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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.
An examination of privacy and the evolution of communication,from broken sealing wax to high-tech wiretapping A sweeping story of the right to privacy as it sped alongcolonial postal routes, telegraph wires, and even today’sfiber-optic cables, American Privacy traces the lineage of culturalnorms and legal mandates that have swirled around the FourthAmendment since its adoption. Legally, technologically, andhistorically grounded, Frederick Lane’s book presents a vivid andpenetrating exploration that, in the words of people’s historianHoward Zinn, “challenges us to defendour most basic rights.”
This is a book aboutGermans and Jews, about power and money. It is a book focused onBismarck and Bleichroder, Junker and Jew, statesman and banker,collaborators for over thirty years. The setting is that of aGermany where two worlds clashed: the new world of capitalism andan earlier world with its ancient feudal ethos; gradually a new andbroadened elite emerged, and Bismarck's tie with Bleichroderepitomized that regrouping. It is the story of the founding of thenew German Empire, in whose midst a Jewish minority rose toembattled prominence.
Presented in one comprehensive volume, this is the Civil Waras it really was-the forces and events that caused it, the soldiersand civilians who fought it, and the ideas and values that are itslegacy today.
Renowned in her time for being the most beautiful woman inEurope, the wife of two kings and mother of three, Eleanor ofAquitaine was one of the great heroines of the Middle Ages. At atime when women were regarded as little more than chattel, Eleanormanaged to defy convention as she exercised power in the politicalsphere and crucial influence over her husbands and sons. In thisbeautifully written biography, Alison Weir paints a vibrantportrait of this truly exceptional woman, and provides new insightsinto her intimate world. Eleanor of Aquitaine lived a long life ofmany contrasts, of splendor and desolation, power and peril, and inthis stunning narrative, Weir captures the woman— and the queen—inall her glory. With astonishing historic detail, mesmerizingpageantry, and irresistible accounts of royal scandal and intrigue,she recreates not only a remarkable personality but a magnificentpast era.
"A magnificent book...a nonfiction masterpiece." -- New YorkTimes Book Review . The Nazi siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1944was one of the most gruesome episodes of World War II. Nearly threemillion people endured it; just under half of them died. Fortwenty-five years the distinguished journalist and historianHarrison Salisbury pieced together this remarkable narrative ofvillainy and survival, in which the city had much to fear-from bothHitler and Stalin.
Part of the briefing included familiarizing the men with theenemy uniforms. Private Robert “Lightnin” Hayes had thisrecollection to add: “I remember the day we were assembled in atent for the first time and an officer told us where we were goingto jump. He then paused to watch our reactions. There was a sandtable near by with a facsimile of the terrain on which we weregoing to drop. There were tw...
In Patton, Montgomery, Rommel , one of Britain's mostaccomplished military scholars presents an unprecedented study ofthe land war in the North African and European theaters, as well astheir chief commanders—three men who also happened to be the mostcompelling dramatis personae of World War II. Beyond spellbinding depictions of pivotal confrontations at ElAlamein, Monte Cassino, and the Ardennes forest, author-scholarTerry Brighton illuminates the personal motivations and historicalevents that propelled the three men's careers: how Patton's,Montgomery's, and Rommel's Great War experiences helped to moldtheir style of command—and how, exactly, they managed to applytheir arguably megalomaniacal personalities (and hithertounrecognized political acumen and tact) to advance their careersand strategic vision. Opening new avenues of inquiry into the lives and careers of threemen widely profiled by scholars and popular historians alike,Brighton definitively answers numerous lingering and controversialquestion
In these essays, about a quarter of them previouslyunpublished, Eric Hobsbawm reflects upon the theory, practice anddevelopment of history and its relevance to the modern world. Thesewide-ranging papers reflect Professor Hobsbawm's lifelong concernwith the relations between past, present and future. They deal,among many other subjects, with the problems of writing history,its abuses and the historian's responsibilities; with the historyof society and 'history from below'; with Marx and currenthistorical trends or fashions; with Europe, the Russian Revolutionand the descent into a world-wide barbarism that, increasing formost of the twentieth century, threatens to destroy thecivilisation we have inherited from the European Enlightenment ofthe eighteenth century. These essays reveal a passionate belief inthe importance of studying history, as well as displaying theincisive analysis, the breadth of allusion and the distinctiveviewpoint for which this great historian is justly famous.
