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Author: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-08-10
Total Pages: 229
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Unconditional Surrender' is a satire on the English class system. The writer takes a dig at the way the ruling class and their sense of entitlement, even when the country is in a global conflict, can plan through the bureaucracy to make their way into the far less dangerous and more comfortable theatres of war.
Author: Marc Gallicchio
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-07-02
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0190091126
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new look at the drama that lay behind the end of the war in the Pacific Signed on September 2, 1945 aboard the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay by Japanese and Allied leaders, the instrument of surrender that formally ended the war in the Pacific brought to a close one of the most cataclysmic engagements in history. Behind it lay a debate that had been raging for some weeks prior among American military and political leaders. The surrender fulfilled the commitment that Franklin Roosevelt had made in 1943 at the Casablanca conference that it be "unconditional." Though readily accepted as policy at the time, after Roosevelt's death in April 1945 support for unconditional surrender wavered, particularly among Republicans in Congress, when the bloody campaigns on Iwo Jima and Okinawa made clear the cost of military victory against Japan. Germany's unconditional surrender in May 1945 had been one thing; the war in the pacific was another. Many conservatives favored a negotiated surrender. Though this was the last time American forces would impose surrender unconditionally, questions surrounding it continued through the 1950s and 1960s--with the Korean and Vietnam Wars--when liberal and conservative views reversed, including over the definition of "peace with honor." The subject was revived during the ceremonies surrounding the 50th anniversary in 1995, and the Gulf and Iraq Wars, when the subjects of exit strategies and "accomplished missions" were debated. Marc Gallicchio reveals how and why the surrender in Tokyo Bay unfolded as it did and the principle figures behind it, including George C. Marshall and Douglas MacArthur. The latter would effectively become the leader of Japan and his tenure, and indeed the very nature of the American occupation, was shaped by the nature of the surrender. Most importantly, Gallicchio reveals how the policy of unconditional surrender has shaped our memory and our understanding of World War II.
Author: Gary North
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Published: 1922-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781956329087
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Albert Marrin
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn account of Grant's life and his role in the Civil War.
Author: Dubravka Ugrešić
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 2001-09
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780811214933
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCritically acclaimed experimental, literary fiction by the famous Croatian exile author.
Author: Anne Armstrong
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Published: 2013-03
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781258626082
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J. O. Y. ARAGON
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Published: 2021-05-28
Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt smelled like orchids, maybe wine and it felt sexy and erotic in the tropical room. The air was humid, just like the east coast beach at night. Her hair looked like red velvet; her eyes were a nutmeg brown. Her long fingers felt great through his hair. She turned. Her long dress clinging to the smooth ride of her hip. "Play some blues," Noah asked her, tasting the slow thickness of a brandy, watching the smoke from her vape pen dissipate in the humidity. "Look," Noah stumbled on his words, then remembered he didn't need them. She turned slowly and locked into his gaze. He held her still with his. He held her still with his thought as he walked towards her. She opened her mouth to ask, but he stopped her with a quick arm around her tiny waist. She was breathing softly, her eyes focused on him and he could see her pulse slightly in her throat. She grabbed his shoulder as he demanded her attention and her touch. His lips stopped directly above her ear and he felt the heat as she waited for his direction. His hand slid down her waist to his hip. He pulled her left arm firmly, slowly until her back pressed up against his chest. His thoughts made her very still. She was soft, sweet and sexy. He wanted her. His focus was very direct. The touch of her hand felt like magic. Her eyelashes fluttered and he could feel their breathing fall into rhythm. "Don't play the blues." He told her softly. He slid her strap off of her glittery, well built shoulder. Her soft breast felt like fire in his hand and her nipples were harder than ice cubes. He couldn't handle wrestling with his mind and his body, forgot to be gentle and removed her clothing without hesitating. He left his rational, civilized self for a moment and became one with the sweetness of life.
Author: Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2006-09-30
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780674038400
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith startling revelations, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa rewrites the standard history of the end of World War II in the Pacific. By fully integrating the three key actors in the story—the United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan—Hasegawa for the first time puts the last months of the war into international perspective. From April 1945, when Stalin broke the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact and Harry Truman assumed the presidency, to the final Soviet military actions against Japan, Hasegawa brings to light the real reasons Japan surrendered. From Washington to Moscow to Tokyo and back again, he shows us a high-stakes diplomatic game as Truman and Stalin sought to outmaneuver each other in forcing Japan’s surrender; as Stalin dangled mediation offers to Japan while secretly preparing to fight in the Pacific; as Tokyo peace advocates desperately tried to stave off a war party determined to mount a last-ditch defense; and as the Americans struggled to balance their competing interests of ending the war with Japan and preventing the Soviets from expanding into the Pacific. Authoritative and engrossing, Racing the Enemy puts the final days of World War II into a whole new light.
Author: Paul E. Zigo
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Published: 2019-09-03
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9781480881006
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWitness the end of World War II in Europe like never before with this insightful account filled with images taken by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's wartime photographer, Al Meserlin, and analysis from one of the war's foremost scholars. Paul E. Zigo, a thirty-year Army veteran who retired as a colonel and the founder and director of the World War II Era Studies Institute, takes readers to the schoolhouse turned Allied headquarters in Rheims, France, where Nazi Germany unconditionally surrendered May 7, 1945. Nothing less than unconditional surrender was acceptable to the Allies, which U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt first proclaimed at a press conference in January 1943 following an Anglo-American summit meeting in Casablanca, French Morocco. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill vowed to never accept any armistice like that which led to the signing of the failed Versailles Peace Treaty after World War I-- and Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin agreed in absentia. Despite defeat after defeat, Nazi Germany leader Adolf Hitler insisted on fighting, and others continued to resist even after his suicide April 30, 1945. Discover how Nazi Germany finally surrendered with this narrative filled with powerful images that put history in context.ered with this narrative filled with powerful images that put history in context.
Author: Richard B. Frank
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2020-03-03
Total Pages: 1107
ISBN-13: 1324002115
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A sweeping epic.… Promises to do for the war in the Pacific what Rick Atkinson did for Europe." —James M. Scott, author of Rampage In 1937, the swath of the globe east from India to the Pacific Ocean encompassed half the world’s population. Japan’s onslaught into China that year unleashed a tidal wave of events that fundamentally transformed this region and killed about twenty-five million people. This extraordinary World War II narrative vividly portrays the battles across this entire region and links those struggles on many levels with their profound twenty-first-century legacies. In this first volume of a trilogy, award-winning historian Richard B. Frank draws on rich archival research and recently discovered documentary evidence to tell an epic story that gave birth to the world we live in now.
