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Desert Hell

By: Charles Townshend

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The U.S.-led conquest and occupation of Iraq have kept that troubled country in international headlines since 2003. For America's major Coalition ally, Great Britain, however, this latest incursion into the region played out against the dramatic backdrop of imperial history: Britain's fateful invasion of Mesopotamia in 1914 and the creation of a new nation from the shards of war. The objectives of the expedition sent by the British Government of India were primarily strategic: to protect the Raj, impress Britain's military power upon Arabs chafing under Ottoman rule, and secure the Persian oil supply. But over the course of the Mesopotamian campaign, these goals expanded, and by the end of World War I Britain was committed to controlling the entire region from Suez to India. The conquest of Mesopotamia and the creation of Iraq were the central acts in this boldly opportunistic bid for supremacy. Charles Townshend provides a compelling account of the atrocious, unnecessary suffering inflicted on the expedition's mostly Indian troops, which set the pattern for Britain's follow-up campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan over the next seven years. He chronicles the overconfidence, incompetence, and dangerously vague policy that distorted the mission, and examines the steps by which an initially cautious strategic operation led to imperial expansion on a vast scale. Desert Hell is a cautionary tale for makers of national policy. And for those with an interest in imperial history, it raises searching questions about Britain's quest for global power and the indelible consequences of those actions for the Middle East and the world. -- Book Description.

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Harvard University Press

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0674061349

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Who Owns the Land?

An In-Depth Look at the Truth Behind the Middle East Conflict

By: Charles H. Dyer,Stanley Ellisen

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Who Owns the Land?

An In-Depth Look at the Truth Behind the Middle East Conflict

By: Charles H. Dyer,Stanley Ellisen

Who Owns the Land? That’s the question being asked in homes and on college campuses all over the world. The conversations can be heated and fraught with tension. There are accusations. Anger. And pain. Who is at fault? Are the Israelis occupiers and oppressors? We are seeing a rising tide of antisemitism across the globe. What is the history of this conflict? You may have looked to Google for some clarity, but a mere Google search is not able to provide sufficient understanding or answers to your questions. Who Owns the Land? provides insight and knowledge behind the Arab-Israeli conflict. In addition to offering perspective on recent events, Who Owns the Land? traces the journey of the Jewish people through history and explains the events that have led to the current situation in the Middle East today. This revised and updated version of Dr. Stanley Ellisen's bestselling book examines the numerous Jewish migrations and expulsions, the emergence of Zionism, World War II and the Holocaust, and a view of the Jews' promised restoration. Who Owns the Land? helps readers place the current Middle East conflict in its proper historical context and enables us to interpret current events in light of the Bible.

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Moody Publishers

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0802470718

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9780802470713

Biographies: Ordo Sancti Lazari Hierusalem - Grand Maîtres, Protecteurs & Administrateurs

By: Charles Savona-Ventura

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Biographies: Ordo Sancti Lazari Hierusalem - Grand Maîtres, Protecteurs & Administrateurs

By: Charles Savona-Ventura

The Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem was established in the aftermath of the First Crusade of 1098. It was subsequently organized into a military and hospitaller Order with several establishments in various European countries all subservient to a central house sited first in Jerusalem, then Acre, Boigny, Paris and Spain. The Order was led throughout the centuries by a series of masters or grand masters. It has also enjoyed a number of Royal and Spiritual Protectors.

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Lulu.com

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132653470X

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9781326534707

Who Owns the Land?

The Arab-Israeli Conflict

By: Stanley A. Ellisen,Charles H. Dyer

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Who Owns the Land?

The Arab-Israeli Conflict

By: Stanley A. Ellisen,Charles H. Dyer

Who Owns the land is an update of Stanley Ellisen's 1191 book examining Middle East conflict in light of the biblical prophecies concerning a Jewish state. It traces the Jews' journey through history and the events that led to their determined stand in Palestine today, as well as the case made by the Palestinians themselves.

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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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0842384367

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Grand Strategies

Literature, Statecraft, and World Order

By: Charles Hill

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Grand Strategies

Literature, Statecraft, and World Order

By: Charles Hill

“The international world of states and their modern system is a literary realm,” writes Charles Hill in this powerful work on the practice of international relations. “It is where the greatest issues of the human condition are played out.” A distinguished lifelong diplomat and educator, Hill aims to revive the ancient tradition of statecraft as practiced by humane and broadly educated men and women. Through lucid and compelling discussions of classic literary works from Homer to Rushdie, Grand Strategies represents a merger of literature and international relations, inspired by the conviction that “a grand strategist . . . needs to be immersed in classic texts from Sun Tzu to Thucydides to George Kennan, to gain real-world experience through internships in the realms of statecraft, and to bring this learning and experience to bear on contemporary issues.” This fascinating and engaging introduction to the basic concepts of the international order not only defines what it is to build a civil society through diplomacy, justice, and lawful governance but also describes how these ideas emerge from and reflect human nature.

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Yale University Press

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0300165935

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Combating Poverty

Quebec's Pursuit of a Distinctive Welfare State

By: Axel van den Berg,Charles Plante,Hicham Raïq,Christine Proulx,Samuel Faustmann

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Combating Poverty

Quebec's Pursuit of a Distinctive Welfare State

By: Axel van den Berg,Charles Plante,Hicham Raïq,Christine Proulx,Samuel Faustmann

Combating Poverty critically analyses the growing divergence between Quebec and other large Canadian provinces in terms of social and labour market policies and their outcomes over the past several decades. While Canada is routinely classified as a single, homogeneous 'liberal market' regime, social and labour market policy falls within provincial jurisdiction resulting in a considerable divergence in policy mixes and outcomes between provinces. This volume offers a detailed survey of social and labour market policies since the early 2000s in Canada's four largest provinces - Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, and Alberta - showing the full extent to which Canada's major provinces have chosen diverging policy paths. Quebec has succeeded in emulating European and even Nordic social democratic levels of poverty for some groups, while poverty rates and patterns in the other provinces remain close to the high levels characteristic of the North American liberal, market-oriented regime. Combating Poverty provides a unique and timely reflection on the political implications and sustainability of Canada's fragmented welfare state.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487501560

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Memorials of Cambridge

By: Charles Henry Cooper

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Memorials of Cambridge

By: Charles Henry Cooper

Cooper's new edition of Memorials of Cambridge, extensively updated from John Le Keux's 1841 work, was published in 1860.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108043968

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The Missing Martyrs

Why are There So Few Muslim Terrorists?

By: Charles Kurzman

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The Missing Martyrs

Why are There So Few Muslim Terrorists?

By: Charles Kurzman

In this startlingly counterintuitive book, a leading authority on Islamic movements demonstrates that terrorist groups are thoroughly marginal in the Muslim world. Charles Kurzman draws on government sources, public opinion surveys, election results, and in-depth interviews with Muslims in the Middle East and around the world, finding that while young Muslims are indeed angry at the West, they are simply not attracted to terrorist methods. This revised edition, updated to include the self-proclaimed "Islamic State," concludes that fear of terrorism should be brought into alignment with the actual level of threat, and that government policies and public opinion should be based on evidence rather than alarmist hyperbole.

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0190907975

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Trial of a Thousand Years

World Order and Islamism

By: Charles Hill

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Trial of a Thousand Years

World Order and Islamism

By: Charles Hill

Charles Hill analyzes the refusal of the ideologues of pan-Islam to accept the boundaries and responsibilities of the order of states. He offers a historical perspective on the war of Islamism against the nation-state system, looking at changes in world order from the Thirty Years' War of the seventeenth century to Iran's Islamic revolution in 1979 to the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

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Hoover Press

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0817913262

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9780817913267

Soldiers Don't Go Mad

A Story of Brotherhood, Poetry, and Mental Illness During the First World War

By: Charles Glass

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Soldiers Don't Go Mad

A Story of Brotherhood, Poetry, and Mental Illness During the First World War

By: Charles Glass

A brilliant and poignant history of the friendship between two great war poets, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, alongside a narrative investigation of the origins of PTSD and the literary response to World War I From the moment war broke out across Europe in 1914, the world entered a new, unparalleled era of modern warfare. Soldiers faced relentless machine gun shelling, incredible artillery power, flame throwers, and gas attacks. Within the first four months of the war, the British Army recorded the nervous collapse of ten percent of its officers; the loss of such manpower to mental illness – not to mention death and physical wounds – left the army unable to fill its ranks. Second Lieutenant Wilfred Owen was twenty-four years old when he was admitted to the newly established Craiglockhart War Hospital for treatment of shell shock. A bourgeoning poet, trying to make sense of the terror he had witnessed, he read a collection of poems from a fellow officer, Siegfried Sassoon, and was impressed by his portrayal of the soldier’s plight. One month later, Sassoon himself arrived at Craiglockhart, having refused to return to the front after being wounded during battle. Though Owen and Sassoon differed in age, class, education, and interests, both were outsiders – as soldiers unfit to fight, as gay men in a homophobic country, and as Britons unwilling to support a war likely to wipe out an entire generation of young men. But more than anything else, they shared a love of the English language, and its highest expression of poetry. As their friendship evolved over their months as patients at Craiglockhart, each encouraged the other in their work, in their personal reckonings with the morality of war, as well as in their treatment. Therapy provided Owen, Sassoon, and fellow patients with insights that allowed them express themselves better, and for the 28 months that Craiglockhart was in operation, it notably incubated the era’s most significant developments in both psychiatry and poetry. Drawing on rich source materials, as well as Glass’s own deep understanding of trauma and war, Soldiers Don't Go Mad tells for the first time the story of the soldiers and doctors who struggled with the effects of industrial warfare on the human psyche. Writing beyond the battlefields, to the psychiatric couch of Craiglockhart but also the literary salons, halls of power, and country houses, Glass charts the experiences of Owen and Sassoon, and of their fellow soldier-poets, alongside the greater literary response to modern warfare. As he investigates the roots of what we now know as post-traumatic stress disorder, Glass brings historical bearing to how we must consider war’s ravaging effects on mental health, and the ways in which creative work helps us come to terms with even the darkest of times.

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1984877968

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Lebanon

War and Politics in a Fragmented Society

By: Charles Winslow

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Lebanon

War and Politics in a Fragmented Society

By: Charles Winslow

Winslow provides a comprehensive history and political analysis of Lebanon from ancient times to the present day. He focuses on the civil and sectarian strife that has characterized the country's past and contemporary history.

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Routledge

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1134762402

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British Pro-consuls in Egypt, 1914-1929

The Challenge of Nationalism

By: Charles William Richard Long

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British Pro-consuls in Egypt, 1914-1929

The Challenge of Nationalism

By: Charles William Richard Long

Long tells the story of four proconsuls (McMahon, Wingate, Allenby and Lloyd), their principal opponent, Sa'ad Zaghul, and the great events of the time: the rise of the WAFD party, the uprising of 1919, the murder of Sir Lee Stack and the Allenby ultimatum.

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Psychology Press

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0415350336

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Desert Hell

Desert Hell

Who Owns the Land?

Who Owns the Land?

Biographies: Ordo Sancti Lazari Hierusalem - Grand Maîtres, Protecteurs & Administrateurs

Biographies: Ordo Sancti Lazari Hierusalem - Grand Maîtres, Protecteurs & Administrateurs

Who Owns the Land?

Who Owns the Land?

Grand Strategies

Grand Strategies

Combating Poverty

Combating Poverty

Memorials of Cambridge

Memorials of Cambridge

The Missing Martyrs

The Missing Martyrs

Trial of a Thousand Years

Trial of a Thousand Years

Soldiers Don't Go Mad

Soldiers Don't Go Mad

Lebanon

Lebanon

British Pro-consuls in Egypt, 1914-1929

British Pro-consuls in Egypt, 1914-1929

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