Bagpipes in Babylon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bagpipes in Babylon write by Glencairn Balfour Paul. This book was released on 2005-12-20. Bagpipes in Babylon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With rich anecdotal detail and enjoyable witty style, this is an autobiography of a distinguished diplomat that provides new insights into the background of Middle Eastern diplomacy in the twentieth century. "Saddam seized me by the shoulders and marched me by his side in a sort of embrace, saying, 'Can't you British understand that there is nothing in the world I detest more than a Russian Communist - except an Iraqi one? Get that through to your stupid Government.'" That was late 1969 as Iraq was tilting towards Moscow during the Cold War. The occasion was the author's first audience with Saddam. In his long and distinguished career in the Arab world, Glencairn Balfour Paul witnessed momentous changes in the region. "Bagpipes in Babylon" describes the colourful experiences of his working life including his acquaintance with Wilfred Thesiger, his friendship in Beirut with Kim Philby, and his close relations with King Hussein of Jordan. Following retirement, he embarked on a second career in academia and his travels continued. "Bagpipes in Babylon' is a rich and entertaining account of a lifetime in the Arab world, and beyond.
Deeper Than Indigo
Deeper Than Indigo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Deeper Than Indigo write by Jenny Balfour-Paul. This book was released on 2015. Deeper Than Indigo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Set on the edges of time, this intriguing odyssey, part biography, part memoir and part historical detective story, has a magical extra dimension. Tracking Thomas, an elusive young man of the past, the author follows him out of the British Library to the China Seas and remote islands of Polynesia, to Indias plantation lands in the days of the British Raj, and through the deserts of Arabia. Finding she is often in her own footsteps too, can she span what seems an unbridgeable gap between the known and the unknown and solve a mystery? A unique and enthralling love story."--Publisher's website
Levant
Levant - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Levant write by Philip Mansel. This book was released on 2011-05-24. Levant available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Not so long ago, in certain cities on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean, Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived and flourished side by side. What can the histories of these cities tell us? Levant is a book of cities. It describes three former centers of great wealth, pleasure, and freedom—Smyrna, Alexandria, and Beirut—cities of the Levant region along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean. In these key ports at the crossroads of East and West, against all expectations, cosmopolitanism and nationalism flourished simultaneously. People freely switched identities and languages, released from the prisons of religion and nationality. Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived and worshipped as neighbors.Distinguished historian Philip Mansel is the first to recount the colorful, contradictory histories of Smyrna, Alexandria, and Beirut in the modern age. He begins in the early days of the French alliance with the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century and continues through the cities' mid-twentieth-century fates: Smyrna burned; Alexandria Egyptianized; Beirut lacerated by civil war.Mansel looks back to discern what these remarkable Levantine cities were like, how they differed from other cities, why they shone forth as cultural beacons. He also embarks on a quest: to discover whether, as often claimed, these cities were truly cosmopolitan, possessing the elixir of coexistence between Muslims, Christians, and Jews for which the world yearns. Or, below the glittering surface, were they volcanoes waiting to erupt, as the catastrophes of the twentieth century suggest? In the pages of the past, Mansel finds important messages for the fractured world of today.
British Policy in the Persian Gulf, 1961-1968
British Policy in the Persian Gulf, 1961-1968 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook British Policy in the Persian Gulf, 1961-1968 write by Helene von Bismarck. This book was released on 2013-03-25. British Policy in the Persian Gulf, 1961-1968 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An in-depth analysis of Great Britain's policy in the oil-rich Persian Gulf region during the last years of British imperialism in the area, covering the period from the independence of Kuwait to the decision of the Wilson Government to withdraw from the Gulf.
The Story of the Bagpipe
The Story of the Bagpipe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Story of the Bagpipe write by William Henry Grattan Flood. This book was released on 1911. The Story of the Bagpipe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
