Allah's Mountains
Title | Allah's Mountains PDF eBook |
Author | Sebastian Smith |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2005-11-25 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0857710281 |
A mixture of travelogue, history and war journalism, Allah's Mountains tells the story of the conflict between a nation of mountain tribes and the might of the Russian army. Ancient travellers called the Caucasus the mountain of languages. Greeks, Persians, Romans, Goths, Arabs, Mongols and Turks have all passed through the region; poets and artists have been inspired by its rugged beauty. Yet its history is a tragic one - for centuries it has been ravaged by virtually continuous conflict. The Caucasus is a hugely strategic part of the world - sandwiched between Iran, Turkey and Russia and crossed by some of the most valuable oil pipelines in the world. The latest conflict to sweep across the area began when Vladimir Putin invaded Chechnya in 1999. Thousands of Russian soldiers and thousands more Chechens - both rebels and civilians - died and Chechnya's towns and cities were bombed beyond recognition. Sebastian Smith travelled to Chechnya during this period. Allah's Mountains is the story of the history, people, and cultures of the Caucasus and of tiny ethnic groups struggling for both physical and cultural survival.
Contesting History
Title | Contesting History PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Flynn |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 2010-06-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0313384894 |
In this book, the Bush administration's war in Iraq is assessed using an interdisciplinary approach and historical analysis that will help readers better understand the results of the U.S. counterinsurgency doctrine from 2003 to the present. Contesting History: The Bush Counterinsurgency Legacy in Iraq uses a comparative analysis of history to assess the Bush administration's actions in Iraq, focusing specifically on the policy of counterinsurgency. Insurgency exists within an extended timeframe and exhibits a global reach, argues comparative warfare expert Matthew J. Flynn. Therefore, understanding this phenomenon is best realized through an examination of guerrilla conflicts around the world over time; this book provides that approach. The work analyzes U.S. counterinsurgency doctrine during the Iraq War from 2003 to the present, and offers relevant historical comparisons to conflicts dating back to the mid-19th century, in which a nation enjoyed marked military superiority over their enemy. In doing so, it encourages readers to link the Afghanistan and Iraq wars in the broad context of the utilization of counterinsurgency operations to achieve policy objectives. Ultimately, the book illustrates how the tactical "military" success of the U.S. surge in Iraq still nets a strategic failure.
Allah's Mountains
Title | Allah's Mountains PDF eBook |
Author | Sebastian Smith |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Caucasus |
ISBN | 9780850439793 |
Allahs Mountains
Title | Allahs Mountains PDF eBook |
Author | Richard G. Smith |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2005-07 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781850439356 |
Inferno in Chechnya
Title | Inferno in Chechnya PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Glyn Williams |
Publisher | University Press of New England |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2015-09-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1611688019 |
In 2013, the United States suffered its worst terrorist bombing since 9/11 at the annual running of the Boston Marathon. When the culprits turned out to be U.S. residents of Chechen descent, Americans were shocked and confused. Why would members of an obscure Russian minority group consider America their enemy? Inferno in Chechnya is the first book to answer this riddle by tracing the roots of the Boston attack to the Caucasus Mountains of southern Russia. Brian Glyn Williams describes the tragic history of the bombers' war-devastated homeland-including tsarist conquest and two bloody wars with post-Soviet Russia that would lead to the rise of Vladimir Putin-showing how the conflict there influenced the rise of Europe's deadliest homegrown terrorist network. He provides a historical account of the Chechens' terror campaign in Russia, documents their growing links to Al Qaeda and radical Islam, and describes the plight of the Chechen diaspora that ultimately sent two Chechens to Boston. Inferno in Chechnya delivers a fascinating and deeply tragic story that has much to say about the historical and ethnic roots of modern terrorism.
Allah's Mountains
Title | Allah's Mountains PDF eBook |
Author | Sebastian Smith |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 433 |
Release | 2005-11-25 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0857730762 |
Ancient travellers called the Caucasus the mountain of languages. Greeks, Persians, Romans, Goths, Arabs, Mongols and Turks have all passed through the region; poets and artists have been inspired by its rugged beauty and yet its history is a tragic one - for centuries it has been ravaged by virtually continuous war. Every 50 years, it seems, Russia attempts to take control of this hugely strategic part of the world - sandwiched as it is between Iran, Turkey and Russia and crossed by some of the most valuable oil pipelines in the world. The latest conflict to sweep across the area began when Vladimir Putin invaded Chechnya in 1999. Thousands of Russian soldiers and thousands more Chechens - both rebels and civilians - died and Chechnya's towns and cities were bombed beyond recognition. Sebastian Smith travelled to Chechnya during this period. A mixture of travelogue, history and war journalism, Allah's Mountains tells the story of the conflict between this nation of mountain tribes and the might of the Russian army. A moving example of how history can be written. Smith's account of the historical background to the conflict reads like a novel, but better, because it also has the intimacy and immediacy of an eyewitness account. He has given us a memorable, well-researched account of a peculiarly horrible war. - Literary Review This is a riveting book, written with almost seemless elegance. - International Affairs
MOHAMMED (S) THE MESSENGER OF ALLAH
Title | MOHAMMED (S) THE MESSENGER OF ALLAH PDF eBook |
Author | MOHAMMED REDA |
Publisher | Dar Al Kotob Al Ilmiyah دار الكتب العلمية |
Pages | 736 |
Release | 2013-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 2745181130 |