War And Shadows

Author : Mai Lan Gustafsson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780801457456

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Vietnamese culture and religious traditions place the utmost importance on dying well: in old age, body unblemished, with surviving children, and properly buried and mourned. More than five million people were killed in the Vietnam War, many of them young, many of them dying far from home. Another 300,000 are still missing. Having died badly, they are thought to have become angry ghosts, doomed to spend eternity in a kind of spirit hell. Decades after the war ended, many survivors believe that the spirits of those dead and missing have returned to haunt their loved ones. In War and Shadows, the anthropologist Mai Lan Gustafsson tells the story of the anger of these spirits and the torments of their kin. Gustafsson's rich ethnographic research allows her to bring readers into the world of spirit possession, focusing on the source of the pain, the physical and mental anguish the spirits bring, and various attempts to ameliorate their anger through ritual offerings and the intervention of mediums. Through a series of personal life histories, she chronicles the variety of ailments brought about by the spirits' wrath, from headaches and aching limbs (often the same limb lost by a loved one in battle) to self-mutilation. In Gustafsson's view, the Communist suppression of spirit-based religion after the fall of Saigon has intensified anxieties about the well-being of the spirit world. While shrines and mourning are still allowed, spirit mediums were outlawed and driven underground, along with many of the other practices that might have provided some comfort. Despite these restrictions, she finds, victims of these hauntings do as much as possible to try to lay their ghosts to rest.

Author : Robert B. Asprey
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Guerrilla warfare
ISBN : 9780595225941

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Ranging from Alexander the Great's battles with Asiatic Scythians, through the Russian Revolution, and on up to the turmoil in the Middle East and the battle in Northern Ireland, War in the Shadows is a book of monumental sweep and singular perspective. It also contains a comprehensive and hard-hitting strategic evaluation of the Vietnam War-one of the most significant analyses of "the war that won't go away." War in the Shadows tells the story of the countries currently torn by armed insurgencies and clarifies the causes of each conflict. It provides the broad viewpoint necessary for understanding them in the historical terms of guerilla warfare. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the end of the Cold War, and a highly unstable "new world order," this brand of rebellion has never been more powerful and potentially disruptive. As the author states in his Foreword, "For a number of reasons guerilla warfare has evolved into an ideal instrument for the realization of social-political-economic aspirations of underprivileged peoples. This is so patently true as to allow one to suggest that we may be witnessing a transition to a new era in warfare, an era as radically different as those of which followed the writings of Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, Clausewitz, and Mahan." War in the Shadows is crucial to understanding the complex challenges of our new and dangerous era.

Author : Michael F Brown,Eduardo Fernández
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520911352

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War of Shadows by Michael F Brown,Eduardo Fernández Pdf

War of Shadows is the haunting story of a failed uprising in the Peruvian Amazon—told largely by people who were there. Late in 1965, Asháninka Indians, members of one of the Amazon's largest native tribes, joined forces with Marxist revolutionaries who had opened a guerrilla front in Asháninka territory. They fought, and were crushed by, the overwhelming military force of the Peruvian government. Why did the Indians believe this alliance would deliver them from poverty and the depredations of colonization on their rainforest home? With rare insight and eloquence, anthropologists Brown and Fernández write about an Amazonian people whose contacts with outsiders have repeatedly begun in hope and ended in tragedy. The players in this dramatic confrontation included militants of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR), the U. S. Embassy, the Peruvian military, a "renegade" American settler, and the Asháninka Indians themselves. Using press reports and archival sources as well as oral histories, the authors weave a vivid tapestry of narratives and counternarratives that challenges the official history of the guerrilla struggle. Central to the story is the Asháninkas' persistent hope that a messiah would lead them to freedom, a belief with roots in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century jungle rebellions and religious movements.

Author : Gershom Gorenberg
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610396288

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In this World War II military history, Rommel's army is a day from Cairo, a week from Tel Aviv, and the SS is ready for action. Espionage brought the Nazis this far, but espionage can stop them—if Washington wakes up to the danger. As World War II raged in North Africa, General Erwin Rommel was guided by an uncanny sense of his enemies' plans and weaknesses. In the summer of 1942, he led his Axis army swiftly and terrifyingly toward Alexandria, with the goal of overrunning the entire Middle East. Each step was informed by detailed updates on British positions. The Nazis, somehow, had a source for the Allies' greatest secrets. Yet the Axis powers were not the only ones with intelligence. Brilliant Allied cryptographers worked relentlessly at Bletchley Park, breaking down the extraordinarily complex Nazi code Enigma. From decoded German messages, they discovered that the enemy had a wealth of inside information. On the brink of disaster, a fevered and high-stakes search for the source began. War of Shadows is the cinematic story of the race for information in the North African theater of World War II, set against intrigues that spanned the Middle East. Years in the making, this book is a feat of historical research and storytelling, and a rethinking of the popular narrative of the war. It portrays the conflict not as an inevitable clash of heroes and villains but a spiraling series of failures, accidents, and desperate triumphs that decided the fate of the Middle East and quite possibly the outcome of the war.

Author : Carolyn Nordstrom
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520239776

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Shadows of War by Carolyn Nordstrom Pdf

Annotation This book captures the human face of the frontlines, revealing both the visible and the hidden realities of contemporary war, power, and international profiteering in the 21st century.

Author : Arnold R. Isaacs
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000-04-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801863449

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Vietnam Shadows by Arnold R. Isaacs Pdf

Isaacs talks to the veterans unable to forget the war no one wanted to talk about. He explores the class divisions deepened by a conflict in which the privileged avoided service that an earlier generation had embraced as a duty. And he shows how the "Vietnam Syndrome" continues to affect nearly every major U.S. foreign policy decision, from the Persion Gulf to Somalia, Bosnia, and Haiti.

Author : William Stanley Moss
Publisher : London, T.V. Boardman [1952]
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : History
ISBN : OSU:32435012976965

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A War of Shadows by William Stanley Moss Pdf

Author : Robert B. Asprey
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Guerrilla warfare
ISBN : 9780595225934

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Two thousand years of the guerrilla at war from ancient Persia to the present.

Author : Claudia Theune
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9088904545

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A Shadow of War by Claudia Theune Pdf

This book presents archaeological research from places of war, violence, protest and oppression of the 20th and the 21st century; sites where the material relics give a deep insight to fateful events - a shadow of war. Alongside renewed interest in National Socialism and the Holocaust, archaeological interest started in former concentration camps of the Nazi dictatorship. The focus was on the central places of the camps, such as the gas chambers, the crematoria, or execution sites, as well as prisoners' barracks and the parade ground. In many cases, these sites revealed forgotten and vanished structures, where archaeological excavations can offer the possibility for commemorating the victims. The research has since widened and includes other sites of Nazi dictatorship and the Second World War, as well as the First World War, the Cold War and locations of civil wars and civilian protest against state authorities and against companies and corporations in many parts of the world. In order to come to a comprehensive understanding contemporary archaeology must take a global perspective. Archaeological finds often shed light on daily life, revealing survival conditions in the internment camps; the lives of people and their fighting and dying on battlefields and in trenches. Likewise, the relics of politically active people in protest camps give an impression of their commitment in civilian protest. Sometimes material remains can help to tell an alternative or balancing narrative to the state's official recorded history. The enormous volume and diverse range of material culture presents challenges and opportunities. Through careful archaeological investigation, we can present different and new perspectives that are not recorded clearly in existing written, pictorial or oral archives. The merging and examination of all sources together is what enables us to understand the complexity of the history. This book will also present future directions in contemporary archaeology that will help bring the study focus beyond sites and assemblages of war and protest.

Author : Jeffrey Wilson,Brian Andrews
Publisher : Thomas & Mercer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1503942031

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War Shadows by Jeffrey Wilson,Brian Andrews Pdf

A Wall Street Journal bestseller. John Dempsey, former Navy SEAL and Tier One operator, is back. Only a few months into his new life as an operative for Ember, the United States' most covert counterterrorism entity, he must stop an old nemesis who's resurfaced after ten years of operating in the shadows. From the deserts of Iraq, through the jungles of Guatemala, to the streets of suburbia, Dempsey and his Ember team race against time to stop a series of horrific and devious attacks against the homeland. In this second installment of the Tier One series, John Dempsey faces his greatest challenge as he continues to evolve from a decorated Navy SEAL into the country's most lethal protector.

Author : William Alexander Binny Douglas,Brereton Greenhous
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9781550021516

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Out of the Shadows by William Alexander Binny Douglas,Brereton Greenhous Pdf

This new edition of the highly regarded work includes recent research on the topic of radio intelligence and cryptography.

Author : Brian Gallagher
Publisher : The O'Brien Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781847175373

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Secrets and Shadows by Brian Gallagher Pdf

When her home is destroyed in the Luftwaffe bombing of the North Strand, Dublin in 1941, Grace Ryan is forced to move in with relatives in a different part of the city. There she meets Barry Malone, an English boy sent to neutral Ireland to escape the terrible air raids on his native city of Liverpool. Wary of each other at first, Grace and Barry become friends when she acts to stop him being bullied in his new school. Barry later saves Grace from losing her part-time job in a shop and, with school about to end, a summer of fun stretches before them in the sports club run by his teacher, Mr Pawlek. However, Barry begins to suspect Mr Pawlek of spying for the Nazis and he enrols Grace in his attempts to find proof. But what starts as an exciting challenge becomes increasingly risky, and their friendship is put to the test when their very lives hang in the balance.

Author : Timothy J. Lynch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521199872

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In the Shadow of the Cold War by Timothy J. Lynch Pdf

Examines American engagement with the world from the fall of Soviet communism through the opening years of the Trump administration.

Author : Fred Burton,John R. Bruning
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0230117953

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Chasing Shadows by Fred Burton,John R. Bruning Pdf

On a warm Saturday night in July 1973 in Bethesda Maryland, a gunman stepped out from behind a tree and fired five point-blank shots into Joe Alon, an unassuming Israeli Air Force pilot and family man. Alon's sixteen-year-old neighbor, Fred Burton, was deeply shocked by this crime that rocked his sleepy suburban neighborhood. As it turned out, Alon wasn't just a pilot—he was a high-ranking military official and with intelligence ties. The assassin was never found and the case was closed. In 2007, Fred Burton—who had since become a State Department counterterrorism special agent—reopened the case. Here, in Chasing Shadows, Burton spins a gripping tale of the secret agents, double dealings, terrorists and heroes he encounters he chases leads around the globe in an effort to solve this decades-old murder. From swirling dogfights over Egypt and Hanoi to gun battles on the streets of Beirut, this action-packed thriller looks in the dark heart of the Cold War to show power is uses, misused, and sold to the most convenient bidder.

Author : Jennifer Aitken
Publisher : Jennifer Aitken
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781738061020

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War of Shadows by Jennifer Aitken Pdf

Lucius Xavier’s epic adventure continues in this richly imagined sequel. It will whisk you through the fabric of the Universe, drop you into worlds unknown and plunge you into the battle to end all battles. While Lucius struggles to become apart of an elite dimensional civilization, the shadow is spreading. Tartarus, an all-powerful dimensional being, has been building strength for millennia in the shadow realm but he is done biding his time. He has his sights set on Lucius, who could not be less prepared for the battle ahead. But he is not alone. His band of allies travel with him through the dimensions to wage war on the shadow and save Earth from certain destruction. Lucius must harness all the Universal powers available to him in order to meet Tartarus face to face and fulfill his prophecy and secure his place with the dimensional beings.