Historia

"Det räcker med att läsa första kapitlet "Epicentrum" så är du fast." Aftonbladet I augusti 2021 faller Kabul i talibanernas händer. Den svenska ambassaden evakueras hastigt under dramatiska omständigheter. Kvar lämnas alla lokalanställda afghaner...

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A timely and definitive narrative history of Israel in the context of the modern Jewish experience and the Middle East. Ideal for anyone seeking to understand the roots of the current conflict in Gaza.Written by one of Israel's most notable schola...

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The epic story of Jerusalem told through the lives of the men and women who created, ruled and inhabited it.Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement ...

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India's lost emperor Ashoka Maurya has a special place in history. In his quest to govern India by moral force alone he turned Buddhism from a minor sect into a world religion, and set up a new yardstick for government. But Ashoka's bold experimen...

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En viktig och initierad skildring av historien bakom dagens politiska och humanitära katastrofer i Mellanöstern. År 1916 satte sig britter och fransmän i hemliga förhandlingar. Ett streck drogs på kartan över det osmanska rikets arabiska delar; om...

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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 et...

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The gritty, awe-inspiring true story that takes you right into the heart of the Iraq war from Sunday Times No.1 bestseller Sgt. Dan Mills ''If I could give it more stars I would'' 5***** Reader Review ''One of the best first-hand accounts of comba...

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* A different sort of true climbing adventure-this one with terrorists, kidnappings, and AK47s* New afterword by the author* First time in paperbackBefore dawn on August 12, 2000, four of America's best young rock climbers-Tommy Caldwell, Beth Rod...

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In Hegemonic Mimicry, Kyung Hyun Kim considers the recent global success of Korean popular culture-the Korean wave of pop music, cinema, and television, which is also known as hallyu-from a transnational and transcultural perspective. Using the co...

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THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BESTSELLER, NOW AN ACCLAIMED TV SERIESThis is the definitive account of the run-up to 9/11: from the man who lit the spark of radical Islam in 1948, to those who built up a terror network, and to the FBI agent whose warn...

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"... en av årtiondets viktigaste böcker." Jesper Strömbäck Eklund, Expressen "Mitt råd: sätt 'Förgör de falska gudarna' i händerna på svenska kulturpolitiker, både till höger och vänster." Birgitta Rubin, SvD "... en faktabok som på ett för Sverig...

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A journey along the seemingly endless Russian border - from North Korea in the Far East through Russia's bordering states in Asia and the Caucasus, crossing the Caspian Ocean and the Black Sea along the way."e;Erika Fatland [is] shaping up to ...

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This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded history.Starting with the earliest references in Eg...

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»Wibecks informativa översiktsverk kan vara utmärkt läsning för den som vill börja orientera sig i Mellanösternkonflikten och dess bakgrund.« Svenska Dagbladet »En balanserad och överskådlig bild av konfliktens historia och nutid.« Upsala Nya Tidn...

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Jung Chang, författaren till den bästsäljande succén Vilda svanar , är nu tillbaka med en fascinerande bild av tre systrar som kom att forma det moderna Kina. Det sades att en älskade pengar, en älskade makt och en älskade sitt land. Men historien...

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En man och två kvinnor. En av dem rymde hemifrån som pojke för att utkämpa ett heligt krig, fängslades, frigavs, och är nu krigsherre med två fruar. En annan fick polio som flicka, lärde sig läsa Koranen med kvinnlig blick, blev högt uppsatt polit...

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"I begynnelsen", säger urkunden San-wu Li-chi som är tusen år äldre än Eddan, "var kaos, och formlös dimma vältrade där. Därur spirade på skilda nivåer de knoppar som gav upphov till himmel och jord, till manligt och kvinnligt. Genom himlens kraft...

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Afghanistan, Summer 2006. This is war.Afghanistan in the summer of 2006. In blazing heat in remote outposts the 3 Para battlegroup is pitted against a stubborn enemy who keep on coming. Until now, the full story of what happened there has not been...

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In his bestselling book 1421:The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies revealed that it was the Chinese that discovered America, not Columbus. Now he presents further astonishing evidence that it was also Chinese advances in science, art,...

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An intense and emotive memoir of one girl?s difficult family upbringing in a Singaporean Chinese family during the Second World War.Lucy Lum was the third of seven children, born in Singapore in 1933 into a Chinese immigrant family ruled with an i...

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?A Year in Tibet? follows the author as she lives for eighteen months in a remote village in Tibet.Sun Shuyun, a Chinese writer and historian, takes the reader to a tiny and isolated village in Tibet, known for its anti-Chinese stance. She and a t...

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A far-reaching history of terrorism across the world from its beginnings to the modern-day, from the highly acclaimed author of ?Sacred Causes? and ?Earthly Powers?.Basing his study on a wide range of sources and key players from the world of terr...

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Ed Macy is an elite pilot, one of the few men qualified to fly Apache helicopters, the world's deadliest fighting machines. This is his account of a fearless mission behind enemy lines in Afghanistan.After a brutal accident forced him out of the P...

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Every nation has its founding myth, and for modern China it is the Long March.In 1934, the fledgling Communist Party and its 200,000 strong armies were forced out of their bases by Chiang Kaishek and his National troops.Walking more than 10,000 mi...

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'There is no doubt that [Quartered Safe Out Here] is one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War' John KeeganLife and death in Nine Section, a small group of hard-bitten and (to modern eyes) possibly eccentric Cumbrian borderers with...

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Afghanistan, 2008. After their eighteen-month epic tour of Helmand Province, the troops of 3 Para are back. This time, the weight of experience weighs heavily on their shoulders.In April 2006 the elite 3 Para Battle Group was despatched to Helmand...

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Opening dramatically with the horrors of the 2005 London bombings, this is the profoundly moving story of a country on the brink of civil war and a child's struggle to come to terms with loss.London. On a bright July morning a series of bombs brin...

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A literary saga, spanning two generations and two cultures, Canadian and Japanese, reminiscent of the work of Isabel Allende.Suddenly finding herself motherless at the age of six, Vera is left in the care of her grandfather, who spends long period...

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The pioneering autobiographical story of a British Zionist in her fifties who moves to Israel and chooses to live among 25,000 Muslims in the all-Arab Israeli town of Tamra, a few miles from Nazareth.Susan Nathan's revelatory book about her new li...

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A companion volume to his bestselling 'Armageddon', Max Hastings' account of the battle for Japan is a masterful military history.Featuring the most remarkable cast of commanders the world has ever seen, the dramatic battle for Japan of 1944-45 wa...

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