The Fifty-Year Wound

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Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 9780316164962
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (649 download)

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Book Synopsis The Fifty-Year Wound by : Derek Leebaert

Download or read book The Fifty-Year Wound written by Derek Leebaert and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2003-05-13 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fifty-Year Wound is the first cohesively integrated history of the Cold War, one replete with important lessons for today. Drawing upon literature, strategy, biography, and economics -- plus an inside perspective from the intelligence community -- Derek Leebaert explores what Americans sacrificed at the same time that they achieved the longest great-power peace since Rome fell. Why did they commit so much in wealth and opportunity with so little sustained complaint? Why did the conflict drag on for decades? What did the Cold War do to the country, and how? What was lost while victory was gained? Leebaert has uncovered an astonishing array of never-published documents and information, including major revelations about American covert operations and Soviet military activities. He has found, in the shadows of one of this century's great, epic stories, the sort of details and explanations that hit with the force of a lightning bolt and will change forever the way we think about our past.

Magic and Mayhem

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439141673
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Book Synopsis Magic and Mayhem by : Derek Leebaert

Download or read book Magic and Mayhem written by Derek Leebaert and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ are the latest in a string of blunders that includes Vietnam and an unintended war with China from 1950 to ’53, those four fiascoes being just the worst moments in nearly a lifetime of false urgencies, intelligence failures, grandiose designs, and stereotyping of enemies and allies alike. America brought down the Soviet empire at the cold war’s most dangerous juncture, but even that victory was surrounded by myths, such as the conviction that we can easily shape the destinies of other people. Magic and Mayhem is a strikingly original, closely informed investigation of two generations of America’s avoidable failures. In a perfectly timed narrative, Derek Leebaert reveals the common threads in these serial letdowns and in the consequences that await. He demonstrates why the most enterprising and innovative nation in history keeps mishandling its gravest politico-military dealings abroad and why well-credentialed men and women, deemed brilliant when they arrive in Washington, consistently end up leading the country into folly. Misjudgments of this scale arise from a pattern of self-deception best described as "magical thinking." When we think magically, we conjure up beliefs that everyone wants to be like us, that America can accomplish anything out of sheer righteousness, and that our own wizardly policymakers will enable gigantic desires like "transforming the Middle East" to happen fast. Mantras of "stability" or "democracy" get substituted for reasoned reflection. Faith is placed in high-tech silver bullets, whether drones over Pakistan or helicopters in Vietnam. Leebaert exposes these magical notions by using new archival material, exclusive interviews, his own insider experiences, and portraits of the men and women who have succumbed: George Kennan, Henry Kissinger, Robert McNamara, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, and Presidents Kennedy, Carter, and George W. Bush all appear differently in the light of magic, as do wise men from Harvard, Georgetown, Stanford, and think tanks such as RAND and Brookings, as well as influential players from the media and, occasionally, the military, including General David Petraeus as he personifies the nation’s latest forays into counterinsurgency. Magic and Mayhem offers vital insights as to how Americans imagine, confront, and even invite danger. Only by understanding the power of illusion can we break the spell, and then better apply America’s enduring strengths in a world that will long need them.

Like a Sword Wound

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Publisher : Europa Editions
ISBN 13 : 1609454758
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)

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Book Synopsis Like a Sword Wound by : Ahmet Altan

Download or read book Like a Sword Wound written by Ahmet Altan and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “magical, marvellous” epic of an empire in collapse: Book one in the acclaimed Ottoman Quartet by the award-winning Turkish author and political dissident (La Stampa, Italy). Tracking the decline and fall of the Ottoman empire, Ahmet Altan’s Ottoman Quartet spans fifty years from the end of the nineteenth century to the post-WWI rise of Atatu ̈rk as leader of the new Turkey. In Like a Sword Wound, a modern-day resident of Istanbul is visited by the ghosts of his ancestors, finally free to tell their stories “under the broad, dark wings of death.” Among the characters who come to life are an Ottoman army officer; the Sultan’s personal doctor; a scion of the royal house whose Western education brings him into conflict with his family’s legacy; and a beguiling Turkish aristocrat who, while fond of her emancipated life in Paris, finds herself drawn to a conservative Muslim spiritual leader. As their stories of intimate desire and personal betrayal unfold, the society that spawned them is transforming and the sublime empire disintegrating. Here is a Turkish saga reminiscent of War and Peace, written in lively, contemporary prose that traces not only the social currents of the time but also the erotic and emotional lives of its characters. “An engrossing novel of obsessive love and oppressive tyranny, a tale of collapse that dramatizes the fateful moments of an empire and its subjects.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Healing Wounds

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Publisher : Permuted Press
ISBN 13 : 1682619133
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (826 download)

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Book Synopsis Healing Wounds by : Diane Carlson Evans

Download or read book Healing Wounds written by Diane Carlson Evans and published by Permuted Press. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1983, when Evans came up with the vision for the first-ever memorial on the National Mall to honor women who’d worn a military uniform, she wouldn’t be deterred. She remembered not only her sister veterans, but also the hundreds of young wounded men she had cared for, as she expressed during a Congressional hearing in Washington, D.C.: “Women didn’t have to enter military service, but we stepped up to serve believing we belonged with our brothers-in-arms and now we belong with them at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. If they belong there, we belong there. We were there for them then. We mattered.” In the end, those wounded soldiers who had survived proved to be there for their sisters-in-arms, joining their fight for honor in Evans’ journey of combating unforeseen bureaucratic obstacles and facing mean-spirited opposition. Her impassioned story of serving in Vietnam is a crucial backstory to her fight to honor the women she served beside. She details the gritty and high-intensity experience of being a nurse in the midst of combat and becomes an unlikely hero who ultimately serves her country again as a formidable force in her daunting quest for honor and justice.

Wound from the Mouth of a Wound

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Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571317155
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Book Synopsis Wound from the Mouth of a Wound by : torrin a. greathouse

Download or read book Wound from the Mouth of a Wound written by torrin a. greathouse and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A versatile missive written from the intersections of gender, disability, trauma, and survival. “Some girls are not made,” torrin a. greathouse writes, “but spring from the dirt.” Guided by a devastatingly precise hand, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound—selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as the winner of the 2020 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry—challenges a canon that decides what shades of beauty deserve to live in a poem. greathouse celebrates “buckteeth & ulcer.” She odes the pulp of a bedsore. She argues that the vestigial is not devoid of meaning, and in kinetic and vigorous language, she honors bodies the world too often wants dead. These poems ache, but they do not surrender. They bleed, but they spit the blood in our eyes. Their imagery pulses on the page, fractal and fluid, blooming in a medley of forms: broken essays, haibun born of erasure, a sonnet meant to be read in the mirror. greathouse’s poetry demands more of language and those who wield it. “I’m still learning not to let a stranger speak / me into a funeral.” Concrete and evocative, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound is a testament to persistence, even when the body is not allowed to thrive. greathouse—elegant, vicious, “a one-girl armageddon” draped in crushed velvet—teaches us that fragility is not synonymous with flaw.

To Dare and to Conquer

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Publisher : Little Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780316143844
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book To Dare and to Conquer written by Derek Leebaert and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 2006 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the impact special operations forces have had on world history from ancient times to the present and describes the methods commandos use to carry out their missions.

The Hidden Wound

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Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1582436673
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (824 download)

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Book Synopsis The Hidden Wound by : Wendell Berry

Download or read book The Hidden Wound written by Wendell Berry and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2010-04-28 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impassioned, thoughtful, and fearless essay on the effects of racism on the American identity by one of our country’s most humane literary voices. Acclaimed as “one of the most humane, honest, liberating works of our time” (The Village Voice), The Hidden Wound is a book-length essay about racism and the damage it has done to the identity of our country. Through Berry’s personal experience, he explains how remaining passive in the face of the struggle of racism further corrodes America’s great potential. In a quiet and observant manner, Berry opens up about how his attempt to discuss racism is rooted in the hope that someday the historical wound will begin to heal. Pulitzer prize-winning author Larry McMurtry calls this “a profound, passionate, crucial piece of writing . . . Few readers, and I think, no writers will be able to read it without a small pulse of triumph at the temples: the strange, almost communal sense of triumph one feels when someone has written truly well . . . The statement it makes is intricate and beautiful, sad but strong.” “Mr. Berry is a sophisticated, philosophical poet in the line descending from Emerson and Thoreau." ―The Baltimore Sun "[Berry’s poems] shine with the gentle wisdom of a craftsman who has thought deeply about the paradoxical strangeness and wonder of life." ―The Christian Science Monitor "Wendell Berry is one of those rare individuals who speaks to us always of responsibility, of the individual cultivation of an active and aware participation in the arts of life." ―The Bloomsbury Review “[Berry’s] poems, novels and essays . . . are probably the most sustained contemporary articulation of America’s agrarian, Jeffersonian ideal.” ―Publishers Weekly

Wound Tight

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Publisher : Entangled: Brazen
ISBN 13 : 1633757641
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (337 download)

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Book Synopsis Wound Tight by : Tessa Bailey

Download or read book Wound Tight written by Tessa Bailey and published by Entangled: Brazen. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sexy and tender, Wound Tight had me smiling and squirming. Watching these two men open up and fight for their love is a must for any romance fan." - USA Today bestselling author Megan Erickson When CEO Renner Bastion walks into a room, everyone keeps their distance. Well, almost everyone. The exception is a sarcastic, tattooed, Boston-bred security guard whose presence has kept Renner in New Jersey longer than intended. As if the unwanted attraction isn’t unsettling enough, Renner finds out his protector isn’t as unavailable as he thought. Milo Bautista just came out to his wealthy, ultra-confident boss—a man he secretly respects and admires—in more ways than he’ll admit. Worldly, experienced Renner would never look in his direction, let alone share some of that confidence he wears like a cloak, so Milo has set his sights on someone else to be his first. That is until Renner offers him private lessons in seduction. Now distance is the last thing either of them wants... Each book in the Made in Jersey series is STANDALONE: * Crashed Out * Thrown Down * Worked Up * Wound Tight

All Wound Up

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Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1449402089
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (494 download)

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Book Synopsis All Wound Up by : Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Download or read book All Wound Up written by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling author of Yarn Harlot returns with more witty stories about knitting, motherhood, friendship, and more. In this all-new collection of yarns, New York Times–bestselling author and self-proclaimed yarn Harlot Stephanie Pearl-McPhee is all wound up about life, motherhood, losing her beloved washing machine, and, of course, knitting. With trademark humor and wit that have sustained her through thick and thin, including a few misshapen sweaters and an indoor water balloon fight among her otherwise darling daughters, Pearl-McPhee deftly examines knitting, parenting, friendship, and—gasp!—even crocheting in essays that are at times touching, often hilarious, and always entertaining. Praise for Yarn Harlot “A sort of David Sedaris-like take on knitting—laugh-out-loud funny most of the time and poignantly reflective when it’s not cracking you up.” —Library Journal “Pearl-McPhee turns both typical and unique knitting experiences into very funny and articulate prose.” —Meg Swansen, Schoolhouse Press “I laughed until my stitches fell helplessly from my needles!” —Lucy Neatby, author of Cool Socks Warm Feet

Self-Inflicted Wounds

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062223798
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Book Synopsis Self-Inflicted Wounds by : Aisha Tyler

Download or read book Self-Inflicted Wounds written by Aisha Tyler and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her book Self-Inflicted Wounds, comedian, actress, and cohost of CBS’s daytime hit show The Talk, Aisha Tyler recounts a series of epic mistakes and hilarious stories of crushing personal humiliation, and the personal insights and authentic wisdom she gathered along the way. The essays in Self-Inflicted Wounds are refreshingly and sometimes brutally honest, surprising, and laugh-out-loud funny, vividly translating the brand of humor Tyler has cultivated through her successful standup career, as well as the strong voice and unique point of view she expresses on her taste-making comedy podcast Girl on Guy. Riotous, revealing, and wonderfully relatable, Aisha Tyler’s Self-Inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales of Epic Humiliation is about the power of calamity to shape life, learning, and success.

The Port Chicago 50

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1596437960
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (964 download)

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Book Synopsis The Port Chicago 50 by : Steve Sheinkin

Download or read book The Port Chicago 50 written by Steve Sheinkin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the fifty black sailors who refused to work in unsafe and unfair conditions after an explosion in Port Chicago killed 320 servicemen, and how the incident influenced civil rights.

Reagan's War

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Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1400075564
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Reagan's War by : Peter Schweizer

Download or read book Reagan's War written by Peter Schweizer and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2003-10-21 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reagan’s War is the story of Ronald Reagan’s personal and political journey as an anti-communist, from his early days as an actor to his years in the White House. Challenging popular misconceptions of Reagan as an empty suit who played only a passive role in the demise of the Soviet Union, Peter Schweizer details Reagan’s decades-long battle against communism. Bringing to light previously secret information obtained from archives in the United States, Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Russia—including Reagan’s KGB file—Schweizer offers a compelling case that Reagan personally mapped out and directed his war against communism, often disagreeing with experts and advisers. An essential book for understanding the Cold War, Reagan’s War should be read by open-minded readers across the political spectrum.

The Harkis

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226118762
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Book Synopsis The Harkis by : Vincent Crapanzano

Download or read book The Harkis written by Vincent Crapanzano and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies the life in France of those Algerian Muslims who fought with the French army during the war of independence, moved to France after the war, and were placed in camps for years by the French government.

The Fifty Year Sword

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Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0307907724
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Book Synopsis The Fifty Year Sword by : Mark Z. Danielewski

Download or read book The Fifty Year Sword written by Mark Z. Danielewski and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this story set in East Texas, a local seamstress named Chintana finds herself responsible for five orphans who are not only captivated by a storyteller’s tale of vengeance but by the long black box he sets before them. As midnight approaches, the box is opened, a fateful dare is made, and the children as well as Chintana come face to face with the consequences of a malice retold and now foretold.

The World After the War

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1786070979
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Book Synopsis The World After the War by : Derek Leebaert

Download or read book The World After the War written by Derek Leebaert and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great myths of the twentieth century is that after the Second World War Britain simply relinquished its power and America quickly embraced its worldwide political and military commitments. Instead the two allies improvised an uneasy, shifting partnership for twelve long years while most of western Europe lay in turmoil and Russia grew more aggressive. But in 1957 Washington issued a ‘declaration of independence’ from British authority. It was then that everything changed, and America assumed leadership of the new world order just taking shape. Derek Leebaert spins a riveting global narrative of Britain as the original superpower and shows why the Americans kept believing it to be indispensable. It’s the story of secret ties, diplomatic quarrels and military interventions that casts political giants Churchill, Truman, Eisenhower and Johnson in a new light. In a volatile world of decolonisation, a uniting Europe and the Suez Crisis, shrewd men in London were leveraging the empire’s long-established resources and influence to maintain their grip on power. The enduring notion of a special relationship, rising tensions with Russia and China, and the sources of much of the world’s turmoil can’t be understood without knowing what really occurred.

One Life

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Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1782116869
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (821 download)

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Book Synopsis One Life by : Kate Grenville

Download or read book One Life written by Kate Grenville and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *NEW NOVEL RESTLESS DOLLY MAUNDER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024* FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AND WOMEN’S PRIZE-WINNING AUSTRALIAN NOVELIST Kate Grenville often takes inspiration for her fiction from her family history and this extraordinary memoir about the life of her own mother, Nance Russell, reveals why. Born to an unhappy marriage and into a deeply sexist society, Nance worked hard for everything she had, and while the world changed around her, she went on to university, opening businesses and raising a family. One Life is just as much a universal story as it is Nance’s. Beautifully captured by her daughter, it draws on the tales passed down by word of mouth, creating an evocative portrait of life in twentieth-century rural Australia and a deeply intimate and caring homage to a mother’s struggle.

Healing the Original Wound

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ISBN 13 : 9780892837786
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (377 download)

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Download or read book Healing the Original Wound written by Benedict J. Groeschel and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anyone who knows something about the imperative need, the restlessness, the hunger we all have to find unfailing love in the brief reality that we call our lives.