Personal Groupings Award Documents And Ephemera Of Rommel S Afrikakorps
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Personal Groupings Award Documents And Ephemera Of Rommel S Afrikakorps
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Author : Robert Kurtz
language : en
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Release Date : 2004
Personal Groupings Award Documents And Ephemera Of Rommel S Afrikakorps written by Robert Kurtz and has been published by Schiffer Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
For German military document collectors this volume has a treasure trove of rare Afrikakorps related award documents, propaganda leaflets, Soldbuchs, Wehrpass and Remembrance/Death cards. Among the many rare documents you will see both Allied and German/Italian propaganda leaflets, Afrikakorps field newspapers, and two field-made newsletters associated with the Sonderverband 288 unit. We have also assembled several complete Afrikakorps veteran groupings and every known document variant of the AFRIKA cuffband and Italian-German Medal.
The Cambridge Dictionary Of Modern World History
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Author : Chris Cook
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
The Cambridge Dictionary Of Modern World History written by Chris Cook and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with History, Modern categories.
Westmoreland
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Author : Lewis Sorley
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2011-10-11
Westmoreland written by Lewis Sorley and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-11 with History categories.
“A terrific book, lively and brisk . . . a must read for anyone who tries to understand the Vietnam War.” —Thomas E. Ricks Is it possible that the riddle of America’s military failure in Vietnam has a one-word, one-man answer? Until we understand Gen. William Westmoreland, we will never know what went wrong in the Vietnam War. An Eagle Scout at fifteen, First Captain of his West Point class, Westmoreland fought in two wars and became Superintendent at West Point. Then he was chosen to lead the war effort in Vietnam for four crucial years. He proved a disaster. Unable to think creatively about unconventional warfare, Westmoreland chose an unavailing strategy, stuck to it in the face of all opposition, and stood accused of fudging the results when it mattered most. In this definitive portrait, prize-winning military historian Lewis Sorley makes a plausible case that the war could have been won were it not for General Westmoreland. An authoritative study offering tragic lessons crucial for the future of American leadership, Westmoreland is essential reading. “Eye-opening and sometimes maddening, Sorley’s Westmoreland is not to be missed.” —John Prados, author of Vietnam: The History of an Unwinnable War, 1945–1975
Zones Of Control
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Author : Pat Harrigan
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2016-04-15
Zones Of Control written by Pat Harrigan and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-15 with Games & Activities categories.
A look at wargaming’s past, present, and future—from digital games to tabletop games—and its use in entertainment, education, and military planning. With examples from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Harpoon, Warhammer 40,000, and more! Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game history. This volume fills that gap, providing a diverse set of perspectives on wargaming’s past, present, and future. In Zones of Control, contributors consider wargames played for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. They consider both digital and especially tabletop games, most of which cover specific historical conflicts or are grounded in recognizable real-world geopolitics. Game designers and players will find the historical and critical contexts often missing from design and hobby literature; military analysts will find connections to game design and the humanities; and academics will find documentation and critique of a sophisticated body of cultural work in which the complexity of military conflict is represented in ludic systems and procedures. Each section begins with a long anchoring chapter by an established authority, which is followed by a variety of shorter pieces both analytic and anecdotal. Topics include the history of playing at war; operations research and systems design; wargaming and military history; wargaming’s ethics and politics; gaming irregular and non-kinetic warfare; and wargames as artistic practice.
Biennial Report Of The Chief Of Staff Of The United States Army To The Secretary Of War
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Author : United States. War Department. General Staff
language : en
Publisher:
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Biennial Report Of The Chief Of Staff Of The United States Army To The Secretary Of War written by United States. War Department. General Staff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Half The Battle
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Author : Robert Mackay
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2002
Half The Battle written by Robert Mackay and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
How well did civilian morale stand up to the pressures of total war and what factors were important to it? This book rejects contentions that civilian morale fell a long way short of the favourable picture presented at the time and in hundreds of books and films ever since. While acknowledging that some negative attitudes and behaviour existed-panic and defeatism, ration-cheating and black-marketeering-it argues that these involved a very small minority of the population. In fact, most people behaved well, and this should be the real measure of civilian morale, rather than the failing of the few who behaved badly. The book shows that although before the war, the official prognosis was pessimistic, measures to bolster morale were taken nevertheless, in particular with regard to protection against air raids. An examination of indicative factors concludes that moral fluctuated but was in the main good, right to the end of the war. In examining this phenomenon, due credit is accorded to government policies for the maintenance of morale, but special emphasis is given to the 'invisible chain' of patriotic feeling that held the nation together during its time of trial.
The Myth Of The Blitz
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Author : Angus Calder
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-06-30
The Myth Of The Blitz written by Angus Calder and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-30 with History categories.
The Myth of the Blitz was nurtured at every level of society. It rested upon the assumed invincibility of an island race distinguished by good humour, understatement and the ability to pluck victory from the jaws of defeat by team work, improvisation and muddling through. In fact, in many ways, the Blitz was not like that. Sixty-thousand people were conscientious objectors; a quarter of London's population fled to the country; Churchill and the royal family were booed while touring the aftermath of air-raids; Britain was not bombed into classless democracy. Angus Calder provides a compelling examination of the events of 1940 and 1941 - when Britain 'stood alone' against the Luftwaffe - and of the Myth which sustained her 'finest hour'.
The People S War
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Author : Angus Calder
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-07-31
The People S War written by Angus Calder and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-31 with History categories.
The Second World War was, for Britain, a 'total war'; no section of society remained untouched by military conscription, air raids, the shipping crisis and the war economy. In this comprehensive and engrossing narrative Angus Calder presents not only the great events and leading figures but also the oddities and banalities of daily life on the Home Front, and in particular the parts played by ordinary people: air raid wardens and Home Guards, factory workers and farmers, housewives and pacifists. Above all this revisionist and important work reveals how, in those six years, the British people came closer to discarding their social conventions than at any time since Cromwell's republic. Winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys prize in 1970, The People’s War draws on oral testimony and a mass of neglected social documentation to question the popularised image of national unity in the fight for victory.
Framing Public Memory
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Author : Kendall R. Phillips
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2004-04-12
Framing Public Memory written by Kendall R. Phillips and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-12 with History categories.
A collection of essays by prominent scholars from many disciplines on the construction of public memories The study of public memory has grown rapidly across numerous disciplines in recent years, among them American studies, history, philosophy, sociology, architecture, and communications. As scholars probe acts of collective remembrance, they have shed light on the cultural processes of memory. Essays contained in this volume address issues such as the scope of public memory, the ways we forget, the relationship between politics and memory, and the material practices of memory. Stephen Browne’s contribution studies the alternative to memory erasure, silence, and forgetting as posited by Hannah Arendt in her classic Eichmann in Jerusalem. Rosa Eberly writes about the Texas tower shootings of 1966, memories of which have been minimized by local officials. Charles Morris examines public reactions to Larry Kramer’s declaration that Abraham Lincoln was homosexual, horrifying the guardians of Lincoln’s public memory. And Barbie Zelizer considers the impact on public memory of visual images, specifically still photographs of individuals about to perish (e.g., people falling from the World Trade Center) and the sense of communal loss they manifest. Whether addressing the transitory and mutable nature of collective memories over time or the ways various groups maintain, engender, or resist those memories, this work constitutes a major contribution to our understanding of how public memory has been and might continue to be framed.
I Have Blinded Myself Writing This
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Author : Jess Stoner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
I Have Blinded Myself Writing This written by Jess Stoner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) categories.
Fiction. I HAVE BLINDED MYSELF WRITING THIS was written by a woman with an affliction: her body needs her memories to clot her cuts, to heal means to lose parts of her past. It is a collection of the blueprints, lists, and photographs of memory meant to be private. It a book written for you. It is a question: as we lose our memories, do we become fragments of ourselves? It is a plea: participate with me in the remembering and the destruction of memory.