From the first cannonballs fired by American warships at North African pirates to the conquest of Falluja by the Marines - from the early American explorers who probed the sources of the Nile to the diplomats who strove for Arab-Israeli peace - the United States has been involved in the Middle East. For well over two centuries, American statesmen, ...
In 1967 the future of the state of Israel was far from certain. But with its swift and stunning military victory against an Arab coalition led by Egypt in the Six Day War, Israel not only preserved its existence but redrew the map of the region, with fateful consequences. The Camp David Accords, the assassinations of Anwar Sadat and Yitzhak Rabin, ...
Fifty years after the Battle of the Bulge, a group of veterans of the 133rd Infantry Battalion get together for a reunion on the spot. They include the colonel (an educator who has been involved in some unsavory pedophile scandals), the major (now a filthy rich Texas oil baron), and other lesser officers and enlisted men, each of whom has a story- ...
Containing a wide variety of early Christian art from sources as varied as the Coptic and Celtic traditions and wide-ranging quotations from Christian saints and sages of the first one-and-a-half millennia of Christianity, this book invites the reader to reflect upon the beauty and wisdom of the Christian spirit.
The heat of the Negev Desert is captured in this collection of three novellas. An escaped murderer holds a young woman hostage in "House of Bondage". In "The Maestro of Yerucham", a Russian violinist who has survived the Nazis and the Soviet regimes finds a young girl he believes to be the heir to his talents. And in "Sand Devil", the adolescent ...
This book represents the first scholarly examination of the origins of the 1956 Sinai campaign between Egypt and Israel. Utilising a wide range of primary sources, the study analyses the reasons for the breakdown of the Armistice Agreement between Egypt and Israel and the failure of efforts to mediate a peace accord.
A selection of articles addressing those fundamental questions that define the agenda for the Jewish state in the 21st century. Among the authors one can find key figures in the Israeli public dialogue, such as Ruth Gavison, Yoram Hazony, Michael Oren, Amnom Rubinstein, and Natan Sharansky.
Michael B. Oren's "Six Days of War is the most comprehensive history ever published of the six days of intense Arab-Israeli fighting in the summer of 1967 that transformed the world.
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A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
