Warzone Books - What Troops and Western Civilians are Buying From AbeBooks.com

The Physics of Blown Sand, Writing Poetry, Harry Potter and Organic Chemistry are just some of the diverse books bought from AbeBooks.com by military and civilian personnel stationed in Iraq since 2004.

We have selected 50 titles from books purchased by AbeBooks’ customers - including US soldiers but also UK military personnel and Western civilian contractors - living on military bases and secure civilian installations around Iraq.

They might surprise you. Some readers in Iraq are inspired by the desert landscape while others are dipping into American history and politics. Some purchases are deeply personal such as a guide for an expectant father, and books about theology and spirituality – others are practical purchases such as an English-Turkish dictionary. Textbooks constituted the most popular genre illustrating the fact that many readers on bases in Iraq are studying in their spare-time.

Fiction

• The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
• Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
• Mostly Harmless, Douglas Adams
• The Collector, John Fowles
• The Devil's Guard, George Robert Elford
• The Unwanted, John Saul
• The Alchemist, Ken Goddard
• Apollyon: The Destroyer is Unleashed, Tim LaHaye
• Master of Dragons, Margaret Weis
• The Illuminati, Larry Burkett

History, Military History, Current Affairs & Americana

• American Foreign Policy, Charles W. Kegley Jr.
• American Nation, John Garraty
• Terrorism, Asymmetric Warfare & Weapons of Mass Destruction: Defending the US Homeland, Anthony H. Cordesman
• Just and Unjust Wars, Michael Walzer
• The Art of War, Sun Tzu
• The War of the Running Dogs, Noel Barber
• Bombs, Drugs and Thugs, Loch K Johnson
• Desert Immigrants: The Mexicans of El Paso, Mario T. Garcia
• And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, Frank Fitzpatrick
• The Millionaire Next Door, Stanely Thomas

Textbooks

• Crafting and Executing Strategy, Arthur A. Thompson
• Fire Fighting Tactics, Lloyd Layman
• Managing Front Office Operations, Michael Kasavana
• Fundamentals of Logistics, Douglas M. Lambert
• Criminal Justice, Frank Schmalleger
• Introduction to Criminology, Frank E. Hagan
• Organic Chemistry, Paula Y. Bruice
• Trigonometry, Ron Larson
• Modern Human Relations at Work, Richard Hodgetts

Books, Writing & the Arts

• Writing Poetry, Barbara Drake
• A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes & the Eternal Passion for Books, Nicholas Basbanes
• St. Martin's Guide to Writing, Rise B. Axelrod
• Let's Play Saxophone, Herb Couf
• Orientalism in Art, Christine Peltre
• Old West Antiques and Collectibles, John Kolpec
• First Job: A Memoir of Growing Up at Work, Buck Rinker
• The Jazz Idiom, Jerry Coker

Self-help & Spirituality

• The New Father: A Dad's Guide to the First Year, Armin A. Brott
• The Things Which Shall Be Hereafter, Russell Bradley Jones
• Heart: A Personal Journey Through its Myths and Meanings, Gail Godwin
• The Way of Zen, Alan W. Watts
• My Secret Garden: Women's Sexual Fantasies, Nancy Friday
• Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, John Gray

Desert Themes

• The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes, Ralph Bagnold
• Lawrence and the Arabs, Robert Graves
• Under Two Flags, Ouida aka Louise De la Remee

Reference

• English-Turkish Comprehensive Dictionary
• English-Ukrainian Practical Dictionary