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Putin's War in Syria

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Syria’s Uprising and the Fracturing of the Levant

This Adelphi explores the civil war in Syria, examining the ways in which an upbeat and peaceful uprising quickly and brutally descended into violence

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War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resistance - Zygar Mikhail

Anotace: `History is made up of myths,` writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar. `Alas, our myths led us to the fascism of 2022. It is time to expose them.` Drawing from his perilous career investigating the frontiers of the Russian empire, Zygar reveals how 350 years of propaganda, bad historical scholarship, folk tales and fantasy spurred his nat...

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Spies: The epic intelligence war between East and West - Walton Calder

Anotace: The riveting story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China`A masterpiece` CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, author of The Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5`The book we have all been waiting for` BRENDAN SIMMS, author of Hitler: A Global Biography`Gripping, authoritative... A viv...

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The Levant Trilogy - Manning Olivia, Manning Olivia

Anotace: The classic World War II trilogy: `The finest fictional record of the war produced by a British writer` Anthony BurgessAs Rommel advances in wartorn Egypt, the lives of the civilian population come under threat. One such couple are Guy and Harriet Pringle, who have escaped the war in Europe only to find the conflict once more on their doorstep, providing a volat...

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Killing of Osama Bin Laden - Hersh Seymour M.

Anotace: In 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, the man the United States had begun chasing before the devastating attacks of 9/11. The news did much to boost President Obama`s first term and played a major part in his reelection victory of the following year. But much of the story of ...

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Road To Unfreedom - neuveden

Anotace: From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the rise of authoritarianism from Russia to Europe and America.<br> With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy seemed final. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. This faith was misplaced. Authoritarianism returned to Russia, as...

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The World: A Family History - Montefiore Simon Sebag

Anotace: THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF THE ECONOMIST`S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARFrom the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thing all humans have in common: family. We begin with the footsteps of a family walking along a beach 950,000 years ago. From here, Mont...

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The World: A Family History - W. a CH. Awdry, Montefiore Simon Sebag

Anotace: The World by Simon Sebag Montefiore is a fresh and original history of humanity, unlike any previous world history: it uses family, the one thing all humans have in common, to tell the story. It is genuinely global, spanning all eras and all continents, from the perspective of places as diverse as Haiti, Congo and Cambodia as well as Europe, China and America. S...

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Prisoners Of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need To Know - Marshall Tim

Anotace: THE INTERNATIONAL AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER; All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Yes, to understand world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements...but if you don`t know geography, you`ll never have the full picture.; To understand Putin`s actions, for example, it is ess...

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Map of Salt and Stars - Jennifer Zeynab Maccani

Anotace: This powerful and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what The Kite Runner was to Afghanistan; the story of two girls living eight hundred years apart-a modern-day Syrian refugee seeking safety and an adventurous mapmaker's apprentice. <br> This "beguiling" (Seattle Times) and stunning novel begins in the summer of 2011. Nour has just lost her fathe...

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A Short History of Russia - Galeotti Mark

Anotace: Can anyone truly understand Russia?Russia is a country with no natural borders, no single ethos, no true central identity. At the crossroads of Europe and Asia, it is everyone`s `other`. And yet it is one of the most powerful nations on earth, a master game-player on the global stage with a rich history of war and peace, poets and revolutionaries.In this essenti...

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The Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Political Prisoner - David Herszenhorn

<p>THE DISSIDENT is the story of how one fearless man, offended by the dishonesty and criminality of the Russian political system, mounted a relentless opposition movement and became President Vladimir Putin's most formidable rival-so despised that the Russian leader makes a point of never uttering Navalny's name.There's an old saying that Russia without corruption ...

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Fascism : A Warning, 1. vydání - Madeleine Albright

<p>A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today's world, written by one of America's most admired public servants, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state. "There is priceless wisdom on every page." Kirkus Starred review A Fascist, observes Madeleine Albright, `is someone who claims...

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