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Author: Jesse Lemisch Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 172
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"This essay was originally entitled 'Present-mindedness revisited: anti-radicalism as a goal of American historical writing since World War II.'" Includes bibliographical references.
Author: Henry L. Stimson Publisher: Lovenstein Press ISBN: 1406741930 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 724
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author: Henry Lewis Stimson Publisher: New York : Harper ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 732
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Henry L. Stimson var USA's forsvarsminister i perioderne 1911 - 1913 og 1940-45 under 2. Verdenskrig og udenrigsminister i perioden 1929 -1933. I sine erindringer beskriver han bl.a. den økonomiske krise i 1930'erne, optakten til 2. Verdenskrig herunder Japans oprustning og dominans i Østasien samt 2. Verdenskrig
Author: Jesse Lemisch Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 168
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"This essay was originally entitled 'Present-mindedness revisited: anti-radicalism as a goal of American historical writing since World War II.'" Includes bibliographical references.
Author: Susan L. Carruthers Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674972929 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 397
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Waged for a just cause and culminating in total victory, World War II was America’s “good war.” Yet for millions of GIs overseas, the war did not end with Germany and Japan’s surrender. The Good Occupation chronicles America’s transition from wartime combatant to postwar occupier, by exploring the intimate thoughts and feelings of the ordinary servicemen and women who participated—often reluctantly—in the difficult project of rebuilding nations they had so recently worked to destroy. When the war ended, most of the seven million Americans in uniform longed to return to civilian life. Yet many remained on active duty, becoming the “after-army” tasked with bringing order and justice to societies ravaged by war. Susan Carruthers shows how American soldiers struggled to deal with unprecedented catastrophe among millions of displaced refugees and concentration camp survivors while negotiating the inevitable tensions that arose between victors and the defeated enemy. Drawing on thousands of unpublished letters, diaries, and memoirs, she reveals the stories service personnel told themselves and their loved ones back home in order to make sense of their disorienting and challenging postwar mission. The picture Carruthers paints is not the one most Americans recognize today. A venture undertaken by soldiers with little appetite for the task has crystallized, in the retelling, into the “good occupation” of national mythology: emblematic of the United States’ role as a bearer of democracy, progress, and prosperity. In real time, however, “winning the peace” proved a perilous business, fraught with temptation and hazard.
Author: Thomas W. Britt Publisher: Greenwood ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 268
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With global commitments and combat duty, our armed forces face life-threatening challenges on a daily basis. However, less visible threats also impact the mental health of our military men and women. Experts examine challenges on the battlefield, such as women coming to terms with life after being prisoners of war, or soldiers dealing with mistakenly killing civilians. But life in the armed forces presents less dramatic, daily challenges. Away from the front lines, soldiers have to raise their families, sometimes as single parents. Children have to learn what it's like to be in a military family, and to make sense of war. Gay or lesbian officers cope with a don't ask, don't tell policy. An unprecedented range of contributors--military officers, medical doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, and professors--take us onto the bases and the battlefields and inside the minds of military personnel who face far greater challenges than most of us ever see in the headlines. These volumes also highlight factors that make members of the military resilient and stable, as well as programs and practices that can ease the psychological burdens of military personnel, families, and children. Readers can better understand how society views our military and military operations, and how each one of us can play a role in supporting our armed forces.
Author: Laura Kay Wegener Publisher: ISBN: Category : Military socialization Languages : en Pages : 161
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Throughout the history of the United States (U.S.), there have been service members who, upon leaving the service, have spoken out against U.S. involvement in wars. The current conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, and their increasing unpopularity, have contributed to this trend. Recently veterans have begun to come forward in larger numbers to speak out against the current wars and have self-identified as members of peace movements. The purpose of this research project was to explore veterans' understandings of the peace movement and their involvement in veterans' peace movement organizations. This study hoped to answer the following questions: 1) How does a veteran understand the current peace movement? 2) Which, if any, parts of the current peace movement does a veteran find to be in line with his or her own values? 3) What do veterans feel it means to be a veteran for peace? 4) How do veterans come to identify with the current peace movement? 5) How do veterans take a stand against the current peace movement? 6) What do veterans feel is gained by involvement in the peace movement? The study was conducted using a qualitative approach, and 27 interviews were conducted either face-to-face or over the phone with U.S. veterans from across the country, who have served since the Vietnam War. Veterans who were no longer serving in an active duty capacity were selected via a snowball sample of the researcher's circle of military colleagues and friends around the U.S. The identity of "veteran in the peace movement" is a complicated one, and the result of a long, complex, series of lived experiences. This study let participants describe the process of identity acquisition, or rejection in their own words in order to create a realistic and honest narrative about the emotional and mental processes, and life events that trigger or influence these, that influenced identification or not with a veterans' peace movement organization.
Author: Jesse Lemisch
Author: Henry L. Stimson
Author: Henry Lewis Stimson
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Author: Henry L. Stimson
Author: Henry Lewis Stimson
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