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Author: Tobey C. Herzog
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-01-27
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 113490262X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDealing with ten key narratives, including novels and personal accounts, Herzog locates them in the tradition of war literature as well as recent cinema, and charts the transformations of the American nation in its experience of modern war.
Author: Hanna Aasvik Helmersen
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781883697976
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"... Moving account based on [the author's] childhood memories of Norway during World War II."--Cover.
Author: Jimmie Briggs
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2009-04-27
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 0786738502
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIda, a member of Sri Lanka's Female Tamil Tigers, fought with one of the longest-surviving and successful guerilla movements in the world. She is sixteen. Francois, a fourteen-year-old Rwandan child of mixed ethnicity, was forced by Hutu militiamen to hack to death his sister's Tutsi children. More than 250,000 children have fought in three dozen conflicts around the world, but growing exploitation of children in war is staggering and little known. From the "little bees" of Colombia to the "baby brigades" of Sri Lanka, the subject of child soldiers is changing the face of terrorism. For the last seven years, Jimmie Briggs has been talking to, writing about, and researching the plight of these young combatants. The horrific stories of these children, dramatically told in their own voices, reveal the devastating consequences of this global tragedy. Cogent, passionate, impeccably researched, and compellingly told, Innocents Lost is the fullest, most personal and powerful examination yet of the lives of child soldiers.
Author: Margaret Peacock
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1469618575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInnocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War
Author: Roberto Sirvent
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2019-04-02
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1510742379
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Fake news existed long before Donald Trump…. What is ironic is that fake news has indeed been the only news disseminated by the rulers of U.S. empire.”—From American Exceptionalism and American Innocence According to Robert Sirvent and Danny Haiphong, Americans have been exposed to fake news throughout our history—news that slavery is a thing of the past, that we don’t live on stolen land, that wars are fought to spread freedom and democracy, that a rising tide lifts all boats, that prisons keep us safe, and that the police serve and protect. Thus, the only “news” ever reported by various channels of U.S. empire is the news of American exceptionalism and American innocence. And, as this book will hopefully show, it’s all fake. Did the U.S. really “save the world” in World War II? Should black athletes stop protesting and show more gratitude for what America has done for them? Are wars fought to spread freedom and democracy? Or is this all fake news? American Exceptionalism and American Innocence examines the stories we’re told that lead us to think that the U.S. is a force for good in the world, regardless of slavery, the genocide of indigenous people, and the more than a century’s worth of imperialist war that the U.S. has wrought on the planet. Sirvent and Haiphong detail just what Captain America’s shield tells us about the pretensions of U.S. foreign policy, how Angelina Jolie and Bill Gates engage in humanitarian imperialism, and why the Broadway musical Hamilton is a monument to white supremacy.
Author: Allegra Jordan
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
Published: 2015-04-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781492609933
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is the twilight of innocence: America 1914. As Europe goes to war, Helen, a Boston bluestocking, begins her studies at Harvard-Radcliffe. Riley, a carefree British playboy more interested in chasing women than studying, sets his sights on her. He is surprised to find that his adversary in love is not Helen's protective brother, but Riley's own cousin, Wils Brandl, a brooding poet and German noble. As distant conflict begins to penetrate the quiet walls of Harvard, Wils must return to Europe and face a war for which he is not prepared. Set in Boston and Flanders Fields, Harvard 1914 explores love, war, and a new social imagination.
Author: Rollo May
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780393317039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStressing the positive, creative aspects of power and innocence, Rollo May offers a way of thinking about the problems of contemporary society. He discusses five levels of power's potential in each individual, what each is, how it works, and more.
Author: Richard Wexler
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe war against child abuse has become a war against children. Every year, hundreds of children die, thousands more are forced to live with strangers, and countless American families are torn apart. This is called a "child-protection system." While the problem of child abuse is serious and real, journalist Richard Wexler charges that our solutions to the problem have actually made it worse - in fact, hurting the very children that they were intended to help. Wexler reinforces his arguments with horrifying descriptions of children summarily removed from their homes, of families shattered because of false reports, and of children whose parents are guilty of nothing more than poverty being thrust into the maelstrom of the chaotic foster-care program. He writes of severly abused children - those needing the most help - whose cases are ignored because the system diverts scarce resources to trivial or unfounded cases, and who are reinjured, sometimes fatally after their plight has been called to the attention of authorities. Wounded Innocents illustrates how well-meaning efforts to help children have gone terribly wrong and how the current child-protection system desperately needs to be replaced with one that offers real help and real hope to abused and neglected children.
Author: Larry Murley
Publisher:
Published: 2014-03-15
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780996014809
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA story of America's early involvement in the Vietnam War. One young man's journey into that covert world.
Author: Benjamin Schmidt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-11-12
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780521804080
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInnocence Abroad explores the encounter between the Netherlands and the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
