Historia

Svenskens relation till Det heliga landet är kulturhistoriskt unik. Ända sedan Bibeln började läsas på svenska för snart femhundra år sedan har landets geografi och skriftens legender flätats samman med vår identitet och historiesyn. Hur blev det ...

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Lögn, historieförfalskning, media och pengar är några av ingredienserna i den utdragna och numera så ökända konflikten mellan arabvärlden och Israel, ofta felaktigt benämnd Israel-Palestinakonflikten. Israels existensberättigande som judisk stat, ...

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This book studies the impact of cultural factors on the course of military innovations. One would expect that countries accustomed to similar technologies would undergo analogous changes in their perception of and approach to warfare. However, the...

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'Blistering' Sunday Times 'Indispensable' Observer 'Fascinating' The Times 'Brilliant' Peter Frankopan 'Revelatory' Lindsey Hilsum A timely and unprecedented examination of how the modern Middle Ea...

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Staten Israel föddes in i krig. Sedan FN röstade fram en tvåstatslösning 1947 har det närmast konstant pågått konflikter mellan Israel och den palestinska befolkningen och arabiska grannländer. Redan dagen efter att landet delats mitt itu, beordra...

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LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTION A mighty achievement OCEAN VUONG Beautiful, brilliant R. F. KUANG Dazzling OBSERVER Will shatter your heart GLAMOUR Powerful SUNDAY TIMES An extraordinary story of the journey of one young family through...

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'An intelligent, sensitive writer' - Financial Times Palestine has been under attack for three quarters of a century. The 'peace process' that has favoured the two-state solution for more than forty years has now been internati...

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'What Japan was she owed to the samurai. They were not only the flower of the nation, but its root as well.' Inazo Nitobe's book, the most influential ever written on Bushido, or the samurai Way of the Warrior, argues that the philo...

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'The next Bill Bryson' New York Times Two tigers cannot share the same mountain - Chinese proverb Despite geographical proximity, cultural similarities, and shared status as highly powerful nations, China, Korea and Japan love to hate ea...

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"A fascinating cultural history" (People) of how Japan adopted and ultimately revived traditional American fashion A strange thing has happened over the last two decades: the world has come to believe that the most "authentic" ...

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Grounded in the latest archeological developments, Victor Matthews's A Brief History of Ancient Israel presents a concise history of Israel covering the ancestral period, conquest and settlement, the monarchy, and both the exilic and postexilic pe...

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A FINALIST FOR THE US NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2023 FOR NONFICTION 'Profoundly personal as well as historically significant ... In his moral clarity and baring of the heart, Shehadeh recalls writers such as Ghassan Kanafani and Primo Levi' Hi...

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Amos Oz är en av vår tids mest prisade och älskade författare. Amos Oz har tidigare utforskat en av vår tids stora ödesfrågor, drivkrafterna bakom fanatism och extremism, i klassikern Hur man botar en fanatiker. Hur man botar en fanatiker har bliv...

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This book offers the first critical engagement with the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa. Challenging conventional wisdom on the origins and contemporary dynamics of capitalism in the region, these cutting-edge essays demonstr...

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Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2017 A powerful, groundbreaking history of the Occupied Territories from one of Israel's most influential historians From the author of the bestselling study of the 1948 War of Independence comes an i...

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A HUGELY IMPORTANT BOOK ELEGANTLY WRITTEN AND PERSUASIVELY ARGUED DAILY TELEGRAPH, FIVE-STAR REVIEW AN INTELLIGENT, AUTHORITATIVE, COMPELLING AND, ABOVE ALL, TIMELY' TLS Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award ** F...

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The very grubby coalface of foreign policy I found the entire book most horribly addictive Independent One of the unexpected responses to reading this masterful study is amazement at the efforts the British and French each put into undermining the...

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Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dead and cleared the way for another Israeli land grab. The need to stand in solidarity with Palestinians has never been greater. Ilan Pappe and Noam C...

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Every negotiated settlement between the State of Israel and its Palestinian adversaries has failed to establish a stable and lasting peace. This is the history of what was attempted, why those failures were inevitable, and what must be done instea...

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3 ÅRS STRIDER. 800 000 DÖDA SOLDATER. 2 500 000 CIVILA OFFER. Koreakriget bröt ut i juni 1950 och är en av världshistoriens blodigaste konflikter. Fientligheterna började som ett inbördeskrig men förvandlades snabbt till en öppen kraftmätning mell...

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The definitive account of the Tokyo war crimes trials of 1946-48, WWII and the beginning of the end of the European empires in Asia and the impact the settlement has had on post-war China and Japan, the wider history of East and South Asia ¿ and o...

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER His masterpiece Antony Beevor, Spectator A masterful performance Sunday Times By far the best book on the Vietnam War Gerald Degroot, The Times, Book of the Year Vietnam became the Western worlds most divisive modern co...

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat comes the gripping untold story of one of the most heroic units that fought in World War II On December 7th 1941, the Japanese Navy bombed Pearl Harbor. For many Americans, the ...

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WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION A SATIRICAL REIMAGINING OF MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN SET IN MODERN-DAY BAGHDAD, BRILLIANTLY CAPTURING THE HORROR OF A CITY AT WAR From the rubble-strewn streets of US-occupied Baghdad, Ha...

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From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Ghost Wars, the inside story of America's long and ruinous relationship with Saddam Hussein The Achilles Trap masterfully untangles the people, ploys of power and geopolitics that led t...

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A story of staggering scope and drama, Revolusi is the masterful and definitive account of the epic revolution that sparked the decolonisation of the modern world. On a sunny Friday morning in August 1945, a handful of tired people raised a homema...

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A gripping, illustrated narrative of the longest and most brutal land battle of the 190405 Russo-Japanese War. Growing rivalry between Imperial Russia and Imperial Japan over territorial control in China and Korea led to the outbreak of war in Feb...

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I Rött minne - Att minnas och glömma Kinas Kulturrevolution lyfter Tania Branigan fram aldrig tidigare hörda berättelser från individer som överlevt Maos decennium av galenskap, och låter dessa spränga genom fyrtio år av tystnad. Resultatet blir e...

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The third volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades 'The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage and greed, hope and disillusion' Steven Runciman's triumphant three-vol...

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