Reflections On War

Author : Thean Potgieter,Ian Liebenberg
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781920338848

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Reflections on War by Thean Potgieter,Ian Liebenberg Pdf

Reflections on War is a comprehensive and objective investigation into the problems of war. The book explores the crucial link between theory, strategy and objectives in war, taking all the evidence and theory into account, and should be of interest to military practitioners, specialists in defence studies, and others interested in military history. Also notable about the work is its ability to draw insights together from international legal theory, management sciences, history, sociology and the political economy of war ? showing due respect for the moral complexities involved in waging war.

Author : Bernard B. Fall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : United States
ISBN : 0811709043

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Last Reflections on a War by Bernard B. Fall Pdf

Bernard B Fall was 40 years old when he was killed by a booby trap in northern South Vietnam on February 21, 1967. By the time of his death he had already authored seven books on Vietnam. This book, first published shortly after Dr Fall's death, is a tribute to his life's work. It contains the only known autobiographical account of his life, several previously unpublished articles, notes for 'Street Without Joy Revisited', and transcripts of Dr Fall's tape recordings, including his last recorded words.

Author : Peter Paret
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 0807823562

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Imagined Battles by Peter Paret Pdf

For thousands of years, art has interpreted the experience of war_its methods, human costs, and moral ambiguities_and has offered historians a wealth of testimony that is only beginning to be systematically explored. In this wide-ranging study, Peter Paret discusses forty-seven paintings and prints as complex documents of war in Europe since the Renaissance and as examples of the artist's use of war as a metaphor for the human condition. The images include works by such major artists as Uccello, Géricault, and Dix as well as academic history paintings and popular prints. By setting each in its historical environment and analyzing it from the perspective of the wars of its time, illuminates the place of war in Western consciousness and expands our understanding of works that are too often approached with little concern for the reality they depict or symbolically transform. Perhaps the most significant of the themes he traces over five centuries is the gradual change from the prince or general to the common soldier and civilian victim as central figures in the interpretation of war in art.

Author : Eddie Morales
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1547070838

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Reflections of War by Eddie Morales Pdf

A soldier lives in fear for their life, day after day, in a combat zone - how can they really describe to someone what that feels like?It is hard to capture in a narrative. Through the medium of poetry, Eddie Morales intuitively expresses the essence of those battles, both in combat, and the secondary battle once the veteran returns home.Reflections of War, Part 1, is a series of compassionate poems that express the feelings and sensations of the combat veteran.This book is a powerful journey into a battlefield of the heart and soul, as the poetry lives out the searing pain and hardship of the soldier in war.Then - the soldier comes home from war, and the pain and strife should be over. But the war lives on in their mind, evocatively expressed in poetry by the author.After returning home, there is a second battle to fight - the scars on the psyche that must be dealt with - or they can have dangerous consequences. Eddie Morales is not a combat veteran. He has had numerous interviews with veterans, during which he has listened with intent, to hear the world of the warrior. He put that on paper so forcefully that combat veterans nod and say, "he gets it."The author is a martial arts instructor and former law enforcement officer and has honed his skills of expression carefully, to share the stories in his poems.

Author : Ian Liebenberg
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781920338855

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Reflections on War by Ian Liebenberg Pdf

Reflections on War is a comprehensive and objective investigation into the problems of war. The book explores the crucial link between theory, strategy and objectives in war, taking all the evidence and theory into account, and should be of interest to military practitioners, specialists in defence studies, and others interested in military history. Also notable about the work is its ability to draw insights together from international legal theory, management sciences, history, sociology and the political economy of war - showing due respect for the moral complexities involved in waging war.

Author : Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0857429043

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Post-War Reflections by Jean-Paul Sartre Pdf

A compact collection of eight wide-ranging essays by Sartre from the immediate postwar years. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has remained relevant and thought-provoking through the decades. The Seagull Sartre Library now presents some of his most incisive philosophical, cultural, and literary critical essays in twelve newly designed and affordable editions. Post-War Reflections collects eight of Sartre's essays that were written in his most creative period, just after World War II. Sartre's extraordinary range of engagement is manifest in this collection, which features writings on postwar America, the social impact of war in Europe, contemporary philosophy, race, and avant-garde art.

Author : Hermann Hesse
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781786894465

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If the War Goes On . . . by Hermann Hesse Pdf

Herman Hesse remained clear-sighted and consistent in his political views and his passionate espousal of pacifism and the bloody absurdity of war from the start of World War I to the end of his life. He wrote the earliest essay in this book in September 1914, before he cemented his fame with the novels Steppenwolf and Siddhartha, and continued writing a stream of letters, essays and pamphlets throughout the war. In his native Germany his views earned him the labels 'traitor' and 'viper', but after World War II he was moved to reiterate his beliefs in another series of essays and letters. If The War Goes On . . . resonates as strong today as it did when originally published and begs the question: have our politicians learnt nothing in the last seventy years?

Author : Michael Howard
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300088663

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The Invention of Peace by Michael Howard Pdf

In this book, a preeminent military historian considers why this is so."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Edgar A. Porter,Ran Ying Porter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9462989737

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Japanese Reflections on World War II and the American Occupation by Edgar A. Porter,Ran Ying Porter Pdf

This book presents an unforgettably honest account of the effects of World War II and the ensuing American occupation in Japan's Oita prefecture, from the perspective of the Japanese citizens who experienced it. Through harrowing firsthand accounts from more than forty Japanese men and women who lived in the region, we get a strikingly detailed picture of the dreadful experiences of wartime life in Japan. The interviewees are wide-ranging and include students, housewives, nurses, teachers, journalists, soldiers, sailors, Kamikaze pilots, and munitions factory workers. And their collective stories range from early, spirited support for the war on to more reflective later views in the wake of the devastating losses of friends and family members to air raids, and finally into periods of hunger and fear of the American occupiers. Detailed archival materials buttress the personal accounts, and the result is an unprecedented picture of the war as felt in a single region of Japan.

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781473396388

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Reflections on War and Death by Sigmund Freud Pdf

This early work by Sigmund Freud was originally published in 1918 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Reflections on War and Death' is a work on the psychology and social attitudes toward war and death. Sigismund Schlomo Freud was born on 6th May 1856, in the Moravian town of Príbor, now part of the Czech Republic. He studied a variety of subjects, including philosophy, physiology, and zoology, graduating with an MD in 1881. Freud made a huge and lasting contribution to the field of psychology with many of his methods still being used in modern psychoanalysis. He inspired much discussion on the wealth of theories he produced and the reactions to his works began a century of great psychological investigation.

Author : Hermann Hesse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : War
ISBN : OCLC:1017719954

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If the War Goes on by Hermann Hesse Pdf

Author : Warren Hunt
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1974397807

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Reflections on the Vietnam War by Warren Hunt Pdf

""An important contribution to the literature on the war."" Gary R. Hess, Emeritus Distinguished Research Professor, Bowling Green State University. Author, --"Vietnam: Explaining America's Lost War." In his Reflections on the Vietnam War: A Fifty-Year Journey, Warren E. Hunt chronicles his long struggle to come to grips with the meaning of the Vietnam War and how it affected him before, during and after his tour in Vietnam with the U.S. First Infantry Division. Using a stylistic mix of personal anecdote, historical reflection and essay, the author weaves his experience of the war into a broad context encompassing the course of his life. Starting out as a naive and patriotic teenager drafted at age 19, he traces his path through military training, his impressions of Vietnam and its people, the absurdity of daily basecamp life, and the crucible of enemy fire. Returning to a nation torn apart by the war, he soon realizes that, even though he is no longer in the army, he cannot escape the war''s insane grasp. Catastrophic events in Vietnam and on the home front, along with the dawning awareness of suicides among his fellow veterans, prompt him to seek answers to the questions that haunt his daily life: Why did America go to war in Vietnam? How could we lose? Why did so many people have to suffer in vain? His quest leads him to the unveiling of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., where painful memories and powerful emotions merge to initiate a healing process for the author, his fellow veterans and the country at large.

Author : Jesse Glenn Gray
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803270763

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The Warriors by Jesse Glenn Gray Pdf

J. Glenn Gray entered the army in May 1941, having been drafted on the same day he achieved his doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University. Over a decade after his discharge in 1945, Gray began to reread his war journals and letters in an attempt to find meaning in his wartime experiences. The result is a philosophical meditation on what warfare does to us and why soldiers act as they do.

Author : Jim Maultsaid
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473857834

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Star Shell Reflections, 1914–1916 by Jim Maultsaid Pdf

As the centenary of the Great War approaches, this book offers a unique perspective told in the words and illustrations of someone who was there , on the front line.Although an American citizen, Jim Maultsaid's parents were Irish and he lived in Donegal. He joined the Young Citizen Volunteers, a group drawn from the ranks of clerical and professional society, at the outbreak of war.Although he left school at age 13, the author was naturally gifted in both writing and drawing, with a great eye for detail, and has often been described as the unofficial war artist.Jim's personal style of writing is engaging, and along with his sketches and illustrations, which are witty at times, takes the reader on a journey through not only the dark days and misery but also reveals the gritty humour that helped him and his 'chums' cope with the horrors of life in the trenches.The diaries offer in words and illustrations, a true insight into the thoughts of the ordinary soldiers, and are filled with untold stories from the Great War, covering aspects that have never been addressed in other books. In particular there is new light shone on the Chinese Labour Corps, where Jim served as Captain, after he was certified unfit for active service due to his wounds.The book has great historical and educational value, and will give those of all ages a real understanding of how this brave generation faced war, and how they struggled to survive.

Author : Catherine Gilbert,Catherine Mary McLoughlin,Niall Munro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Collective memory
ISBN : 1788749413

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On Commemoration by Catherine Gilbert,Catherine Mary McLoughlin,Niall Munro Pdf

"War has been commemorated since ancient times. The recent First World War centenaries are proof that remembering conflict continues to produce strong feelings among people of all walks of life. But how, in the twenty-first century, can we do commemoration better? In particular, how can commemoration contribute to post-war reconciliation and reconstruction? In this book, a global roster of distinguished individuals - poets, an international human rights advocate, musicians, policy-makers, novelists, academics, a sculptor, a world-renowned architect, members of different faiths, composers, a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and military veterans - debate these questions and ponder the future of commemoration. The book focuses on three modes of commemoration: Textual Commemoration - commemoration in writing and images; Monumental Commemoration - monuments, architecture, museums, sculptures, battlefields and sites of mourning; Aural Commemoration - music, sound and silence. Polemics and reflections together with poetry and creative prose movingly illuminate a subject that is sensitive and sobering but which also speaks to our common humanity"--