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Author : Carolyn Nordstrom
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1997-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0812216210
"A deeply researched study into the nature of political violence."--
Author : Edward M. Arnett
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469198026
Summary of A Different kind of War Story- a Quaker conscientious objector in WWII The book carries the writer through his experiences in WWII as a draftee into Civilian Public Service ( CPS ), the official structure for handling conscientious objectors ( COs ) . Among his various assignments to CPS camps and projects are that to the Forest Service Smokejumper unit where he parachuted into remote areas of the Rockies to put out small forest fires before they become big. Also , of special interest is his description of transferring 1, 200 wild horses on a cargo ship to Poland as aid for reestablishing Polish agriculture and some observations on Poland under the Soviet occupation during the early years of the cold war .
Author : Milton E. Miles,Hawthorne Daniel
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y : Doubleday
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UOM:39015013951150
Billy, Navy Wife forms a matched set with A Different Kind of War (See: V63.M47 A3 1999), the chronicle of the World War II service of Wilma Miles' husband, Vice Admiral Milton (Mary) E. Miles.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Afghan War, 2001-.
ISBN : 0160869145
First comprehensive study of the U.S. Army's experience in Afghanistan during the first four years of Operation enduring Freedom (OEF). Focuses on Army operations in the larger Joint and Coalition campaign that evolved between October 2001 and September 2005. Sheds light on the overall course of OEF.
Author : Carolyn Nordstrom
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520239776
Annotation This book captures the human face of the frontlines, revealing both the visible and the hidden realities of contemporary war, power, and international profiteering in the 21st century.
Author : T. R. Fehrenbach
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 905 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Korean War, 1950-1953
ISBN : 9781597978781
Updated with maps, photographs, and battlefield diagrams, this special fiftieth anniversary edition of the classic history of the Korean War is a dramatic and hard-hitting account of the conflict written from the perspective of those who fought it. Partly drawn from official records, operations journals, and histories, it is based largely on the compelling personal narratives of the small-unit commanders and their troops. Unlike any other work on the Korean War, it provides both a clear panoramic overview and a sharply drawn you were there account of American troops in fierce combat against th.
Author : Donald P. Wright
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : UCSD:31822037806965
First comprehensive study of the U.S. Army's experience in Afghanistan during the first four years of Operation enduring Freedom (OEF). Focuses on Army operations in the larger Joint and Coalition campaign that evolved between October 2001 and September 2005. Sheds light on the overall course of OEF.
Author : Tarja Vayrynen
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001-12-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 0719059003
"The book will be of interest to students of conflict and peace studies, both advanced undergraduate and postgraduate, as well as students of International Relations studying conflict resolution."--Jacket.
Author : Larry Heinemann
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307517708
From the moment his first novel was published, Larry Heinemann joined the ranks of the great chroniclers of the Vietnam conflict--Philip Caputo, Tim O’Brien, and Gustav Hasford.In the stripped-down, unsullied patois of an ordinary soldier, draftee Philip Dosier tells the story of his war. Straight from high school, too young to vote or buy himself a drink, he enters a world of mud and heat, blood and body counts, ambushes and firefights. It is here that he embarks on the brutal downward path to wisdom that awaits every soldier. In the tradition of Naked and the Dead and The Thin Red Line, Close Quarters is the harrowing story of how a decent kid from Chicago endures an extraordinary trial-- and returns profoundly altered to a world on the threshold of change.
Author : Margaret MacMillan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735238039
NATIONAL BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED for the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize Thoughtful and brilliant insights into the very nature of war--from the ancient Greeks to modern times--from world-renowned historian Margaret MacMillan. War--its imprint in our lives and our memories--is all around us, from the metaphors we use to the names on our maps. As books, movies, and television series show, we are drawn to the history and depiction of war. Yet we nevertheless like to think of war as an aberration, as the breakdown of the normal state of peace. This is comforting but wrong. War is woven into the fabric of human civilization. In this sweeping new book, international bestselling author and historian Margaret MacMillan analyzes the tangled history of war and society and our complicated feelings towards it and towards those who fight. It explores the ways in which changes in society have affected the nature of war and how in turn wars have changed the societies that fight them, including the ways in which women have been both participants in and the objects of war. MacMillan's new book contains many revelations, such as war has often been good for science and innovation and in the 20th century it did much for the position of women in many societies. But throughout, it forces the reader to reflect on the ways in which war is so intertwined with society, and the myriad reasons we fight.
Author : Donald V Kurtz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429977893
The field of political anthropology is complicated by a breadth and depth of interests that include every kind of ethnographically and historically represented political community, and nearly every kind of recorded political practice, behavior, and organization. To make sense of this array of information, political anthropologists examine political topics and issues in the context of research paradigms that include structural-functionalism, pro-cessualism, political economy, political evolution, and, arguably, post-modernism. In Political Anthropology, Donald V. Kurtz examines how anthropologists think about politics, political organizations, and problems fundamental to political anthropology. He explores the ideas with which they address universal political concerns, the paradigms that direct political research by anthropologists, and political topics of special interest.
Author : Fred Kaplan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781451642650
The "War Stories" columnist for Slate presents the inside story of a small group of soldier-scholars who have significantly changed the ways the Pentagon does business and the American military fights wars, drawing on interviews with top contributors to reveal the origins of revolutionary ideas and how they have overcome formidable internal resistance.
Author : Julie Frederikse
Publisher : Boston : Beacon Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015022193208
A history that follows the resistance to the apartheid system from 1976 through 1986. Includes advertisements, newspaper clippings, transcripts and interviews, and photos.
Author : John A. Lynn
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300189988
An accessible and comprehensive history of terrorism from ancient times to the present In the years since 9/11, there has been a massive surge in interest surrounding the study of terrorism. This volume applies distinguished military historian John Lynn’s lifetime of research and teaching experience to this difficult topic. As a form of violence that implies the threat of future violence, terrorism breeds insecurity, vulnerability, and a desire for retribution that has far-reaching consequences. Lynn distinguishes between the paralyzing effect of fear and the potentially dangerous and chaotic effects of moral outrage and righteous retaliation guiding counterterrorism efforts. In this accessible and comprehensive text, Lynn traces the evolution of terrorism over time, exposing its constants and contrasts. In doing so, he contextualizes this violence and argues that a knowledge of the history and nature of terrorism can temper its psychological effects, and can help us more accurately and carefully assess threats as well as develop informed and measured responses.
Author : Marshall Harrison
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1456834975
From retired Air Force pilot Marshall Harrison comes a remarkable memoir of aerial warfare in Vietnam. In his third combat tour, Harrison found himself “converted” from the high performance world of jets to the awkward-looking OV-10 Bronco and assigned as a FAC — forward air controller. A captivating tale of valor, brotherhood, and patriotism unravels in the pages of A Lonely Kind of War, Forward Air Controller, Vietnam, a posthumous release by this published author through Xlibris. Harrison is a born story teller. There is excitement, suspense, and humor in this account of the life of a FAC. They were a small group of dedicated pilots flying lightly armed prop-driven aircrafts in South Vietnam. Considered to be the eyes and ears of the attack aircraft, their job was to fly low and slow, find, fix, and direct airstrikes against an elusive enemy concealed by the heavy rainforest and jungles, an area the FACs referred to as “the Green Square”. The flying scenes are riveting: learning to fly the maneuverable Bronco, clearing in the “fast-movers” to drop massive 750-lb bombs without causing injury to the “friendlies”, and conducting covert operation into Cambodia---“over the fence with the mad men in the green beanies”. On one of these secret missions, he is shot down and spends a harrowing night in the jungle. FACs lived with the troops in the field and flew from unimproved airstrips; they virtually controlled the aerial battlefields of South Vietnam. Their losses were staggering and they usually died alone.