The Casualty Gap

Author : Douglas L. Kriner,Francis X. Shen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199779826

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The Casualty Gap by Douglas L. Kriner,Francis X. Shen Pdf

The Casualty Gap shows how the most important cost of American military campaigns--the loss of human life--has been paid disproportionately by poorer and less-educated communities since the 1950s. Drawing on a rich array of evidence, including National Archives data on the hometowns of more than 400,000 American soldiers killed in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq, this book is the most ambitious inquiry to date into the distribution of American wartime casualties across the nation, the forces causing such inequalities to emerge, and their consequences for politics and democratic governance.

Author : Steven Zaloga
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811752770

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The Devil's Garden by Steven Zaloga Pdf

Fresh look at D-Day, one of World War II's pivotal battles, in time for its 70th anniversary in June 2014 Explains why the U.S. Army suffered enormous casualties on Omaha Beach Focuses on Erwin Rommel, the Desert Fox, who oversaw German defenses in Normandy Covers little-known aspects such as the German patrols tasked with shooting down the pigeons the French Resistance used to send messages to the Allies Relies on original research, including recently discovered German artillery maps Zaloga's well-supported conclusions are sure to spark debate

Author : United States. National Archives and Records Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : United States
ISBN : IND:30000044959983

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Military Operations of the Civil War by United States. National Archives and Records Service Pdf

Author : Taylor B. Seybolt,Jay D. Aronson,Baruch Fischhoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199977307

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Counting Civilian Casualties by Taylor B. Seybolt,Jay D. Aronson,Baruch Fischhoff Pdf

Counting Civilian Casualties aims to promote open scientific dialogue by high lighting the strengths and weaknesses of the most commonly used casualty recording and estimation techniques in an understandable format.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political science
ISBN : WISC:89101616092

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American Review of Politics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lee K. Pennington
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801455612

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Casualties of History by Lee K. Pennington Pdf

Thousands of wounded servicemen returned to Japan following the escalation of Japanese military aggression in China in July 1937. Tens of thousands would return home after Japan widened its war effort in 1939. In Casualties of History, Lee K. Pennington relates for the first time in English the experiences of Japanese wounded soldiers and disabled veterans of Japan's "long" Second World War (from 1937 to 1945). He maps the terrain of Japanese military medicine and social welfare practices and establishes the similarities and differences that existed between Japanese and Western physical, occupational, and spiritual rehabilitation programs for war-wounded servicemen, notably amputees. To exemplify the experience of these wounded soldiers, Pennington draws on the memoir of a Japanese soldier who describes in gripping detail his medical evacuation from a casualty clearing station on the front lines and his medical convalescence at a military hospital. Moving from the hospital to the home front, Pennington documents the prominent roles adopted by disabled veterans in mobilization campaigns designed to rally popular support for the war effort. Following Japan’s defeat in August 1945, U.S. Occupation forces dismantled the social welfare services designed specifically for disabled military personnel, which brought profound consequences for veterans and their dependents. Using a wide array of written and visual historical sources, Pennington tells a tale that until now has been neglected by English-language scholarship on Japanese society. He gives us a uniquely Japanese version of the all-too-familiar story of soldiers who return home to find their lives (and bodies) remade by combat.

Author : United States. National Archives and Records Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : United States
ISBN : UIUC:30112042486792

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Military Operations of the Civil War: Main Eastern theater of operations by United States. National Archives and Records Service Pdf

Author : Peter Feaver,Richard H. Kohn
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0262561425

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Soldiers and Civilians by Peter Feaver,Richard H. Kohn Pdf

Essays on the emerging military-civilian divide in the United States.

Author : Bernard D. Rostker
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780833078216

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Providing for the Casualties of War by Bernard D. Rostker Pdf

War has always been a dangerous business, bringing injury, wounds, and death, and--until recently--often disease. What has changed over time, most dramatically in the last 150 or so years, is the care these casualties receive and who provides it. This book looks at the history of how humanity has cared for its war casualties and veterans, from ancient times through the aftermath of World War II.

Author : Yagil Levy
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814738337

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Israel’s Death Hierarchy by Yagil Levy Pdf

2012 Winner of the Shapiro Award for the Best Book in Israel Studies, presented by the Association for Israel Studies Whose life is worth more? That is the question that states inevitably face during wartime. Which troops are thrown to the first lines of battle and which ones remain relatively intact? How can various categories of civilian populations be protected? And when front and rear are porous, whose life should receive priority, those of soldiers or those of civilians? In Israel’s Death Hierarchy, Yagil Levy uses Israel as a compelling case study to explore the global dynamics and security implications of casualty sensitivity. Israel, Levy argues, originally chose to risk soldiers mobilized from privileged classes, more than civilians and other soldiers. However, with the mounting of casualty sensitivity, the state gradually restructured what Levy calls its “death hierarchy” to favor privileged soldiers over soldiers drawn from lower classes and civilians, and later to place enemy civilians at the bottom of the hierarchy by the use of heavy firepower. The state thus shifted risk from soldiers to civilians. As the Gaza offensive of 2009 demonstrates, this new death hierarchy has opened Israel to global criticism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : United States
ISBN : GENT:900000159640

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The Medical and Surgical History of the War of Rebellion (1861-65) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sherri Torjman,Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Women
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034158233

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The Reality Gap by Sherri Torjman,Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women Pdf

Author : Bruce E. Stuck,Victoria Tepe,James W. Ness
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0160953782

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Biomedical Implications of Military Laser Exposure by Bruce E. Stuck,Victoria Tepe,James W. Ness Pdf

"Lasers will continue to play an important and sometimes dangerous role on the modern battlefield. At present, there is no adequate comprehensive protection against accidental or intentional exposure to lasers in combat. Thus, it is critical that the field of laser safety research develop preventative protocols and prophylactic technologies to protect the warfighter and to support military operational objectives. This book details the current state-of-the-art in scientific, biomedical, and technical information concerning the effects of military lasers on the human body. An important purpose of this book is to identify current knowledge gaps in the various areas of this interdisciplinary field, and to offer specific recommendations for laser safety research and development into the future"--

Author : Ben Elton
Publisher : Random House
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448167517

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The First Casualty by Ben Elton Pdf

'A work of formidable imaginative scope' Daily Telegraph The first casualty when war comes is truth . . . Flanders, June 1917: a British officer and celebrated poet, is shot dead. , He is killed not by German fire, but while recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. A young English soldier is arrested and, although he protests his innocence, charged with his murder. Douglas Kingsley is a conscientious objector, previously a detective with the London police, now imprisoned for his beliefs. He is released and sent to France in order to secure a conviction. Forced to conduct his investigations amidst the hell of The Third Battle of Ypres, Kingsley soon discovers that both the evidence and the witnesses he needs are quite literally disappearing into the mud that surrounds him. Ben Elton's tenth novel is a gut-wrenching historical drama which explores some fundamental questions: What is murder? What is justice in the face of unimaginable daily slaughter? And where is the honour in saving a man from the gallows if he is only to be returned to die in a suicidal battle?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Medicine
ISBN : PURD:32754063891901

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Medical and surgical history of the civil war by Anonim Pdf