Download or read book This Republic of Suffering written by Drew Gilpin Faust and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Download or read book U S Mexican War Updated Edition written by Bronwyn Mills and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the previous edition:"Well selected black-and-white maps and reproductions of old photographs add to the readers' understandings." - Journal of ReadingControversial and unpopular, the U.S.-Mexican War divided t
Download or read book The Tragedy of Great Power Politics Updated Edition written by John J. Mearsheimer and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003-01-17 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A superb book.…Mearsheimer has made a significant contribution to our understanding of the behavior of great powers."—Barry R. Posen, The National Interest The updated edition of this classic treatise on the behavior of great powers takes a penetrating look at the question likely to dominate international relations in the twenty-first century: Can China rise peacefully? In clear, eloquent prose, John Mearsheimer explains why the answer is no: a rising China will seek to dominate Asia, while the United States, determined to remain the world's sole regional hegemon, will go to great lengths to prevent that from happening. The tragedy of great power politics is inescapable.
Download or read book Korean War Updated Edition written by Maurice Isserman and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Great War and the Death of God written by Charles A. O'Connor and published by New Acdemia+ORM. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling analysis of how World War I spurred the rise of atheism and the subsequent effect on Western theology, philosophy, literature, and art. The catastrophic Great War left humanity in a world no longer trustworthy and reassuring but seemingly meaningless and indifferent. Instead of redressing humanity’s cosmic alienation, postwar Western culture abandoned its concern for cosmic meaning, lost its confidence in human reason, and enabled the scientific worldview of neo-Darwinian materialism to emerge and eventually dominate the Western mind. According to the proponents of that worldview, science is the only source of genuine truth, nature is the product of a blind evolutionary process, and reality at bottom is just physics and chemistry. Thus, God is dead and continued belief in a transcendently purposeful universe is intellectually indefensible and either disingenuous or delusional. By turning away from the eternal questions about the nature of reality, Western culture effectively ceded unwarranted credibility and prominence to neo-Darwinian materialism, including its recently strident New Atheism. “O’Connor revisits the 20th century’s journey from Nietzsche’s declaration of the ‘death of God’ to the rise of materialism as the dominant worldview of western intelligentsia. We live in a world that has largely expelled both mind and meaning from the citadels of serious intellectual pursuit, and O’Connor’s book is a fascinating and scholarly expedition into the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of that troubling development.” —Carter Phipps, author of Evolutionaries “I found this topic to be top-rate. The book is well researched and conceived, nicely narrated and analyzed, and an original body of inquiry into a challenging, fascinating intellectual tradition.” —Ronald M. Johnson, Professor Emeritus of American History, Georgetown University
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Download or read book Journal Kept During the Russian War from the Departure of the Army from England in April 1854 to the Fall of Sebastopol written by Frances Isabella Duberly and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book War in Heaven written by Frank de Ruyter and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, Frank de Ruyter, is a married man who enjoys sports, the outdoors and day-to-day life with his wife and three children. De Ruyter holds honors and masters degrees in astronomy and astrophysics, a divinity degree, and diplomas in teaching. War in Heaven was first written over thirty years ago, but de Ruyter brought it to publication after years of concern about what he continued to see published on the subject of prophecy.
Download or read book From the Ashes of War written by Diane Moody and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-19 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the third book in Diane Moody's bestselling WWII trilogy, Dutch war bride Anya Versteeg McClain is struggling to adapt to her new life in America. Her husband Danny, a former B-17 pilot, is troubled by her rollercoaster moods, but vows to do whatever he can to make her happy. Little did he know that would mean letting her go again. When an unexpected telegram requires her return to Holland, she leaves with a conflicted heart. Danny can only hope and pray she'll come back to him. There in her homeland, Anya makes an astounding discovery that alters the course of her life. From the Ashes of War concludes the compelling story of a family's journey from the heartache of war to the promise of hope and healing.
Download or read book First World War Poetry written by Jon Silkin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-02-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of poetry written during World War I. In the introduction Jon Silkin traces the changing mood of the poets - from patriotism through anger and compassion to an active desire for social change. The book includes work by Sassoon, Owen, Blunden, Rosenberg, Hardy and Lawrence.
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Download or read book No Greater Loss Memoirs of a Green Beret Under Two Flags written by Saren Thach, MST, CPA and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2024-08-12 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war in Cambodia, 1970-1975, pitching the unprepared Cambodian army against the battle tested communist Vietcong/North Vietnamese troops, who had fought for over a decade against the mighty American army, was a lopsided brutal conflict. Soon after, the communist Khmer Rouge added to their rank. The heroic sacrifice by the Cambodian fighters, the populace, and the dedicated small Khmer Special Forces units, all supported by the United States meager financial and logistic assistance, were not enough to overcome the fatal pre-war shortfall created by the Khmer leader, namely Prince Norodom Sihanouk, who joined the enemy in the war fighting his own people, for the sake of power. The book highlighted crucial military operations, some known only to very few personalities, which the author participated in, and the resulting triumph and defeat. The American Congress’s refusal, in late March 1975, to continue further military assistance, sealed the fate of the country. The Cambodian sentiment is that America callously betrayed its friend and ally whose paramount aspiration is freedom and liberty. This abandonment was also the American trademark in Vietnam, and decades later in Afghanistan. The book provides the plausible causes of the decline of the ancient Khmer civilization near the end of the Angkor era in the fourteenth century C.E., the era that produced a powerful Kingdom in the entire Southeast Asia, decline within the context of religious conflict, and the geopolitical emergence and evolution of neighboring nations. The fall of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, in March of 1970, gave communist Vietnam, the Khmer’s traditional adversary, pretext to invade the country at will, against international law. The Cambodians will never forgive nor forget the tremendous sufferings levied upon them, in which all Khmer families were affected. In the shadow of his enormous tragedy early in life, and likewise that of his current wife, and considering the autumn of his existence, the author's wish is, for the sake of humanity, if he can do something good, let him do it now, for he will pass this planet earth only once.
Download or read book British Battleships of World War One written by R.A. Burt and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-22 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic reference on the technical history of British capital ship design and construction during the dreadnought era. A century ago at Jutland, Dogger Bank, Heligoland Bight, and the first battle for the Falklands, mighty squadrons of these great armored ships fought their German counterparts for command of the seas. Beginning with Dreadnought, this book continues to the end of the First World War, and all of the fifty dreadnoughts, “super-dreadnoughts,” and battlecruisers that served the Royal Navy during this era are described and superbly illustrated with photographs and line drawings. Each class of ship is described in detail so that design origins, and technical and operational factors, are discussed alongside characteristics, with special emphasis on armament, armor, and machinery. Fully detailed data tables are included for every class, and more than 500 photographs and line drawings illustrate the text. A delight for the historian, enthusiast and ship modeler, this volume is regarded as an essential reference work for this most significant era in naval history and ship design.
Download or read book The Life and Death of John of Barneveld Advocate of Holland written by John Lothrop Motley and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fault Lines The New Updated Edition written by Don Liebich and published by Elevate Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear explanation of American Middle East policy This updated version of Fault Lines is written for those interested in understanding the often convoluted history of American Middle East policy. By enumerating the actors, conflicts, actions and consequences that have shaped American policy in the region, Liebich succeeds in clarifying for his readers the most important factors in a very complicated chain of events. The main takeaway is a general picture of the "fault lines" that have often plagued U.S. efforts to protect its national interests in the region and how these ongoing faults have led to a precipitous decline in American influence. The author makes recommendations as to how this decline can be reversed.
