Charles Glass is an author, journalist, and broadcaster, who specializes in the Middle East. He made headlines when taken hostage for 62 days in Lebanon by Shi’a militants in 1987, while writing a book during his time as ABC’s News chief Middle East correspondent. He writes regularly for the New York Review of Books, Harper’s, the London Review of Books and The Spectator. He is the author of Syria Burning, Tribes with Flags, Money for Old Rope, The Tribes Triumphant, The Northern Front, Americans in Paris and Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II.
Books in order of publication:
Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation 1940-1944 – 2009
Tribes with Flags – 1990
Money for Old Rope – 1992
The Tribes Triumphant – 2006
The Northern Front – 2006
Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II – 2013
Syria Burning – 2015
They Fought Alone: The True Story of the Starr Brothers, British Secret Agents in Nazi-Occupied France -2018
Soldiers Don’t Go Mad: A True Story of Friendship, Poetry, and Mental Illness During the First World War – 2023
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