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Missing in Action

Author : Dean Hughes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416999043
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Missing in Action written by Dean Hughes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dirty. Lazy. Good-for-nothing. Jay Thacker is used to being called names because his dad is half Navajo. But things are different after he and his mother move to a small town in Utah to stay with his grandparents during WWII. Jay makes friends and earns money working the fields for his well-respected grandfather—but he encounters a problem in Ken, a fellow worker who’s from the nearby Japanese internment camp. Ken’s a Jap. And Jay’s dad, who’s been fighting for the navy out in the Pacific, is missing in action. This moving story about an unlikely friendship deftly addresses themes of prejudice and intolerance, providing readers a glimpse of the past that enlightens the present.

Missing in Action

Author : Chander Suta Dogra
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 935357286X
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Missing in Action written by Chander Suta Dogra and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of India's soldiers missing in action is one that remains unfinished, a spillover of the wars with Pakistan. These are men who went missing in enemy territory while on daring missions during the 1965 and 1971 Indo-Pak wars. The nation has forgotten them, though successive governments continue to make token acknowledgements about their missing status. Over the last five decades, there have been scattered reports offering information piecemeal, but this is the first time the saga has been fully told. The result of years of research, the book unearths startling revelations that shed new light on the subject. Amid much hearsay and dismissive commentary, this book is an attempt to find answers to the question, 'What happened to these men?' It also hopes to open up a debate on how soldiers are often used as pawns by governments, even as they pay lip-service to their cause.

Wisconsin's 37

Author : Erin Miller
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476631611
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Wisconsin's 37 written by Erin Miller and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The signing of the Paris Peace Accords in 1973 signified the end of the Vietnam War. American personnel returned home and the 591 American prisoners held captive in North Vietnam were released. Still, 2,646 individuals did not come home. Thirty-seven of those missing in action were from Wisconsin. Their names appear on the largest object--a motorcycle (now part of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection)--ever left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Using the recollections of the soldiers' families, friends and fellow servicemen, the author tells the story of each man's life.

Soldier Boys

Author : Dean Hughes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439132143
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Soldier Boys written by Dean Hughes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spencer Morgan And Dieter Hedrick, one American, one German, are both young and eager to get into action in the war. Dieter, a shining member of the Hitler Youth movement, has actually met the Führer himself and was praised for his hard work. Now he is determined to make it to the front lines, to push back the enemy and defend the honor of the Fatherland. Spencer, just sixteen, must convince his father to sign his induction papers. He is bent on becoming a paratrooper -- the toughest soldiers in the world. He will prove to his family and hometown friends that he is more than the little guy with crooked teeth. He?ll prove to his father that he can amount to something and keep his promises. Everyone will look at him differently when he returns home in his uniform, trousers tucked into his boots in the paratrooper style. Both boys get their wishes when they are tossed into intense conflict during the Battle of the Bulge. And both soon learn that war is about a lot more than proving oneself and one?s bravery. Dean Hughes offers young readers a wrenching look at parallel lives and how innocence must eventually be shed.

What Remains

Author : Sarah E. Wagner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674988345
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book What Remains written by Sarah E. Wagner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing Nearly 1,600 Americans are still unaccounted for and presumed dead from the Vietnam War. These are the stories of those who mourn and continue to search for them. For many families the Vietnam War remains unsettled. Nearly 1,600 Americans—and more than 300,000 Vietnamese—involved in the conflict are still unaccounted for. In What Remains, Sarah E. Wagner tells the stories of America’s missing service members and the families and communities that continue to search for them. From the scientists who work to identify the dead using bits of bone unearthed in Vietnamese jungles to the relatives who press government officials to find the remains of their loved ones, Wagner introduces us to the men and women who seek to bring the missing back home. Through their experiences she examines the ongoing toll of America’s most fraught war. Every generation has known the uncertainties of war. Collective memorials, such as the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery, testify to the many service members who never return, their fates still unresolved. But advances in forensic science have provided new and powerful tools to identify the remains of the missing, often from the merest trace—a tooth or other fragment. These new techniques have enabled military experts to recover, repatriate, identify, and return the remains of lost service members. So promising are these scientific developments that they have raised the expectations of military families hoping to locate their missing. As Wagner shows, the possibility of such homecomings compels Americans to wrestle anew with their memories, as with the weight of their loved ones’ sacrifices, and to reevaluate what it means to wage war and die on behalf of the nation.

Ghosts of War in Vietnam

Author : Heonik Kwon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781107659421
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (594 download)

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Download or read book Ghosts of War in Vietnam written by Heonik Kwon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fascinating study of the Vietnamese experience and memory of the Vietnam War through the lens of popular imaginings about the wandering souls of the war dead. These ghosts of war play an important part in postwar Vietnamese historical narrative and imagination and Heonik Kwon explores the intimate ritual ties with these unsettled identities which still survive in Vietnam today as well as the actions of those who hope to liberate these hidden but vital historical presences from their uprooted social existence. Taking a unique approach to the cultural history of war, he introduces gripping stories about spirits claiming social justice and about his own efforts to wrestle with the physical and spiritual presence of ghosts. Although these actions are fantastical, this book shows how examining their stories can illuminate critical issues of war and collective memory in Vietnam and the modern world more generally.

Vanished

Author : Wil S. Hylton
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101616253
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Vanished written by Wil S. Hylton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a mesmerizing storyteller, the gripping search for a missing World War II crew, their bomber plane, and their legacy. In the fall of 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men vanished over the Pacific islands of Palau, leaving a trail of mysteries. According to mission reports from the Army Air Forces, the plane crashed in shallow water—but when investigators went to find it, the wreckage wasn’t there. Witnesses saw the crew parachute to safety, yet the airmen were never seen again. Some of their relatives whispered that they had returned to the United States in secret and lived in hiding. But they never explained why. For sixty years, the U.S. government, the children of the missing airmen, and a maverick team of scientists and scuba divers searched the islands for clues. With every clue they found, the mystery only deepened. Now, in a spellbinding narrative, Wil S. Hylton weaves together the true story of the missing men, their final mission, the families they left behind, and the real reason their disappearance remained shrouded in secrecy for so long. This is a story of love, loss, sacrifice, and faith—of the undying hope among the families of the missing, and the relentless determination of scientists, explorers, archaeologists, and deep-sea divers to solve one of the enduring mysteries of World War II.

Search and Destroy

Author : Dean Hughes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439115729
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Search and Destroy written by Dean Hughes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RICK WARD WANTS TO GO TO WAR. And he's not sure why. Maybe he's running from his dad and his crazy temper. Maybe he's running from his girl, who seems to think he's more of a joke than a man. Or maybe he's just running -- to find himself. But after Rick ventures into the Vietnam jungle, he discovers that no one -- not protestors, politicians, or writers -- has got a clue. War is far bigger, scarier, and more complicated than anything he ever could have imagined.

Dissenting POWs

Author : Tom Wilber
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583679103
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Dissenting POWs written by Tom Wilber and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh look at the how US troops played a part in the resistance of US troops to the American war in Vietnam Even if you don't know much about the war in Vietnam, you've probably heard of "The Hanoi Hilton," or Hoa Lo Prison, where captured U.S. soldiers were held. What they did there and whether they were treated well or badly by the Vietnamese became lasting controversies. As military personnel returned from captivity in 1973, Americans became riveted by POW coming-home stories. What had gone on behind these prison walls? Along with legends of lionized heroes who endured torture rather than reveal sensitive military information, there were news leaks suggesting that others had denounced the war in return for favorable treatment. What wasn't acknowledged, however, is that U.S. troop opposition to the war was vast and reached well into Hoa Loa Prison. Half a century after the fact, Dissenting POWs emerges to recover this history, and to discover what drove the factionalism in Hoa Lo. Looking into the underlying factional divide between pro-war “hardliners” and anti-war “dissidents” among the POWs, authors Wilber and Lembcke delve into the postwar American culture that created the myths of the Hero-POW and the dissidents blamed for the loss of the war. What they found was surprising: It wasn’t simply that some POWs were for the war and others against it, nor was it an officers-versus-enlisted-men standoff. Rather, it was the class backgrounds of the captives and their pre-captive experience that drew the lines. After the war, the hardcore hero-holdouts—like John McCain—moved on to careers in politics and business, while the dissidents faded from view as the antiwar movement, that might otherwise have championed them, disbanded. Today, Dissenting POWs is a necessary myth-buster, disabusing us of the revisionism that has replaced actual GI resistance with images of suffering POWs—ennobled victims that serve to suppress the fundamental questions of America’s drift to endless war.

Until the Last Man Comes Home

Author : Michael Joe Allen
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807832618
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Until the Last Man Comes Home written by Michael Joe Allen and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals how wartime loss in the Vietnam War transformed U.S. politics, arguing that the effort to recover lost warriors was as much a means to establish responsibility for their loss as it was a search for answers about their fate.

Red Baker

Author : Robert Ward
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 144053389X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Red Baker written by Robert Ward and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Red Baker, a Larmel steel worker in Baltimore, Maryland, gets laid off from his job he goes crazy: boozing, attempted philandering, running away from his future. Filled with unforgettable characters from Red’s angry but loyal wife, Wanda; his basketball-star son, Ace; his lifelong friend Dog, a casualty of the layoff; and Crystal, the go-go dancer at Lily’s bar who embodies Red’s fantasies of escape. Red Baker is a classic American novel about a man with no identity who tries to replace the one he’s lost.

Gender, Governance and Feminist Analysis

Author : Christine M Hudson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131720154X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Governance and Feminist Analysis written by Christine M Hudson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume presents critical scholarship analysing governance practices in diverse jurisdictions in Europe and North America, at multiple scales, and in relation to several different arenas of policy and practice. The contributors address shortcomings in the mainstream literature on governance within the discipline of political science. The volume as a whole is marked by geographical and topical diversity. However, what the individual chapters have in common is that each considers whether and how gender, racialized identity, and/or other axes of marginalization are visible within the conceptualizations and/or practices of governance under discussion. Drawing together insights and conceptual tools from both feminist and post-structuralist frameworks in analysing governance practices, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and graduates who engage with feminist and/or post-structural analysis of policy and governance. It will also be of use to critical policy scholars in anthropology, geography, sociology, and women’s studies.

Missing In Action

Author : Anne Smollon
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595856772
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Missing In Action written by Anne Smollon and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-04-26 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I think I'm MIA," mothers will declare as they battle the negative self-talk, symptoms, and conflicting feelings that are often associated with losing their sense of self. In the insightful and thought-provoking self-help guide Missing In Action: How Mothers Lose, Grieve, and Retrieve Their Sense of Self, author Anne M. Smollon offers a unique perspective on change, loss, and grief in the lives of women consumed by motherhood. By casting a new spin on an old acronym, Smollon introduces Maternal Intrapersonal Anxiety (MIA). MIA depicts the unrecognized and unacknowledged grief that accompanies the feelings of loss many women experience as they transition into motherhood and encounter undesirable changes associated with their physical appearance, lifestyle, mood, income, relationships, personal goals, and self-esteem. These losses frequently combine with the physical and mental drain of motherhood to create a far greater loss-a mother's sense of self. Missing In Action details the various kinds of change and loss that occur, illuminates the compelling similarities between grief and the myriad symptoms mothers describe, explains how MIA relates to the violation of personal boundaries, and ultimately defines ten goals to help mothers reclaim their sense of self.

Missing in Action

Author : Raven Walker
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595342248
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Missing in Action written by Raven Walker and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Missing in Action was written in one month, on a farm on the Little Nemaha, in the summer of 1981, from notes contemporary with 1979 New York City. The work belongs to the genre established by Joyce, present in American Literature as The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, and Catcher in the Rye, the contemporary novel written in the time of its setting using the selective stream of consciousness of a first person observer to tell the story. It is the story of frontier inversion, of a famed generation putting itself up for sale in the slaving markets of the Big Apple, of a journey into the regenerations of primitivism, of the return of the West to the spawning grounds of the East, like one joins the French Foreign Legion, to escape and forget, a stray splash from the whirlpools of the dispersion occurring within American society after the Viet Nam War Era.

Missing in Action

Author : Peter Allen David
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 141651080X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Missing in Action written by Peter Allen David and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crew of the U.S.S. Excalibur is caught up in a genocidal war in the distant Andromeda Galaxy, forcing Captain Mackenzie Calhoun to choose between helping an oppressed race and allying himself with violent aliens who could assist his ship home.

Missing in Action

Author : Fouad Sabry
Publisher : One Billion Knowledgeable
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book Missing in Action written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Missing in Action Missing in action (MIA) is a casualty classification assigned to combatants, military chaplains, combat medics, and prisoners of war who are reported missing during wartime or ceasefire. They may have been killed, wounded, captured, executed, or deserted. If deceased, neither their remains nor grave have been positively identified. Becoming MIA has been an occupational risk for as long as there has been warfare. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Missing in action Chapter 2: United States military casualties of war Chapter 3: Killed in action Chapter 4: National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific Chapter 5: Vietnam War casualties Chapter 6: Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office Chapter 7: List of Puerto Ricans missing in action in the Korean War Chapter 8: Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command Chapter 9: John C. England Chapter 10: Operation Homecoming (II) Answering the public top questions about missing in action. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Missing in Action.

Missing in Action

Author : John D. Harvie
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773565655
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Missing in Action written by John D. Harvie and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995-07-31 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shot down by Germans over occupied France, Harvie was the only member of his Bomber Command crew to survive the crash. After hiding for several days at a French farmhouse, he started back to England with the help of the French Resistance, but was betrayed to the Gestapo by a traitor. He spent a month in solitary confinement in Paris and then was transported by boxcar to Buchenwald. He describes the appalling conditions, the indignities, and the extreme hardship he and his fellow prisoners endured there. Later he was transferred to Stalag Luft III POW camp where, with food from the Red Cross and the comradeship of fellow prisoners, his body and spirit were restored. As the Russian army advanced into Germany, Harvie and the other POWs undertook the long march from eastern Germany to a camp near Bremen and then to Lübeck, near the Danish border, where he remained until the Allied forces broke through and he was liberated by the British army. Both painful and uplifting, Missing in Action is an invaluable record of the unforgettable horrors and heroes of World War II.