Author: Don A. WyckoffPublisher:
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Smiles and Tears of Foreign War
Author: Don A. WyckoffPublisher:
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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War
Author: War & Peace
Author: graf Leo TolstoyPublisher:
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Category : Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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To Desire Desire
Author: Andrew B. PerryPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595218954
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This book is an anthology of poetry of the highest quality, revolutionizing the field of poetry. Some of the themes considered are: love,peace,death,war,friendship,hatred, the tragedies of September 11, heroism, mathematics, proof, and life in general. All poetry in this anthology is deep and profound. In the unlikely event that any reader feels otherwise, it is only because they don't understand poetry.
War and Peace
Author: graf Leo TolstoyPublisher:
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Category : Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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And this is War
Author: Carl Hermon DudleyPublisher:
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Category : War
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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The Unwomanly Face of War
Author: Svetlana AlexievichPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0399588736
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia—from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • The Guardian • NPR • The Economist • Milwaukee Journal Sentinel • Kirkus Reviews For more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievich has been the memory and conscience of the twentieth century. When the Swedish Academy awarded her the Nobel Prize, it cited her invention of “a new kind of literary genre,” describing her work as “a history of emotions . . . a history of the soul.” In The Unwomanly Face of War, Alexievich chronicles the experiences of the Soviet women who fought on the front lines, on the home front, and in the occupied territories. These women—more than a million in total—were nurses and doctors, pilots, tank drivers, machine-gunners, and snipers. They battled alongside men, and yet, after the victory, their efforts and sacrifices were forgotten. Alexievich traveled thousands of miles and visited more than a hundred towns to record these women’s stories. Together, this symphony of voices reveals a different aspect of the war—the everyday details of life in combat left out of the official histories. Translated by the renowned Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, The Unwomanly Face of War is a powerful and poignant account of the central conflict of the twentieth century, a kaleidoscopic portrait of the human side of war. THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.” “A landmark.”—Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century “An astonishing book, harrowing and life-affirming . . . It deserves the widest possible readership.”—Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train “Alexievich has gained probably the world’s deepest, most eloquent understanding of the post-Soviet condition. . . . [She] has consistently chronicled that which has been intentionally forgotten.”—Masha Gessen, National Book Award–winning author of The Future Is History
Worship, Civil War and Community, 1638–1660
Author: Chris R. LangleyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317289773
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
This is the first study of the interaction between warfare and national religious practice during the British Civil Wars. Using hundreds of neglected local documents, this work explores the manner in which civil conflict, invasion and military occupation affected religious practice. As Churches elsewhere in Britain and Ireland were dismantled and the country was invaded by a foreign English army, mid-seventeenth-century Scotland provides an important, yet neglected, point of entry in exploring the intersection between early modern warfare and religious practice. The book establishes a fresh way of looking at the conflicts of the mid-seventeenth century. No other study has explored how soldiers were quartered or marched in close proximity to parish worship, how their presence affected worship patterns and how the very idea of conflict in the mid-seventeenth century impacted upon the day-to-day lives of worshippers. Using the signing of the National Covenant in 1638 as its starting point, this perspective emphasises flexibility in religious practice and the dialogue between local communities, religious leaders and troops as a critical element in the experience of war.
War and Trade in the West Indies
Author: Richard ParesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136259058
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
First published in 1963. This volume is an historical look at the succession of war and trade of the West Indies from 1739 to 1763, combining law, politics, narrative and the structure of the society.
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