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Author : Hugh Slater
Publisher : London, V. Gollancz
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Home Guard for Victory! written by Hugh Slater and published by London, V. Gollancz. This book was released on 1941 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barry M. Stentiford
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585441815
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (418 download)
Download or read book The American Home Guard written by Barry M. Stentiford and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since colonial times Americans have used the militia to maintain local order during both war and peacetime. States have intermittently created, maintained, deployed, and disbanded countless militia organizations outside the scope of the better-known National Guard. Barry M. Stentiford tells the story of these militia units--variously called home guards, State Guard, National Guard Reserve, and State Defense Forces. Stentiford traces the evolution of the militia over the past century, demonstrating its transformation from an amalgamation of state militia units into the National Guard, a reserve of the army. Ironically, the very existence of the National Guard made the creation of other militia forces necessary during periods of war. The home guards or State Guard were organized to fill the vacuum left when the National Guard was called up, depriving states of an organized militia that could be mobilized for repelling invasions, suppressing riots, controlling strikes, or guarding the waterfront. Stentiford carefully analyzes the challenges that faced the State Guards as states sought to build their new militia with leftover men and material. He also examines the role of the State Guard: providing relief during and after natural disasters, providing military training for future draftees, and broadening participation in military units during wartime by giving a role to men who, because of their age or occupation, could not join the federal forces. The State Guard gained a new significance in the Cold War, especially as the political unpalatability of a draft and reductions in the size of the full-time military expanded the functions of the National Guard in military policy. Today modern state militias, born to an ancient tradition, must define a role for themselves in a society that increasingly views them as anachronistic. They mut also compete ideologically with so-called unorganized militias for the title of true heir to the American militia tradition.
Author : Petra DeWitt
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826274781
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)
Download or read book The Missouri Home Guard written by Petra DeWitt and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2022-12-26 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Missouri was one of many states that established a defense organization to take over the duties of the National Guard that had been federalized for military service when the United States declared war on Germany in 1917. The tasks of this volunteer Home Guard included traditional National Guard responsibilities such as providing introductory military training for draftable men, protecting crucial infrastructure from potential enemy activities, and maintaining law and order during labor activism. The Home Guard also functioned to preserve patriotism and reduce opposition to the war. Service in the Guard was a way to show loyalty to one’s country, particularly for German Americans, who were frequently under suspicion as untrustworthy. Many German Americans in Missouri enthusiastically signed up to dispel any whispers of treason, while others found themselves torn between the motherland and their new homeland. Men too old or exempt from the draft for other reasons found meaning in helping with the war effort through the Home Guard while also garnering respect from the community. For similar reasons, women attempted to join the organization as did African Americans, some of whom formed units of a “Negro Home Guard.” Informed by the dynamics of race, gender, and ethnicity, DeWitt’s consideration of this understudied but important organization examines the fluctuating definition of patriotism and the very real question of who did and who did not have the privilege of citizenship and acceptance in society.
Author : Ian Slater
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773571531
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Orwell written by Ian Slater and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2003-09-26 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Moulmein, in Lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people ..." So begins one of Orwell's most famous essays. In Orwell: The Road to Airstrip One Ian Slater explains why Orwell was hated in Moulmein and takes us on a fascinating intellectual journey that traces the development of Orwell's political and social criticism. Using a uniquely thematic approach, Slater also examines Orwell's self-criticism and, finally, the hidden and corrosive dangers of state and self-imposed censorship in a security-obsessed world. Slater's tour de force, critically acclaimed by those on both the left and the right, moves from Orwell's schooldays in England and his time as a policeman in Burma, through his years as a struggling poet, dishwasher, tramp in Paris, and tutor, schoolmaster, and bookshop assistant in London, to his critical experiences during the Spanish Civil War. Slater takes us beyond the events of Orwell's life to the bitter satire of the Russian Revolution in Animal Farm and the horrifying terror of Room 101 in 1984, Orwell's final novel, and shows that 1984 is as much a warning about the state of mind we call totalitarianism as it is a prophecy of an actual political state. As the war on terrorism continues and governments demand ever-increasing power over the individual in order to combat terrorism, Orwell: The Road to Airstrip One, reissued during Orwell's centenary, warns us that "he who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster."
Author : Roderick Normann
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752489763
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book For Fuhrer & Fatherland written by Roderick Normann and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2009-09-21 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Fuhrer and Fatherland is the extraordinary story of how British and American Intelligence thwarted a wartime plan for a daring mass break-out of German prisoners-of-war from the PoW camp at Devizes in Wiltshire, led by a hard core of SS troops. As December 1944 drew to a close, trained US interrogators stumbled on a plan so fantastic in concept that it was hard to take seriously. The Interrogation Centre operatives broke the wills of the prisoners involved and got to the bottom of the story. With their escape plan in tatters, the SS took their revenge and 'tried' and murdered one of their fellow prisoners, who was accused of betraying the Fuhrer. Despite the SS code of silence, those involved were brought to justice and hanged at Pentonville Prison in October 1945. In this book, the author asks the questions: Why was Devizes Camp so woefully unprepared for a possible break-out? Why were the SS allowed to continue their reign of terror on British soil? Why did the Government of the day try to cover up the events?
Author : David Yelton
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781846030130
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Hitler's Home Guard: Volkssturmmann written by David Yelton and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2006-09-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Osprey's study of Germany's Home Guard during the latter part of World War II (1939-1945). The creation of the German Home Guard or Volkssturm on 18 October 1944 was a desperate measure by the Nazi regime to utilize every available manpower resource in their last-ditch attempts to delay their inevitable defeat. All able-bodied males between the ages of 16 and 60 who were not already members of the German Armed Forces were conscripted into one organization. The aim of the Volkssturm was to shore up the defense of the Reich, but also to restrict any possible revolt or dissent by exercising military discipline over the entire male population of fighting age. This Nazi fantasy was the creation of a new force of highly-motivated Aryans dedicated to the heroic defense of their fatherland. However, the Volkssturm failed due to poor equipment, lack of training, and low morale. Men who had no experience of combat and little or no inclination to fight, and who had little interest in the Nazi regime found themselves sent into battle against impossible odds and achieving little or nothing. The focus of the book is the section of Germany's western front where the Volkssturm fought in vain to slow the advance of Canadian forces and where the desertion rate was very high. David K. Yelton follows the experience of a Volkssturm conscript from his call-to-arms, into action and through to his capture and time as a POW, examining his personal reaction to the creation of the German Home Guard and his response to the fighting into which he was thrust.
Author : Nordholt
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004624651
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book ACTA Historiae Neerlandicae written by Nordholt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Firth
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1456635166
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (566 download)
Download or read book LOOK AWAY written by Robert Firth and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2020 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, LEGACY, AFTERMATH, Most Americans, at least those born here before 1960, know the history of our Civil War but, what is generally not known- is why; why really the soldiers on both sides fought and died. Over the four years of bloody conflict some 690,000 young men from both sides lost their lives. That's an average of 14,375 every month and 479 a day. What were they so angry about that they were ready to give their lives for the cause- what cause? The popular myth is that it was all about abolishing slavery, but, as we show, that had little to do with the war.
Author : Samuel P. Huntington
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067423801X
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Soldier and the State written by Samuel P. Huntington and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1981-09-15 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a classic work, Samuel P. Huntington challenges most of the old assumptions and ideas on the role of the military in society. Stressing the value of the military outlook for American national policy, Huntington has performed the distinctive task of developing a general theory of civil–military relations and subjecting it to rigorous historical analysis. Part One presents the general theory of the "military profession," the "military mind," and civilian control. Huntington analyzes the rise of the military profession in western Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and compares the civil–military relations of Germany and Japan between 1870 and 1945. Part Two describes the two environmental constants of American civil–military relations, our liberal values and our conservative constitution, and then analyzes the evolution of American civil–military relations from 1789 down to 1940, focusing upon the emergence of the American military profession and the impact upon it of intellectual and political currents. Huntington describes the revolution in American civil–military relations which took place during World War II when the military emerged from their shell, assumed the leadership of the war, and adopted the attitudes of a liberal society. Part Three continues with an analysis of the problems of American civil–military relations in the era of World War II and the Korean War: the political roles of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the difference in civil–military relations between the Truman and Eisenhower administrations, the role of Congress, and the organization and functioning of the Department of Defense. Huntington concludes that Americans should reassess their liberal values on the basis of a new understanding of the conservative realism of the professional military men.
Author : [Anonymus AC02717376]
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Acta Historiae Neerlandica written by [Anonymus AC02717376] and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1966 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Adjutant-General's Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book U.S. Army Recruiting News written by United States. Adjutant-General's Office and published by . This book was released on with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Andrew Leneweaver, Richard G. Patterson, and Dr. William H. Woodward, Jr
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467129852
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Washington National Guard written by William Andrew Leneweaver, Richard G. Patterson, and Dr. William H. Woodward, Jr and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Washington National Guard boasts a rich and illustrious history. From Neah Bay to Asotin and from Spokane to Grays Harbor, citizen soldiers and airmen have served and sacrificed in both local communities and exotic places: Spokane and Luzon, Whidbey Island and Calexico, American Lake and Bordeaux, Mount St. Helens and Afghanistan. Their story is now brought vividly to life in these photographs and stories. It is offered not only for history buffs but also for the thousands of current and past National Guard members, families, friends, and neighbors touched by their service to state and nation.
Author : Timo H. Schaefer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108121411
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Liberalism as Utopia written by Timo H. Schaefer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberalism as Utopia challenges widespread perceptions about the weakness of Mexico's nineteenth-century state. Schaefer argues that after the War of Independence non-elite Mexicans - peasants, day laborers, artisans, local merchants - pioneered an egalitarian form of legal rule by serving in the town governments and civic militias that became the local faces of the state's coercive authority. These institutions were effective because they embodied patriarchal norms of labor and care for the family that were premised on the legal equality of male, adult citizens. The book also examines the emergence of new, illiberal norms that challenged and at the end of the century, during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, overwhelmed the egalitarianism of the early-republican period. By comparing the legal cultures of agricultural estates, mestizo towns and indigenous towns, Liberalism as Utopia also proposes a new way of understanding the social foundations of liberal and authoritarian pathways to state formation in the nineteenth-century world.
Author : Roland Penrose
Publisher : Farley's House and Gallery
ISBN 13 : 9780953238972
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (389 download)
Download or read book Home Guard Manual of Camouflage written by Roland Penrose and published by Farley's House and Gallery. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Roland Penrose CBE (14 October 1900 - 23 April 1984) was an English artist, historian and poet. He was a major promoter and collector of modern art and an associate of the key Surrealists in Europe. During the Second World War he put his artistic skills to practical use as a teacher of camouflage. He was Lecturer to the War Office School for Instructors to the Home Guard and also a Lecturer at the Osterley Park School for Training of the Home Guard.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
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Download or read book Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Home Rule for the District of Columbia, 1973-1974 written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
