No End to War
Author: Walter Laqueur
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2004-07-30
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780826416568
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the latest events and trends in terrorism against the United States.
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No End Save Victory
Author: David Kaiser
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2014-04-08
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 0465062997
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first hundred days may be the most celebrated period of his presidency, the months before the attack on Pearl Harbor proved the most critical. Beginning as early as 1939 when Germany first attacked Poland, Roosevelt skillfully navigated a host of challenges -- a reluctant population, an unprepared military, and disagreements within his cabinet -- to prepare the country for its inevitable confrontation with the Axis. In No End Save Victory, esteemed historian David Kaiser draws on extensive archival research to reveal the careful preparations that enabled the United States to win World War II. Alarmed by Germany and Japan's aggressive militarism, Roosevelt understood that the United States would almost certainly be drawn into the conflict raging in Europe and Asia. However, the American populace, still traumatized by memories of the First World War, was reluctant to intervene in European and Asian affairs. Even more serious was the deplorable state of the American military. In September of 1940, Roosevelt's military advisors told him that the US would not have the arms, ammunition, or men necessary to undertake any major military operation overseas -- let alone win such a fight -- until April of 1942. Aided by his closest military and civilian collaborators, Roosevelt pushed a series of military expansions through Congress that nearly doubled the size of the US Navy and Army, and increased production of the arms, tanks, bombers, and warships that would allow America to prevail in the coming fight. Highlighting Roosevelt's deft management of the strong personalities within his cabinet and his able navigation of the shifting tides of war, No End Save Victory is the definitive account of America's preparations for and entry into World War II. As Kaiser shows, it was Roosevelt's masterful leadership and prescience that prepared the reluctant nation to fight -- and gave it the tools to win.
War Without End
Author: Anton La Guardia
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2003-05-23
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9780312316334
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith an experienced journalist's eye, La Guardia offers a close look at the Israelis as they come to terms with the "post-Zionist" demolition of national myths and the Palestinians as they try to build their own state. 16 illustrations.
No End in Sight
Author: Charles Ferguson
Publisher: Public Affairs
Published: 2008-02-05
Total Pages: 674
ISBN-13: 158648608X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A ... chronicle of the reasons behind Iraq's descent into guerrilla war, warlord rule, criminality, and anarchy ... It features candid interviews with high-ranking officials ... as well as Iraqi civilians, American soldiers, intelligence officers, and prominent analysts... Together, these voices reveal the principal errors of U.S. policy -- using insufficient troop levels, allowing the looting of Baghdad, purging professionals from the Iraq government, and disbanding the Iraqi military -- errors that largely created the insurgency and chaos that engulf Iraq today. The book brings the movie up-to-date by evaluating the military's recent 'surge' tactic as well as current administration policy. It concludes with a wide-ranging debate on the crucial question: what do we do now?"--P. [4] of cover.
War With No End
Author: Phyllis Bennis
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2007-10-17
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished on the sixth anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan, the beginning of the 'War on Terror', John Berger, Naomi Klein, Arundhati Roy, Joe Sacco and others examine the consequences.
The End of War
Author: John Horgan
Publisher: McSweeney's
Published: 2012-01-17
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1938073045
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWar is a fact of human nature. As long as we exist, it exists. That's how the argument goes. But longtime Scientific American writer John Horgan disagrees. Applying the scientific method to war leads Horgan to a radical conclusion: biologically speaking, we are just as likely to be peaceful as violent. War is not preordained, and furthermore, it should be thought of as a solvable, scientific problem—like curing cancer. But war and cancer differ in at least one crucial way: whereas cancer is a stubborn aspect of nature, war is our creation. It’s our choice whether to unmake it or not. In this compact, methodical treatise, Horgan examines dozens of examples and counterexamples—discussing chimpanzees and bonobos, warring and peaceful indigenous people, the World War I and Vietnam, Margaret Mead and General Sherman—as he finds his way to war’s complicated origins. Horgan argues for a far-reaching paradigm shift with profound implications for policy students, ethicists, military men and women, teachers, philosophers, or really, any engaged citizen.
On War
Author: Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher:
Published: 1908
Total Pages: 388
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Never-ending War
Author: L. M. Clark
Publisher: Tate Publishing & Enterprises
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781625109217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Never Ending War is a story of battlefield trauma as seen through the eyes of combat veteran Ray Clark as he journeys from the "meat grinder" area of Vietnam through the nightmares of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the development of a unique set of coping skills that saved his life, his marriage, and his sanity. Go deep into the jungles of Vietnam with the men of "K" company as they search for an illusive enemy and feel the suspense, danger, and adrenaline rushes of close combat that helped create their post war problems of nightmares and panic attacks. This is a must read thriller that is written for anyone struggling with PTSD, stress related panic attacks, or knows someone who is because the same coping skills that saved Ray's life can also help save yours.
No End Save Victory
Author: Various
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Published: 2002-02-22
Total Pages: 708
ISBN-13: 9780425183380
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert Cowley and the editors of Military History Quarterly present a fascinating anthology of World War II essays from some of the world's most eminent historians.
The War of the End of the World
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2008-07-22
Total Pages: 582
ISBN-13: 9780312427986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn apocalyptic prophet in the Brazilian backlands creates the state of Canudos. In it there is no money, property, marriage, income tax, decimal system, or census.
