And Peace Never Came

Author : Elisabeth M. Raab
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780889206403

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And Peace Never Came by Elisabeth M. Raab Pdf

“It is Easter Sunday, April 1945, early in the morning, maybe just dawn. We stand still, like frozen grey statues. Us. Seven hundred and thirty women, wrapped in wet, grey, threadbare blankets, standing in the rain. Our blankets hang over our heads, drape down to the soil. We hold them closed with our hands from the inside, leaving only a small opening to peer out, so that we save the precious warmth of our breath.” (from Chapter 5) So begins the author’s sojourn, her search for freedom that begins with the chaotic barrenness in which she found herself after her liberation on Easter Sunday, April 1945, and takes her across several continents and half a lifetime. Raab paints a brief yet moving picture of her idyllic life before her internment and the shock and the horrors of Auschwitz, but it is in the images of life after her liberation, that Raab imparts her most poignant story — a story told in a clear, almost sparse, always honest style, a story of the brutal, and, at times, the beautiful facts of human nature. This book will appeal to a number of audiences — to readers interested in human nature under the most trying circumstances, to historians of World War II or Jewish history, to veterans and their families who lived through World War II, and to those interested in politics and the evils of political extremism. Shortlisted for the 1998 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-fiction. Winner of the 1999 Jewish Book Committee award for best Holocaust memoir.

Author : Juliana Barr
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 080786773X

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Peace Came in the Form of a Woman by Juliana Barr Pdf

Revising the standard narrative of European-Indian relations in America, Juliana Barr reconstructs a world in which Indians were the dominant power and Europeans were the ones forced to accommodate, resist, and persevere. She demonstrates that between the 1690s and 1780s, Indian peoples including Caddos, Apaches, Payayas, Karankawas, Wichitas, and Comanches formed relationships with Spaniards in Texas that refuted European claims of imperial control. Barr argues that Indians not only retained control over their territories but also imposed control over Spaniards. Instead of being defined in racial terms, as was often the case with European constructions of power, diplomatic relations between the Indians and Spaniards in the region were dictated by Indian expressions of power, grounded in gendered terms of kinship. By examining six realms of encounter--first contact, settlement and intermarriage, mission life, warfare, diplomacy, and captivity--Barr shows that native categories of gender provided the political structure of Indian-Spanish relations by defining people's identity, status, and obligations vis-a-vis others. Because native systems of kin-based social and political order predominated, argues Barr, Indian concepts of gender cut across European perceptions of racial difference.

Author : Leo Tolstoi
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 1122 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732632831

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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoi Pdf

Reproduction of the original: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoi

Author : Jeremiah BURROUGHS (Puritan Divine.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1653
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021093747

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Irenicum, to the Lovers of Truth and Peace. Heart-divisions opened in the causes and evils of them: with cautions that we may not be hurt by them, and endeavours to heal them by Jeremiah BURROUGHS (Puritan Divine.) Pdf

Author : Rakhi Kapoor
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781646789320

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Live In Peace While They R.I.P by Rakhi Kapoor Pdf

Sooner or later, all of us have to lose a loved one. Each one of us has this one larger-than-life- person in our life. This person is special and vital to our life source. It could be a parent, a lover, a spouse, a friend, a mentor, a family member or a pet. After the demise of this iconic person, we are shattered. Immense grief takes over. The pain makes it near impossible to move ahead in life. Everybody deals with the aftermath of losing a loved one some time in their life. This book is an attempt to help prepare, ease the pain and cope with an irreplaceable loss. Embark on a journey in search of peace. Find freedom from the pain of losing the one person who means the world to you. Convert the grief into a realization that he or she will always be around. They will find a place to stay within you and become an inseparable part of you.

Author : E. C. Laurence
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : EAN:8596547047834

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A Nurse's Life in War and Peace by E. C. Laurence Pdf

This invaluable work presents a precise and simple account of a nurse's career. It discusses the difficulties they have to face and the problems they have to solve during wartime. Nurses play a crucial role in Hospitals. They interact with patients, understand them and take exceptional care of them and administer medicines. The successful partnership between a nurse and doctor brings the best outcomes for their patients. Therefore, it is essential to acknowledge their hard work and understand their duties and difficulties. Those who want to know something about a nurse's life and work will find this writing an unemotional, factual, and compelling narrative.

Author : Ricky Hatton
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781447245513

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War and Peace by Ricky Hatton Pdf

THE MUST-READ AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ONE OF BRITAIN'S BEST-LOVED BOXERS; NOW HITTING THE RING ON DANCING ON ICE 2024 On 24 November 2012, four-time World Champion boxer Ricky Hatton dropped to his knees, felled by a sickening punch to the body in his first comeback fight in almost three years. Gasping for breath, down and out, it was then that something extraordinary happened: 20,000 fans began to sing his name. Ricky Hatton: War and Peace is the story of one of British boxing’s true icons. From a Manchester council estate to the bright lights of Las Vegas, Ricky Hatton experienced incredible highs in his career, including one of the greatest ever wins by a British boxer, over the IBF Light Welterweight champion Kostya Tszyu. But heavy defeats to two legends of the ring, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, brought him quickly down to earth to face a new set of battles against depression, drink and drugs. Written with his trademark honesty and wit, this is the inspiring story of a charismatic, funny, straight-talking fighter who boxing fans have always taken to their hearts; a man who has survived a lifetime of wars both in and out of the ring, and who only now is finding something close to peace.

Author : Nigel Hamilton
Publisher : FDR at War
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN : 9780544876804

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War and Peace by Nigel Hamilton Pdf

Going to See Stalin -- Stonewall Roosevelt -- Triumph in Tehran -- Who Will Command Overlord? -- In Sickness and in Health -- D-Day -- the July Plot -- Quebec -- Yalta -- Warm Springs.

Author : Malin Akebo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317204121

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Ceasefire Agreements and Peace Processes by Malin Akebo Pdf

This book analyses and compares ceasefire agreements as part of peace processes in intrastate armed conflicts. Research repeatedly underscores the importance of ceasefire agreements in peace processes but suggests that they can influence such processes in fundamentally different ways. However, despite contradictory expectations, remarkably few studies have so far been devoted to systematic and in-depth analysis of ceasefire agreements in contemporary intrastate armed conflicts. This book contributes to filling this gap by using a process-oriented conflict dynamics approach to analyse and explain how ceasefire agreements are being influenced by and in turn influences the broader dynamics of peace processes. Empirically, the book focuses on the armed conflicts in Aceh (Indonesia) and Sri Lanka. Based on document studies and 57 interviews with key actors, it presents comparative insights and in-depth knowledge about ceasefire agreements in different contextual settings. The book problematizes the common assumption in the literature that ceasefire agreements create momentum in peace processes and pave the way to peace, and it provides a more nuanced analysis and understanding based on two empirical cases analysed within a comparative framework. In contrast to conventional wisdom, it demonstrates how ceasefires on the contrary also can have negative implications on peace processes. This book will be of much interest to students of conflict resolution, peace studies, intra-state conflict, security studies and IR in general.

Author : Ahmed Aboul Gheit
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781617978944

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Witness to War and Peace by Ahmed Aboul Gheit Pdf

The son of a fighter pilot, raised in an air force barracks, Ahmed Aboul Gheit was privy to the confidential meetings, undisclosed memoranda, and battle secrets of Egyptian diplomacy for many decades. After a stint at military college, he began his career at the Egyptian embassy in Cyprus before later going on to become permanent representative to the United Nations and eventually, Egypt’s minister of foreign affairs under Hosni Mubarak. In this fascinating memoir, Aboul Gheit looks back on the 1973 October War and the diplomatic efforts that followed it, revealing the secrets of his long career for the first time. In vivid detail he describes the deliberations of Egypt’s political leadership in the run-up to the war, including the process of articulating Egypt’s war aims, the secret communications between President Sadat and U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the role of the Soviet Union during the war, and the unfolding of events on the battlefront in Sinai. He then gives a detailed and deeply personal account of the arduous process of peacemaking that followed, covering the 1973 Geneva Conference, the 1977 Mena House Conference, Sadat’s visit to Israel, the 1978 Camp David Accords, and the subsequent 1979 Egyptian–Israeli Peace Treaty. From Sadat’s impassioned address to his cabinet on the eve of the war to delegations ripping out the wiring at their respective hotels, from Jimmy Carter cycling through the bungalows at Camp David to Yitzhak Shamir’s blunt admissions to his Arab counterparts in the 1991 Madrid conference, Aboul Gheit offers an information-packed, first-person account of a turbulent time in Middle Eastern history.

Author : Metta Spencer
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739144725

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The Russian Quest for Peace and Democracy by Metta Spencer Pdf

In The Russian Quest for Peace and Democracy, Metta Spencer recounts the political and military changes that have occurred in Russia up to mid-2010. Using hundreds of interviews she conducted with officials, dissidents, and liberal intellectuals, she describes the various groups, forces, and individuals that worked to liberalize the totalitarian Soviet Union and its fellow nations behind the Iron Curtain, and which ultimately brought about the dissolution of those repressive governments. Spencer identifies four political orientations to describe Soviet society: 'Sheep,' ordinary citizens who accepted the undemocratic regime they lived in without challenging it; 'Dinosaurs,' hard-line Communist officials; 'Termites,' including Mikhail Gorbachev and his advisers and government; and 'Barking Dogs,' a few hundred dissidents who made 'a lot of noise' protesting, hoping to awaken a grass-roots demand for democracy. The strange rivalry between the Termites and Barking Dogs would ultimately doom perestroika. Spencer's research dispels the widely-held perception that US President Ronald Reagan 'won' the Cold War by standing firm until the Soviet Union 'blinked first.' There are vitally important lessons to be learned from the Soviet period, about how to assist citizens of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes around the world. The irony is that transnational civil society organizations, major sources of the progress in Soviet Russia, are still needed today in authoritarian Russia, under Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, for totalitarianism remains a potential social trap. In The Russian Quest for Peace and Democracy, Metta Spencer suggests new ways of building urgently-needed social capital in today's Russia, where democracy has yet to flourish.

Author : Larry E. Tise,Jeffrey J. Crow
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469634609

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New Voyages to Carolina by Larry E. Tise,Jeffrey J. Crow Pdf

New Voyages to Carolina offers a bold new approach for understanding and telling North Carolina's history. Recognizing the need for such a fresh approach and reflecting a generation of recent scholarship, eighteen distinguished authors have sculpted a broad, inclusive narrative of the state's evolution over more than four centuries. The volume provides new lenses and provocative possibilities for reimagining the state's past. Transcending traditional markers of wars and elections, the contributors map out a new chronology encompassing geological realities; the unappreciated presence of Indians, blacks, and women; religious and cultural influences; and abiding preferences for industrial development within the limits of "progressive" politics. While challenging traditional story lines, the authors frame a candid tale of the state's development. Contributors: Dorothea V. Ames, East Carolina University Karl E. Campbell, Appalachian State University James C. Cobb, University of Georgia Peter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Stephen Feeley, McDaniel College Jerry Gershenhorn, North Carolina Central University Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Yale University Patrick Huber, Missouri University of Science and Technology Charles F. Irons, Elon University David Moore, Warren Wilson College Michael Leroy Oberg, State University of New York, College at Geneseo Stanley R. Riggs, East Carolina University Richard D. Starnes, Western Carolina University Carole Watterson Troxler, Elon University Bradford J. Wood, Eastern Kentucky University Karin Zipf, East Carolina University

Author : Seema Shekhawat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107041875

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Gender, Conflict and Peace in Kashmir by Seema Shekhawat Pdf

"Discusses the role of women in militancy in Kashmir from a historical perspective"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Charlotte Maria Tucker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600062524

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War and peace, by A.L.O.E. by Charlotte Maria Tucker Pdf

Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Om Books International
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789352763368

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The Originals: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Pdf

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy chronicles the French invasion of Russia and its impact on Tsarist Russia, through the stories of five families—the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys, the Rostovs, the Kuragins, and the Drubetskoys. The Russian Messenger published portions of the manuscript, titled The Year 1805, as a serial from 1865 to 1867. Dissatisfied with the published version, Tolstoy extensively rewrote the novel between 1866 and 1869. After his wife, Sophia Tolstaya, copied as many as seven ‘separate’ manuscripts, the author considered it for publication, again. Tolstoy finally changed the name to War and Peace; it is believed that he borrowed the title from Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s 1861 book, La Guerre et la Paix. War and Peace has been translated into several languages and is regarded as Tolstoy’s finest literary achievement.