The Test Of War

Author : Robert Mackay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135362133

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The Test of War by Robert Mackay Pdf

While it lasted, the Second World War dominated the life of the nations that were involved and most of those that were not. Since Britain was in at both the start and the finish her people experienced the impact of total ar in full measure. The experience was a test of the most comprehensive kind: of the institutions, of the resources, and the very cohesion of the nation. The Test of War by Robert Mackay examines how the nation responded to this test. For a generation after the ending of the war this response was represented as largely unproblematical: faced with mortal threat to their survival the people rallied around their leaders, sank their differences and bore the burdens and sacrifices that were necessary to victory. More recently, demurring voices have challeged this cosy picture by emphasizing negative features of the war as official muddle, low industrial productivity and strikes, the black market, looting and the persistence of hostile class relations. Robert Mackay re-examines these debates, arguing that, for all its imperfections, British society under threat remained vital, cohesive and optimistically creative about its future.

Author : Robert Mackay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OCLC:263581967

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The Test of War by Robert Mackay Pdf

Robert Mackay provides an up-to-date examination of the British home front and the country's experience of war, 1939-1945.

Author : Doris M.. Condit
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433050746118

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The Test of War by Doris M.. Condit Pdf

Author : Steven Ross
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136303357

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American War Plans, 1941-1945 by Steven Ross Pdf

This is an examination of major American and Anglo-American war plans. Rather than discuss the history of planning, Ross considers the execution of the plans, compares the execution with the expectations of the planners and attempts to explain the differences.

Author : John Broom
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781526780188

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Cricket in the Second World War by John Broom Pdf

As the civilised world fought for its very survival, Sir Home Gordon, writing in The Cricketer in September 1939, stated that ‘England has now started the grim Test Match with Germany’, the objective of which was to ‘win the Ashes of civilisation’. Despite the interruption of first-class and Test cricket in England, the game continued to be played and watched by hundreds of thousands of people engaged in military and civilian service. In workplaces, cricket clubs, and military establishments, as well as on the famous grounds of the country, players of all abilities kept the sporting flag flying to sustain morale. Matches raised vast sums for war charities whilst in the north and midlands, competitive League cricket continued, with many Test and county players being employed as weekend professionals by the clubs. Further afield the game continued in all the Test-playing nations and in further-flung outposts around the world. Troops stationed in Europe, Africa and the Far East seized on any opportunity to play cricket, often in the most unusual of circumstances. Luxurious sporting clubs in Egypt hosted matches that pitted English service teams against their Commonwealth counterparts. Luminaries such as Wally Hammond and Lindsay Hassett were cheered on by their uniformed countrymen. Inevitably there was a sombre side to cricket’s wartime account. From renowned Test stars such as Hedley Verity to the keen but modest club player, many cricketers paid the ultimate price for Allied victory. The Victory Tests of 1945 were played against a backdrop of relief and sorrow. Nevertheless, cricket would emerge intact into the post-war world in broadly the same format as 1939. The game had sustained its soul and played its part in the sad but necessary victory of the Grim Test.

Author : Justin Hébert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0990531333

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A Test of Honor by Justin Hébert Pdf

Sir Aidan Franklin has been betrayed. After three years campaigning in a brutal intergalactic war, what should be a joyous return is instead filled with grief and rage - his family is long dead from a suspicious "pox" and their land stolen. Seeking revenge against the corrupt rival Deputy who wronged him, he narrowly escapes the Capitol and joins the Redtail bandit gang, using his experience to train them into an army.While preparing to enforce his House's claim by the sword, Aidan discovers a family secret dangerous enough to overturn the established order and plunge his homeworld into planet-wide civil war. How far will Aidan go to avenge his family and prove his honor?A tale of justice and oppression, longswords and plasma blasters, A Test of Honor is an eclectic, adrenaline-charged adventure set in a world of the future that echoes the past.Book I of the Aidan's War Trilogy.

Author : J. Kael Weston
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780345806949

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The Mirror Test by J. Kael Weston Pdf

A New York Times Editors' Choice A Military Times Best Book of the Year J. Kael Weston spent seven years on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan working for the U.S. State Department. Upon returning home, traveling throughout the United States to pay his respects to the dead and wounded, he wondered what lessons, if any, could be learned from these wars. In this essential book, Weston questions, interprets, and explains our wars in the Middle East through a tapestry of voices—Iraqi, Afghan, and American—taking readers across California and Fallujah, Khost and Colorado. Along the way we meet generals, corporals, and captains, former Taliban fighters, Afghan schoolteachers, SEAL teams, imams, and many Marines. When will these wars end? How will they be remembered? Perhaps no one is better suited to tackle these important questions than Weston. The Mirror Test is an unflinching look at warfare and diplomacy, and a necessary reckoning with America’s actions abroad.

Author : Doris M. Condit
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : United States. Dept. of Defense - History
ISBN : OCLC:809691586

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The Test of War : 1950-1953 by Doris M. Condit Pdf

Author : Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Science
ISBN : EAN:4066339538344

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On War by Carl von Clausewitz Pdf

"On War" by Carl von Clausewitz (translated by J. J. Graham). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Christi Parker
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 0743981545

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Social Studies Test Preparation Civil War by Christi Parker Pdf

These flexible assessments can be used both in correlation with the Primary Sources kits or as stand-alone practice pieces for a variety of standardized tests.The Teacher's Edition includes a lesson to help teach students how to write Document-Based Question essays. Each Student Edition (sold separately in packs of 30 and in Add-On packs of 10) contains an assessment with the following types of questions: multiple choice, constructed-response, and documents leading to a DBQ (Document-Based Question) task.

Author : J. Doyne Farmer,Alissa M. Kleinnijenhuis,Til Schuermann,Thom Wetzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-14
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781108830737

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Handbook of Financial Stress Testing by J. Doyne Farmer,Alissa M. Kleinnijenhuis,Til Schuermann,Thom Wetzer Pdf

Discover current uses and future development of stress tests, the most innovative regulatory tool to prevent and fight financial crises.

Author : Antoine Bousquet
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781452958057

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The Eye of War by Antoine Bousquet Pdf

How perceptual technologies have shaped the history of war from the Renaissance to the present From ubiquitous surveillance to drone strikes that put “warheads onto foreheads,” we live in a world of globalized, individualized targeting. The perils are great. In The Eye of War, Antoine Bousquet provides both a sweeping historical overview of military perception technologies and a disquieting lens on a world that is, increasingly, one in which anything or anyone that can be perceived can be destroyed—in which to see is to destroy. Arguing that modern-day global targeting is dissolving the conventionally bounded spaces of armed conflict, Bousquet shows that over several centuries, a logistical order of militarized perception has come into ascendancy, bringing perception and annihilation into ever-closer alignment. The efforts deployed to evade this deadly visibility have correspondingly intensified, yielding practices of radical concealment that presage a wholesale disappearance of the customary space of the battlefield. Beginning with the Renaissance’s fateful discovery of linear perspective, The Eye of War discloses the entanglement of the sciences and techniques of perception, representation, and localization in the modern era amid the perpetual quest for military superiority. In a survey that ranges from the telescope, aerial photograph, and gridded map to radar, digital imaging, and the geographic information system, Bousquet shows how successive technological systems have profoundly shaped the history of warfare and the experience of soldiering. A work of grand historical sweep and remarkable analytical power, The Eye of War explores the implications of militarized perception for the character of war in the twenty-first century and the place of human subjects within its increasingly technical armature.

Author : Ron Burrows
Publisher : Air World
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781399090711

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Cold War Test Pilot by Ron Burrows Pdf

A chief test pilot recounts his hair-raising experiences with the RAF in this detailed and often-witty memoir. Includes photos. The Falkland Islands had been invaded and a Task Force was already steaming south at full speed. On board the carriers were the Harriers that would provide essential aerial cover for the British troops and ships sent to recapture the islands. They would be entering particularly hostile territory, and the type’s capabilities urgently needed to be expanded and proved. This was a job that Ron Burrows and the test pilots of his elite Fighter Test Squadron at Boscombe Down were ready to take on. From the 1960s to the 1990s, Ron test-flew all the RAF’s fast-jets—in the process of which he survived two crash landings and two emergency ejections, as well as numerous other close shaves. A master of his craft, he rose to become the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment’s chief test pilot, and this is his remarkable story. With four test-flying tours under his belt and close-air-support missions flying Hunters in the Aden Emergency, Ron’s experiences extended throughout the critical final decades of the Cold War. A graduate of the US Navy’s test pilot school, he has flown an unusually broad range of US and UK aircraft from fast-jets to heavy multi-engine aircraft. With his unrivaled knowledge and expertise, he is able to explain the methods, techniques, and demands of his profession, with many examples of what can and often does go wrong in aircraft development and testing. His descriptions of his near misses and catastrophic accidents are written with color and candor. But he also tries to inform the reader about the skills required to fly and test fast-jets and about the development of cockpit displays and design, highlighting some of the issues and problems encountered in development and in operation. “If it can go wrong, it will go wrong” could be the subtitle of this frank and witty account which flies along with the speed of one of those fast-jets.

Author : Jonas Smucker Hartzler
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066438371

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Mennonites in the World War: Non-Resistance Under Test by Jonas Smucker Hartzler Pdf

This is a historical book that provides details into the Mennonite Church's history and its participation in preceding wars before World War I. Authored by Jonas Smucker Hartzler, a Mennonite preacher, and teacher. The remaining part of the book discusses the problems Mennonites faced throughout World War I, due to the non-resistance stance of their doctrine.

Author : Keir A. Lieber
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501724466

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War and the Engineers by Keir A. Lieber Pdf

Do some technologies provoke war? Do others promote peace? Offense-defense theory contends that technological change is an important cause of conflict: leaders will be tempted to launch wars when they believe innovation favors attackers over defenders. Offense-defense theory is perhaps best known from the passionate and intricate debates about first-strike capability and deterrence stability during the cold war, but it has deeper historical roots, remains a staple in international relations theorizing, and drives modern arms control policymaking. In War and the Engineers, the first book systematically to test the logical and empirical validity of offense-defense theory, Keir A. Lieber examines the relationships among politics, technology, and the causes of war. Lieber's cases explore the military and political implications of the spread of railroads, the emergence of rifled small arms and artillery, the introduction of battle tanks, and the nuclear revolution. Lieber incorporates the new historiography of World War I, which draws on archival materials that only recently became available, to challenge many common beliefs about the conflict. The author's central conclusion is that technology is neither a cause of international conflict nor a panacea; instead, power politics remains paramount.