Proud to Be, Volume 1: Writing by American Warriors, Susan Swartwout

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
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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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: Brandi Andrew, Russell Billie
Название: The Warrior`s Guide to Insanity: According to the Walo Chronicles
ISBN: 099100650X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780991006502
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Название: Women Warriors and National Heroes
ISBN: 1350121134 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350121133
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This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched.
This volume presents women warriors and hero cults from a number of cultures since the early modern period. The first truly global study of women warriors, individual chapters examine figures such as Joan of Arc in Cairo, revenging daughters in Samurai Japan, a transgender Mexican revolutionary and WWII Chinese spies.

Exploring issues of violence, gender fluidity, memory and nation-building, the authors discuss how these real or imagined female figures were constructed and deployed in different national and transnational contexts.
Divided into four parts, they explore how women warriors and their stories were created, consider the issue of the violent woman, discuss how these female figures were gendered, and highlight the fate of women warriors who live on. The chapters illustrate the ways in which female fighters have figured in nation-building stories and in the ordering or re-ordering of gender politics, and give the history of women fighters a critical edge. Exploring women as military actors, women after war, and the strategic use of women's stories in national narratives, this intellectually innovative volume provides the first global treatment of women warriors and their histories.

Автор: Patrick M. Dennis
Название: Reluctant Warriors: Canadian Conscripts and the Great War
ISBN: 0774835974 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780774835978
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During the “Hundred Days” campaign of the First World War, over 30 percent of conscripts who served in the Canadian Corps became casualties. Yet, they were often considered slackers for not having volunteered. Reluctant Warriors is the first examination of the pivotal role played by Canadian conscripts in the final campaign of the Great War on the Western Front. Challenging long-standing myths, Patrick Dennis examines whether conscripts made any significant difference to the success of the Canadian Corps in 1918. Reluctant Warriors provides fresh evidence that conscripts were good soldiers who made a crucial contribution to the war effort.

Автор: Susan Swartwout
Название: Proud to Be, Volume 4: Writing by American Warriors
ISBN: 0996259643 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780996259644
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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 fourth in an annual series published by Southeast Missouri State University Press.

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 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: 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: 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.

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: Vaporis Constantine Nomikos
Название: Samurai: An Encyclopedia of Japan`s Cultured Warriors
ISBN: 1440842701 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781440842702
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The samurai were an aristocratic class of warriors who imposed and maintained peace in Japan for more than two centuries during the Tokugawa or Edo period, 1603-1868. While they maintained a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence, as a result of the peace the samurai themselves were transformed over time into an educated, cultured elite--one that remained fiercely proud of its military legacy and hyper-sensitive in defending their individual honor.

This book provides detailed information about the samurai, beginning with a timeline and narrative historical overview of the samurai. This is followed by more than 100 alphabetically arranged entries on topics related to the samurai, such as ritual suicide, castles, weapons, housing, clothing, samurai women, and more. The entries cite works for further reading and often include sidebars linking the samurai to popular culture, tourist sites, and other information. A selection of primary source documents offers firsthand accounts from the era, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.