Books by John W. Kiser

This biography and military history of Islamic resistance to the French occupation of Algeria lends valuable insight into current US/Muslim relations.

In the spring of 1996, armed men broke into a Trappist monastery and took seven monks hostage, using them as pawns in a plot to free imprisoned terrorists. Two months later, the monks' severed heads were found in a tree, their bodies never recovered. This title recounts the story of this event.