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Author : John Candler Cobb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976053941
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (539 download)
Download or read book Fragments of Peace in a World at War written by John Candler Cobb and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bertram A. Yaffe
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Fragments of War written by Bertram A. Yaffe and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A World War II marine officer who survived three major campaigns in the Pacific offers an authentic and compelling picture of tank warfare in this chronicle of his experiences. From the grueling combat in the rain forest of Bougainville to the fierce assault on Guam and the vicious struggle for Iwo Jima, Bertram Yaffe balances the realities of combat with personal reflections on the nature of humanity and courage under horrifying circumstances. With wry humor he takes us inside the mind of a young tank officer wrestling with the concept of war and his own need to square rationalism with an intuitive, sometimes mystical, view of reality. As a result, Yaffe shares with us the meditations and avenues of contemplation that helped him survive the grotesque experience of war and cope with the stress that so often follows extreme battlefield ordeals. Central to his ability to deal with these problems, we learn, were his deep feelings for his wife and the important family bonds their marriage helped restore - their Russian-Jewish grandfathers were brothers separated during the Russo-Japanese War.
Author : Mary Palevsky
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520220552
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Atomic Fragments written by Mary Palevsky and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-06-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Scientists Hans Bethe, Edward Teller, Joseph Rotblat, Herbert York, Philip Morrison, and Robert Wilson, and philosopher David Hawkins, responded to Palevsky's personal approach in a way that dramatically expands their previously published statements."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Robert Alexander Christoforides
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Fragments of Peace and War Book IV a Monograph on the Poetry of Wilfred Owen and Some Aspects of His Life written by Robert Alexander Christoforides and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published as an e-book, this is the 4th volume in the series of books - Fragments of Peace & War - 'A Monograph on the Poetry of Wilfred Owen and Some Aspects of his Life'. It seeks to contextualize his Poetry within the tremendous circumstances of the time, with emphasis on how those circumstances impacted on the cultural outlook of the general population; and as such was to be diversely expressed in Poetry. Accordingly, this book includes Poetry of other Poets published at the time - particularly that of some 'ordinary' 'Soldier Poets', published in September 1916 - that is, just after the first two months of Battle of the Somme, which began on 1st July 1916, giving rise to catastrophic losses in killed and wounded. It also includes the quite exceptional Poetry of Ian Mackenzie, as published in a small volume, in 1919; as well as equally exceptional Poetry by Isaac Rosenberg, Geoffrey Bache-Smith, Rupert Brooke and Charles Sorley, all which was published during, and immediately after, the War - all published or in preparation by the time of the first formal Cenotaph ceremony which took place in Whitehall, London, on a Monday, at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1919, when the whole Nation succumbed to a profound silence ... 'So smote was the forehead of the earth, that She lay in a daze as though dead'. This is the context of the unprecedented demand at that time for 'war-associated' Poetry - in which was sought, instinctively, a mass catharsis for the relief of profound mass grieving and traumatization. Thus it is that, here, Wilfred Owen's Poetry is 'era-anthologized' within that time's corpus of First World War 'War Poetry'.
Author : Caren Barzelay Stelson
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books
ISBN 13 : 154152148X
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (415 download)
Download or read book A Bowl Full of Peace written by Caren Barzelay Stelson and published by Carolrhoda Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Six-year-old Sachiko and her family suffered greatly after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, and in the years that followed, the miraculous survival of a ceramic bowl became a key part of Sachiko's journey toward peace"--
Author : Walt Dierks
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1644242702
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (442 download)
Download or read book Fragments, World War II written by Walt Dierks and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walt Dierks illuminates the everyday lives and adventures of young kids coming of age in Brooklyn during World War II. The main goal of most of them: get out of the house. The street was where the action was. It could be a stickball game featuring a pink Spaldeen and a broomstick or hooking a ride on a passing trolley car. There were other diversions, some perfectly legal, some bordering or stepping over into forbidden territory. The war years offered an environment of added responsibility alo
Author : Paul Betts
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 154167247X
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)
Download or read book Ruin and Renewal written by Paul Betts and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the American Philosophical Society’s 2021 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History From an award-winning historian, a panoramic account of Europe after the depravity of World War II. In 1945, Europe lay in ruins. Some fifty million people were dead, and millions more languished in physical and moral disarray. The devastation of World War II was unprecedented in character as well as in scale. Unlike the First World War, the second blurred the line between soldier and civilian, inflicting untold horrors on people from all walks of life. A continent that had previously considered itself the very measure of civilization for the world had turned into its barbaric opposite. Reconstruction, then, was a matter of turning Europe's "civilizing mission" inward. In this magisterial work, Oxford historian Paul Betts describes how this effort found expression in humanitarian relief work, the prosecution of war crimes against humanity, a resurgent Catholic Church, peace campaigns, expanded welfare policies, renewed global engagement and numerous efforts to salvage damaged cultural traditions. Authoritative and sweeping, Ruin and Renewal is essential reading for anyone hoping to understand how Europe was transformed after the destruction of World War II.
Author : Geir Lundestad
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814487236
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)
Download or read book War And Peace In The 20th Century And Beyond, The Nobel Centennial Symposium written by Geir Lundestad and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2003-03-21 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the 21st Century, the world was immediately gripped by the War on Terrorism followed by the Iraq War. In reflection, the 20th Century was a period marked by tremendous technological and economic progress — but it was also the most violent century in human history. It witnessed two horrendous world wars, as well as the conflicts during the Cold War.Why do wars persistently erupt among nations, particularly the Great Powers? What are the primary factors that drive nations to violence — power, prestige, ideology or territory? Or is it motivated by pure fear and mistrust? Peering nervously at the 21st Century, we wonder whether American supremacy and globalization will help ensure peace and stability. Or will shifts in power with the emergence of new economic super-nations lead to further tensions and conflicts in this century?Together with 29 Peace Nobel laureates, an outstanding group of scholars gathered in Oslo, Norway, on December 6, 2001, for the three-day Nobel Centennial Symposium to discuss “The Conflicts of the 20th Century and the Solutions for the 21st Century”. Read this book for the scholars' candid insights and analyses, as well as their thought-provoking views on the factors that led to conflicts in the 20th Century and whether the 21st Century will be a more peaceful one. This is a rare — and possibly the best and only — book compilation of the highly intellectual analyses by world experts and Nobel Peace laureates on the perennial issues of War & Peace.
Author : Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307428575
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Fifth Book of Peace written by Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long time ago in China, there existed three Books of Peace that proved so threatening to the reigning powers that they had them burned. Many years later Maxine Hong Kingston wrote a Fourth Book of Peace, but it too was burned--in the catastrophic Berkeley-Oakland Hills fire of 1991, a fire that coincided with the death of her father. Now in this visionary and redemptive work, Kingston completes her interrupted labor, weaving fiction and memoir into a luminous meditation on war and peace, devastation and renewal.
Author : William Emmanuel Rappard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (882 download)
Download or read book The Quest for Peace Since the World War written by William Emmanuel Rappard and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Judy Barrett Litoff
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780842025713
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (257 download)
Download or read book American Women in a World at War written by Judy Barrett Litoff and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title brings together twenty-five writings by women who share their rich and varied World War II experiences, from serving in the military to working on the home front to preparing for the postwar world. By providing evidence of their active and resourceful roles in the war effort as workers, wives, and mothers, these women offer eloquent testimony that World War II was indeed everybody's war. Litoff and Smith combine pieces by well-known writers, such as Margaret Culkin Banning and Nancy Wilson Ross, with important-but largely forgotten-personal accounts by ordinary women living in extraordinary times. This volume is divided into the six sections listed below: Preparing for War In the Military At 'Far-Flung' Fronts On the Home Front War Jobs Preparing for the Postwar World
Author : David C. Turnley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780789202994
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (29 download)
Download or read book In Times of War and Peace written by David C. Turnley and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As photojournalists since the early 1980s, the Turnleys have covered most of the great conflicts of the past fifteen years, and have been published in the best-known newspapers and magazines. Very often, one of their photographs becomes the iconic representation of the event. This is a result of their spending extended periods in the regions they cover, getting to know the people and the way of life. During the three years David lived in South Africa, he showed apartheid as the prevailing system, its subsequent destruction, and the first elections of the new democratic state. Peter has pursued his interest in documenting the world's fourteen million refugees, and also photographed the fall of Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe. Together they photographed student dissidents in the months leading up to the Tiananmen Square massacre; their photographs of the massacre itself are among their most recognizable. Shining through all the photographs is the strength of individual character and hope against powerful social and political conflict.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 992 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Books of 1912- written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michele Phoenix
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 0785232060
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)
Download or read book Fragments of Light written by Michele Phoenix and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impossible decision in the chaos of D-Day. Ripples that cascade seventy-five years into the present. And two lives transformed by the tenuous resolve to reach out of the darkness toward fragments of light. Cancer stole everything from Ceelie—her peace of mind, her selfimage, perhaps even her twenty-three-year marriage to her college sweetheart, Nate. Without the support of Darlene, her quirky elderly friend, she may not have been able to endure so much loss. So when Darlene’s own prognosis turns dire, Ceelie can’t refuse her seemingly impossible request—to find a WWII paratrooper named Cal, the father who disappeared when Darlene was an infant, leaving a lifetime of desolation in his wake. The search that begins in the farmlands of Missouri eventually leads Ceelie to a small town in Normandy, where she uncovers the harrowing tale of the hero who dropped off-target into occupied France. Alternating between Cal’s D-Day rescue by two French sisters and Ceelie’s present-day journey through trial and heartbreak, Fragments of Light explores a timeless question: When life becomes unbearable, will you surrender to the darkness or dare to press toward a lingering light? Praise for Fragments of Light “Michèle Phoenix skillfully explores the strength and resiliency of the human spirit but also its heartbreaking limits. Brimming with expertly researched wartime details, Fragments of Light abounds with poignancy and insight.” —Susan Meissner, bestselling author of The Last Year of the War “As a D-Day Airborne participant, I recommend this novel with enthusiasm. Everyone should read it.” —Staff Sergeant Thomas Rice, WWII Veteran, 101st Airborne “Michele Phoenix’s Fragments of Light is a luminous portrait of men and women grappling with the past in a brave attempt to forge a different kind of future . . . A story as beautiful as it is heartbreaking. In short, I loved this book!” —Lauren Denton, USA TODAY bestselling author of The Hideaway “Deeply personal and beautifully humane, Phoenix once again asserts her power as one of the most moving and lyrical voices in inspirational fiction.” —Rachel McMillan, author of The London Restoration “Written with depth and understanding, this story offers readers a wonderful journey spanning from war-torn World War II France to a battle for love in our time.” —Katherine Reay, bestselling author of Dear Mr. Knightley “As the title suggests, there are no easy illuminations on the path of healing. Cancer attacks more than the body. War destroys more than flesh and bone. Not all heroes welcome the attention, and not all husbands are up to the challenge. Women find the most unlikely sources of strength, and the best families defy definition.” —Allison Pittman, bestselling author of The Seamstress “It’s not often a story moves me as Fragments of Light has. With a rare and honest voice, Michèle Phoenix weaves a story of heroes from yesteryear and also those from your neighborhood—each with hearts of valor—as they endure the fight of their lives.” —Elizabeth Byler Younts, Carol Award–winning author The Solace of Water
Author : William S. R. Kerr (Marquis of Lothian.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Fragment of a Parallel Between the History, Literature, and Art of Italy in the Middle Ages written by William S. R. Kerr (Marquis of Lothian.) and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8726596733
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (265 download)
Download or read book The War That Will End War written by H. G. Wells and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The War That Will End War’ is a collection of thought-provoking esssays, in which H. G. Wells examines the causes and effects of the First World War. For the pacifist Wells, the First World War is an unredeemable atrocity, but he argues that it may be the only way to ‘exorcise a world madness and end an age’. Wells states the goal of the war should be to avoid future wars through a fair peace treaty and a global ‘Peace League’. It is interesting now to see which of Wells’ unique prophecies were accurate or not, as an unsuccessful attempt was made to create peace after the First World War. This book was influential at the time and impressed U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, and it is still cited to this day about different wars. Well-balanced, passionate, and creative, ‘The War That Will End War’ is recommended for those interested in the First World War. H. G. Wells (1866-1946) was a celebrated English writer, remembered mostly for his science fiction works. Often described as a futurist, H. G. Wells’ influence cannot be overstated for his works foresaw many technological innovations such as space travel, the atomic bomb, and the Internet. Nominated for a Nobel Prize in Literature four times, Wells explored a wide array of themes in his works, from religion to social criticism and beyond. Some of his best works include the time-travel novel ‘The Time Machine’, the sci-fi adventure novel ‘The Island of Dr. Moreau’, and the mankind-versus-aliens novel ‘The War of the Worlds’. Wells occupies one of the central seats in the canon of science-fiction literature and his writing inspired other celebrated authors such as Ray Bradbury and Philip K. Dick. Wells’ stories are still widely read to this day and have had numerous cinematic adaptations including ‘The Invisible Man’ starring Elisabeth Moss.
Author : Reverend Thomas Tiplady
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782893466
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book The Cross At The Front; Fragments From The Trenches written by Reverend Thomas Tiplady and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “THE letters on life and thought at the Front contained in this volume were all written in tents and billets within range, or sound, of the guns. They were written quickly in odd moments and at the bidding of passing impulses. Under such circumstances literary finish was impossible, but it is hoped that they have captured something of the freshness of feeling which one has while passing through unusual experiences, and which is apt to evaporate with the lapse of time. I have attempted no battle picture nor description of military operations, well knowing that such things are beyond me. I have merely gathered up some of the fragments that remained-fragments which might have been lost if not picked up at once. These I have attempted to sketch for the benefit of those at home. I trust they will reveal something of the spirit in which our soldiers lived and fought, suffered and died.” As the author states in his preface his memoirs are the little snapshots and vignettes of his time as chaplain in the British Army during the First World War. He was a chaplain with the Queen’s Westminster Rifles in the Somme and Arras campaigns in France. There he caught trench fever, which laid him up for some time; after recovery, he was stationed at Abbeville until the war’s end.
