Children Are Civilians Too

Author : Heinrich Böll
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PSU:000032461824

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Children are Civilians Too by Heinrich Böll Pdf

"These twenty-six stories illustrate Heinrich Boll's finely nuanced storytelling at its best. In stunning portraits of ordinary people, Boll creates a rich tapestry of the dark years in postwar Germany. There are tales of soldiers on leave, listlessly visiting bars and brothels; stories of children rendered with a simplicity that belies their emotional impact; and stark vignettes of people struggling to re-make their lives against the ruined landscape of war-devastated towns and villages. Representing Boll's youthful beginnings, this collection introduces the themes that inform his life-long literary accomplishments and the wit, intelligence, and lyricism that made Boll one of contemporary Europe's most acclaimed writers."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Jenny Kuper
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Law
ISBN : 0198264852

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International Law Concerning Child Civilians in Armed Conflict by Jenny Kuper Pdf

Each year, many thousands of child civilians are killed, injured, or otherwise physically and psychologically harmed as a result of armed conflicts. There is a considerable body of international law which aims to minimise the harm inflicted on these children, and yet it is little known, orobserved. This book is the first major international legal text to focus exclusively on child civilians. It addresses three main questions: (1) what are the precise rules incorporated in the pertinent body of law, and what are its implementation mechanisms? (2) how effective is it (with reference torecent conflicts involving Iraq) in helping to achieve some protection for child civilians? and (3) can it be rendered more effective? The book concludes by proposing a number of strategies to strengthen the impact of the applicable law. As the first detailed analysis of the surprisingly large bodyof law relevant to the treatment of child civilians, this book is an important contribution to a topical and highly charged human rights issue.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Short stories
ISBN : UOM:39015078266635

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Chicorel Index to Short Stories in Anthologies and Collections by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marietta Chicorel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Short stories
ISBN : UCSC:32106020263213

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Chicorel Index to Short Stories in Anthologies and Collections by Marietta Chicorel Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1222 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Short stories
ISBN : UOM:49015003032795

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Short Story Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015079892702

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Short Story Index: 1969-1973 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Sri Lanka
ISBN : MINN:31951P004623805

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Sri Lanka News by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1134 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Administrative procedure
ISBN : UCAL:B3603183

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : Nicola Foote,Nadya Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351714563

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Civilians and Warfare in World History by Nicola Foote,Nadya Williams Pdf

This book explores the role played by civilians in shaping the outcomes of military combat across time and place. This volume explores the contributions civilians have made to warfare in case studies that range from ancient Europe to contemporary Africa and Latin America. Building on philosophical and legal scholarship, it explores the blurred boundary between combatant and civilian in different historical contexts and examines how the absence of clear demarcations shapes civilian strategic positioning and impacts civilian vulnerability to military targeting and massacre. The book argues that engagement with the blurred boundaries between combatant and non-combatant both advance the key analytical questions that underpin the historical literature on civilians and underline the centrality of civilians to a full understanding of warfare. The volume provides new insight into why civilian death and suffering has been so common, despite widespread beliefs embedded in legal and military codes across time and place that killing civilians is wrong. Ultimately, the case studies in the book show that civilians, while always victims of war, were nevertheless often able to become empowered agents in defending their own lives, and impacting the outcomes of wars. By highlighting civilian military agency and broadening the sense of which actors affect strategic outcomes, the book also contributes to a richer understanding of war itself. This book will be of much interest to students of military studies, international history, international relations and war and conflict studies.

Author : Kathleen A. Ernst
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0811734242

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Too Afraid to Cry by Kathleen A. Ernst Pdf

- Now Available in Paperback - First study of the Antietam campaign from civilians' perspectives - Many never-before-published accounts of the Battle of Antietam The battle at Antietam Creek, the bloodiest day of the American Civil War, left more than 23,000 men dead, wounded, or missing. Facing the aftermath were the men, women, and children living in the village of Sharpsburg and on surrounding farms. In Too Afraid to Cry, Kathleen Ernst recounts the dramatic experiences of these Maryland citizens--stories that have never been told--and also examines the complex political web holding together Unionists and Secessionists, many of whom lived under the same roofs in this divided countryside.

Author : R. Charli Carpenter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317116592

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'Innocent Women and Children' by R. Charli Carpenter Pdf

Examining the influence of gender constructs on the international regime protecting war-affected civilians, R. Charli Carpenter examines how in practice belligerents, advocates and humanitarian players interpret civilian immunity so as to leave adult civilian men and older boys at grave risk in conflict zones. Providing a wealth of ground-breaking case studies, the author argues that in order to understand the way in which laws of war are implemented and promoted in international society we must understand how gender ideas affect the principle of civilian immunity. Each case study demonstrates the importance of assumptions about gender relations in shaping international politics, and in developing a framework for incorporating an attention to gender into the often gender-blind scholarship on international norms. As such, this book will be of interest to international relations theorists and to human rights scholars, students and activists alike.

Author : International Peace Academy
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1555879659

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Civilians in War by International Peace Academy Pdf

While recognizing the changing face of war casualties (the civilian casualty rate has escalated from five percent in World War I to up to 90 percent in recent conflicts), the 1949 Geneva Convention on the Protection of Civilians has not been able to reverse that trend. In this project of the International Peace Academy, with which the editor is affiliated, a dozen essays endeavor to expand the tools available to protect civilians in times of war. They address the themes of the evolving norms of international humanitarian law, inducing compliance, enforcing compliance, and reevaluating protection by reviewing traditional assumptions and new needs to deal at the local level with unconventional belligerents like guerillas. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCAL:B5481707

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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain. Parliament Pdf

Author : John Musgrave
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780451493569

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The Education of Corporal John Musgrave by John Musgrave Pdf

A Marine's searing and intimate story—"A passionate, fascinating, and deeply humane memoir of both war and of the hard work of citizenship and healing in war’s aftermath. A superb addition to our understanding of the Vietnam War, and of its lessons” (Phil Klay, author of Redeployment). John Musgrave had a small-town midwestern childhood that embodied the idealized postwar America. Service, patriotism, faith, and civic pride were the values that guided his family and community, and like nearly all the boys he knew, Musgrave grew up looking forward to the day when he could enlist to serve his country as his father had done. There was no question in Musgrave’s mind: He was going to join the legendary Marine Corps as soon as he was eligible. In February of 1966, at age seventeen, during his senior year in high school, and with the Vietnam War already raging, he walked down to the local recruiting station, signed up, and set off for three years that would permanently reshape his life. In this electrifying memoir, he renders his wartime experience with a powerful intimacy and immediacy: from the rude awakening of boot camp, to daily life in the Vietnam jungle, to a chest injury that very nearly killed him. Musgrave also vividly describes the difficulty of returning home to a society rife with antiwar sentiment, his own survivor's guilt, and the slow realization that he and his fellow veterans had been betrayed by the government they served. And he recounts how, ultimately, he found peace among his fellow veterans working to end the war. Musgrave writes honestly about his struggle to balance his deep love for the Marine Corps against his responsibility as a citizen to protect the very troops asked to protect America at all costs. Fiercely perceptive and candid, The Education of Corporal John Musgrave is one of the most powerful memoirs to emerge from the war.

Author : Bernice Archer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135768409

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The Internment of Western Civilians under the Japanese 1941-1945 by Bernice Archer Pdf

Bernice Archer's comparative study of the experiences of the Western civilians interned by the Japanese in mixed family camps and sexually segregated camps in the Far East, combines a wide variety of conventional and unconventional source material. This includes contemporary War, Foreign and Colonial Office papers, diaries, letters, camp newspapers and artefacts, post-war medical, engineering and educational reports, biographies, autobiographies, memoirs and over fifty oral interviews with ex-internees. Using contemporary personal accounts, the shock of the Japanese victories and the devastating experience of capture are highlighted. This book also covers wider issues such as the role of women in war, gender and war, children and war, colonial culture, oral history, and war and memory.