The story of the First World War in the Middle East - and how it swept away five hundred years of Ottoman rule to lay the foundations for the troubled Middle East that we know today.
Mercenaries, allies or collaborators? This book provides a history of colonial auxiliaries. It looks at the post-colonial legacy of local forces trained up under Western models.
The British Indian Army was a distinctive phenomenon, a curious combination of Western imperial and South Asian military cultures. This work is a selection of the Indian army's long history of development and modernisation, drawing out themes such as leadership, discipline, racial categorisation, mechanisation, and operational performance.
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A Talented Young Hockey Player and a Dangerous Injury... Ten-year-old Timothy Trainor is a typical happy kid who loves his family and friends. He's lucky enough to have a special talent: he's a great hockey player, and he is close with his teammates on the Chelsea ThunderCats. But things change unexpectedly when a dirty hit to the head during a game gives him a concussion. All of a sudden, Timothy's future as a player is at stake as Timothy, h...
De verteller in Jezus' zoon is een jonge, naamloze man die door zijn verslaving aan heroïne en alcohol zowel verward als lucide overkomt. Tijdens zijn avonturen ontmoet hij overal mensen die even vervreemd en in de war zijn als hij: zondaars, zonderlingen, verstotenen en verdoemden. Uit hun hopeloze en ogenschijnlijk willekeurige levens destilleert Denis Johnson een reeks moderne parabelen van een grimmige en vaak verwoestende schoonheid. Jezu...
In an A-to-Z format, this work covers the literary origins and key figures of the Beat movement. More than 500 entries cover: synopses of fiction, poetry and essays by Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and other major Beat writers, with notes on background and critical reception.
Drugs, crime lords and people underneath the law in order to become richer. These are the people Teiyana faces along with her inner demons, her past, and the mysterious disappearance of the one of the richest women. Now, it's up to her to stop everything and figure out what's happening..
