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Author : Saul Kelly
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 9780999913574
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Hunt for Zerzura BC Only written by Saul Kelly and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2002-06-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Saul Kelly
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786747242
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book The Lost Oasis written by Saul Kelly and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lost Oasis tells the true story behind The English Patient. An extraordinary episode in World War II, it describes the Zerzura Club, a group of desert explorers and adventurers who indulged in desert travel by early-model-motor cars and airplanes, and who searched for lost desert oases and ancient cities of vanished civilizations. In reality, they were mapping the desert for military reasons and espionage. The club's members came from countries that soon would be enemies: England and the Allied Forces v. Italy and Germany. When war erupted in 1939, Ralph Bagnold founded the British Long Range Desert Group to spy on and disrupt Rommel's advance on Cairo, while a fellow club member, Hungarian Count Almasy, succeeded in placing German spies there. Ultimately, the British prevailed. Saul Kelly's riveting history draws on interviews with survivors and previously unknown documentary material in England, Italy, Germany, Hungary, and Egypt. His book reads like a thriller -- with one key difference: it's all true.
Author : Dan Richardson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1409324265
Total Pages : 927 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Rough Guide to Egypt written by Dan Richardson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 927 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in ePub format. The new, full-color The Rough Guide to Egypt is the definitive guide to this amazing country, whose ancient civilization still fascinates today. But there's more to Egypt than just pyramids and temples. The Red Sea offers some of the world's finest diving, a few hours by air from Europe. There are awesome dunes and lush oases to explore in its deserts and fantastic bazaars and mosques in the capital, Cairo. Detailed accounts of every attraction, along with crystal-clear maps and plans, make it easy to access anything from remote oases to nightlife that only locals know. You'll find lavish photography and color maps throughout, along with insider tips on how to get the best out of Luxor's temples or Sinai's beach resorts. At every point, the Rough Guide steers you to the best hotels, cafés, restaurants, and shops across every price range, giving you balanced reviews and honest, first-hand opinions. Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to Egypt.
Author : John Bierman
Publisher : Penguin Global
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Secret Life of Laszlo Almasy written by John Bierman and published by Penguin Global. This book was released on 2004 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than forty years after his death, Laszlo Almasy's name would become famous in Anthony Minghella's film The English Patient. But who was he really? Was he a spy? If so, for whom-the Allies or the Germans? John Bierman's wide-ranging investigation of Almasy's life and career reveals an even more complex and enigmatic figure than Hollywood allowed.
Author : Owen Davies
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191509248
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Grimoires written by Owen Davies and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a grimoire? The word has a familiar ring to many people, particularly as a consequence of such popular television dramas as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed. But few people are sure exactly what it means. Put simply, grimoires are books of spells that were first recorded in the Ancient Middle East and which have developed and spread across much of the Western Hemisphere and beyond over the ensuing millennia. At their most benign, they contain charms and remedies for natural and supernatural ailments and advice on contacting spirits to help find treasures and protect from evil. But at their most sinister they provide instructions on how to manipulate people for corrupt purposes and, worst of all, to call up and make a pact with the Devil. Both types have proven remarkably resilient and adaptable and retain much of their relevance and fascination to this day. But the grimoire represents much more than just magic. To understand the history of grimoires is to understand the spread of Christianity, the development of early science, the cultural influence of the print revolution, the growth of literacy, the impact of colonialism, and the expansion of western cultures across the oceans. As this book richly demonstrates, the history of grimoires illuminates many of the most important developments in European history over the last two thousand years.
Author : Cassandra Vivian
Publisher : Amer Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774160905
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (69 download)
Download or read book The Western Desert of Egypt written by Cassandra Vivian and published by Amer Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Already the most comprehensive guide ever for desert and oasis travel in Egypt west of the Nile, The Western Desert of Egypt: An Explorer's Handbook has now been fully revised and updated for the latest generation of twenty-first century desert adventurers. Fully illustrated with some 50 maps and plans and over 270 drawings, the guide covers both the natural history and the human history of the desert and the oases. It then explores chapter by chapter the oases of Kharga, Dakhla, Farafra, Bahariya, Fayoum, and Siwa, and the desert areas of al-Diffa (the northern, semiarid edge of the desert), the Darb al-Arbain caravan route in the south, and Uwaynat (including Gilf Kebir) in the southwest. Descriptions of routes, sites, people, and places are complemented by practical information on places to stay, eat, and fill your gas tank. Global positioning system (GPS) waypoints are provided as an aid to navigation on many routes--though for the sake of conservation and the protection of unguarded antiquities they are not given for remote sites. Almost encyclopedic in its scope, this is the one guide that belongs on the bookshelf, dashboard, or rucksack of every Western Desert traveler.
Author : Dan Richardson
Publisher : Rough Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781843530503
Total Pages : 892 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Egypt written by Dan Richardson and published by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2003 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides practical advice on planning a trip to Egypt; describes points of interest in each section of the country; and includes information on restaurants, nightspots, shops, and lodging.
Author : Saul Kelly
Publisher : John Murray Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780719561672
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (616 download)
Download or read book The Hunt for Zerzura written by Saul Kelly and published by John Murray Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the true story behind The English Patient, one of the least known and most extraordinary episodes of World War II. In the 1930s, the Zerzura Club (named after a lost oasis in the Libyan desert) met once a year for dinner at the Cafe Royal in London. Ostensibly, its members were cosmopolitan adventurers indulging a craze for desert travel by motor car and aeroplane, and searching for the lost oases and ancient cities of a vanished civilization. In reality they were mapping the desert for military reasons, marking vital wells and checking terrain. The Club's members were drawn from countries that would soon be enemies, and fellowship masked a vicious rivalry. Mussolini hoped to make Egypt the centrepiece of a new Italian empire, but the British - for whom the Suez Canal was strategically vital - were determined to hold onto that country. When war broke out in 1939, Ralph Bagnold founded the Long Range Desert Group to spy on and disrupt the Axis powers' advance on Cairo under Rommel, while his fellow club member Count Almasy tried to spirit the Egyptian Chief of Staff out of Cairo, and succeeded in inserting German spies. Both of them were using knowledge and desert craft drawn from the hazardous hunt for the Zerzura Oasis, where each had deceived the other about his true purpose. In telling this story, Saul Kelly draws on interviews with survivors as well as previously unknown documentary material in Britain, Italy, Germany, Hungary and Egypt. His book reads like a thriller by John Buchan or Frederick Forsyth - with one key difference: it is true.
Author : John Bryden
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459719611
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Fighting to Lose written by John Bryden and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2014-04-19 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Startling new revelations about collaboration between the Allies and the German Secret Service. Based on extensive primary source research, John Bryden’s Fighting to Lose presents compelling evidence that the German intelligence service — the Abwehr — undertook to rescue Britain from certain defeat in 1941. Recently opened secret intelligence files indicate that the famed British double-cross or double-agent system was in fact a German triple-cross system. These files also reveal that British intelligence secretly appealed to the Abwehr for help during the war, and that the Abwehr’s chief, Admiral Canaris, responded by providing Churchill with the ammunition needed in order to persuade Roosevelt to lure the Japanese into attacking Pearl Harbor. These findings and others like them make John Bryden’s Fighting to Lose one of the most fascinating books about World War II to be published for many years.
Author : Lawrence George Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book These Wonders to Behold written by Lawrence George Green and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James D. Kiras
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135989885
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Special Operations and Strategy written by James D. Kiras and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-07-29 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James D. Kiras shows how a number of different special operations, in conjunction with more conventional military actions, achieve and sustain strategic effect(s) over time. In particular, he argues that the root of effective special operations lies in understanding the relationship existing between moral and material attrition at the strategic level. He also presents a theoretical framework for understanding how special operations achieve strategic effects using a unique synthesis of strategic theory and case studies. This study shows how the key to understanding how special operations reside in the concept of strategic attrition and in the moral and material nature of strategy. It also highlights major figures such as Carl von Clausewitz, Hans Delbrück, and Mao Zedong, who understood these complexities and were experts in eroding an enemy’s will to fight. These and other examples provide a superb explanation of the complexities of modern strategy and the place of special operations in a war of attrition. This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars with an interest in special forces and of strategic and military studies in general.
Author : Jason M. Silverman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780884140900
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Political Memory in and After the Persian Empire written by Jason M. Silverman and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Various disciplines that deal with Achaemenid rule offer starkly different assessments of Persian kingship. While Assyriologists treat Cyrus's heirs as legitimate successors of the Babylonian kings, biblical scholars often speak of a "kingless era" in which the priesthood took over the function of the Davidic monarch. Egyptologists see their land as uniquely independently minded despite conquests, while Hellenistic scholarship tends to evaluate the interface between Hellenism and native traditions without reference to the previous two centuries of Persian rule. This volume brings together in dialogue a broad array of scholars with the goal of seeking a broader context for assessing Persian kingship through the anthropological concept of political memory.
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Pook Press
ISBN 13 : 9781528709262
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Robinson Crusoe - Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth written by Daniel Defoe and published by Pook Press. This book was released on 2018-12-19 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating 300 years since its first publication, Pook Press releases a new edition of Daniel Defoe's 'Robinson Crusoe', with stunning illustrations by N. C. Wyeth. Pook Press presents this facsimile of the 1920 illustrated edition, containing 13 nostalgic colour plates by N. C. Wyeth, one of America's greatest Illustrators.
Author : Kuno Gross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783943157345
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (573 download)
Download or read book Operation Salam written by Kuno Gross and published by . This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fred Wendorf
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461506530
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)
Download or read book Holocene Settlement of the Egyptian Sahara written by Fred Wendorf and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: by Fred Wendorf and Romuald Schild The Eastern Sahara is a fascinating place to study structures. These larger, more complex sites are almost prehistory. Confronted with the stark reality of a hyper always in the lower parts of large basins, most of which arid environment that receives no measurable rainfall, were formed by deflation during the Late Pleistocene lacks vegetation, and is seemingly without life, it would hyper-arid interval between about 65,000 and 13,000 seem to be an unlikely place to find a rich and complex years ago. Their location near the floor of these basins mosaic of archaeological remains documenting past was influenced primarily by one factor - water. During human presence. Despite this impression of a hostile wet phases, runoff from extensive catchment areas environment, there is widespread and abundant caused the development of large, deep, seasonal lakes, archaeological evidence. or playas, in the lowermost parts of these basins. This It is obvious that this area was not always a lifeless surface water would last for several weeks or months desert. Faunal and plant remains found in the excavations after the seasonal rains, and by digging wells after the at Holocene-age settlements, dating between 9500 and playa became dry, water could still be obtained during 5000 radiocarbon years ago, indicate that rainfall during most, if not all, of the dry season.
Author : Michael Asher
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0006513174
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)
Download or read book The Eye of Ra written by Michael Asher and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2000 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant atmospheric thriller, set in Cairo and the surrounding tombs and deserts, involving the threat of the past entwined with present deaths and future machinations. Omar Ross, a maverick archaeologist, is disturbed by the death at the foot of the pyramids of Giza, of his old colleague, a famous Egyptologist, Richard Cranwell. Cranwell had become obsessed by his search for the legendary lost city of Zerzura. Ross's suspicions become further aroused by documents left referring to other deaths, of Carnarvon, of Wingate, of Carter, all linked by the inscription for the god Thoth. It seems as if Cranwell had been on the verge of a great discovery; but every contact, every informant, disappears: Cranwell's body itself is lost and Ross, threatened, beleagured and friendless, turns to his mother's family, of the Bedouin tribe. This is a first novel with a difference. Written with great confidence, it is rich with Egyptian mythology and history, its new discoveries are plausible and convincing, the secret organizations and believers complex and frightening, and the cast of characters lively and varied.
Author : Jen Balisi
Publisher : Page Street Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1645674118
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Indulgent Eats at Home written by Jen Balisi and published by Page Street Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the #Droolworthy Dishes of Your Foodie Dreams Pack your forks for the culinary trip of a lifetime with Instagram sensation Indulgent Eats! In Jen Balisi’s globally-inspired cookbook, she teaches you how to cook up vibrant and viral flavors from your Instagram feed. Get ready to wow your friends and followers as you tackle the techniques behind the most Instagrammable recipes. Start your morning sunny-side up with jiggly Japanese Pancakes with Togarashi Maple Bacon, then fry up some #PocketsofLove for lunch, like Jen’s Cheesy Pork and Plantain Empanadas or a skillet of crispy gyoza. Craving carbs for dinner? Stir up a Kimchi Fried Rice Volcano or #SendNoods with some Smoky Spicy Vodka Fusilli. Or whip up a weekend feast of comforting Khachapuri (Georgian Cheese Bread) and ultra-satisfying Filipino Sizzling Pork Belly Sisig. And be sure to keep your phone handy—every recipe includes a QR code that’ll link you to all of Jen’s exclusive behind-the-scenes content. Check out her signature videos for the incredible inspiration behind every dish, as well as helpful tips and tricks to cook each recipe like a pro. This show-stopping cookbook is bursting with gorgeous photography and dozens of indulgent meals. So whip out your passport and travel the world, one bite at a time.
