Fragments Of War

Author : Joyce Hibbert
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781554881697

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Fragments of War by Joyce Hibbert Pdf

The young girl from the Ottawa Valley who served as a nurse in North Africa with only a helmet of fresh water a day, the teenage soldier from Fredericton who stole pig swill to survive in a Hong Kong prisoner of war camp, the English woman who survived the sinking of the Athenia to become a war-bride, and an Alberta airman who crashed off the icy coast of Greenland, these are but only four of the thirty compelling personal accounts of war experiences. Many private photographs from their own albums illustrate these stories, which reflect the world wide aspect of the war from the Indian Ocean to the North Atlantic, from Poland to the Middle East, and the varied activities and duties of these young men and women. Their hardships, their adventures, frustrations, fears, joys and romances are chronicled in a poignant and often humorous manner.

Author : Judith Matloff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Angola
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070769208

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Fragments of a Forgotten War by Judith Matloff Pdf

The author's personal account of events in Angola between 1992 and 1997.

Author : Françoise Mengin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190264055

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Fragments of an Unfinished War by Françoise Mengin Pdf

Originally published in French in 2013 by aEditions Karthala, Paris.

Author : Bertram A. Yaffe
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015043325730

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Fragments of War by Bertram A. Yaffe Pdf

A World War II marine officer who survived three major campaigns in the Pacific offers an authentic and compelling picture of tank warfare in this chronicle of his experiences. From the grueling combat in the rain forest of Bougainville to the fierce assault on Guam and the vicious struggle for Iwo Jima, Bertram Yaffe balances the realities of combat with personal reflections on the nature of humanity and courage under horrifying circumstances. With wry humor he takes us inside the mind of a young tank officer wrestling with the concept of war and his own need to square rationalism with an intuitive, sometimes mystical, view of reality. As a result, Yaffe shares with us the meditations and avenues of contemplation that helped him survive the grotesque experience of war and cope with the stress that so often follows extreme battlefield ordeals. Central to his ability to deal with these problems, we learn, were his deep feelings for his wife and the important family bonds their marriage helped restore - their Russian-Jewish grandfathers were brothers separated during the Russo-Japanese War.

Author : Jean Said Makdisi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 089255245X

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Beirut Fragments by Jean Said Makdisi Pdf

A new edition of the widely acclaimed account of the civilian experience of fifteen years of war in Beirut- "a profound, heartbreaking book" (Los Angeles Times Book Review), "an impassioned cry against indifference" (New York Times Book Review), "a work ringing with truth and insight" (Arab Book World)-now with an Afterword about the postwar years. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book An intensely personal yet timelessly crafted portrait of life in a worn-torn city, Beirut Fragments spans the years of the civil war in Lebanon, 1975-1990. When thousands fled, Jean Said Makdisi chose to stay. She raised three sons, taught English and Humanities at Beirut University College-and she wrote. She records the breakdown of society and the physical destruction of Beirut, the massacres of Sabra and Shatila, the Israeli Invasion, everyday acts of terrorism, the struggle to maintain ordinary routines amid chaos, and the incredible spirit of a people. A Palestinian, a Christian, a woman who has lived in Jerusalem, Cairo, the United States, and Beirut, Jean Said Makdisi uses the migrations of her own life as a paradigm which helps elucidate many of the conflicts in the region. The new afterword covers the postwars years, from the last ceasefire to the present day.

Author : Bruce H. Bretthauer
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 149365490X

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Fragments from the War by Bruce H. Bretthauer Pdf

A collection of short stories from the Families War, and after. What happened to some of the people we met in the main novels after the fighting ended? These stories cover some of that, and more.

Author : Joyce Hibbert
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780919670952

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Fragments of War by Joyce Hibbert Pdf

Many private photographs from their own albums illustrate these stories, which reflect the world wide aspect World War II from the Indian Ocean to the North Atlantic, from Poland to the Middle East, and the varied activities and duties of these young men and women.

Author : Slavenka Drakulic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0393341224

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The Balkan Express by Slavenka Drakulic Pdf

In a series of beautiful, impassioned essays, Croatian journalist and feminist Drakulic provides a very real and human side to the Balkans war and shows how the conflict has affected her closest friends, colleagues, and fellow countrymen--both Serbian and Croatian. Includes five new essays not in the hardcover edition.

Author : Slavenka Drakulić
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Authors, Croatian
ISBN : UOM:39015029725515

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Balkan Express by Slavenka Drakulić Pdf

Author : Emma Orczy
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 1876 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547396208

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The Best British Murder Mysteries of Emma Orczy by Emma Orczy Pdf

This unique crime & mystery collection includes: Novels: The Emperor's Candlesticks The Nest of the Sparrowhawk The Heart of a Woman (A True Woman) Short Stories: The Old Man in the Corner The Fenchurch Street Mystery A Millionaire in the Dock His Deduction The Robbery in Phillimore Terrace A Night's Adventure All He Knew The York Mystery The Capital Charge A Broken-Hearted Woman The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway The Liverpool Mystery A Cunning Rascal The Edinburgh Mystery A Terrible Plight Non Proven Undeniable Facts The Theft at the English Provident Bank Conflicting Evidence An Alibi The Dublin Mystery Forgery A Memorable Day An Unparalleled Outrage (The Brighton Mystery) The Prisoner A Sensation The Regent's Park Murder The Motive Friends The De Genneville Peerage (The Birmingham Mystery) A High-Bred Gentleman The Living and the Dead The Mysterious Death in Percy Street Suicide or Murder The End Unravelled Knots The Khaki Tunic The Ingres Masterpiece The Pearl Necklace The Russian Prince The Mysterious Tragedy in Bishop'S Road The Dog'S Tooth Cliff The Tytherton Case The Brudenell Court The White Carnation The Montmartre Hat The Miser of Maida Vale The Fulton Gardens Mystery A Moorland Tragedy Lady Molly of Scotland Yard The Ninescore Mystery The Frewin Miniatures The Irish-Tweed Coat The Fordwych Castle Mystery A Day's Folly A Castle in Brittany A Christmas Tragedy The Bag of Sand The Man in the Inverness Cape The Woman in the Big Hat Sir Jeremiah's Will The End Skin o' My Tooth The Murder in Saltashe Woods The Case of the Sicilian Prince The Duffield Peerage Case -- The Kazan Pearls The Case of Major Gibson The Inverted Five The Turquoise Stud Overwhelming Evidence The Case of Mrs. Norris The Murton-Braby Murder A Shot in the Night The Hungarian Landowner

Author : Andrew Arsan
Publisher : Hurst & Company
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849047005

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Lebanon by Andrew Arsan Pdf

A reflective examination of everyday life in Lebanon in times of precarity and political torpor.

Author : Jack Fuller
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UCAL:B4450969

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Fragments by Jack Fuller Pdf

FRAGMENTS is a story about how war can make everything explosive--even love--and how two friends try to put the pieces of their lives together again. Jack Fuller served as a combat correspondent in the Vietnam bureau of STARS AND STRIPES and is now a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer and publisher. FRAGMENTS has been called "the best novel yet about the Vietnam War" (WALL STREET JOURNAL). 212 pp. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Martha Gellhorn
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802191168

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The Face of War by Martha Gellhorn Pdf

A collection of “first-rate frontline journalism” from the Spanish Civil War to US actions in Central America “by a woman singularly unafraid of guns” (Vanity Fair). For nearly sixty years, Martha Gellhorn’s fearless war correspondence made her a leading journalistic voice of her generation. From the Spanish Civil War in 1937 through the Central American wars of the mid-eighties, Gellhorn’s candid reporting reflected her deep empathy for people regardless of their political ideology. Collecting the best of Gellhorn’s writing on foreign conflicts, and now with a new introduction by Lauren Elkin, The Face of War is a classic of frontline journalism by “the premier war correspondent of the twentieth century” (Ward Just, The New York Times Magazine). Whether in Java, Finland, the Middle East, or Vietnam, she used the same vigorous approach. “I wrote very fast, as I had to,” she says, “afraid that I would forget the exact sound, smell, words, gestures, which were special to this moment and this place.” As Merle Rubin noted in his review of this volume for The Christian ScienceMonitor, “Martha Gellhorn’s courageous, independent-minded reportage breaks through geopolitical abstractions and ideological propaganda to take the reader straight to the scene of the event.”

Author : Mary Palevsky
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520220553

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Atomic Fragments by Mary Palevsky Pdf

"Scientists Hans Bethe, Edward Teller, Joseph Rotblat, Herbert York, Philip Morrison, and Robert Wilson, and philosopher David Hawkins, responded to Palevsky's personal approach in a way that dramatically expands their previously published statements."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Eric Herring,Glen Rangwala
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Coalition Provisional Authority
ISBN : 0801444578

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Iraq in Fragments by Eric Herring,Glen Rangwala Pdf

When the United States led the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, it expected to be able to establish a prosperous liberal democracy with an open economy that would serve as a key ally in the region. It sought to engage Iraqi society in ways that would defeat any challenge to that state building project and U.S. guidance of it. Eric Herring and Glen Rangwala argue that state building in Iraq has been crippled less by preexisting weaknesses in the Iraqi state, Iraqi sectarian divisions or U.S. policy mistakes than by the fact that the US has attempted-with only limited success-to control the parameters and outcome of that process. They explain that the very nature of U.S. state-building in Iraq has created incentives for unregulated local power struggles and patron-client relations. Corruption, smuggling, and violence have resulted. The main legacy of the US-led occupation, the authors contend, is that Iraq has become a fragmented state-that is, one in which actors dispute where overall political authority lies and in which there are no agreed procedures for resolving such disputes. As long as this is the case, the authority of the state will remain limited. Technocratic mechanisms such as training schemes for officials, political fixes such as elections, and the coercive tools of repression will not be able to overcome this situation. Placing the occupation within the context of regional, global, and U.S. politics, Herring and Rangwala demonstrate how the politics of co-option, coercion, and economic change have transformed the lives and allegiances of the Iraqi population. As uncertainty about the future of Iraq persists, this volume provides a much-needed analysis of the deeper forces that give meaning to the daily events in Iraq.