The Peoples War

Author : Angus Calder
Publisher : Random House
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781448103102

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The People's War by Angus Calder Pdf

The Second World War was, for Britain, a 'total war'; no section of society remained untouched by military conscription, air raids, the shipping crisis and the war economy. In this comprehensive and engrossing narrative Angus Calder presents not only the great events and leading figures but also the oddities and banalities of daily life on the Home Front, and in particular the parts played by ordinary people: air raid wardens and Home Guards, factory workers and farmers, housewives and pacifists. Above all this revisionist and important work reveals how, in those six years, the British people came closer to discarding their social conventions than at any time since Cromwell's republic. Winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys prize in 1970, The People’s War draws on oral testimony and a mass of neglected social documentation to question the popularised image of national unity in the fight for victory.

Author : Robert W. Thurston,Bernd Bonwetsch
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 0252026004

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The People's War by Robert W. Thurston,Bernd Bonwetsch Pdf

The People's War lifts the Stalinist veil of secrecy to probe an almost untold side of World War II: the experiences of the Soviet people themselves. Going beyond dry and faceless military accounts of the eastern front of the "Great Patriotic War" and the Soviet state's one-dimensional "heroic People," this volume explores how ordinary citizens responded to the war, Stalinist leadership, and Nazi invasion. Drawing on a wealth of archival and recently published material, contributors detail the calculated destruction of a Jewish town by the Germans and present a chilling picture of life in occupied Minsk. They look at the cultural developments of the war as well as the wartime experience of intellectuals, for whom the period was a time of relative freedom. They discuss women's myriad roles in combat and other spheres of activity. They also reassess the behavior and morale of ordinary Red Army troops and offer new conclusions about early crushing defeats at the hands of the Germans--defeats that were officially explained as cowardice on the part of high officers. A frank investigation of civilian life behind the front lines, The People's War provides a detailed, balanced picture of the Stalinist USSR by describing not only the command structure and repressive power of the state but also how people reacted to them, cooperated with or opposed them, and adapted or ignored central policy in their own ways. By putting the Soviet people back in their war, this volume helps restore the range and complexity of human experience to one of history's most savage periods.

Author : Anthea Jeffrey
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781868429974

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People's War by Anthea Jeffrey Pdf

More than 25 years have passed since South Africans were being shot or hacked or burned to death in political violence, and the memory of the trauma has faded. Nevertheless, some 20 500 people were killed between 1984 and 1994. Conventional wisdom has it that most died as a result of the ANC's people's war. Many books have been written on South Africa's political transition, but none has dealt adequately with the people's war. This book does. It shows the extraordinary success of the people's war in giving the ANC a virtual monopoly on power, as well as the great cost at which this was done. The high price of it is still being paid. Apart from the terror and killings it sparked at the time, the people's war set in motion forces that cannot easily be tamed. Violence, once unleashed, is not easy to stamp out. 'Ungovernability', once generated, is not readily reversed. For this new edition, Anthea Jeffery has revised and abridged her seminal work. She has also included a brief overview of the ANC's National Democratic Revolution for which the people's war was intended to prepare the way. Since 1994, the NDR has been implemented in many different spheres. It is now being speeded up in its second and more radical phase.

Author : James Martin Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0243684177

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People's War Book by James Martin Miller Pdf

Author : Jonathan Fennell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 967 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107030954

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Fighting the People's War by Jonathan Fennell Pdf

Jonathan Fennell captures for the first time the true wartime experience of the ordinary soldiers from across the empire who made up the British and Commonwealth armies. He analyses why the great battles were won and lost and how the men that fought went on to change the world.

Author : Vo Nguyen Giap
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583678244

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Military Art of People's War by Vo Nguyen Giap Pdf

This collection includes the major writings of General Giap, who, on the evidence of his record as well as his theoretical work, has long been recognized as one of the military geniuses of modern times. The book includes writings from the 1940s to the end of the 1960s.

Author : Ina Zharkevich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108600385

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War, Maoism and Everyday Revolution in Nepal by Ina Zharkevich Pdf

By providing a rich ethnography of wartime social processes in the former Maoist heartland of Nepal, this book explores how the Maoist People's War (1996–2006) transformed Nepali society. Drawing on long-term fieldwork with people who were located at the epicentre of the conflict, including both ardent Maoist supporters and 'reluctant rebels', it explores how a remote Himalayan village was forged as the centre of the Maoist rebellion, how its inhabitants coped with the situation of war and the Maoist regime of governance, and how they came to embrace the Maoist project and maintain ordinary life amidst the war while living in a guerilla enclave. By focusing on people's everyday lives, the book illuminates how the everyday became a primary site of revolution of crafting new subjectivities, introducing 'new' social practices and displacing the 'old' ones, and reconfiguring the ways that people act in and think about the world through the process of 'embodied change'.

Author : Sonya O. Rose
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191037535

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Which People's War? by Sonya O. Rose Pdf

Which People's War? examines how national belonging, or British national identity, was envisaged in the public culture of the World War II home front. Using materials from newspapers, magazines, films, novels, diaries, letters, and all sorts of public documents, it explores such questions as: who was included as 'British' and what did it mean to be British? How did the British describe themselves as a singular people, and what were the consequences of those depictions? It also examines the several meanings of citizenship elaborated in various discussions concerning the British nation at war. This investigation of the powerful constructions of national identity and understandings of citizenship circulating in Britain during the Second World War exposes their multiple and contradictory consequences at the time. It reveals the fragility of any singular conception of 'Britishness' even during a war that involved the total mobilization of the country's citizenry and cost 400,000 British civilian lives.

Author : Marc Opper
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0472038745

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People's Wars in China, Malaya, and Vietnam by Marc Opper Pdf

People’s Wars in China, Malaya, and Vietnam explains why some insurgencies collapse after a military defeat while under other circumstances insurgents are able to maintain influence, rebuild strength, and ultimately defeat the government. The author argues that ultimate victory in civil wars rests on the size of the coalition of social groups established by each side during the conflict. When insurgents establish broad social coalitions (relative to the incumbent), their movement will persist even when military defeats lead to loss of control of territory because they enjoy the support of the civilian population and civilians will not defect to the incumbent. By contrast, when insurgents establish narrow coalitions, civilian compliance is solely a product of coercion. Where insurgents implement such governing strategies, battlefield defeats translate into political defeats and bring about a collapse of the insurgency because civilians defect to the incumbent. The empirical chapters of the book consist of six case studies of the most consequential insurgencies of the 20th century including that led by the Chinese Communist Party from 1927 to 1949, the Malayan Emergency (1948–1960), and the Vietnam War (1960–1975). People’s Wars breaks new ground in systematically analyzing and comparing these three canonical cases of insurgency. The case studies of China and Malaya make use of Chinese-language archival sources, many of which have never before been used and provide an unprecedented level of detail into the workings of successful and unsuccessful insurgencies. The book adopts an interdisciplinary approach and will be of interest to both political scientists and historians.

Author : Wesley G. Phelps
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780820346717

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A People's War on Poverty by Wesley G. Phelps Pdf

Phelps investigates the on-the-ground implementation of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty during the 1960s and 1970s and argues that the fluid interaction between federal policies, urban politics, and grassroots activists created a significant site of conflict over the meaning of American democracy.

Author : Mao Tse-tung
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486119571

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On Guerrilla Warfare by Mao Tse-tung Pdf

The first documented, systematic study of a truly revolutionary subject, this 1937 text remains the definitive guide to guerrilla warfare. It concisely explains unorthodox strategies that transform disadvantages into benefits.

Author : Thomas A. Marks,Paul Rich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Insurgency
ISBN : 1138484849

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People's War by Thomas A. Marks,Paul Rich Pdf

This is a major new collection that investigates Maoist and post-Maoist approaches to Peoples War and their continuing relevance in contemporary international politics and security. The chapters were originally published in a special issue of Small Wars & Insurgencies.

Author : Michael Hutt
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Communism
ISBN : 0253345227

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Himalayan People's War by Michael Hutt Pdf

Provides authoritative background and interpretation of the Maoist insurgency in Nepal.

Author : Mao Tse-Tung
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:468951682

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On the Protracted War. [Transl. from the Chinese Text Given in the 2nd Ed. of the "Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung", Vol. II]. by Mao Tse-Tung Pdf

Author : Charles Royster
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807899830

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A Revolutionary People At War by Charles Royster Pdf

In this highly acclaimed book, Charles Royster explores the mental processes and emotional crises that Americans faced in their first national war. He ranges imaginatively outside the traditional techniques of analytical historical exposition to build his portrait of how individuals and a populace at large faced the Revolution and its implications. The book was originally published by UNC Press in 1980.