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Author : Carl von Clausewitz
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Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book On War written by Carl von Clausewitz and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Suzy Hansen
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374712441
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Notes on a Foreign Country written by Suzy Hansen and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan Award • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by New York Magazine and The Progressive "A deeply honest and brave portrait of of an individual sensibility reckoning with her country's violent role in the world." —Hisham Matar, The New York Times Book Review In the wake of the September 11 attacks and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen, who grew up in an insular conservative town in New Jersey, was enjoying early success as a journalist for a high-profile New York newspaper. Increasingly, though, the disconnect between the chaos of world events and the response at home took on pressing urgency for her. Seeking to understand the Muslim world that had been reduced to scaremongering headlines, she moved to Istanbul. Hansen arrived in Istanbul with romantic ideas about a mythical city perched between East and West, and with a naïve sense of the Islamic world beyond. Over the course of her many years of living in Turkey and traveling in Greece, Egypt, Afghanistan, and Iran, she learned a great deal about these countries and their cultures and histories and politics. But the greatest, most unsettling surprise would be what she learned about her own country—and herself, an American abroad in the era of American decline. It would take leaving her home to discover what she came to think of as the two Americas: the country and its people, and the experience of American power around the world. She came to understand that anti-Americanism is not a violent pathology. It is, Hansen writes, “a broken heart . . . A one-hundred-year-old relationship.” Blending memoir, journalism, and history, and deeply attuned to the voices of those she met on her travels, Notes on a Foreign Country is a moving reflection on America’s place in the world. It is a powerful journey of self-discovery and revelation—a profound reckoning with what it means to be American in a moment of grave national and global turmoil.
Author : Nir Arielli
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674982231
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book From Byron to bin Laden written by Nir Arielli and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes people fight and risk their lives for countries other than their own? Why did diverse individuals such as Lord Byron, George Orwell, Che Guevara, and Osama bin Laden all volunteer for ostensibly foreign causes? Nir Arielli helps us understand this perplexing phenomenon with a wide-ranging history of foreign-war volunteers, from the wars of the French Revolution to the civil war in Syria. Challenging narrow contemporary interpretations of foreign fighters as a security problem, Arielli opens up a broad range of questions about individuals’ motivations and their political and social context, exploring such matters as ideology, gender, international law, military significance, and the memory of war. He shows that even though volunteers have fought for very different causes, they share a number of characteristics. Often driven by a personal search for meaning, they tend to superimpose their own beliefs and perceptions on the wars they join. They also serve to internationalize conflicts not just by being present at the front but by making wars abroad matter back at home. Arielli suggests an innovative way of distinguishing among different types of foreign volunteers, examines the mixed reputation they acquire, and provides the first in-depth comparative analysis of the military roles that foreigners have played in several conflicts. Merging social, cultural, military, and diplomatic history, From Byron to bin Laden is the most comprehensive account yet of a vital, enduring, but rarely explored feature of warfare past and present.
Author : Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States
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Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the ... Annual Encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States written by Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bob Orrick
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1503536238
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (35 download)
Download or read book They Fought Valiantly for Their Country’S Survival written by Bob Orrick and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They Fought Valiantly for Their Countrys Survival contains the personal accounts of South Korean soldiers and marines who fought for the survival of their country following the North Korean sneak attack on South Korea that was the start of the Korean War 25 June 195027 July 1953. Inasmuch as a ceasefire or cessation of hostilities was signed at Panmunjom on 27 July 1953 and the shooting stopped, the Korean War remains very much in the forefront of world news as a declaration of peace has not been signed as the 2.5-mile wide demilitarized zone between the two Koreas attests in stark, menacing evidence. The accounts that are contained within this book are real and reveal in clear prose the devastation, the pain, the agony, the danger, the fear, the betrayal, distress, wounds, death, turmoil, separation, and love of family that was the constant with these South Koreans as they stood in the forefront and stopped the evil known as communism and set in place the seed that culminated in the tearing down of the Berlin Wall a few decades later. The South Koreans who fought valiantly during the thirty-seven-month Korean War, stopped the spread of communism in the Far East. Truly, theirs was a heroic stand that the free world can applaud today.
Author : Neil Black
Publisher : The Miegunyah Press
ISBN 13 : 0522855121
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)
Download or read book Strangers in a Foreign Land written by Neil Black and published by The Miegunyah Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Niel Black, one of the most influential settlers of the Western District of Victoria, stepped onto the sand at Port Phillip Bay in 1839 and declared Melbourne to be 'almost altogether a Scotch settlement', he was paying the newly created outpost of the British Empire his highest compliment. His journal, reproduced here in its entirety, provides rare insight into the realities of early settlement in Victoria, detailing experiences of personal hardship and physical danger as well as the potential for accumulating great wealth and success. Drawing on the extensive collections of the State Library of Victoria, Strangers in a Foreign Land also includes glimpses into the lives of other settlers and the indigenous people of the area. It evokes the sense of place and dislocation that the early settlers encountered, and the hopes and anxieties they carried with them as they created new homes in Australia.
Author : Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the ... National Encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States written by Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some early issues include the Proceedings of the ... annual encampment of the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States.
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Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Our Navy, the Standard Publication of the U.S. Navy written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress
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Total Pages : 1192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wolf Kunert
Publisher : tredition
ISBN 13 : 3384226992
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (842 download)
Download or read book Hannes or The foreign Land written by Wolf Kunert and published by tredition. This book was released on 2024-05-13 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chance acquaintance. Two men of advanced age. What begins as childhood memories leads to an unresolved, deep conflict. We are all the creators of our own happiness. But what if we haven't learned to forge? This book is not a search for guilt, but for the causes of deeply felt breaks in a person's life. Excerpt: "Hannes was an idiot. These are not my words. He himself once said that about himself. Maybe not in a pathological sense, he added. He is one of the more inconspicuous of his kind, after all he is still allowed to move freely among us. Basically, Hannes even had something like charm that made him seem likeable to the majority of people around him. Even as a child he was quite popular, especially with older women. They appreciated him for his respect and the courtesy he showed them. He tried to endear himself to them, as he later did to his schoolmates and then to his childhood friends. That was his way of dealing with people. But he had a deficit from an early age. We met on our walks, Hannes and I. We greeted each other when we met and one day we talked about this and that. Insignificant everyday pleasantries. Dogs bring people together. His dog and mine knew and accepted each other. If four-legged friends like each other, their two-legged friends usually like each other too. After all, only good people have friendly dogs. We also succumbed to this short-sighted conclusion. It almost happened naturally that we ended up taking our walks together. While our dogs secured their territory by sniffing and marking, we talked about God and the world. We sniffed each other, so to speak, human-style. We were both of retirement age and could organize our time as we wished. One of the blessings of our age. Hannes explained that I tend to be lazy and would probably not exercise as regularly without the dog. Sport was never really my thing. Much to my daughter's annoyance. She sometimes scolds me because of this. But everyone lives according to their own ideas. Even if sometimes they are the wrong people and you know it. At first the two of us met by chance. But over time it became a habit for me. It was good to spend the time having a pleasant chat. This took my mind off the daily grind and brought a breath of fresh air into my head. We greeted each other, the dogs also completed their greeting ritual and then we began our tour. We talked about things that came to mind. For example, what we had come to appreciate about retirement."
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Total Pages : 970 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Congressional Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Vedette written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edgar Allen Forbes
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Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Leslie's Photographic Review of the Great War written by Edgar Allen Forbes and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 2134 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 2134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Mapes Dodge
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Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book St. Nicholas written by Mary Mapes Dodge and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chester Hale Sipe
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Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book History of Butler County, Pennsylvania written by Chester Hale Sipe and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
