Resultados para "Barack Obama" en Guerras y conflictos

Reconstruction begins where, for most Americans, the story of the Civil War ends: The North is victorious and slavery is abolished. But what happened next was one of the most important decades in American history, a moment when our country grappled with its original sin and imagined — and briefly enacted — a more perfect union.

Wo liegt der Ursprung der existenziellen Krisen, mit denen die Welt heute kämpft? Das 21. Jahrhundert wurde von vielen Menschen mit Optimismus begrüßt. Doch nun steckt die Demokratie in einer existenziellen Krise, weltweit wüten Kriege, die Erde heizt sich auf. Philipp Blom legt die Ursachen dieses dramatischen Wandels zwischen 9/11 und Russlands Annexion der Krim frei.

Eagerly anticipated in the wake of their national best seller Cobra II (“The superb, must-read military history of the invasion of Iraq”—Thomas L. Friedman), The Endgame is Michael R. Gordon and General Bernard E. Trainor’s most ambitious and news-breaking book to date. A peerless work...

'Bette Dam was one of the very few Western journalists to gain real access to the Taliban movement' - The Guardian 'Bette Dam's biography/hunt for the truth behind the figure of Mullah Omar will change everything you thought you know about Afghanistan.' - Victor Blue, fellow at the New America...

From the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a piercing account of how the contemporary Arab world came to be riven by catastrophe since the 2003 United States invasion of Iraq. In 2011, a series of anti-government uprisings shook the Middle East and North Africa in what would become known...

The Sunday Times bestseller THE STORY OF BRITAIN during the long reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Find out how Britain changed in this entrancing, lively portrait of Britain’s Elizabethan Age by bestselling writer and broadcaster Andrew Marr Britain changed fundamentally during the Queen’s long...