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An Honourable Exit

Author : Eric Vuillard
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1035003988
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book An Honourable Exit written by Eric Vuillard and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2023-04-20 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the International Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Order of the Day and The War of the Poor comes a searing account of a conflict that dealt a fatal blow to French colonialism. 'Excoriating and profound . . . A remarkable work' - Scotsman 'Absolutely spectacular' - France Info 19 October 1950. The war is not going to plan. In Paris, politicians gather to discuss what to do about Indochina. The conflict is unpopular back home in France: too expensive, and too far away for the public to care. Withdrawal is not an option – a global power cannot surrender to an army of peasants – but victory is impossible without more soldiers and more money. The soldiers can be sourced from the colonies, but the money is out of the question. A solution needs to be found. In this gripping and shocking novel, Éric Vuillard exposes the tangled web of politicians, bankers and titans of industry who all had a vested interest in France’s prolonged presence in lands far from Paris. Skilfully skewering the guilty, Vuillard shows us how key players in conflicts throughout history often have a motivation even deeper and darker than nationalism and political ideology – greed. As well as bringing scenes from the battlefields to life, Vuillard looks beyond this visceral reality on the ground to the cold calculations of the boardroom elite with the power to turn a military win or loss into their financial gain. Short, sharp and brutal, An Honourable Exit by Éric Vuillard is a journey behind closed doors to witness how history is really made.

Honorable Exit

Author : Thurston Clarke
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1101872349
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Honorable Exit written by Thurston Clarke and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The War of the Poor

Author : Éric Vuillard
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1635420091
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book The War of the Poor written by Éric Vuillard and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Booker Prize Finalist The Spectator (UK): Best Book of the Year From the award-winning author of The Order of the Day, a powerful account of the German Peasants’ War (1524–25) that shows striking parallels to class conflicts of our time. In the sixteenth century, the Protestant Reformation launched an attack on privilege and the Catholic Church, but it rapidly became an established, bourgeois authority itself. Rural laborers and the urban poor, who were still being promised equality in heaven, began to question why they shouldn’t have equality here and now on earth. There ensued a furious struggle between the powerful—the comfortable Protestants—and the others, the wretched. They were led by a number of theologians, one of whom has left his mark on history through his determination and sheer energy. His name was Thomas Müntzer, and he set Germany on fire. The War of the Poor recounts his story—that of an insurrection through the Word. In his characteristically bold, cinematic style, Éric Vuillard draws insights from this revolt from nearly five hundred years ago, which remains shockingly relevant to the dire inequalities we face today.

Napoléon Bonaparte

Author : Fahed Aslan Agha Al Barazi
Publisher : novum pro Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3990648861
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Napoléon Bonaparte written by Fahed Aslan Agha Al Barazi and published by novum pro Verlag. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweeping in scope and insightfully written, this biography of Napoleon Bonaparte covers the great man's political and military career in great detail, while also discussing his personal life from infancy, including his genealogy, upto his death at age 52. (Volume I of II)

The Life of the Learned Sir John Cheke, Kt., First Instructor, Afterwards Secretary of State, to King Edward VI ...

Author : John Strype
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Command

Author : Lawrence Freedman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197540678
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Command written by Lawrence Freedman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using examples from a wide variety of conflicts, Lawrence Freedman shows that successful military command depends on the ability not only to use armed forces effectively but also to understand the political context in which they are operating. Command in war is about forging effective strategies and implementing them, making sure that orders are appropriate, well-communicated, and then obeyed. But it is also an intensely political process. This is largely because how wars are fought depends to a large extent on how their aims are set. It is also because commanders in one realm must possess the ability to work with other command structures, including those of other branches of the armed forces and allies. In The Politics of Command, Lawrence Freedman explores the importance of political as well as operational considerations in command with a series of eleven vivid case studies, all taken from the period after 1945. Over this period, the risks of nuclear escalation led to a shift away from great power confrontations and towards civil wars, and advances in communication technologies made it easier for higher-level commanders to direct their subordinates. Freedman covers defeats as well as victories. Pakistani generals tried to avoid surrender as they were losing the eastern part of their country to India in 1971. Iraq's Saddam Hussein turned his defeats into triumphant narratives of victory. Osama bin Laden escaped the Americans in Afghanistan in 2001. The UK struggled as a junior partner to the US in Iraq after 2003. We come across insubordinate generals, such as Israel's Arik Sharon, and those in the French army in Algeria, so frustrated with their political leadership that they twice tried to change it. At the other end of the scale, Che Guevara in Congo in 1966 and Igor Girkin in Ukraine in 2014 both tried to spark local wars to suit their grandiose objectives. Freedman ends the book with a meditation on the future of command in a world that is becoming increasingly reliant on technologies like artificial intelligence. A wide-ranging and insightful history of the changing nature of command in the postwar era, this will stand as a definitive account of a foundational concept in both military affairs and politics.

Portrait of Bonaparte

Author : François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
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Download or read book Portrait of Bonaparte written by François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Never Surrender

Author : Mark Felton
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783830107
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (838 download)

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Download or read book Never Surrender written by Mark Felton and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2013-06-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there have been many fine books covering the appalling experiences and great courage of the many thousands of POWscaptured by the victorious Japanese during late 1941 and early 1942, escape accounts are much rarer. This is due in large part tothe fact that only a comparatively small number of brave souls attempted to escape to freedom rather than suffer brutality,starvation and very possibly death as POWs. However, as Never Surrender vividly describes, there were a significant number who took this desperate course. Escapersfaced challenges far more daunting than those in German hands. They were Westerners in an alien, hostile environment; the terrain and climate were extreme; disease was rife; their physical condition was weak; there was every chance of starvation andbetrayal and, if captured, they faced, at best, the harshest punishment and, at worst, execution. The author draws on escapeattempts from Hong Kong, Thailand, the Philippines, Borneo and China by officers and men of the British, Commonwealth andUS armed forces. As this superbly researched and uplifting book reveals, few escapers found freedom but all are inspiring examples of outstandingand, indeed, desperate courage. The stories told within these pages demonstrate the best and worst of human spirit.

Superpower Rivalry and Conflict

Author : Chandra Chari
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135224994
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Superpower Rivalry and Conflict written by Chandra Chari and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-16 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Variously described by historians and thinkers as the ‘most terrible century in Western history’, ‘a century of massacres and wars’ and the ‘most violent century in human history’, the 20th century – and in particular the period between the First World War and the collapse of the USSR – forms a coherent historical period which changed the entire face of human history within a few decades. This book examines the trajectory of the Cold War and the fallouts for the rest of the world to seek lessons for the 21st century to manage international relations today and avoid conflict. Written by experts in their field, the chapters provide an alternative perspective to the Western-paradigm dominated international relations theory. The book examines for example whether now in the 21st century the unipolar moment has passed and if the changing economic balance of power, thrown up by globalization, has led to the emergence of a multipolar world capable of economic and multilateral cooperation. It discusses the potential of new cooperative security frameworks, which would provide an impetus to disarmament and protection of the environment globally and asks if nuclear disarmament is feasible and necessary. The book highlights areas in which the potential for conflict is ingrained. Offering Asian perspectives on these issues – perspectives from countries like Afganistan, Vietnam, West Asia and Pakistan which were embroiled in the Cold War as mere pawns and which have become flashpoints for conflict in our century – this book is an important contribution to the ongoing debate.

Big Billion Startup: The Untold Flipkart Story

Author : Mihir Dalal
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1529041554
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Big Billion Startup: The Untold Flipkart Story written by Mihir Dalal and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2019-10-06 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive account of India’s biggest startup that redefined e-commerce, entrepreneurship and the way we shop and live. IIT graduates Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal founded out of a Bangalore apartment what would become India’s biggest e-commerce startup. Established in October 2007, Flipkart began as an online bookstore and soon came to be known for its ‘customer obsession’. As the startup’s reputation grew, so did its value, with venture capitalists in India and abroad lining up to invest heavily in the company that stood for bold ambition, unabashed consumerism and the virtues of technology. Investigative journalist Mihir Dalal recounts the astounding story of how the Bansals built Flipkart into a multi-billion-dollar powerhouse in the span of a few years and made internet entrepreneurship a desirable occupation. But it is also a story of big money, power and hubris, as both business and interpersonal complexities weakened the founders’ control over their creation and forced them to sell out to a retailer whose dominance they had once dreamt of emulating. Flipkart’s auction involved some of the corporate world’s biggest names, from Jeff Bezos, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai to Masayoshi Son and Doug McMillon, an ironic testimony to the strength of what the Bansals had forged. Based on extraordinary research, extensive interviews and deep access to key characters in the Flipkart story, Big Billion Startup is the riveting and revealing account of how Sachin and Binny Bansal built and sold India’s largest internet company.

The Irish Yearbook of International Law, Volumes 4-5, 2009-10

Author : Fiona de Londras
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1847319505
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book The Irish Yearbook of International Law, Volumes 4-5, 2009-10 written by Fiona de Londras and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-28 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Irish Yearbook of International Law is intended to stimulate further research into Ireland's practice in international affairs and foreign policy, filling a gap in existing legal scholarship and assisting in the dissemination of Irish thinking and practice on matters of international law. On an annual basis, the Yearbook presents peer-reviewed academic articles and book reviews on general issues of international law. Designated correspondents provide reports on international law developments in Ireland, Irish practice in international fora and the European Union, and the practice of joint North-South implementation bodies in Ireland. In addition, the Yearbook reproduces documents that reflect Irish practice on contemporary issues of international law. Publication of the Irish Yearbook of International Law makes Irish practice and opinio juris more readily available to Governments, academics and international bodies when determining the content of international law. In providing a forum for the documentation and analysis of North-South relations the Yearbook also make an important contribution to post-conflict and transitional justice studies internationally. As a matter of editorial policy, the Yearbook seeks to promote a multilateral approach to international affairs, reflecting and reinforcing Ireland's long-standing commitment to multilateralism as a core element of foreign policy.

At Large

Author : E. W. Hornung
Publisher : 谷月社
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book At Large written by E. W. Hornung and published by 谷月社. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hooded wagon was creeping across a depressing desert in the middle of Australia; layers of boxes under the hood, and of brass-handled, mahogany drawers below the boxes, revealed the licensed hawker of the bush. Now, the hawker out there is a very extensive development of his prototype here at home; he is Westbourne Grove on wheels, with the prices of Piccadilly, W. But these particular providers were neither so universal nor so exorbitant as the generality of their class. There were but two of them; they drove but two horses; and sat shoulder to shoulder on the box. The afternoon was late; all day the horses had been crawling, for the track was unusually heavy. There had been recent rains; red mud clogged the wheels at every yard, and clung to them in sticky tires. Little pools had formed all over the plain; and westward, on the off-side of the wagon, these pools caught the glow of the setting sun, and filled with flame. Far over the horses' ears a long low line of trees was visible; otherwise the plain was unbroken; you might ride all day on these plains and descry no other horse nor man. The pair upon the box were partners. Their names were Flint and Edmonstone. Flint was enjoying a senior partner's prerogative, and lolling back wreathed in smoke. His thick bare arms were idly folded. He was a stout, brown, bearded man, who at thirty looked many years older; indolence, contentment, and goodwill were written upon his face. The junior partner was driving, and taking some pains about it—keeping clear of the deep ruts, and pushing the pace only where the track was good. He looked twenty years Flint's junior, and was, in fact, just of age. He was strongly built and five-feet-ten, with honest gray eyes, fair hair, and an inelastic mouth....

The Life of the Learned Sir John Cheke, Kt., First Instructor, Afterwards Secretary of State to King Edward VI, One of the Great Restorers of Good Learning and True Religion in this Kingdom

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Author : John Strype
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
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The State of Africa

Author : Martin Meredith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0857203894
Total Pages : 1082 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book The State of Africa written by Martin Meredith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 1082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Meredith has given a spectacularly clear view of the African political jungle' – Spectator 'This book is hard to beat... Elegantly written as well as unerringly accurate' – Financial Times The fortunes of Africa have changed dramatically since the independence era began in 1957. As Europe’s colonial powers withdrew, dozens of new states were born. Africa was a continent rich in mineral resources and its economic potential was immense. Yet, it soon struggled with corruption, violence and warfare, with few states managing to escape the downward spiral. So what went wrong? In this riveting and authoritative account, Martin Meredith examines the myriad problems that Africa has faced, focusing upon key personalities, events and themes of the independence era. He brings his compelling analysis into the modern day, exploring Africa’s enduring struggles for democracy and the rising influence of China. It is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the continent’s plight and its hopes for a brighter future.

Arogyaniketan (Bengali-Award Winning)

Author : Tārāśaṅkara Bandyopādhyāẏa
Publisher : Sahitya Akademi
ISBN 13 : 9788172018023
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Arogyaniketan (Bengali-Award Winning) written by Tārāśaṅkara Bandyopādhyāẏa and published by Sahitya Akademi. This book was released on 1998 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Novel With An Off Beat Is Set, Like Most Stories Of Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay, In The Red Soil Of Birbhum. On One Level The Theme Is A Clash Between The Old And The New, Between Traditional Medicine And The Western System Of Allopathy. There Is An Effort To Overcome The Fear Of Death, And All This Makes This Novel A Great Work Of Art.

A Philological Essay: Or, Reflections on the Death of Free-thinkers. ... By Monsieur D- of the Royal Academy of Sciences in France, and Author of the Poetæ Rusticantis Literatum Otium. Translated from the French by Mr. B- ...

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Author : Deslandes (M., André François)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
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Visionary

Author : Phillip Vine
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1785315781
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Visionary written by Phillip Vine and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years ago Michael Knighton arrived on the scene at Manchester United, bearing the revolutionary gift of ideas for the transformation of the club's fortunes. Visionary tells the inside story of his time at Old Trafford-a crucial, incendiary era in United's history. Knighton is popularly known as the man who very nearly bought Manchester United for the giveaway price of £10 million. Ultimately, he spurned the opportunity to complete the purchase, opting instead to join the board and watch as his radical ideas for a commercial revolution were put into action. Visionary argues the case for Knighton as the architect of the richest soccer club and greatest sporting brand on the planet-and that it was Knighton's unacknowledged axis with Alex Ferguson that enabled a paradigm shift in United's fortunes on the field of play, leading to unparalleled glories.