Iraq

'Callaghan's portrayal of a city under siege is many-layered and brilliantly told' Sunday Times Iraq, 2014 As ISIS laid terrible siege to Mosul, a zoo on the eastern edge of the Tigris was kept open against all odds. Under the stern hand of the...

'Callaghan's portrayal of a city under siege is many-layered and brilliantly told' Sunday Times Iraq, 2014 As ISIS laid terrible siege to Mosul, a zoo on the eastern edge of the Tigris was kept open against all odds. Under the stern hand of the...

An immersive and mesmerizing narrative that reimagines the Mesopotamian myth of the Great FloodA long time ago, the gods grew tired of humans and decided to send a flood to destroy them. But Ea, the god of fresh underground water, didn't agree. He...

The author describes how he joined the French Foreign Legion, without being able to speak any French and very close to the age limit. He takes the reader through the vigorous selection procedure, the relentless recruit regime and then elite Second...

This book discusses the largest and earliest medieval library of the Middle East for which we have documentation the Ashrafiya library in the very centre of Damascus and edits its catalogue.About the AuthorKonrad Hirschler is Professor of History of...

One Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Kite Runner in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. "A contemporary tragedy of epic proportions. No author is better placed than Muhsin Al-Ramli, already a star in the Arabic literary scene, to tell this story. I read it in one...

A beautifully illustrated exploration of how Latif Al Ani's photographs and contemporary Iraqi artists continue to challenge the colonial appropriation of Iraq's ancient pastBeginning in the early nineteenth century, Mesopotamian and early Islamic ruins...

The story of Iraq is one of resistance. In this groundbreaking study, Johan Franzen offers a contextual modern history of the country, its creation and its struggle for sovereignty. Iraq's contemporary history is a tale of a diverse people thrown...

On April 28, 2004, 60 Minutes II broadcast the now-infamous photos of prisoner abuse by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib. The news quickly spread worldwide, undermining the U.S. presence in Iraq. Despite several Department of Defense investigations and...

'Superbly told' The Times 'Richly imagined' Sunday Times 'An engrossing, seamlessly written deliberation on the enduring power of art' Mail on Sunday Assyria, in the reign of Ashurbanipal. For Aurya and Sharo, every day is a struggle for survival...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804511565Author Tom CooperFormat PaperbackImprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

The pioneering tank crew of the First World War would be astonished by the advances made in the design of armoured fighting vehicles over the last 100 years which have resulted in the Challenger 2, the current main battle tank in service with the British...

The Iraq War is a visual record of the American-led Operation Iraqi Freedom of 2003, which resulted in the dramatic overthrow of dictator Saddam Hussein. In a striking sequence of photographs Anthony Tucker-Jones shows how this was achieved by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336356Author Ted HootonFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692587058Author Rafic LabounFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Fatima BooksPublisher Fatima BooksWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm

A new history of Middle East oil and the deep roots of American violence in Iraq. Iraq has been the site of some of the United States' longest and most sustained military campaigns since the Vietnam War. Yet the origins of US involvement in the country...

In 1920 an Arab revolt came perilously close to inflicting a shattering defeat upon the British Empire's forces occupying Iraq after the Great War. A huge peasant army besieged British garrisons and bombarded them with captured artillery. British columns...

Five months after being deployed to Iraq, Lima Company's 1st Platoon, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, found itself in Fallujah, embroiled in some of the most intense house-to-house, hand-to-hand urban combat since World War II. In the city's bloody...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911512455Author Tom CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

The Assassins' Gate recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq. The consequences of that policy are shown in the author's vivid reporting on the ground in Iraq, where he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942549635Author Hollie S. McKayFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint Di Angelo PublicationsPublisher Di Angelo Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944296155Author Emily SeloveFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Theran PressPublisher Theran PressWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm

Aged 17, Lewis Alsamari was conscripted into the Iraqi army. Things went from bad to worse once his superiors discovered his ability to speak English, and Lewis was selected for Saddam's elite, top secret intelligence service, an offer he literally could...

This book examines the early Muslim conquests that started with the first caliph, Abu Bakr, and accelerated during the reign of the second caliph, Omar. During this time, the Sassanids were destroyed, the political and commercial order of Rome was turned...

Mesopotamia is often considered to be the birthplace of law codes. In recognition of this fact and motivated by the perennial interest in the topic among Assyriologists, the 59th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale was organized in Ghent in 2013...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062947413Author Margaret CokerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Dey Street BooksPublisher Dey Street BooksWeight(grams) 135g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789521095030Author Johannes BachFormat PaperbackPage Count 552Imprint Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus ProjectPublisher Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus...

This volume completes the publication of Middle Babylonian texts from the Rosen Collection that date to the Kassite period, a project that was initiated by Wilfred H. van Soldt with CUSAS 30 in 2015. In this book, Elena Devecchi provides full...

This volume presents first editions of a variety of cuneiform tablets from the Old Babylonian period belonging to the collection of the late Shlomo Moussaieff. It makes available for the first time three texts representing varying levels of Mesopotamian...

The city of Ur-now modern Tell el-Muqayyar in southern Iraq, also called Ur of the Chaldees in the Bible-was one of the most important Sumerian cities in Mesopotamia during the Early Dynastic Period in the first half of the third millennium BCE. The city...

In February 2003, Patrick Cockburn secretly crossed the Tigris river from Syria into Iraq just before the US/British invasion, and has covered the war ever since. In The Occupation, he provides a vivid and disturbing picture of a country in turmoil, and...

With the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqis abroad, hoping to return one day to a better Iraq, became uncertain exiles. Return to Ruin tells the human story of this exile in the context of decades of U.S. imperial interests in Iraq-from the U.S. backing of...

Poppies of Iraq is Brigitte Findakly s nuanced tender chronicle of her relationship with her homeland Iraq, co-written and drawn by her husband, the acclaimed cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. In spare and elegant detail, they share memories of her middle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852448595Author Suha RassamFormat PaperbackImprint GracewingPublisher GracewingWeight(grams) 508g

This book initiates the reader into the study of Akkadian literature from ancient Babylonia and Assyria. With this one relatively short volume, the novice reader will develop the literary competence necessary to read and interpret Akkadian texts in...

While some scholars would argue that there was no "Iraq" before King Faysal's coronation in 1921, Iraqi history spans fourteen centuries of tribal communities that endured continual occupation in their historic homeland, including Mongol invasions in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952844310Author Nicholas WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint South Hill PressPublisher South Hill Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647483531Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 102Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm)...

Drawing on a wealth of previously unseen documents, sourced by Freedom of Information requests, together with interviews with government and intelligence agency officials, Louise Kettle questions whether the British government has learned anything from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566569828Author Tor EigelandFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, IncWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm)...