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Bring the War Home

Author : Kathleen Belew
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674237692
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Bring the War Home written by Kathleen Belew and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The white power movement in America wants a revolution. It has declared all-out war against the federal government and its agents, and has carried out—with military precision—an escalating campaign of terror against the American public. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but are highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling worldview of white supremacy, anticommunism, and apocalypse. In Bring the War Home, Kathleen Belew gives us the first full history of the movement that consolidated in the 1970s and 1980s around a potent sense of betrayal in the Vietnam War and made tragic headlines in the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building. Returning to an America ripped apart by a war that, in their view, they were not allowed to win, a small but driven group of veterans, active-duty personnel, and civilian supporters concluded that waging war on their own country was justified. They unified people from a variety of militant groups, including Klansmen, neo-Nazis, skinheads, radical tax protestors, and white separatists. The white power movement operated with discipline and clarity, undertaking assassinations, mercenary soldiering, armed robbery, counterfeiting, and weapons trafficking. Its command structure gave women a prominent place in brokering intergroup alliances and giving birth to future recruits. Belew’s disturbing history reveals how war cannot be contained in time and space. In its wake, grievances intensify and violence becomes a logical course of action for some. Bring the War Home argues for awareness of the heightened potential for paramilitarism in a present defined by ongoing war.

Home from the War

Author : Robert Jay Lifton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Home from the War written by Robert Jay Lifton and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The War Comes Home

Author : Aaron Glantz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520256125
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (561 download)

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Download or read book The War Comes Home written by Aaron Glantz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the many scandals of the war in Iraq is how the administration has betrayed our returning servicemen. I'm grateful that the facts surrounding these tragedies are finally being exposed."--Paul Haggis, Academy-Award-winning director of Crash and In the Valley of Elah, screenwriter of Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima "A must-read for those who claim to support our troops."--Robert G. Gard, Lt. General, U.S. Army (ret.) "The treatment by the Bush Administration of America's returning veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is one of the saddest chapters in American history. This story is painfully documented by Aaron Glantz. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to make the phrase, 'Support the Troops,' more than a slogan."--Former US Senator Max Cleland "A fitting tribute to what these men and women fought and risked their lives and well-being for."--Gerald Nicosia, author of Home to War "This superbly documented and eloquent book is a clarion call for honesty, compassion, outrage, and an end to the lies that cause so much suffering in far-off countries and in our own nation."--Norman Solomon, author of War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death "Aaron Glantz draws on his eyewitness experiences of reporting in Iraq to bring the courage and the suffering of our troops into vivid relief. The War Comes Home exposes how physical and mental injuries plague our returning servicemen and what we can do about it."--Linda Bilmes, coauthor of The Three Trillion Dollar War "Weep, America, cringe, America. We talk a good game about honoring all those who go into harm's way for our sake and caring for those who get physically and psychologically broken, but do we go beyond fine words and a few gold-plated flagship medical facilities? Are we walking the walk? Are we getting it right? Aaron Glantz is in our face on the military treatment facilities, the VA, and civilian society at large."--Jonathan Shay, MD, PhD, author of Achilles in Vietnam and Odysseus in America. MacArthur Fellow "Aaron Glantz reports on the human cost of war, what it does physically and emotionally to those young men and women who carry out industrial slaughter. He rips apart the myths we tell ourselves about war and illustrates, in painful detail, the dark psychological holes that those who have been through war's trauma endure and will always endure. He reminds us that the essence of war is not glory, heroism, and honor but death."--Chris Hedges, former New York Times foreign correspondent, author of War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning "We should all be reading people like Greg Palast and Aaron Glantz."--Al Kennedy, The Guardian (UK)

Home to War

Author : Gerald Nicosia
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780786714032
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Home to War written by Gerald Nicosia and published by Carroll & Graf Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the struggles of those who served in Vietnam to deal with the negative reaction at home, their role in the anti-war movement, and their battle for medical help and compensation for Agent Orange and post-traumatic stress.

The War Hits Home

Author : Brian Steel Wills
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813920276
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The War Hits Home written by Brian Steel Wills and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1863 Confederate forces confronted the Union garrison at Suffolk Virginia, and an exhausting and deadly campaign followed. Wills (history and philosophy, U. of Virginia-Wise) focuses on how the ordinary people of the region responded to the war. He finds that many remained devoted to the Confederate cause, while others found the demands too difficult and opted in a number of ways not to carry them any longer. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Invisible Wounds of War

Author : Marguerite Guzman Bouvard
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1616145544
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Invisible Wounds of War written by Marguerite Guzman Bouvard and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s no real homecoming for many of our veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They may go through the motions of daily life in their hometowns, but the terrible sights and sounds of war are still fresh in their minds. This empathic, inside look into the lives of our combat veterans reveals the lingering impact that the longest wars in our nation’s history continue to have on far too many of our finest young people. Basing her account on numerous interviews with veterans and their families, the author examines the factors that have made these recent conflicts especially trying. A major focus of the book is the extreme duress that is a daily part of a soldier’s life in combat zones with no clear frontlines or perimeters. Having to cope with unrecognizable enemies in the midst of civilian populations and attacks from hidden weapons like improvised explosive devices exacts a heavy toll. Compounding the problem is the all-volunteer nature of our armed forces, which often demands multiple deployments of enlistees. This results in frequent cases of post-traumatic stress disorder and families disrupted by the long absence of one and sometimes both parents. The author also discusses the lack of connectedness between civilian society and military personnel, leading to inadequate healthcare for many veterans. This deficiency has been highlighted by the urgent need to treat traumatic brain injuries in survivors of explosions and the high veteran suicide rate. Bouvard concludes on a positive note by discussing some of the surprising and encouraging ways that the chasm between civilian and military life is being bridged to help reintegrate our returning soldiers. For veterans, their families, and especially for civilians unaware of how much our soldiers have endured, The Invisible Wounds of War is important reading.

Making Home from War

Author : Brian Komei Dempster
Publisher : Heyday Books
ISBN 13 : 9781597141420
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (414 download)

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Download or read book Making Home from War written by Brian Komei Dempster and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by 13 Japanese-American elders document the post-World War II experiences of displaced Japanese Americans who after being released from internment camps encountered homelessness, joblessness and racism while banding together to form a culturally resilient community. By the award-winning editor of From Our Side of the Fence.

The War Come Home

Author : Deborah Cohen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520220080
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The War Come Home written by Deborah Cohen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-10-30 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on a breathtaking range of research in British and German archives, The War Come Home is written in an engaging, immediately accessible style and filled with rich anecdotes that are excellently told. This impressive book offers a powerful set of insights into the lasting effects of the First World War and the different ways in which belligerent states came to terms with the war's consequences."—Robert Moeller, author of War Stories: The Search for a Usable Past in the Federal Republic of Germany "With verve, compassion, and above all else, clarity, The War Come Home makes the dismal story of the failed reconstructions of disabled veterans in interwar Britain and German into engaging and provocative reading. Cohen moves from astute analysis of the interventions of high level bureaucrats to sensitive interpretations of how disabled veterans wrote and talked about their lives and the treatment they received at the hands of public and private agencies. She beautifully interweaves histories from below and above, showing how the two shaped -- but also collided with -- one another in profoundly consequential ways for the history of the 20th century."—Seth Koven, coeditor (with Sonya Michel) of Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States

When War Comes Home

Author : Marshéle Carter Waddell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781439208908
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book When War Comes Home written by Marshéle Carter Waddell and published by . This book was released on 2008-10-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When War Comes Home combines spiritual comfort and practical, Christ-centered solutions for wives of combat veterans struggling with the hidden wounds of war including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Why Soldiers Miss War

Author : Nolan Peterson
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 9781612007731
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Why Soldiers Miss War written by Nolan Peterson and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ask most combat veterans to name the worst experience of their lives, and they'll probably tell you it was war. But ask them to choose the best experience of their life, and they'll usually say it was war, too. For someone who has not been to war, this is nearly impossible to understand. The spectrum of emotions experienced by a combat veteran is far wider than that experienced in civilian life and for that reason it can be hard for a veteran to re-assimilate to civilian life. Ask a combat veteran about this, it's a common feeling.What is it about war that soldiers miss? This is a question that every civilian should try to understand. Weaving together a wide range of stories from the flight deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier off Syria to climbing a forbidden Himalayan pass into Tibet, this moving and insightful book explains one of the most everlasting human pursuits - war. But its focus isn't solely war; it is also about coming home and confronting another kind of struggle, which we all share--the search for happiness.In this collection, Peterson writes of war from the perspective of both a combatant and a witness taking the reader from combat missions over Afghanistan as an Air Force special operations pilot to the frontlines against ISIS in Iraq, and the trench and tank battles of the war in Ukraine. Interweaving his frontline reports with a narrative about his own transformation from a combat pilot to a war journalist, Peterson explores a timeless paradox - why does coming home from war feel like such a disappointment?

When We Came Home

Author : Jack Mccabe
Publisher : OddInt Media
ISBN 13 : 9780979786860
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book When We Came Home written by Jack Mccabe and published by OddInt Media. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack McCabe, himself a Vietnam War veteran, shares his own homecoming story and those of other Vietnam veterans, assembled from McCabe's interviews with more than 150 veterans.

Bringing the War Home

Author : John Helmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bringing the War Home written by John Helmer and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Back from War

Author : Lee Alley
Publisher : Exceptional Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780976732938
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (329 download)

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Download or read book Back from War written by Lee Alley and published by Exceptional Pub. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For the first time, the physical and emotional problems that returning Veterans of WWII, Vietnam, Korea, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq are suffering are discussed openly and with heart-wrenching candor."--Cover p. [4].

They Were Families

Author : Stephanie Mines Ph. D.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781581072778
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (727 download)

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Download or read book They Were Families written by Stephanie Mines Ph. D. and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In surveying the literature on war and its aftermath, including the literature on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), there is virtually nothing about the families of veterans. These families are the scapegoats of war. Their story is timeless but the author believes the time has come to tell it. The RAND Corporation study initiated by the National Military Families Association reports that military families have more emotional distress and anxiety than the general population. 95% of these families feel that others (outside the military) are unaware of their dilemmas. They are correct. The needs of the families of our veterans are, for the most part, ignored. In particular, their children are not given the support they need to offset the toxic conditions of war that is brought home. The distress in the homes of veterans creates an epigenetic burden that is carried most heavily by children. Investigations into the mechanisms of the intergenerational transmission of trauma reveal that the children of veterans who have seen combat and who have returned from war with PTSD are more prone to violence; are at a higher risk for behavioral, academic and interpersonal problems; have difficulty maintaining friendships; are more likely to have sensory challenges or to be diagnosed with autism; are at higher risk for depression and have difficulty concentrating. Knowing all this, what do we provide to take this burden off the shoulders of children and families? Close to nothing. Three simple, initial steps can begin to shed light on this shadow: Education; Resources; and Family Centered Transition. This is a book devoted to these three steps. When the author discussed these steps with civilians they frequently respond, in all innocence, by saying: "Don't we already have this?" These three steps are so common-sense, so obviously needed, that the assumption by people who have not investigated this issue is that it has already been taken care of by the powers that be. Surely "they" know this. But there is no "they." We must be the "they" that voices this obvious need and advocates for its fulfillment. It is a tall order, but it must be done.

Making Home from War

Author : Brian Komei Dempster
Publisher : Heyday.ORIM
ISBN 13 : 1597142794
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (971 download)

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Download or read book Making Home from War written by Brian Komei Dempster and published by Heyday.ORIM. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sequel to the award-winning From Our Side of the Fence—personal stories of life after the WWII internment camps from twelve Japanese Americans. Many books have chronicled the experience of Japanese Americans in the early days of World War II, when over 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry, two-thirds of whom were American citizens, were taken from their homes along the West Coast and imprisoned in concentration camps. When they were finally allowed to leave, a new challenge faced them—how do you resume a life so interrupted? Written by twelve Japanese American elders who gathered regularly at the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California, Making Home from War is a collection of stories about their exodus from concentration camps into a world that in a few short years had drastically changed. In order to survive, they found the resilience they needed in the form of community and gathered reserves of strength from family and friends. Through a spectrum of conflicting and rich emotions, Making Home from War demonstrates the depth of human resolve and faith during a time of devastating upheaval. “I remember my release from Manzanar as scary and intense, but until now so little has been said about this aspect of the internment experience. This is an important book, its stories ground-breaking and memorable.”—Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, author of Farewell to Manzanar “A deeply moving accounting of life after imprisonment, its lingering stigma, and the true meaning of freedom.”—Dr. Satsuki Ina, producer of Children of the Camps

The Home Front, U.S.A.

Author : Ronald H. Bailey
Publisher : Seafarer Books
ISBN 13 : 9780809424788
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book The Home Front, U.S.A. written by Ronald H. Bailey and published by Seafarer Books. This book was released on 1977 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Home From War

Author : Marnie Summerfield Smith
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1907195017
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Home From War written by Marnie Summerfield Smith and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lance Corporal Martyn Compton's life was changed beyond recognition when he was blown up in a Taliban ambush that killed three of his colleagues. His survival was described as a 'miracle', as he suffered third-degree burns to 75 per cent of his body. He endured 15 operations and doctors used shark cartilage as a base for new skin on his face. But he did not have to face this gruelling ordeal alone. From the moment she heard of his near-fatal wounds, Martyn's fiancée Michelle Clifford found an inner strength to help them both face the future. During Martyn's treatment, Michelle kept a diary in which she revealed the innermost thoughts and emotions she wished she could relay to her wounded partner. Home From War gives a rare insight into the story behind the headlines when soldiers die or are injured. It is also the account of Martyn's battle for adequate compensation. This exploration of how one courageous man came to terms with losing his handsome young face cannot fail to inspire.