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

de C. L. Hoang

~~14,36€~~ 12,92€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 "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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Pogiebait'S War - A Son''S Quest For His Father''S Wartime Life

de Jack H. Mccall

~~29,14€~~ 23,31€ 20% IMEDIATO + 5% EM CARTÃO

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 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

de Karen Baum Gordon

~~21,19€~~ 16,95€ 20% IMEDIATO + 5% EM CARTÃO

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 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

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

de Michael Dolski

~~37,09€~~ 29,67€ 20% IMEDIATO + 5% EM CARTÃO

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 "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

de Robert P. Patterson

~~25,16€~~ 20,13€ 20% IMEDIATO + 5% EM CARTÃO

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 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

de Michael Gambone

~~34,44€~~ 27,55€ 20% IMEDIATO + 5% EM CARTÃO

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 <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

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Small Wars - Low-Intensity Threats And The American Response Since Vietnam

de Michael Gambone

~~49,01€~~ 39,21€ 20% IMEDIATO + 5% EM CARTÃO

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 <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

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Nation Forged In War - How World War Ii Taught Americans To Get Along

de Thomas A. Bruscino

~~30,46€~~ 24,37€ 20% IMEDIATO + 5% EM CARTÃO

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 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

de Jack H. Mccall

~~29,14€~~ 23,31€ 20% IMEDIATO + 5% EM CARTÃO

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 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

de Karen Baum Gordon

~~19,17€~~ 15,34€ 20% IMEDIATO + 5% EM CARTÃO

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 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

de Michael Dolski

~~37,09€~~ 29,67€ 20% IMEDIATO + 5% EM CARTÃO

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 "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

de Thomas A. Bruscino

~~28,80€~~ 23,04€ 20% IMEDIATO + 5% EM CARTÃO

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 <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

de C. L. Hoang

~~20,27€~~ 18,24€ 10% IMEDIATO

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

de Brad Hardy

~~81,11€~~ 73,00€ 10% IMEDIATO

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

de Paul D. Friedland e Robert N. Hornick

~~32,43€~~ 29,19€ 10% IMEDIATO

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

de Paul D. Friedland e Robert N. Hornick

~~73,00€~~ 65,70€ 10% IMEDIATO

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

de Tove Danovich

~~17,56€~~ 15,80€ 10% IMEDIATO

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

de Amy Torok e Risa Dickens

24,32€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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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

de Melissa Guida-Richards

22,97€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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

de Michael Dolski

37,84€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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

de Benjamin Franklin Cooling

~~38,41€~~ 30,73€ 20% IMEDIATO + 5% EM CARTÃO

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 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

de Tom Weyant

~~35,76€~~ 28,61€ 20% IMEDIATO + 5% EM CARTÃO

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 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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William Howard Taft And The Philippines - A Blueprint For Empire

de Adam D. Burns

~~49,01€~~ 39,21€ 20% IMEDIATO + 5% EM CARTÃO

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 While biographies of William Howard Taft and histories of US-Philippine relations are easy to find, few works focus on Taft's vision for the Philippines. William Howard Taft and the Philippines fills this void in the scholarship, taking up Taft's vantage point on America's imperialist venture in the Philippine Islands between 1900 and 1921.
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The American War In Viet Nam - Cultural Memories At The Turn Of The Century

de Susan Lyn Eastman

~~6,61€~~ 5,29€ 20% IMEDIATO + 5% EM CARTÃO

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 We have been waiting for a book on war and memory about the American War in Vietnamboth about the Americans and the Vietnamesein the new century of the Desert Wars of Afghanistan and Iraq. Susan Lyn Eastman has fulfilled that expectation, and she has done so with a study impressive in its range of topical issues, texts, and commentary.Philip D. Beidler, Margaret and William Going Professor of English, University of AlabamaAfter more than four decades, the Viet Nam War continues to haunt our national memory, culture, politics, and military actions. In this probing interdisciplinary study, Susan Lyn Eastman examines a range of cultural productionsfrom memorials and poetry to cinematic and fictional narrativesthat have tried to grapple with the psychic afterlife of traumatic violence resulting from the ill-fated conflict in Southeast Asia.Underpinning the book is the notion of prosthetic memory, which involves memories acquired by those with no direct experience of the war, such as readers and filmgoers. Prosthetic memories, Eastman argues, refuse to relegate the war to the forgotten past and challenge the authenticity of experience, thus ensuring its continued relevance to debates over Americas self-conception, specifically her coinage of the New Vietnam Syndrome, and the countrys role in world affairs when it comes to contemporary military interventions.With the notable exception of the Veterans Memorial in Washington, Eastmans focus is on works produced from the Persian Gulf War (199091) through the post-9/11 War on Terror. She looks not only at American representations of the warfrom movies like Randall Wallaces We Were Soldiers to poems by W. D. Ehrhart, Yusef Komunyakaa, and othersbut also at novels by Vietnamese authors Bao Ninh and Huong Thu Duong. The experiences of women figure prominently in the book: Eastman devotes a chapter to the Vietnam Womens Memorial and another to Sandie Fraziers novel I Married Vietnam and Oliver Stones film Heaven and Earth, based on memoirs by Le Ly Hayslip. And by examining Jessica Hagedorns Dream Jungle, a novel inspired by the filming of Apocalypse Now, she considers how the wars repercussions were felt in other countries, in this case the Philippines. Her investigation of Vietnamese American authors Lan Cao, Andrew Lam, and GB Tran adds a transnational dimension to the study.
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