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The Never War

Author : D.J. MacHale
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780743482004

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The Never War by D.J. MacHale Pdf

The third installment in an epic series of adventures First Earth Fourteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon is a loyal friend, sports star, devoted pet owner -- and Traveler. Along with his uncle Press, Bobby has visited the alternate dimension of Denduron and participated in a civil war. He's also waded through the endangered underwater territory of Cloral. Now Bobby once again finds himself thrust beyond the boundaries of time and space into a place that seems somewhat familiar: First Earth. Bobby and the Traveler from Cloral -- Spader -- have flumed to New York City, 1937. Against a backdrop of gangsters, swing music, and the distant sound of a brewing war, the two must uncover the evil Saint Dane's newest plot. But is Bobby ready for the difficult choices ahead?

The Suicide Exhibition

Author : Justin Richards
Publisher : Random House
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448177042

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WEWELSBURG CASTLE, 1940. The German war machine has woken an ancient threat – the alien Vril and their Ubermensch have returned. Ultimate Victory in the war for Europe is now within the Nazis’ grasp. ENGLAND, 1941 Foreign Office trouble shooter Guy Pentecross has stumbled into a conspiracy beyond his imagining – a secret war being waged in the shadows against a terrible enemy. The battle for Europe has just become the war for humanity. This is The Thirty-Nine Steps crossed with Indiana Jones and Quatermass. Justin Richards has an extremely credible grasp of the period’s history and has transformed it into a groundbreaking alternate reality thriller.

The Cat I Never Named

Author : Amra Sabic-El-Rayess,Laura L. Sullivan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781547604555

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The Cat I Never Named by Amra Sabic-El-Rayess,Laura L. Sullivan Pdf

The stunning memoir of a Muslim teen struggling to survive in the midst of the Bosnian genocide--and the stray cat who protected her family through it all. *Six Starred Reviews* A YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist A Capitol Choices Remarkable Book A Mighty Girl Best Book A Malala Fund Favorite Book Selection In 1992, Amra was a teen in Bihac, Bosnia, when her best friend said they couldn't speak anymore. Her friend didn't say why, but Amra knew the reason: Amra was Muslim. It was the first sign her world was changing. Then Muslim refugees from other Bosnian cities started arriving, fleeing Serbian persecution. When the tanks rolled into Bihac, bringing her own city under seige, Amra's happy life in her peaceful city vanished. But there is light even in the darkest of times, and she discovered that light in the warm, bonfire eyes of a stray cat. The little calico had followed the refugees into the city and lost her own family. At first, Amra doesn't want to bother with a stray; her family doesn't have the money to keep a pet. But with gentle charm this kitty finds her way into everyone's heart, and after a few near miracles when she seems to save the family, how could they turn her away? Here is the stunning true story of a teen who, even in the brutality of war, never wavered in her determination to obtain an education, maintain friendships, and even find a first love-and the cat who gave comfort, hope, and maybe even served as the family's guardian spirit.

The Reality Bug

Author : D.J. MacHale
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781416936282

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The Reality Bug by D.J. MacHale Pdf

Age 9-11.

The War that Never was

Author : Michael A. Palmer
Publisher : iBooks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Imaginary wars and battles
ISBN : 0743474511

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The War that Never was by Michael A. Palmer Pdf

Set in the year 1999, this suspenseful novel reveals a gripping and insightful account of what happens when top political and military advisors from the U.S. and Soviet Union meet to launch World War III. Original.

Pendragon: The Never War

Author : D.J. MacHale
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781847388599

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Pendragon: The Never War by D.J. MacHale Pdf

Bobby Pendragon isn't like other boys his age. Bobby is a Traveller and he's destined to save the world. Bobby is now back on Earth - but something isn't quite right. This is First Earth, the year is 1937 and our 21stcentury hero finds himself out of his depth. While dodging New York gangsters, Bobby must uncover the evil that threatens this territory First Earth, but with war brewing, is he ready to fight for the salvation, not only of First Earth, but of everything he has ever know?

The War that Never Ends

Author : Paweł Machcewicz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110655032

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The War that Never Ends by Paweł Machcewicz Pdf

The story of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk epitomizes one of the most important and dramatic clashes in the European culture of memory and public history in last decades. The museum became the arch-enemy for the nationalist right-wing as “cosmopolitan”, “pseudo-universalistic”, “pacifistic” and “not Polish enough”. Paweł Machcewicz, historian and museum`s founding director, was removed from his position by the Law and Justice government immediately after opening the museum to the public. In his book he presents this story as a part of cultural wars that tear apart not only Poland but also many countries in Europe and on other continents.

Never at War

Author : Spencer R. Weart
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300082983

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This lively survey of the history of conflict between democracies reveals a remarkable--and tremendously important--finding: fully democratic nations have never made war on other democracies. Furthermore, historian Spencer R. Weart concludes in this thought-provoking book, they probably never will. Building his argument on some forty case studies ranging through history from ancient Athens to Renaissance Italy to modern America, the author analyzes for the first time every instance in which democracies or regimes like democracies have confronted each other with military force. Weart establishes a consistent set of definitions of democracy and other key terms, then draws on an array of international sources to demonstrate the absence of war among states of a particular democratic type. His survey also reveals the new and unexpected finding of a still broader zone of peace among oligarchic republics, even though there are more of such minority-controlled governments than democracies in history. In addition, Weart discovers that peaceful leagues and confederations--the converse of war--endure only when member states are democracies or oligarchies. With the help of related findings in political science, anthropology, and social psychology, the author explores how the political culture of democratic leaders prevents them from warring against others who are recognized as fellow democrats and how certain beliefs and behaviors lead to peace or war. Weart identifies danger points for democracies, and he offers crucial, practical information to help safeguard peace in the future.

The War That Never Was

Author : Duff Hart-Davis
Publisher : Random House
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780099553298

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This title tells the story of a secret war fought by British mercenaries in the Yemen in the early 1960s. The book features British military history, much in the spirit of Ben McIntyre's 'Agent Zigzag' and 'Operation Mincemeat'.

Never-Ending War on Terror

Author : Alex Lubin
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520297401

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An entire generation of young adults has never known an America without the War on Terror. This book contends with the pervasive effects of post-9/11 policy and myth-making in every corner of American life. Never-Ending War on Terror is organized around five keywords that have come to define the cultural and political moment: homeland, security, privacy, torture, and drone. Alex Lubin synthesizes nearly two decades of United States war-making against terrorism by asking how the War on Terror has changed American politics and society, and how the War on Terror draws on historical myths about American national and imperial identity. From the PATRIOT Act to the hit show Homeland, from Edward Snowden to Guantanamo Bay, and from 9/11 memorials to Trumpism, this succinct book connects America's political economy and international relations to our contemporary culture at every turn.

"...the real war will never get in the books"

Author : Louis P. Masur
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1995-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199726868

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"...the real war will never get in the books" by Louis P. Masur Pdf

"These thousands, and tens and twenties of thousands of American young men, badly wounded, all sorts of wounds, operated on, pallid with diarrhea, languishing, dying with fever, pneumonia, &c. open a new world somehow to me, giving closer insights, new things, exploring deeper mines than any yet, showing our humanity, (I sometimes put myself in fancy in the cot, with typhoid, or under the knife,) tried by terrible, fearfulest tests, probed deepest, the living soul's, the body's tragedies, bursting the petty bounds of art." So wrote Walt Whitman in March of 1863, in a letter telling friends in New York what he had witnessed in Washington's war hospitals. In this, we see both a description of war's ravages and a major artist's imaginative response to the horrors of war as it "bursts the petty bounds of art." In "...the real war will never get in the books", Louis Masur has brought together fourteen of the most eloquent and articulate writers of the Civil War period, including such major literary figures as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Henry Adams, and Louisa May Alcott. Drawing on a wide range of material, including diaries, letters, and essays, Masur captures the reactions of these writers as the war was waged, providing a broad spectrum of views. Emerson, for instance, sees the war "come as a frosty October, which shall restore intellectual & moral power to these languid & dissipated populations." African-American writer Charlotte Forten writes sadly of the slaughter at Fort Wagner: "It seems very, very hard that the best and noblest must be the earliest called away. Especially has it been so throughout this dreadful war." There are writings by soldiers in combat. John Esten Cooke, a writer of popular pre-Revolutionary romances serving as a Confederate soldier under J.E.B. Stuart, describes Stonewall Jackson's uniform: "It was positively scorched by sun--had that dingy hue, the product of sun and rain, and contact with the ground...but the men of the old Stonewall Brigade loved that coat." And John De Forest, a Union officer, describes facing a Confederate volley: "It was a long rattle like that which a boy makes in running with a stick along a picket-fence, only vastly louder; and at the same time the sharp, quiet whit-whit of bullets chippered close to our ears." And along the way, we sample many vivid portraits of the era, perhaps the most surprising of which is Louisa May Alcott's explanation of why she preferred her noon-to-midnight schedule in a Washington hospital: "I like it as it leaves me time for a morning run which is what I need to keep well....I trot up & down the streets in all directions, some times to the Heights, then half way to Washington, again to the hill over which the long trains of army wagons are constantly vanishing & ambulances appearing. That way the fighting lies, & I long to follow." With unmatched intimacy and immediacy, "...the real war will never get in the books" illuminates the often painful intellectual and emotional efforts of fourteen accomplished writers as they come to grips with "The American Apocalypse."

The War We Never Fought

Author : Peter Hitchens
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441197160

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Again and again British politicians, commentators and celebrities intone that 'The War on Drugs has failed'. They then say that this is an argument for abandoning all attempts to reduce drug use through the criminal law. Peter Hitchens shows that in Britain there has been no serious 'war on drugs' since 1971, when a Tory government adopted a Labour plan to implement the revolutionary Wootton report. This gave cannabis, the most widely used illegal substance, a special legal status as a supposedly 'soft' drug (in fact, Hitchens argues, it is at least as dangerous as heroin and cocaine because of the threat it poses to mental health). It began a progressive reduction of penalties for possession, and effectively disarmed the police. This process still continues, behind a screen of falsely 'tough' rhetoric from politicians. Far from there being a 'war on drugs', there has been a covert surrender to drugs, concealed behind an official obeisance to international treaty obligations. To all intents and purposes, cannabis is legal in Britain, and other major drugs are not far behind. In The War We Never Fought, Hitchens uncovers the secret history of the government's true attitude, and the increasing recruitment of the police and courts to covert decriminalisation initiatives, and contrasts it with the rhetoric. Whatever and whoever is to blame for the undoubted mess of Britain's drug policy, it is not 'prohibition' or a 'war on drugs', for neither exists.

The Never War

Author : D. J. MacHale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : 0681054417

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The Never War by D. J. MacHale Pdf

Bobby Pendragon, now fifteen, is a loyal friend, sports star, devoted pet owner, and traveler. Along with his uncle Press, Bobby has visited the alternate dimension of Denduron and the watery world of Cloral. Now he flumes to a territory that is rather familiar, First Earth, and then to the seemingly perfect world of Veelox, where reality is more virtual than real.

Why War Is Never a Good Idea

Author : Alice Walker
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780060753856

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Why War Is Never a Good Idea by Alice Walker Pdf

Though War is Old It has not Become wise. Poet and activist Alice Walker personifies the power and wanton devastation of war in this evocative poem. Stefano Vitale’s compelling paintings illustrate this unflinching look at war’s destructive nature and unforeseen consequences.

The War That Never Ends

Author : David L. Anderson,John Ernst
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813145624

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The War That Never Ends by David L. Anderson,John Ernst Pdf

More than three decades after the final withdrawal of American troops from Southeast Asia, the legacy of the Vietnam War continues to influence political, military, and cultural discourse. Journalists, politicians, scholars, pundits, and others have used the conflict to analyze each of America's subsequent military engagements. Many Americans have observed that Vietnam-era terms such as "cut and run," "quagmire," and "hearts and minds" are ubiquitous once again as comparisons between U.S. involvement in Iraq and in Vietnam seem increasingly appropriate. Because of its persistent significance, the Vietnam War era continues to inspire vibrant historical inquiry. The eminent scholars featured in The War That Never Ends offer fresh and insightful perspectives on the continuing relevance of the Vietnam War, from the homefront to "humping in the boonies," and from the great halls of political authority to the gritty hotbeds of oppositional activism. The contributors assert that the Vietnam War is central to understanding the politics of the Cold War, the social movements of the late twentieth century, the lasting effects of colonialism, the current direction of American foreign policy, and the ongoing economic development in Southeast Asia. The seventeen essays break new ground on questions relating to gender, religion, ideology, strategy, and public opinion, and the book gives equal emphasis to Vietnamese and American perspectives on the grueling conflict. The contributors examine such phenomena as the role of women in revolutionary organizations, the peace movements inspired by Buddhism, and Ho Chi Minh's successful adaptation of Marxism to local cultures. The War That Never Ends explores both the antiwar movement and the experiences of infantrymen on the front lines of battle, as well as the media's controversial coverage of America's involvement in the war. The War That Never Ends sheds new light on the evolving historical meanings of the Vietnam War, its enduring influence, and its potential to influence future political and military decision-making, in times of peace as well as war.