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The Changing of the Guard

Author : Simon Akam
Publisher : Scribe Publications
ISBN 13 : 1925938719
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (259 download)

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Download or read book The Changing of the Guard written by Simon Akam and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A TLS and a Prospect Book of the Year A revelatory, explosive new analysis of the British military today. Over the first two decades of the twenty-first century, Britain has changed enormously. During this time, the British Army fought two campaigns, in Iraq and Afghanistan, at considerable financial and human cost. Yet neither war achieved its objectives. This book questions why, and provides challenging but necessary answers. Composed from assiduous documentary research, field reportage, and hundreds of interviews with many soldiers and officers who served, as well as the politicians who directed them, the allies who accompanied them, and the family members who loved and — on occasion — lost them, it is a strikingly rich, nuanced portrait of one of our pivotal national institutions in a time of great stress. Award-winning journalist Simon Akam, who spent a year in the army when he was 18, returned a decade later to see how the institution had changed. His book examines the relevance of the armed forces today — their social, economic, political, and cultural role. This is as much a book about Britain, and about the politics of failure, as it is about the military.

Handbook for Americans

Author : Thomas Penfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781494012601
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Handbook for Americans written by Thomas Penfield and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1942 edition.

America's Coast Guard

Author : Bruce B. Stubbs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book America's Coast Guard written by Bruce B. Stubbs and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

We Stand On Guard

Author : Brian K. Vaughan
Publisher : Image Comics
ISBN 13 : 1534302832
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book We Stand On Guard written by Brian K. Vaughan and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2016-05-04 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set one hundred years in our future, WE STAND ON GUARD follows a heroic band of Canadian civilians turned freedom fighters who must defend their homeland from invasion by a technologically superior opponent... the United States of America. Collects WE STAND ON GUARD #1-6

Lured by the American Dream

Author : P. James Paligutan
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252053605
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Lured by the American Dream written by P. James Paligutan and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting in 1952, the United States Navy and Coast Guard actively recruited Filipino men to serve as stewards--domestic servants for officers. Oral histories and detailed archival research inform P. James Paligutan's story of the critical role played by Filipino sailors in putting an end to race-based military policies. Constrained by systemic exploitation, Filipino stewards responded with direct complaints to flag officers and chaplains, rating transfer requests that flooded the bureaucracy, and refusals to work. Their actions had a decisive impact on seagoing military’s elimination of the antiquated steward position. Paligutan looks at these Filipino sailors as agents of change while examining the military system through the lens of white supremacy, racist perceptions of Asian males, and the motives of Filipinos who joined the armed forces of the power that had colonized their nation. Insightful and dramatic, Lured by the American Dream is the untold story of how Filipino servicepersons overcame tradition and hierarchy in their quest for dignity.

In Katrina's Wake

Author : William B. Boehm
Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book In Katrina's Wake written by William B. Boehm and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2010 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. G.P.O. sales statement incorrect in publication.

The Virgin Islands of the United States of America

Author : Luther Kimbell Zabriskie
Publisher : New York ; London : G.P. Putnam's Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Virgin Islands of the United States of America written by Luther Kimbell Zabriskie and published by New York ; London : G.P. Putnam's Sons. This book was released on 1918 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Manual of Guard Duty, United States Army

Author : United States. War Department
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manual of Guard Duty, United States Army written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Alcatraz Screw

Author : George H. Gregory
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826263739
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Alcatraz Screw written by George H. Gregory and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alcatraz Screw is a firsthand account from a prison guard’s perspective of some of the most storied years at the infamous U.S. Penitentiary at Alcatraz. George Gregory began his career as a guard for the Federal Bureau of Prisons in 1940. Following his training, he was sent to the federal prison at Sandstone, Minnesota. A few years later he enlisted in the Marine Corps. Badly wounded at Iwo Jima, he returned to Sandstone after a long rehabilitation. When the Bureau of Prisons closed Sandstone in 1947, Gregory was transferred to Alcatraz, which had been a federal penitentiary since 1934. For the next fifteen years, Gregory worked on “The Rock.” He takes the reader along on a correctional officer’s tour of duty, showing what it was like to pull a lonely, tedious night of sentry duty in the Road Tower, or witness illicit transactions in the clothing room, or forcibly quell a riot in the cell blocks. Gregory provides an insider’s account of the tenures of all four of Alcatraz’s wardens and their sometimes contradictory approaches to administering the institution. He knew and regularly interacted with such legendary inmates as Robert Stroud (the Birdman of Alcatraz) and George “Machine Gun” Kelly. Without glamorizing or demonizing either the staff or the convicts, Alcatraz Screw provides a candid portrayal of corruption, drug abuse, and sexual practices, as well as efforts at reform and unrecorded acts of kindness. Various incidents in the memoir convey the fear, hatred, frustration, boredom, and unavoidable tension of being incarcerated. With the inclusion of maps and diagrams of Alcatraz Island, as well as photographs of inmates, officers, and the prison itself, this book offers insight into life at the notorious Alcatraz from an unprecedented perspective.

United States Coast Guard

Author : United States. Coast Guard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book United States Coast Guard written by United States. Coast Guard and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Iran's Revolutionary Guard

Author : Steven K. O'Hern
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 159797823X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (979 download)

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Download or read book Iran's Revolutionary Guard written by Steven K. O'Hern and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard poses a danger to the economy and well-being of the United States, citing its previous operations in the Middle East and Asia.

America's Armories

Author : Robert M. Fogelson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book America's Armories written by Robert M. Fogelson and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the design and site location of American armories, and argues that they were influenced by a fear of class warfare.

A Changing of the Guard

Author : Randall Bennett Woods
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807818770
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book A Changing of the Guard written by Randall Bennett Woods and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1941 and 1946, in response to the devastation caused by World War II, memories of the Great Depression, and the prospect of Soviet expansion, a group of politicians, diplomats, and economists in the United States and Great Britain sought to repair the ruined economies of of Europe and secure economic prosperity for America. Their program, which became known as multilateralism, called for reduced quotas on imports, lowered tariffs, the abandonment of currency exchange controls, and economic decision making by international bodies. Randall Woods explores this attempt to create an interdependent world economy and sets it against the broader political and strategic backdrop of the period. In the United States, multilateralism attracted New Deal liberals because it proposed to help not only the established economic interests but traditionally disadvantaged groups such as farmers and industrial workers as well. Moderate socialists in Britain also lent their support to a liberalized trading system, as did many conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic, believing that the program would preserve some degree of free enterprise in the international economy. Unfortunately for its disciples, Woods argues, multilateralism was so modified by the forces of isolationism and economic nationalism_and by bureaucratic politics in the United States_that it failed to achieve its economic and strategic goals. The international economy that emerged after World War II was not an equitable partnership and merely finalized the fifty-year process by which the United States supplanted Great Britain as the arbiter of Western Capitalism. In the end, modified multilateralism hampered rather than facilitated the free flow of goods and capital, and it did little to promote social democracy.

Rescue Warriors

Author : David Helvarg
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312363729
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Rescue Warriors written by David Helvarg and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history of the United States Coast Guard along with information on the daily lives of the "Coasties" who respond to distress calls and save lives each day.

Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1586 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications

Author : United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by United States. Superintendent of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Prisoner in His Palace

Author : Will Bardenwerper
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501117858
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Prisoner in His Palace written by Will Bardenwerper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song, this haunting, insightful, and surprisingly intimate portrait of Saddam Hussein provides “a brief, but powerful, meditation on the meaning of evil and power” (USA TODAY). The “captivating” (Military Times) The Prisoner in His Palace invites us to take a journey with twelve young American soldiers in the summer of 2006. Shortly after being deployed to Iraq, they learn their assignment: guarding Saddam Hussein in the months before his execution. Living alongside, and caring for, their “high value detainee and regularly transporting him to his raucous trial, many of the men begin questioning some of their most basic assumptions—about the judicial process, Saddam’s character, and the morality of modern war. Although the young soldiers’ increasingly intimate conversations with the once-feared dictator never lead them to doubt his responsibility for unspeakable crimes, the men do discover surprising new layers to his psyche that run counter to the media’s portrayal of him. Woven from firsthand accounts provided by many of the American guards, government officials, interrogators, scholars, spies, lawyers, family members, and victims, The Prisoner in His Palace shows two Saddams coexisting in one person: the defiant tyrant who uses torture and murder as tools, and a shrewd but contemplative prisoner who exhibits surprising affection, dignity, and courage in the face of looming death. In this thought-provoking narrative, Saddam, known as the “man without a conscience,” gets many of those around him to examine theirs. “A singular study exhibiting both military duty and human compassion” (Kirkus Reviews), The Prisoner in His Palace grants us “a behind-the-scenes look at history that’s nearly impossible to put down…a mesmerizing glimpse into the final moments of a brutal tyrant’s life” (BookPage).