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Land Of Dreams - An Immigrant'S Journey From War-Torn Vietnam To America

by C. L. Hoang

~~14,36€~~ 12,92€ 10% OFF

 "A moving and beautifully written book. . . a truly important book."—Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize winnerFifty years on from the Vietnam War, it can be easy to overlook the civilian lives that were forever changed by this endlessly debated global conflict. In Land of Dreams: An Immigrant’s Journey from War-Torn Vietnam to America, author C. L. Hoang recalls memories of how the war dramatically affected his own life and the lives of his family. Spanning two continents and more than ten years, Hoang’s journey begins with his childhood in Saigon, South Vietnam, in the 1960s and continues as he crosses the Pacific Ocean to study in the US in 1974. When Saigon fell to the Communists of North Vietnam just six months later, he found himself cut off from his family in a new and vastly different country. Struggling to adapt and survive while hanging on to his college dreams, Hoang embarked on a quest to reunite with his family as they risked life and limb to escape from the communist regime. Having lived through the Vietnam War and come to America young enough to absorb its culture as his own, Hoang offers a unique, human-scale perspective on the aftermath of one of the most significant conflicts in living memory. Land of Dreams is a meditation on what it means to lose one’s home and find another, and on how the echoes of war continue to shape the lives of those who survive such conflicts. By sharing his own story, Hoang also bears witness to the struggle and resilience of his fellow Vietnamese immigrants as well as countless other immigrants and refugees.
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Training For Atomic Warfare - Us Army Doctrine And Education In The Early Cold War, 1945-1963

by Brad Hardy

~~51,66€~~ 46,49€ 10% OFF

 In the early days of the Cold War, the United States Army underwent a fundamental shift in its strategic thinking. While World War II was won on a doctrinal paradigm of combined arms, the US Army of the 1950s believed that atomic weapons would change how international conflicts were won and lost. Training officers in atomic warfare was a challenge, since there was little real-world experience on which to draw. Initially resistant to atomic weapons, the Army evolved through school debates among traditionalists, tech-driven "Buck Rogers" visionaries, and integrators who unified old and new methods. Facing classified data gaps, Army schools sparked cognitive shifts while the maneuver-fires inversion redefined warfare. By the early 1960s, with the Vietnam War centered in the minds of US military leadership and the public, doctrine and professional military education for atomic warfighting faded as the stark realities of fighting in Vietnam settled in.In Training for Atomic Warfare, Lieutenant Colonel Brad Hardy presents a unique view into the history of the US Army’s strategic shift toward—and then away from—atomic warfare. Moving chronologically, each of the book’s five chapters catalogs a segment of years between 1945 and 1960, showcasing how changes in US defense policy and technology reflected the Army’s doctrine and education. Training for Atomic Warfare draws compelling parallels between the army of the 1950s and the current decade, demonstrating how shifts in military methodologies reflect the character of changing global conflicts and international policy.
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Citizen Of The Shadows - The Lives And Lies Of Lothar Witzke

by Paul Friedland e Robert N. Hornick

~~19,86€~~ 17,87€ 10% OFF

 "A monumental piece of work . . . an amazing accomplishment and a pleasure to read."—David Michaelis, author of Eleanor, the bestselling biography of Eleanor RooseveltOne of the most notorious German spies of the twentieth century, Lothar Witzke lived a life that reads like a thriller. Convicted of espionage in 1918, he was the only German spy sentenced to death by the United States during World War I. After the war, he was pardoned by President Calvin Coolidge, only to be later accused of responsibility for one of the most spectacular acts of sabotage in US history: the Black Tom munitions depot explosion.After being repatriated to Germany, Witzke lived in Latin America and China as a German expat and later joined the Nazi party. He ran espionage squads in Great Britain during World War II and became a prominent businessman in Hamburg after the war. He was killed in Hamburg in 1962, possibly by an East German agent as payback for suspected double agent work on behalf of the British.With Citizen of the Shadows, the first full biography of Witzke, Paul Friedland and Robert Hornick trace Witzke’s morally complicated life and show readers how an infamous spy thrived in the interwar years and after. They probe his trial, conviction, and pardon, and analyze whether Witzke was really involved in the Black Tom explosion. In doing so, the authors uncover that many of the details of Witzke’s life—long assumed to be true—were lies.
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Pogiebait'S War - A Son''S Quest For His Father''S Wartime Life

by Jack H. Mccall

29,14€ + 10% CARD

 Provides a window into the day-to-day service of a Marine during World War II, with important coverage of fighting in the Pacific Theater. Jack McCall also depicts life in wartime Franklin, Tennessee, and offers a poignant and personal tribute to his father.
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Last Letter - A Father''S Struggle, A Daughter''S Quest, And The Long Shadow Of The Holocaust

by Karen Baum Gordon

21,19€ + 10% CARD

 This investigation of Karen Baum Gordonâ€™s family history is grounded in eighty-eight letters written mostly by Julie Baum, Karen's grandmother, between 1936 and 1941. In five parts, Gordon examines pieces of these well-worn, handwritten letters and other archival documents in order to discover what her family experienced during the Nazi period.
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D-Day Remembered - The Normandy Landings In American Collective Memory

by Michael Dolski

37,09€ + 10% CARD

 "Focusing on the ways in which Americans have remembered D-Day, Michael R. Dolski’s engrossing book analyzes how constructions of the past both shape and are continually reshaped by the present. His sensitive and subtle examination challenges readers to think more deeply and less simplistically about the cultural functions of war remembrance." —Emily S. Rosenberg, author of A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory D-Day, the Allied invasion of northwestern France in June 1944, has remained in the forefront of American memories of the Second World War to this day. Depictions in books, news stories, documentaries, museums, monuments, memorial celebrations, speeches, games, and Hollywood spectaculars have overwhelmingly romanticized the assault as an event in which citizen-soldiers—the everyday heroes of democracy—engaged evil foes in a decisive clash fought for liberty, national redemption, and world salvation. In D-Day Remembered, Michael R. Dolski explores the evolution of American D-Day tales over the course of the past seven decades. He shows the ways in which that particular episode came to overshadow so many others in portraying the twentieth century’s most devastating cataclysm as "the Good War." With depth and insight, he analyzes how depictions in various media, such as the popular histories of Stephen Ambrose and films like The Longest Day and Saving Private Ryan, have time and again reaffirmed cherished American notions of democracy, fair play, moral order, and the militant, yet non-militaristic, use of power for divinely sanctioned purposes. Only during the Vietnam era, when Americans had to confront an especially stark challenge to their pietistic sense of nationhood, did memories of D-Day momentarily fade. They soon reemerged, however, as the country sought to move beyond the lamentable conflict in Southeast Asia. Even as portrayals of D-Day have gone from sanitized early versions to more realistic acknowledgments of tactical mistakes and the horrific costs of the battle, the overarching story continues to be, for many, a powerful reminder of moral rectitude, military skill, and world mission. While the time to historicize this morality tale more fully and honestly has long since come, Dolski observes, the lingering positive connotations of D-Day indicate that the story is not yet finished. MICHAEL R. DOLSKI is a historian with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency and lives in northern Virginia. He is the coeditor, with Sam Edwards and John Buckley, of D-Day in History and Memory.
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Arming The Nation For War - Mobilization, Supply, And The American War Effort In World War Ii

by Robert P. Patterson

25,16€ + 10% CARD

 In Arming the Nation for War, a previously unpublished account long buried among the late authorâ€™s papers and originally marked confidential, Federal Judge Robert P. Patterson describes the vast challenges the United States faced as it had to equip, in a desperately short time, a fighting force capable of confronting a formidable enemy.
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Small Wars - Low-Intensity Threats And The American Response Since Vietnam

by Michael Gambone

34,44€ + 10% CARD

 <DIV>"Small Wars is unique in its complexity and breadth. This book would be of great interest to both military and diplomatic historians, and those that teach Recent America." —Nancy Gentile Ford, author of Issues of War and Peace Today, conventional fighting waged by massed, industrial armies is nearly extinct as a viable means of warfare, replaced by a broad and diverse array of conflicts that consume the modern American military. Fought in sprawling urban areas of the underdeveloped world or in desolate border regions where ethnicity and tradition reign, these "small wars" involve a vast and intricate network of operations dedicated to attacking the cultural, political, financial, and military layers that surround America’s new enemies. In this intriguing study, Michael Gambone explores America’s approach to small wars since Vietnam, providing a fascinating analysis of the basic goals, missions, conduct, and consequences of modern American conflict. Going beyond a simple comparison of Vietnam to the current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Gambone thoroughly tracks the continuous evolution of U.S. intervention between these events, revealing a dramatic shift in the role of the American military to covert operations that require fluidity, creativity, and ingenuity. He examines in detail the many different forms of military intervention that America has taken in the last forty years, including actions in Central America in the 1980s, the first Gulf War, airstrikes in Kosovo in the 1990s, and the war on terror, as well as the Iran-Contra affair, the drug war in Columbia, and the role of private military contractors such as Blackwater. After the Cold War, Gambone shows, American military missions served a wide variety of tasks—peacekeeping, humanitarian assistance, counterterrorism—that significantly departed from conventional missions, a trend that continued and expanded after 9/11. By exploring the history and assessing the effectiveness of the small wars fought since Vietnam, Gambone reveals the importance of these smaller actions in modern military planning and operations and clearly traces the development of American warfare from the massive military machine of World War II into a complex hybrid of traditional and innovative techniques. MICHAEL GAMBONE, a professor of history at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania, is the author of The Greatest Generation Comes Home: The Veteran in American Society and editor of Documents of American Diplomacy: From the American Revolution to the Present. </DIV>
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Small Wars - Low-Intensity Threats And The American Response Since Vietnam

by Michael Gambone

49,01€ + 10% CARD

 <DIV>"Small Wars is unique in its complexity and breadth. This book would be of great interest to both military and diplomatic historians, and those that teach Recent America." —Nancy Gentile Ford, author of Issues of War and Peace Today, conventional fighting waged by massed, industrial armies is nearly extinct as a viable means of warfare, replaced by a broad and diverse array of conflicts that consume the modern American military. Fought in sprawling urban areas of the underdeveloped world or in desolate border regions where ethnicity and tradition reign, these "small wars" involve a vast and intricate network of operations dedicated to attacking the cultural, political, financial, and military layers that surround America’s new enemies. In this intriguing study, Michael Gambone explores America’s approach to small wars since Vietnam, providing a fascinating analysis of the basic goals, missions, conduct, and consequences of modern American conflict. Going beyond a simple comparison of Vietnam to the current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Gambone thoroughly tracks the continuous evolution of U.S. intervention between these events, revealing a dramatic shift in the role of the American military to covert operations that require fluidity, creativity, and ingenuity. He examines in detail the many different forms of military intervention that America has taken in the last forty years, including actions in Central America in the 1980s, the first Gulf War, airstrikes in Kosovo in the 1990s, and the war on terror, as well as the Iran-Contra affair, the drug war in Columbia, and the role of private military contractors such as Blackwater. After the Cold War, Gambone shows, American military missions served a wide variety of tasks—peacekeeping, humanitarian assistance, counterterrorism—that significantly departed from conventional missions, a trend that continued and expanded after 9/11. By exploring the history and assessing the effectiveness of the small wars fought since Vietnam, Gambone reveals the importance of these smaller actions in modern military planning and operations and clearly traces the development of American warfare from the massive military machine of World War II into a complex hybrid of traditional and innovative techniques. MICHAEL GAMBONE, a professor of history at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania, is the author of The Greatest Generation Comes Home: The Veteran in American Society and editor of Documents of American Diplomacy: From the American Revolution to the Present. </DIV>
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Nation Forged In War - How World War Ii Taught Americans To Get Along

by Thomas A. Bruscino

30,46€ + 10% CARD

 World War II shaped the US in profound ways. This new book explores one of the most significant changes it fostered: a dramatic increase in ethnic and religious tolerance. A Nation Forged in War is the first full-length study of how large-scale mobilization during the Second World War helped to dissolve long-standing differences among white soldiers of widely divergent backgrounds.
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Pogiebait'S War - A Son''S Quest For His Father''S Wartime Life

by Jack H. Mccall

29,14€ + 10% CARD

 Provides a window into the day-to-day service of a Marine during World War II, with important coverage of fighting in the Pacific Theater. Jack McCall also depicts life in wartime Franklin, Tennessee, and offers a poignant and personal tribute to his father.
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The Last Letter - A Fathers Struggle, A Daughters Quest, And The Long Shadow Of The Holocaust

by Karen Baum Gordon

19,17€ + 10% CARD

 This investigation of Karen Baum Gordonâ€™s family history is grounded in eighty-eight letters written mostly by Julie Baum, Karen's grandmother, between 1936 and 1941. In five parts, Gordon examines pieces of these well-worn, handwritten letters and other archival documents in order to discover what her family experienced during the Nazi period.
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D-Day Remembered - The Normandy Landings In American Collective Memory

by Michael Dolski

37,09€ + 10% CARD

 "Focusing on the ways in which Americans have remembered D-Day, Michael R. Dolski’s engrossing book analyzes how constructions of the past both shape and are continually reshaped by the present. His sensitive and subtle examination challenges readers to think more deeply and less simplistically about the cultural functions of war remembrance." —Emily S. Rosenberg, author of A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory D-Day, the Allied invasion of northwestern France in June 1944, has remained in the forefront of American memories of the Second World War to this day. Depictions in books, news stories, documentaries, museums, monuments, memorial celebrations, speeches, games, and Hollywood spectaculars have overwhelmingly romanticized the assault as an event in which citizen-soldiers—the everyday heroes of democracy—engaged evil foes in a decisive clash fought for liberty, national redemption, and world salvation. In D-Day Remembered, Michael R. Dolski explores the evolution of American D-Day tales over the course of the past seven decades. He shows the ways in which that particular episode came to overshadow so many others in portraying the twentieth century’s most devastating cataclysm as "the Good War." With depth and insight, he analyzes how depictions in various media, such as the popular histories of Stephen Ambrose and films like The Longest Day and Saving Private Ryan, have time and again reaffirmed cherished American notions of democracy, fair play, moral order, and the militant, yet non-militaristic, use of power for divinely sanctioned purposes. Only during the Vietnam era, when Americans had to confront an especially stark challenge to their pietistic sense of nationhood, did memories of D-Day momentarily fade. They soon reemerged, however, as the country sought to move beyond the lamentable conflict in Southeast Asia. Even as portrayals of D-Day have gone from sanitized early versions to more realistic acknowledgments of tactical mistakes and the horrific costs of the battle, the overarching story continues to be, for many, a powerful reminder of moral rectitude, military skill, and world mission. While the time to historicize this morality tale more fully and honestly has long since come, Dolski observes, the lingering positive connotations of D-Day indicate that the story is not yet finished. MICHAEL R. DOLSKI is a historian with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency and lives in northern Virginia. He is the coeditor, with Sam Edwards and John Buckley, of D-Day in History and Memory.
A Nation Forged In War - How World War Ii Taught Americans To Get Along

by Thomas A. Bruscino

28,80€ + 10% CARD

 <DIV> World War II shaped the United States in profound ways, and this new book—the first in the Legacies of War series—explores one of the most significant changes it fostered: a dramatic increase in ethnic and religious tolerance. A Nation Forged in War is the first full-length study of how large-scale mobilization during the Second World War helped to dissolve longstanding differences among White soldiers of widely divergent backgrounds. Never before or since have so many Americans served in the armed forces at one time: more than 15 million donned uniforms in the period from 1941 to 1945. Thomas Bruscino explores how these soldiers' shared experiences—enduring basic training, living far from home, engaging in combat—transformed their views of other ethnic groups and religious traditions. He further examines how specific military policies and practices worked to counteract old prejudices, and he makes a persuasive case that throwing together men of different regions, ethnicities, religions, and classes not only fostered a greater sense of tolerance but also forged a new American identity. When soldiers returned home after the war with these new attitudes, they helped reorder what it meant to be white in America. Using the presidential campaigns of Al Smith in 1928 and John F. Kennedy in 1960 as bookend events, Bruscino notes a key change in religious bias. Smith's defeat came at the end of a campaign rife with anti-Catholic sentiment; Kennedy's victory some three decades later proved that such religious bigotry was no longer an insurmountable obstacle. Despite such advances, Bruscino notes that the growing broad-mindedness produced by the war had limits: it did not extend to African Americans, whose own struggle for equality would dramatically mark the postwar decades. Extensively documented, A Nation Forged in War is one of the few books on the social and cultural impact of the World War II years. Scholars and students of military, ethnic, social, and religious history will be fascinated by this groundbreaking new volume. </DIV>
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Land Of Dreams - An Immigrant'S Journey From War-Torn Vietnam To America

by C. L. Hoang

~~20,27€~~ 18,24€ 10% OFF

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Training For Atomic Warfare - Us Army Doctrine And Education In The Early Cold War, 1945-1963

by Brad Hardy

~~81,11€~~ 73,00€ 10% OFF

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Citizen Of The Shadows - The Lives And Lies Of Lothar Witzke

by Paul D. Friedland e Robert N. Hornick

~~32,43€~~ 29,19€ 10% OFF

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Citizen Of The Shadows - The Lives And Lies Of Lothar Witzke

by Paul D. Friedland e Robert N. Hornick

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Under The Henfluence - Inside The World Of Backyard Chickens And The People Who Love Them

by Tove Danovich

~~17,56€~~ 15,80€ 10% OFF

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New Moon Magic - 13 Anti-Capitalist Tools For Resistance And Re-Enchantment

by Amy Torok e Risa Dickens

24,32€ + 10% CARD

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What White Parents Should Know About Transracial Adoption--The Workbook - Practical Tools, Skills, And Prompts For Affirming Your Adopted Child'S Cultural Identity

by Melissa Guida-Richards

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D-Day Remembered - The Normandy Landings In American Collective Memory

by Michael Dolski

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Arming America Through The Centuries - War, Business, And Building A National Security State

by Benjamin Franklin Cooling

38,41€ + 10% CARD

 While many associate the concept referred to as the â€˜military-industrial complexâ€™ with President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the roots of it existed two hundred years earlier. This concept, as Benjamin Franklin Cooling writes, was â€˜part of historical loreâ€™ as the American nation discovered the inextricable relationship between arms and the State.
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Peace In The Mountains - Northern Appalachian Students Protest The Vietnam War

by Tom Weyant

35,76€ + 10% CARD

 Analyses student activism at the University of Pittsburgh, Ohio University, and West Virginia University during the Vietnam War era. Drawing from a wide variety of sources, Thomas Weyant tracks the dynamics of a student-led campus response to the war in real time and outside the purview of the national media.
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