Proud to Be, Volume 4: Writing by American Warriors, Susan Swartwout

Автор: James Brubaker
Название: Proud to Be, Volume 6: Writing by American Warriors
ISBN: 0997926260 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780997926262
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Presents essays, fiction, poetry, interviews, and photography by military-service personnel, veterans, and their families. The volume also sponsored a veterans` writing competition. This anthology is the sixth in an annual series published by Southeast Missouri State University Press.

Автор: Heather P. Venable
Название: How the Few Became the Proud: Crafting the Marine Corps Mystique 1874-1918
ISBN: 1682474682 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682474686
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Описание: For more than half of its existence, members of the Marine Corps largely self-identified as soldiers, and it did not yet mean something distinct to be a Marine. This work argues that the Marine Corps could not and would not settle on a mission, and therefore it turned to an image to ensure its institutional survival.

Автор: Bourne, Stephen
Название: Fighting proud
ISBN: 1350143227 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350143227
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: In this astonishing new history of wartime Britain, historian Stephen Bourne unearths the fascinating stories of the gay men who served in the armed forces and at home, and brings to light the great unheralded contribution they made to the war effort. Fighting Proud weaves together the remarkable lives of these men, from RAF hero Ian Gleed - a Flying Ace twice honoured for bravery by King George VI - to the infantry officers serving in the trenches on the Western Front in WWI - many of whom led the charges into machine-gun fire only to find themselves court-martialled after the war for indecent behaviour. Behind the lines, Alan Turing's work on breaking the enigma machine' and subsequent persecution contrasts with the many stories of love and courage in Blitzed-out London, with new wartime diaries and letters unearthed for the first time. Bourne tells the bitterly sad story of Ivor Novello, who wrote the WWI anthem Keep the Home Fires Burning', and the crucial work of Noel Coward - who was hated by Hitler for his work entertaining the troops. Fighting Proud also includes a wealth of long-suppressed wartime photography subsequently ignored by mainstream historians. This book is a monument to the bravery, sacrifice and honour shown by a persecuted minority, who contributed during Britain's hour of need.

Автор: Nivola Pietro S.
Название: What So Proudly We Hailed
ISBN: 0815734190 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815734192
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Описание: With distrust between the political parties running deep and Congress divided, the government of the United States goes to war. The war is waged without adequately preparing the means to finance it or readying suitable contingency plans to contend with its unanticipated complications. The executive branch suffers from managerial confusion and in-fighting. The military invades a foreign country, expecting to be greeted as liberators, but encounters stiff, unwelcome resistance. The conflict drags on longer than predicted. It ends rather inconclusively—or so it seems in its aftermath.Sound familiar? This all happened two hundred years ago.What So Proudly We Hailed looks at the War of 1812 in part through the lens of today's America. On the bicentennial of that formative yet largely forgotten period in U.S. history, this provocative book asks: What did Americans learn—and not learn—from the experience? What instructive parallels and distinctions can be drawn with more recent events? How did it shape the nation?Exploring issues ranging from party politics to sectional schisms, distant naval battles to the burning of Washington, and citizens' civil liberties to the fate of Native Americans caught in the struggle, these essays speak to the complexity and unpredictability of a war that many assumed would be brief and straightforward. What emerges is a revealing perspective on a problematic ""war of choice""—the nation's first, but one with intriguing implications for others, including at least one in the present century.Although the War of 1812 may have faded from modern memory, the conflict left important legacies, both in its immediate wake and in later years. In its own time, the war was transformative. To this day, however, some of the fundamental challenges that confronted U.S. policymakers two centuries ago still resonate. How much should a free society regularly invest in national defense? Should the expense be defrayed through new taxes? Is it possible for profound partisan disagreements to stop ""at the water's edge""? What are the constitutional limits of executive powers in wartime? How, exactly, should the government treat dissenters, especially when many are suspected of giving aid and comfort to an enemy? As Americans continue to reflect on their country and its role in the world, these questions remain as relevant now as they were then.

Автор: Susan Swartwout
Название: Proud to Be, Volume 2: Writing by American Warriors
ISBN: 098831035X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780988310353
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Описание: Presents essays, fiction, poetry, interviews, and photography by military-service personnel, veterans, and their families. The volume also sponsored a veterans` writing competition. This anthology is the second in an annual series published by Southeast Missouri State University Press.

Автор: Susan Swartwout
Название: Proud to Be, Volume 5: Writing by American Warriors
ISBN: 0997926201 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780997926200
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Описание: Presents essays, fiction, poetry, interviews, and photography by military-service personnel, veterans, and their families. The volume also sponsored a veterans` writing competition. This anthology is the fifth in an annual series published by Southeast Missouri State University Press.

Автор: Susan Swartwout
Название: Proud to Be, Volume 3: Writing by American Warriors
ISBN: 0990353044 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780990353041
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Описание: Presents essays, fiction, poetry, interviews, and photography by military-service personnel, veterans, and their families. The volume also sponsored a veterans` writing competition. This anthology is the third in an annual series published by Southeast Missouri State University Press.

Автор: Brubaker James
Название: Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Volume 8
ISBN: 1732039933 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781732039933
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Описание: Showcases writing from military veterans and their families from across the US, including writing about WWI and WWII, Vietnam, the Gulf Conflict, Afghanistan, and Iraq. The anthology is the seventh in an annual series published by Southeast Missouri State University Press.

Автор: Bryce Trevor
Название: Warriors of Anatolia: A Concise History of the Hittites
ISBN: 1350140783 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350140783
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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The Hittites in the Late Bronze Age became the mightiest military power in the Ancient Near East. Yet their empire was always vulnerable to destruction by enemy forces; their Anatolian homeland occupied a remote region, with no navigable rivers; and they were cut off from the sea. Perhaps most seriously, they suffered chronic under-population and sometimes devastating plague. How, then, can the rise and triumph of this ancient imperium be explained, against seemingly insuperable odds?

In his lively and unconventional treatment of one of antiquity's most mysterious civilizations, whose history disappeared from the records over three thousand years ago, Trevor Bryce sheds fresh light on Hittite warriors as well as on the Hittites' social, religious and political culture and offers new solutions to many unsolved questions. Revealing them to have been masters of chariot warfare, who almost inflicted disastrous defeat on Rameses II at the Battle of Qadesh (1274 BCE), he shows the Hittites also to have been devout worshippers of a pantheon of storm-gods and many other gods, and masters of a new diplomatic system which bolstered their authority for centuries.

Drawing authoritatively both on texts and on ongoing archaeological discoveries, while at the same time offering imaginative reconstructions of the Hittite world, the author argues that while the development of a warrior culture was essential, not only for the Empire's expansion but for its very survival, this by itself was not enough. The range of skills demanded of the Hittite ruling class went way beyond mere military prowess, while there was much more to the Hittites themselves than just skill in warfare. This engaging volume reveals the Hittites in their full complexity, including the festivals they celebrated; the temples and palaces they built; their customs and superstitions; the crimes they committed; their social hierarchy, from king to slave; and the marriages and pre-nuptial agreements they contracted. It takes the reader on a journey which combines epic grandeur, spectacle and pageantry with an understanding of the intimacies and idiosyncrasies of Hittite daily life.

Автор: Danielsen, Tone
Название: Making warriors in a global era
ISBN: 1498561810 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498561815
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: Making Warriors in a Global Era provides ethnographic data, analyses, and discussions to infuse new debates among both military personnel and academics about the rise of special operations forces (SOF) and the ways they impact how armed conflicts are dealt with and how wars are fought.

Автор: Susan Swartwout
Название: Proud to Be, Volume 1: Writing by American Warriors
ISBN: 0988310309 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780988310308
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Описание: Presents essays, fiction, poetry, interviews, and photography by military-service personnel, veterans, and their families. The volume also sponsored a veterans` writing competition. This anthology is the first in an annual series published by Southeast Missouri State University Press.

Автор: Seth Jacobs
Название: Rogue Diplomats: The Proud Tradition of Disobedience in American Foreign Policy
ISBN: 1107079470 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107079472
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Historians have long ignored America`s record of diplomatic indiscipline. Rogue Diplomats redresses that deficiency, demonstrating that titanic accomplishments such as the Louisiana Purchase resulted in great part because diplomats refused to follow instructions.