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TIMELINES OF WORLD WAR II
₨ 6,895Discover the key events in the war that shaped the modern world – moment by moment.
An accessible overview of the moments and milestones of the Second World War, Timelines of World War II offers a fresh angle on the subject, bringing the conflict to life through contemporary photos, documents, maps, and artefacts of importance.
This World War II book offers an accessible and visually engaging overview of the key events of the Second World War. Each page outlines key moments that comprise the timeline from before the war, during and after. Entries also include details of important people, battles, tactics, and technologies.
In this world war book, you can find:
An introduction to the Second World War that explores the key events of the conflict through visual timelines
Profile boxes bring to life the people, new technology, and milestone events that altered the course of history.
Entries that explore the key events and turning points in all of the main theatres of war
Essential insights into the experiences of leaders, soldiers, and civilians involved.Timelines of World War II is a must-have volume for general readers interested in history and military history, politics and history students, whether as a gift or self-purchase and is an ideal book for families, schools and libraries alike!
ISBN: 9780241634769
Publisher: DK PUBLISHING
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DIRECTORATE S:
₨ 1,995Before 9/11, the United States had been carrying out small-scale covert operations in Afghanistan, ostensibly in cooperation, although often in direct opposition, with I.S.I., the Pakistani intelligence agency. While the US was trying to quell extremists, a highly secretive and compartmentalized wing of I.S.I., known as “Directorate S”, was covertly training, arming, and seeking to legitimize the Taliban, to enlarge Pakistan’s sphere of influence. After 9/11, when 59 countries, led by the US, deployed troops or provided aid to Afghanistan to flush out the Taliban and Al Qaeda, the US was set on an invisible slow-motion collision course with Pakistan.
Today, we know that the war in Afghanistan would falter badly because of military hubris at the highest levels of the Pentagon, the drain on resources and provocation in the Muslim world caused by the US-led invasion of Iraq, and corruption. But, more than anything, as Coll makes painfully clear, the war in Afghanistan was doomed because of the failure of the United States to apprehend the motivations and intentions of I.S.I.’s “Directorate S”. This was a swirling and shadowy struggle of historic proportions, which endured over a decade and across both the Bush and Obama administrations, involving multiple secret intelligence agencies, a litany of incongruous strategies and tactics, and dozens of players, including some of the most prominent military and political figures. A sprawling American tragedy, the war was an open clash of arms but also a covert melee of ideas, secrets, and subterranean violence.
Coll excavates this grand battle, which took place away from the gaze of the American public. With unsurpassed expertise, original research, and attention to detail, he brings to life a narrative at once vast and intricate, local and global, propulsive and painstaking. This is the definitive explanation of how America came to be so badly ensnared in an elaborate, factional, and seemingly interminable conflict in South Asia. Nothing less than a forensic examination of the personal and political forces that shape world history, Directorate S is a complete masterpiece of both investigative and narrative journalism.
ISBN: 9781594204586
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS
Subtitle: THE C.I.A. AND AMERICA’S SECRET WARS IN AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN
Author: STEVE COLL -
NATO
₨ 2,295For seven decades, NATO’s stated aim has been the achievement of world peace but playing great power politics always involves conflict. Russia’s war on Ukraine and on Europe’s security order puts the alliance under threat, but also demonstrates why transatlantic cooperation is so necessary. But how did NATO get to where it is today, and what does its future hold?
In this incisive new account, Sten Rynning traces the full history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation from its origins to the present. Across its seventy-five years, NATO has navigated the twists and turns of Cold War diplomacy and nuclear deterrence and has grown its membership. The alliance has become a guarantor of peace, but Rynning explores how its complex inner workings alongside Russian and Chinese opposition are now shaping its direction.
At a time of strategic competition and geopolitical upheaval, Rynning offers us a clear-sighted account of the alliance’s intriguing history and asks what its ambitions might be for the future.
ISBN: 9780300270112
Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
Subtitle: FROM COLD WAR TO UKRAINE, A HISTORY OF THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL ALLIANCE
Author: STEN RYNNING -
THE CIA
₨ 5,445As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on the world stage. In 1947, to support its new global status, it created the CIA to analyze foreign intelligence. But within a few years, the Agency was engaged in other operations: bolstering pro-American governments, overthrowing nationalist leaders, and surveilling anti-imperial dissenters at home.
The Cold War was an obvious reason for this transformation—but not the only one. In The CIA, celebrated intelligence historian Hugh Wilford draws on decades of research to show the Agency as part of a larger picture, the history of the Western empire. While young CIA officers imagined themselves as British imperial agents like T. E. Lawrence, successive US presidents used the covert powers of the Agency to hide overseas interventions from postcolonial foreigners and anti-imperial Americans alike. Even the CIA’s post-9/11 global hunt for terrorists was haunted by the ghosts of empires past.
Comprehensive, original, and gripping, The CIA is the story of the birth of a new imperial order in the shadows. It offers the most complete account yet of how America adopted unaccountable power and secrecy abroad and at home.
ISBN: 9781399816847
Publisher: BASIC BOOKS
Subtitle: AN IMPERIAL HISTORY
Author: HUGH WILFORD -
THE NEW MAKERS OF MODERN STRATEGY
₨ 12,595The New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key figures who have shaped the theory and practice of war and statecraft throughout the centuries. Featuring entirely new entries by a who’s who of world-class scholars, this new edition provides global, comparative perspectives on strategic thought from antiquity to today, surveying both classical and current strategy themes while devoting greater attention to the Cold War and post-9/11 eras. The contributors evaluate the timeless requirements of effective strategy while tracing the revolutionary changes that challenge strategy makers in the contemporary world. Amid intensifying global disorder, the study of strategy and its history has never been more relevant. The New Makers of Modern Strategy draws vital lessons from history’s most influential strategists, from Thucydides and Sun Zi to Clausewitz, Napoleon, Churchill, Mao, Ben-Gurion, Andrew Marshall, Xi Jinping, and Qassem Soleimani.
ISBN: 9780691204383
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD TO THE DIGITAL AGE
Author: HAL BRANDS -
THE HELL OF GOOD INTENTIONS
₨ 1,995From the New York Times-bestselling author Stephen M. Walt, The Hell of Good Intentions dissects the faults and foibles of recent American foreign policy–explaining why it has been plagued by disasters like the “forever wars” in Iraq and Afghanistan and outlining what can be done to fix it.
ISBN: 9780374280031
Publisher: FARRAR
Subtitle: AMERICA’S FOREIGN POLICY ELITE AND THE DECLINE OF U.S. PRIMACY
Author: STEPHEN M. WALT -
BEFORE SHE SLEEPS
₨ 1,195In modern, beautiful Green City, the capital of South West Asia, gender selection, war, and disease have brought the ratio of men to women to alarmingly low levels. The government uses terror and technology to control its people, and women must take multiple husbands to have children as quickly as possible. Yet, some women resist, women who live in an underground collective and refuse to be part of the system. Secretly protected by the highest echelons of power, they emerge only at night, to provide to the rich and elite of Green City a type of commodity that nobody can buy: intimacy without sex. As it turns out, not even the most influential men can shield them from discovery and the dangers of ruthless punishment.
This dystopian novel from one of Pakistan’s most talented writers is a modern-day parable,
ISBN: 9789698729806
Publisher: LIBERTY BOOKS
Subtitle: A NOVEL
Author: BINA SHAH -
MILITARY INC.
₨ 6,695Pakistan is a strategic ally of the US in the ‘war on terror’. It is the third largest recipient of US aid in the world. Yet Pakistan is a state run by its army and intelligence service. Operating in the shadows, Pakistan’s military-industrial complex owns and controls swathes of the economic and political landscape of the country. Military Inc. dares to illuminate the military as an oppressive holding company possessing not just security-related businesses, but also hotels, shopping malls, insurance companies, banks, farms, and even an airline. The result is a deeply undemocratic society, where money is funneled towards the military’s economic enterprises, leaving those in need of it impoverished and effectively disenfranchised. With an empirical richness and a view of Pakistan’s recent history, Ayesha Siddiqa offers a detailed and powerful case study of a global phenomenon: corruption, hollow economic growth, and elitism. This new edition includes a chapter on the recent developments of the military’s foray into the media and a new preface.
ISBN: 9780745399010
Publisher: PLUTO PRESS
Subtitle: INSIDE PAKISTAN’S MILITARY ECONOMY – 2ND ED
Author: AYESHA SIDDIQA -
TALIBAN
₨ 4,945Following the U.S-Taliban peace deal of February 2020 – and the U.S. promised withdrawal from Afghanistan – the Taliban began terrorizing Afghan security forces, civilians, and the government in Kabul. By August 2021, the group had seized control of the entire country.
Taliban is a New York Times bestseller by the award-winning journalist Ahmed Rashid. Now considered a modern classic, the book provides rare insight into the history of the Taliban, their political movement, their leaders, and their aims. This authoritative account is renowned for being able to explain one of the world’s most extreme organizations from its inception in northern Pakistan in the early 1990s to its rise to power. In doing so, Rashid closely details their impact on Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Central Asia, and how and why the Taliban spread, including their relationship with both Al-Qaeda and the U.S.
The book has sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide and has been translated into over 40 languages. This third edition marks twenty years since the U.S. invaded Afghanistan and the author adds a new introduction to reflect on how the group regained its strength, the humanitarian crisis, and what Taliban rule is likely to mean for the region and the world.
ISBN: 9780755647101
Publisher: I. B. TAURIS
Subtitle: THE POWER OF MILITANT ISLAM IN AFGHANISTAN AND BEYOND
Author: Ahmed Rashid -
SPIES, LIES, AND ALGORITHMS
₨ 5,745Spying has never been more ubiquitous, or less understood. The world is drowning in spy movies, TV shows, and novels, but universities offer more courses on rock and roll than on the CIA and there are more congressional experts on powdered milk than espionage. This crisis in intelligence education is distorting public opinion, fueling conspiracy theories, and hurting intelligence policy. In Spies, Lies, and Algorithms, Amy Zegart separates fact from fiction as she offers an engaging and enlightening account of the past, present, and future of American espionage as it faces a revolution driven by digital technology
ISBN: 9780691223070
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: THE HISTORY AND FUTURE OF AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE
Author: AMY B. ZEGART -
THE EXILE
₨ 4,595ISBN: 9781408858769Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
Subtitle: THE FLIGHT OF OSAMA BIN LADEN
Author: CATHERINE SCOTT-CLARK -
POWER AND CONFLICT IN RUSSIA’S BORDERLANDS
₨ 35,185As Cold War battle lines are seemingly re-drawn, Russia’s various ‘frozen’ war zones (ongoing separatist conflicts) are often cited as particularly volatile and assumed by some Western commentators and policymakers to be ‘next’ on Putin’s ‘wish list’.
But, as Helena Rytövuori-Apunen demonstrates here, this is a gross (and dangerous) oversimplification that will only serve to fuel the vicious circle of reciprocal military escalation. Drawing on a range of empirical research and across separatist conflicts in Georgia (South Ossetia and Abkhazia), Moldova (Transnistria and Gagauzia), and Azerbaijan (Nagorno-Karabakh) and the 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, her timely book provides a balanced assessment and critique of the assumptions and misunderstandings that inform mainstream discussions, as well as placing the conflicts in their proper and complex historical contexts. At a time when there is an increasing tendency to view Russia as the source of all instability in Eastern Europe, Power and Conflict in Russia’s Borderlands is essential reading for anyone interested in the geopolitics of post-Soviet Russia, as well as policymakers and practitioners of peace/conflict resolution studies.
ISBN: 9781788311434
Publisher: I. B. TAURIS
Subtitle: THE POST-SOVIET GEOPOLITICS OF DISPUTE RESOLUTIONAuthor: HELENA RYTOVUORI-APUNEN
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PUNJAB AND THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE 1857-1858
₨ 915There is a historiographical silence about the role of the Punjab during the War of Independence. Historians have generally employed the elite approach or the ‘top-down approach’ while writing the history of the war. Since the elite, including the rajas, feudal lords, and nawabs had collaborated with the British, historians generalized their participation to that of the entire population of the province. A top-down approach inevitably emphasizes the role of the elite and neglects the role of the masses. So the role and response of the people of the Punjab during the War of Independence 1857-8 requires a thorough re-appraisal, which this book intends to do.
The central argument of this study is that resistance to the British in Punjab during 1857-8 has been under-emphasized in historical works and the role of the common people or the masses in the Punjab, who resisted the Raj, has not been adequately highlighted in the historiography of the colonial era. Therefore, the present study is an attempt to bring the role of the Punjabi masses to the forefront, along with that of the elite, to present a complete picture of the role of the Punjab in the War of Independence. This book also helps in understanding the role of the landed elite in contemporary politics of Pakistan, especially in the Punjab and NWFP (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, as it was a part of the Punjab in 1857) because the families who collaborated with the British during the war, are still playing an important role in the politics of Pakistan.
ISBN: 9780190701840
Publisher: OXFORD
Subtitle: FROM COLLABORATION TO RESISTANCE
Author: TURAB UL HASSAN SARGANA -
OIL AND THE CREATION OF IRAQ
₨ 16,139Off to the sidelines of the brutal western front of World War I was a nasty little campaign by British and Indian troops sent to secure Persian oil fields. Explaining what and how this happened in the early decades of the twentieth century goes beyond being just another history of a distant campaign in the 1914 to 1918 war. The highs and lows of what many British military planners in London considered to be a minor campaign in a distant theatre of operations proved to be a long, costly conflict the results of which still influence events today.
Oil and the Creation of Iraq describes how the policies of allied military leaders of the time resulted in pushing the Ottoman government into partnership with Germany and Austria during World War I, resulting in its disintegration and loss of its Middle Eastern territories. The book then describes how the political and economic aims of the nations involved in the Mesopotamian campaign influenced the fighting and subsequent creation of Iraq, a new nation with few defensible boundaries, but one sitting atop an almost inexhaustible supply of oil and gas.
ISBN: 9781498744935
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
Subtitle: POLICY FAILURES AND THE 1914-1918 WAR IN MESOPOTAMIAAuthor: DAVID E. MCNABB
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CONTEMPORARY MILITARY STRATEGY AND THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR
₨ 33,116Contemporary Military Strategy and the Global War on Terror offers an in-depth analysis of US/UK military strategy in Afghanistan and Iraq from 2001 to the present day. It explores the development of contemporary military strategy in the West in the modern age before interrogating its application in the Global War on Terror. The book provides detailed insights into the formulation of military plans by political and military elites in the United States and the United Kingdom for Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Alastair Finlan highlights the challenges posed by each of these unique theatres of operation, the nature of the diverse enemies faced by coalition forces, and the shortcomings in strategic thinking about these campaigns. This fresh perspective on strategy in the West and how it has been applied in recent military campaigns facilitates a deep understanding of how wars have been and will be fought.
Including key terms, concepts, and discussion questions for each chapter, Contemporary Military Strategy and the Global War on Terror is a crucial text in strategic studies and required reading for anyone interested in the new realities of transnational terrorism and twenty-first-century warfare.
ISBN: 9781628927955
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY
Subtitle: US AND UK ARMED FORCES IN AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ 2001-2012 Author: ALASTAIR FINLAN -
THE PALESTINIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT IN LEBANON
₨ 1,495With over 30,000 inhabitants and governed by competing militias, Ayn al-Hilwe in the south of Lebanon is one of the most contested refugee camps in the Middle East. Known as the ‘Capital of the Palestinian Diaspora,’ the camp has endured a long history of internal power struggles and external influence and intervention.
Based on extensive ethnographic research in the camp – focused on the actors who have shaped its modern political trajectory since the rupture caused by the 1993 Oslo Accords – The Palestinian National Movement in Lebanon places the attention on the role of exile leaderships, camp-based militia commanders and shape-shifting networks of patronage in the political landscape of the Palestinian movement in Lebanon. Offering original empirical and theoretical findings, this book will be essential reading for students of the Palestinian movement and refugee politics in the Middle East and beyond.
ISBN: 9780755602834
Publisher: I. B. TAURIS
Subtitle:Author: ERLING LORENTZEN SOGGE
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THE TALIBAN REVIVAL
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ISBN: 9780300216165
Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
Subtitle: VIOLENCE AND EXTREMISM ON THE PAKISTAN-AFGHANISTAN FRONTIER
Author: HASSAN ABBAS -
ENEMIES AND NEIGHBOURS
₨ 4,995In Enemies and Neighbors, Ian Black, who has spent over three decades covering events in the Middle East and is currently a fellow at the London School of Economics, offers a major new history of the Arab-Zionist conflict from 1917 to today, published on the centenary of the Balfour Declaration. Laying the historical groundwork in the final decades of the Ottoman era, when the first Zionist settlers arrived in the Holy Land, Black draws on a wide range of sources–from declassified documents to oral histories to his vivid on-the-ground reporting to recreate the major milestones in the most polarizing conflict of the modern age, and from both sides. In the third year of World War I, the seed was planted for an inevitable clash: Jerusalem governor Izzat Pasha surrendered to British troops and foreign secretary Lord Balfour issued a fateful document promising the establishment of “a national home for the Jewish people.” The chronicle takes us through the Arab rebellion of the 1930s; the long shadow of the Nazi Holocaust; the war of 1948 culminating in Israel’s independence and the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe); the “cursed victory” of the Six-Day War of 1967 and the Palestinian re-awakening; the first and second Intifadas; the Oslo Accords; and other failed peace negotiations and continued violence up to 2017.
ISBN: 9780241004425
Publisher: ALLEN LANE
Subtitle: ARABS AND JEWS IN PALESTINE AND ISRAEL, 1917-2017
Author: IAN BLACK -
THE PASHTUNS
₨ 1,695The Pashtuns are perhaps the largest ethnic group in the world without a country of their own. They inhabit a continuous stretch of land from the Hindu Kush to the Indus, across Pakistan and Afghanistan. Pakistan used the Pashtun-dominated areas in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) as a launching pad against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s and later during the US-led War on Terror. In the process, FATA was kept in a constitutional and informational black hole. The discontent finally burst in 2018 when the extra-judicial killing of a Pashtun youth led to widespread protests. This book by veteran analyst Tilak Devasher fulfills a gap in the geopolitical understanding of South Asia, given the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the shifting power equations in the region.
ISBN: 9789394407633
Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
Subtitle: A CONTESTED HISTORY
Author: TILAK DEVASHER -
PAKISTAN: THE BALOCHISTAN CONUNDRUM
₨ 1,795Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest province, is a complex region fraught with conflict and hostility, ranging from an enduring insurgency and sectarian violence to terror strikes and appalling human rights violations.
In his third book on Pakistan, Tilak Devasher analyses why Balochistan is such a festering sore for Pakistan. With his keen understanding of the region, he traces the roots of the deep-seated Baloch alienation to the princely state of Kalat’s forced accession to Pakistan in 1948. This alienation has been further solidified by the state’s rampant exploitation of the province, leading to massive socio-economic deprivation.
Is the Baloch insurgency threatening the integrity of Pakistan? What is the likelihood of an independent Balochistan? Has the situation in the province become irretrievable for Pakistan? Is there a meeting ground between the mutually opposing narratives of the Pakistani state and the Baloch nationalists?
Devasher examines these issues with a clear and objective mind backed by meticulous research that goes to the heart of the Baloch conundrum.
ISBN: 9789353570705
Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS INDIA
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Author: TILAK DEVASHER