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  • Türkiye-Britain Relations

    Two Hundred Years of an Intertwined Conflict and Cooperation

    by Oguzhan Göksel, Ozan Örmeci, Gürol Baba, Gökhan Ak, Huseyin Bagci, Ahmet Ceylan, Warren Dockter, William Hale0, Elnur Ismayil1, Sina Kisacik2, Özker Kocadal3, Mehmet Cem Ogultürk4, Cenk Özgen5, Polat Üründül6, Matthew Weiss7, F. Begüm Yildizeli8, Eren Alper Yilmaz9, Nurcan Özkaplan Yurdakul0 ...
    Türkiye-Britain Relations: Two Hundred Years of an Intertwined Conflict and Cooperation studies all aspects of Turkish-British relations. Türkiye’s relations with Britain, including those in the Ottoman era, followed a peculiar pattern of cordial bilateralism. There was continuous correspondence and a certain level of understanding even during the very times of hostility, i.e., the Anglo-Turkish ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Winston Churchill at the Telegraph

    Edited by Warren Dockter ...
    This fascinating collection of reportage chronicles the Prime Minister's life through the newspaper where he began his career.The Telegraph had a uniquely close connection with Winston Churchill at every stage of his life. Beginning with his early days as a war correspondent for the paper, the association continued as he himself became the news—reported on in its pages at every stage of his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Churchill and the Islamic World

    Orientalism, Empire and Diplomacy in the Middle East

    by Warren Dockter ...
    Winston Churchill was the greatest statesman of the twentieth century, yet he began his career as a colonial policeman in the North-West borderlands of India, and this experience was the beginning of his long relationship with the Islamic world. Overturning the widely-accepted consensus that Churchill was indifferent to, and even contemptuous of, matters concerning the Middle East, this book ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Private Secretaries to the Prime Minister

    Foreign Affairs from Churchill to Thatcher

    Edited by Andrew Holt, Warren Dockter ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern British History
    The importance of the Prime Minister in British foreign policy decision-making has long been noted by historians. However, while much attention has been given to high-level contacts between leaders and to the roles played by the premiers themselves, much less is known about the people advising and influencing them. In providing day-to-day assistance to the Prime Minister, a Private Secretary could ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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    The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East

    by David Fromkin ...
    Published with a new afterword from the author—the classic, bestselling account of how the modern Middle East was createdThe Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts—including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis, and the violent challenges posed by Iraq's competing sects—are rooted in the region's political ... Read more

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  • A History of Modern Britain

    by Andrew Marr ...
    A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. This edition also includes an extra chapter charting the course from Blair to Brexit.It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. In each decade, ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

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  • Closet Queens

    Some 20th Century British Politicians

    by Michael Bloch ...
    Closet Queens is a fascinating study of gay men in twentieth century British politics, from Lord Rosebery and Lord Beauchamp in Edwardian times to Michael Portillo and Peter Mandelson in our own era.As all homosexual activity was illegal until 1967, and exposure meant ruin and disgrace, such men were obliged either to repress their sexual feelings or else lead double lives, indulging their tastes ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914-1948

    The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914-1948

    by James Barr ...
    “A provocative history . . . helps us to understand why the Arab spring is so important and valuable.”—David Ignatius, National InterestIn the twentieth century, while fighting a common enemy in Europe, Britain and France were locked in a clandestine struggle for power in the Middle East. From the first agreement to divide the region between them to the birth of Israel, A Line in the Sand is a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Ottoman Endgame

    War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923

    by Sean McMeekin ...
    An astonishing retelling of twentieth-century history from the Ottoman perspective, delivering profound new insights into World War I and the contemporary Middle EastBetween 1911 and 1922, a series of wars would engulf the Ottoman Empire and its successor states, in which the central conflict, of course, is World War I—a story we think we know well. As Sean McMeekin shows us in this revelatory new ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • British Prime Ministers

    by Robert J. Parker ...
    There is a distinct lack of readily available information about the British prime ministers, especially as a group. There are thick biographies of the big names Pitt, Gladstone, Churchill - but who were the others? There are plenty of short booklets and pamphlets for all the monarchs but little or nothing on most of the fifty-three PMs. What better way to introduce these individuals than through a ... Read more

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  • The Shadow of the Great Game

    The Untold Story of India's Partition

    by Raja Narendra Singh Sarila ...
    The untold story of India's Partition.The partition of India in 1947 was the only way to contain intractable religious differences as the subcontinent moved towards independence - or so the story goes. But this dramatic new history reveals previously overlooked links between British strategic interests - in the oil wells of the Middle East and maintaining access to its Indian Ocean territories - ... Read more

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  • Lawrence of Arabia's War

    The Arabs, the British and the Remaking of the Middle East in WWI

    by Neil Faulkner ...
    This radically new perspective on T. E. Lawrence, the Arab Revolt, and WWI in the Middle East provides essential insight into today's violent conflicts.Archaeologist and historian Neil Faulkner draws on ten years of field research in the Middle East to offer the first truly multidisciplinary history of the conflicts that raged in Sinai, Arabia, Palestine, and Syria during the First World War. ... Read more

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