The Princes of Malta
Title | The Princes of Malta PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Mula |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Malta |
ISBN |
In the Name of the Prince
Title | In the Name of the Prince PDF eBook |
Author | Liam Gauci |
Publisher | |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Malta |
ISBN | 9789993257370 |
The Prince
Title | The Prince PDF eBook |
Author | William Simpson |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 500 |
Release | 2006-10-17 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0060899867 |
A riveting portrait of one of the most enigmatic yet influential powerbrokers in America–Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al–Saud, the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States from 1983–2005. At a time when understanding our friends is as important as understanding our enemies, Prince Bandar bin Sultan remains one America's most enigmatic powerbrokers. As the illegitimate son of a Saudi prince and a servant girl, Prince Bandar overcame his unrecognized beginnings to rise as one of Saudi Arabia's brightest diplomatic stars, ultimately becoming the Ambassador to the United States–and one of the most influential men in Washington. As Ambassador, Prince Bandar worked with CIA Director Bill Casey to fund covert CIA operations with Saudi petrodollars. He played a key role in the Iran–Contra affair; consulted with President Gorbachev to secure Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan; negotiated an end to the Iran–Iraq war; and, with Nelson Mandela, resolved the Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Affair. He served under four different American presidencies and was called "Washington's indispensible operator" by the New Yorker. Yet Prince Bandar was more than this. His entre into Washington society and the Oval Office was unmatched. George H.W. Bush took the Prince and his family on fishing vacations; First Lady Reagan used him to convey messages to her husband's Cabinet; Colin Powell would drop by his house to play racquetball.
Malta
Title | Malta PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Freller |
Publisher | |
Pages | 359 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Malta |
ISBN | 9789993272977 |
The urban, cultural and political profile of the Maltese islands is deeply marked by the presence for 268 years of the Knights of St John. The Order has left its mark decisively in the collective memory of the Maltese. Malta: The Order of St John gives a global picture of this multinational institution in those crucial years when Grand Master L'Isle Adam moved the convent from Rhodes to Malta, when legendary Grand Master Valette withstood the Turkish assault in 1565, when Grand Masters Wignacourt, Cotoner and Carafa turned Malta into a centre of Mediterraean corsairing and Grand Masters Vilhena and Pinto tried to imitate the Central European absolutist princes. It all came to a sudden - but not unexpected - end in 1798 when Grand Master Hompesch handed over Malta to the rising star on the European horizon, Napoleon. The various diplomatic attempts of the knights to regain their island all failed. The book also provides the reader with an overview of the most important monuments connected with the knights on Malta and Gozo.
The Graphic
Title | The Graphic PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 892 |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | London (England) |
ISBN |
Coleridge's Laws
Title | Coleridge's Laws PDF eBook |
Author | Barry Hough |
Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 2010-01-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1906924120 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge is best known as a great poet and literary theorist, but for one, quite short, period of his life he held real political power - acting as Public Secretary to the British Civil Commissioner in Malta in 1805. This was a formative experience for Coleridge which he later identified as being one of the most instructive in his entire life. In this volume Barry Hough and Howard Davis show how Coleridge's actions whilst in a position of power differ markedly from the idealism he had advocated before taking office - shedding new light on Coleridge's sense of political and legal morality.
Ancient and Modern Malta Containing a Description of Malta and Goza ... the History of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem (etc.)
Title | Ancient and Modern Malta Containing a Description of Malta and Goza ... the History of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem (etc.) PDF eBook |
Author | Pierre Marie Louis “de” Boisgelin de Kerdu |
Publisher | |
Pages | 486 |
Release | 1804 |
Genre | |
ISBN |