hostage for 444 days. The crisis that followed is a watershed in modern history. Acclaimed author Mark Bowden tells this shocking and unforgettable story through the eyes of the hostages, their Iranian captors ...Show more
Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam by Mark Bowden
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
ALos Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in History Winner of the 2018 Marine Corps Heritage Foundation Greene Award for a distinguished work of nonfiction The first battle book from Mark Bowden since his #1New York Times bestsellerBlack Hawk Down,Hue 1968 is the story of the centerpiece of the Tet Offe ...Show more
Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam by Mark Bowden
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Secondhand. A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in History Winner of the 2018 Marine Corps Heritage Foundation Greene Award for a distinguished work of nonfiction. The first battle book from Mark Bowden since his #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down, Hue 1968, "an instantly recognizable c ...Show more
Killing Pablo by Mark Bowden
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Includes enhanced CD with exclusive video of the actual hunt for Pablo Escobar On July 22, 1992, Colombian druglord Pablo Escobar walked out of the luxurious prison he built for himself and disappeared into the Colombian jungle. His audacious escape destroyed the nation's tenuous ceasefire with its inf ...Show more
Killing Pablo The Hunt For The Richest, Most Powerful Criminal In History by Mark Bowden
$19.95 AUD
Category: History
Killing Pablo charts the rise and spectacular fall of Pablo Escobar, the richest and most violent criminal in history. Mark Bowden exposes for the first time the massive covert operation by US Special Forces to hunt down and assassinate the man he describes as 'the billionaire godfather of international ...Show more
Killing Pablo - The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden
$21.00 AUD
Category: History
Bowden has a way of making modern nonfiction read like the best of novels . . . [Killing Pablo] is absolutely riveting." - Denver Post A tour de force of investigative journalism, Killing Pablo is the story of the vio-lent rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the head of the Colombian Medellin cocaine cartel ...Show more
Killing Pablo: the Hunt for the Richest, Most Powerful Criminal in History (reissue) by Mark Bowden
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Killing Pablo charts the rise and spectacular fall of the Columbian drug lord, Pablo Escobar, the richest and most powerful criminal in history. The book exposes the massive illegal operation by covert US Special Forces and intelligence services to hunt down and assassinate Escobar. Killing Pablo combin ...Show more
Road Work by Mark Bowden
$32.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Road Work brings together bestselling author Mark Bowden's shorter pieces into one brilliant collection. It includes an enthralling account of how a vast corruption ring inside the Philadelphia Police Department was broken; 'Tales of the Tyrant', a portrait of Saddam Hussein's terrifying governance of I ...Show more
Road Work: Among Tyrants, Heroes, Rogues and Beasts by Mark Bowden
$19.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Road Work brings together bestselling author Mark Bowden's shorter pieces into one brilliant collection. It includes an enthralling account of how a vast corruption ring inside the Philadelphia Police Department was broken; 'Tales of the Tyrant', a portrait of Saddam Hussein's terrifying governance o ...Show more
The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden by Mark Bowden
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
"""There wasn't a meeting when someone didn't mention Black Hawk Down ."" - A senior Obama administration official, as quoted in The New York Times, 02/05/2011 From Mark Bowden, internationally bestselling and acclaimed author of Black Hawk Down and the preeminent chronicler of the actions of the US mil ...Show more
The Last Stone by Mark Bowden
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The true story of a cold case, a compulsive liar, and five determined detectives, from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author and "master journalist" (The Wall Street Journal). On March 29, 1975, sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyons, ages ten and twelve, vanished from a shopping mall in suburban Washi ...Show more