Heroes Or Traitors

Author : Walter S. Dunn Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313051630

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Heroes or Traitors by Walter S. Dunn Jr. Pdf

When a German victory became impossible, the July 1944 conspirators plotted to bring a quick end to the war, hoping to negotiate a peace with the Western allies and possibly to join them in a war against Russia. Because the Allies would not negotiate with Hitler, the plotters planned to assassinate him and seize control of the government, using the Replacement Army to overcome the S.S. and the Nazi Party. This army would also maintain order within Germany, a task that would require more than half-a-million trained men. The conspirators convinced key Replacement Army officers to withhold men from the Field Army in the spring of 1944 in preparation for taking over the country. The result was a German army that lacked enough reserve divisions to counter the invasion of France and the Red Army attack in Russia. Although the plotters failed to kill Hitler, they hastened the war's end by weakening the German army. Dunn examines the 1944 July Plot from a manpower and logistics perspective to demonstrate that the conspirators did, in fact, achieve their goal of hastening the war's end.

Author : Paul Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781381618

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Heroes Or Traitors? by Paul Taylor Pdf

Covering the period from the Armistice to 1939, the book examines the experiences of Irish soldiers who had fought in the British army in the First World War on returning home to what became the Irish Free State. At the onset of the War, southern Irishmen volunteered in large numbers and marched off accompanied by cheering crowds and the promise of a hero's welcome home. In 1916, while its soldiers fought in the British army, Ireland witnessed an insurrection against British rule, the Easter Rising. Ireland's soldiers returned to a much-changed country, which no longer recognised their motives for fighting and which was at war with the country in whose army they had served. It has long been believed that the returning soldiers were subject to intimidation by the IRA, some killed as a retrospective punishment for their service with the imperial power, and that they formed a marginalised group in Irish society. Using new sources, this enlightening book argues otherwise and examines their successful integration into Irish society in the interwar years and the generous support given to them by the British Government. Far from being British loyalists, many served in the IRA and the Free State army, and became republican supporters.

Author : John Bakeless
Publisher : Philadelphia : Lippincott
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : American loyalists
ISBN : UOM:39015001664310

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Turncoats, Traitors, and Heroes by John Bakeless Pdf

On the Military Intelligence Branch History Reading List.

Author : Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X004907655

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Heroes by Lucy Hughes-Hallett Pdf

A study of heroism and of hero worship throughout history ranges from the ancient Trojan war to the twentieth century.

Author : Sharika Thiranagama,Tobias Kelly
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812205893

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Traitors by Sharika Thiranagama,Tobias Kelly Pdf

The figure of the traitor plays an intriguing role in modern politics. Traitors are a source of transgression from within, creating their own kinds of aversion and suspicion. They destabilize the rigid moral binaries of victim and persecutor, friend and enemy. Recent history is stained by collaborators, informers, traitors, and the bloody purges and other acts of retribution against them. In the emergent nation-state of Bhutan, the specter of the "antinational" traitor helped to transform the traditional view of loyalty based on social relations. In Sri Lanka, the Tamil Tigers' fear of traitors is tangled with the Tamil civilians' fear of being betrayed to the Tigers as traitors. For Palestinians in the West Bank, simply earning a living can mean complicity with people acting in the name of the Israeli state. While most contemporary studies of violence and citizenship focus on the creation of the "other," the cases in Traitors: Suspicion, Intimacy, and the Ethics of State-Building illustrate the equally strong political and social anxieties among those who seem to be most alike. Treason is often treated as a pathological distortion of political life. However, the essays in Traitors propose that treachery is a constant, essential, and normal part of the processes through which social and political order is produced. In the political gray zones between personal and state loyalties, traitors and their prosecutors play roles that make and unmake regimes. In this volume, ten scholars examine political, ethnic, and personal trust and betrayals in modern times from Mozambique to the Taiwan Straits, from the former Eastern Bloc to the West Bank. This fascinating collection studies the tension between close personal relationships, the demands of nation-states, and the moral choices that result when these interests collide. In asking how traitors are defined in the context of local histories, contributors address larger comparative questions about the nature of postcolonial citizenship.

Author : Cían Harte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1291358056

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Éire seceded from the United Kingdom in 1922 and simultaneously established its own National Army (known as the Free State Army, later as the Irish Defence Forces). Regardless of this historic national step, the centuries-long tradition of Irishmen joining the British military did not cease. Rather, the custom continued, and during the Second World War, despite Éire's official neutral stance, tens of thousands of Irishmen joined the British military. Within this number, there is a unique sub-group of soldiers who took a personally greater risk by enlisting - those that deserted from the Irish National Army. The author has established that over 7,500 men deserted from the Irish Defence Forces during WWII out of an established strength of 42,000 between 1939-1945. Of this number approx. 50% would join the British military. It is the 'why' of their decision that the author has sought answers to. An analysis of this 'why' and not a judgment of it acts as the centrifugal force within the narrative of this book and the key motivation of the author.

Author : Martin Garbus
Publisher : Atheneum Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015013532992

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Traitors and Heroes by Martin Garbus Pdf

In this memoir Garbus, a human rights activist and trial attorney, celebrates the lives of men who have shown inexhaustible moral courage in the face of persecution for expressing their ideas. South African poet Breton Breytonbach, Soviet dissidents Anatoly Scharansky and Andrei Sakharov, and supporters of former Chilean president Allende were all prosecuted in ``show trials.'' The trials were meant to prove that the government in power was a land of laws, but instead showed the government's disdain for human rights. Garbus also discusses political dissent in the United States, and the way, he believes, our government has used the catch-phrase ``national security'' to try to limit free speech. Highly recommended. Sandra K. Lindheimer, Middlesex Law Lib., Cambridge, Mass. Copyright 1987 Cahners Business Information.

Author : Andrew Bushard
Publisher : Free Press Media Press Inc.
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Let's Use Free Speech to Define Heroism by Andrew Bushard Pdf

Heroes make the world much better and we need to exalt them. Yet how do we define heroism? This work offers ten criteria to consider. 26 pages.

Author : Ana Omaljev
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783838267111

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Discourses on Identity in 'First' and 'Other' Serbia by Ana Omaljev Pdf

Serbia is still widely thought of as an unfinished state, whose people struggle to establish a compelling identity narrative in answer to the question 'who are we?'. While existing literature has over-analyzed Serbian nationalism, the Serbian public sphere remains largely ignored. This engaging and timely book fills this gap by giving context to the persistent and overwhelming dialogue between opposing factions on the identity spectrum in Serbia. Omaljev's focus on elite discourses provides a fresh perspective on this contentious subject. It offers an original understanding of the competing arguments surrounding 'First' and 'Other' Serbia and of the contested visions of Serbian national identity and broader European identity.By closely examining the identity vocabulary of Serbian elites and the opposing ways in which these elites view the use of labels such as 'anti-Serbian', 'patriot', and 'traitor', this book provides a vital lesson in post-conflict nation-building and raises important questions about the symbolic representations of political and cultural identities. A much-needed and compelling intervention in the Serbian identity discourse, Omaljev's work is a must-read for any researcher on the Western Balkans.

Author : John Edwin Bakeless
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : American Confederate voluntary exiles
ISBN : LCCN:00595406

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Turncoats, Traitors and Heroes by John Edwin Bakeless Pdf

Author : Matthew Landis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781510707382

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League of American Traitors by Matthew Landis Pdf

Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it . . . When seventeen year-old Jasper is approached at the funeral of his deadbeat father by a man claiming to be an associate of his deceased parents, he’s thrust into a world of secrets tied to America’s history—and he’s right at the heart of it. First, Jasper finds out he is the sole surviving descendant of Benedict Arnold, the most notorious traitor in American history. Then he learns that his father’s death was no accident. Jasper is at the center of a war that has been going on for centuries, in which the descendants of the heroes and traitors of the American Revolution still duel to the death for the sake of their honor. His only hope to escape his dangerous fate on his eighteenth birthday? Take up the research his father was pursuing at the time of his death, to clear Arnold’s name. Whisked off to a boarding school populated by other descendants of notorious American traitors, it’s a race to discover the truth. But if Jasper doesn’t find a way to uncover the evidence his father was hunting for, he may end up paying for the sins of his forefathers with his own life. Like a mash-up of National Treasure and Hamilton, Matthew Landis’s debut spins the what-ifs of American history into a heart-pounding thriller steeped in conspiracy, clue hunting, and danger.

Author : Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Publisher : Viking Canada
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Courage
ISBN : 0670063649

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Heroes by Lucy Hughes-Hallett Pdf

Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Hero worship
ISBN : BSB:BSB10738050

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On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle Pdf

Author : kelly chance beckman
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-13
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781312351998

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Creative Writing-The Kelly Manual of Style by kelly chance beckman Pdf

THIS IS NOT THE USUAL HOW TO WRITE CREATIVELY BOOK.IT IS A TEXTBOOK WITH ACTUAL PUBLISHED WORKS AND A STEP-BY STEP PROCESS DEFINED. WE TAKE THE WRITER FROM YAWN TO GREATNESS WITH 20 NEW WRITING TOOLS. 60 CHAPTERS AND 8 INDICES PROVIDE THE NECESSARY INFORMATION TO KNOW THE BOOK BUSINESS, HOW TO WRITE WITH ILLUMINATION, CREATIVITY AND MAGIC. AND EVEN CREATE A SCRIPT. EXPLAINED ARE GETTING BOOK IDEAS, THEMES, STORYTELLING, THREE SYNOPSIS, AND HOW TO WRITE WITH PASSION AND CLARITY. THE NEW WRITER MUST LEARN NEW WRITING TOOLS TO SURVIVE THE ELECTRONIC AGE, PRINT ON DEMAND PUBLISHING, LARGE BOOKSELLERS, AND GLOBAL MARKETS. THIS IS THE KEY TO HIS SUCCESS.

Author : Michael Kelly,Hilary Footitt,Myriam Salama-Carr
Publisher : Springer
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030048259

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The Palgrave Handbook of Languages and Conflict by Michael Kelly,Hilary Footitt,Myriam Salama-Carr Pdf

This Handbook maps the contours of an exciting and burgeoning interdisciplinary field concerned with the role of language and languages in situations of conflict. It explores conceptual approaches, sources of information that are available, and the institutions and actors that mediate language encounters. It examines case studies of the role that languages have played in specific conflicts, from colonial times through to the Middle East and Africa today. The contributors provide vibrant evidence to challenge the monolingual assumptions that have affected traditional views of war and conflict. They show that languages are woven into every aspect of the making of war and peace, and demonstrate how language shapes public policy and military strategy, setting frameworks and expectations. The Handbook's 22 chapters powerfully illustrate how the encounter between languages is integral to almost all conflicts, to every phase of military operations and to the lived experiences of those on the ground, who meet, work and fight with speakers of other languages. This comprehensive work will appeal to scholars from across the disciplines of linguistics, translation studies, history, and international relations; and provide fresh insights for a broad range of practitioners interested in understanding the role and implications of foreign languages in war.