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Author : Douglas V. Meed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Dolchstoss Legend written by Douglas V. Meed and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jerry Lembcke
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814751473
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (514 download)
Download or read book The Spitting Image written by Jerry Lembcke and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2000-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the startling image of an anti-war protested spitting on a uniformed veteran misrepresented the narrative of Vietnam War political debate One of the most resilient images of the Vietnam era is that of the anti-war protester — often a woman — spitting on the uniformed veteran just off the plane. The lingering potency of this icon was evident during the Gulf War, when war supporters invoked it to discredit their opposition. In this startling book, Jerry Lembcke demonstrates that not a single incident of this sort has been convincingly documented. Rather, the anti-war Left saw in veterans a natural ally, and the relationship between anti-war forces and most veterans was defined by mutual support. Indeed one soldier wrote angrily to Vice President Spiro Agnew that the only Americans who seemed concerned about the soldier's welfare were the anti-war activists. While the veterans were sometimes made to feel uncomfortable about their service, this sense of unease was, Lembcke argues, more often rooted in the political practices of the Right. Tracing a range of conflicts in the twentieth century, the book illustrates how regimes engaged in unpopular conflicts often vilify their domestic opponents for "stabbing the boys in the back." Concluding with an account of the powerful role played by Hollywood in cementing the myth of the betrayed veteran through such films as Coming Home, Taxi Driver, and Rambo, Jerry Lembcke's book stands as one of the most important, original, and controversial works of cultural history in recent years.
Author : Spencer C. Tucker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135506949
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)
Download or read book The European Powers in the First World War written by Spencer C. Tucker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on a great watershed event The First World War was one of the great watershed events of the 20th century, not only costing millions of live but also disrupting existing social order, precipitating dramatic changes in the methods of waging warfare, and teaching victors new lessons about the treatment of vanquished foes. Provides valuable perspective Now a new reference work helps to put this momentous historical milestone in perspective. Designed as a companion to Garland's The United States in the First World War, this new encyclopedia concentrates on non-U.S. aspects of the conflict. Its more than 600 alphabetically arranged, detailed entries offer information and insights on such topics as the perceived and underlying causes of war, diplomatic efforts to stop the slaughter, the shortsighted and ultimately disastrous peace terms, and a host of other subjects vital to a full understanding of the events. The Encyclopedia covers all major campaigns and battles, surveys weapons and devices of war, and examines the roles played in the events by statesmen, politicians, religious and military leaders, and prominent citizens. Covers key participants and concerns Also included are biographies of individuals profoundly affected by the war who played major roles in history, such as De Gaule, Hitler, appraisals of military medicine, infantry tactics, the use of artillery, naval blockades, and other subjects; and surveys of such diverse topics as art, literature, and music in the war, camouflage, censorship, propaganda, the creation of Yugoslavia, the Jewish Legion, codebreaking, women in the war, and much more. Each entry is followed by a bibliography for pursuing inquires in depth and a subject index provides easy access.
Author : Sir John Wheeler Wheeler-Bennett
Publisher : London : Macmillan & Company Limited ; New York : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Nemesis of Power written by Sir John Wheeler Wheeler-Bennett and published by London : Macmillan & Company Limited ; New York : St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1954 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Efter afslutningen af 1. Verdenskrig var det kun tilladt Tyskland at have en hær (Reichswehr) bestående af 100.000 mand. I bogen skildres hvorledes Reichswehr udviklede sig til Hitlers Wehrmacht og de kriser, der opstod mellem Hitler og dele af den øverste militære ledelse indtil attentatet mod Hitler 20/7 1944 og den tyske hærs endelige kapitulation i 1945
Author : Arash Azizi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1786079453
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Shadow Commander written by Arash Azizi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘An excellent contribution to our knowledge of Iran and Soleimani.’ Kim Ghattas, author of Black Wave When the US assassinated Qassem Soleimani, he was one of the most powerful men in Iran. Known as ‘the shadow commander’, he enacted the wishes of the country’s Supreme Leader across the Middle East, establishing the Islamic Republic as a major force in the region. But all this was a long way from where he began – on the margins of a nation whose ruler was seen as a friend of the West. Through Soleimani, Arash Azizi examines how Iran came to be where it is today. Providing a rare insight into a country whose actions are often discussed but seldom understood, he reveals the global ambitions underlying Iran’s proxy wars, geopolitics and nuclear programme.
Author : Adam Fergusson
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 1586489941
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (864 download)
Download or read book When Money Dies written by Adam Fergusson and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1975 by William Kimber.
Author : Eric Metaxas
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 1400211093
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Seven Men and Seven Women written by Eric Metaxas and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two beloved Metaxas classics in a single, compact edition. In this new, one-volume edition that brings together two of his most popular works, #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas explores the question of what makes a great person great? Seven Men and Seven Women tells the captivating stories of fourteen heroic individuals who changed the course of history and shaped the world in astonishing ways. George Washington led his country to independence yet resisted the temptation to become America's king. William Wilberforce led the fight to end the slave trade, giving up his chance to be England's prime minister. Susanna Wesley, the mother of nineteen children, gave the world its most significant evangelist and its greatest hymn-writer, her sons John and Charles. Jackie Robison endured the threats and abuse of racists with unimaginable dignity and strength. Corrie ten Boom risked her life to hide Dutch Jews from the Nazis in World War II and survived the horrors of a concentration camp--and forgave her tormentors years later. And Rosa Parks's God-given sense of justice and unshakable dignity helped launch the twentieth century’s greatest social movement. These and other lives profiled in Seven Men and Seven Women reveal how reveal the secret to a life of greatness--by responding to call to live for something greater than oneself.
Author : Arno J. Mayer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400823439
Total Pages : 735 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Furies written by Arno J. Mayer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-16 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great romance and fear of bloody revolution--strange blend of idealism and terror--have been superseded by blind faith in the bloodless expansion of human rights and global capitalism. Flying in the face of history, violence is dismissed as rare, immoral, and counterproductive. Arguing against this pervasive wishful thinking, the distinguished historian Arno J. Mayer revisits the two most tumultuous and influential revolutions of modern times: the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917. Although these two upheavals arose in different environments, they followed similar courses. The thought and language of Enlightenment France were the glories of western civilization; those of tsarist Russia's intelligentsia were on its margins. Both revolutions began as revolts vowed to fight unreason, injustice, and inequality; both swept away old regimes and defied established religions in societies that were 85% peasant and illiterate; both entailed the terrifying return of repressed vengeance. Contrary to prevalent belief, Mayer argues, ideologies and personalities did not control events. Rather, the tide of violence overwhelmed the political actors who assumed power and were rudderless. Even the best plans could not stem the chaos that at once benefited and swallowed them. Mayer argues that we have ignored an essential part of all revolutions: the resistances to revolution, both domestic and foreign, which help fuel the spiral of terror. In his sweeping yet close comparison of the world's two transnational revolutions, Mayer follows their unfolding--from the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Bolshevik Declaration of the Rights of the Toiling and Exploited Masses; the escalation of the initial violence into the reign of terror of 1793-95 and of 1918-21; the dismemberment of the hegemonic churches and religion of both societies; the "externalization" of the terror through the Napoleonic wars; and its "internalization" in Soviet Russia in the form of Stalin's "Terror in One Country." Making critical use of theory, old and new, Mayer breaks through unexamined assumptions and prevailing debates about the attributes of these particular revolutions to raise broader and more disturbing questions about the nature of revolutionary violence attending new foundations.
Author : Pat Beale
Publisher : Australian Scholarly Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925588645
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Legends of War written by Pat Beale and published by Australian Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1918 was a year of triumph for the Australian Corps in France yet today this is seldom recognised by most Australians. Our perceptions have been clouded by legends, built up over the past century, that have trivialised their achievement. Here an ex-soldier, Pat Beale DSO MC, uses his military background to help re-discover why and how the Corps was so successful and also the reasons their triumph has been ignored. This concise and knowledgeable account will not sit comfortably with everyone. As the author admits, he slaps a number of ‘sacred cows’ on the rump and challenges some deeply held perceptions, but he hopes it will encourage a better understanding of the great victory of those men and how they achieved it.
Author : MacGregor Knox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139466933
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book To the Threshold of Power, 1922/33 written by MacGregor Knox and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-10 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the Threshold of Power is the first volume of a two-part work that seeks to explain the origins and dynamics of the Fascist and National Socialist dictatorships. It lays a foundation for understanding the Nazi and Fascist regimes through parallel investigations of Italian and German society, institutions, and national myths; the supreme test of the First World War; and the post-1918 struggles from which the Fascist and National Socialist movements emerged. It emphasizes two principal sources of movement: the nationalist mythology of the intellectuals and the institutional culture and agendas of the two armies, especially the Imperial German Army and its Reichswehr successor. The book's climax is the cataclysm of 1914-18 and the rise and triumph of militarily organized radical nationalist movements - Mussolini's Fasci di combattimento and Hitler's National Socialist German Workers' Party - dedicated to the perpetuation of the war and the overthrow of the post-1918 world order.
Author : John F Williams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134244487
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Corporal Hitler and the Great War 1914-1918 written by John F Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-05 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconstructs a formative part of Hitler's life oft neglected in the literature: his war experiences as a soldier Tells the story of a German regiment that fought in the all the main battles of WWI Will appeal to military historians, WWI historians, German historians and general readers of military history
Author : Ruth Lewin Sime
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520208605
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Lise Meitner written by Ruth Lewin Sime and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life of Jewish physicist Lise Meitner, who had to flee Nazi Germany, codiscovered nuclear fission with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, but was denied recognition when the work received a Nobel Prize.
Author : Isidor Wallimann
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815628286
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (282 download)
Download or read book Genocide and the Modern Age written by Isidor Wallimann and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the preface to this 2000 edition, the authors point out that with the advent of the millennium, it is important to take stock of the 20th century, which has been labelled as the Age of Genocide.
Author : Lucy S. Dawidowicz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674405677
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (56 download)
Download or read book The Holocaust and the Historians written by Lucy S. Dawidowicz and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author opens by providing an overview which highlights the tragic magnitude of the Holocaust. she examines the historical studies written on the Holocaust emphasizing the insufficient recording of the period by historians.
Author : Peter D. Stachura
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Weimar Era and Hitler, 1918-1933 written by Peter D. Stachura and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas J. Scheff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429720130
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Bloody Revenge written by Thomas J. Scheff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As violence erupts in endless cycles and old grievances reemerge throughout the world, we are challenged to examine the underpinnings of protracted conflict. In this bold new work, Thomas Scheff argues that the roots of protracted conflict lie in unacknowledged feelings of shame and rage. Scheff builds from the assumption that the social bond is a real and palpable phenomena and that in every type of human contact the bond is either built, maintained, repaired, or damaged. He then demonstrates how damaged bonds are the basic cause of conflict. When one side or the other in a dispute is humiliated or threatened in such a way as to disturb fundamental bonds, the feelings that follow are often not acknowledged. Threats to the social bond give rise to violent emotions, shame, and rage. Unless these feelings are resolved, the stage is then set for cycles of insult, humiliation, and bloody revenge. According to Scheff, it is by recognizing the emotional source of conflict and repairing the broken social bond that both sides achieve cognitive and emotional understanding, allowing them to trust and cooperate, and perceive themselves as "all in the same boat." Thus, secure social bonds ensure clear boundaries–even during competition or conflict–that help keep wars limited and make disagreements productive.
Author : Paul Grey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108439497
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Cambridge IGCSE® and O Level History Option B: The 20th Century Coursebook written by Paul Grey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cambridge IGCSE® and O Level History Second edition for Option B: the 20th Century of the syllabus (0470,2147), updated for the revised syllabus for first examination from 2020 and now supporting O Level as well. Help your students take an enquiry-led approach to historical learning with Cambridge IGCSE® and O Level History. Full of activities and primary and secondary sources, this resource encourages the application of historical skills and enables investigative questioning of cause and consequence. Endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education for Option B, the coursebook is written by a team of experienced teachers and provides comprehensive coverage of all of the Key Questions and four of the Depth Studies for syllabus Option B: the 20th Century. Sample answers to a selection of the exam-style questions can be found in the teacher's resource.
