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Jerusalem 1900 by Vincent Lemire
epub |eng | 2017-04-05 | Author:Vincent Lemire [Lemire, Vincent]

ORIGIN OF THE MUNICIPALITY: AN URBAN COMMUNITY? The history of the municipality of Jerusalem is embedded in the general problem of new relations between the central power and local powers ...
( Category: Islam July 26,2018 )
Bitter Waters by David Haward Bain
epub |eng | 2011-11-30 | Author:David Haward Bain [BAIN, DAVID HAWARD]

PART THREE CHAPTER EIGHT The Western Shore to Engedi THEY WERE SWEPT OUT ONTO A RISING SEA, THEIR MOMENTUM FROM the Jordan’s outflow doubled by a stiff wind from the ...
( Category: World July 26,2018 )
Persian Gulf Command by Ashley Jackson
epub |eng | | Author:Ashley Jackson

Crimes committed by allied forces Criminal activity cut both ways, and documented in the archives are complaints from local authorities to the British representatives in Baghdad and Tehran. In Iraq ...
( Category: Middle East July 26,2018 )
The Fall of the Turkish Model: How the Arab Uprisings Brought Down Islamic Liberalism by Cihan Tugal
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-03-08 | Author:Cihan Tugal

CHAPTER 4 The Revolt Against Authoritarian Liberalism The events in Tunisia and Egypt in late 2010 and early 2011 were almost completely unexpected. Many self-styled clairvoyants retrospectively argued that they ...
( Category: World July 26,2018 )
The Three Trillion Dollar War by Linda J. Bilmes
mobi |eng | 2008-12-09 | Author:Linda J. Bilmes

Global Peace and Security THE DREAM OF the U.S. invaders was to create a stable, prosperous, and democratic Middle East. But America’s intervention in Iraq is laying the foundations for ...
( Category: Military July 24,2018 )
The Changing Face of War: Combat From the Marne to Iraq by Martin van Creveld
epub |eng | 2008-12-17 | Author:Martin van Creveld [Creveld, Martin van]

4.5. Closing the Ring In any form of coalition warfare, the essential condition for victory is political unity and a combined command system. In 1939–45, the Allies did much better ...
( Category: Military July 23,2018 )
Tragedy of Lebanon by Randal Jonathan
epub |eng | 2012-02-15 | Author:Randal, Jonathan

5. The Offhand Americans “The dogs, the dogs,” she said, her voice abruptly rising and choked with all the outrage, humiliation, and resentment now remembered with near-total recall. The former ...
( Category: Middle East July 23,2018 )
Bonaparte in Egypt by J. Christopher Herold
epub, pdf |eng | 1962-01-02 | Author:J. Christopher Herold [Herold, J. Christopher]

III While Bonaparte faced the plague just as he faced the Porte’s declaration of war—with fortitude and blinkers—he still had to seek some means to counteract the continuing diminution of ...
( Category: Europe July 21,2018 )
Medieval Persia 1040-1797 by Morgan David
epub |eng | | Author:Morgan, David [David Morgan]

Shāh Rukh’s successors On Shāh Rukh’s death in 850/1447, as when Temür himself died, the Timurid world was plunged into political chaos. Ulugh Beg, being Shāh Rukh’s only surviving son, ...
( Category: Asia July 21,2018 )
Arafat's War by Efraim Karsh
epub |eng | 2003-07-18 | Author:Efraim Karsh

In January 1997 the Netanyahu government signed the Hebron Protocol, stipulating the redeployment of the IDF from the last major Palestinian town, something that the previous government had failed to ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 19,2018 )
Two Sisters by Asne Seierstad
epub |eng | | Author:Asne Seierstad

20 BLUEPRINT Who was in charge here? The judge had released him. The head of the prison had protested. Who decided his fate? The young fighters were only pawns. The ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 18,2018 )
Nine Lives: My time as the West's top spy inside al-Qaeda by Aimen Dean & Paul Cruickshank & Tim Lister
mobi, epub |eng | 2018-06-06 | Author:Aimen Dean & Paul Cruickshank & Tim Lister

MY SEVENTH LIFE: SOMETHING BIG 2001–2004 In June 2001, I received an unusual summons. At the time I was at al-Qaeda’s Tarnak Farms complex near the airport in Kandahar and ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 17,2018 )
Gallipoli by Richard van Emden
epub |eng | 2014-07-15 | Author:Richard van Emden

A dead Turkish sniper: his hide was located days after the landing, and close to the British camp at W Beach. Not every man ceremoniously placed beneath a blanket on ...
( Category: Middle East July 16,2018 )
Three Kings: The Rise of an American Empire in the Middle East After World War II by Lloyd C. Gardner
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-19 | Author:Lloyd C. Gardner

Herbert Hoover Jr. carried on the negotiations for the American side, both with the British and the Iranians. He reported on progress to the National Security Council on May 27, ...
( Category: Middle East July 16,2018 )
Defending the Holy Land by Maoz Zeev;
epub |eng | | Author:Maoz, Zeev;

6. THE LEBANESE QUAGMIRE As noted in chapter 6, Israeli politicians harbored pipe dreams of helping establish a Christian-dominated state in Lebanon that would break the circle of hostility of ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 14,2018 )

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