I imprint: 1291 books
Special Force
The Untold Story of 22nd Special Air Service Regiment (SAS)
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
The exploits of the British Army's elite 22nd Special Air Service Regiment - the regiment of the SAS that forms part of the Regular army - are shrouded in mystery and myths abound about its members. But what is the truth behind the public façade of clinical professionalism? How has such a small regiment...
Dreams and Visions in the World of Islam
A History of Muslim Dreaming and Foreknowing
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
People in Western societies have long been interested in their dreams and what they mean. However, few non-Muslims in the West are likely to seek interpretation of those dreams to help them make life-changing decisions. In the Islamic world the situation is quite different. Dreaming and the import...
by Professor Victoria Emma Pagán
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
The greatest of Roman historians, Publius Cornelius Tacitus (56-117 CE) studied rhetoric in Rome. His rhetorical and oratorical gifts are evident throughout his most substantial works, the incomplete but still remarkable Annals and Histories. In concise and concentrated prose, marked by sometimes...
Enemy in the East
Hitler's Secret Plans to Invade the Soviet Union
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, led to one of the most brutal campaigns of World War II: of the estimated 70 million people who died in World War II, over 30 million died on the Eastern Front. Although it has previously been argued that the campaign was a pre-emptive...
Beyond Syria’s Borders
A History of Territorial Disputes in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Lebanon, together with the province of Hatay in Turkey (containing Antakya) and the Golan Heights were all part of French mandate Syria, but are now all outside the boundaries of the modern Syrian state. The policies and reactions of Syria both to the loss of these territories and to the states that...
Sharia and the Concept of Benefit
The Use and Function of Maslaha in Islamic Jurisprudence
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
The idea of maslaha has a rich history in classical legal thought and literature. Conventionally translated into English as 'general benefit' or 'general interest', it has been the subject, over many centuries, of intense argument in Muslim legal manuals about how the concept should be constructed...
The Gulf States
A Modern History
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
The geopolitical importance of the Gulf region is a source both of great interest and great tension. David Commins here provides an in-depth narrative of the modern political history of the Gulf States, offering a comprehensive and accessible account of their recent development and strategic importance.
This...
On Afghanistan's Plains
The Story of Britain's Afghan Wars
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Britain's military involvement in Afghanistan is a contentious subject, yet it is often forgotten that the current conflict is in fact the fourth in a string of such wars dating back more than 170 years. During the nineteenth century, the days of the Great Game rivalry in Central Asia, the British...
Frantz Fanon
The Militant Philosopher of Third World Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Frantz Fanon is best known as one of the leading twentieth-century political thinkers and activists against colonialism and imperialism and as the author of the iconic book 'Wretched of the Earth'. Leo Zeilig here details the life of Fanon - from his upbringing in Martinique to his wartime experiences...
by Geoffrey Swain
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
In 1917 revolutionary fervour swept through Russia, ending centuries of imperial rule and instigating political and social changes that would lead to the formation of the Soviet Union. Arising out of proletariat discontent with the Tsarist autocracy and Lenin's proclaimed version of a Marxist ideology,...
British Imperialism in Qajar Iran
Consuls, Agents and Influence in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2016
Spurred by a Russian threat to India and the weakness of the Qajar dynasty (1796-1925), Britain established an extensive consular network to further its interests in southern Iran in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In 1888, there were just four British consulates in the country;...
by Michael Broers
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Napoleon Bonaparte dominated the public life of Europe like no other individual before him. Not surprisingly, the story of the man himself has usually swamped he stories of his subjects. This book looks at the history of the Napoleonic Empire from an entirely new perspective – that of the ruled...
by Dr. G.R. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
What did people really believe in the Middle Ages? Much of our sense of the medieval period has come down to us from the writings of the learned: the abbots, priors, magnates, scholastic theologians and others who between them, and across Christendom, controlled the machinery of church and state....
The Ottoman Empire and the Bosnian Uprising
Janissaries, Modernisation and Rebellion in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Bosnia enjoyed a special status within the Ottoman Empire. Many of the empire's 'janissaries', an elite military stratum of soldiers and nobleman, hailed from this Balkan region. So when Sultan Mehmet II abolished this warrior class in 1826, and this curtailed the regions access to influence in Constantinople,...