'Tribes With Flags' is the gripping story of Charles Glass's dramatic journey through Greater Syria which provides background context to a troubled region once again in the headlines.
The remarkable and touching story of a singular friendship between the author (an affluent Western correspondent) and his Pashtun interpreter who meet in an Afghan war-zone and resume their friendship when Mir becomes an asylum seeker in London's East End.
Includes 204 photos, plans and maps illustrating The HolocaustArrested by the Gestapo in 1942 for involvement in the resistance, the author spent three years in Birkenau.
World-renowned Iranian expert Homa Katouzian presents the first comprehensive introduction to one of the worlds most controversial and misunderstood countriesSince the 1979 revolution, Iran has been locked in conflict with the United States and Europe.
This is the story of a people, its origin, its history, its struggle for survival and its tragic end-the life-and-death story of Polish and other Eastern European Jewries.
East Africa and Its Invaders, originally published in 1938, covers the history of mid-East Africa-the area between Mozambique and Cape Guardafui-from its beginnings down to the death of the greatest Arab ruler in East Africa, Seyyid Said, in 1856.
An intelligent and entertaining exploration of this notoriously unsettled regionThe Middle East is notorious in the West for many reasons; few of them are positive.
"e;"e;This Booklet has been compiled with the object of enabling the members of the 20th Machine-Gun Squadron to recall the principal incidents in its history, as well as to allow their friends and relations to obtain some idea of their experiences whilst they were serving with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force.
'The best life of Lawrence yet published' - The Express Lawrence was a brilliant propagandist, rhetorician and manipulator, who deliberately turned his life into a conundrum.
Subjects covered in these pages include: Egyptian SpiritualityThe Akhenaten Heresy and Its Impact on Religion and Mystical ThoughtCreation Mythology of the Four CentresThe Soul and Its Journey in Egyptian Metaphysical ThoughtSecrets of the Book of the DeadThe Nature of the Human BeingRa's Journey through the Underworld and Its Initiatory SignificanceEgyptian Mysteries as the Prototype of Ancient Mystery SchoolsShamans, Hierophants, and the Initiatory ProcessWisdom of the Egyptian Sages, from Ancient Egypt to the Hermetic Mystics of AlexandriaThe Heart as the Spiritual Self and Monitor of Morality in Human BehaviourKIRKUS REVIEW:A collection of insights into the esoteric meanings of ancient Egyptian religious and spiritual practices.
Sir Reginald Coupland was widely regarded as an authority on David Livingstone, a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary and an explorer in Africa, who was one of the most popular national heroes of late-19th-century in Victorian Britain.
In the nineteenth century there flourished a peculiar breed of Englishmen-often the second sons of the aristocracy, or ambitious men from a lower class-who as soldiers, consuls and tea planters, were largely responsible for making England a great colonial power.
Situated in an area roughly corresponding to present-day Iraq, Mesopotamia is one of the great, ancient civilizations, though it is still relatively unknown.
In the coming five to ten years, the highest number of key global security challenges is likely to be concentrated in the Middle East, or be related to it.
