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 The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Middle East 
 Author: Martin Sieff The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Middle East (Politically Incorrect Guides) Regnery Publishing 2008 Format: PDF Size: 15.8 Mb Language: English Why most of what you think you know about the Middle East is wrong The Middle East: a region that's almost never off the front pages, yet one most Americans know little about. The mainstream media and Ivy League academics only make matters worse by casting everything in the usual politically correct mold: Arab terrorists are just desperate freedom fighters, and the region's one free democracy--Israel--is the oppressor, not least because of its alliance with America. And if Islamic extremism is a problem, the establishment tells us, it's only because it's rooted in that source of all evils: religion. A different strain of political correctness has seeped into some minds on the right--most notably the Bush administration, which, so ready to buy into the egalitarian myths we are all taught, believed that Western-style democracy could flourish anywhere. Now, in The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to the Middle East, veteran Middle East correspondent Martin Sieff puts the lie to all these myths and clichés, giving you everything you need to know about the region to understand its past, its present, and its possible future. In The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to the Middle East, you'll learn: - How, for three decades, the British supported parliamentary democracy throughout the Middle East, but it didn't work - Why Britain's post-World War I Middle East policy was a comedy of errors and incompetence that soon escalated into tragedy - Where America went wrong in Iraq: how U.S. policymakers vastly underestimated the intransigent, unsophisticated, and anti-Western nature of its competing communities - How Saudi Arabia's security forces defeated al Qaeda--and why you never heard about it - How the Muslim nations of the Middle East took an irrevocable turn toward radical Islam not in the tenth century or after the fall of Baghdad to the Mongols in the thirteenth century--but in 1979 - How the Arab states openly declared their determination to prevent a Jewish state from being born in 1947--twenty years before the West Bank and Gaza were first occupied The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to the Middle East is a bold first step toward facing the hard truths necessary for peace.
Pillars of Fire: The Battle of Messines Ridge June 1917
 Author: Ian Passingham Pillars of Fire: The Battle of Messines Ridge June 1917 The History Press 2012 Format: EPUB Pages: 256 Size: 12 Mb Language: English Gentleman, we may not make history tomorrow, but we shall certainly change the geography," so said General Plumer the day before 600 tons of explosives were detonated under the German position on Messines Ridge. The explosion was heard by Lloyd George in Downing Street and as far away as Dublin. Until 1918, Messines was the only clear cut Allied victory on the Western Front, coming at a time when Britain and her allies needed it most: boosting Allied morale and shattering that of the Germans. Precisely orchestrated, Messines was the first true all-arms modern battle which brought together artillery, engineers, infantry, tanks, aircraft and administrative units from a commonwealth of nations to defeat the common enemy.
Retreat of I Corps 1914 (Battleground Europe)
 Author: Jerry Murland Retreat of I Corps 191 Pen and Sword Military Battleground Europe 2014 Format: EPUB Pages: 139 Size: 24 Mb Language: English On 23 August 1914 it was only the two divisions of General Smith-Dorrien’s II Corps that were directly engaged with the German First Army along the line of the Mons-Conde Canal. As the British Expeditionary Force withdrew from Mons and bivouacked around Bavay on 25 August, Sir John French and his GHQ advisors – unsure of the condition of the routes through the Forêt de Mormal - ordered the British Expeditionary Force to continue their retirement the next day and to avoid the 35 square miles of forest roads.
Behind the Wire: Prisoners of War 1914-18 (
 Behind the Wire: Prisoners of War 1914-18 Author: Robert Jackson Osprey Publishing Osprey Digital General ISBN: 978 1472802699 2013 Language: English Pages: 111 Format: PDF (e-book) Size: 17,1 MB Before World War I the Geneva Convention established ‘rules’ for the treatment of Prisoners of War, and all belligerents during the war were to adhere to them; however, the rules were in many ways ambiguous and as a result, the treatment of POWs varied from nation to nation. In this book Robert Jackson examines the treatment POWs received from both sides of the lines, from British airmen shot down to German POWs and from American escapes to the armistice.
Gallipoli: The Dardanelles Disaster in Soldiers' Words and Photographs
 Gallipoli: The Dardanelles Disaster in Soldiers' Words and Photographs Author: Richard van Emden, Stephen Chambers Bloomsbury Publishing 2015 ISBN: 978-1408856154 Pages: 352 Language: English Format: EPUB Size: 46 MB Presenting more than 150 never-before-published photographs of the campaign, many taken by the soldiers themselves, together with unpublished written material from British, Anzac, French, and Turkish sources, including eyewitness accounts of the landings, this is an unrivaled account of what really happened at Gallipoli Van Emden's gripping narrative and lucid analysis of Churchill's infamous operation complements Stephen Chambers's evocative images, showing how the rapid spread of diseases like dysentery, the lack of clean water and food, and the tremendous losses on both sides affected morale, until finally in January 1916, in what were the best-laid plans of the entire disastrous campaign, the Allies successfully fooled the Turkish forces and evacuated their troops from the peninsula with no additional casualties. Here, leading First World War historian Richard van Emden and Gallipoli expert Stephen Chambers have produced an entirely fresh, personal, and illuminating study of one of the Great War's most catastrophic events.
In Search of the Zeppelin War: The Archaeology of the First Blitz
 Author: Neil Faulkner, Nadia Durrani In Search of the Zeppelin War: The Archaeology of the First Blitz Tempus Publishing 2008 Format: PDF Pages: 157 Language: English Size: 31.8 MB This book comprises a full introduction to the history and archaeology of the first strategic bombing campaign in history—the Zeppelin raids over Britain in 1915–1918—based on pioneering new excavations and archive research. This is the story of the initial Blitz and the first Battle of Britain, featuring a full report on the first ever excavation of a Zeppelin crash site and also covering airfields, gun sites, searchlights, and radio listening posts. This illustrated book features contemporary accounts alongside the accounts and photographs from the excavations, including Hunstanton, Monkhams, Chingford and North Weald Basset, the Lea Valley, Potters Bar, and Theberton. Written in a collaboration between academic archaeologists and aviation enthusiasts/metal detectorists, this fascinating project is the subject of a BBC2 Timewatch documentary.
The Affair at Nery: 1 September 1914
 Author: Patrick Takle The Affair at Nery: 1 September 1914 Pen and Sword Battleground Europe 2007 Format: EPUB Pages: 160 Size: 5 Mb Language: English Early on 1 September 1914, the Germans surprised 1st Cavalry Brigade harbouring in the little town of Nery. Their initial bombardment caused chaos and destruction and the British took time to organize themselves. The actions of two batteries of the Royal Horse Artillery were eventually so successful that even today there is a battery known as Nery Battery RHA. The Queen's Bay's a cavalry regiment, charged in classic style and the Germans, who mistakenly thought they were out numbered, withdrew with heavy casualties. Of the three VCs, two were posthumous. While a small engagement by later Great War standards, Nery is a classic case study of an artillery duel and cavalry action.
Fighting the Kaiser's War: The Saxons in Flanders 1914/1918
 Author: Andrew Lucas, Jürgen Schmieschek Fighting the Kaiser's War: The Saxons in Flanders 1914/1918 Pen and Sword Military 2015 Format: EPUB Pages: 256 Size: 16 Mb Language: English Personal accounts of the Great War experiences of British soldiers are well known and plentiful, but similar accounts from the German side of no man's land are rare. This highly original book vividly describes the wartime lives and ultimate fates of ten Saxon soldiers facing the British in Flanders, revealed through their intimate diaries and correspondence. The stories of these men, from front-line trench fighters to a brigade commander, are in turn used to illustrate the wider story of thousands more who fought and died in Flanders 'for King and Country, Kaiser and Reich' with the Royal Saxon Army. This ground-breaking work is illustrated with over 300 mostly unseen wartime photographs and other images, recording the German experience of the war in human detail and giving a rounded picture of how the Saxons lived and died in Flanders.
Battleground: Ypres - Airfields & Airmen
 Author: Mike O'Connor Battleground: Ypres - Airfields & Airmen Pen & Sword 2000 Format: ePub (e-book) Pages: 145 Language: English Size: 5 MB This is the first book in the Battleground Europe Series discovering the airfields and airmen of the Great War. It is sometimes forgotten that the Wright Brother's first flight took place only in 1903; yet fifteen years later the Royal Air Force had over 20,000 aircraft of all types including night bombers.This book takes the reader to the sites of the airfields used by the Royal Flying Corps in the vicinity of the Ypres Salient. These fields were basic in the extreme compared with airbases of WW2 and today; flattish ground hitherto used for agriculture purposes trampled down by men and vehicles. It was here that the primitive aircraft were based, surrounded by a tented camp and temporary buildings.Yet out of such places the great legendary air aces of the war operated. The book also reveals the locations of many killed whilst engaged in combat flying.Pilots from other countries (French, German etc) are also covered.
The War on Hospital Ships 1914-1918
 Author: Stephen McGreal The War on Hospital Ships 1914-1918 Pen and Sword Maritime ISBN: 1844158586 2009 Format: EPUB Pages: 272 Size: 4 Mb Language: English It is often said "The first casualty of war is the truth" and there is no better example of this than the furore caused by the claims and counterclaims of the British and German Governments at the height of the First World War. Wounded allied personnel were invariably repatriated by hospital ships, which ran the gauntlet of mined waters and gambled on the humanity of the U- Boat commanders. For, contrary to the terms of the Geneva Convention, on occasions Germany had sunk the unarmed hospital ships under the pretense they carried reinforcement troops and ammunition. The press seized on these examples of 'Hun Barbarity', especially the drowning of noncombatant female nurses.
Gommecourt (Battleground Europe)
 Author: Nigel Cave Gommecourt Pen and Sword Battleground Europe 1998 Format: EPUB Pages: 160 Size: 7 Mb Language: English The Battle of Gommecourt took place during t he Somme campaign and served as the main diversion to the Bi g Push of July 1st 1916. This guide to the battle gives deta ils of the attack, and also looks at how the battleground lo oks today.
Pals on the Somme 1916
 Author: Roni Wilkinson Pals on the Somme 1916 Pen and Sword Military 2006 Format: EPUB Pages: 224 Size: 10 Mb Language: English Pals on the Somme covers the history of all the Pals Battalions who fought on the Somme during the First World War. The book looks at the events which led to the war and how the 'Pals' phenomenon was born. It considers the attitude and social conditions in Britain at the time. It covers the training and equipping of the Battalions, the preparations for the 'Big Push', 1st July 1916, and going over the top, and how each battalion fared, failed or succeeded. It looks at how they Battalions had to undergo a change after the 1st July, due to the heavy casualties, and the final victory in 1918, and how the battalions were eventually amalgamated.The final chapter examines how each area coped in the aftermath of losing their men in the three year slaughter. It covers the organizations and visits to the Battlefields as they are today.
Cobbers In Khaki - The History of the 8th Battalion, 1914-1918
 Author: Ron Austin Cobbers In Khaki - The History of the 8th Battalion, 1914-1918 Slouch Hat Publications 2004 Format: PDF Pages: 316 Language: English Size: 43 MB The history of the 8th Battalion, 1914-1918. An original Gallipoli Landing battalion, formed in the Ballarat & Geelong districts in 1914. Three Victoria Crosses were won by the battalion during its wartime service with Captain Percy Lay being the most highly decorated soldier. During his service on the Western Front, Percy Lay was awarded the Military Cross, the Distinguished Conduct Medal, the Military Medal and the Croix de Guerre.
The Germans in Flanders 1915-1916
 Author: David Bilton The Germans in Flanders 1915-1916 Pen and Sword Military Images of War 2012 Format: EPUB Pages: 176 Size: 14 Mb Language: English The book covers the actions of the German Army in the Low Countries during 1915 and 1916. In its broad compass it looks at the battles with the French, Belgians and British, concentrating mostly on the latter. Both 1915 and 1916 were very active years for the Central Powers and the Allies. After a quiet start with minor fighting April 1915 saw gas attacks against Hill 60, followed by 2nd Ypres and intermittent attacks throughout the remainder of the year.
The Great War: A World War I Historical Collection
 Author: Robert J. Dalessandro The Great War: A World War I Historical Collection Whitman Publishing ISBN: 0794837409 2013 Format: PDF (conv) Size: 16,1 МБ Language: English Pages: 187 From Colonel Robert Dalessandro, director of the U.S. Army's Center of Military History, comes and amazing new account of the First World War. The Great War: A World War I Collector's Vault offers a dramatic new way to experience the breadth and the scope of the "War to End War," from the corridors of power where statesmen and royalty watched the course of battle, to the muddy trenches where the soldiers fought, struggled, and longed for home. Tucked inside the book you'll find replicas of wartime artifacts: aircraft silhouette cards, tank blueprints, a German field-engineering manual, a mimeographed Trench Order and Sector Map, orders from HQ, a press pass into the Versailles Treaty negotiations, and more. Along with these pieces of history, you'll be immersed in a gripping narrative, richly illustrated by seldom-seen images.
The Endurance Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
 Author: Caroline Alexander The Endurance Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition K n o p f ISBN: 0375404031 1998 Format: EPUB Size: 20,1 МБ Language: English Pages: 224 In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. Weaving a treacherous path through the freezing Weddell Sea, they had come within eighty-five miles of their destination when their ship, Endurance, was trapped fast in the ice pack. Soon the ship was crushed like matchwood, leaving the crew stranded on the floes. Their ordeal would last for twenty months, and they would make two near-fatal attempts to escape by open boat before their final rescue. Drawing upon previously unavailable sources, Caroline Alexander gives us a riveting account of Shackleton's expedition--one of history's greatest epics of survival. And she presents the astonishing work of Frank Hurley, the Australian photographer whose visual record of the adventure has never before been published comprehensively. Together, text and image re-create the terrible beauty of Antarctica, the awful destruction of the ship, and the crew's heroic daily struggle to stay alive, a miracle achieved largely through Shackleton's inspiring leadership.
Pozieres (Battleground Europe)
 Author: Graham Keach Pozieres Pen and Sword Military Battleground Europe 2011 Format: EPUB Pages: 160 Size: 27 Mb Language: English The village sits on top of the ridge that bears its name, a ridge that was an objective on the 1st July 1916. As it was, the whole position was not finally cleared until early September 1916 as German, Australian and British troops fought tenaciously over it.
Letters from the Front From the First World War to the Present Day
 Letters from the Front From the First World War to the Present Day (General Military) Osprey Publishing 2014 ISBN: 1472803345 Format: EPUB Size: 6,1 МБ Language: English Pages: 272 Similar to Letters From Iwo Jima and All Quiet On The Western Front, this book tells the story of young men from many nations thrown into the crucible of war, fighting not just to survive, but to understand what was happening to them and their comrades. It tells it in the words of the soldiers themselves, in their letters home. A legacy of an empire and a nation at war, Love, Tommy, is a collection of letters housed at Imperial War Museums sent by British and Commonwealth troops from Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa from the front line of war to their loved ones at home. Poignant expressions of love, hope and fear sit alongside amusing anecdotes, grumbles about rations and thoughtful reflections, eloquently revealing how, despite the passage of time, many experiences of the fighting man are shared in countless wars and battles. From the muddy trenches of the Somme to frozen ground of the Falklands to the heat and dust of Iraq, these letters are the ordinary soldier's testament to life on the front line.
The Somme Campaign
 Author: Andy Rawson The Somme Campaign Pen and Sword Military 2014 Format: EPUB Pages: 306 Size: 32 Mb Language: English A concise, account of each stage of the Somme battles, whether a set piece attack or a minor action. The emphasis of the book would be to explain the art of waging trench warfare during the Somme campaign.
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