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The first authorized inside account of one of the mostdaring—and successful—military operations in recent history From the earliest days of his dictatorship, Saddam Hussein hadvowed to destroy Israel. So when France sold Iraq a top-of-the-linenuclear reactor in 1975, the Israelis were justifiablyconcerned—especially when they discovered that Iraqi scientists hadalready formulated a secret program to extract weapons-gradeplutonium from the reactor, a first critical step in creating anatomic bomb. The reactor formed the heart of a huge nuclear plantsituated twelve miles from Baghdad, 1,100 kilometers from Tel Aviv.By 1981, the reactor was on the verge of becoming “hot,” andIsraeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin knew he would have toconfront its deadly potential. He turned to Israeli Air Forcecommander General David Ivry to secretly plan a daring surgicalstrike on the reactor—a never-before-contemplated mission thatwould prove to be one of the most remarkable military operations ofall time. Written
Over the last ten years, journalist and al-Qa'ida expert AbdelBari Atwan has cultivated uniquely well-placed sources and amasseda wealth of information about al-Qa'ida's origins, masterminds andplans for the future. In this book, Atwan reveals how al-Qa'ida'sradical departure from the classic terrorist / guerrilla blueprinthas enabled it to outpace less adaptable efforts to neutralise it.The fanaticism of its fighters, and their willingness to kill andbe killed, are matched by the leadership's opportunisticrecruitment strategies and sophisticated understanding ofpsychology, media and new technology - including the use of theInternet for training, support and communications. Atwan alsoargues that current events in the Middle East represent watershedmoments in the group's evolution that are making it more dangerousby the day, as it refines and appropriates the concept of jihad andmakes the suicide bomber a permanent feature of a global holywar.
Eric Hobsbawm traces with brilliant anlytical clarity thetransformation brought about in evry sphere of European life by theDual revolution - the 1789 French revolution and the IndustrialRevolution that originated in Britain. This enthralling andoriginal account highlights the significant sixty years whenindustrial capitalism established itself in Western Europe and whenEurope established the domination over the rest of the world it wasto hold for half a century.
For the first time in decades, here, in a single volume, is afresh look at the fabled Tudor dynasty, comprising some of the mostenigmatic figures ever to rule a country. Acclaimed historian G. J.Meyer reveals the flesh-and-bone reality in all its wildexcess. In 1485, young Henry Tudor, whose claim to the throne was so weakas to be almost laughable, crossed the English Channel from Franceat the head of a ragtag little army and took the crown from thefamily that had ruled England for almost four hundred years. Half acentury later his son, Henry VIII, desperate to rid himself of hisfirst wife in order to marry a second, launched a reign of terroraimed at taking powers no previous monarch had even dreamed ofpossessing. In the process he plunged his kingdom into generationsof division and disorder, creating a legacy of blood and betrayalthat would blight the lives of his children and the destiny of hiscountry. The boy king Edward VI, a fervent believer in reforming theEnglish church, died before
An innovative work of biography, social history, and literaryanalysis, this Pulitzer Prize-winning book presents the story oftwo men, William Cooper and his son, the novelist James FennimoreCooper, who embodied the contradictions that divided America in theearly years of the Republic. Taylor shows how Americans resolvedtheir revolution through the creation of new social forms and newstories that evolved with the expansion of our frontier. ofphotos.
In this revelatory chronicle of World War II, Laurence Reesdocuments the dramatic and secret deals that helped make the warpossible and prompted some of the most crucial decisions madeduring the conflict. Drawing on material available only since the opening of archivesin Eastern Europe and Russia, as well as amazing new testimony fromnearly a hundred separate witnesses from the period—Rees reexaminesthe key choices made by Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt during thewar, and presents, in a compelling and fresh way, the reasons whythe people of Poland, the Baltic states, and other Europeancountries simply swapped the rule of one tyrant for another.Surprising, incisive, and endlessly intriguing, World War II BehindClosed Doors will change the way we think about the Second WorldWar.
In 1521, Suleiman the Magnificent, Muslim ruler of the OttomanEmpire, dispatched an invasion fleet to the Christian island ofRhodes. This would prove to be the opening shot in an epic clashbetween rival empires and faiths for control of the Mediterraneanand the center of the world. In Empires of the Sea, acclaimedhistorian Roger Crowley has written a thrilling account of thisbrutal decades-long battle between Christendom and Islam for thesoul of Europe, a fast-paced tale of spiraling intensity thatranges from Istanbul to the Gates of Gibraltar. Crowley conjures upa wild cast of pirates, crusaders, and religious warriorsstruggling for supremacy and survival in a tale of slavery andgalley warfare, desperate bravery and utter brutality. Empires ofthe Sea is a story of extraordinary color and incident, andprovides a crucial context for our own clash ofcivilizations.
