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An overview of Swansea's experience during World War II, set out in a single volume for the first time. The port and industries of Swansea were key targets for the Nazis. From the start, the town prepared for the worst with air-raid shelters, anti-aircraft guns, barrage balloons and efforts to fortify against attack by sea or air. With Britain heading into total war, this book looks at the impact of conscription on both men and women, food rat...

Caged Bird Syndrome: Life after LIFE is the first of several series featuring a collective work of original mixed media fine art and poetry by Dexter Bernard Lewis Jr., also known as the artist RuBelluz El'Don. The title Caged Bird Syndrome is an allegorical representation of the soul of man confined to a cage of flesh, a figurative way to convey a verbal image for the declining deprivation of rights, privileges, and restrictions on every aspe...

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The astonishing story of Henry Coombe-Tennant (1913-89), who served in the British Army in World War II, escaping from a POW camp, joining Special Forces and aiding the French Resistance before working for the British Secret Service in Baghdad and ending his days as a Benedictine monk!

Recent events have made an understanding of the turmoil in the Middle East more important than ever. In these essays, Bernard Lewis, a leading expert on Islam, gives essential background on Middle Eastern conflicts with the West and shows how Islam - from its first expansion to its interpretation by Saddam Hussein and other extremists - has always been inextricably linked to the Western world.

Lewis here collects his essays on the interaction of the Islamic world with the West. Dating back to the Middle Ages, this collection focuses in particular on each side's perception of the other, the impact of the West on the Middle East in modern times, and the Islamic responses to Western dominance.

Hiristiyanligin baslangicindan günümüze Ortadogunun iki bin yillik tarihini dünyaca ünlü tarihci Bernard Lewisin bilimsel bir yaklasimla ve etkileyici bir dille anlattigi Ortadogu kitabi cikti.Üc büyük dinin ve pekcok uygarligin dogum yeri olan Ortadogu bölgesi tarih boyunca nice savaslara, nice göclere, nice gelisimlere, degisimlere sahit olmus, ev sahipligi yapmistir. Kimi zaman uygarliklari birlestiren köprü görevini üstlenmis kimi zamansa ...

This book brings together 11 essays on Islamic political thought by Bernard Lewis, the acknowledged doyen of Middle Eastern studies. Few historians have garnered such a broad audience as Lewis, whose works are widely read by scholars, politicians, journalists, and the general public.This latest collection of essays is replete with the incisive historical insight for which Lewis is known. With erudition, eloquence, and wit, he provides a focuse...

Istanbul ve Osmanli Imparatorlugu Medeniyeti Osmanli medeniyetini ve baskentini baslica yönleriyle anlatan bir eser. Lewis, Konstantinopolisin 1453te fethedilisini ve 1556dan itibaren Türk tarihini kisaca özetledikten sonra saltanati, yönetici gruplari, sarayi ve saray görevlilerini, ulemayi, dervis tarikatlarini, Osmanli nesrini ve siirini anlatiyor.-Middle East JournalBu eser, büyüleyici Istanbul sehri ve Islam dönemi tarihine cok degerli bi...

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The eleventh-century Muslim world was a great civilization while Europe lay slumbering in the Dark Ages. Slowly, inevitably, Europe and Islam came together, through trade and war, crusade and diplomacy. The ebb and flow between these two worlds for seven hundred years, illuminated here by a brilliant historian, is one of the great sagas of world history.

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New in paperback This documentary history uses the editor's own translations of original source materials to present the sweeping civilization of Islam in all its vastness and glory.

Several civilizations have risen, flourished, and fallen in the valley of the Nile, each with its own religion, language, culture, institutions, and style of life. Yet beneath them all a basic unity persisted - the love of tales and the manner of telling them. This work covers such tales.

Brings together eleven essays on Islamic political thought by Bernard Lewis, a scholar in middle eastern studies. This title provides a treatment of fundamental Islamic political terms. It also provide the background that is essential to understanding Islamic civilization, and consequently, the troubled history of its relations with the West.

Race and Slavery in the Middle East illuminates the legacy of slavery in the region where it lasted longest, from the days of warrior slaves and palace eunuchs and concubines to the final drive for abolition. Illustrated with outstanding reproductions of striking artwork, it casts a new light on this critical part of the world, and on the nature and interrelation of slavery and racial prejudice.

In this landmark volume, an authority on the Middle East examines the anguished reaction of the Islamic world as it tries to understand why things have changed, how they have been overtaken, overshadowed, and to an increasing extent dominated by the West. 15 illustrations. Map.

Our leading historian of Islam takes a revealing look at the Muslim-Christian conflict in the age of discovery. Bernard Lewis's balanced, insightful account of this pivotal era transcends the recent polemics about 1492, providing readers with a striking portrait of an age often obscured by the anger and complacency of today.