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Book Survival as Victory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Oksana Kis
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2021-03-02
  • ISBN : 0674258282
  • Pages : 653 pages

Download or read book Survival as Victory written by Oksana Kis and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survival as Victory is the first anthropological study of daily life in the Soviet forced labor camps as experienced by Ukrainian women prisoners. Oksana Kis pulls from the written and oral histories of over 150 survivors to bring to life the gendered strategies of survival, accommodation, and resistance to the dehumanizing effects of the Gulag.

Book Survival Is Victory

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  • Author : Diona Clark
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-10-03
  • ISBN : 9780692962084
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Survival Is Victory written by Diona Clark and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Victory

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  • Author : Carla Jablonski
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2012-07-17
  • ISBN : 1596432934
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book Victory written by Carla Jablonski and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pair of siblings' bucolic French town is almost untouched by the ravages of WWII. When their friend goes into hiding and his Jewish parents disappear, they realize they must take a stand.

Book Creation and the Persistence of Evil

Download or read book Creation and the Persistence of Evil written by Jon D. Levenson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1994-12-19 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paperback edition brings to a wide audience one of the most innovative and meaningful models of God for this post-Auschwitz era. In a thought-provoking return to the original Hebrew conception of God, which questions accepted conceptions of divine omnipotence, Jon Levenson defines God's authorship of the world as a consequence of his victory in his struggle with evil. He traces a flexible conception of God to the earliest Hebrew sources, arguing, for example, that Genesis 1 does not describe the banishment of evil but the attempt to contain the menace of evil in the world, a struggle that continues today.

Book The Art of Victory

Download or read book The Art of Victory written by Gregory R. Copley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From historian and strategic analyst Copley comes a charter for personal business success based on the "28 Maxims of Victory"--lessons from history on how civilizations and societies have evolved.

Book Victory in Defeat

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  • Author : Gregory Urwin
  • Publisher : Naval Institute Press
  • Release : 2010-11-15
  • ISBN : 1612510043
  • Pages : 514 pages

Download or read book Victory in Defeat written by Gregory Urwin and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told here for the first time in vivid detail is the story of the defenders of Wake Island following their surrender to the Japanese on December 23, 1941. The highly regarded military historian Gregory Urwin spent decades researching what happened and now offers a revealing look at the U.S. Marines, sailors, soldiers, and civilian volunteers in captivity. In addition to exhaustive archival research, he interviewed dozens of POWs and even some of their Japanese captors. He also had access to diaries secretly kept by the prisoners. This information has allowed Urwin to provide a nuanced look at the Japanese guards and how the Americans survived three-and-a-half years in captivity and emerged with a much lower death rate than most other Allies captured in the Pacific. In part, Urwin says, the answer lies in the Wake Islanders’ establishment of life-saving communities that kept their dignity intact. Their mutual-help networks encouraged those who faltered under the physical and psychological torture, including what is today called water boarding. The book notes that the Japanese camp official responsible for that war crime was sentenced to life imprisonment by an American military tribunal. Most spent the war at a camp just outside Shanghai, one of the few places where Japanese authorities permitted the Red Cross to aid prisoners of war. The author also calls attention to the generosity of civilians in Shanghai, including Swiss diplomats and the American and British residents of the fabled International Settlement, who provided food and clothing to the prisoners. In addition, some of the guards proved to be less vicious than those stationed at other POW camps and occasionally went out of their way to aid the men. As the first historical work to fully explore the captivity of Wake Island’s defenders, the book offers information not found in other World War II historie

Book The Winter at Valley Forge

Download or read book The Winter at Valley Forge written by James E. Knight and published by Troll Communications. This book was released on 1999-02-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A soldier chronicles the harsh winter colonial soldiers, led by General George Washington, spend at Valley Forge during the American Revolution.

Book Tarnished Victory

Download or read book Tarnished Victory written by William Marvel and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical look at the the fourth year of Lincoln's administration and the conclusion of the author's four-volume re-examination of the Civil War.

Book Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel

Download or read book Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel written by Jon Douglas Levenson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many famous antique texts are misunderstood and many others have been completely dismissed, all because the literary style in which they were written is unfamiliar today. So argues Mary Douglas in this controversial study of ring composition, a technique which places the meaning of a text in the middle, framed by a beginning and ending in parallel. To read a ring composition in the modern linear fashion is to misinterpret it, Douglas contends, and today's scholars must reevaluate important antique texts from around the world. Found in the Bible and in writings from as far a field as Egypt, China, Indonesia, Greece, and Russia, ring composition is too widespread to have come from a single source. Does it perhaps derive from the way the brain works? What is its function in social contexts? The author examines ring composition, its principles and functions, in a cross-cultural way. She focuses on ring composition in Homer's Iliad, the Bible's book of Numbers, and, for a challenging modern example, Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, developing a persuasive argument for reconstruing famous books and rereading neglected ones.

Book Victory Point

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  • Author : Ed Darack
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2009-04-07
  • ISBN : 1101032480
  • Pages : 366 pages

Download or read book Victory Point written by Ed Darack and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-04-07 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late June 2005, media sources recounted the tragic story of nineteen U.S. special operations personnel who died at the hands of insurgent / terrorist leader Ahmad Shah- and the lone survivor of Shah's ambush-deep in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan. The harrowing events of Operation Red Wings marked an important-yet widely misreported-chapter in the Global War on Terror, the full details of which the public burned to learn. In Victory Point, globally published author and photographer Ed Darack reveals the complete, as-yet untold, story of Operation Red Wings (often mis-referenced as "Operation Redwing"), and the follow-on mission, Operation Whalers. Together, these two U.S. Marine Corps operations (that in the case of Red Wings utilized Navy SEALs for its opening phase) unfurl not as a mission gone terribly wrong, but of a complex and difficult campaign that ultimately saw the demise of Ahmad Shan and his small army of barbarous fighters. Due to the valor, courage and commitment of the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Marine Regiment in the summer of 2005, Afghanistan was able to hold free elections that Fall. Here is the inspiring true account of heroism, duty, and brotherhood between Marines fighting the War on Terror.

Book Touching the Void

Download or read book Touching the Void written by Joe Simpson and published by Direct Authors. This book was released on 2012-12-12 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 25th Anniversary ebook, now with more than 50 images. 'Touching the Void' is the tale of two mountaineer’s harrowing ordeal in the Peruvian Andes. In the summer of 1985, two young, headstrong mountaineers set off to conquer an unclimbed route. They had triumphantly reached the summit, when a horrific accident mid-descent forced one friend to leave another for dead. Ambition, morality, fear and camaraderie are explored in this electronic edition of the mountaineering classic, with never before seen colour photographs taken during the trip itself.

Book The ART of Survival

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  • Author : Chip Ingram
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-10-19
  • ISBN : 9781605934020
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The ART of Survival written by Chip Ingram and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surviving in this age of chaos is an A.R.T. that you can learn! You can overcome hard times with the Bible's clear teachings.As Christians, we know we are called to be overcomers - the gospel promises victory, not victimhood. But sometimes our biggest question isn't how we can thrive; it's how we can even survive.The Church began in desperate times. The book of James was written to desperate people, much like ourselves. In The A.R.T. of Survival In an Age of Chaos, Chip guides us through James's bold teaching on ways to thrive in turmoil.

Book Victory

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  • Author : Stephen Coonts
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2003-05-13
  • ISBN : 9780312874629
  • Pages : 782 pages

Download or read book Victory written by Stephen Coonts and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-05-13 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of original World War II stories includes contributions by such authors as Ralph Peters, David Hagberg, and Harold Robbins.

Book Signs of Survival  A Memoir of the Holocaust

Download or read book Signs of Survival A Memoir of the Holocaust written by Renee Hartman and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RENEE: I was ten years old then, and my sister was eight. The responsibility was on me to warn everyone when the soldiers were coming because my sister and both my parents were deaf. I was my family's ears. Meet Renee and Herta, two sisters who faced the unimaginable -- together. This is their true story. As Jews living in 1940s Czechoslovakia, Renee, Herta, and their parents were in immediate danger when the Holocaust came to their door. As the only hearing person in her family, Renee had to alert her parents and sister whenever the sound of Nazi boots approached their home so they could hide. But soon their parents were tragically taken away, and the two sisters went on the run, desperate to find a safe place to hide. Eventually they, too, would be captured and taken to the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. Communicating in sign language and relying on each other for strength in the midst of illness, death, and starvation, Renee and Herta would have to fight to survive the darkest of times. This gripping memoir, told in a vivid "oral history" format, is a testament to the power of sisterhood and love, and now more than ever a reminder of how important it is to honor the past, and keep telling our own stories.

Book The Climb of My Life

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  • Author : Laura Evans
  • Publisher : Harper San Francisco
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780062586582
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Climb of My Life written by Laura Evans and published by Harper San Francisco. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a mighty struggle against breast cancer, Laura Evans "climbed to the summit of the highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere, leading sixteen other breast cancer survivors in a heroic demonstration of the power of the human spirit to overcome adversity."--Jacket.

Book MEN LET S TALK  The Victory Over Lust Survival Handbook

Download or read book MEN LET S TALK The Victory Over Lust Survival Handbook written by Fitzhugh G. Houston and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ultimate Unofficial Survival Tactics for Fortniters  Mastering Game Settings for Victory

Download or read book Ultimate Unofficial Survival Tactics for Fortniters Mastering Game Settings for Victory written by Jason R. Rich and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Guide to Maximizing Your Settings in Fortnite Battle Royale! Unlock a plethora of gaming tips and strategies to achieve victory! Ultimate Unofficial Survival Tactics for Fortnite Battle Royale: Mastering Game Settings for Victory explains to readers what each customizable setting within the game is used for and helps gamers fine-tune these settings to meet their unique needs. This full-color, unofficial guide will focus on customizing the game’s options and settings when playing on a PC or Mac, console-based gaming system, and/or on a mobile device. Using easy-to-understand explanations, along with hundreds of full-color screenshots, Ultimate Unofficial Survival Tactices for Fortnite Battle Royale: Mastering Game Settings for Victory will quickly become an indispensable resource for gamers looking to enhance and fully personalize their gaming experience. Learn the best uses for the 100+ user-customizable options in the game Fine-tune the game’s settings to enhance your gaming style, experience, and strengths as a player Improve your performance by mastering the settings that fit your game-play