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Book The Enemy s House Divided

Download or read book The Enemy s House Divided written by Charles de Gaulle and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The observations of young Robert De Gaulle (mostly written from inside a German prison camp during World War I) analyzes the German blunders during the Great War and sets the stage for De Gaulle's ideology and strategy in the next European conflict. (Military History)

Book Our House Divided

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  • Author : Tomi K. Knaefler
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2021-05-25
  • ISBN : 0824841808
  • Pages : 145 pages

Download or read book Our House Divided written by Tomi K. Knaefler and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a man serving in the Imperial Japanese Army feel when he suddenly sees his brother in the uniform of the enemy United States? How does a Japanese mother, surrounded by barbed wire in an American internment camp for "enemy aliens," feel when her only son writes: "I am now an American soldier. I must fight and, if necessary, die for my country"? How does a Hawaii-born youth feel as he lies near death in Hiroshima, a victim of history's first nuclear attack, launched by the United States? Or a twelve-year-old girl on a sugar plantation, whose ailing father returned to the place of his birth just a month earlier, on the morning she hears that "yellow Japs" have attacked? These are among the moments of excruciating confrontation experienced by Japanese American families, divided geographically and politically between Japan and Hawaii when the Peacific War exploded at Pearl Harbor. Our House Divided focuses on seven personal stories of such families as they struggled with the emotions and events brought on by the war--stories of the dilemma of first-generation Japanese Americans who were strongly attached both to the contry of their birth, and to the land where they had spent most of their lives and raised children in communities they had helped to build; and stories of the dilemma of second-generation Japanese Americans, whose loyalty to the United States was questioned even though they were American citizens. That these citizens turned that distrust into national respect through their celebrated achievements is also part of the poignant story. Our House Divided, an inward journey for the author, will open the eyes and hearts of many readers who have roots in more than one country and culture. Foreword by A. A. "Bud" Smyser

Book A House Divided

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  • Author : Noah S. Friedland
  • Publisher : Noah Friedland
  • Release : 2010-02-22
  • ISBN : 1449976794
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book A House Divided written by Noah S. Friedland and published by Noah Friedland. This book was released on 2010-02-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Geller, an ambitious young academic, is struggling to build a new life for himself in the US. An American born Jew who had immigrated to Israel with his family as a child, Geller fled the Jewish State after a deadly incident that occurred during his service in the Israeli army. Ten years into his self imposed exile, Geller's younger brother is killed in the line of duty, so he reluctantly returns to Israel to attend the funeral. Once back, Geller is forced to confront his broken family and a life and country he thought he had left behind for good. Colored by his own military experiences, he begins to question the circumstances of his brother's death. Aided by a mysterious source, a childhood friend, an old flame, and his brother's girlfriend, a fiery young redhead, he slowly uncovers the truth - a path that embroils him in a deadly clandestine chess game between two opposing forces - each fighting for what they believe is the very soul of the Jewish state. A fast-paced, character-driven thriller, A House Divided provides an authentic, first-hand look into Israeli society and its legendary military. Unlike many other books in this genre, which have focused on the Arab-Israeli conflict, this work examines the long-term effects of almost one hundred years of conflict on a nation deeply divided on how best to define its future. It also explores how a wounded family, whose bonds have been weakened by distance and time, copes with adversity and loss. Hadassah Magazine: "Friedland has written a good story that shows an intimate knowledge of the military, the landscape of Israel and the effect of the ongoing conflict on the country's citizens."

Book A House Divided

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  • Author : Eric Foner
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9780393306125
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book A House Divided written by Eric Foner and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1990 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In conjunction with a ten-year exhibit at the Chicago Historical Society, beginning January 1990.

Book Great Scientists Wage the Great War

Download or read book Great Scientists Wage the Great War written by William van der Kloot and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803

Download or read book The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803 written by Great Britain. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases

Download or read book Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases written by Bartlett Jere Whiting and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: p.B. J. Whiting savors proverbial expressions and has devoted much of his lifetime to studying and collecting them; no one knows more about British and American proverbs than he. The present volume, based upon writings in British North America from the earliest settlements to approximately 1820, complements his and Archer Taylor's Dictionary of American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, 1820-1880. It differs from that work and from other standard collections, however, in that its sources are primarily not "literary" but instead workaday writings - letters, diaries, histories, travel books, political pamphlets, and the like. The authors represent a wide cross-section of the populace, from scholars and statesmen to farmers, shopkeepers, sailors, and hunters. Mr. Whiting has combed all the obvious sources and hundreds of out-of-the-way publications of local journals and historical societies. This body of material, "because it covers territory that has not been extracted and compiled in a scholarly way before, can justly be said to be the most valuable of all those that Whiting has brought together," according to Albert B. Friedman. "What makes the work important is Whiting's authority: a proverb or proverbial phrase is what BJW thinks is a proverb or proverbial phrase. There is no objective operative definition of any value, no divining rod; his tact, 'feel, ' experience, determine what's the real thing and what is spurious."

Book Cobbett s Parliamentary History of England  1801 1803

Download or read book Cobbett s Parliamentary History of England 1801 1803 written by Great Britain. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A House Divided

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  • Author : Mark Feldmeir
  • Publisher : Chalice Press
  • Release : 2020-09-08
  • ISBN : 0827200986
  • Pages : 112 pages

Download or read book A House Divided written by Mark Feldmeir and published by Chalice Press. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our current culture of conflict, Americans need a better way of relating to one another and responding to controversial issues; a way that transcends political partisanship and emphasizes universal care, mutual concern, and the flourishing of the common good. In A House Divided, Feldmeir suggests that the solution to our political entrenchment is a shared commitment to practicing a politics of compassion; the motivating, unifying ideals of the gospel that insist that we work together for the benefit of the common good. Feldmeir explores eight of the most divisive issues our day; climate change, immigration, medical aid in dying, Islamic extremism, racism, health care, homosexuality, and preventing suicide; through the lens of a Christian ethic of love, seeking to identify those shared values that affirm our commonality and inspire a more creative and collaborative approach to finding practical solutions and healing our divisions. Each chapter includes a study guide for small group conversations.

Book American Republics  A Continental History of the United States  1783 1850

Download or read book American Republics A Continental History of the United States 1783 1850 written by Alan Taylor and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2022 New-York Historical Society Book Prize in American History A Washington Post and BookPage Best Nonfiction Book of the Year From a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, the powerful story of a fragile nation as it expands across a contested continent. In this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation confidently marching to its continent-spanning destiny. The newly constituted United States actually emerged as a fragile, internally divided union of states contending still with European empires and other independent republics on the North American continent. Native peoples sought to defend their homelands from the flood of American settlers through strategic alliances with the other continental powers. The system of American slavery grew increasingly powerful and expansive, its vigorous internal trade in Black Americans separating parents and children, husbands and wives. Bitter party divisions pitted elites favoring strong government against those, like Andrew Jackson, espousing a democratic populism for white men. Violence was both routine and organized: the United States invaded Canada, Florida, Texas, and much of Mexico, and forcibly removed most of the Native peoples living east of the Mississippi. At the end of the period the United States, its conquered territory reaching the Pacific, remained internally divided, with sectional animosities over slavery growing more intense. Taylor’s elegant history of this tumultuous period offers indelible miniatures of key characters from Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth to Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Margaret Fuller. It captures the high-stakes political drama as Jackson and Adams, Clay, Calhoun, and Webster contend over slavery, the economy, Indian removal, and national expansion. A ground-level account of American industrialization conveys the everyday lives of factory workers and immigrant families. And the immersive narrative puts us on the streets of Port-au-Prince, Mexico City, Quebec, and the Cherokee capital, New Echota. Absorbing and chilling, American Republics illuminates the continuities between our own social and political divisions and the events of this formative period.

Book House Divided

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  • Author : Ben Ames Williams
  • Publisher : Chicago Review Press
  • Release : 1947
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1542 pages

Download or read book House Divided written by Ben Ames Williams and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 1947 with total page 1542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel of the Civil War as told from the viewpoint of Southern aristocrats.

Book Charles de Gaulle  the International System  and the Existential Difference

Download or read book Charles de Gaulle the International System and the Existential Difference written by Graham O'Dwyer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative account of Charles de Gaulle as a thinker and writer on nationalism and international relations offers a view of him far beyond that of a traditional nationalist. Centring on the way de Gaulle regarded nations as individuals the author frames his argument by rationalising de Gaulle’s nationalism within the existential movement that flowed as an intellectual undercurrent throughout early and mid-twentieth-century France. Graham O’Dwyer asserts that this existentialism of the nation and ‘the presence of the past’ allowed de Gaulle to separate the ‘nation’ from the ‘state’ when looking at China, Russia, Vietnam, and East European countries, enabling him to understand the idiosyncrasies of specific national characters better than most of his contemporaries. This was especially the case for Russia and China and meant that he read the Cold War world in a way that Washington and London could not, allowing him a unique insight into how they would act as individuals and in relation to other nations.

Book BattlePlan Magazine

Download or read book BattlePlan Magazine written by Decision Games and published by Past Into Print Publishing. This book was released on with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Battleplan was an ambitious magazine devoted to providing variants, scenarios, and articles on game strategy for wargaming products by a variety of publishers. Published between 1987 and 1989, the magazine had a great deal of content to appeal to war gamers, including articles and materials for Ambush!, Squad Leader, Advanced Squad Leader, Up Front, and many other games. The periodical lasted nine issues, before it was folded into the Wargamer, Volume 2 periodical. In this issue, published in June/July 1988, the contents include: Editorial Midway Random Events - A classic with spice Hastings, 1066 - Review and addendum The Battle of Senlac Hill - Hastings, 1066 variants, strategies and tactics A House Divided - Complete mega-variant with counters Wilderness of Mirrors - New Central America scenario That Dirty Double Dealing Nuclear War Variant That Only Leaves You With Half a Chance! - Fiction and variant Axis & Allies - Technology variant Rumania Uber Alles - Strategies in Russian Campaign Sniper: Special Forces - Scenarios and variants Options for France – World in Flames variant Armor on the Chir River – A new scenario for Armor at Kursk Air War Once More! - Realism variant Empires in Arms in the Peninsula - Strategies from the Canadian Wargamer's Journal Feedback Forum Feedback & Survey Questions – future Battleplan mini-wargames Gamer’s Guide Classifieds Writers Guidelines Inserts: A House Divided Leader countersheet

Book A New History of the Holy Bible

Download or read book A New History of the Holy Bible written by Thomas Stackhouse and published by . This book was released on 1748 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History Today

Download or read book History Today written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A House Divided

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  • Author : Pearl S. Buck
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1963
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book A House Divided written by Pearl S. Buck and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman om en kinesisk bondeslægt.

Book Loathing Lincoln

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  • Author : John McKee Barr
  • Publisher : LSU Press
  • Release : 2014-04-07
  • ISBN : 0807153850
  • Pages : 634 pages

Download or read book Loathing Lincoln written by John McKee Barr and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While most Americans count Abraham Lincoln among the most beloved and admired former presidents, a dedicated minority has long viewed him not only as the worst president in the country's history, but also as a criminal who defied the Constitution and advanced federal power and the idea of racial equality. In Loathing Lincoln, historian John McKee Barr surveys the broad array of criticisms about Abraham Lincoln that emerged when he stepped onto the national stage, expanded during the Civil War, and continued to evolve after his death and into the present. The first panoramic study of Lincoln's critics, Barr's work offers an analysis of Lincoln in historical memory and an examination of how his critics -- on both the right and left -- have frequently reflected the anxiety and discontent Americans felt about their lives. From northern abolitionists troubled by the slow pace of emancipation, to Confederates who condemned him as a "black Republican" and despot, to Americans who blamed him for the civil rights movement, to, more recently, libertarians who accuse him of trampling the Constitution and creating the modern welfare state, Lincoln's detractors have always been a vocal minority, but not one without influence. By meticulously exploring the most significant arguments against Lincoln, Barr traces the rise of the president's most strident critics and links most of them to a distinct right-wing or neo-Confederate political agenda. According to Barr, their hostility to a more egalitarian America and opposition to any use of federal power to bring about such goals led them to portray Lincoln as an imperialistic president who grossly overstepped the bounds of his office. In contrast, liberals criticized him for not doing enough to bring about emancipation or ensure lasting racial equality. Lincoln's conservative and libertarian foes, however, constituted the vast majority of his detractors. More recently, Lincoln's most vociferous critics have adamantly opposed Barack Obama and his policies, many of them referencing Lincoln in their attacks on the current president. In examining these individuals and groups, Barr's study provides a deeper understanding of American political life and the nation itself.