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The fall of 2016 saw the release of the widely popular First World
War video game Battlefield 1. Upon the game's initial announcement
and following its subsequent release, Battlefield 1 became the
target of an online racist backlash that targeted the game's
inclusion of soldiers of color. Across social media and online
communities, players loudly proclaimed the historical inaccuracy of
black soldiers in the game and called for changes to be made that
correct what they considered to be a mistake that was influenced by
a supposed political agenda. Through the introduction of the
theoretical framework of the 'White Mythic Space', this book seeks
to investigate the reasons behind the racist rejection of soldiers
of color by Battlefield 1 players in order to answer the question:
Why do individuals reject the presence of people of African descent
in popular representations of history?
The true story of a woman's incredible journey into the heart of
the Third Reich to find the man she loves. When the Gestapo seize
20-year-old Olga Czepf's fiance she is determined to find him and
sets off on an extraordinary 2,000-mile search across Nazi-occupied
Europe risking betrayal, arrest and death. As the Second World War
heads towards its bloody climax, she refuses to give up - even when
her mission leads her to the gates of Dachau and Buchenwald
concentration camps...Now 88 and living in London, Olga tells with
remarkable clarity of the courage and determination that drove her
across war-torn Europe, to find the man she loved. The greatest
untold true love story of World War Two.
Originally published in 1940, Why England Slept was written by
then-Harvard student and future American president John F. Kennedy.
It was Kennedy's senior thesis that analyzed the tremendous
miscalculations of the British leaders in facing Germany on the
advent of World War II, and in doing so, also addressed the
challenges that democracies face when confronted directly with
fascist states. In Why England Slept, at the book's core, John F.
Kennedy asks: Why was England so poorly prepared for the war? He
provides a comprehensive analysis of the tremendous miscalculations
of the British leadership when it came to dealing with Germany and
leads readers into considering other questions: Was the poor state
of the British army the reason Chamberlain capitulated at Munich,
or were there other, less-obvious elements at work that allowed
this to happen? Kennedy also looks at similarities to America's
position of unpreparedness and makes astute observations about the
implications involved. This re-publication of the classic book
contains excerpts from the foreword to the 1940 original edition by
Henry R. Luce, an American magazine magnate during that era; the
foreword to the 1961 edition, also written by Luce; and a new
foreword by Stephen C. Schlesinger, written in 2015. Provides
fascinating insights into the young mind and worldview of
then-Harvard senior John F. Kennedy via his thesis, for which he'd
toured Europe, the Balkans, the Soviet Union, and Czechoslovakia in
the late 1930s Presents both a pointed indictment of British policy
leading up to World War II as well as an examination of the
weaknesses, merits, and pitfalls for democratic governments based
on capitalist economies Features a new foreword written by Stephen
C. Schlesinger, senior fellow at the Century Foundation in New
York; author of Act of Creation: The Founding of The United
Nations, winner of the 2004 Harry S. Truman Book Award; former
director of the World Policy Institute at the New School
(1997-2006); and former publisher of the magazine The World Policy
Journal
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