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A Casualty Of War
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Author : Charles Todd
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2017-09-26
A Casualty Of War written by Charles Todd and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-26 with Fiction categories.
From New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd comes a haunting tale that explores the impact of World War I on all who witnessed it—officers, soldiers, doctors, and battlefield nurses like Bess Crawford. Though the Great War is nearing its end, the fighting rages on. While waiting for transport back to her post, Bess Crawford meets Captain Alan Travis from the island of Barbados. Later, when he’s brought into her forward aid station disoriented from a head wound, Bess is alarmed that he believes his distant English cousin, Lieutenant James Travis, shot him. Then the Captain is brought back to the aid station with a more severe wound, once more angrily denouncing the Lieutenant as a killer. But when it appears that James Travis couldn’t have shot him, the Captain’s sanity is questioned. Still, Bess wonders how such an experienced officer could be so wrong. On leave in England, Bess finds the Captain strapped to his bed in a clinic for brain injuries. Horrified by his condition, Bess and Sergeant Major Simon Brandon travel to James Travis’s home in Suffolk, to learn more about the baffling relationship between these two cousins. Her search will lead this smart, capable, and compassionate young woman into unexpected danger, and bring her face to face with the visible and invisible wounds of war that not even the much-longed for peace can heal.
Casualty Of War
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Author : Luisa Lang Owen
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 2002-11-19
Casualty Of War written by Luisa Lang Owen and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-19 with History categories.
Not all casualties of war die on the battlefield. In the wake of World War II, Yugoslavia purged its territory of the ethnic Germans who had formed a part of its human mosaic. Tarred with their ethnic origins and the conscription of their fighting-age men into the Waffen SS, the Volksdeutsche, as these settlers were called, were rounded up at the war's end and herded into concentration camps. Those who were not murdered or did not die from the harsh conditions were expelled from the village homes their families had known and loved for three hundred years. Nine years old when she entered the concentration camp in 1945, author Luisa Lang Owen survived the persecution of the Danube Swabians, eventually finding herself in America, where she made a new life for herself, a life that nonetheless held within it the memories and lessons of the atrocities she had experienced in her homeland. Like thousands of other Germans in the Danube Valley at the end of the war, Luisa and her family were chased from their home, lodged in a sheep stall, and resettled in camps with other Germans from her village. Shorn of their possessions, given little food or fuel, pressed into hard labor, beaten by guards, and separated from their families, many despaired and many died. Luisa barely survived as others succumbed to malnutrition, disease, and exposure. Her haunting memoir provides a window into the ethnic cleansing that preceded the recent exterminations in Bosnia and Kosovo by fifty years—an episode of horrors that has not appeared as even a footnote in descriptions of the more recent atrocities practiced in that region. Her testament, as a casualty of war, bears historic witness and gives insight into the personal experiences of ethnic cleansing. It stands as witness to a massive crime that has been conveniently forgotten, a corrective to a bit of neglect that did away with its victims as a people, and a personal depiction of what ethnic cleansing is really about. “The problem was not just that they did not want us to have or to be,” Luisa Lang Owen writes, “they wanted us not to have been.”
The First Casualty
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Author : Phillip Knightley
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2004-10-05
The First Casualty written by Phillip Knightley and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-05 with History categories.
"The first casualty when war comes, is truth," said American Senator Hiram Johnson in 1917. In his gripping, now-classic history of war journalism, Phillip Knightley shows just how right Johnson was. From William Howard Russell, who described the appalling conditions of the Crimean War in the Times of London, to the ranks of reporters, photographers, and cameramen who captured the realities of war in Vietnam, The First Casualty tells a fascinating story of heroism and collusion, censorship and suppression. Since Vietnam, Knightley reveals, governments have become much more adept at managing the media, as highlighted in chapters on the Falklands War, the Gulf War, and the conflict between NATO and Serbia over Kosovo. And in a new chapter on the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Knightley details even greater degrees of government manipulation and media complicity, as evidenced by the "embedding" of reporters in military units and the uncritical, openly patriotic coverage of these conflicts. "The age of the war correspondent as hero," he concludes, "appears to be over." Fully updated, The First Casualty remains required reading for anyone concerned about freedom of the press, journalistic responsibility, and the nature of modern warfare.
A Casualty Of War The War On Drugs The War Within
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Author : Franklin Walters
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2007-09-19
A Casualty Of War The War On Drugs The War Within written by Franklin Walters and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-19 with Social Science categories.
There is still today much discussion about whether some drugs that the government deems as dangerous should be decriminalized. The U. S. Government imposes fines and imprisonment for the possession and use of marijuana, while the most harmful drug, alcohol and its known dangers, remains legal and extremely abused. The U. S. Government views itself as the world's protectors, yet it imprisons many of its citizens for exercising the right to choose their own lifestyle. If it is a lifestyle that does not bring harm to others, why should the government interfere? This book, A casualty of war, the war on drugs, the war within, is a about a black soldier whose life and the lives of his family were changed forever because of such unjust and inhumane laws. William Francis was introduced to drugs during his first tour in Germany. For much of his military life he used marijuana to cope with racism and other forms of discrimination. The book details the external problems he faced in the military and civilian life and the internal war raging within him because of his religious beliefs. It tells how his wife views his use of marijuana; in that it poses a risk to the family's welfare and his military career if his use is discovered. She and others know that he is more than functional under the influence of marijuana. Determine for yourself whether or not what finally happened to William is justified. And then, if you can without bias and self-righteousness, determine for yourself if the laws are protecting people or unjustly depriving them of their right to real freedom.
The First Casualty
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Author : Phillip Knightley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
The First Casualty written by Phillip Knightley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
"The most comprehensive j'accuse of journalism as propaganda in the English language... Ought to be read by every young reporter and by those who retain pride in our craft of truth-telling, not matter how unpopular or unpalatable the truth." -- John Pilger, from the Preface to the new edition "The first casualty when war comes, is truth," said American Senator Hiram Johnson in 1917, and in his gripping, now-classic history of war journalism, Phillip Knightley shows just how right Johnson was. From William Howard Russell, who described the appalling conditions of the Crimean War in Times [London], to the ranks of reporters, photographers, and cameramen who captured the realities of war in Vietnam, The First Casualty tells a fascinating story of heroism and collusion, censorship and suppression, myth-making and propaganda. Since Vietnam, Knightley finds, governments have become much more adept at managing the media, and in new chapters on the Falklands, the Gulf War, and the former Yugoslavia, he concludes that the war correspondent's role as a seeker of truth is now in jeopardy. From reviews of the first edition: "[This book] may make us all a little more free to talk about and find the truth." -- Garry Wills, New York Times Book Review "Disturbing, even dismaying, yet also in its painful way, enormously entertaining." -- New Yorker
Casualties Of War
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Author : Daniel Lang
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2014-12-16
Casualties Of War written by Daniel Lang and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-16 with History categories.
The searing account of a war crime and one soldier’s heroic efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice First published in the New Yorker in 1969 and later adapted into an acclaimed film starring Michael J. Fox and Sean Penn, Casualties of War is the shocking true story of the abduction, rape, and murder of a young Vietnamese woman by US soldiers. Before setting out on a five-day reconnaissance mission in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam, Sergeant Tony Meserve told the four men under his command that their first objective would be to kidnap a girl and bring her along “for the morale of the squad.” At the end of the mission, Meserve said, they would kill their victim and dispose of the body to avoid prosecution for abduction and rape—capital crimes in the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Private First Class Sven Eriksson was the only member of the patrol who refused to participate in the atrocity. Haunted by his inability to save the young woman’s life, he vowed to see Meserve and the others convicted of their crimes. Faced with the cynical indifference of his commanding officers and outright hostility from his fellow infantrymen, Eriksson had the tenacity to persevere. He went on to serve as the government’s chief witness in four courts-martial related to the infamous Incident on Hill 192. A masterpiece of contemporary journalism, Casualties of War is a clear-eyed, powerfully affecting portrait of the horrors of warfare and the true meaning of courage.
A Casualty Of War
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Author : Josh Gordon
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2002-09-22
A Casualty Of War written by Josh Gordon and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-22 with Fiction categories.
Sterling McCabe dreams of being a United States Marine. When a war erupts with a mysteroius alien race, he learns that being a Marine isn't what he'd imagined. People die. Lives are shattered. War takes no prisoners. Beth Carlisle is one of Sterling McCabe's squadmates. She joined the Marine Corps to get out of backwoods Maine, only to discover herself in the middle of a war. She must come to terms with her family and her relationship with Sterling while under fire. Their squad becomes one of the best in the Marine Corps, but war takes its toll. Their friends die, and they must hold on to each other or they too will become casualties of war.
Needless Casualties Of War
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Author : John-Paul Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Nexgen
Release Date : 2000-04-08
Needless Casualties Of War written by John-Paul Jackson and has been published by Nexgen this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-04-08 with Prayer categories.
Prayer is a powerful weapon, a two-edged sword not to be wielded carelessly. There are certain types of prayer Satan would like us to use. Although we have authority as the children of God, how we fight can determine the personal consequences of our spiri
Providing For The Casualties Of War
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Author : Bernard D. Rostker
language : en
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Release Date : 2013-04-29
Providing For The Casualties Of War written by Bernard D. Rostker and has been published by Rand Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-29 with Medical categories.
War has always been a dangerous business, bringing injury, wounds, and death, and--until recently--often disease. What has changed over time, most dramatically in the last 150 or so years, is the care these casualties receive and who provides it. This book looks at the history of how humanity has cared for its war casualties and veterans, from ancient times through the aftermath of World War II.
A Casualty Of War
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Author : Hannah Cook
language : en
Publisher: WestBow Press
Release Date : 2015-08-27
A Casualty Of War written by Hannah Cook and has been published by WestBow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The scene is often romanticized: the emotional, happy reunion of loved ones embracing their beloved soldier, returned home from his time on the battlefield, relieved to have him safely home. But what if he doesn’t come home? What if he makes the decision, while deployed, that he no longer wishes to be reunited with the family he left behind? This is one such story of many too often repeated, one of a faithful wife, abandoned by her soldier, left to fend for herself and pick up the tattered pieces of what remains of her life, without an understanding of what became of the man she once knew and loved. War has many consequences, not only for the people who enlist to fight it, but for the people who are left behind and whose lives are forever changed as a result.