Cold War in the Islamic World - Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Struggle for Supremacy (Hiro Dilip)(Paperback / softback)

Cold War in the Islamic World - Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Struggle for Supremacy (Hiro Dilip)(Paperback / softback)

A History of Saudi Arabia (Al-Rasheed Madawi)(Paperback)

This updated edition analyses the challenges, both internal and external, facing Saudi Arabia in the twenty-first century. Two new chapters discuss the political, economic and social developments in the aftermath of 9/11, painting a vivid picture of a country shocked by terrorism and condemned by

Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World (Hamid Shadi)(Paperback)

Shortlisted for the 2017 Lionel Gelber Prize In Islamic Exceptionalism, Brookings Institution scholar and acclaimed author Shadi Hamid offers a novel and provocative argument on how Islam is, in fact, exceptional in how it relates to politics, with profound implications for how we understand the

Power and Politics in the Persian Gulf Monarchies(Paperback / softback)

Essays on the six monarchies of the Gulf: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and

Salman's Legacy - The Dilemmas of a New Era in Saudi Arabia (Rasheed Madawi Al)(Paperback / softback)

Spy in Moscow Station - A Counterspy's Hunt for a Deadly Cold War Threat (Haseltine Eric)(Paperback / softback)

The thrilling, true, cold-war era story of counterespionage in Moscow and the clandestine eavesdropping arms

Iranian Women and Gender in the Iran-Iraq War (Farzaneh Mateo Mohammad)(Paperback)

Eighteen months after Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979, hundreds of thousands of the country's women participated in the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88) in a variety of capacities. Iran was divided into women of conservative religious backgrounds who supported the revolution and accepted some of the

Cold War - A World History (Westad Odd Arne)(Paperback / softback)

As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new and much better world could be created from the moral and physical ruins of the conflict. Instead, the combination of the huge power of the USA and USSR and the near-total collapse of most of their rivals created a

Last Raider (Reeman Douglas)(Paperback / softback)

Germany opens the final, bitter round of the war with a new and deadly weapon in the struggle for the seas - the Vulcan sails from Kiel Harbour. guns, mines and torpedoes that can be brought into play instantly. The Vulcan is a commerce raider. And under crack commander Felix von Steiger her

Inside the Kingdom (Lacey Robert)(Paperback / softback)

Saudi Arabia is a country defined by paradox: it sits atop some of the richest oil deposits in the world, and yet the country's roiling disaffection produced sixteen of the nineteen 9/11

Astronomy and Astrology in the Islamic World (P. Blake Stephen)(Paperback)

It was the astronomers and mathematicians of the Islamic world who provided the theories and concepts that paved the way from the geocentric theories of Claudius Ptolemy in the second century AD to the heliocentric breakthroughs of Nicholas Copernicus and Johannes Kepler in the sixteenth and

The Global Cold War (Westad Odd Arne)(Paperback)

The Cold War between the former Soviet Union and the United States indelibly shaped the world we live in today--especially international politics, economics, and military affairs. This volume shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the 20th century created the foundations for most of

International Relations - From the Cold War to the Globalized World (Wenger Andreas)(Paperback / softback)

Tracing the evolution of international relations since the onset of the Cold War, this volume draws on archival resources to narrate world affairs from 1945 to the present. Events are addressed chronologically, with attention to both their motivations and their

Spy and the Traitor - The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (MacIntyre Ben)(Paperback / softback)

Cold War Kent (Holden Clive)(Paperback)

For almost forty-five years following the end of the Second World War, the world held its breath as the spectre loomed of an even more terrible and devastating conflict. The wartime alliance that had won the war had split into two powerful opposing blocs, with the western powers headed by the

Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia (Bsheer Rosie)(Paperback)

The production of history is premised on the selective erasure of certain pasts and the artifacts that stand witness to them. From the elision of archival documents to the demolition of sacred and secular spaces, each act of destruction is also an act of state building. Following the 1991 Gulf War,

Johnny Got His Gun (Trumbo Dalton)(Paperback / softback)

It was the war to end all wars, the global struggle that would finally make the world safe for democracy - at any cost. But one American soldier has paid a price beyond measure. And within the disfigured flesh that was once a vision of youth lives a spirit that cannot accept what the world has

Cinema and the Cultural Cold War (Lee Sangjoon)(Paperback)

Cinema and the Cultural Cold War explores the ways in which postwar Asian cinema was shaped by transnational collaborations and competitions between newly independent and colonial states at the height of Cold War politics. Sangjoon Lee adopts a simultaneously global and regional approach when

The Runaway Family (Costeloe Diney)(Paperback)

A woman's struggle to defend her family and escape Nazi persecution in World War Two

Daily Life in the Medieval Islamic World (Lindsay James E.)(Paperback / softback)

Life Under Nazi Occupation - The Struggle to Survive During World War II (Roland Paul)(Paperback / softback)

The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265-146 BC (Goldsworthy Adrian)(Paperback)

The greatest conflict of antiquity, the struggle for supremacy between Rome and Carthage. The struggle between Rome and Carthage in the Punic Wars was arguably the greatest and most desperate conflict of antiquity. The forces involved and the casualties suffered by both sides were far greater than

Brief History of the Crusades (Hindley Geoffrey)(Paperback / softback)

Islam and Christianity and their ancient struggle for world

Second World War (Keegan John)(Paperback / softback)

In this history of World War II, the author explores both the technical and the human impact of the conflict. The text concentrates on five crucial battles with the aim of illuminating the war as a whole: Crete, Midway, Falaise, Berlin and