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Download Carrier Battle in the Philippine Sea: The Marianas Turkey by Barrett Tillman PDF

By Barrett Tillman

ISBN-10: 1883809045

ISBN-13: 9781883809041

Well known aviation historian, Barrett Tillman, has performed a concise but exhaustive activity of analysis of the famed Marianas Turkey Shoot, the best air conflict of the Pacific struggle. as a result of intensive interviews a lot of the tale is instructed via contributors. those interesting money owed are augmented through Tillman's research. this massive structure booklet additionally presents either U.S. military and jap order of conflict all the way down to squadron point for either service and shore established plane. One map, forty seven black and white pictures. Six brush profiles of Hellcats, Avengers, Dauntlesses, Zeros, Judys and Vals (all through John Valo) offer a wealth of visible background. ultimate appendices offer losses and U.S. army aerial strive against claims for this historical engagement of service plane. forty eight pages, forty seven b/w images, six airplane profiles, appendices, 8.5x11 inches, softcover.

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Download The Earl and His Butler in Constantinople: The Secret Diary by Nigel Webb PDF

By Nigel Webb

ISBN-10: 144161592X

ISBN-13: 9781441615923

ISBN-10: 1845117824

ISBN-13: 9781845117825

George Hay, eighth Earl of Kinnoull, was once an unconventional ambassador. A Scottish aristocrat who were imprisoned for his Jacobite sympathies and virtually bankrupted via his involvement within the South Sea Bubble, Lord Kinnoull had no prior diplomatic adventure while he used to be suddenly appointed ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in 1729. Leaving his spouse and relatives of ten at their Yorkshire domestic, Lord Kinnoull departed England for Constantinople together with his political, monetary and private suitability for the function all doubtful. How may he focus on the complicated global of overseas politics? Or negotiate the delicate courting among Muslims and Christians? And why used to be he consequently recalled to England in disgrace?The Earl and His Butler in Constantinople lines Lord Kinnoull’s eventful trip to the guts of the Ottoman Empire, the place he served as ambassador for seven years--and again back. His butler, Samuel Medley, used to be his consistent spouse all through this time and his is nearly the one surviving servant’s diary from the interval. This striking biography casts clean gentle at the Ottoman Empire and British politics within the 18th century. It additionally deals shiny pictures of the cosmopolitan urban of Constantinople at this severe level in its background and of an idiosyncratic Earl and his extraordinary butler with a purpose to captivate readers.

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Download The City of the Moon God: Religious Traditions of Harran by Tamara M Green PhD PDF

By Tamara M Green PhD

ISBN-10: 9004095136

ISBN-13: 9789004095137

This research treats the non secular and highbrow heritage of town of Harran (Eastern Turkey) from biblical instances all the way down to the institution of Islam. the writer starts off from the well known reference within the Qur'an and the early Islamic histories to the folks of Harran as Sabians, one of many 'peoples of the book.' the writer unravels strands of spiritual culture in Harran that run from the previous Semitic planetary cults via Hellenistic hermeticism, gnosticism, and Neo-Pythagoreanism and Christian cults to esoteric Islamic sects similar to the Sufis and Shiites.

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Download The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay PDF

By Rose Macaulay

ISBN-10: 0374533636

ISBN-13: 9780374533632

Hailed as “an utter satisfaction, the main fabulous witty and fascinating booklet i've got learn because I can’t bear in mind when” via the hot York instances while it was once initially released in 1956, Rose Macaulay’s The Towers of Trebizond tells the gleefully absurd tale of Aunt Dot, Father Chantry-Pigg, Aunt Dot’s deranged camel, and our narrator, Laurie, who're touring from Istanbul to mythical Trebizond on a convoluted undertaking. alongside the best way they're going to come across spies, a Greek sorcerer, a precocious ape, and Billy Graham with a busload of evangelists. half travelogue, half comedy, it's also a meditation on love, religion, doubt, and the problems, ethical and highbrow, of being a Christian within the sleek world.

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Download Turkish Foreign Policy and Turkish Identity: A by Yucel Bozdaglioglu PDF

By Yucel Bozdaglioglu

ISBN-10: 0203502035

ISBN-13: 9780203502037

ISBN-10: 041594600X

ISBN-13: 9780415946001

Through the use of the center insights of the constructivist process in diplomacy, this publication analyzes the overseas coverage habit of Turkey. It argues that all through its glossy heritage, Turkey's overseas coverage has been tormented by its Western id created within the years following the battle of Independence.

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Download Genocide in the Age of the Nation State: Volume 2: The Rise by Mark Levene PDF

By Mark Levene

ISBN-10: 1423744292

ISBN-13: 9781423744290

ISBN-10: 1845110579

ISBN-13: 9781845110574

ISBN-10: 1845440579

ISBN-13: 9781845440572

Most books on genocide think of it basically as a twentieth-century phenomenon. within the upward push of the West and the arriving of Genocide, Levene argues that this method fails to understand its precise origins. Genocide constructed out of modernity and the striving for the geographical region, either basically Western studies. It was once eu growth into all hemispheres among the 15th and 19th centuries that supplied the most stimulus to its pre-1914 manifestations. One severe final result, at the cusp of modernity, was once the French progressive destruction of the Vendée. Levene finishes this quantity on the 1914 watershed with the destabilising results of the 'rise of the West' on older Ottoman, chinese language, Russian and Austrian empires.

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