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Forced Circumstances tells the story of a young 22-year old British woman living in 1960s Iran, bringing together a fragmented family amidst the turmoil of the Shah's rule. Married to an Iranian man with two children from a previous marriage, our bold protagonist takes on the complex role of stepmother to kids unaccustomed to affection or stability. Navigating traditions requiring full body coverings and forbidding women to venture out alone, she faces intense challenges as a conspicuous foreigner subject to contempt and harassment. Did she quietly harbour regrets over tying her fate to such complications instead of a more comfortable English life? Would the eruption of Ayatollah Khomeini and Iran's Islamic Revolution provide the leverage needed to hold their Jewish family together? Or drive them further toward resentment and dysfunction in a now-perilous homeland? Relating this family's ambitions, sacrifices, and conflicts across clashing societal upheavals, the memoir serves up lessons in perseverance and perspective. It illuminates the timeless experiences that unfold when different cultures combine under a single roof - and what it truly takes to transform that awkward juxtaposition into a nurturing sense of home.

This is a detailed visual guide of the M60 tank; 340 photos both show the vehicle's design details and help readers visualize the tank's operational history.

A unique perspective on the planning and execution of coalition warfare and the employment of multinational forces during Operation "Iraqi Freedom.

Former RAF Tornado pilot Michael Napier chronicles the action-packed history of the Harrier GR 7/9, and its missions in West Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East and Afghanistan over a 14-year period of ceaseless operations. The Harrier GR 7/9 was at the 'tip of the spear' for the RAF when it came to employing weapons against well-equipped standing armies and irregular forces in the 1990s and during the first decade of the new millennium. Assigned to the Harrier GR 7/9 Force, the aircraft undertook No Fly Zone patrols over northern Iraq, supported UN forces in the Balkans and embarked in Royal Navy carriers to bolster the RAF presence ashore in the Arabian Gulf. Harrier GR 7s also flew from HMS Illustrious over Sierra Leone in 2000 and were involved in the second Gulf War during early 2003 acting as Close Air Support for Coalition forces. Using first-hand accounts from his extensive Service contacts, supported by both official and personal photographs and 30 artwork profiles illustrating the wide range of colours worn and ordnance employed by the 'jump jet', Michael Napier provides a rare insider's look at the deployment of Harrier GR 7/9 up to its withdrawal from RAF service in 2010. Moreover, Napier also covers the numerous upgrades received by the aircraft over the years, from more powerful engines to the creation of the GR 9/9A variants in 2005.

"The exciting narrative account-based on interviews, first-person accounts, and official documents-of a group of Marine reservists during 1991's Operation Desert Shield/Storm"--

Evaporating Suns explores myths from the Arabian Gulfthrough contemporary art. Based on the concept that themythical and the factual are like two sides of the samecoin, the catalogue accompanying the exhibition showsthat myths do not simply convey fictions, but are alsocapable of presenting truth much more vividly than statisticsand facts ever could. The publication showcases thework of 13 contemporary artists from the Arabian peninsula,who explore the folklore and popular myths of theirhomelands, and use cynicism, satire, and fiction to buildtheir universes and rewrite the parallel history of theircontemporary societies. Completed by essays by authorsfrom the region, myths are seen here as opportunitiesfor a new approach to the negotiation of current issuessuch as the environment, gender, and social structures ofpower.Founded in 2018 by the artist Sibylle Piermattei-Geiger and herhusband Rocco Piermattei, KULTURSTIFTUNG BASEL H. GEIGER IKBH.G creates a cultural program with current political or culturalreferences. The Basel exhibition space hosts three topicalart exhibitions a year, each of which goes beyond the conceptsof established institutions.

For Major General Randy West, From Prayer to Victory is a story thatneeds telling. It's about God and about the men and women who wear theuniform of and distinguish their service to our great nation.Gen. West served as the Aviation Combat Element Commander (ACE)for the Fifth Marine Expeditionary Brigade in Operation Desert Storm,which was billed as "the Mother of all Wars!" He looks back on his daysof development, preparation and participation in the conflict and revealsmany accounts of God's presence. He tells of the essential role God playedin hearing and answering the prayers of the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen andMarines and the prayers offered by those Americans on the home front.

The defector, once responsible for Iraq's clandestine nuclear weapons programme, reveals for the first time what the CIA and Iraq desperately want hidden: that Saddam Hussein is devastatingly close to manufacturing nuclear weapons and has every intention of using them.

Trevor Rodin og hans kone, Karen lever et stille liv på kysten i det sydvestlige England. Da en olietanker går på grund tæt på, hvor de bor, bliver der vendt op og ned på Trevors idylliske tilværelse. En enorm mængde olie slipper ud i bugten, og Trevors kone dør som følge af forureningen. Den ellers så stilfærdige mand begiver sig ud på et hævntogt for at finde dem, der bærer skylden for miljøkatastrofen. Hans jagt fører ham til Den Persiske Golf og Gibraltar, hvor det går op for ham, at langt farligere mennesker end han også er ude efter bagmændene.Den engelske journalist og forfatter Hammond Innes (1913-1998) står bag en lang række værker inden for vidt forskellige genrer. Hans forfatterskab rummer både børnebøger, spændingsromaner og rejsebøger. Under anden verdenskrig udgav Innes flere værker baseret på hans egne oplevelser som officer i den britiske hær. Innes’ værker var særdeles populære og flere blev filmatiseret i løbet af 1950'erne.