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Black Banners of Isis by David J. Wasserstein
epub |eng | | Author:David J. Wasserstein

CHAPTER SIX Christians and Jews and … THE PICTURE SAYS IT all: atop what looks like the entrance to a monastery or a church, an IS fighter with a rifle ...
( Category: Islam April 8,2018 )
Four Princes by John Julius Norwich
epub |eng | 2017-03-30 | Author:John Julius Norwich

59 He is said to have been put up to this escapade by Ibrahim Pasha, who hoped that the lady might supplant Roxelana in Suleiman’s affections. 60 La Goletta is ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 8,2018 )
One Day in September by Simon Reeve
epub |eng | | Author:Simon Reeve

9 Operation Wrath of God The small group of senior Israeli politicians and officials in charge of the assassination campaign against the terrorists involved in the Munich massacre was given ...
( Category: Miscellaneous April 8,2018 )
Fallujah Redux: The Anbar Awakening and the Struggle with Al-Qaeda by Daniel Green William Mullen
epub | | | Author:Daniel Green, William Mullen [Green, Daniel R.; Mullen, William F.]

Chapter 7 The Fallujah Awakening I believe that government starts at the bottom and moves upward, for government exists for the welfare of the masses of the nation. Ramon Magsaysay, ...
( Category: Middle East April 8,2018 )
The Ottoman Empire 1326-1699 by Stephen Turnbull
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Turnbull

The ‘Little War’ in Hungary During 1530 the triumphant Archduke Ferdinand took advantage of the Sultan’s absence to recapture Gran and other Danube forts. He even attacked King John Szapolyai ...
( Category: Military April 8,2018 )
Xenophon's Cyrus the Great by Larry Hedrick
epub |eng | | Author:Larry Hedrick

Script Stratagems that Bring Success “If things go according to plan,” said Gobryas, anticipating me, “the commander will admit Mandarus and all his men. He might even beg the eunuch ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 7,2018 )
All We Leave Behind by Carol Off
epub |eng | 2017-09-19 | Author:Carol Off

Ruby in Paris, in 2007. A jumble of sensations and emotions for her. Paris had been a jumble of sensations for Robina. She stayed with other international students at Cité ...
( Category: Historical April 7,2018 )
The Land of Blood and Honey by van Creveld Martin
epub |zho | 2010-08-02 | Author:van Creveld, Martin [Martin, van Creveld,]

Hallelujah! While the 1970s and early 1980s represented an exceptionally difficult period for Israel, not everything was darkness. Perhaps most impressive of all was the military recovery and buildup that ...
( Category: Middle East April 7,2018 )
Under the Shadow by Kaya Genç
epub |eng | | Author:Kaya Genç

As Turkey’s leading young horror film maker, Evrenol could not come from a more rationalist and positivist family. He was born into a family of architects, and his mother had ...
( Category: Middle East April 7,2018 )
Marine Corps Tank Battles in the Middle East by Oscar E. Gilbert
epub |eng | 2015-02-08 | Author:Oscar E. Gilbert [Gilbert, Oscar E.]

NOTES 1 Reynolds, Basrah, Baghdad, and Beyond, p. 79. 2 Ibid, p. 74. 3 The CAAT was a highly mobile unit mounted in lightly armored Humvees, and armed with a ...
( Category: Military April 7,2018 )
Pre-Industrial Societies by Crone Patricia
epub |eng | | Author:Crone, Patricia

7 Religion I should like to round off this part of the book with some general comments on religion. Religion is a distinctive part of culture which generates more bewilderment ...
( Category: World April 7,2018 )
The Mediterranean World by Monique O'Connell & Eric R Dursteler
epub |eng | 2016-05-14 | Author:Monique O'Connell & Eric R Dursteler [O'Connell, Monique]

Giuliano Sangallo’s drawing of Cyriac of Ancona’s now-lost sketch of Hagia Sophia, Constantinople. Vatican Apostolic Library The Aragonese and the Angevins both had ambitions for a pan-Mediterranean empire, and the ...
( Category: Middle East April 7,2018 )
Women in the Mosque by Katz Marion;
epub |eng | 2014-09-23 | Author:Katz, Marion;

The inquiry that elicited al-Haytamī’s fatwa is very different in emphasis. It reads: In these times, it has become a frequent occurrence that women go out to the markets and ...
( Category: Islam April 7,2018 )
The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (Updated and Expanded) by Avi Shlaim
epub |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:Avi Shlaim [Shlaim, Avi]

Covert Dealings with Iran Israel was distracted from the single-minded pursuit of the Jordanian option both by the change at the top and by the Irangate scandal. In November 1986, ...
( Category: Middle East April 7,2018 )
Destroying Yemen by Blumi Isa;
epub |eng | | Author:Blumi, Isa;

UNION NEVER TO BE The unification process evolved quickly in the 1989–1990 period.21 Declared on May 22, 1990, the first phase included adopting some common policies in customs and taxation ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 6,2018 )

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