Our Kind of War
Author : R. G. Rosenquist
Publisher : Howell Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,85 MB
Release : 1991-10
Category : History
ISBN :
This Kind of War
Author : T. R. Fehrenbach
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 905 pages
File Size : 27,90 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Korean War, 1950-1953
ISBN : 1597978787
Book Description
Updated with maps, photographs, and battlefield diagrams, this special fiftieth anniversary edition of the classic history of the Korean War is a dramatic and hard-hitting account of the conflict written from the perspective of those who fought it. Partly drawn from official records, operations journals, and histories, it is based largely on the compelling personal narratives of the small-unit commanders and their troops. Unlike any other work on the Korean War, it provides both a clear panoramic overview and a sharply drawn you were there account of American troops in fierce combat against th.
Our Kind
Author : Marvin Harris
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 31,44 MB
Release : 1990-09-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780060919900
Book Description
Writing with the same wit, humor, and style of his earlier bestsellers, noted anthropologist Marvin Harris traces our roots and views our destiny.
A Different Kind of War Story
Author : Carolyn Nordstrom
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 27,55 MB
Release : 1997-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812216219
Book Description
"A deeply researched study into the nature of political violence."--
Our Kind of War
Author : R. G. Rosenquist
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 32,26 MB
Release : 2009
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN :
Book Description
Our Kind of Traitor
Author : John le Carré
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 17,85 MB
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0141971533
Book Description
In John le Carré's electrifying novel Our Kind of Traitor, innocents abroad are drawn into the darkest recesses of the financial world. Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, to the murkiest cloisters of the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's Intelligence Establishment. 'If you want to know about the state of Britain today, forget the Booker shortlist. Just read John le Carré's latest thriller' Evening Standard 'Few recent plays have had dialogue as good, and few recent literary novels can boast a set of characters so vividly imagined. Our Kind of Traitor is a teasing, beguiling, masterly performance' Sunday Times
War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
Author : Chris Hedges
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,34 MB
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1610395107
Book Description
General George S. Patton famously said, "Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, I do love it so!" Though Patton was a notoriously single-minded general, it is nonetheless a sad fact that war gives meaning to many lives, a fact with which we have become familiar now that America is once again engaged in a military conflict. War is an enticing elixir. It gives us purpose, resolve, a cause. It allows us to be noble. Chris Hedges of The New York Times has seen war up close -- in the Balkans, the Middle East, and Central America -- and he has been troubled by what he has seen: friends, enemies, colleagues, and strangers intoxicated and even addicted to war's heady brew. In War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, he tackles the ugly truths about humanity's love affair with war, offering a sophisticated, nuanced, intelligent meditation on the subject that is also gritty, powerful, and unforgettable.
Our Beloved Kin
Author : Lisa Tanya Brooks
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 29,1 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300196733
Book Description
"With rigorous original scholarship and creative narration, Lisa Brooks recovers a complex picture of war, captivity, and Native resistance during the "First Indian War" (later named King Philip's War) by relaying the stories of Weetamoo, a female Wampanoag leader, and James Printer, a Nipmuc scholar, whose stories converge in the captivity of Mary Rowlandson. Through both a narrow focus on Weetamoo, Printer, and their network of relations, and a far broader scope that includes vast Indigenous geographies, Brooks leads us to a new understanding of the history of colonial New England and of American origins. In reading seventeenth-century sources alongside an analysis of the landscape and interpretations informed by tribal history, Brooks's pathbreaking scholarship is grounded not just in extensive archival research but also in the land and communities of Native New England."--Jacket flap.
Man Kind?
Author : Cleveland Amory
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 12,87 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
Book Description
Discusses hunters - individuals and groups - who defend and participate in hunting wild animals for entertainment or profit.
The Right Kind of War
Author : John McCormick
Publisher : Onyx Books
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 27,82 MB
Release : 1994-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451404503
Book Description
Only the third novel published by the Naval Institute Press--joining The Hunt for Red October and Flight of the Intruder--this is the epic story of the bloody struggle for island supremacy in the Pacific during World War II. From Guadalcanal to Okinawa, it is a chilling and explosive story of men who place duty and honor above all.
