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Book Spoils of Victory

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  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

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Book The Spoils of Victory  Or  A Very Pleasant Line of Thought

Download or read book The Spoils of Victory Or A Very Pleasant Line of Thought written by Ray Edridge and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spoils of Victory

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  • Author : John A. Connell
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2016-11
  • ISBN : 0425283399
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book Spoils of Victory written by John A. Connell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Garmisch-Partenkirchen is a scenic Alpine ski town that managed to escape the destruction of World War II. It is also the home of fleeing war criminals, a depository for the Nazis' stolen riches, and the latest post for Army investigator Mason Collins. When a friend who fought alongside Mason tells him about a plot by a group of powerful men-and is killed soon afterward-it's clear that Mason must make his investigation as quick and quiet as possible for his own safety. For someone up high is pulling strings to prevent him from discovering the truth..

Book The Spoils of Victory

Download or read book The Spoils of Victory written by Nationalmuseet (Copenhague). and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Spoils of Victory

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  • Author : Berman Paul Neuman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1906
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 367 pages

Download or read book The Spoils of Victory written by Berman Paul Neuman and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book War and Sacrifice

Download or read book War and Sacrifice written by Tony Pollard and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-12-31 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers conflicts from sub-Neolithic Finland to early Modern Ireland, looking at the archaeological evidence for conflict. This evidence ranges from excavation, to osteology, to artefacts, to linguistics, bringing together varying approaches to the study of conflict in the past. Most of the papers relate to prehistory, starting with the sub-Neolithic, running through the Bronze Age and into the Iron Age. There are also papers on Irish conflict archaeology, running from the sixteenth century AD to the 1916 Easter Rising. The prehistoric papers are significant in examining the evidence forensically and trying to establish whether conflict is the best explanation for particular phenomena, while the Irish papers open the rich landscape of conflict in Ireland, with all of the possibilities for investigating conflict that can be found.

Book Ordnance

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  • Release : 1943
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 634 pages

Download or read book Ordnance written by and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Army Ordnance

Download or read book Army Ordnance written by and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Visions of Victory

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  • Author : Gerhard L. Weinberg
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2005-04-11
  • ISBN : 9780521852548
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Visions of Victory written by Gerhard L. Weinberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visions of Victory, first published in 2005, explores the views of eight leaders of the major powers of World War II - Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Chiang Kai-shek, Stalin, Churchill, de Gaulle, and Roosevelt. He compares their visions of the future in the event of victory. While the leaders primarily focused on fighting and winning the war, their decisions were often shaped by their aspirations for the future. What emerges is a startling picture of postwar worlds. After exterminating the Jews, Hitler intended for all Slavs to die so Germans could inhabit Eastern Europe. Mussolini and Hitler wanted extensive colonies in Africa. Churchill hoped for the re-emergence of British and French empires. De Gaulle wanted to annex the northwest corner of Italy. Stalin wanted to control Eastern Europe. Roosevelt's vision included establishing the United Nations. Weinberg's comparison of the individual portraits of the war-time leaders is a highly original and compelling study of history that might have been.

Book The Spoils of War

Download or read book The Spoils of War written by Andrew Cockburn and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does the United States go to war?—a leading Harper’s commentator on U.S. foreign affairs searches for answers. A withering exposé of runaway military spending and the private economic interests funding the U.S. war machine—for fans of Rachel Maddow and Democracy Now! America has a long tradition of justifying war as the defense of democracy. The War on Terror was waged to protect the West from the dangers of Islamists. The US soldiers stationed in over 800 locations across the world are meant to be the righteous arbiters of justice. Against this background, Andrew Cockburn brilliantly dissects the true intentions behind Washington’s martial appetites. The American war machine can only be understood in terms of the private passions and interests of those who control it—principally a passionate interest in money. Thus, as Cockburn witheringly reports, Washington expanded NATO to satisfy an arms manufacturer’s urgent financial requirements; the US Navy’s Pacific fleet deployments were for years dictated by a corrupt contractor who bribed high-ranking officers with cash and prostitutes; senior Marine commanders agreed to a troop surge in Afghanistan in 2017 for budgetary reasons. Based on years of wide-ranging research, Cockburn lays bare the ugly reality of the largest military machine in history: as profoundly squalid as it is terrifyingly deadly.

Book Zuo Tradition   Zuozhuan

Download or read book Zuo Tradition Zuozhuan written by and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 2243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan; sometimes called The Zuo Commentary) is China�s first great work of history. It consists of two interwoven texts - the Spring and Autumn Annals (Chunqiu, a terse annalistic record) and a vast web of narratives and speeches that add context and interpretation to the Annals. Completed by about 300 BCE, it is the longest and one of the most difficult texts surviving from pre-imperial times. It has been as important to the foundation and preservation of Chinese culture as the historical books of the Hebrew Bible have been to the Jewish and Christian traditions. It has shaped notions of history, justice, and the significance of human action in the Chinese tradition perhaps more so than any comparable work of Latin or Greek historiography has done to Western civilization. This translation, accompanied by the original text, an introduction, and annotations, will finally make Zuozhuan accessible to all.

Book The Living Church

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  • Release : 1918
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 876 pages

Download or read book The Living Church written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Christian Century

Download or read book The Christian Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spellfire Card Game

Download or read book Spellfire Card Game written by Bruce Nesmith and published by TSR. This book was released on 1995 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Verdict of Battle

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  • Author : James Q. Whitman
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2012-10-31
  • ISBN : 0674071875
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book The Verdict of Battle written by James Q. Whitman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, war is considered a last resort for resolving disagreements. But a day of staged slaughter on the battlefield was once seen as a legitimate means of settling political disputes. James Whitman argues that pitched battle was essentially a trial with a lawful verdict. And when this contained form of battle ceased to exist, the law of victory gave way to the rule of unbridled force. The Verdict of Battle explains why the ritualized violence of the past was more effective than modern warfare in bringing carnage to an end, and why humanitarian laws that cling to a notion of war as evil have led to longer, more barbaric conflicts. Belief that sovereigns could, by rights, wage war for profit made the eighteenth century battle’s golden age. A pitched battle was understood as a kind of legal proceeding in which both sides agreed to be bound by the result. To the victor went the spoils, including the fate of kingdoms. But with the nineteenth-century decline of monarchical legitimacy and the rise of republican sentiment, the public no longer accepted the verdict of pitched battles. Ideology rather than politics became war’s just cause. And because modern humanitarian law provided no means for declaring a victor or dispensing spoils at the end of battle, the violence of war dragged on. The most dangerous wars, Whitman asserts in this iconoclastic tour de force, are the lawless wars we wage today to remake the world in the name of higher moral imperatives.

Book War and Sacrifice

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  • Author : Tony Pollard
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9004154582
  • Pages : 239 pages

Download or read book War and Sacrifice written by Tony Pollard and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers on the archaeology of conflict covers a wide range in both time and space, running from Sub-Neolithic Finland to early Modern Ireland. The papers include a diverse series of approaches to the study of conflict, using excavation, osteology, artefacts and linguistics.