A One Day War

A One Day War

Author: Michael Laurence

Publisher:

Published: 2017-12

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780692930335

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1938. Hitler is on the march. An aging, powerless Winston Churchill warns the world of the danger that Hitler poses. His words are in vain. "Appeasement" is guiding Britain's policy, and it threatens everything that Churchill holds dear. Left with no options, Churchill does what was once unthinkable: he arranges the assassination of Hitler. Churchill declares a one-day war. It should be an easy job, but Hitler has protection, from an unlikely source....


The Six Day War

The Six Day War

Author: Guy Laron

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2017-02-21

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 0300226322

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The author of Origins of the Suez Crisis “mak[es] us look afresh at the events that led to conflict between Israel and its neighbors” (Financial Times). One fateful week in June 1967 redrew the map of the Middle East. Many scholars have documented how the Six-Day War unfolded, but little has been done to explain why the conflict happened at all. Now, historian Guy Laron refutes the widely accepted belief that the war was merely the result of regional friction, revealing the crucial roles played by American and Soviet policies in the face of an encroaching global economic crisis, and restoring Syria’s often overlooked centrality to events leading up to the hostilities. The Six-Day War effectively sowed the seeds for the downfall of Arab nationalism, the growth of Islamic extremism, and the animosity between Jews and Palestinians. In this important new work, Laron’s fresh interdisciplinary perspective and extensive archival research offer a significant reassessment of a conflict—and the trigger-happy generals behind it—that continues to shape the modern world. “Challenging . . . well worth reading.”—Moment “A penetrating study of a conflict that, although brief, helped establish a Middle Eastern template that is operational today . . . The author looks beyond Cold War maneuvering to examine the conflict in other lights . . . Readers with an interest in Middle Eastern geopolitics will find much of value.”—Kirkus Reviews


Vietnam

Vietnam

Author: Michael Maclear

Publisher: Methuen

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 9780423005806

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A Hundred and One Days

A Hundred and One Days

Author: Åsne Seierstad

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2009-04-24

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 0786736828

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From January until April 2003 -- for one hundred and one days -- Ã?ne Seierstad worked as a reporter in Bagdad for Scandinavian, German, and Dutch media. Through her articles and live television coverage she reported on the events in Iraq before, during, and after the attacks by the American and British forces. But Seierstad was after a story far less obvious than the military invasion. From the moment she arrived in Baghdad Seierstad was determined to understand the modern secrets of an ancient place and to find out how the Iraqi people really live. In A Hundred and One Days , she introduces us to daily life under the constant threat of attack -- first from the Iraqi government and later from American bombs. Moving from the deafening silence of life under Hussein to the explosions that destroyed the power supply, the water supply, and security, Seierstad sets out to discover: What happens to people when the dam bursts? What do they choose to say when they can suddenly say what they like? What do they miss most when their world changes overnight? Displaying the novelist's eye and lyrical storytelling that have won her awards around the world, Seierstad here brings to life an unforgettable cast of characters to tell the stories we never see on the evening news. The only woman in the world to cover both the fall of Kabul in 2001 and the bombings of Baghdad in 2003, Ã?ne Seierstad has redefined war reporting with her mesmerizing book.


Arab Politics, Palestinian Nationalism and the Six Day War

Arab Politics, Palestinian Nationalism and the Six Day War

Author: Moshe Shemesh

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2007-11-25

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 1836241453

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The Six Day War was the climax in the deterioration of the Arab-Israeli conflict. This study deals with such issues as: the relevance of the Filastin problem as key to understanding the descent to war; the pivotal Syrian water struggle as a key motivating factor; and, the Hashemite regime's response to Palestinians' heightened national awakening.


War and Press Freedom

War and Press Freedom

Author: Jeffery A. Smith

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1999-02-25

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0195356748

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War and Press Freedom: The Problem of Prerogative Power is a groundbreaking and provocative study of one of the most perplexing civil liberties issues in American history: What authority does or should the government have to control press coverage and commentary in wartime? First Amendment scholar Jeffery A. Smith shows convincingly that no such extraordinary power exists under the Constitution, and that officials have had to rely on claiming the existence of an autocratic "higher law" of survival. Smith carefully surveys the development of statutory restrictions and military regulations for the news media from the ratification of the Bill of Rights in 1791 through the Gulf War of 1991. He concludes that the armed forces can justify refusal to divulge a narrow range of defense secrets, but that imposing other restrictions is unwise, unnecessary, and unconstitutional. In any event, as electronic communication becomes almost impossible to constrain, soldiers and journalists must learn how to respect each other's obligations in a democratic system.


The Quartermaster Corps

The Quartermaster Corps

Author: Alvin Packer Stauffer

Publisher:

Published: 1956

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13:

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A history of the U.S. Army's Quartermaster Corp operations in the Pacific during World War II.


MANA

MANA

Author: John A. Broussard

Publisher: Bitingduck Press LLC

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 1932482245

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The setting is the Big Island of Hawaii. With its active volcano and its frequent earthquakes, it has long been the subject of Polynesian legends. And, at the core of the legends, are the tales told of the alii, the Polynesian nobility, who possessed a strange power making them invulnerable to attack. Lehua Watanabe, investigative reporter for the Kona News, suddenly acquires this mysterious force, which serves her well in her encounter with organized crime, but which also has strange and unwanted side effects. For other mysteries, collections of short stories by John Broussard and an author image, bio, and sample read visit bosonbooks.com.