Kategoria BISAC: History >> Middle East - Iraq

The destinies of Iraq and America will be tightly intertwined into the foreseeable future due to the U.S. incursion into this complex, perplexing desert nation -- the latest in a long history of violent outside interventions. A country sitting atop the world's largest supply of crude oil, Iraq will continue to play an essential role in global economics and in Middle Eastern politics for many decades to come. Therefore, it is more important than ever for Westerners to have a clear understanding of the volatile, enigmatic...

At the end of the Gulf War, the White House was confident that Saddam Hussein's days as Iraq's dictator were numbered. His army had been routed, his country had been bombed back into a pre-industrial age, his subjects were in bloody revolt, and his borders were sealed. World leaders waited confidently for the downfall of the pariah of Baghdad. Almost a decade later, they are still waiting.

This is the first in-depth account of what went wrong. Drawing on the authors' firsthand experiences on the ground inside Iraq (often under fire) and their interviews with key players--ranging from...

"This one book will tell you more about Iraq's quest for weapons of mass destruction than all U.S. intelligence on the subject. It is a fascinating and rare glimpse inside Saddam Hussein's Iraq-and inside a tyrant's mind."
-Fareed Zakaria
author of The Future of Freedom

"The Bomb in My Garden is important and utterly gripping. The old cliche is true-you start reading, and you don't want to stop. Mahdi Obeidi's story makes clear how hard Saddam Hussein tried to develop a nuclear weapon, and the reasons he fell short. It is also unforgettable as a...

While some scholars would argue that there was no "Iraq" before King Faysal's coronation in 1921, Iraqi history spans fourteen centuries of tribal communities that endured continual occupation in their historic homeland, including Mongol invasions in the thirteenth century and subsequent Ottoman and British invasions. An Iraqi identity was established long before the League of Nations defined the nation-state of Iraq in 1932. Drawing on neglected primary sources and other crucial accounts, including memoirs and correspondence, Reclaiming Iraq puts the 1920 revolt against...

Muchos hallazgos historicos y biblicos no incluidos en la Biblia canonica, ahora han salido a la luz. El acceso a los textos como la " Perdido Libro de Enoch, los de Nag Hamadi Evangelios y el Libro de los Jubileos, " entre otros es ahora ampliamente disponible y, cuando se sintetiza y se correlaciono con los documentos existentes, como la Biblia y Qu 'corrian, meritos repensar los origenes y la intencion de la civilizacion occidental.

Preparese para un viaje profundo creencia desafiante a traves de la antigua Persia, Sumeria, Grecia, y la Atlantida; de Roma a los Estados Unidos, la...