Category: War

By Erich Maria Remarque

Berlin in den »Goldenen 20ern«: Der Krieg ist vorüber - in den SaIons und Theatern herrscht Lebensfreude, in der Kasse die Inflation und auf der Straße now not und politische Unruhe. Drei junge Kriegskameraden versuchen ein neues Leben aufzubauen...

By James Dawson Burn

ISBN-10: 1108002978

ISBN-13: 9781108002974

James Dawson Burn's 1865 ebook endeavours to offer a real account of the economic, social, ethical and political nation of the operating type in the US, and is addressed in part to proceeding emigrants. His examine examines the folk themselves, in addition to the conditions that inspired their behavior through the Civil conflict, and attracts comparisons among their and that of the operating classification in Europe. Burns, writing from the point of view of an English customer to the us, comments that upon seeing the seen social convenience there, he got here to think that lower-class american citizens of the interval have been a ways ahead of their friends in his personal kingdom. provided that American rights and liberties supplied this sort of powerful inducement for the labouring inhabitants of Europe to flock to its shorelines, Burns meant his examine to function a advisor for what they can and will no longer count on.

By W. E. B. Griffin

ISBN-10: 0515119385

ISBN-13: 9780515119381

Behind the Lines is W. E. B. Griffin's robust novel of global struggle II -- and the braveness, patriotism, and sacrifice of these who fought it.

By 1942, the japanese have routed the outnumbered American forces and conquered the Philippines. yet deep within the island jungles, the strive against keeps. Refusing to hand over, a renegade military officer organizes a resistance strength and vows to struggle to the final guy. A Marine leads his group on a venture in the course of the center of enemy territory.

And the nation's proudest sons struggle uncelebrated battles that would win -- or lose -- the conflict.

By W. E. B. Griffin

ISBN-10: 0515106402

ISBN-13: 9780515106404

W.E.B. Griffin is a bestselling phenomenom, an American grasp of genuine army motion and drama. Now, during this electrifying new novel, he finds the tale of 1 of the bloodiest conflicts of the Pacific, the epic fight for Guadalcanal...Daredevil pilot Charles Galloway learns the difficult method easy methods to command a fighter squadron. Lt. Joe Howard groups up with the Coastwatchers. Jack "No center Initial" Stecker leads his infantry battalion into the thickest of scuffling with, at a negative expense. And army Captain Pickering grabs a helmet and rifle to hitch the ranks at Guadalcanal...

By Terry Soileau

A distinction OF goal is a civil struggle novel that tells the tale of 12 yr previous Jonathan Berkeley, a accomplice drummer boy serving with the recognized Orphan Brigade, and his uncle and Godfather, Alexander Wythe, an abolitionist attorney and captain serving within the Union military. They strive against with God and their very own internal demons as they confront devastating own tragedies and seek desperately for religion, love and that means in a torn and tragic global of civil struggle. Captain Wythe is compelled to question his religion while faced with the lack of love ones, together with his spouse, Amanda Wythe,and with the human discomfort, inhumanity, cruelty and chaos of the yankee Civil conflict. This tale of loss, sorrow, religion, and redeeming love takes the reader on a fast paced trip to the bloody battlefields of Fredericksburg, Stones River, and Chickamauga, and during a global of department and heartbreak. additionally featured during this novel of affection and warfare are Abraham Lincoln, Clara Barton, the abolition of slavery, the mistreatment of yank Indians, and the most important mass execution in American historical past.

By Mary McCarthy

ISBN-10: 1480441163

ISBN-13: 9781480441163

Hailed as “the so much provocative and demanding analytical indictment . . . of America’s function in Vietnam” through the New York Times, this can be Mary McCarthy’s riveting account of her trips to Saigon and Hanoi    

In 1967, the editor of the New York evaluate of Books sent Mary McCarthy to Vietnam. during this bold and incisive account, McCarthy brings her serious considering and novelist’s eye to 1 of the main unpopular wars in our nation’s history.

Outraged over America’s position within the Vietnam struggle, McCarthy arrived in Saigon together with her personal preconceived notions. Her time there did little to change these ideals. targeting the ethical consequences—“the worst factor which could ensue to our kingdom will be to win this war”—McCarthy presents firsthand experiences from front line. She describes visits to villages outfitted for Vietnamese refugees torn among the phobia that american citizens might remain and the phobia that they'd go.

From its insurance of the day-by-day horrors of warfare to notes at the logistical problem of bringing 494,000 squaddies domestic, it is a well timed and undying paintings from considered one of America’s so much outspoken and revered critics.

This publication positive aspects an illustrated biography of Mary McCarthy together with infrequent photos from the author’s property.

ISBN-10: 1608075516

ISBN-13: 9781608075515

It's acknowledged that deception between humans in a civilized society is anything to be loathed although it appears a part of human nature; yet deception in conflict is a advantage. adequately designed and finished, stratagems lessen the bad charges of war.

This booklet is a finished choice of vintage articles on deception, hand-picked and expertly brought through recognized specialists on army deception. the aim of this publication is to set in movement a renaissance for utilizing deception as an tool of statecraft. many of the sections are designed to cumulatively supply adequate breadth and intensity at the topic to meet either the amateur in addition to the professional. choked with specialist remark, fascinating historical past info, and unique readings, this booklet presents the reader with enough wisdom to pursue basic Eisenhower’s imaginative and prescient for the right kind function of deception in aid of the nationwide curiosity.

By John Dos Passos

ISBN-10: 0141180277

ISBN-13: 9780141180274

A part of the new release that produced Ernest Hemingway and Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos wrote the most grimly sincere pix of worldwide warfare I. Three Soldiers portrays the lives of a trio of military privates: Fuselli, an Italian American shop clerk from San Francisco; Chrisfield, a farm boy from Indiana; and Andrews, a musically proficient Harvard graduate from big apple. Hailed as a masterpiece on its unique e-book in 1921, Three Soldiers is a gripping exploration of worry and ambition, conformity and uprising, desertion and violence, and the brutal and dehumanizing results of a regimented struggle computing device on traditional infantrymen.

John Dos Passos (1896-1970) was once born in Chicago and graduated from Harvard in 1916. His provider as an ambulance driving force in Europe on the finish of worldwide struggle I led him to write down Three Soldiers in 1919. A prolific shuttle author, biographer, playwright, and novelist, he's an American vintage of the 20 th century.

By Joseph Hickman

ISBN-10: 1510705775

ISBN-13: 9781510705777

Millions of yank squaddies are coming back from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan with critical wounds from chemical struggle. they aren't the sufferers of ruthless enemy struggle, yet in their personal army commanders. those squaddies, troubled with infrequent cancers and breathing ailments, have been sickened from the smoke and ash swirling out of the “burn pits” the place army contractors incinerated mountains of trash, together with outdated stockpiles of mustard and sarin fuel, scientific waste, and different poisonous material.

Based on millions of presidency files, over in-depth scientific case experiences, and interviews with multiple thousand veterans and active-duty GIs, The Burn Pits will surprise the country. The e-book is greater than an explosive paintings of investigative journalism—it is the deeply relocating chronicle of the various younger women and men who signed as much as serve their nation within the wake of 9-11, purely to come back domestic completely broken, the sufferers in their personal armed forces’ legal negligence.

By JOSEPH A, EDITOR SKIERA

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