An Honorable War
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An Honorable War
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Author : Robert N. Macomber
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2017-02-15
An Honorable War written by Robert N. Macomber and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-15 with Fiction categories.
Politics, love, and war swirl around Captain Peter Wake (USN) in Havana when the USS Maine explodes on a quiet evening in February 1898. Working with Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt in the tense prewar days, carrying out a perilous espionage mission inside Cuba, and leading a disastrous raid on the Cuban coast, Wake is in the middle of it all. The Popular Fiction silver medalist in the 2017 Florida Book Awards, this is the first of three dynamic books set during the Spanish-American War in the Caribbean, when America changes forever into a global power.
Letter Of The Honorable The Se
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Author : United States War Dept
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-08-29
Letter Of The Honorable The Se written by United States War Dept and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-29 with History categories.
What Every Person Should Know About War
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Author : Chris Hedges
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2007-11-01
What Every Person Should Know About War written by Chris Hedges and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-01 with History categories.
Acclaimed New York Times journalist and author Chris Hedges offers a critical -- and fascinating -- lesson in the dangerous realities of our age: a stark look at the effects of war on combatants. Utterly lacking in rhetoric or dogma, this manual relies instead on bare fact, frank description, and a spare question-and-answer format. Hedges allows U.S. military documentation of the brutalizing physical and psychological consequences of combat to speak for itself. Hedges poses dozens of questions that young soldiers might ask about combat, and then answers them by quoting from medical and psychological studies. • What are my chances of being wounded or killed if we go to war? • What does it feel like to get shot? • What do artillery shells do to you? • What is the most painful way to get wounded? • Will I be afraid? • What could happen to me in a nuclear attack? • What does it feel like to kill someone? • Can I withstand torture? • What are the long-term consequences of combat stress? • What will happen to my body after I die? This profound and devastating portrayal of the horrors to which we subject our armed forces stands as a ringing indictment of the glorification of war and the concealment of its barbarity.
Honorable Exit
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Author : Thurston Clarke
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2019-04-30
Honorable Exit written by Thurston Clarke and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-30 with History categories.
A MAIN SELECTION OF THE MILITARY BOOK CLUB A groundbreaking revisionist history of the last days of the Vietnam War that reveals the acts of American heroism that saved more than one hundred thousand South Vietnamese from communist revenge In 1973 U.S. participation in the Vietnam War ended in a cease-fire and a withdrawal that included promises by President Nixon to assist the South in the event of invasion by the North. But in early 1975, when North Vietnamese forces began a full-scale assault, Congress refused to send arms or aid. By early April that year, the South was on the brink of a defeat that threatened execution or years in a concentration camp for the untold number of South Vietnamese who had supported the government in Saigon or worked with Americans. Thurston Clarke begins Honorable Exit by describing the iconic photograph of the Fall of Saigon: desperate Vietnamese scrambling to board a helicopter evacuating the last American personnel from Vietnam. It is an image of U.S. failure and shame. Or is it? By unpacking the surprising story of heroism that the photograph actually tells, Clarke launches into a narrative that is both a thrilling race against time and an important corrective to the historical record. For what is less known is that during those final days, scores of Americans--diplomats, businessmen, soldiers, missionaries, contractors, and spies--risked their lives to assist their current and former translators, drivers, colleagues, neighbors, friends, and even perfect strangers in escape. By the time the last U.S. helicopter left Vietnam on April 30, 1975, these righteous Americans had helped to spirit 130,000 South Vietnamese to U.S. bases in Guam and the Philippines. From there, the evacuees were resettled in the U.S. and became American citizens, the leading edge of one of America's most successful immigrant groups. Into this tale of heroism on the ground Clarke weaves the political machinations of Henry Kissinger advising President Ford in the White House while reinforcing the delusions of the U.S. Ambassador in Saigon, who, at the last minute, refused to depart. Groundbreaking, page-turning, and authoritative, Honorable Exit is a deeply moving history of Americans at a little-known finest hour.
An Honorable Defeat
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Author : William C. Davis
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Release Date : 2001
An Honorable Defeat written by William C. Davis and has been published by Houghton Mifflin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A dramatic tale of the fall, flight, and capture of the Confederate government in 1865, "An Honorable Defeat" is a rich canvas of a time of despair that sweeps from the marble halls of Richmond to a dingy room in a Havana hotel. Two 8-page photo inserts.
American War
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Author : Omar El Akkad
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2017-04-04
American War written by Omar El Akkad and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-04 with Fiction categories.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle—this gripping debut novel asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself. From the author of What Strange Paradise "Powerful ... as haunting a postapocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy [created] in The Road." —The New York Times Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. When her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she begins to grow up shaped by her particular time and place. But not everyone at Camp Patience is who they claim to be. Eventually Sarat is befriended by a mysterious functionary, under whose influence she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. The decisions that she makes will have tremendous consequences not just for Sarat but for her family and her country, rippling through generations of strangers and kin alike.
An Honorable German
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Author : Charles L. McCain
language : en
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Release Date : 2010-06-01
An Honorable German written by Charles L. McCain and has been published by Grand Central Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-01 with Fiction categories.
In the tradition of Das Boot and The Hunt for Red October comes a sweeping saga of World War II, featuring a heroic and conflicted German U-Boat commander. An Honorable German When World War II begins, Max Brekendorf, a proud young German naval officer, fights for his country with honor and courage. With the unstoppable German war machine overrunning Europe, Max looks ahead to a bright future with his fiancée, Mareth. But as the war progresses, their future together becomes less and less certain. German victories begin to fade. In the North Atlantic, Max must face the increasing strength of the Allies on ever more harrowing missions. Berlin itself is savaged by bombing, making life for Mareth increasingly dangerous and desperate. And as the Third Reich steadily crumbles, Nazi loyalists begin to infiltrate Max's crew and turn their terror on Germany's own armed forces. Recognizing what his nation has become, Max is forced to make a choice between his own sense of morality, and his duty to the Reich. With its stirring, rarely seen glimpse of the German home front during WWII, vivid characters, and evocation of the drama and terror of war at sea, An Honorable German is a suspense-filled story of adventure, of love and loss, and of honor and redemption.
The Road To War
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Author : Marvin L. Kalb
language : en
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Release Date : 2013
The Road To War written by Marvin L. Kalb and has been published by Brookings Institution Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Road to War examines how presidential commitments can lead to the use of American military force, and to war. Marvin Kalb notes that since World War II, "presidents have relied more on commitments, public and private, than they have on declarations of war, even though the U.S. Constitution declares rather unambiguously that Congress has the responsibility to "declare" war.
Official Letters To The Honorable American Congress
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Author : Merton Professor of English Literature John Carey
language : en
Publisher: War College Series
Release Date : 2015-02-24
Official Letters To The Honorable American Congress written by Merton Professor of English Literature John Carey and has been published by War College Series this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-24 with categories.
This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience, and includes the latest analysis of international threats, both conventional and asymmetric. It also includes riveting first person accounts of historic battles and wars.Some of the books in this Series are reproductions of historical works preserved by some of the leading libraries in the world. As with any reproduction of a historical artifact, some of these books contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. We believe these books are essential to this collection and the study of war, and have therefore brought them back into print, despite these imperfections.We hope you enjoy the unmatched breadth and depth of this collection, from the historical to the just-published works.
All Honourable Men
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Author : Michael Johnson
language : en
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Release Date : 2001-08-24
All Honourable Men written by Michael Johnson and has been published by I.B. Tauris this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-08-24 with Political Science categories.
Ethnic conflict is a pervasive feature of the modern world, yet while there are many studies of the social construction of difference, there are few that deal with the emotional content of ethnic violence. Drawing on sociological and psychoanalytic theory and using comparative examples from other parts of the world, Michael Johnson examines the history of confessional or ethnic identity in Lebanon and the civil wars of the 1970s and 1980s. He demonstrates that far from being residues of a traditional society, the values of ethnic honor and shame are peculiarly modern phenomena. He explains the horrors of ethnic warfare in terms of social threats to patriarchal authority in sexually repressive families. These threats fuel a style of violence in which shame acquires its own dynamics.