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711 n. Chr. - Muslime in Europa!
Konrad Theiss Verlag 2011; US$ 12.94Hauptbeschreibung Wendepunkte der Geschichte - alle Hintergründe und Fakten 711 n. Chr.: Die Straße von Gibraltar wird für einfallende muslimische Truppen zum Eingangstor nach Spanien. Nachdem die Westgoten von Tariq bin Ziyad geschlagen werden, ist die islamische Eroberung der Iberischen Halbinsel nicht mehr aufzuhalten. Manchmal verändern wenige... more...
Out of Afghanistan
Oxford University Press 1995; US$ 64.99The United Nations mediator for the Afghanistan conflict and a foreign policy analyst provide their own interpretations of the negotiations that helped to end the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. They describe how the ideological hard line taken by the Reagan administration prolonged the conflict. more...
A Democracy is Born
Greenwood Publishing Group 2007; US$ 40.00An insider's vivid account of Afghanistan's transition to democracy. more...
The Arab League
Infobase Publishing 2008; US$ 42.00Unlike other regional organizations such as the European Union, which are founded on geography, the League of Arab States, or Arab League, is based on a shared culture and rooted in a common language. The Arab League is also charged with co-coordinating commercial relationships, passports, visas, and health issues. more...
The Great Gamble
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 13.99?Fascinating?.A highly readable history of the conflict.? ? New York Times Book Review In The Great Gamble , a groundbreaking account of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, former NPR Moscow correspondent Gregory Feifer vividly depicts the war that contributed greatly to the demise of the USSR, and that offers striking lessons for the 21st century,... more...
Encyclopedias about Muslim Civilisations
Edinburgh University Press 2009; US$ 143.00The first volume in the Muslim Civilisations Abstracts series is a reference catalogue of 200 annotated bibliographies and abstracts of encyclopedias published during the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Material has been made available in English, Arabic and Turkish. Volumes in the series seek not only to represent the diversity of... more...
The Arab World
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 17.95In the ten years since Anchor first published Elizabeth and Robert Fernea's award-winning The Arab World: Personal Encounters , vast political and economic shifts have taken place: the end of the Iran/Iraq War and the Lebanese civil war; the outbreak of the Gulf War; the historic 1993 peace accords between Israel and the Palestinians, to name just... more...
Afghanistan War
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 54.00The September 11, 2001, terror attacks orchestrated by al-Qaeda prompted the United States to declare a "War on Terror." When the Taliban government of Afghanistan refused to extradite al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, an American-led coalition went to war with Afghanistan, overthrowing the Taliban government. However, the coalition did not... more...
What the Thunder Said
Dundurn Press 2008; US$ 29.95By every principle of war, every shred of military logic, logistics support to Canada's Task Force Orion in Afghanistan should have collapsed in July 2006. There are few countries that offer a greater challenge to logistics than Afghanistan, and yet Canadian soldiers lived through an enormous test on this deadly international stage - a monumental... more...
What the Thunder Said
Dundurn 2009; US$ 12.99What the Thunder Said is an honest and at times raw recollection of incidents and impressions of Canadian warfighting from a logistics perspective. more...









