{"title":"Jason Burke","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelve into the gripping world of Jason Burke, an acclaimed journalist and author known for his insightful explorations of modern conflict and global affairs. Perfect for readers seeking in-depth analysis and compelling narratives.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"new-threat-from-islamic-militancy-book-jason-burke-9781784701475","title":"The New Threat From Islamic Militancy","description":"From Syria to Somalia, from Libya to Indonesia, from Yemen to the capitals of Europe, Islamic militancy appears stronger, more widespread and more threatening than ever. ISIS and groups such as Boko Haram, together command significant military power, rule millions and control extensive territories. This is a guide to Islamic militancy today.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49506402074897,"sku":"GOR007371213","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49736426389777,"sku":"NGR9781784701475","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50400804536593,"sku":"CIN1784701475G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50400805978385,"sku":"CIN1784701475VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51885384007953,"sku":"GOR008142496","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1784701475.jpg?v=1751378395"},{"product_id":"al-qaeda-book-jason-burke-9780141019123","title":"Al-Qaeda","description":"Jason Burke has produced the definitive account of Islamic militancy - revolutionising our understanding of Al-Qaeda, retelling its history from scratch and critically exploding the myths that form the very foundations of the 'War on Terror'. Fully updated with new material on Iraq and Afghanistan.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49510862913809,"sku":"GOR001377614","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49647259255057,"sku":"GOR001377095","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50509275234577,"sku":"GOR001517337","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0141019123.jpg?v=1751100864"},{"product_id":"on-the-road-to-kandahar-book-jason-burke-9780141024356","title":"On the Road to Kandahar","description":"From the bestselling author of Al-Qaeda, Jason Burke's On the Road to Kandahar reveals the true face of Islam in an age of global conflict.    In the summer of 1991 Jason Burke set off to join Kurdish guerillas fighting in Iraq. It was the start of a remarkable journey that would take him from the sands of the Sahara to the highest peaks of the Himalayas, revealing the true complexity and variety of the 'Islamic world'.    Describing encounters with hundreds of people ranging from destitute refugees to senior government ministers, from American snipers to hardened 'mujahideen', this extraordinary work of reportage is a vivid account of life and death, war and peace, bigotry and ignorance, hate and tolerance.    'Fast-paced ... fascinating'   Sunday Times    'A personal odyssey shot through with vivid description and human sympathy'   New Statesman    'A beautifully written account of a decade spent in Muslim societies ... intensely personal ... absorbing and illuminating'   Daily Mail    'Makes mainstream coverage seem like a caricature ... by refusing to generalize, this illuminating first-hand exploration ... makes it clear the subject is far more complex than most Western commentators like to make out'   Metro    Jason Burke is the South Asia correspondent for the Guardian. He has reported around the world for both the Guardian and the Observer. He is the author of two other widely praised books, both published by Penguin: Al-Qaeda and The 9\/11 Wars. He lives in New Delhi.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49527991828753,"sku":"GOR001295701","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50633847636241,"sku":"GOR004755813","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52848250257681,"sku":"GOR001749077","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53193460678929,"sku":"GOR013092901","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0141024356.jpg?v=1751226813"},{"product_id":"new-threat-from-islamic-militancy-book-jason-burke-9781847923479","title":"The New Threat From Islamic Militancy","description":"From Syria to Somalia, from Libya to Indonesia, from Yemen to the capitals of Europe, Islamic militancy appears stronger, more widespread and more threatening than ever. ISIS and other groups, such as Boko Haram, together command significant military power, rule millions and control extensive territories. This is a guide to Islamic militancy.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49561018695953,"sku":"GOR007288286","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49645666861329,"sku":"GOR007795070","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51328957448465,"sku":"CIN184792347XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52817534157073,"sku":"CIN184792347XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53473760280849,"sku":"GOR008214861","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/184792347X.jpg?v=1750995198"},{"product_id":"al-qaeda-book-jason-burke-9781850433965","title":"Al-Qaeda","description":"This investigation of the al-Qaeda phenomenon by a recognized expert on the subject looks at whether al-Qaeda is a disciplined, motivated, terrorist organization led by a single, criminal mastermind or no more than an idea, a language in which angry young Muslim men can articulate their rage.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49565922361617,"sku":"GOR001684943","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51325995188497,"sku":"CIN1850433968A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51327652921617,"sku":"CIN1850433968VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53103580676369,"sku":"CIN1850433968G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1850433968.jpg?v=1750725092"},{"product_id":"on-the-road-to-kandahar-book-jason-burke-9780713998962","title":"On the Road to Kandahar","description":"A brilliant, fearless journalist who knows huge areas of the Islamic world intimately, Burke now turns to the wider question of how we are to get to grips with radical Islam and what it really means. Burke has travelled all over the great arc of Islamic land, from the Middle East to Southeast Asia, and he uses this in his new book to great effect to show how various and completely unmonolithic Islam really is, and how the sort of standard Western generalizations about it are both stupid and dangerous.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49570918859025,"sku":"GOR001427465","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50726679871761,"sku":"GOR002119093","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52951939547409,"sku":"CIN0713998962G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0713998962.jpg?v=1751231414"},{"product_id":"al-qaeda-book-jason-burke-9780141031361","title":"Al-Qaeda","description":"Shows Islamic militancy to be a far broader phenomenon than previously thought, demolishing the myths that underpin the 'war on terror'. Drawing on secret documents and interviews with intelligence officers, Taliban foot soldiers, militants, mujahedeen commanders and Osama bin Laden's associates, the author reveals the full story of al-Qaeda.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49584934748433,"sku":"GOR001454872","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50107511537937,"sku":"CIN0141031360A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50117220630801,"sku":"CIN0141031360G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50315314790673,"sku":"GOR001840876","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53132477595921,"sku":"GOR003103658","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0141031360.jpg?v=1750939737"},{"product_id":"al-qaeda-book-jason-burke-9781850436669","title":"Al-Qaeda","description":"On a hot summer's day in 1996 a plane carrying Osama bin Laden and a few friends and family landed at a runway just outside the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad. The Saudi-born Islamic activist had little equipment, few followers and minimal local support. Yet within five years he had built an organisation that was to carry out the most shocking and devastating terrorist attack in history. 'Al-Qaeda' is now the most over-used and misunderstood term in the media. In Arabic, it is simply an abstract noun, meaning 'resource', 'network' or 'base'. In the West, it symbolises the greatest threat to global security: though its Afghan training camps have now been reduced to dust, no one believes that al-Qaeda was destroyed with them. But what is al-Qaeda? Is it a disciplined, motivated, structured terrorist organisation led by a single criminal mastermind or no more than an idea, a language in which angry young Muslim men can articulate their rage? Bin Laden's aim to provoke conflict between militant Islam and the West appears closer to fulfilment than ever. But is al-Qaeda the catalyst of this conflict, or merely a symbol of it? Drawing on his unparalleled experience Jason Burke provides","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50045206397201,"sku":"GOR007581449","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50096228401425,"sku":"CIN1850436665A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50270992793873,"sku":"CIN1850436665VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50430293475601,"sku":"CIN1850436665G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53406378098961,"sku":"GOR002909502","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1850436665.jpg?v=1751060500"},{"product_id":"on-the-road-to-kandahar-travels-through-conflict-in-the-islamic-world-rare-book-jason-burke-1664777949mha","title":"On the Road to Kandahar: Travels Through Conflict in the Islamic World","description":"2006. First Edition. 279 pages. Signed by the author. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Signed by the author with dedication on half-title page. Annotations and marginalia to pages throughout. Page","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50074056687889,"sku":"1664777949MHA","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1664777949MHA_1.jpg?v=1722882428"},{"product_id":"on-the-road-to-kandahar-book-jason-burke-9780312366223","title":"On the Road to Kandahar","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50113484062993,"sku":"CIN0312366221G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51433975349521,"sku":"GOR014275635","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52112740253969,"sku":"CIN0312366221VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0312366221.jpg?v=1751038330"},{"product_id":"new-threat-book-jason-burke-9781620973059","title":"The New Threat","description":"\"The book on jihad that Donald Trump needs to read.\" —Newsweek  \"A fine overview [from] one of the shrewdest observers of contemporary Muslim activism…Draws together the strands of a highly complex reality to create a picture that is not just convincing but readable.\" —The New York Review of Books  NOW IN PAPERBACK With a new afterword by the author, “essential reading” (Andrew Bacevich) from one of the world’s leading authorities on the roots, reality, and future of modern Muslim extremism  From Syria to Somalia, from Libya to Indonesia, from Yemen to the capitals of Europe, Islamic militancy appears stronger, more widespread, and more threatening than ever.  In The New Threat prizewinning frontline reporter Jason Burke cuts through the mass of opinion and misinformation to explain the nature of the threat we now face. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, The New Threat offers insight into the rise of ISIS and other groups, such as Boko Haram, which together command significant military power, rule millions, and control extensive territories. Elsewhere, Al Qaeda remains potent and is rapidly evolving. As a new generation of Western extremists emerges—as seen by the horrifying attacks in Paris and Brussels as well as the \"lone wolf\" operatives in the United States—Burke argues it is imperative that we understand who these groups are and what they actually want.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50171544502545,"sku":"CIN1620973057G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50598606897425,"sku":"GOR014010338","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51039634260241,"sku":"NIN9781620973059","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53351069024529,"sku":"CIN1620973057A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1620973057.jpg?v=1751119706"},{"product_id":"health-analytics-book-jason-burke-9781118383049","title":"Health Analytics","description":"A hands-on, analytics road map for health industry leaders  The industry-wide transformation taking place across the health and life sciences ecosystem is mandating that organizations adopt new decision-making capabilities, based on science and real-world information. Analytics will be a required competency for the modern health enterprise; this book is about how to \"cross the chasm.\" The ultimate analytics guide for the health industry leader, this essential book equips business leaders with little-to-no experience in analytics to understand how to incorporate analytics as a cornerstone of their 21st century competitive business strategy.     Paints the picture for a new health enterprise, one focused on the patient Explores the financial components of this new operating model, using analytics to optimize the tradeoffs between cost and value Deals with the rising role of the consumer, using analytics to create a completely new health engagement model with individual recipients of care Looks at how analytics can drive innovations in care practice, patient-experienced medical outcomes, and analytically driven novel therapies optimized for the individual patient Presents a variety of text, tables, and graphics illustrating the various concepts being described   Within each section and chapter, Health Analytics assesses the current landscape, proposing a new model\/concept, sharing real-world stories of how the old and new world come together, and framing a \"how-to\" for the reader in terms of growing that particular set of capabilities in their own enterprises.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50326777004305,"sku":"CIN1118383044VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50378388865297,"sku":"CIN1118383044G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51019511824657,"sku":"NIN9781118383049","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52537645498641,"sku":"NLS9781118383049","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1118383044.jpg?v=1751112291"},{"product_id":"new-threat-book-jason-burke-9781620971352","title":"The New Threat","description":"Jason Burke is one of the world’s leading experts on militant Islam. He embedded with the Kurdish peshmerga (currently at war with ISIS) while still in college. He was hanging out with the Taliban in the late 1990s. He witnessed the bombing of Tora Bora in Afghanistan in 2001 firsthand.   With the current emergence of ISIS in Iraq and Syria and the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, no one is as well placed as Burke—whose previous books have been chosen as books of the year by The Economist, the Daily Telegraph, and The Independent—to explain this dramatic post–Al Qaeda phase of Islamic militancy. We are now, he argues, entering a new phase of radical violence that is very different from what has gone before, one that is going to redefine the West’s relationship with terrorism and the Middle East.   ISIS is not “medieval,” as many U.S. national security pundits claim, but, Burke explains, a group whose spectacular acts of terror are a contemporary expression of our highly digitized societies, designed to generate global publicity. In his account, radical Islamic terrorism is not an aberration or “cancer,” as some politicians assert; it is an organic part of the modern world. This book will challenge the preconceptions of many American readers and will be hotly debated in national security circles.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50386071748881,"sku":"CIN1620971356G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51040616579345,"sku":"NIN9781620971352","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1620971356.jpg?v=1750831432"},{"product_id":"9-11-wars-book-jason-burke-9780141044590","title":"The 9\/11 Wars","description":"From the author of Al-Qaeda, Jason Burke's The 9\/11 Wars is an essential book for understanding the dangerous and unstable world of the twenty-first century.    On September 11th 2001, in a series of coordinated suicide attacks, terrorists destroyed New York's World Trade Center and a substantial portion of the Pentagon. Since the Twin Towers fell, the world has seen the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, the downfall of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, bombings, battles and riots. Hundreds of thousands of people have died in the 'war on terror'.    Whether reporting on the riots in France or the attack on Mumbai, suicide bombers in Iraq or British troops fighting in Helmand Province in Afghanistan, Jason Burke's The 9\/11 Wars, named 2011 Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph, Economist and Independent, tells the story of a world that changed forever when the hijacked planes flew out of the brilliant blue sky above Manhattan on September 11th.    'The best overview of the 9\/11 decade so far in print'   Economist   'A magisterial history of the last decade'   Pankaj Mishra, Guardian   'At a time when there are more books out on terrorism than ever before ... this is likely to be among the best'   Sunday Telegraph  'Potent ... journalism of a high order ... essential for understanding the past decade'   Sherard Cowper-Coles, Sunday Times    Jason Burke is the South Asia correspondent for the Guardian. He has reported around the world for both the Guardian and the Observer. He is the author of two other widely praised books, both published by Penguin: Al-Qaeda and On the Road to Kandahar. He lives in New Delhi.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50696955592977,"sku":"NGR9780141044590","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50761533260049,"sku":"CIN0141044594G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51320976146705,"sku":"CIN0141044594A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0141044594.jpg?v=1750972937"},{"product_id":"revolutionists-book-jason-burke-9781847926067","title":"The Revolutionists","description":"** SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2025 ** ** A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST, PROSPECT AND BBC HISTORY**  A thrilling and unprecedented account of the radicalism and political extremism that gripped the 1970s – a seismic decade that transformed the modern world.  'A fabulously gripping read' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, The Times Books of the Year  'Brilliant ... An astonishing window not just into the origins of modern terrorism but also into our own age' RORY STEWART  ‘Extraordinary … told with cool authority and a novelist's eye for detail' RORY CARROLL, author of Killing Thatcher  In the 1970s, a network of extremists terrorised the West with intricately planned plane hijackings and hostage-takings. Among them were the glamorous Leila Khaled, hard-drinking Carlos the Jackal, and radical leftists of the Baader-Meinhof Gang. United by their hatred of Israel, capitalism and ‘Western imperialism’, they unleashed a series of audacious attacks that brought governments to their knees and glued the world to their tv screens.  Drawing on decades of research, recently declassified government files, secret documents, and first-hand interviews with hijackers, spies, witnesses and victims, Jason Burke takes us inside these often-deadly operations. Through the perpetrators’ eyes – and of the unrelenting agents who hunted them down – he uncovers a dark, complex world of loyalty, betrayal and commitment to change at any cost.  Pitching us into these tumultuous times, The Revolutionists reveals how a campaign led by secular leftist revolutionaries gave way to a far more lethal movement of conservative religious fanaticism that would dominate the decades to come. It is impossible to understand the world today without reading this book.  'A book that historians will be profiting from for many decades to come' TOM HOLLAND  ‘As compelling as the best of spy thrillers’ FERGAL KEANE, BBC Correspondent and author of The Madness  'Riveting' LINDSEY HILSUM, International Editor, Channel 4 News","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51626719740177,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51626720297233,"sku":"NGR9781847926067","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52616295940369,"sku":"NLS9781847926067","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52621142294801,"sku":"GOR014565340","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52693899542801,"sku":"GOR014581008","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52703253004561,"sku":"GOR014586580","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1847926061.jpg?v=1769685223"},{"product_id":"revolutionists-book-jason-burke-9780525659433","title":"The Revolutionists","description":"\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE * An epic, authoritative, gripping account of the years when a new wave of revolutionaries seized the skies and the streets to hold the world for ransom\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In the 1970s, an unprecedented wave of international terrorism broke out around the world. More ambitious, networked and far-reaching than ever before, new armed groups terrorized the West with intricately planned plane hijackings and hostage missions, leaving governments scrambling to cope. Their motives were as diverse as their methods. Some sought to champion Palestinian liberation, others to topple Western imperialism or battle capitalism; a few simply sought adventure or power.  Among them were the unflappable young Leila Khaled, sporting jewelry made from AK-47 ammunition; the maverick Carlos the Jackal with his taste for cigars, fine dining, and designer suits; and the radical leftists of the Baader-Meinhof Gang or the Japanese Red Army. Their attacks forged a lawless new battlefield thirty thousand feet in the air, evading the reach of security agencies, policymakers, and spies alike. Their operations rallied activist and networks in places where few had suspected their existence, leaving a trail of chaos from Bangkok to Paris to London to Washington, D.C. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Veteran foreign correspondent Jason Burke provides a thrilling account of this era of spectacular violence. Drawing on decades of research, recently declassified government files, still secret documents, and original interviews with hijackers, double agents, and victims still grieving their loved ones, \u003ci\u003eThe Revolutionists\u003c\/i\u003e provides an unprecedented account of a period which definitively shaped today's world and probes the complex relationship between violence, terrorism, and revolution. From the deserts of Jordan and the Munich Olympics to the Iranian Embassy Siege in London and the Beirut bombings of the early 1980s, Burke invites us into the lives and minds of the perpetrators of these attacks, as well as the government agents and top officials who sought to foil them. Charting, too, such shattering events as the Iranian Revolution and the Lebanese civil war, he shows how, by the early 1980s, a campaign for radical change led by secular, leftist revolutionaries had given way to a far more lethal movement of conservative religious fanaticism that would dominate the decades to come.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Driven by an indelible cast of characters moving at a breakneck pace, full of detail and drama, \u003ci\u003eThe Revolutionists\u003c\/i\u003e is the definitive account of a dark and seismic decade.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52981139833105,"sku":"NIN9780525659433","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53157903827217,"sku":"CIN0525659439VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53196330828049,"sku":"CIN0525659439G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780525659433.jpg?v=1767101004"},{"product_id":"revolutionists-book-jason-burke-9781847926074","title":"The Revolutionists","description":"** SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2025 ** ** A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST, PROSPECT AND BBC HISTORY**  A thrilling and unprecedented account of the radicalism and political extremism that gripped the 1970s – a seismic decade that transformed the modern world.  'A fabulously gripping read' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, The Times Books of the Year  'Brilliant ... An astonishing window not just into the origins of modern terrorism but also into our own age' RORY STEWART  ‘Extraordinary … told with cool authority and a novelist's eye for detail' RORY CARROLL, author of Killing Thatcher  In the 1970s, a network of extremists terrorised the West with intricately planned plane hijackings and hostage-takings. Among them were the glamorous Leila Khaled, hard-drinking Carlos the Jackal, and radical leftists of the Baader-Meinhof Gang. United by their hatred of Israel, capitalism and ‘Western imperialism’, they unleashed a series of audacious attacks that brought governments to their knees and glued the world to their tv screens.  Drawing on decades of research, recently declassified government files, secret documents, and first-hand interviews with hijackers, spies, witnesses and victims, Jason Burke takes us inside these often-deadly operations. Through the perpetrators’ eyes – and of the unrelenting agents who hunted them down – he uncovers a dark, complex world of loyalty, betrayal and commitment to change at any cost.  Pitching us into these tumultuous times, The Revolutionists reveals how a campaign led by secular leftist revolutionaries gave way to a far more lethal movement of conservative religious fanaticism that would dominate the decades to come. It is impossible to understand the world today without reading this book.  'A book that historians will be profiting from for many decades to come' TOM HOLLAND  ‘As compelling as the best of spy thrillers’ FERGAL KEANE, BBC Correspondent and author of The Madness  'Riveting' LINDSEY HILSUM, International Editor, Channel 4 News","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52994873721105,"sku":"GOR014686126","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781847926074.jpg?v=1769683188"},{"product_id":"revolutionists-book-jason-burke-9781529934540","title":"The Revolutionists","description":"A thrilling and unprecedented account of the radicalism and political extremism that gripped the 1970s – a seismic decade that transformed the modern world.  ‘Dazzling . . . a fabulously gripping read’ DOMINIC SANDBROOK, The Times Books of the Year  ‘As compelling as the best of spy thrillers’ FERGAL KEANE  *SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2025*  In the 1970s, a network of extremists terrorised the West with intricately planned plane hijackings and hostage-takings. Among them were the glamorous Leila Khaled, hard-drinking Carlos the Jackal, and radical leftists of the Baader-Meinhof Gang, all united by their hatred of Israel, capitalism and ‘Western imperialism’. Their audacious attacks brought governments to their knees and glued nations to their TV screens.  Drawing on decades of research, declassified and secret documents, and first-hand interviews with hijackers, spies, witnesses and victims, Jason Burke takes us inside these often-deadly operations. In this underground realm of loyalty, betrayal and commitment to radical change at any cost, he reveals the dark origins of our fractured world today.  *A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST, PROSPECT AND BBC HISTORY*  'An astonishing window not just into the origins of modern terrorism but also into our own age' RORY STEWART  ‘As irresistible and unputdownable as it is astonishing and relevant’ SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE  ‘Told with cool authority and a novelist's eye for detail. Burke is a master' RORY CARROLL  ‘Superb and monumental’ SPECTATOR  'A book that historians will be profiting from for many decades to come' TOM HOLLAND  ‘Riveting’ LINDSEY HILSUM","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53634797830417,"sku":"NLS9781529934540","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781529934540.jpg?v=1780994536"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-jason-burke.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}