The Leading eBooks Store Online
for Kindle Fire, Apple, Android, Nook, Kobo, PC, Mac, Sony Reader...
Most popular at the top
The First Helicopter War: Logistics and Mobility in Algeria, 1954-1962
ABC-CLIO 1999; US$ 111.00Using recently released French official documents and a variety of other sources, this study explains how the French Army, so recently defeated by the Viet Minh insurgents in Indochina, was able to successfully defeat the Algerian nationalist rebels on the battlefield, while nevertheless losing the war at the conference table. This French success,... more...
Apostles of Modernity
Stanford University Press 2010; US$ 62.50This study of the specialized military Offices of Arab Affairs in Algeria during the formative decades of French rule from 1830 to 1870 disputes the conventional view that the doctrine of assimilation governed France's colonial policies and practices in the nineteenth century. more...
A Savage War of Peace
New York Review Books 2011; US$ 19.95The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, returned de Gaulle to power, and came close to provoking a civil war on French soil. More than a million Muslim Algerians died in the conflict and as many European settlers were driven into exile. Above all, the war was marked... more...
Between Sea and Sahara
I.B.Tauris 2004; US$ 23.00"Between Sea and Sahara" is one of the great classics of travel-writing about the Middle East - a landmark in the story of Europe's fascination with "The Orient". Travelling in Algeria in the third decade of French colonialization, Fromentin weaves a tale of passion, drama and adventure, a masterpiece that established him as... more...
Catastrophe
Zed Books 2011; US$ 26.95In this incisive and revealing book, Richard Bourne shows how a country that had every prospect of success when it achieved independence became a brutal police state less than thirty years later. Beginning with the British conquest and covering events up to the present precarious political situation, Catastrophe is the most comprehensive, up-to-date... more...
Algeria
OUP Oxford 2011; US$ 26.99Invaded in 1830, populated by one million settlers who co-existed uneasily with nine million Arabs and Berbers , Algeria was different from other French colonies because it was administered as an integral part of France, in theory no different from Normandy or Brittany. The depth and scale of the colonization process explains why the Algerian War of... more...
Algerians without Borders
University Press of Florida 2012; US$ 74.95This account of Algeria through its migratory history begins in the last quarter of the eighteenth century by looking at forced migration through the slave trade. It moves through the colonial era and continues into Algerias turbulent postcolonial experience. more...
Morgan Tsvangirai: At the Deep End
Eye Books 2011; US$ 14.99Morgan Tsvangirai's dramatic political battle with Zimbabwe?s dictatorial monolith Robert Mugabe stands as one of the most intriguing and important world events of recent times?this is his autobiography From village life as the son of a humble carpenter to struggling for power with Mugabe as the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, this is Morgan... more...
Ethnicity in Zimbabwe
Boydell & Brewer 2012; US$ 99.00A study of the ways in which debates around ethnicity and other identities in Zimbabwe-and in Matabeleland in particular-relate to wider issues in both rural and urban Zimbabwe past and present. more...
Citizen of Zimbabwe
Weaver Press 2010; US$ 22.95Morgan Tsvangiraiís appointment as Zimbabweís Prime Minister in 2009 followed many yearsí leadership of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trades Unions and the Movement for Democratic Change. How has that experience equipped him for high national office? Does he have the personal, intellectual and political qualities required to be President?... more...









