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Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > War & defence operations > Battles & campaigns
Winner, 2020 Peter C Rollins Prize, given by the Northeast Popular
& American Culture Association Enables a reckoning with the
legacy of the Forgotten War through literary and cinematic works of
cultural memory Though often considered "the forgotten war," lost
between the end of World War II and the start of the Cold War, the
Korean War was, as Daniel Y. Kim argues, a watershed event that
fundamentally reshaped both domestic conceptions of race and the
interracial dimensions of the global empire that the United States
would go on to establish. He uncovers a trail of cultural artefacts
that speaks to the trauma experienced by civilians during the
conflict but also evokes an expansive web of complicity in the
suffering that they endured. Taking up a range of American popular
media from the 1950s, Kim offers a portrait of the Korean War as it
looked to Americans while they were experiencing it in real time.
Kim expands this archive to read a robust host of fiction from US
writers like Susan Choi, Rolando Hinojosa, Toni Morrison, and
Chang-rae Lee, and the Korean author Hwang Sok-yong. The multiple
and ongoing historical trajectories presented in these works
testify to the resurgent afterlife of this event in US cultural
memory, and of its lasting impact on multiple racialized
populations, both within the US and in Korea. The Intimacies of
Conflict offers a robust, multifaceted, and multidisciplinary
analysis of the pivotal-but often unacknowledged-consequences of
the Korean War in both domestic and transnational histories of
race.
Winner of the Blogger's Book Prize, 2021 Shortlisted for the
People's Book Prize, 2021 Winner of Best Literary Fiction and Best
Multicultural Fiction at American Book Fest International Book
Awards, 2021 'An epic account of Viet Nam's painful 20th-century
history, both vast in scope and intimate in its telling... Moving
and riveting.' Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of
The Sympathizer Selected as a Best Book of 2020 by NB Magazine *
BookBrowse * Buzz Magazine * NPR * Washington Independent Review of
Books * Real Simple * She Reads * A Hindu's View * Thoughts from a
Page One family, two generations of women and a war that will
change their lives forever Ha Noi, 1972. Huong and her grandmother,
Tran Dieu Lan, cling to one another in their improvised shelter as
American bombs fall around them. For Tran Dieu Lan, forced to flee
the family farm with her six children decades earlier as the
Communist government rose to power in the North, this experience is
horribly familiar. Seen through the eyes of these two unforgettable
women, The Mountains Sing captures their defiance and
determination, hope and unexpected joy. Vivid, gripping, and
steeped in the language and traditions of Viet Nam, celebrated
Vietnamese poet Nguyen's richly lyrical debut weaves between the
lives of a grandmother and granddaughter to paint a unique picture
of a country pushed to breaking point, and a family who refuse to
give up. 'Devastating... From the French and Japanese occupations
to the Indochina wars, The Great Hunger, land reform and the
Vietnam War, it's a story of resilience, determination, family and
hope in a country blighted by pain.' Refinery29
British Air Power demonstrates how the Royal Air Force sought to
adapt in regard to the roles it could play and the conflicts in
which it could be used, as well as the evolution of air power
doctrine at a time of rapid changes in national politics and in the
international arena. The development of new concepts and theories,
the evaluation of operational experience, the political environment
and budgetary cuts, and the role of academics and personalities in
development of doctrine are thus all explored to show changes in
strategic thinking regarding air power. Fedorchak further examines
the influence of jointery - the process of co-operation between the
army, navy and air force - on thinking, conceptualising, teaching
and using air power in recent operations in Afghanistan, Iraq,
Libya and Syria. A contemporary complement to more historical
studies, British Air Power provides a very detailed look at the
development of air-land doctrine in the RAF since the turn of the
century.
Based on previously unused French and German sources, this challenging and controversial new analysis of the war on the Western front from 1914 to 1918 reveals how and why the Germans won the major battles with one-half to one-third fewer casualties than the Allies, and how American troops in 1918 saved the Allies from defeat and a negotiated peace with the Germans.
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