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'Tribes With Flags' is the gripping story of Charles Glass's dramatic journey through Greater Syria which provides background context to a troubled region once again in the headlines.
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Americans in Parisby Charles Glass 
Americans in Paris tells for the first time the true story of the thousands of Americans who stayed in Paris during the Nazi occupation. This tale of adventure, intrigue, passion and deceit exposes the lives of Americans caught up in war from the day the German army marched into Paris in June 1940 and took many of them into the Paris underground, the Maquis and the concentration camps. Order a copy through Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Harper Collins or Penguin USA
The Northern Frontby Charles Glass 
The Northern Front is an eyewitness account of the Iraqi opposition's preparations for the American invasion, the Kurdish planning in northern Iraq and the early stages of the war when some of the opposition moved to the south. Order a copy through Al Saqi Books
The Tribes Triumphantby Charles Glass 
The Tribes Triumphant completes the story of Charles Glass' earlier Middle East adventure, Tribes With Flags, after his kidnapping by Hizballah in Lebanon.
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Tribes With Flagsby Charles Glass 
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Money For Old Ropeby Charles Glass 
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 A poet, a gangster and an agent of the Resistance; 'Deserter' details three astonishing lives shaped by the decision to flee during WWII.
During the Second World War, the British lost 100,000 troops to desertion, and the Americans 50,000. Commonwealth forces from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Britain's colonial empire also left the ranks in their thousands. But, surprisingly, only one WWII deserter was executed for his crime.
In 'Deserter', veteran reporter and historian Charles Glass gives voice to the powerful stories of three soldiers, two Americans and one Brit, who all ran from the conflict to meet with distinctly different fates. He follows each into the heat of battle, exploring the pressures that formed their decisions and the lasting impact of their choices. The result is a highly emotional and engaging study of an under-explored area of World War II history.
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Rogue Males
Times Literary Supplement 02 Jul 14
Review of AMERICA'S GREAT GAME The CIA's secret Arabists and the shaping of the modern Middle East by Hugh Wilford Basic Books. £19.99. 978 0 465 01965 6...
Speech delivered by Charles Glass at the Chalke Valley History Festival
28 Jun 14
A terrible war has been taking place in Syria since 2011, It is a contemporary struggle, but this is a history festival. So, a little history. First a story. During the Cold War, a joke was circulating in Damascus. Pollsters were asking people around the world for their answer to the question, "What is your opinion of eating meat?" In...
Deserters need compassion, not condemnation
The Times 11 Jun 14
Even if Bowe Bergdahl was disillusioned with the Afghan war, he was a casualty, not a coward At dawn on April 6, 1943, along the North African battlefront at Wadi Akarit, a young British soldier named John Bain watched a unit of Seaforth Highlanders pass through his lines on their way to fight German troops on the ridge above. On...
Syria: On the Way to Genocide?
The New York Review of Books 05 Dec 13
The commander is thirty-six years old. A few strands of white in his dark, curly hair make him seem older, as do his words. He points to six young men, posed like football players in a team photograph on a wall of his forward command post, and says, "Two are martyrs, two are prisoners, and two are still working." By...
'Stop the blood': Years of war drain once-passionate Syrians aiming to topple Assad
NBC News 24 Sep 13
DAMASCUS, Syria - In 2011, Syrian activists were inspired and believed they were capable of ousting President Bashar Assad. Now, after living through two and half years of violent war, many are exhausted and discouraged....
NPR's Fresh Air talks to Charles Glass about The Deserters
NPR 18 Jun 13
Few citizens are more honored than military veterans, and there's particular reverence for those who defeated the Nazis in World War II. Like any war, however, World War II was complicated and traumatic for those on the ground, and not a few deserted from the front lines....
What are your chances if you're a Syrian citizen now?
The State of Syria: Past, Present and Future 07 Jun 13
This is a bad time to be a Syrian. Will the two sides tearing your country apart meet in Geneva to end the war? Is either side deploying chemical weapons? Is anyone willing to give up the baby before Solomon's sword falls?...
The silence on Syria
Nouse 28 May 13
In a candid interview, Laura Hughes talks to journalist Charles Glass about Syria and the silence eminating from the world powers...
Judge Not the Deserters
The Daily Beast 26 May 13
There were 50,000 American deserters in WWII, whose experiences have been erased from history. But Charles Glass, author of the new book The Deserters, we might remember them for a moment this Memorial Day....
Outsiders have not improved life in either Syria or Iraq
The State of Syria: Past, Present and Future 18 Mar 13
This month Iraq and Syria are both noting, but not celebrating, anniversaries of violence that transformed the two societies....
My hero: Noam Chomsky
The Guardian 15 Mar 13
"My heroes have always been cowboys," Willie Nelson sang, a sentiment I shared when I was a child in California. My hero in my teenage years, while most of my contemporaries were demonstrating against the US war in Vietnam, was the greatest cowboy star of them all, John Wayne. When I was 16, he gave me a job. I admired...
My France: Charles Glass on the Sunday market at Reillanne
The Guardian 08 Mar 13
In the northern Provençal region of the Luberon, plane trees shade the highway in the long valley between Forcalquier and Céreste. A side road leads north to a prominent hill, where on Sunday mornings valley residents gather in the ancient village of Reillanne. Local traders lay out their wares in the square beside the Church of the Assumption. From open...
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The website of writer, journalist and publisher Charles Glass. On Twitter at @CGlassArticles
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