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An Honourable Exit

Author : Eric Vuillard
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1035003988
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book An Honourable Exit written by Eric Vuillard and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2023-04-20 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the International Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Order of the Day and The War of the Poor comes a searing account of a conflict that dealt a fatal blow to French colonialism. 'Excoriating and profound . . . A remarkable work' - Scotsman 'Absolutely spectacular' - France Info 19 October 1950. The war is not going to plan. In Paris, politicians gather to discuss what to do about Indochina. The conflict is unpopular back home in France: too expensive, and too far away for the public to care. Withdrawal is not an option – a global power cannot surrender to an army of peasants – but victory is impossible without more soldiers and more money. The soldiers can be sourced from the colonies, but the money is out of the question. A solution needs to be found. In this gripping and shocking novel, Éric Vuillard exposes the tangled web of politicians, bankers and titans of industry who all had a vested interest in France’s prolonged presence in lands far from Paris. Skilfully skewering the guilty, Vuillard shows us how key players in conflicts throughout history often have a motivation even deeper and darker than nationalism and political ideology – greed. As well as bringing scenes from the battlefields to life, Vuillard looks beyond this visceral reality on the ground to the cold calculations of the boardroom elite with the power to turn a military win or loss into their financial gain. Short, sharp and brutal, An Honourable Exit by Éric Vuillard is a journey behind closed doors to witness how history is really made.

Honorable Exit

Author : Thurston Clarke
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1101872349
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Honorable Exit written by Thurston Clarke and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A MAIN SELECTION OF THE MILITARY BOOK CLUB A groundbreaking revisionist history of the last days of the Vietnam War that reveals the acts of American heroism that saved more than one hundred thousand South Vietnamese from communist revenge In 1973 U.S. participation in the Vietnam War ended in a cease-fire and a withdrawal that included promises by President Nixon to assist the South in the event of invasion by the North. But in early 1975, when North Vietnamese forces began a full-scale assault, Congress refused to send arms or aid. By early April that year, the South was on the brink of a defeat that threatened execution or years in a concentration camp for the untold number of South Vietnamese who had supported the government in Saigon or worked with Americans. Thurston Clarke begins Honorable Exit by describing the iconic photograph of the Fall of Saigon: desperate Vietnamese scrambling to board a helicopter evacuating the last American personnel from Vietnam. It is an image of U.S. failure and shame. Or is it? By unpacking the surprising story of heroism that the photograph actually tells, Clarke launches into a narrative that is both a thrilling race against time and an important corrective to the historical record. For what is less known is that during those final days, scores of Americans--diplomats, businessmen, soldiers, missionaries, contractors, and spies--risked their lives to assist their current and former translators, drivers, colleagues, neighbors, friends, and even perfect strangers in escape. By the time the last U.S. helicopter left Vietnam on April 30, 1975, these righteous Americans had helped to spirit 130,000 South Vietnamese to U.S. bases in Guam and the Philippines. From there, the evacuees were resettled in the U.S. and became American citizens, the leading edge of one of America's most successful immigrant groups. Into this tale of heroism on the ground Clarke weaves the political machinations of Henry Kissinger advising President Ford in the White House while reinforcing the delusions of the U.S. Ambassador in Saigon, who, at the last minute, refused to depart. Groundbreaking, page-turning, and authoritative, Honorable Exit is a deeply moving history of Americans at a little-known finest hour.

The War of the Poor

Author : Éric Vuillard
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1635420091
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book The War of the Poor written by Éric Vuillard and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Booker Prize Finalist The Spectator (UK): Best Book of the Year From the award-winning author of The Order of the Day, a powerful account of the German Peasants’ War (1524–25) that shows striking parallels to class conflicts of our time. In the sixteenth century, the Protestant Reformation launched an attack on privilege and the Catholic Church, but it rapidly became an established, bourgeois authority itself. Rural laborers and the urban poor, who were still being promised equality in heaven, began to question why they shouldn’t have equality here and now on earth. There ensued a furious struggle between the powerful—the comfortable Protestants—and the others, the wretched. They were led by a number of theologians, one of whom has left his mark on history through his determination and sheer energy. His name was Thomas Müntzer, and he set Germany on fire. The War of the Poor recounts his story—that of an insurrection through the Word. In his characteristically bold, cinematic style, Éric Vuillard draws insights from this revolt from nearly five hundred years ago, which remains shockingly relevant to the dire inequalities we face today.

The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond good and evil, tr. by Helen Zimmern

Author : Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond good and evil, tr. by Helen Zimmern written by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Operation Al-Nagrib

Author : Ajay Sachdev
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 9352066235
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Operation Al-Nagrib written by Ajay Sachdev and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Irfan Akram, who has seized power in a bloody coup in Islamabad, hatches a diabolical plot to assassinate US Secretary of State Barbara Evans on a scheduled visit to Mianwali Airbase, in Pakistan?s Punjab Province. Unfortunately, the plot goes haywire when the fidayeen squad tasked with the assassination turns rogue, and acquires a tactical nuclear weapon outside the knowledge and control of its handlers in the ISI. Meanwhile, the US secures initial intel of the planned fidayeen strike, and delivers a strong ultimatum to the Pakistanis to abort the strike, or else... When further intel from the Indian spy agency RAW, and its own sources, reaches the US of the nuclear weapon in the fidayeens? possession, an incensed President Alan Wilkins threatens the Pakistanis with nuclear annihilation. In pursuance of this, he orders Carrier Strike Group Three into the Arabian Sea, and positions it 200 nautical miles off Karachi harbour... Panic grips the Pakistani Army and the ISI when the realisation dawns on them that they are unable to establish contact with their fidayeen squad. They try desperately to reach the top leaders of the al-Qaeda, the Lashkar, the Haqqani Network and the Tehreek-e-Taliban-e-Pakistan, who are the controllers of the fidayeen squad, but they have suddenly turned incommunicado, and are untraceable. Meanwhile, CIA Special Agents Mike Hunter and Karen Sanders are brought in, and with inputs from Rajiv Vir of RAW, race against time to intercept and annihilate the fidayeen... A hugely entertaining and riveting spy thriller A page-turner

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1030 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Coke of Norfolk and His Friends

Author : Anna Maria Diana Wilhelmina Pickering Stirling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Coke of Norfolk and His Friends written by Anna Maria Diana Wilhelmina Pickering Stirling and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jest Book, Or, the Modern Joe Miller

Author : R. C. W.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (878 download)

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Download or read book Jest Book, Or, the Modern Joe Miller written by R. C. W. and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Britain's Moment in Palestine

Author : Michael J Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317913647
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Britain's Moment in Palestine written by Michael J Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1917, the British issued the Balfour Declaration for military and strategic reasons. This book analyses why and how the British took on the Palestine Mandate. It explores how their interests and policies changed during its course and why they evacuated the country in 1948. During the first decade of the Mandate the British enjoyed an influx of Jewish capital mobilized by the Zionists which enabled them not only to fund the administration of Palestine, but also her own regional imperial projects. But in the mid-1930s, as the clouds of World War Two gathered, Britain’s commitment to Zionism was superseded by the need to secure her strategic assets in the Middle East. In consequence she switched to a policy of appeasing the Arabs. In 1947, Britain abandoned her attempts to impose a settlement in Palestine that would be acceptable to the Arab States and referred Palestine to the United Nations, without recommendations, leaving the antagonists to settle their conflict on the battlefield. Based on archival sources, and the most up-to-date scholarly research, this comprehensive history offers new insights into Arab, British and Zionist policies. It is a must-read for anyone with an interest in Palestine, Israel, British Colonialism and the Middle East in general.

The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond good and evil, tr. by Helen Zimmern. 1923

Author : Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond good and evil, tr. by Helen Zimmern. 1923 written by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Primacy of Regime Survival

Author : Mark Simpson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319725203
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book The Primacy of Regime Survival written by Mark Simpson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the past and ongoing decline of Zimbabwe under the rule of ZANU-PF, with a primary focus on the period 1997 to the present. In contrast to much existing literature on post-independence Zimbabwe which has focused on the political dimensions of Zimbabwe’s fragility, this research highlights the economic aspects of Zimbabwe’s regression flowing from prolonged mismanagement of the economy which has served to consolidate the rule of the country’s political and economic elite. The Zimbabwean experience offers unique insights into the economic mensions of regime preservation. This book situates the Zimbabwe experience within the context of wider debates within the field of development studies, and the international community’s response to such situations.

The Nineteenth Century and After

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1092 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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The modern Joe Miller, ed. by R.C.W.

Author : Joe Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The modern Joe Miller, ed. by R.C.W. written by Joe Miller and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Napoléon Bonaparte

Author : Fahed Aslan Agha Al Barazi
Publisher : novum pro Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3990648861
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Napoléon Bonaparte written by Fahed Aslan Agha Al Barazi and published by novum pro Verlag. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweeping in scope and insightfully written, this biography of Napoleon Bonaparte covers the great man's political and military career in great detail, while also discussing his personal life from infancy, including his genealogy, upto his death at age 52. (Volume I of II)

Egypt

Author : Karl von Malortie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Egypt written by Karl von Malortie and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Life of the Learned Sir John Cheke, Kt., First Instructor, Afterwards Secretary of State, to King Edward VI ...

Author : John Strype
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book The Life of the Learned Sir John Cheke, Kt., First Instructor, Afterwards Secretary of State, to King Edward VI ... written by John Strype and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cena Trimalchionis

Author : Petronius Arbiter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Cena Trimalchionis written by Petronius Arbiter and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: