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Author
Publisher
Bombardier Books, Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The comprehensive history of the role of war and terror in the spread of Islam. It is taken for granted, even among many Washington policymakers, that Islam is a fundamentally peaceful religion and that Islamic jihad terrorism is something relatively new, a product of the economic and political ferment of the twentieth century. But in The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS, Islamic scholar Robert Spencer proves definitively that Islamic terror...
45) The covenant
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The exciting, explosive new series from the bestselling author of The Plainsman western series begins with The Covenant... It was a time of uncertainty in the infancy of the growing nation. The wild west was open and beckoning to displaced men and families, and many chose to travel to the unsettled frontier, dreaming of new homes, land, and even riches. But few reckoned on those that had lived in those lands for centuries, the native peoples, Blackfoot,...
46) Resist
Author
Publisher
Barrington Stoke
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
As the brutal Second World War stretches on with no end in sight, life for ordinary Dutch people in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands is perilous and full of hardship. There is very little to eat and they face the constant threat of arrest and enslavement. After the murder of her beloved uncle and the capture of her brother by the Germans, Edda is determined to do anything she can to help the resistance fight back. But how much risk is one teenage girl...
50) The holdovers
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them a damaged, brainy troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
Author
Series
Routledge global 1960s and 1970s volume 4
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Author
Series
Toronto Iberic volume 16
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
59) Catastrophes, confrontations, and constraints: how disasters shape the dynamics of armed conflicts
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A new history of the war that toppled the French Empire, unified Germany, and set Europe on the path to World War I. Among the conflicts that convulsed Europe during the nineteenth century, none was more startling and consequential than the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. Deliberately engineered by Prussian chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the war succeeded in shattering French supremacy, deposing Napoleon III, and uniting a new German Empire. But...