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Author : Charles Clements
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1985-05
Category : El Salvador-Honduras Conflict, 1969
ISBN : 0553267795
A moving account of one year in the early 1980s spent by a Quaker doctor with guerrillas in El Salvador.
Author : Susan Toomey Frost
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595349699
Witness to War presents a compelling visual record of a young American man’s venture in Mexico as the country veered into revolution in the early 1900s. Walter Elias Hadsell, a skilled photographer who had recently graduated as a mining engineer, documented a critical period of foreign investment in Mexico’s mining industry and, in the process, captured scenes of Mexican life in other cities. Susan Toomey Frost draws from an extensive collection of Hadsell’s original photographic prints to narrate his ten years in Mexico. The images in Witness to War follow him from his time as a mining engineer in Mexico to his 1917 return to mining in Arizona, his home state. Planning for a future career in photography, Hadsell soon acquired the Kodak franchise for Veracruz, Mexico’s most important port since colonial times. He documented the damage done in Mexico City during a ten-day uprising in 1913 that led to the assassination of Mexican president Francisco Madero. Veracruz became a vortex for U.S. interference in the Mexican Revolution when President Woodrow Wilson invaded the country in 1914 in an attempt to thwart Mexico's successor president and to favor opposing forces. Hadsell, as a resident American citizen, had immediate access to the military operation as it unfolded. His images are essential historical records of Wilson’s intervention in Mexican affairs. Hadsell’s camera recorded images of a defenseless city disrupted by the landing of thousands of American troops. With no exit plan, U.S. forces remained for seven months before abruptly departing. Hadsell’s personal life took a tragic turn with the death of his wife, who left him with three young children, all born in Mexico. He endured another tragedy with the loss of his Veracruz studio during a period of anti-Americanism, though he ultimately left a rich legacy documenting U.S.-Mexico relations at a critical time.
Author : Ahmed Aboul Gheit
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781617978944
The son of a fighter pilot, raised in an air force barracks, Ahmed Aboul Gheit was privy to the confidential meetings, undisclosed memoranda, and battle secrets of Egyptian diplomacy for many decades. After a stint at military college, he began his career at the Egyptian embassy in Cyprus before later going on to become permanent representative to the United Nations and eventually, Egypt’s minister of foreign affairs under Hosni Mubarak. In this fascinating memoir, Aboul Gheit looks back on the 1973 October War and the diplomatic efforts that followed it, revealing the secrets of his long career for the first time. In vivid detail he describes the deliberations of Egypt’s political leadership in the run-up to the war, including the process of articulating Egypt’s war aims, the secret communications between President Sadat and U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the role of the Soviet Union during the war, and the unfolding of events on the battlefront in Sinai. He then gives a detailed and deeply personal account of the arduous process of peacemaking that followed, covering the 1973 Geneva Conference, the 1977 Mena House Conference, Sadat’s visit to Israel, the 1978 Camp David Accords, and the subsequent 1979 Egyptian–Israeli Peace Treaty. From Sadat’s impassioned address to his cabinet on the eve of the war to delegations ripping out the wiring at their respective hotels, from Jimmy Carter cycling through the bungalows at Camp David to Yitzhak Shamir’s blunt admissions to his Arab counterparts in the 1991 Madrid conference, Aboul Gheit offers an information-packed, first-person account of a turbulent time in Middle Eastern history.
Author : Colm Doyle
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526736123
The early 1990s saw Europes first conflict for almost 40 years when bitter fighting broke out in the former Yugoslav republic. Colonel Colm Doyle of the Irish Army found himself in the midst of this appalling civil war when in October 1991 he became first a European Community Monitor and almost immediately Head of the Monitor Mission in besieged Sarajevo. After six months he was appointed Personal Representative to Lord Carrington, Chairman of the Peace Conference on Yugoslavia.In this overdue memoir, he describes his role mediating, negotiating and persuading political and military leaders of all sides to halt the seemingly inexorable path to all-out war. He arranged ceasefires, visited prisoner-of-war camps, extricated election monitors and organised hostage releases. His experiences made him a key witness at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague at the trials of Milosevic, Mladic and Karadzic.With his unprecedented access, Doyles personal account can claim to be one of the most significant works on the brutal Bosnian War.
Author : Antoinette May
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015008874151
Author : Richard Aldrich
Publisher : Random House
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781448168149
WITNESS TO WAR is an eye-opening retelling of the war experience through the private diaries kept by people from all walks of life and from many countries. The twentieth century's Second World War announced its arrival from a distance, and as early as spring 1938 city-dwellers across Europe expected destruction on an epic scale. Men, women and children, most of whom had never kept a diary before, began to chronicle their own responses to what they knew would be a unique moment in world history. The cast of characters represented in these diaries - more than three hundred in number - ranges from politicians, soldiers and spies to ordinary citizens and housewives, from a London schoolboy watching V-1 doodlebugs from his bedroom window to an interned German refugee robbed and beaten by British troops. Many others are famous, and this collection includes rare material from figures such as Joseph Goebbels, Joyce Grenfell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Evelyn Waugh and Noël Coward. It also contains the insights of many who were close to Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler. Most of these diaries involved a degree of danger and secrecy. In occupied Europe a captured diary could betray friends and relatives to the enemy. Some were downright illegal, such as those kept by soldiers on the front line. More than half a century after the end of the war, these hidden treasures - the voices of the past - are still being unearthed. Many of these accounts languished unread, unpublished and gathering dust in scholarly archives around the world. Richard Aldrich has devoted two decades to sustained research in more than a dozen countries. This is war at first hand described in the most immediate terms, not mediated through the voice of peripheral observers or shaded by fading memory or political allegiances.
Author : Nicholas Stargardt
Publisher : Random House
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781407085661
Witnesses of War is the first work to show how children experienced the Second World War under the Nazis. Children were often the victims in this most terrible of European conflicts, falling prey to bombing, mechanised warfare, starvation policies, mass flight and genocide. But children also became active participants, going out to smuggle food, ply the black market, and care for sick parents and siblings. As they absorbed the brutal new realities of German occupation, Polish boys played at being Gestapo interrogators, and Jewish children at being ghetto guards or the SS. Within days of Germany's own surrender, German children were playing at being Russian soldiers. As they imagined themselves in the roles of their all-powerful enemies, children expressed their hopes and fears, as well as their humiliation and envy. This is the first account of the Second World War which brings together the opposing perspectives and contrasting experiences of those drawn into the new colonial empire of the Third Reich. German and Jewish, Polish and Czech, Sinti and disabled children were all to be separated along racial lines, between those fit to rule and those destined to serve; ultimately between those who were to live and those who were to die. Because the Nazis measured their success in terms of Germany's racial future, children lay at the heart of their war. Drawing on a wide range of new sources, from welfare and medical files to private diaries, letters and pictures, Nicholas Stargardt evokes the individual voices of children under Nazi rule. By bringing their experiences of the war together for the first time, he offers a fresh and challenging interpretation of the Nazi social order as a whole.
Author : Rod Paschall
Publisher : Perigee Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015037422865
This is the story of the Korean War, told by those who lived it - pilots and sailors, chiefs of state and foot soldiers, generals, guerrillas, and diplomats. From the post-World War II division to the first Soviet-American political argument, the June 1950 invasion to the truce talks, Witness to War: Korea provides the story of the war in the words of those who fought it; a timeline of events; maps and photographs; and a perspective that goes beyond the battlefields - to offer new insight into this defining moment in American history.
Author : Don Nardo
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780756546939
Chronicles the Civil War using photographs taken by Mathew Brady and his employees.
Author : Karen Farrington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:809290010
Author : Rut Likhṭenshṭain
Publisher : Gefen Books
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0982494904
Witness to History, a comprehensive book on the Holocaust aimed at both laymen and Jewish high school and college students, is unique in that it is a fully sourced, academically reliable history of the Holocaust, with particular emphasis on the experiences of religious Jews.
Author : Dianne Strong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Recreational dive industry
ISBN : 0957406630
Author : Wilfried Hein
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781460251171
A Witness in Times of War and Peace is a searing memoir that describes the struggles a Mennonite pastor experiences during the Second World War. Gerhard Hein is a practicing Mennonite when he is called up for duty, and he must reconcile his pacifist beliefs with the obligation to serve in Germany’s Wehrmacht. He displays courage in a terrifying and uncertain time by voicing his concerns about the National Socialistic ideology in both words and deeds, standing up for his beliefs by pointing to the One who can bring real peace. His story shows that in the darkness of war, rays of genuine love, care, and compassion can shine through.
Author : Jim Lewin
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780060891503
For four bloody years, the Civil War ravaged America. Those at home could only imagine the sights and events overtaking their husbands and sons, fathers and brothers who were under arms. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper was a primary source of information during those dark days. The reporters and artists who traveled with the armies were eyewitnesses to events, great and small, for their captivated readers. Sometimes the news was sensational. At other times it was tragic. But it was always eagerly sought after. Here are the accounts, in pictures and stories, of those first wartime journalists. Here are their reports from the front lines. Here is the Civil War's news as originally presented to loved ones at home. Here you will find images of the battles, the leaders, the camp life, and of the soldiers who gave their all for North and South. In your hands you hold the testimony of those who were Witness to the Civil War.
Author : Chuck Bordell
Publisher : Caliber Comics
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-04
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781620989326
An account of the Battle of the Bulge told from the perspective of a female journalist who becomes trapped in the incredible struggle to hold off the German Army. The Battle of the Bulge...the Watch on the Rhine...the Ardennes Offensive...whatever name is used for this epic battle, it involved over a million men and was the largest land battle that the United States Army was involved in during the Second World War. This fictional account of Anna Krieg, a female news correspondent who is embedded with an American platoon in the Ardennes forest during the incredible saga of the last ditch effort by the German Army to reverse the tide of war strikes a true chord of dealing with the nature and the horror of war. Written and illustrated by Chuck Bordell, this graphic novel immerses itself in a realistic approach to warfare through the eyes of a naïve and innocent woman who finds herself trapped in a war she only thought she understood. "A hard-hitting, history-drenched account of World War II's Battle of the Bulge." - Nick Davis - Missoula News A Caliber Comics release.
