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  • Geostrategic Gulf

    From World Wars to Modern Day

    Edited by Warren Chin, Brandon Friedman, Andrew Stewart ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This open access book provides an in-depth exploration of the Arabian Gulf, explaining the pivotal role of conflict in shaping this geopolitically significant region over the past century. Understanding the historical context of conflicts in this region helps explain the major ongoing tensions between major players such as Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and external powers like the UK, the United States ... Read more

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  • The War I Always Wanted: The Illusion of Glory and the Reality of War

    The Illusion of Glory and the Reality of War

    by Brandon Friedman ...
    Growing up in the shadows of the giant B-52 Stratofortresses that thundered away from the nearby Barksdale Air Force Base, Brandon Friedman dreamed of becoming a warrior and defending his country. But dreams of heroism and the realities of war can look very different, and when Brandon joined the army as a second lieutenant in peacetime, he had no way of knowing how his world was about to change. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The End of Pax Britannica in the Persian Gulf, 1968-1971

    by Brandon Friedman ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book examines how the rulers in the Persian Gulf responded to the British announcement of military withdrawal from the Gulf in 1968, ending 150 years of military supremacy in the region. The British system in the Gulf was accepted for more than a century not merely because the British were the dominant military power in the region. The balance of power mattered, but so did the framework ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Phobia

    Collection of Short Stories

    by Kylie Leavitt, Willow Fields, Kirk Eckstine, Tasha Wise, Nicole Arno, Melissa Bettridge, Thérèse Naccarato, Kris Green, Gem Kennison, Magnolia Mulqueen, Christine Cottle, Romy Campanelli, Matthew Brandon, Sydney Friedman, Christopher Frew, Jodi Hill, Lucas Cain, Ari Cubangbang, Abbie Doll, Terry Nights, Echo Quinn, Mai Xiong, Katelyn Pike, D.T. Woods, Sean Newman, Duane Horton ...
    Contained within this book is dark, disturbing, and will invoke a sense of terror while sending a shiver down your spine - leaving you to question exactly what that scratching, creaking, and thudding noise you just heard really was? Are you alone in the house? Or is there some sinister force at work here? Either way, you are sure to be left with a feeling of fear, trepidation, and dread! So the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Reflections of a Warrior

    Six Years as a Green Beret in Vietnam

    by Elwood J.C. Kureth ...
    Reflections of a Warrior is a Medal of Honor winner's true story—a Green Beret's six deadly years in the killing fields of Vietnam.PFC Franklin Miller arrived in Vietnam in March 1966, and saw his first combat in a Reconnaissance Platoon. So began an odyssey that would make him into one of the most feared and respected men in the Special Forces elite, who made their own rules in the chaos of war ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Afghan Wars: History in an Hour

    by Rupert Colley ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Britain has invaded Afghanistan twice before in the nineteenth century. Both times tenacious Afghan fighters defended their country to humiliating British defeats. The Soviet Union also discovered what a tough enemy the Afghans are after nearly a decade of conflict from 1979 to 1989. When not fighting foreign invaders, Afghanistan was torn ... Read more

    $1.49 USD

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  • The War for Afghanistan: A Very Brief History

    From Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History

    by Thomas J. Barfield ...
    Series Book 9 - Princeton Shorts
    When it invaded Afghanistan in 2001, the United States sought to do something previous foreign powers had never attempted: to create an Afghani state where none existed. More than a decade on, the new regime in Kabul remains plagued by illegitimacy and ineffectiveness. What happened? As Thomas Barfield shows, the history of previous efforts to build governments in Afghanistan does much to explain ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Taliban

    The Power of Militant Islam in Afghanistan and Beyond

    by Ahmed Rashid ...
    This New York Times best seller remains the most informative and objective account of the Taliban availableThis modern classic brings the shadowy world of the Taliban and its impact on Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Central Asia into sharp focus. Ahmed Rashid offers an authoritative account of the Taliban’s rise to power, the effects of changing American attitudes toward it, and the new faces ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The History of Saudi Arabia

    by A M Vasilev ...
    How has Saudi Arabia managed to maintain its Arab and Islamic values while at the same time adopting Western technology and a market economy? How have its hereditary leaders, who govern with a mixture of political pragmatism and religious zeal, managed to maintain their power? This comprehensive history of Saudi Arabia from 1745 to the present provides insight into its culture and politics, its ... Read more

    $18.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Day Niagara Falls Stopped Running: A 15-Minute Strange But True Tale

    15-Minute Books, #223

    by Caitlind L. Alexander ...
    Series Book 223 - 15-Minute Books
    It happened on March 29, 1848. The people of the town of Niagara Falls awoke to a near deafening silence.The silence wasn't complete. They could hear a few birds twittering in the trees overhead. There were a few dogs barking. But otherwise there was silence.This was strange because the people of Niagara Falls lived their entire lives with the roar of the falls. It was the background for ... Read more

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  • Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, Second Edition

    by Ahmed Rashid ...

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  • Games without Rules

    The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan

    by Tamim Ansary ...
    By the author of Destiny Disrupted: An enlightening, lively, accessible, history of Afghanistan from 1840 to today, from the Afghan point of view, that illuminates how Great Power conflicts have interrupted an ongoing, internal struggle to take form as a nation.Five times in the last two centuries, some great power has tried to invade, occupy, or otherwise take control of Afghanistan. And as Tamim ... Read more

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