Brian Glyn Williams. Univ. of Pennsylvania, $34.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8122-4403-8
In an admirable, if belated, effort, the Department of Defense commissioned Williams, associate professor of Islamic History at the University of Massachusetts, to write a primer to educate American forces. Updated and expanded for the general...
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Brian Glyn Williams. Chicago Review, $28.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-61374-800-8
Afghanistan is a challenging place to do research, and the dangers inherent in writing a biography of a mercurial warlord—while using as one’s primary source an extended interview with the man himself—are obvious. But Williams, who worked for the...
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Brian Glyn Williams. ForeEdge (UPNE, dist.), $29.95 (296p) ISBN 978-1-61168-737-8
Williams (The Last Warlord), an expert on the Islamic history of the Caucasus
and Central Asia, critically examines the status that Chechens have earned as jihadi terrorists, and dismantles it as a modern fiction. He details centuries of Russian...
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Brian Glyn Williams. Univ. of Pennsylvania, $39.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8122-4867-8
Williams (The Last Warlord), professor of Islamic history at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, designs a primer for understanding America’s current strategic position in the Middle East and the way the U.S. government uses the military for
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