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Download or read book Selected Readings and Documents on Postwar American Defense Policy written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Climatological Data written by United States. Weather Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of the monthly climatological reports of the United States by state or region with monthly and annual National summaries.

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Download or read book Navy V 12 written by Henry C. Herge and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Navy V-12 Program during World War II. The Program provided opportunities for young men whose families had suffered during the difficult times of the Great Depression. These high school graduates were offered the golden opportunity to attend colleges and universities. At the end of the program, more than 60,000 U.S. Navy and USMC officers had entered the armed forces for the war. Many, also entered the U.S. Naval Reserve in the post-ear period, and served in Korea and Vietnam. With photos -- 80+ pages of biographies of individual members of the program. Many include photos then and now.

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Download or read book Maestro of Science written by Jason S. Ridler and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jason S. Ridler draws on interviews and declassified records to paint a vivid picture of the influence and achievements of a Canadian leader in Cold War military research.

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Download or read book The Great Exodus from China written by Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang examines one of the least understood migrations in modern East Asia - the human exodus from China to Taiwan when Chiang Kai-shek's regime collapsed in 1949. Peeling back layers of Cold War ideological constructs, he tells a very different story from the conventional Chinese civil war historiography that focuses on debating the reasons for Communist success and Nationalist failure. Yang lays bare the traumatic aftermath of the Chinese Communist Revolution for the hundreds of thousands of ordinary people who were forcibly displaced from their homes across the sea. Underscoring the displaced population's trauma of living in exile and their poignant 'homecomings' four decades later, he presents a multi-event trajectory of repeated traumatization with recurring searches for home, belonging, and identity. This thought-provoking study challenges established notions of trauma, memory, diaspora, and reconciliation.

Download or read book Nuclear Fallacies written by Robert W. Malcolmson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1985-06-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malcolmson identifies changes in those realities and our perceptions, and misperceptions, of them. He considers humanity's new technologies and our efforts to manage and understand them, especially as they relate to war and peace. Placing all in a historical context, Malcolmson analyses the politics of the nuclear arms race in relation to the international political culture of the past forty years. From this analysis he creates historical depth for contemporary issues and a perspective from which we can decide how to deal with nuclear energy in the future.