Tribes with Flags on the Kindle
'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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 The extraordinary story of the deserters of the Second World War. What made them run? And what happened after they fled?
During the Second World War, the British lost 100,000 troops to desertion, and the Americans 40,000. Commonwealth forces from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Britain's colonial empire also left the ranks in their thousands. The overwhelming majority of deserters from all armies were front-line infantry troops; without them, the war was harder to win. Many of these men were captured and court-martialled, while others were never apprehended. Some remain wanted to this day. Why did these men decide to flee their ranks?
Out in the UK in print and on Kindle.
Out in the United States in June. Reserve a copy at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books a Million and Indiebound.
Find out more about the book and appearances by its author on Deserter's Facebook page.
Read and download the first chapter for free.
Outsiders have not improved life in either Syria or Iraq
The National 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...
The last thing Syrians need is more arms going to either side
The Guardian 05 Mar 13
Russia and Iran are providing weapons and ammunition to Syria's President Assad, while Saudi Arabia and Qatar deliver arms through Turkey to his opponents. John Kerry, the US secretary of state, has just announced that the US is increasing its non-lethal assistance to the rebels by a further $60m. Britain is asking the EU to lift its embargo on arms...
In No Hurry
London Review of Books 21 Feb 13
Review of House of Stone by Anthony Shadid Granta, 336 pp, £14.99, August 2012, ISBN 978 1 84708 735 5 When Anthony Shadid was born in Oklahoma in 1968, the only Lebanese personality most Americans knew was not Lebanese at all. Hans Conried was a comic actor of Austrian Jewish origin, who portrayed the gauche Uncle Tannous (a diminutive of...
There is no 'noble war' that will justify this bloodshed
The National 31 Dec 12
After the terrible bloodletting on the battlefields, the fever began to die down. People looked war in the face with cooler, harder eyes than in those first months of enthusiasm, and their sense of solidarity began to weaken, since no one could see any sign of the great "moral cleansing" that philosophers and writers had so grandiloquently proclaimed. - Stefan...
Charles Glass on Syria's Mutual Destruction and the Unconvincing Fears of Assad's Chemical Weapons
Democracy Now 11 Dec 12
Veteran journalist Charles Glass joins us to discuss his recent trip to Syria and its largest city, Aleppo. Addressing U.S.-led warnings that the Assad regime could deploy chemical warfare, Glass says: "I think it's pretty clear that the Syrians have never used chemical weapons, that there is no advantage to them to use chemical weapons. The areas where there is...
Aleppo: How Syria Is Being Destroyed
The New York Review of Books 20 Nov 12
This year, Aleppo will produce no soap. The late-medieval souks in which craftsmen fashioned blocks of the famous olive oil and laurel savon d'Alep succumbed to a conflagration during battles at the end of September. The Jubayli family's soap factory inside the Mamelukes' thirteenth-century Qinnasrin Gate survived the inferno, but relentless combat has left it inaccessible to workers and owners...
The colonial-era division of spoils draws a map of Syria's uncertainty
The National 15 Sep 12
Syrians used to tell a joke about a survey that asked "what is your opinion of eating meat?" This was during the Cold War, so people in Poland answered, "What do you mean by 'meat'?" In Ethiopia, the response was, "What do you mean by 'eating'?" But in Syria, the universal response was, "What do you mean by 'what is...
A hostage's daydream
The Spectator 18 Aug 12
The 25th anniversary of my kidnapping - as I imagined it, and as it is...
Syria's refugees pay a cruel price as the conflict keeps spreading
The National 11 Aug 12
A Syrian friend of mine complained, rightly, that both sides in the country's civil war have had a hand in destroying his house....
Charles Glass: With Annan's Exit and Influx of Foreign Arms, Syria's Violence "Seems the Only Way Out"
Truthout 06 Aug 12
Kofi Annan's resignation is a serious setback for anyone who'd hoped that there could be a diplomatic resolution to this conflict. He was the go-between between amongst the U.S., Russia, Saudi Arabia, the opposition, and the regime, and he was the only person that was put there by the United Nations and the Arab League who could carry messages amongst...
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