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Author : Anthony Verrier
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book An Army for the Sixties written by Anthony Verrier and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeff Kisseloff
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813138469
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Generation on Fire written by Jeff Kisseloff and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2006-12-29 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An invigorating collection of fifteen testimonials from counter-culturists, conscientious objectors, and artists who came of age” during the ’60s (Publishers Weekly). Many of the freedoms and rights Americans enjoy today are the direct result of those who defied the established order during the Civil Rights Era. It was an era that challenged both mainstream and elite American notions of how politics and society should function. In Generation on Fire, oral historian Jeff Kisseloff provides an eclectic and personal account of the political and social activity of the decade. Among other things, the book offers firsthand accounts of what it was like to face a mob's wrath in the segregated South and to survive the jungles of Vietnam. It takes readers inside the courtroom of the Chicago Eight and into a communal household in Vermont. From the stage at Woodstock to the playing fields of the NFL and finally to a fateful confrontation at Kent State, Generation on Fire brings the '60s alive again. This collection of never-before published interviews illuminates the ingrained social and cultural obstacles facing those working for change as well as the courage and shortcomings of those who defied "acceptable" conventions and mores. Sometimes tragic, sometimes hilarious, the stories in this volume celebrate the passion, courage, and independent thinking that led a generation to believe change for the better was possible.
Author : Society of the 28th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. Reunion
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of ... Annual Meeting of the Society of the 28th Wisconsin Vol. Infantry Held at ... written by Society of the 28th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. Reunion and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. C. M. Baynes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000259072
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Soldier in Modern Society written by J. C. M. Baynes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the few years prior to publication there had been a growing interest not only in the organisation and efficiency of the British Army, but also in its role in modern British society and the place of soldiering as a significant career. The time was therefore ripe for a book such as this, which looks objectively at the position of our Army whilst at the same time showing the actual experience of a Regular soldier. Originally published in 1972, Colonel Baynes’s book was largely written during a year’s Defence Fellowship at Edinburgh University in 1968-9, where he worked under Professor John Erickson in the Higher Defence Studies sections of the Department of Politics. He begins by examining the ways in which armies can be used, and then turns to more specific issues connected with the employment of the British Army in the modern world. He summarises what the British Army has accomplished since 1945 and how its strength has varied, and follows with a chapter on the cost of maintaining it. The core of the book revolves around three basic questions. First, what, in the 1970s, does British society really think about its Army, and what sort of army does it want? Second, how can soldiers be kept keen and efficient in a period of prolonged peace? And third, who will join the Army in the coming years, what will their conditions of service be like and what are their career opportunities? Some of Colonel Baynes’s solutions to these problems are likely to be unpopular with traditionalists, although he is by no means an iconoclast and has a deep affection for, and belief in, his own profession. At the time this book was strongly recommended to all with an interest in the security of this country and the future of its armed forces: both those serving in them and civilians.
Author : John Marshall
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Action Figures of the 1980s written by John Marshall and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 430 color photographs and descriptions of the pocket-sized G.I. Joes*t, movie and TV characters, fantasy figures, He-Man*t, the Thunder Cats*t, super heroes, Transformers*t, and wrestling figures abound here. Price listings are provided for every figure shown and produced within particular product lines.
Author : Richard R. Moser
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813522425
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (224 download)
Download or read book The New Winter Soldiers written by Richard R. Moser and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Moser uses interviews and personal stories of Vietnam veterans to offer a fundamentally new interpretation of the Vietnam War and the antiwar movement. Although the Vietnam War was the most important conflict of recent American history, its decisive battle was not fought in the jungles of Vietnam, or even in the streets of the United States, but rather in the hearts and minds of American soldiers. To a degree unprecedented in American history, soldiers and veterans acted to oppose the very war they waged. Tens of thousands of soldiers and veterans engaged in desperate conflicts with their superiors and opposed the war through peaceful protest, creating a mass movement of dissident organizations and underground newspapers. Moser shows how the antiwar soldiers lived out the long tradition of the citizen soldier first created in the American Revolution and Civil War. Unlike those great upheavals of the past, the Vietnam War offered no way to fulfill the citizen-soldier's struggle for freedom and justice. Rather than abandoning such ideals, however, tens of thousands abandoned the war effort and instead fulfilled their heroic expectations in the movements for peace and justice. According to Moser, this transformation of warriors into peacemakers is the most important recent development of our military culture. The struggle for peace took these new winter soldiers into America rather than away from it. Collectively these men and women discovered the continuing potential of American culture to advance the values of freedom, equality, and justice on which the nation was founded.
Author : Kenn Woods
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1634177304
Total Pages : 1612 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (341 download)
Download or read book The Soldier's Words written by Kenn Woods and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 1612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since I began Civil War re-enacting in 1988, there have been two schools of thought regarding the uniform of the Confederate soldiers. One is that the Rebels were never ragged, that was just a romantic myth started after the war. The other school of thought is that the Rebels were always ragged and wore whatever they could get their hands on. I decided that the best way to discover the truth is by investigating, what the soldiers themselves said regarding their clothing through letters, diaries and memoirs. This book uses the soldiers own words regarding Confederate uniforms and includes many surprising anecdotes and some "firsts" regarding incidents of the Civil War.
Author : Lloyd C. Glover
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of a Soldier and an Ambassador for Christ written by Lloyd C. Glover and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-07-17 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a marvelous book that explores the life story of Lloyd C. Glover, a soldier, and a representative for Christ. This book looks back at the beginning of his relationship with God and the history of his life and how his childhood growing up in a small town in New Jersey was affected by the events of the Viet Nam War, and how his belief in Christ was strengthen by his assignment as a Christian soldier in the Gulf War while serving in the defense of the Nation of Israel as part of Joint Task Force Patriot Missiles that shot down Saddam Hussein’s dreaded Iraqi Scud missiles aimed at the children of Father Abraham, and a year later while serving in the defense of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Come see how God blessed him by turning the Gulf War into a learning environment that allow Sergeant Glover the opportunity to serve as a soldier and a representative for Christ in the Holy Land and to see for himself what it was like visiting and seeing up close the many historical sites in Israel like Capernaum, the Sea of Galilee, Haifa, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem. The Bible does say that God told Father Abraham “I will bless those that bless you.” Amen Lloyd Glover is also a Pastor and Founder of two International Christian websites and an Online Bible training center. Journey with him as he discusses his life after retiring from the United States army and his bible college days at World Harvest Bible College and how his personal relationship with God had anointed him to do the work of the ministry. The purpose of his book is to be a learning tool and a reminder to believers about Jesus’ commandment about the Great Commission and to also challenge everyone to see where they fit in as an ambassador and a representative for our Savior. Amen
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 134961596X
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (496 download)
Download or read book The Soldier-Citizen written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the collapse of communism, the relationship between the Polish armed forces and the Polish government and society has been undergoing a transformation. This book dissects that relationship, inspecting the institutional design of the defense establishment in Poland.
Author : Michael J. Kramer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195384865
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Republic of Rock written by Michael J. Kramer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Kramer draws on new archival sources and interviews to explore sixties music and politics through the lens of these two generation-changing places--San Francisco and Vietnam. From the Acid Tests of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters to hippie disc jockeys on strike, the military's use of rock music to "boost morale" in Vietnam, and the forgotten tale of a South Vietnamese rock band, The Republic of Rock shows how the musical connections between the City of the Summer of Love and war-torn Southeast Asia were crucial to the making of the sixties counterculture. The book also illustrates how and why the legacy of rock music in the sixties continues to matter to the meaning of citizenship in a global society today. --from publisher description
Author : David Montejano
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292722907
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Quixote's Soldiers written by David Montejano and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1960s, San Antonio, Texas, was a segregated city governed by an entrenched Anglo social and business elite. The Mexican American barrios of the west and south sides were characterized by substandard housing and experienced seasonal flooding. Gang warfare broke out regularly. Then the striking farmworkers of South Texas marched through the city and set off a social movement that transformed the barrios and ultimately brought down the old Anglo oligarchy. In Quixote's Soldiers, David Montejano uses a wealth of previously untapped sources, including the congressional papers of Henry B. Gonzalez, to present an intriguing and highly readable account of this turbulent period. Montejano divides the narrative into three parts. In the first part, he recounts how college student activists and politicized social workers mobilized barrio youth and mounted an aggressive challenge to both Anglo and Mexican American political elites. In the second part, Montejano looks at the dynamic evolution of the Chicano movement and the emergence of clear gender and class distinctions as women and ex-gang youth struggled to gain recognition as serious political actors. In the final part, Montejano analyzes the failures and successes of movement politics. He describes the work of second-generation movement organizations that made possible a new and more representative political order, symbolized by the election of Mayor Henry Cisneros in 1981.
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Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (26 download)
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Total Pages : 616 pages
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Download or read book Journal of the United States Infantry Association written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 570 pages
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Download or read book Infantry Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Lawrence Roberts
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789637326264
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (262 download)
Download or read book From Good King Wenceslas to the Good Soldier ?vejk written by Andrew Lawrence Roberts and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From Good King Wenceslas to the Good Soldier Svejk, this cultural dictionary is an intimate look at a people affectionately known for their storytelling humor (tlachani), suspicion of authority, and peaceful demeanor. Instead of the "greats" of Czech arts and letters that appear in standard histories or references, it describes such things as popular songs, movie stars, famous athletes, traditional dishes, and children's games that are second nature to every Czech." "In a country boasting the highest per capita consumption of beer (a bottle a day for every man woman and child), and where you once needed a handful of bony (coupons for imported goods) to buy a pair of Levi's, the Czech Republic today is a modern country of educated Europeans centered around Prague - one of the world's most beautiful capital cities. These contradictions all find a home in A Dictionary of Czech Popular Culture." "From Brno to Zizkov, Jan Hus to Vaclav Havel, this wry and stimulating collection of over 600 entries marks the first attempt at sewing together the patchwork of Czech culture with the hope of showing what is hezky cesky (nicely Czech) to the world at large." "The dictionary is supplemented by over thirty lists on such topics as the most popular Czech song, novel, athlete, and food. It also includes other primary documents like historical calendars, school-leaving exams, and communist slogans."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Arthur James Todd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Scientific Spirit and Social Work written by Arthur James Todd and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
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