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Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > From 1900
Patricia L. Walsh grew up the eighth of fifteen children in a poor
Minnesota farm family and worked her way through nursing school and
anesthesia training. In 1967, she volunteered to go to Vietnam to
care for civilians caught in the crossfire. She injured her back in
the Tet Offensive and returned home in denial of the severe Post
Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) she had developed. RIVER CITY
chronicles the dedication, self sacrifice, trials and triumphs of
practicing combat medicine.
This extraordinary memoir tells the story of one man's
experience of the wars of Viet Nam from the time he was old enough
to be aware of war in the 1940s until his departure for America 15
years after the collapse of South Viet Nam in 1975. Nguyen Cong
Luan was born and raised in small villages near Ha Noi. He grew up
knowing war at the hands of the Japanese, the French, and the Viet
Minh. Living with wars of conquest, colonialism, and revolution led
him finally to move south and take up the cause of the Republic of
Viet Nam, exchanging a life of victimhood for one of a soldier. His
stories of village life in the north are every bit as compelling as
his stories of combat and the tragedies of war. This honest and
impassioned account is filled with the everyday heroism of the
common people of his generation.
"A must read for all Damien Lewis fans" Compass
--------------------------------------------------------- The most
explosive true war story of the 21st Century It is the winter of
2001. A terror ship is bound for Britain carrying a horrifying
weapon. The British military sends a crack unit of SAS and SBS to
assault the vessel before she reaches London. So begins a true
story of explosive action as this band of elite warriors pursues
the merchants of death from the high seas to the harsh wildlands of
Afghanistan. The hunt culminates in the single greatest battle of
the Afghan war, the brutal and bloody siege of an ancient
mud-walled fortress crammed full of hundreds of Al-Qaeda and
Taliban. Fighting against impossible odds and bitter betrayal, our
handful of crack fighters battle to rescue their fellow soldiers
trapped by a murderous, fanatical enemy.
--------------------------------------------------------- "The most
dramatic story of a secret wartime mission you will ever read" News
of the World "The author has been given unprecedented access" Zoo
"Gripping" Eye Spy
After more than a decade of fighting in Afghanistan, the United
States and its allies are set to transfer security responsibilities
to Afghan forces in 2014. This transition poses many challenges,
and much will depend on the future of Afghan politics, governance,
corruption, development, security, and economics. How the United
States manages the transition is vital for any hopes of creating a
secure Afghanistan, as well as preventing the reemergence of the
Taliban and other terrorist groups. The Afghan War in 2013 honestly
assesses the benefits, costs, and risks involved in transition. It
is essential reading for an in-depth understanding of the complex
forces and intricacies of the United States role in Afghanistan and
the difficulties involved in creating a stable Afghanistan in 2014
and beyond. Afghanistan is still at war and will probably be at war
long after 2014. At the same time, the coming cuts in the
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and cuts in military
and civil aid, along with the country s fractious politics and
insecurity, will interact with a wide range of additional factors
that threaten to derail the transition. These factors, examined in
this three-volume study, highlight the need to make the internal
political, governmental, economic, and security dimensions of the
transition as effective as possible. This will require a new degree
of realism about what the Afghans can and cannot accomplish, about
the best approaches to shaping the Afghan National Security Forces
(ANSF), and the need for better planned and managed outside aid.
This volume examines the role played by notions of transcendence in
the formation of social and political systems. A primary goal of
the work to expand transcendence beyond its religious definition
and to promote it as a means of referring to social and political
discourses and practices that rely on constructions of the ideal or
unattainable."
On 21 March 1933, the National Socialists celebrated their alliance
with the old Wilhelmine elites on the Day of Potsdam. Eighty years
following 1933, the great year of upheaval, this volume more
closely reexamines the historical context of the Day of Potsdam as
a critical moment on the road to dictatorship. Nine scholarly
articles reconstruct the events on the Day of Potsdam and analyze
its importance in the culture of commemoration."
What happens when competing assertions of validity collide? This
question stands at the center of 22 projects being undertaken in
various fields as part of the interdisciplinary research project
Transcendence and Shared Meaning. Drawing on empirical examples,
the contributions show how transcendence is founded or,
alternatively, challenged."
As the first book to call for an immediate withdrawal from Vietnam,
Howard Zinn's 'Vietnam' includes a powerful speech which he
believed President Lyndon Johnson should have delivered to lay out
the case for ending the war. Of the many books that challenged the
Vietnam War, Howard Zinn's 'Vietnam' stands out as one of the
greatest - and indeed the most influential. The writings in this
book helped spark a national debate on the war; few aside from Zinn
could reach so many with such passion and such conciseness.
Beginning as a young boy, Jules takes you through the unique
process of becoming a Naval Aviator, engages you into his
experiences as a brand new pilot in a combat squadron and, finally
becoming a flying warrior. Having survived two combat cruises
aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk from 1966-1968,
compiling 332 career carrier take offs and landings, being shot at
daily by enemy fire while completing 200 combat missions over
Vietnam, he clearly shares the views of the aviators who flew along
with him on these missions while fighting this unpopular war. Jules
was awarded the Nation's Distinguished Flying Cross, 21 Air Medals,
and many other accolades. After reading this book the reader will
have a new understanding and appreciation about the Warriors who
protect not only their comrades in arms, but the defense of the
nation as well.
Beginning as a young boy, Jules takes you through the unique
process of becoming a Naval Aviator, engages you into his
experiences as a brand new pilot in a combat squadron and, finally
becoming a flying warrior. Having survived two combat cruises
aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk from 1966-1968,
compiling 332 career carrier take offs and landings, being shot at
daily by enemy fire while completing 200 combat missions over
Vietnam, he clearly shares the views of the aviators who flew along
with him on these missions while fighting this unpopular war. Jules
was awarded the Nation's Distinguished Flying Cross, 21 Air Medals,
and many other accolades. After reading this book the reader will
have a new understanding and appreciation about the Warriors who
protect not only their comrades in arms, but the defense of the
nation as well.
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