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  • The Agony of a People

    Haig Toroyan’s Eyewitness Account of the Armenian Genocide

    by Mr Zabel Yesayan ...
    Translated by Arakel Minassian ...
    Series series Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World
    Haig Toroyan's account of his journey from Dikranagerd (Diyarbakir in modern-day southeastern Turkey) along the Euphrates River to Mesopotamia and Iran is a unique and hauntingly detailed account of the Armenian Genocide of 1915.Recounting first the ominous final months of 1914, Toroyan is employed in Jarabalus by a sympathetic German Army Sergeant, Otto Oehlmann, as his assistant and interpreter, ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • Ancient Egypt: History in an Hour

    by Anthony Holmes ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Learn about the Egyptian gods, mummification and how the Egyptians built the only wonder of the ancient world still standing – the Pyramids of Giza.Exploring the historic rise of Egyptian civilizationand its continued influence on the world today, Ancient Egypt in an Hour is an excellent companion to a mysterious and enthralling period of ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

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  • Operation Nemesis

    The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide

    by Eric Bogosian ...
    A masterful account of the assassins who hunted down the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide set in the context of Ottoman and Armenian history."A dramatic work of history that reads like a thriller." —Michael Bobelian, Los Angeles TimesIn 1921, a tightly knit band of killers set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of the Armenian Genocide. They were a humble bunch: an ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

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  • The Shah

    by Abbas Milani ...
    The definitive, "splendidly detailed" biography of the last Shah of Iran, tracing his dramatic rise, dictatorial rule, and fall from power in 1979 ( Chicago Tribune).Though his monarchy was toppled in 1979 and he died in 1980, the life of Mohammad-Reza Shah Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, continues to resonate today. Here, internationally respected author Abbas Milani gives us the definitive ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Ataturk

    by Patrick Kinross ...
    The definitive biography of the father of modern Turkey, a powerful figure in the still-unfolding drama of the Middle East.With the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War came the emergence of new nations, chief among them Turkey itself. It was the creation of one man, the soldier-statesman Mustafa Kemal, who dragged his country from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, and ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • My Forbidden Face

    by Latifa ...
    Latifa was born into an educated middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980. She dreamed of one day of becoming a journalist, she was interested in fashion, movies and friends. Her father was in the import/export business and her mother was a doctor.Then in September 1996, Taliban soldiers seized power in Kabul. From that moment, Latifa, just 16 years old became a prisoner in her own home. Her ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Gray Wolf

    The Life of Kemal Ataturk

    by H. C. Armstrong ...
    MUSTAPHA KEMAL ATATURK, the great Turkish dictator, is a figure of great significance to the modern world. He did in Turkey what, in effect, Nasser and the other present-day "strong men" are trying to do in their countries, and he is their model and ideal. In fact, Nasser said of this book specifically "This has been the most important book in my life."Besides being of great historical importance, ... Read more

    $5.58 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Atatürk

    The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey

    by Andrew Mango ...
    A "superlative [and] exhaustively researched" biography of "one of the most complex and controversial figures in twentieth-century world history" ( Library Journal).Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was virtually unknown until 1919, when he took the lead in thwarting the victorious Allies' plan to partition the Turkish core of the Ottoman Empire. He divided the Allies, defeated the last Sultan, and secured ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Like a Sword Wound

    by Ahmet Altan ...
    Series Book 1 - Ottoman Quartet
    A "magical, marvellous" epic of an empire in collapse: Book one in the acclaimed Ottoman Quartet by the award-winning Turkish author and political dissident ( La Stampa, Italy).Tracking the decline and fall of the Ottoman empire, Ahmet Altan's Ottoman Quartet spans fifty years from the end of the nineteenth century to the post-WWI rise of Atatu¨rk as leader of the new Turkey. In Like a Sword Wound ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Shah of Shahs

    by Ryszard Kapuscinski ...
    This journalist's portrait of life in Iran just after the Revolution is "a book of great economy and power [with] a supreme sense of the absurd" ( New Republic).Iran, 1980: the revolutionaries have taken charge. In a deserted Teheran hotel, Ryszard Kapuściński tries to make journalistic and human sense out of the mass of notes, tapes, and photographs he had accumulated during his extended stay in ... Read more

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  • Baghdad

    City of Peace, City of Blood

    by Justin Marozzi ...
    In Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood, celebrated young travelwriter-historian Justin Marozzi gives us a many-layered history of one of the world's truly great cities - both its spectacular golden ages and its terrible disasters'Justin Marozzi is the most brilliant of the new generation of travelwriter-historians' - Sunday TelegraphOver thirteen centuries, Baghdad has enjoyed both cultural and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Gardens of Consolation

    by Parisa Reza ...
    Translated by Adriana Hunter ...
    A novel of love, family, and a fight for freedom in Iran featuring a "formidable and hard-to-forget heroine" ( Publishers Weekly).In the early 1920s, in the remote Persian village of Ghamsar, two young people dreaming of a better life fall in love and marry. Sardar brings his bride, Talla, with him across the mountains to the suburbs of Tehran, where the couple settles down and builds a home. From ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD