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Making Sense Of War
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Author : Amir Weiner
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2002-04-14
Making Sense Of War written by Amir Weiner and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-14 with History categories.
Reconceptualizes the historical experience of the Soviet Union from a different perspective, that of World War II. Breaking with the conventional interpretation that views World War II as a post-revolutionary addendum, this work situates this event at the crux of the development of the Soviet - not just the Stalinist - system." - publisher.
Making Sense Of War
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Author : Alan Stephens
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-10-17
Making Sense Of War written by Alan Stephens and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-17 with History categories.
This provides a comprehensive and clear analysis of the complex business of waging war, and give readers a thorough understanding of the key concepts in strategic thought, concepts that have endured for about 2500 years. Authors from the Australian Defence Force Academy.
Making Sense Of War
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Author : Amir Weiner
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2012-01-16
Making Sense Of War written by Amir Weiner and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-16 with History categories.
In Making Sense of War, Amir Weiner reconceptualizes the entire historical experience of the Soviet Union from a new perspective, that of World War II. Breaking with the conventional interpretation that views World War II as a post-revolutionary addendum, Weiner situates this event at the crux of the development of the Soviet--not just the Stalinist--system. Through a richly detailed look at Soviet society as a whole, and at one Ukrainian region in particular, the author shows how World War II came to define the ways in which members of the political elite as well as ordinary citizens viewed the world and acted upon their beliefs and ideologies. The book explores the creation of the myth of the war against the historiography of modern schemes for social engineering, the Holocaust, ethnic deportations, collaboration, and postwar settlements. For communist true believers, World War II was the purgatory of the revolution, the final cleansing of Soviet society of the remaining elusive "human weeds" who intruded upon socialist harmony, and it brought the polity to the brink of communism. Those ridden with doubts turned to the war as a redemption for past wrongs of the regime, while others hoped it would be the death blow to an evil enterprise. For all, it was the Armageddon of the Bolshevik Revolution. The result of Weiner's inquiry is a bold, compelling new picture of a Soviet Union both reinforced and enfeebled by the experience of total war.
Making Sense Of Normandy
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Author : E. Carver Mcgriff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-09-22
Making Sense Of Normandy written by E. Carver Mcgriff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
We should have begun to face the sobering probability that we were heading for the hell of battle, but we were kids. We'd heard of war in far-off places, places like Italy and Africa, and the faraway Pacific, but we were in England. We thought life would go on like this with excitement, new places to see, friends we'd never otherwise have met, a sense of manhood new to most of us . . . how little we knew. Barely more than children, soon to suffer the death of innocence. Carver McGriff was 19 years old when he left Indiana and his innocence behind to join in the battle for freedom on one of the most important and bloodiest battlefields of World War II. In Making Sense of Normandy: A Young Man's Journey of War and Faith, McGriff gives a rare veteran first-hand account of the harsh realities of WWII combat - not only the struggle for physical survival but for emotional and spiritual survival as well. It is a timeless story for all generations, a rare treasure that will touch the hearts and minds of all the Greatest Generations - yesterday's, today's and tomorrow's.
Making Sense Of The Great War
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Author : Alex Mayhew
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-03-31
Making Sense Of The Great War written by Alex Mayhew and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-31 with History categories.
This interdisciplinary account explores how English infantrymen in Belgium and France experienced and coped with war between 1914 and 1918.
War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning
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Author : Chris Hedges
language : en
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Release Date : 2014-04-08
War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning written by Chris Hedges and has been published by PublicAffairs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-08 with History categories.
General George S. Patton famously said, "Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, I do love it so!" Though Patton was a notoriously single-minded general, it is nonetheless a sad fact that war gives meaning to many lives, a fact with which we have become familiar now that America is once again engaged in a military conflict. War is an enticing elixir. It gives us purpose, resolve, a cause. It allows us to be noble. Chris Hedges of The New York Times has seen war up close -- in the Balkans, the Middle East, and Central America -- and he has been troubled by what he has seen: friends, enemies, colleagues, and strangers intoxicated and even addicted to war's heady brew. In War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, he tackles the ugly truths about humanity's love affair with war, offering a sophisticated, nuanced, intelligent meditation on the subject that is also gritty, powerful, and unforgettable.
The 33 Strategies Of War
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Author : Robert Greene
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2010-09-03
The 33 Strategies Of War written by Robert Greene and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-03 with Self-Help categories.
Sun Tzu better watch his back' New York Magazine 'An Art of War-style book of tough guy maxims to live by' Evening Standard Spanning world civilizations, synthesizing dozens of political, philosophical, and religious texts and thousands of years of violent conflict, The 33 Strategies of War is the I-Ching of conflict, the contemporary companion to Sun Tzu's The Art of War. Abundantly illustrated with examples from history, from powerful world leaders like Napoleon and Margaret Thatcher, to Shaka the Zulu and Hannibal, each of the thirty-three chapters outlines a strategy to help you win life's wars. Learn proactive methods that require you to maintain initiative and negotiate from positions of strength, or defensive strategies that allow you to respond to dangerous situations and avoid unwinnable wars. Great warriors of battlefields and boardrooms alike demonstrate prudence, agility, balance and calm, and a keen understanding that the rational and resourceful always defeat the panicked. An indispensable book, The 33 Strategies of War provides you with all the advice you need to gain and maintain the upper hand.
Nimo S War Emma S War
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Author : Cynthia H. Enloe
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2010
Nimo S War Emma S War written by Cynthia H. Enloe and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
"Nimo's War, Emma's War is unique in examining the gendered dimension of the Iraq war, particularly its impact on ordinary Iraqi and American women, thereby revealing an important long-term cost of the conflict. Cynthia Enloe's approach and analysis are extremely original and innovative."--Nadje Al-Ali, author of What Kind of Liberation?: Women and the Occupation of Iraq "Nimo's War, Emma's War is Cynthia Enloe's darkest and most strikingly conceived text to date. War is not 'in' Iraq and Afghanistan, where foreign militaries confront local people, rather it is everywhere, most particularly in 'peacetime' domestic spaces, 'civilian' employment, marital bedrooms and high schools."--Terrell Carver, author of Politics, Language and Metaphor "Cynthia Enloe has pioneered the subject of women, militarism, and war in a series of revelatory books, including Bananas, Beaches, and Bases, The Morning After: Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War, and Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives. Nimo's War, Emma's War is her best one yet."--Chalmers Johnson, author of The Blowback Trilogy "Brilliantly researched, vividly written, Cynthia Enloe has gifted us with a new and different story of modern warfare. Entirely gripping and profoundly humane, every page raises new issues. To factor in Nimo and Emma--all the women and families touched by the carnage and agony of war, is to see the bitter range of tragedy community by community. To read this book is to ask: What are we doing to our children--all our children, combatants and civilians? How do women cope with post-war wounds and violence--agony, wreckage, displacement? Cynthia Enloe's book is essential reading for all students and journalists, public citizens and peace activists, who seek women's dignity, healthy societies, humane alternatives to the insanity of careless military destruction."--Blanche Wiesen Cook, author of The Declassified Eisenhower, Eleanor Roosevelt (vols I & II, III forthcoming)
War And Anti War
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Author : Alvin Toffler
language : en
Publisher: Grand Central Pub
Release Date : 1995-01
War And Anti War written by Alvin Toffler and has been published by Grand Central Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-01 with History categories.
Citing the millions of lives that have been lost during Cold War conflict, a study predicts where and how future wars will be fought and present a paradigm for peace through technology, communication, and human innovation. Reprint.
Making Sense Of The Alt Right
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Author : George Hawley
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2017-09-19
Making Sense Of The Alt Right written by George Hawley and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-19 with Political Science categories.
During the 2016 election, a new term entered the mainstream American political lexicon: “alt-right,” short for “alternative right.” Despite the innocuous name, the alt-right is a white-nationalist movement. Yet it differs from earlier racist groups: it is youthful and tech savvy, obsessed with provocation and trolling, amorphous, predominantly online, and mostly anonymous. And it was energized by Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. In Making Sense of the Alt-Right, George Hawley provides an accessible introduction and gives vital perspective on the emergence of a group whose overt racism has confounded expectations for a more tolerant America. Hawley explains the movement’s origins, evolution, methods, and core belief in white-identity politics. The book explores how the alt-right differs from traditional white nationalism, libertarianism, and other online illiberal ideologies such as neoreaction, as well as from mainstream Republicans and even Donald Trump and Steve Bannon. The alt-right’s use of offensive humor and its trolling-driven approach, based in animosity to so-called political correctness, can make it difficult to determine true motivations. Yet through exclusive interviews and a careful study of the alt-right’s influential texts, Hawley is able to paint a full picture of a movement that not only disagrees with liberalism but also fundamentally rejects most of the tenets of American conservatism. Hawley points to the alt-right’s growing influence and makes a case for coming to a precise understanding of its beliefs without sensationalism or downplaying the movement’s radicalism.