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The author's personal account of events in Angola between 1992 and 1997.
Author : Judith Matloff
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 37,87 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Angola
ISBN :
The author's personal account of events in Angola between 1992 and 1997.
Author : Christopher Alan Bayly
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 42,54 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674021532
This is a panoramic account of the bitter wars of the end of empire, seen not only through the eyes of the fighters, but also through the personal stories of ordinary people.
Author : Jodi Kim
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,54 MB
Release : 2004
Category : American literature
ISBN : 1452915148
Ends of Empire examines Asian American cultural production and its challenge to the dominant understanding of American imperialism, Cold War dynamics, and race and gender formation.Jodi Kim demonstrates the degree to which Asian American literature and film critique the record of U.S. imperial violence in Asia and provides a glimpse into the imperial and gendered racial logic of the Cold War. She unfolds this particularly entangled and enduring episode in the history of U.S. global hegemony—one that, contrary to leading interpretations of the Cold War as a simple bipolar rivalry, was significantly triangulated in Asia.The Asian American works analyzed here constitute a crucial body of what Kim reveals as transnational “Cold War compositions,” which are at once a geopolitical structuring, an ideological writing, and a cultural imagining. Arguing that these works reframe the U.S. Cold War as a project of gendered racial formation and imperialism as well as a production of knowledge, Ends of Empire offers an interdisciplinary investigation into the transnational dimensions of Asian America and its critical relationship to Cold War history.
Author : Wayne E. Lee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,15 MB
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 0190920645
Taking its title from The Face of Battle, John Keegan's canonical book on the nature of warfare, The Other Face of Battle illuminates the American experience of fighting in "irregular" and "intercultural" wars over the centuries. Sometimes known as "forgotten" wars, in part because they lackedtriumphant clarity, they are the focus of the book. David Preston, David Silbey, and Anthony Carlson focus on, respectively, the Battle of Monongahela (1755), the Battle of Manila (1898), and the Battle of Makuan, Afghanistan (2020) - conflicts in which American soldiers were forced to engage in"irregular" warfare, confronting an enemy entirely alien to them. This enemy rejected the Western conventions of warfare and defined success and failure - victory and defeat - in entirely different ways. Symmetry of any kind is lost. Here was not ennobling engagement but atrocity, unanticipatedinsurgencies, and strategic stalemate.War is always hell. These wars, however, profoundly undermined any sense of purpose or proportion. Nightmarish and existentially bewildering, they nonetheless characterize how Americans have experienced combat and what its effects have been. They are therefore worth comparing for what they hold incommon as well as what they reveal about our attitude toward war itself. The Other Face of Battle reminds us that "irregular" or "asymmetrical" warfare is now not the exception but the rule. Understanding its roots seems more crucial than ever.
Author : Joon Ho Hwang
Publisher :
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,72 MB
Release : 2006
Category : American poetry
ISBN :
Author : William A. Cummins
Publisher : Cai Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 12,19 MB
Release : 2009-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780978776619
UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL! How quickly we forget our heroes... those who daily risk their lives for our freedom. It is difficult to imagine the anguish, the determination and yes even the fear, in the heart of a man driven by enemy fire into a fox hole. How do you capture in words the feelings and thoughts of soldiers under attack by the enemy? William A. Cummins met that challenge with this remarkable book, "THE FORGOTTEN" as he unveils a series of stories by Korean War Veterans depicting their combat experiences in their very own words. Battlefield experiences from a war that must never be forgotten. You will follow a 19 year old PFC Marine from his sharecropping youth in Ohio to a brutal battlefield ambush in Korea and finally to a pulpit in Florida. Dozens of stories and photographs of our unsung heroes provide a written witness to the nearly three million people who perished during that horrific war. Each veteran expresses a small fragment of himself during the war for his children and grandchildren to read in a book.
Author : Grazyna Mackiewicz
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 36,63 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Polish people
ISBN :
Author : Don Bentley
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 35,95 MB
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593333578
"A fascinating, action-packed thriller from one of the genre's most talented authors. Don Bentley delivers a blistering adventure loaded with excitement and fabulous characters. You will not want it to end!"—Brad Thor, New York Times #1 bestselling author of Dead Fall A brotherhood born in battle is endangered by a deadly secret in the latest astonishing thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Tom Clancy Zero Hour and Hostile Intent. As a team, Matt Drake and his partner, Frodo, have watched each other's backs through some very dark days. But one thing they've never doubted was their commitment to each other...until now. Frodo has been accused of a war crime ten years after leaving Afghanistan. Matt is determined to prove his friend innocent, but what will he do when he finds that his closest friend has secrets he won't share?
Author : Bruce Bairnsfather
Publisher :
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,85 MB
Release : 2015-08-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781332253838
Excerpt from The Bystander's Fragments From France The following; subjects can be obtained in colours from the Publisher, "The Bystander." Tallis House, Whitefriars, E.C., 1/- each, post tree 1/3: - "Where did that one go tor" "That Evening Star-shell." "Xn possible doubt whatever." "A Maxim Maxim." "I'm sure they'll ear this damn thing squeakin'." "Keeping his hand in." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Korean War Veterans Association
Publisher : Turner
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 16,27 MB
Release : 1990-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781563110542
This second edition is a brilliant tribute to the men who fought in the forgotten war - Korea. Outstanding photos, maps, political cartoons from the era, personal remembrances & a comprehensive history of the Korean War. More than 1000 KWVA members give their personal, first-hand accounts of what it was like to be there.