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A Tragedy of Democracy
The confinement of some 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, often called the Japanese American internment, has been described as the worst official civil rights violation of modern U. S. history. Greg Robinson not only offers a bold...
A Vietnam War Reader
A collection of shocking lived experiences, directly from the mouths and the pens of those soldiers, politicians and citizens who lived through the days of the Vietnam War and its bloody aftermath. Nixon: I'd rather use a nuclear bomb.
A Vietnam War Reader: American and Vietnamese Perspectives
A collection of shocking lived experiences, directly from the mouths and the pens of those soldiers, politicians and citizens who lived through the days of the Vietnam...
A War in Words
This is a portrait of World War I through the letters and diaries of its participants, uncovered during extensive research across 28 countries for the Channel 4 ten-part series, 'The First World War', broadcast in autumn 2003. Departing radically from traditional histories, A WAR IN WORDS tells the story of the First World War on a compelling, human scale through the letters and diaries of its participants -- whether combatants, eyewitnesses or victims. This was a young person's war and these people record their experiences with all the immediacy and passion of youth. They talk to us directly from within the war itself and from all sides of the conflict -- from the testimony of a Serbian teenager, one of Franz Ferdinand's assassins, to the final entry from a French soldier as he revisits a battlefield in 1919, realising he and the rest of the world have changed irrevocably. Most of these letters and diaries have never been published in English before. They were uncovered during extensive research across twenty-eight countries for the major ten-part series THE FIRST WORLD WAR, broadcast on Channel 4 in autumn 2003. The series will introduce many of the characters who appear in this book and will, like the book, recount the complex history of the war though the lives of the individuals caught up in it.
A war of patrols
This comprehensive account of the Canadian campaign in Korea provides a detailed study of the training, leadership, operations and tactics of the brigade, as well as its relationship with American and Commonwealth allies. The extended peace the world expected following the decisive Allied victory in the Second World War was abruptly shattered in June 1950 with the invasion of South Korea by communist North Korea. Responding to a United Nations call to assist the South Korean regime, Canada deployed an 8,000-strong brigade to the peninsula to fight as part of an American-led UN force. This comprehensive account of the Canadian campaign in Korea provides the first detailed study of the training, leadership, operations, and tactics of the brigade as well as its relationship with American and Commonwealth allies. An impeccably researched analytical history, the book examines the often uneven performance of the various Canadian units and argues that the soldiers of the "Special Force" initially sent to Korea were more thorough and professional in their operations than were the army's regular battalions, who eventually replaced them at the front. The revisionist interpretations in A War of Patrols will attract both academic and military professionals, as well as general readers interested in a fresh look at an important part of Canada's military past.
A World at Arms
Widely hailed as a masterpiece, this is the first history of World War II to provide a truly global account of the war that encompassed six continents. Starting with the changes that restructured Europe and its colonies following the First World...
A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II
A truly global account of WWII - the war that encompassed six continents.
A-1 Skyraider Units of the Vietnam War
Nicknamed the 'flying dump truck', the A-1 was a key component in naval air wings from the end of World War II into the 1960s, allowing the aircraft to play its part in the escalating conflict in Vietnam. This book focuses on the aircraft's...
A-1 Skyraider Units of the Vietnam War
Nicknamed the 'flying dump truck', the A-1 was a key component in naval air wings from the end of World War II into the 1960s, allowing the aircraft to play its part ...
About Turn
The Communist Party's attitude to the outbreak of the Second World War has long been the subject of discussion, and these proceedings from a conference organised by the Party's History group offer a free and well informed debate on the roles played by the Comintern, Harry Politt, Rajani Palme Dutt and others. Included are major contributions by Ted Bramley and Monty Johnstone, and facsimile reproductions of Communist pamphlets and Cabinet documents of the period. The copy is in good condition and the dustjacket is portected with a cellophane cover.
Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War
This collection offers students the essential Lincoln in a brief and accessible format. From famous documents like the Lincoln-Douglas debates and the second inaugural address to crucial memoranda and letters, it reveals the development of...
Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War: Selected Writing and Speeches
This collection offers students the essential Lincoln in a brief and accessible format. From famous documents like the Lincoln-Douglas debates and the second inaugural...
Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War
From the Pan Military Classics Series comes a hugely accomplished, definitive account of one of history's most pivotal wars.
Across the Revolutionary Divide
Across the Revolutionary Divide: Russia, 1861-1945 presents an ambitious interpretive account of Russian history from the abolition of serfdom by Alexander II to the end of World War II. Across the Revolutionary Divide: Russia and the USSR 1861...
African Americans Confront Lynching: Strategies of Resistance from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Era
This book examines African Americans' strategies for resisting white racial violence from the Civil War until the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968 and...