Colonel Gaddafi's Hat
Author : Alex Crawford
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 16,13 MB
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780007467297
Colonel Gaddafi's Hat
Author : Alex Crawford
Publisher : Collins Publishers
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,28 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Libya
ISBN : 9780007467396
Book Description
Alex Crawford's daring reports were beamed across news networks from around the globe, and against a dramatic backdrop of celebratory gunfire, Alex and her team showed the world the final symbolic moments of the fall of a regime that had held power for more than 40 years.
Gaddafi's Harem
Author : Annick Cojean
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 25,64 MB
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0802121721
Book Description
Follows a fifteen-year-old girl who, after presenting Gaddafi with a bouquet of flowers during a visit to her school, was summoned to his compound where she, along with a number of young women, was violently abused, raped, and degraded.
The Colonel and I
Author : Daad Sharab
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 27,41 MB
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 152679599X
Book Description
An insider’s view of Libya’s fallen dictator by the woman who served as his longtime troubleshooter and confidante. For almost half of Muammar Gaddafi’s forty-two-year reign, Daad Sharab was his trusted confidante—the only outsider to be admitted to his inner circle. Down the years many have written about Gaddafi, but none have been so close. Now, years after the violent death of “the Colonel,” she gives a unique insight into the character of a man of many contradictions: tyrant, hero, terrorist, freedom fighter, womanizer, father figure. Her account is packed with fascinating anecdotes and revelations that show Gaddafi in a surprising new light. Daad witnessed the ruthlessness of a flawed leader who is blamed for ordering the Lockerbie bombing, and she became the go-between for the only man convicted of the atrocity. She does not seek to sugar-coat Gaddafi’s legacy, preferring readers to judge for themselves, but also observed a hidden, more humane side. The leader was a troubled father and compassionate statesman who kept sight of his humble Bedouin roots, and was capable of great acts of generosity. The author also pulls no punches about how Western politicians such as Tony Blair, George Bush, and Hillary Clinton shamelessly wooed his oil-rich regime. Despite her warnings the dictator was ultimately consumed by megalomania, and Daad was caught up in his dramatic fall. Falsely accused by Gaddafi’s notorious secret service of being both the Colonel’s mistress and a spy, she faced betrayal and imprisonment—and, caught up in the Arab Spring uprising, she also faced a fight for her life as bombs rained down on Libya.
Sandstorm
Author : Lindsey Hilsum
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 28,46 MB
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0143123602
Book Description
A vivid and astonishing reckoning with the Gaddafi regime, from one of our most acclaimed and gifted international journalists The fall of Muammar Gaddafi, who was for forty-two years the great autocrat-madman on the world stage, is among the past decade’s most dramatic turning points. In Lindsey Hilsum, a renowned British correspondent for over a quarter century, the end of the Gaddafi regime has found its definitive chronicler. Following six individuals living through this time of unprecedented danger and opportunity, Hilsum tells the full story of the Libyan revolution—from the uprising of the early months through the toppling of Gaddafi’s regime and his savage death in the desert. For the paperback edition, Hilsum brings her analysis up to the present day—with new material on the killing of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, the July elections, and the Benghazi anti-militia demonstrations—and explores what the future of Libya will bring.
Red War
Author : Vince Flynn
Publisher : Pocket Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 11,69 MB
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1501190601
Book Description
This instant #1 New York Times bestseller and “modern techno-thriller” (New York Journal of Books) follows Mitch Rapp in a race to prevent Russia’s gravely ill leader from starting a full-scale war with NATO. When Russian president Maxim Krupin discovers that he has inoperable brain cancer, he’s determined to cling to power. His first task is to kill or imprison any of his countrymen who can threaten him. Soon, though, his illness becomes serious enough to require a more dramatic diversion—war with the West. Upon learning of Krupin’s condition, CIA director Irene Kennedy understands that the US is facing an opponent who has nothing to lose. The only way to avoid a confrontation that could leave millions dead is to send Mitch Rapp to Russia under impossibly dangerous orders. With the Kremlin’s entire security apparatus hunting him, he must find and kill a man many have deemed the most powerful in the world. Success means averting a war that could consume all of Europe. But if his mission is discovered, Rapp will plunge Russia and America into a conflict that neither will survive in “a timely, explosive novel that shows yet again why Mitch Rapp is the best hero the thriller genre has to offer” (The Real Book Spy).
Justice in Conflict
Author : Mark Kersten
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 33,98 MB
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 0191082945
Book Description
What happens when the international community simultaneously pursues peace and justice in response to ongoing conflicts? What are the effects of interventions by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the wars in which the institution intervenes? Is holding perpetrators of mass atrocities accountable a help or hindrance to conflict resolution? This book offers an in-depth examination of the effects of interventions by the ICC on peace, justice and conflict processes. The 'peace versus justice' debate, wherein it is argued that the ICC has either positive or negative effects on 'peace', has spawned in response to the Court's propensity to intervene in conflicts as they still rage. This book is a response to, and a critical engagement with, this debate. Building on theoretical and analytical insights from the fields of conflict and peace studies, conflict resolution, and negotiation theory, the book develops a novel analytical framework to study the Court's effects on peace, justice, and conflict processes. This framework is applied to two cases: Libya and northern Uganda. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, the core of the book examines the empirical effects of the ICC on each case. The book also examines why the ICC has the effects that it does, delineating the relationship between the interests of states that refer situations to the Court and the ICC's institutional interests, arguing that the negotiation of these interests determines which side of a conflict the ICC targets and thus its effects on peace, justice, and conflict processes. While the effects of the ICC's interventions are ultimately and inevitably mixed, the book makes a unique contribution to the empirical record on ICC interventions and presents a novel and sophisticated means of studying, analyzing, and understanding the effects of the Court's interventions in Libya, northern Uganda - and beyond.
The Axis of Evil Cookbook
Author : Gill Partington
Publisher : Saqi Books - Saqi Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,86 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Dictators
ISBN : 9780863566318
Book Description
"The existence of Gaddafi is closely related to the historical development of humanity itself."--Colonel Gaddafi Ever wondered what an Axis of Evil leader eats after a day spent threatening neighboring countries with weapons of mass destruction? This unique cookbook tells you how to prepare these dishes in the safety of your own home. Present a genuine dog stew for that special dinner party and play "spot the Elvis impersonator" among Axis leaders. Both funny and informative, this book also includes cultural anecdotes and political insights. Gill Partington is thirty-five years old and lives in North London with her cat. The cat is not a devotee of Gill's cooking.
Dictatorland
Author : Paul Kenyon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 17,6 MB
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1784972150
Book Description
A Financial Times Book of the Year 'Jaw-dropping' Daily Express 'Grimly fascinating' Financial Times 'Humane, timely, accessible and well-researched' Irish Times The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica in the jungles of the Ivory Coast. The austere, incorruptible leader who has shut Eritrea off from the world in a permanent state of war and conscripted every adult into the armed forces. In Equatorial Guinea, the paranoid despot who thought Hitler was the saviour of Africa and waged a relentless campaign of terror against his own people. The Libyan army officer who authored a new work of political philosophy, The Green Book, and lived in a tent with a harem of female soldiers, running his country like a mafia family business. And behind these almost incredible stories of fantastic violence and excess lie the dark secrets of Western greed and complicity, the insatiable taste for chocolate, oil, diamonds and gold that has encouraged dictators to rule with an iron hand, siphoning off their share of the action into mansions in Paris and banks in Zurich and keeping their people in dire poverty.
The Real North Korea
Author : Andrei Lankov
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 32,95 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 0199390037
Book Description
In The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analysis for the overheated rhetoric surrounding this opaque police state. Based on vast expertise, this book reveals how average North Koreans live, how their leaders rule, and how both survive
