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SCOTT (copy 1): from the John Holmes Library collection.
Author : Samuel Dumas
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Page : 210 pages
File Size : 28,34 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Military history, Modern
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SCOTT (copy 1): from the John Holmes Library collection.
Author : K. O. VEDEL-PETERSEN
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Page : pages
File Size : 29,46 MB
Release : 1923
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Author : Samuel Dumas
Publisher :
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 27,45 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Buildings
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Author : Samuel Dumas
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 32,91 MB
Release : 1933
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Author : Samuel Dumas
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 16,13 MB
Release : 2017-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780260839367
Excerpt from Losses of Life Caused by War Allaert. De l'assurance des risques de guerre. Thesis submitted for the doctor's degree, University of Paris, Faculty of Law. Paris, 1900. Balck (lieutenant-colonel). Taktik, Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. Berlin, 1909. 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 : Chris Hedges
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,84 MB
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1416583149
Acclaimed New York Times journalist and author Chris Hedges offers a critical -- and fascinating -- lesson in the dangerous realities of our age: a stark look at the effects of war on combatants. Utterly lacking in rhetoric or dogma, this manual relies instead on bare fact, frank description, and a spare question-and-answer format. Hedges allows U.S. military documentation of the brutalizing physical and psychological consequences of combat to speak for itself. Hedges poses dozens of questions that young soldiers might ask about combat, and then answers them by quoting from medical and psychological studies. • What are my chances of being wounded or killed if we go to war? • What does it feel like to get shot? • What do artillery shells do to you? • What is the most painful way to get wounded? • Will I be afraid? • What could happen to me in a nuclear attack? • What does it feel like to kill someone? • Can I withstand torture? • What are the long-term consequences of combat stress? • What will happen to my body after I die? This profound and devastating portrayal of the horrors to which we subject our armed forces stands as a ringing indictment of the glorification of war and the concealment of its barbarity.
Author : Carol Komaromy
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,51 MB
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319766010
This book uses personal memoir to examine links between private trauma and the socio-cultural approach to death and memory developed within Death Studies. The authors, two key Death Studies scholars, tell the stories that constitute their family lives. Each bears witness to the experiences of men who were either killed or traumatised during World War One and World War Two and shows the ongoing implications of these events for those left behind. The book illustrates how the rich oral history and material culture legacy bequeathed by these wars raises issues for everyone alive today. Belonging to a generation who grew up in the shadow of war, Komaromy and Hockey ask how we can best convey unimaginable events to later generations, and what practical, moral and ethical demands this brings. Family Life, Trauma and Loss in the Twentieth Century will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including Death Studies, Military History, Research Methods, Family History, the Sociology of the Family and Life Writing.
Author : Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,87 MB
Release : 2009-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0375703837
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Author : Gaston Bodart
Publisher :
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,11 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Austria
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Author : Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,98 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Military art and science
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