Pulitzer Prize-winner Bird offers this vivid memoir of an American childhood spent in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Jerusalem and Saudia Arabia.
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Bird offers this vivid memoir of an American childhood spent in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Jerusalem and Saudia Arabia.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. B&W Photographs; 424 pages; Very Good overall condition. No noteworthy defects. No markings.; -We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.
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Very Good in Fine jacket. Book Royal octavo, hardcover, black mark on bottom outer pages else fine in fine gray pictorial dj. First Edition, first printing. 424 pp. including index, 2 maps. Bird is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of American Prometheus. Bird's pro-Arab memoir of growing up the son of an American diplomat in the Middle East, who in turn became a friend of the bin Ladens. (Of the Egyptian actions and announcements that led to the Six-Day War, Mr. Bird reports, "Whatever the legal merits of the issue, in practice the closing of the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping was no cause for a rush to war." When Nasser gave a speech in which he declared a state of war existed and said "The battle will be a general one and our basic objective will be to destroy Israel, "
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Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1416544402. International orders may require additional postage.; Simply signed on the title page by Kai Bird. Full number line.; 448 pages; Signed by Author.
