Just Deserters
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Just Deserters
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Just Deserters written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Child soldiers categories.
Eritrea is one of the biggest refugee producing countries in the world. During the European summer in 2015, headlines, political summits and activism abounded over the refugee crisis. The largest groups among those risking their lives to cross the Mediterranean were Syrians and Afghans, fleeing from armed conflict and abuses by non-state actors including the Islamic State. But the third biggest group crossing the Mediterranean were Eritreans, fleeing from a tiny country in the Horn of Africa with no ongoing armed conflict. The reasons why Eritreans, especially young adults flee, are less publicized and less well understood.
The Deserters
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Author : Luke Short
language : en
Publisher: Center Point Pub
Release Date : 2006
The Deserters written by Luke Short and has been published by Center Point Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Fiction categories.
No critter is lower than a soldier who murders his own. But Jess Fairly had done just that – killed his buddies to grab a paymaster's gold. With it, he'd bought himself a new identity and became mining magnate Ben Maule. He owned an entire Arizona town and an army of hired guns. Lieutenant Pete Brisbin had a simple mission. Bring the deserter to justice. And there was only one way to do that. He'd have to brawl and shoot his way into the town of Banning and become Ben Maule's most trusted man. One of America's greatest action writers, Luke Short's novels are classic Western fiction renowned for their historical authenticity and the raw violence that typified the conquest of the last frontier.
The Deserters
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Author : Charles Glass
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2013-06-13
The Deserters written by Charles Glass and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-13 with History categories.
“Powerful and often startling…The Deserters offers a provokingly fresh angle on this most studied of conflicts.” --The Boston Globe A groundbreaking history of ordinary soldiers struggling on the front lines, The Deserters offers a completely new perspective on the Second World War. Charles Glass—renowned journalist and author of the critically acclaimed Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation—delves deep into army archives, personal diaries, court-martial records, and self-published memoirs to produce this dramatic and heartbreaking portrait of men overlooked by their commanders and ignored by history. Surveying the 150,000 American and British soldiers known to have deserted in the European Theater, The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II tells the life stories of three soldiers who abandoned their posts in France, Italy, and Africa. Their deeds form the backbone of Glass’s arresting portrait of soldiers pushed to the breaking point, a sweeping reexamination of the conditions for ordinary soldiers. With the grace and pace of a novel, The Deserters moves beyond the false extremes of courage and cowardice to reveal the true experience of the frontline soldier. Glass shares the story of men like Private Alfred Whitehead, a Tennessee farm boy who earned Silver and Bronze Stars for bravery in Normandy—yet became a gangster in liberated Paris, robbing Allied supply depots along with ordinary citizens. Here also is the story of British men like Private John Bain, who deserted three times but never fled from combat—and who endured battles in North Africa and northern France before German machine guns cut his legs from under him. The heart of The Deserters resides with men like Private Steve Weiss, an idealistic teenage volunteer from Brooklyn who forced his father—a disillusioned First World War veteran—to sign his enlistment papers because he was not yet eighteen. On the Anzio beachhead and in the Ardennes forest, as an infantryman with the 36th Division and as an accidental partisan in the French Resistance, Weiss lost his illusions about the nobility of conflict and the infallibility of American commanders. Far from the bright picture found in propaganda and nostalgia, the Second World War was a grim and brutal affair, a long and lonely effort that has never been fully reported—to the detriment of those who served and the danger of those nurtured on false tales today. Revealing the true costs of conflict on those forced to fight, The Deserters is an elegant and unforgettable story of ordinary men desperately struggling in extraordinary times.
Borderless Empire
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Author : Bram Hoonhout
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2020
Borderless Empire written by Bram Hoonhout and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Demerara categories.
Introduction: borderless societies -- The borderland -- Political conflicts -- Rebels and runaways -- The centrality of smuggling -- The web of debt -- Borderless businessmen -- Conclusion: the shape of empire.
The Wiley Blackwell Anthology Of African American Literature Volume 2
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Author : Gene Andrew Jarrett
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2014-01-13
The Wiley Blackwell Anthology Of African American Literature Volume 2 written by Gene Andrew Jarrett and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiographies, and essays authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the present. Evenly divided into two volumes, it is also the first such anthology to be conceived and published for both classroom and online education in the new millennium. Reflects the current scholarly and pedagogic structure of African American literary studies Selects literary texts according to extensive research on classroom adoptions, scholarship, and the expert opinions of leading professors Organizes literary texts according to more appropriate periods of literary history, dividing them into seven sections that accurately depict intellectual, cultural, and political movements Includes more reprints of entire works and longer selections of major works than any other anthology of its kind This second volume contains a comprehensive collection of texts authored by African Americans from the 1920s to the present The two volumes of this landmark anthology can also be bought as a set, at over 20% savings.
Devils Are Dancing
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Author : Terry Kestel
language : en
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Release Date : 2022-09-30
Devils Are Dancing written by Terry Kestel and has been published by Austin Macauley Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-30 with Fiction categories.
Devils are Dancing is a coming-of-age story about heroism, a dysfunctional family, determination and enduring love. It is the story about the importance of mateship in adverse times as a boy becomes a man. Paul is a young man in search of his identity and the love he has lost. From the battlefields of the Iberian Peninsula in 1811 to the battle of Waterloo in 1815, Paul struggles to navigate the impact of war. However, a chance meeting with a fellow officer changes his life and helps him to grow and flourish despite his past struggles.
The Spanish Civil War
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Author : Hugh Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-03-28
The Spanish Civil War written by Hugh Thomas and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-28 with History categories.
Though more than half a century has passed since the Spaish Civil War began in 1936, it is still the subject of intense controversy. What was it that roused left wing sympathisers from all over the world to fight for a cause for which their governments would not give active support? In his famous history, Hugh Thomas presents an objective analysis of a conflict - where fascism and democracy, communism and Christianity, centralism and regionalism were all at stake - and which was a much an international civil war as a Spanish one.
Soldiering In The Army Of Northern Virginia
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Author : Joseph T. Glatthaar
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2011
Soldiering In The Army Of Northern Virginia written by Joseph T. Glatthaar and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
In this sophisticated quantitative study, Joseph T. Glatthaar provides a comprehensive narrative and statistical analysis of many key aspects of General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Serving as a companion to Glatthaar's General Lee's Army
American State Papers
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Author : USA
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1859
American State Papers written by USA and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1859 with categories.
American State Papers
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Author : United States. Congress
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1859
American State Papers written by United States. Congress and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1859 with Archives categories.