War Conflicts

Did you ever wonder what it was like to live 500,000 years ago? Jump into the savannah and join the Logok tribe in a primitive world full of peril in a time when humans were at the mercy of the wrath of nature and fellow humans alike. For all the love, loyalty and courage in the tribe, hatred, wickedness and treachery was on the rise and threatened the lives of all. War, disease, famine, and the vile deeds of villainous traitors abound in the ancient world. Can one man stand against it all? Can the Keeper of the Flame save what is good in humanity before all is lost? Only the tales of the ...

Jeremy Bowen, the BBC’s Middle East Editor, has been covering the region since 1989 and is uniquely placed to explain its complex past and its troubled present. In this new book, in part based on his acclaimed podcast, Bowen takes us on a journey across the Middle East and through its history. He meets ordinary men and women on the front line, their leaders, whether brutal or benign, and he explores the power games that have so often wreaked devastation on civilian populations as those leaders, whatever their motives, jostle for political, religious and economic control.

When Simone set off from New Zealand in the early 1990s, eager to experience what the world had to offer, she couldn't have imagined how things would develop. The Iron Curtain was falling and the world seemed to be opening up to nations previously cut off from the western world. Against this backdrop of change, she was one of a group of Kiwi friends who would embark on the journey of a lifetime called 'The Serious Road Trip'. Initially sparked off by the plight of the orphans in Romania, they planned to travel by red double-decker bus from London to New Zealand working with underprivileged ...

In The New Border Wars, border expert Klaus Dodds journeys into the geopolitical clashes of tomorrow in an eye-opening tour of border walls - literal and figurative - from the Gaza Strip to the space race. In the Himalayas, the Mediterranean, and elsewhere, the tension inherent to trying to divide the world into separate parcels has not gone away.

With his parents and sister, Lizzy, whom he adores, Robbie Larkin grows up in a working-class Waterford home. Then he breaks the news that for a better life he's emigrating to America. By letter, he stays in touch, regaling everyone with his adventures in New York and then Detroit. But then the second world war breaks out, and Robbie enlists in the navy. After basic training, he's assigned to the U.S.S. Tenacity, a brand-new vessel built in the shipyards of the eastern seaboard. Straight away, like the men who built her, Robbie senses that something is not right the with the Tenacity. With ...

The Hundred Years' War changed language, national identity, weaponry, and even the way people think about war. It is part of the greater narrative of human history and gives a snapshot of how human nature can behave when pressed by the extremity of such a conflict - sometimes with unspeakable honor and courage and other times with cowardice, selfishness, and arrogance.

The judging panel of the Hebrew Writers Association and Tamuz Publishing House unanimously chose The Arab Within as the best prose book for the year 2000. “Against a background of this decade’s political events, there unfolds a creative and fascinating tale, which slowly penetrates the membrane of Israel’s sanity, to extract truths that pluck at the chords of our soul.” (The judging panel) From the book: Nadia’s words rose and floated in his head. As long as he doesn’t meet the victim face to face, he’ll never know who it was and now that he has details of the man’s private ...

In the 18th century, Italy was still divided into smaller states, but differently than during medieval times when the political entities were independent and were flourishing economic and cultural centers almost unrivaled in Europe. During the 18th century, all of them were submitted, in one way or another, to one of the greater hegemonic powers. This process of conquest and submission began during the early 16th century, when France was called on by the Duke Milan to intervene in his favor and from there never stopped.

Can Donald Trump really build that wall? What does Brexit mean for Ireland's border? And what would happen if Elon Musk declared himself president of the Moon? In Border Wars, Professor Klaus Dodds takes us on a journey into the geopolitical conflict of tomorrow in an eye-opening tour of the world's best-known, most dangerous and most unexpected border conflicts from the Gaza Strip to the space race. Along the way, we'll discover just what borders truly mean in the modern world.

If You Cross The Scorpion, Beware Of Its Deadly Sting.... In The Renegade Spy, the Scorpion is a merciless and psychopathic assassin, hired to murder the German chancellor. But years before, he used to be a Foreign Legionnaire, a man of honour. What happened? It's 2007 and the Iraq conflict is at its height. Sergeant Jens Schacht is a German soldier in the French Foreign Legion. A man with honour and integrity. So when he walks in on an attempted sexual assault on an Iraqi civilian, he can't look away. He breaks up the assault and the perpetrators, led by a British army Major, subsequently ...

In December 2010, a 26-year-old Tunisian street vendor's self-immolation triggered protests that spread from his hometown in Sidi Bouzid to cities across the country. The next month, on January 14, the country's autocratic president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, fled the country. This would be the start of what became known as the "Arab Spring", which ultimately saw anti-government protests responded to with violence, reform, or both in countries across the Middle East.

I stayed in that one spot for at least an hour, thinking, I just died and came back to life, wow! My eyes were bloodshot red, and I had a headache out of this world. I could feel the water inside my brain when I shook my head. If it wasn't water inside my brain, it sure felt like it. Grandma always gave it real when it came to life. She always said you make your bed, you lay in it. This took some time before I understood what that meant but Lord Behold... that would change! My Box of Chocolates is a book of random memoirs from my childhood to adulthood. "Life is like a box of chocolates, ...

What you are about to read is another “for such a time as this” call for action. Israel as a nation can trace its roots for about 4000 years back to the time of Abraham. The long history of the people connected to “Father” Abraham has had more than its share of persecution, annihilation, misinformation and their own internal conflicts. How can we reconcile all this? They were told by God they were loved and chosen by Him. But if that is true as the Bible states, then why does it seem like almost everyone is has some type of negative opinion and wants them wiped off the face of the ...

The aliens have arrived, and they’re not friendly.A series of events begins a shocking revelation that will change everything. Strange lights in the night sky, the disappearance of scientists on the verge of a breakthrough -a growing threat emerges from an unknown enemy- and the chosen few who will decide the fate of humanity... Piper never wanted this, but now she's hearing voices- the pleas of her dead brother, telling her to run. Elsner, already down and out, risks destruction investigating a UFO cult. Perry once envisioned a doomsday emergency no one expected, but actually comes true....

In the late summer of 1942, more than 10,000 members of the First Marine Division held a tenuous toehold on the Pacific island of Guadalcanal. As American marines battled Japanese forces for control of the island, they were joined by war correspondent Richard Tregaskis. Only one of two civilian reporters to land and stay with the marines, Tregaskis’ notebook captured the daily and nightly terrors faced by American forces in one of World War II’s most legendary battles - and it served as the premise for his best-selling book Guadalcanal Diary.

For a century the United States steadily accumulated a string of military triumphs. But since 1945, the onslaught of failures and stalemates in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan has exposed the country's inability to change course after battlefield setbacks - with grave consequences for thousands of American soldiers and our allies.

Carthage was one of the great ancient civilizations, and at its peak, the wealthy Carthaginian empire dominated the Mediterranean against the likes of Greece and Rome, with commercial enterprises and influence stretching from Spain to Turkey. In fact, at several points in history it had a very real chance of replacing the fledgling Roman Empire or the failing Greek poleis (city-states) altogether as master of the Mediterranean.

Earth fights back, but is it too late?Humanity has one last chance of turning back the rising chaos: Task Force Zero- a multinational combat unit composed of the best special operations soldiers the world has to offer. Perry knows this is their one last roll of the dice, for the alternative is defeat and enslavement. But the war is being fought on several fronts- there are those aiding the unknown enemy, and others who may hold the key to mankind's destiny... On the run, Piper discovers a shocking secret about her family. Thorne's insidious machinations begin to bear fruit as he manipulates...

By the mid-19th century, other European powers became interested not only in the exploration of Africa, but the exploitation of it, especially once the German Empire unified after the Franco-Prussian War. This began a rush, spearheaded mainly by European commercial interests in the form of chartered companies, to penetrate the African interior and woo its leadership with guns, trinkets, and alcohol, and having thus obtained their marks or seals upon spurious treaties, begin establishing boundaries of future European colonies.

The Individualization of War examines the status of individuals in contemporary armed conflict in three main capacities: as subject to violence but deserving of protection; as liable to harm because of their responsibility for attacks on others; and as agents who can be held accountable for the perpetration of crimes.