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Author : Judith Matloff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fragments of a Forgotten War written by Judith Matloff and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's personal account of events in Angola between 1992 and 1997.
Author : Joyce Hibbert
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1554881692
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)
Download or read book Fragments of War written by Joyce Hibbert and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The young girl from the Ottawa Valley who served as a nurse in North Africa with only a helmet of fresh water a day, the teenage soldier from Fredericton who stole pig swill to survive in a Hong Kong prisoner of war camp, the English woman who survived the sinking of the Athenia to become a war-bride, and an Alberta airman who crashed off the icy coast of Greenland, these are but only four of the thirty compelling personal accounts of war experiences. Many private photographs from their own albums illustrate these stories, which reflect the world wide aspect of the war from the Indian Ocean to the North Atlantic, from Poland to the Middle East, and the varied activities and duties of these young men and women. Their hardships, their adventures, frustrations, fears, joys and romances are chronicled in a poignant and often humorous manner.
Author : Françoise Mengin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190264055
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Fragments of an Unfinished War written by Françoise Mengin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable book reveals how little we know about what lies behind the superficial antagonism between the PRC and Taiwan, especially where business is concerned.
Author : Bertram A. Yaffe
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Fragments of War written by Bertram A. Yaffe and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A World War II marine officer who survived three major campaigns in the Pacific offers an authentic and compelling picture of tank warfare in this chronicle of his experiences. From the grueling combat in the rain forest of Bougainville to the fierce assault on Guam and the vicious struggle for Iwo Jima, Bertram Yaffe balances the realities of combat with personal reflections on the nature of humanity and courage under horrifying circumstances. With wry humor he takes us inside the mind of a young tank officer wrestling with the concept of war and his own need to square rationalism with an intuitive, sometimes mystical, view of reality. As a result, Yaffe shares with us the meditations and avenues of contemplation that helped him survive the grotesque experience of war and cope with the stress that so often follows extreme battlefield ordeals. Central to his ability to deal with these problems, we learn, were his deep feelings for his wife and the important family bonds their marriage helped restore - their Russian-Jewish grandfathers were brothers separated during the Russo-Japanese War.
Author : Bruce H. Bretthauer
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781493654901
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (549 download)
Download or read book Fragments from the War written by Bruce H. Bretthauer and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories from the Families War, and after. What happened to some of the people we met in the main novels after the fighting ended? These stories cover some of that, and more.
Author : Jack Fuller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226268866
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (688 download)
Download or read book Fragments written by Jack Fuller and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997-12-22 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vietnam veteran Bill Morgan, haunted by an incident in which civilians were shot and killed, seeks out his former sergeant Jim Neumann after their return to the U.S. for an explanation of what really happened in the village of Xuan The.
Author : Jean Said Makdisi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780892552450
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Beirut Fragments written by Jean Said Makdisi and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the widely acclaimed account of the civilian experience of fifteen years of war in Beirut- "a profound, heartbreaking book" (Los Angeles Times Book Review), "an impassioned cry against indifference" (New York Times Book Review), "a work ringing with truth and insight" (Arab Book World)-now with an Afterword about the postwar years. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book An intensely personal yet timelessly crafted portrait of life in a worn-torn city, Beirut Fragments spans the years of the civil war in Lebanon, 1975-1990. When thousands fled, Jean Said Makdisi chose to stay. She raised three sons, taught English and Humanities at Beirut University College-and she wrote. She records the breakdown of society and the physical destruction of Beirut, the massacres of Sabra and Shatila, the Israeli Invasion, everyday acts of terrorism, the struggle to maintain ordinary routines amid chaos, and the incredible spirit of a people. A Palestinian, a Christian, a woman who has lived in Jerusalem, Cairo, the United States, and Beirut, Jean Said Makdisi uses the migrations of her own life as a paradigm which helps elucidate many of the conflicts in the region. The new afterword covers the postwars years, from the last ceasefire to the present day.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Fragments of War written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Slavenka Drakulic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780393341225
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (412 download)
Download or read book The Balkan Express written by Slavenka Drakulic and published by . This book was released on 1993-05-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of beautiful, impassioned essays, Croatian journalist and feminist Drakulic provides a very real and human side to the Balkans war and shows how the conflict has affected her closest friends, colleagues, and fellow countrymen--both Serbian and Croatian. Includes five new essays not in the hardcover edition.
Author : Mary Palevsky
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520220552
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Atomic Fragments written by Mary Palevsky and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-06-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Scientists Hans Bethe, Edward Teller, Joseph Rotblat, Herbert York, Philip Morrison, and Robert Wilson, and philosopher David Hawkins, responded to Palevsky's personal approach in a way that dramatically expands their previously published statements."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Binjamin Wilkomirski
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Fragments written by Binjamin Wilkomirski and published by Schocken. This book was released on 1996 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoir of a small boy who was separated from his family at the age of three or four-years-old after his father was killed during a round-up of Jews in Latvia, and was sent to the Majdanek death camp where he was discovered by Allied soldiers in 1945.
Author : Loris Malaguzzi
Publisher : Reggio Children
ISBN 13 : 8885508170
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Children, the War and Us written by Loris Malaguzzi and published by Reggio Children. This book was released on 2021-02-23T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second in the "Fragments" series of digital publishing dedicated to Loris Malaguzzi, and making available to a wider public his writings and talks during professional development, conferences, and conventions. This volume collects some contributions from Loris Malaguzzi on the theme of war, dating from the beginning of 1991 (in conjuction withe the Gulf War). Despite being formulated more than thirty years ago and despite radical changes in the media, the words of Malaguzzi are still capable to "resonate" with educators, teachers, and parents, inviting to reflect on how living authentically with the different ways of feeling, children and adults together, in search of the meanings of events that the media bring daily into our homes – and in the children's eys – in real time.
Author : Martha Gellhorn
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802191169
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Face of War written by Martha Gellhorn and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of “first-rate frontline journalism” from the Spanish Civil War to US actions in Central America “by a woman singularly unafraid of guns” (Vanity Fair). For nearly sixty years, Martha Gellhorn’s fearless war correspondence made her a leading journalistic voice of her generation. From the Spanish Civil War in 1937 through the Central American wars of the mid-eighties, Gellhorn’s candid reporting reflected her deep empathy for people regardless of their political ideology. Collecting the best of Gellhorn’s writing on foreign conflicts, and now with a new introduction by Lauren Elkin, The Face of War is a classic of frontline journalism by “the premier war correspondent of the twentieth century” (Ward Just, The New York Times Magazine). Whether in Java, Finland, the Middle East, or Vietnam, she used the same vigorous approach. “I wrote very fast, as I had to,” she says, “afraid that I would forget the exact sound, smell, words, gestures, which were special to this moment and this place.” As Merle Rubin noted in his review of this volume for The Christian ScienceMonitor, “Martha Gellhorn’s courageous, independent-minded reportage breaks through geopolitical abstractions and ideological propaganda to take the reader straight to the scene of the event.”
Author : Eric Herring
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801444579
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (445 download)
Download or read book Iraq in Fragments written by Eric Herring and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the United States led the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, it expected to be able to establish a prosperous liberal democracy with an open economy that would serve as a key ally in the region. It sought to engage Iraqi society in ways that would defeat any challenge to that state building project and U.S. guidance of it. Eric Herring and Glen Rangwala argue that state building in Iraq has been crippled less by preexisting weaknesses in the Iraqi state, Iraqi sectarian divisions or U.S. policy mistakes than by the fact that the US has attempted-with only limited success-to control the parameters and outcome of that process. They explain that the very nature of U.S. state-building in Iraq has created incentives for unregulated local power struggles and patron-client relations. Corruption, smuggling, and violence have resulted. The main legacy of the US-led occupation, the authors contend, is that Iraq has become a fragmented state-that is, one in which actors dispute where overall political authority lies and in which there are no agreed procedures for resolving such disputes. As long as this is the case, the authority of the state will remain limited. Technocratic mechanisms such as training schemes for officials, political fixes such as elections, and the coercive tools of repression will not be able to overcome this situation. Placing the occupation within the context of regional, global, and U.S. politics, Herring and Rangwala demonstrate how the politics of co-option, coercion, and economic change have transformed the lives and allegiances of the Iraqi population. As uncertainty about the future of Iraq persists, this volume provides a much-needed analysis of the deeper forces that give meaning to the daily events in Iraq.
Author : Alison Winter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226902587
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Memory written by Alison Winter and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picture your 21st birthday. Did you have a party? If so, do you remember who was there? How clear are these memories? Should we trust them? Such questions have fascinated scientists for hundreds of years, and, as Alison Winter shows in this book, the answers have changed dramatically in just the past century.
Author : David Drake
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674495918
Total Pages : 589 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Paris at War written by David Drake and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris at War chronicles the lives of ordinary Parisians during World War II, from September 1939 when France went to war with Nazi Germany to liberation in August 1944. Readers will relive the fearful exodus from the city as the German army neared the capital, the relief and disgust felt when the armistice was signed, and the hardships and deprivations under Occupation. David Drake contrasts the plight of working-class Parisians with the comparative comfort of the rich, exposes the activities of collaborationists, and traces the growth of the Resistance from producing leaflets to gunning down German soldiers. He details the intrigues and brutality of the occupying forces, and life in the notorious transit camp at nearby Drancy, along with three other less well known Jewish work camps within the city. The book gains its vitality from the diaries and reminiscences of people who endured these tumultuous years. Drake’s cast of characters comes from all walks of life and represents a diversity of political views and social attitudes. We hear from a retired schoolteacher, a celebrated economist, a Catholic teenager who wears a yellow star in solidarity with Parisian Jews, as well as Resistance fighters, collaborators, and many other witnesses. Drake enriches his account with details from police records, newspapers, radio broadcasts, and newsreels. From his chronology emerge the broad rhythms and shifting moods of the city. Above all, he explores the contingent lives of the people of Paris, who, unlike us, could not know how the story would end.
Author : Paul Mcauley
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1616141166
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)
Download or read book The Quiet War written by Paul Mcauley and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-third century Earth, ravaged by climate change, looks backwards to the holy ideal of a pre-industrial Eden. Political power has been grabbed by a few powerful families and their green saints. Millions of people are imprisoned in teeming cities; millions more labour on Pharaonic projects to rebuild ruined ecosystems. On the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, the Outers, descendants of refugees from Earth's repressive regimes, have constructed a wild variety of self-sufficient cities and settlements: scientific utopias crammed with exuberant creations of the genetic arts; the last outposts of every kind of democratic tradition. The fragile detente between the Outer cities and the dynasties of Earth is threatened by the ambitions of the rising generation of Outers, who want to break free of their cosy, inward-looking pocket paradises, colonise the rest of the Solar System, and drive human evolution in a hundred new directions. On Earth, many demand pre-emptive action against the Outers before it's too late; others want to exploit the talents of their scientists and gene wizards. Amid campaigns for peace and reconciliation, political machinations, crude displays of military might, and espionage by cunningly wrought agents, the two branches of humanity edge towards war...
