Legacy Of A War
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The Legacy Of The Civil War
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Author : Robert Penn Warren
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1998-01-01
The Legacy Of The Civil War written by Robert Penn Warren and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-01 with History categories.
In this elegant book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer explores the manifold ways in which the Civil War changed the United States forever. He confronts its costs, not only human (six hundred thousand men killed) and economic (beyond reckoning) but social and psychological. He touches on popular misconceptions, including some concerning Abraham Lincoln and the issue of slavery. The war in all its facets “grows in our consciousness,” arousing complex emotions and leaving “a gallery of great human images for our contemplation.”
The Legacy Of The Great War
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Author : Jay Winter
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2009-10-26
The Legacy Of The Great War written by Jay Winter and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-26 with History categories.
In late 2007 and early 2008, world-renowned historians gathered in Kansas City for a series of public forums on World War I. Each of the five events focused on a particular topic and featured spirited dialogue between its prominent participants. In spontaneous exchanges, the eminent scholars probed each other’s arguments, learned from each other, and provided insights not just into history but also into the way scholars think about their subject alongside and at times in conflict with their colleagues. Representing a fourth generation of writers on the Great War and a transnational rather than an international approach, prominent historians Niall Ferguson and Paul Kennedy, Holger Afflerbach and Gary Sheffield, John Horne and Len Smith, John Milton Cooper and Margaret MacMillan, and Jay Winter and Robert Wohl brought to the proceedings an exciting clash of ideas. The forums addressed topics about the Great War that have long fascinated both scholars and the educated public: the origins of the war and the question of who was responsible for the escalation of the July Crisis; the nature of generalship and military command, seen here from the perspectives of a German and a British scholar; the private soldiers’ experiences of combat, revealing their strategies of survival and negotiation; the peace-making process and the overwhelming pressures under which statesmen worked; and the long-term cultural consequences of the war—showing that the Great War was “great” not merely because of its magnitude but also because of its revolutionary effects. These topics continue to reverberate, and in addition to shedding new light on the subjects, these forums constitute a glimpse at how historical writing happens. American society did not suffer the consequences of the Great War that virtually all European countries knew—a lack of perspective that the National World War I Museum seeks to correct. This book celebrates that effort, helping readers feel the excitement and the moral seriousness of historical scholarship in this field and drawing more Americans into considering how their own history is part of this story.
Legacy Of War
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Author : Ed Marohn
language : en
Publisher: Bookbaby
Release Date : 2019-07
Legacy Of War written by Ed Marohn and has been published by Bookbaby this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07 with categories.
A new patient triggers Psychologist John Moore's traumatic memories of his last days of the Vietnam War. Moore is forced to return to modern-day Vietnam, a journey confronting his past war demons: the dying on the killing fields, a rogue CIA agent, corrupt South Vietnamese Army officers, the father he never knew, and the war's perverted killing machine--the Phoenix Program. In the decaying jungles he fights his anguish compounded by his wife's death and his growing attraction to a national police agent.
Histories Of The Aftermath
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Author : Frank Biess
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2010
Histories Of The Aftermath written by Frank Biess and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
In 1945, Europeans confronted a legacy of mass destruction and death: millions of families had lost their homes and livelihoods; millions of men had lost their lives; and millions more had been displaced by the war's destruction. This volume explores how Europeans came to terms with these multiple pasts.
Sacrifice And Rebirth
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Author : Mark Cornwall
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2016-01-01
Sacrifice And Rebirth written by Mark Cornwall and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-01 with History categories.
When Austria-Hungary broke up at the end of the First World War, the sacrifice of one million men who had died fighting for the Habsburg monarchy now seemed to be in vain. This book is the first of its kind to analyze how the Great War was interpreted, commemorated, or forgotten across all the ex-Habsburg territories. Each of the book’s twelve chapters focuses on a separate region, studying how the transition to peacetime was managed either by the state, by war veterans, or by national minorities. This “splintered war memory,” where some posed as victors and some as losers, does much to explain the fractious character of interwar Eastern Europe.
Haunting Legacy
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Author : Marvin Kalb
language : en
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Release Date : 2011-06-01
Haunting Legacy written by Marvin 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 2011-06-01 with Political Science categories.
The United States had never lost a war—that is, until 1975, when it was forced to flee Saigon in humiliation after losing to what Lyndon Johnson called a "raggedy-ass little fourth-rate country." The legacy of this first defeat has haunted every president since, especially on the decision of whether to put "boots on the ground" and commit troops to war. In Haunting Legacy, the father-daughter journalist team of Marvin Kalb and Deborah Kalb presents a compelling, accessible, and hugely important history of presidential decisionmaking on one crucial issue: in light of the Vietnam debacle, under what circumstances should the United States go to war? The sobering lesson of Vietnam is that the United States is not invincible—it can lose a war—and thus it must be more discriminating about the use of American power. Every president has faced the ghosts of Vietnam in his own way, though each has been wary of being sucked into another unpopular war. Ford (during the Mayaguez crisis) and both Bushes (Persian Gulf, Iraq, Afghanistan) deployed massive force, as if to say, "Vietnam, be damned." On the other hand, Carter, Clinton, and Reagan (to the surprise of many) acted with extreme caution, mindful of the Vietnam experience. Obama has also wrestled with the Vietnam legacy, using doses of American firepower in Libya while still engaged in Iraq and Afghanistan. The authors spent five years interviewing hundreds of officials from every post war administration and conducting extensive research in presidential libraries and archives, and they've produced insight and information never before published. Equal parts taut history, revealing biography, and cautionary tale, Haunting Legacy is must reading for anyone trying to understand the power of the past to influence war-and-peace decisions of the present, and of the future.
The Legacy Of Iraq
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Author : Benjamin Isakhan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-09-15
The Legacy Of Iraq written by Benjamin Isakhan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-15 with History categories.
In March 2003, a US-led "Coalition of the Willing' launched a pre-emptive intervention against Iraq. The nine long years of military occupation that followed saw an ambitious project to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy, underpinned by free-market capitalism and constituted by a citizen body free to live in peace and prosperity. However, the Iraq war did not go to plan and the coalition were forced to withdraw all combat troops at the end of 2011, having failed to deliver on their promise of a democratic, peaceful and prosperous Iraq. This text seeks not only to reflect on this abject failure but to put forth the argument that key decisions and errors of judgment on the part of the coalition and the Iraqi political elite set in train a sequence of events that have had devastating consequences for Iraq, for the region and for the world. -- cover
The Blitz And Its Legacy
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Author : Mark Clapson
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2013
The Blitz And Its Legacy written by Mark Clapson and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Political Science categories.
The Blitz and Its Legacy is a fascinating volume which includes war experiences of destruction, architecture, urban design, the political process of planning and reconstruction, and also popular perceptions of rebuilding. Its findings provide very timely lessons which highlight the value of learning from historical precedent. Drawing together leading scholars and new researchers from across the fields of planning, history, architecture and geography, this volume presents an historical and cultural commentary on the immediate and longer-term impacts of wartime destruction.
Betrayal
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Author : Aaron Allston
language : en
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Release Date : 2006
Betrayal written by Aaron Allston and has been published by Random House Digital, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Fiction categories.
Jacen Solo and Ben Skywalker are ambushed and uncover evidence that a rebellion is brewing.
Courtney S War
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Author : Wilbur Smith
language : en
Publisher: Zaffre
Release Date : 2019-05
Courtney S War written by Wilbur Smith and has been published by Zaffre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05 with Adventure stories categories.
An epic story of courage, betrayal and undying love that takes the reader to the very heart of a world at war.