The Sabres of Paradise: Conquest and Vengeance in the Caucasus, Paperback - Lesley Blanch

Reducere. PHILIP MARSDEN: Like Tolstoy's, Lesley Blanch's sense of history is ultimately convincing not because of any sweeping theses, but because of its pa...

The memoir of a granddaughter of Azerbaijani peasants who struck oil and watched their lives change, carrying a personally-charged sense of the ove...

Award-winning food writer and photographer Capalbo has travelled Georgia collecting recipes and gathering stories from food and winemakers in this ...

The classic story of four nineteenth-century women who, for different reasons, gravitated to the wildness of the Middle East and North Africa.Publi...

In the summer of 1942, the Wehrmacht invaded the Caucasus in order to overrun critical oil production facilities at Maikop, Grozny, and Baku. Howev...

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Reducere. The once-thriving houseboat communities along Arkansas' White River are long gone, and few remember the sensational murder story that set local dar...

The Caucasus has an extremely rich folk literature, almost unknown among English speakers, which includes myths, legends, magical tales, anecdotes,...

This volume emphasizes the movements of ideas in both directions--from Europe to the Caucasus and from the Caucasus to Europe. This illuminates a v...

A medieval murder mystery based on actual historical events. The author has extensively researched this true-life murder and has solved the mystery...

The most dramatic, revealing and little-known story in Turkey's history - which illuminates the nation'Through the spellbinding career of a single,...

Reducere. A unique and incendiary memoir from an entrepreneur who rose to the highest realms of power and money in China and whose wife was disappeared, Red ...

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An insider's story of wealth, power, corruption and vengeance in today's ChinaPublisher: Simon & Schuster LtdAuthor(s): Desmond ShumIllustration(s)...

An insider's story of wealth, power, corruption and vengeance in today's ChinaPublisher: Simon & Schuster LtdAuthor(s): Desmond ShumNumber of pages...

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An insider's story of wealth, power, corruption and vengeance in today's ChinaPublisher: Simon & Schuster LtdAuthor(s): Desmond ShumIllustration(s)...

A charming selection of writings by a twentieth century luminary. This selection of Lesley Blanch's early journalism, essays and travelling tales f...

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A tour d'horizon of the role Islam plays in politics and the private sphere in Central Asia and the Caucasus.

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Norman Conquest, then pay attention...The year 1066 CE is one of the largest turning points ...

French North America in the Shadows of Conquest is an interdisciplinary, postcolonial, and continental history of Francophone North America across ...

Publisher: Little, Brown & CompanyAuthor(s): Kizuka NeroNumber of pages: 162Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 128 x 190 x 17Cover type: Paperback /...

Publisher: Pushkin PressAuthor(s): Lesley ChamberlainNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 158 x 293 x 20Cover type: Paperback / so...

The first book devoted exclusively to the Holocaust in the North Caucasus, exploring mass killings, Jewish responses, collaboration, and memory in ...

Reducere. One hundred years ago, in 1911, two young men lost their lives: one from a stab wound and the other by mob action. In an attempt to explain how suc...

Publisher: Little, Brown & CompanyAuthor(s): Kizuka NeroNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 209 x 139 x 19Cover type: Paperback /...

Gender in Georgia brings together an international group of feminist scholars to explore the socio-political conditions that have shaped gender dyn...

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Desire Washes AshorePublisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Niobia BryantNumber of pages: 592Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 108 x 171 x 38...

Talented historian Maya Jasanoff offers an alternative history of the British Empire. It is not about conquest - but rather a collection of startli...

Reducere. The First Toast is to Peace: Travels in the South Caucasus brings alive a captivating part of the globe that the English-speaking world has been sl...

In May 1790, the French National Assembly renounced wars of conquest. Two years later, France declared war on Austria and invaded Belgium and the R...

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Publisher: Little, Brown & CompanyAuthor(s): Kizuka NeroNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 138 x 209 x 19Cover type: Paperback /...

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