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  • The History of Aden

    by Dr Z H Kour, Z.H. Kour ...
    First Published in 1980. The peninsula of Aden, on the south-west coast of Arabia, lies 100 miles east of the straits of Bab al-Mandab at the entrance to the Red Sea. It has an area of 21 square miles, the greater part of which is uninhabitable being covered by precipitous hills, the highest of which is Mount Shamsan, 1,775 feet. This book is a history of Aden from 1839 to 1872. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

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  • Return of a King

    The Battle for Afghanistan

    by William Dalrymple ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2013'As taut and richly embroidered as a great novel . . . a masterpiece' Sunday Telegraph'Dazzling' Sunday Times | 'Magnificent' Guardian | 'Sparkling' Daily TelegraphA towering history of the first Afghan War by bestselling historian William Dalrymple.In the spring of 1839, Britain invaded Afghanistan for the first t... ... Read more

    $11.59 CAD

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  • The Anarchy

    The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

    by William Dalrymple ...
    Finalist for the Cundill History PrizeONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal and NPR“Superb … A vivid and richly detailed story … worth reading by everyone.” -The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the bestselling author of Return of a King<... ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Nutuk - The Great Speech by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

    by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk ...
    Nutuk was a speech delivered by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk from 15 to 20 October 1927, at the second congress of Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi. The speech covered the events between the start of the Turkish War of Independence on May 19, 1919, and the foundation of the Republic of Turkey, in 1923.Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and the first ... Read more

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  • The Forgotten Slave Trade

    The White European Slaves of Islam

    by Simon Webb ...
    "A solid introduction and useful survey of slaving activity by the Muslims of North Africa over the course of several centuries." — ChroniclesEverybody knows about the transatlantic slave trade, which saw black Africans snatched from their homes, taken across the Atlantic Ocean and then sold into slavery. However, a century before Britain became involved in this terrible business, whole villages ... Read more

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  • Sikunder Burnes

    Master of the Great Game

    by Craig Murray ...
    A biography that "restore[s] this remarkable young man to his rightful position as a leading figure in Scotland's contribution to our imperial history" ( The Scottish Review).This is an astonishing true tale of espionage, journeys in disguise, secret messages, double agents, assassinations and sexual intrigue. Alexander Burnes was one of the most accomplished spies Britain ever produced and the ... Read more

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  • Oman

    The True-Life Drama and Intrigue of an Arab State

    by John Beasant ...
    Oman is one of the world’s most secretive countries,ruled with absolute authority by the Sultan. All information is strictly controlled by the State: British Prime Minister Edward Heath once said that the story of the 1970 Palace Coup and the events that followed would ‘not be told in our lifetime’.Following ten years’ residency in the country a senior member of Sultan Qaboos's Family suggested ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Enemy on the Euphrates

    The British Occupation of Iraq and the Great Arab Revolt, 1914-1921

    by Ian Rutledge ...
    In 1920 an Arab revolt came perilously close to inflicting a shattering defeat upon the British Empire's forces occupying Iraq after the Great War. A huge peasant army besieged British garrisons and bombarded them with captured artillery. British columns and armoured trains were ambushed and destroyed, and gunboats were captured or sunk. Britain's quest for oil was one of the principal reasons for ... Read more

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  • King of Kings

    The Triumph and Tragedy of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia

    by Asfa-Wossen Asserate ...
    Translated by Peter Lewis ...
    Haile Selassie I, the last emperor of Ethiopia, was as brilliant as he was formidable. An early proponent of African unity and independence who claimed to be a descendant of King Solomon, he fought with the Allies against the Axis powers during World War II and was a messianic figure for the Jamaican Rastafarians. But the final years of his empire saw turmoil and revolution, and he was ultimately ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • War in Afganistan

    by Kevin Baker ...
    There have been few books which put the conflicts into the broadest perspective, and even fewer that also include in their narrative descriptions of the numerous wars and conflicts on the Northwest Frontier as well as Afghanistan. This book includes information on all such wars in Afghanistan, not just those involving British armies, and also describes their background. For the past four years ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade

    by John Wright ...
    Series series History and Society in the Islamic World
    This compelling text sheds light on the important but under studied trans-Saharan slave trade. The author uncovers and surveys this, the least-noticed of the slave trades out of Africa, which from the seventh to the twentieth centuries quielty delievered almost as many black Africans into foreign servitude as did the far busier, but much briefer Atlantic and East African trades.Illuminating for ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • AFGHANISTAN: A Short Account of Afghanistan, its History and Our Dealings With It (1881)

    by P. F. Walker ...
    "The object of this book is to lay before the public a short history of Afghanistan, which, can be read in a few hours, and will give, the author trusts, an accurate account of the history of a country at the present time attracting considerable attention from the importance of its position in relation to our Indian Empire. The author having been present in Afghanistan during part of the Afghan ... Read more

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