November 3rd, 2009
From Abdullah to Hussein: Jordan in Transition
Publisher: Oxford University Press | pages: 272 | 1994 | ISBN: 0195080270 | PDF | 17 mb
This book examines the most turbulent period in the history of Jordan’s ruling house, the six years following the assassination of the kingdom’s founder, Abdullah (1951-1957). Those years witnessed the country’s lone episode of weak monarchy, when the king–the novice Hussein or his ill-starred father, Talal–was not the preeminent political actor in the land. Rather, it was during that time at the regime was left in the hands of a mix of Palestinian, Continue reading From Abdullah to Hussein: Jordan in Transition
July 31st, 2009
Kalka River 1223: Genghiz Khan’s Mongols invade Russia (Campaign)
Publisher: Osprey Publishing | ISBN: 1841762334 | edition 2001 | PDF | 96 pages | 84,9 mb
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May 6th, 2009
Green Beret in Vietnam By Gordon Rottman, Kevin Lyles
Publisher: Osprey Publishing| ISBN: 1855325683 | edition 2002 | PDF | 64 pages | 25,6 mb
Vietnam was the US Special Forces most complex and controversial mission, one that began in 1957 and ended in 1973. Camp strike forces, mobile strike forces, mobile guerrilla forces, special reconnaissance projects, training missions and headquarters duty provided vastly differing experiences and circumstances for SF soldiers.
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May 6th, 2009
Nomads, Tribes, and the State in the Ancient Near East: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives
Publisher: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago | ISBN: 1885923619 | edition 2009 | PDF | 304 pages | 6,09 mb
For decades, scholars have struggled to understand the complex relationship between pastoral nomadic tribes and sedentary peoples of the Near East. The Oriental Institute’s fourth annual post-doc seminar (March 7-8, 2008), Nomads, Tribes, and the State in the Ancient Near East, brought together archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists to discuss new approaches to enduring questions in the study of nomadic peoples, tribes, and states of the past: What social or political bonds link tribes and states?
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May 6th, 2009
Colonel Richard Irving Dodge: The Life And Times of a Career Army Officer
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press | ISBN: 0806137096 | edition 2006 | PDF | 646 pages | 5.25 mb
Few soldiers saw more of the late-nineteenth-century West and its peoples or made more friends and acquaintances, civilian and military, than the energetic and sociable Col. Richard Irving Dodge.
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May 6th, 2009
Das alte China. Von den Anfängen bis zum 19. Jahrhundert
Publisher: C.H.Beck | ISBN: 3406396321 | edition 1995 | PDF | 142 pages | 1.49 mb
Diese Darstellung der Geschichte und Kultur Chinas von den Anfängen bis in die Zeit der politischen und wirtschaftlichen Fremdbestimmung im 19. Jahrhundert zeigt Entwicklungslinien, die die Dynamik des heutigen China überhaupt erst verständlich machen. Im alten China tauchen bereits die Grundprobleme auf, die sich dem Land heute noch stellen. Die Konfliktzonen der Vergangenheit und mögliche Grenzen innerhalb Chinas sind im Bewußtsein der Bevölkerung noch präsent.
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