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1) Pakistan
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Series
Publisher
Big Buddy Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Pakistan--home of the mountain peak K2 and birthplace of some of the earliest human settlements along the Indus River! Informative, easy-to-read text and oversize scenic photos draw in readers as they learn about Pakistan's history, government, major cities, land features, natural resources, culture, and more!"--
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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A collection of intense tales of turmoil and tragedy that explores the reverberations of Partition through generations, from a mapmaker's gamble to a grandfather who cannot speak of what he escaped as a young boy.
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Series
Very short introductions volume 689
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The region of the Indus Valley has a 4,000-year-old history, being the site of one of the earliest riverine civilizations in the world, while the modern nation of Pakistan as we know it was created as a postcolonial homeland for the Muslims of British India. This Very Short Introduction looks at Pakistan as one of the two nation-states of the Indian sub-continent that emerged in 1947. Pippa Virdee reaches into the ancient past to understand the complex...
8) Countdown Bin Laden: the untold story of the 247-day hunt to bring the mastermind of 9/11 to justice
Author
Series
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Chronicles the final months of the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
August 27, 2010. Three CIA officers inform CIA Director Leon Panett that agents have tracked a courier with deep Al Qaeda ties to a heavily protected fortress at the end of a dead-end street in Abbottabad, Pakistan. It may be the end of the race to apprehend and bring to justice the mastermind of the most consequential terrorist attack in American history: Osama bin Laden. Wallace delivers...
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Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"In this stirring chronicle of the quest undertaken by fearless young British officers in Queen Victoria's Army to secure India's northwest frontier, Charles Allen brings to life one of the most extraordinary chapters in British colonial history. At the same time, he illuminates the background to the ensuing "Great Game," in which Europe's imperial powers squared off in an international tournament to gain control over all of Central Asia." "Drawing...
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