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Languages : en
Pages : 596
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"Tycos"--Rochester
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Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Climatological Data
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Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Churchill's Folly
Author: Christopher Catherwood
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465060978
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
As Britain's colonial secretary in the 1920s, Winston Churchill made a mistake with calamitous consequences. Scholar and adviser to Tony Blair's government, Christopher Catherwood chronicles and analyzes how Churchill created the artificial monarchy of Iraq after World War I, thereby forcing together unfriendly peoples under a single ruler. The map of the Middle East that Churchill created led to the rise of Saddam Hussein and the wars in which American troops fought in 1991 and 2003. Defying a global wave of nationalistic sentiment, and the desire of subject peoples to rule themselves, Winston Churchill put together the broken pieces of the Ottoman Empire and created a Middle Eastern powder keg. Inducing Arabs under the rule of the Ottoman Turks to rebel against their oppressors, the British and French during World War I convinced the Hashemite clan that they would rule over Syria. In fact, Britain had promised the territory to the French. To make amends, Churchill created the nation of Iraq and made the Hashemite leader, Feisel, king of a land to which he had no connections at all. Eight pages of photographs add to this fascinating history on Churchill's decision and the terrible legacy of the Ottoman Empire's collapse.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465060978
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
As Britain's colonial secretary in the 1920s, Winston Churchill made a mistake with calamitous consequences. Scholar and adviser to Tony Blair's government, Christopher Catherwood chronicles and analyzes how Churchill created the artificial monarchy of Iraq after World War I, thereby forcing together unfriendly peoples under a single ruler. The map of the Middle East that Churchill created led to the rise of Saddam Hussein and the wars in which American troops fought in 1991 and 2003. Defying a global wave of nationalistic sentiment, and the desire of subject peoples to rule themselves, Winston Churchill put together the broken pieces of the Ottoman Empire and created a Middle Eastern powder keg. Inducing Arabs under the rule of the Ottoman Turks to rebel against their oppressors, the British and French during World War I convinced the Hashemite clan that they would rule over Syria. In fact, Britain had promised the territory to the French. To make amends, Churchill created the nation of Iraq and made the Hashemite leader, Feisel, king of a land to which he had no connections at all. Eight pages of photographs add to this fascinating history on Churchill's decision and the terrible legacy of the Ottoman Empire's collapse.
Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute
Author: United States Naval Institute
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Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 1348
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Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 1348
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Europe in Low
Author: Samantha Narelle Kirkland
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1490758275
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description
Two college grads served in the military but missed active duty abroad pool their funds and head to Europe for a year touring the battlefields after the Armistice in 1919. Riding bicycles keeps them close to the people who lived through the battles as well as providing first-hand views of the devastation. They add the deserts of North Africa and the valleys of Switzerland to their examinations of France, Germany, Italy, Holland, and Belgium before concluding their stay in post-war Great Britain. Throughout their journey they retain their good humor and self-deprecating manner that provide good laughs amidst such despair.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1490758275
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
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Two college grads served in the military but missed active duty abroad pool their funds and head to Europe for a year touring the battlefields after the Armistice in 1919. Riding bicycles keeps them close to the people who lived through the battles as well as providing first-hand views of the devastation. They add the deserts of North Africa and the valleys of Switzerland to their examinations of France, Germany, Italy, Holland, and Belgium before concluding their stay in post-war Great Britain. Throughout their journey they retain their good humor and self-deprecating manner that provide good laughs amidst such despair.
The Commercial and Financial Chronicle
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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 1456
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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 1456
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Cotton
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Languages : en
Pages : 832
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Pages : 832
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Dreamland Burning
Author: Jennifer Latham
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316384941
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
A compelling dual-narrated tale from Jennifer Latham that questions how far we've come with race relations. Some bodies won't stay buried. Some stories need to be told. When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the present and the past. Nearly one hundred years earlier, a misguided violent encounter propels seventeen-year-old Will Tillman into a racial firestorm. In a country rife with violence against blacks and a hometown segregated by Jim Crow, Will must make hard choices on a painful journey towards self discovery and face his inner demons in order to do what's right the night Tulsa burns. Through intricately interwoven alternating perspectives, Jennifer Latham's lightning-paced page-turner brings the Tulsa race riot of 1921 to blazing life and raises important questions about the complex state of US race relations--both yesterday and today.
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316384941
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
A compelling dual-narrated tale from Jennifer Latham that questions how far we've come with race relations. Some bodies won't stay buried. Some stories need to be told. When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the present and the past. Nearly one hundred years earlier, a misguided violent encounter propels seventeen-year-old Will Tillman into a racial firestorm. In a country rife with violence against blacks and a hometown segregated by Jim Crow, Will must make hard choices on a painful journey towards self discovery and face his inner demons in order to do what's right the night Tulsa burns. Through intricately interwoven alternating perspectives, Jennifer Latham's lightning-paced page-turner brings the Tulsa race riot of 1921 to blazing life and raises important questions about the complex state of US race relations--both yesterday and today.
United States Naval Institute Proceedings
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Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
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Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
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Climatological Data for the United States by Sections
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Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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