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Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of the 2003 war of the United States and its allies against Saddam Hussein and Iraq, including historical reasons for the conflict and its political and economic ramifications.
2) Iraq
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Each nation of the world has its own unique story. "The History of Nations series tells these stories through the use of primary and secondary sources. Each anthology traces the history of a separate country from its earliest origins through all its birth pangs to its current status in the world. Invasions, revolutions, wars, and other social and political upheavals come to life in these fascinating volumes. The reader will witness the rise and fall...
10) Iraq
Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Maps and text chronicle the history of the Middle Eastern nation located in a region believed to be the birthplace of civilization.
Author
Publisher
LP
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"How were new Yazidi immigrants working from a Super 8 motel in Maryland able to help defeat the warriors of Islamic State on the battlefield? This is the extraordinary tale of how a few American-Yazidis in Washington, DC, mobilized a small, forgotten office in the American government to intervene militarily in Iraq to avert a devastating humanitarian crisis. While Islamic State massacred many thousands of Yazidi men and sold thousands more Yazidi...
16) Belshazzar
Author
Publisher
Doubleday, Doran
Pub. Date
1930.
Language
English
Description
Ramose is the offspring of an Egyptian Pharaoh and a Greek woman. Brought up in a life of luxury he is catapulted into a life of adventure, which leads him to the fall of Babylon at the hand of the Persian Empire under Cyrus. The last novel written by Haggard; finished just before his death and published posthumously.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this thriller set in the Middle East of 1914, Somerville, a British archaeologist, and his team are excavating a long-buried Assyrian palace when an American geologist from an oil company posing as an archaeologist arrives one day and insinuates himself into Somerville's group. But he's not the only one working undercover to stake a claim on Iraq's rich oil fields.