epub |eng | 2013-10-30 | Author:Wang, Zhenping [Wang, Zhenping]

The Treaty of 821 A Tibetan envoy proposed an alliance in 821. Emperor Muzong immediately granted his permission. To solemnize the alliance, three enthusiastic Tang ministers suggested a ceremony at ...

epub |eng | 2016-08-24 | Author:Richard Macrory [Macrory, Richard]

ATTACK ON GHAZNI, 23 JULY 1839 Ghazni was a fortress town situated on the route between Kandahar and Kabul. With walls over 60ft high (1), surrounded by ditches, and containing ...

epub |eng | 2013-07-14 | Author:Peter Clarke [Clarke, Peter]

Ismail Samani Mausoleum, Bukhara Today, it stands in all its restored glory in a slightly sunken terraced area which captures the heat. It is well over 35°C today and unfortunately ...

epub |eng | 2019-06-14 | Author:Thomas T. Allsen

CHAPTER 12 By Land and by Sea Long-distance merchants, the Polos among them, made regular use of land and sea routes, their decisions resting on a complex calculus involving weather, ...

epub |eng | 2018-04-03 | Author:Unknown

38. Battle of the Chieftains “Allusions, there are allusions in this book,” I thought, “I want my money back.” MAREK HAHN AS IT HAPPENED, directly following and probably provoked by ...

epub |eng | 2017-02-02 | Author:Alexander A. Cooley & John Heathershaw [Cooley, Alexander A. & Heathershaw, John]

Step three: banking the profits Maxim’s standing, and that of the regime, was dependent on a third element which was crucial for the Bakiyevs’ corruption. Seizing assets and centralising control ...

epub |eng | 2020-01-17 | Author:John Minassian

Prisoners of War I was instructed to socialize with no one, not even at work, and especially not outside the office. The next day the workers put up a white ...

epub |eng | 2019-04-19 | Author:Con Coughlin

epub |eng | 2016-03-20 | Author:Douglas A. Wissing

TWENTY-ONE Geronimo THE SURVEILLANCE DIRIGIBLE IS SAGGING OVER FOB Geronimo, a small, Hesco-warrened marine base in Helmand’s Nawa-I-Barakzayi District. The large deflating aerostat seems to match the soldiers’ slumping enthusiasm ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2012-11-14 | Author:Rodney Atwood

Chapter 7 Backs to the Wall The invader of Afghanistan may count as inevitable a national rising against him ... tribesmen and disbanded soldiers sprang to arms, the banner of ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-01 | Author:Paddy Docherty [Paddy Docherty]

Mahmud was therefore doing the work of God by seizing the treasure of the Indians. Moreover, many of his campaigns combined plunder with iconoclasm, exploiting the happy coincidence that some ...

epub |eng | 2019-04-17 | Author:Inderjeet Singh [Singh, Inderjeet]

The Gurdwara had three handwritten copies of the Guru Granth Sahib and one of them was dated 1806 Katak (1749 CE). It is alleged that the Sikh(s) owner of the ...

epub |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:Rodney Atwood [Atwood, Rodney]

Chapter 7 Backs to the Wall The invader of Afghanistan may count as inevitable a national rising against him ... tribesmen and disbanded soldiers sprang to arms, the banner of ...

epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Alexander A. Cooley Ph.d. & John Heathershaw [Cooley, Alexander A. Ph.d. & Heathershaw, John]

Step three: banking the profits Maxim’s standing, and that of the regime, was dependent on a third element which was crucial for the Bakiyevs’ corruption. Seizing assets and centralising control ...

epub, mobi |eng, eng | 2012-09-03 | Author:Joyce Morgan

After his side trip to Bezeklik, Stein pushed west and soon marked his second Christmas of the expedition. A few days into 1908, boxes of chocolate reached him from the ...