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The Will To Resist - Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan (Paperback): Dahr Jamail The Will To Resist - Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan (Paperback)
Dahr Jamail
R609 Discovery Miles 6 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Despite tremendous sentiment against the American-led occupations, citizens and soldiers continue to die. Award-winning journalist Jamail shows a new generation of American soldiers taking opposition into its own hands. As one of the few unembedded journalists in Iraq, he investigates the growing anti-war resistance of GIs embodied in organisations such as Iraq Veterans Against the War. Gathering stories from these courageous men and women, Jamail makes explicit the betrayal committed by politicians.

Desert Shield, a Lieutenant's story - "Get out of my face of I will rip out your eyeballs and skull-fuck you."... Desert Shield, a Lieutenant's story - "Get out of my face of I will rip out your eyeballs and skull-fuck you." (Paperback)
Pseudo Nims
R242 Discovery Miles 2 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Healing Game - A Vietnam Soldier's Story (Paperback): Charles Louis Singleton The Healing Game - A Vietnam Soldier's Story (Paperback)
Charles Louis Singleton
R591 Discovery Miles 5 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Explaining the Iraq War - Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence (Paperback): Frank P. Harvey Explaining the Iraq War - Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence (Paperback)
Frank P. Harvey
R1,059 Discovery Miles 10 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The almost universally accepted explanation for the Iraq War is very clear and consistent - the US decision to attack Saddam Hussein's regime on March 19, 2003 was a product of the ideological agenda, misguided priorities, intentional deceptions and grand strategies of President George W. Bush and prominent 'neoconservatives' and 'unilateralists' on his national security team. Despite the widespread appeal of this version of history, Frank P. Harvey argues that it remains an unsubstantiated assertion and an underdeveloped argument without a logical foundation. His book aims to provide a historically grounded account of the events and strategies which pushed the US-UK coalition towards war. The analysis is based on both factual and counterfactual evidence, combines causal mechanisms derived from multiple levels of analysis and ultimately confirms the role of path dependence and momentum as a much stronger explanation for the sequence of decisions that led to war.

Avoid Deaths On Cliffhanger - Learn To Survive These Deadly Cliffhangers: Story About People Finding Survival With Deadly... Avoid Deaths On Cliffhanger - Learn To Survive These Deadly Cliffhangers: Story About People Finding Survival With Deadly Cliffhangers (Paperback)
Gordon Boggi
R256 Discovery Miles 2 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Vietnam War Novel - Dealing With The Anguishes And Challenges Of Both Romance And War: How Suffering From Survivor'S Guilt... Vietnam War Novel - Dealing With The Anguishes And Challenges Of Both Romance And War: How Suffering From Survivor'S Guilt In War (Paperback)
Amado Sek
R302 Discovery Miles 3 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
11b10 - Memories of a Light Weapons Infantryman in Vietnam (Paperback): John Magnarelli 11b10 - Memories of a Light Weapons Infantryman in Vietnam (Paperback)
John Magnarelli
R572 Discovery Miles 5 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Spring Flower Book 3 - Torn Between Shifting Worlds (Paperback): Jean Tren-Hwa Perkins Spring Flower Book 3 - Torn Between Shifting Worlds (Paperback)
Jean Tren-Hwa Perkins; Edited by Richard Perkins Hsung
R690 Discovery Miles 6 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Vietnam and Other American Fantasies (Paperback, New edition): H.Bruce Franklin Vietnam and Other American Fantasies (Paperback, New edition)
H.Bruce Franklin
R866 Discovery Miles 8 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This work is a cultural history of the Vietnam War and its continuing impact upon contemporary American society. The author presents an investigation of how myths about the war evolved and why people depend on them to answer the confusing questions that have become the legacy of the war. Memories change and reconstruct the past, and in this text, the author argues that the American memory of Vietnam has left fact and experience behind so that what remains is myth and denial.

For Right and Freedom - A Marine's Rite of Passage (Paperback): Wallace Hoffman For Right and Freedom - A Marine's Rite of Passage (Paperback)
Wallace Hoffman
R286 Discovery Miles 2 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Escaping Afghanistan (Paperback): Christopher Henson Escaping Afghanistan (Paperback)
Christopher Henson
R325 R305 Discovery Miles 3 050 Save R20 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Vietnam War and International Law, Volume 4 - The Concluding Phase (Hardcover): Richard A. Falk The Vietnam War and International Law, Volume 4 - The Concluding Phase (Hardcover)
Richard A. Falk
R12,081 Discovery Miles 120 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This concluding volume of The Vietnam War and International Law focuses on the last stages of America's combat role in Indochina. The articles in the first section deal with general aspects of the relationship of international law to the Indochina War. Sections II and III are concerned with the adequacy of the laws of war under modern conditions of combat, and with related questions of individual responsibility for the violation of such laws. Section IV deals with some of the procedural issues related to the negotiated settlement of the war. The materials in Section V seek to reappraise the relationship between the constitutional structure of the United States and the way in which the war was conducted, while the final section presents the major documents pertaining to the end of American combat involvement in Indochina. A supplement takes account of the surrender of South Vietnam in spring 1975. Contributors to the volume--lawyers, scholars, and government officials--include Dean Rusk, Eugene V. Rostow, Richard A. Falk, John Norton Moore, and Richard Wasserstrom. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

After Vietnam - Legacies of a Lost War (Paperback): Charles E. Neu After Vietnam - Legacies of a Lost War (Paperback)
Charles E. Neu
R846 Discovery Miles 8 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Efforts to understand the impact of the Vietnam War on America began soon after it ended, and they continue to the present day. In "After Vietnam" four distinguished scholars focus on different elements of the war's legacy, while one of the major architects of the conflict, former defense secretary Robert S. McNamara, contributes a final chapter pondering foreign policy issues of the twenty-first century.

In the book's opening chapter, Charles E. Neu explains how the Vietnam War changed Americans' sense of themselves: challenging widely-held national myths, the war brought frustration, disillusionment, and a weakening of Americans' sense of their past and vision for the future. Brian Balogh argues that Vietnam became such a powerful metaphor for turmoil and decline that it obscured other forces that brought about fundamental changes in government and society. George C. Herring examines the postwar American military, which became nearly obsessed with preventing "another Vietnam." Robert K. Brigham explores the effects of the war on the Vietnamese, as aging revolutionary leaders relied on appeals to "revolutionary heroism" to justify the communist party's monopoly on political power. Finally, Robert S. McNamara, aware of the magnitude of his errors and burdened by the war's destructiveness, draws lessons from his experience with the aim of preventing wars in the future.

The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War: Executive and Legislative Roles and Relationships, Part I - 1945-1960 (Hardcover):... The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War: Executive and Legislative Roles and Relationships, Part I - 1945-1960 (Hardcover)
William Conrad Gibbons
R3,659 Discovery Miles 36 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This searching analysis of what has been called America's longest war" was commissioned by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to achieve an improved understanding of American participation in the conflict. Part I begins with Truman's decision at the end of World War II to accept French reoccupation of Indochina, rather than to seek the international trusteeship favored earlier by Roosevelt. It then discusses U.S. support of the French role and U.S. determination to curtail Communist expansion in Asia. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Fire Across the Sea - The Vietnam War and Japan 1965-1975 (Hardcover): Thomas R.H. Havens Fire Across the Sea - The Vietnam War and Japan 1965-1975 (Hardcover)
Thomas R.H. Havens
R4,438 Discovery Miles 44 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Professor Havens analyzes the efforts of Japanese antiwar organizations to portray the war as much more than a fire across the sea" and to create new forms of activism in a country where individuals have traditionally left public issues to the authorities. This path-breaking study examines not only the methods of the protesters but the tightrope dance performed by Japanese officials forced to balance outspoken antiwar sentiment with treaty obligations to the U.S. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Unaccounted (Paperback): Michael McDonald-Low Unaccounted (Paperback)
Michael McDonald-Low
R488 Discovery Miles 4 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bedrooms of the Fallen (Hardcover): Ashley Gilbertson Bedrooms of the Fallen (Hardcover)
Ashley Gilbertson
R1,021 Discovery Miles 10 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For more than a decade, the United States has been fighting wars so far from the public eye as to risk being forgotten, the struggles and sacrifices of its volunteer soldiers almost ignored. Photographer and writer Ashley Gilbertson has been working to prevent that. His dramatic photographs of the Iraq war for the New York Times and his book Whiskey Tango Foxtrot took readers into the mayhem of Baghdad, Ramadi, Samarra, and Fallujah. But with Bedrooms of the Fallen, Gilbertson reminds us that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have also reached deep into homes far from the noise of battle, down quiet streets and country roads-the homes of family and friends who bear their grief out of view. The book's wide-format black-and-white images depict the bedrooms of forty fallen soldiers-the equivalent of a single platoon-from the United States, Canada, and several European nations. Left intact by families of the deceased, the bedrooms are a heartbreaking reminder of lives cut short: we see high school diplomas and pictures from prom, sports medals and souvenirs, and markers of the idealism that carried them to war, like images of the Twin Towers and Osama Bin Laden. A moving essay by Gilbertson describes his encounters with the families who preserve these private memorials to their loved ones and shares what he has learned from them about war and loss. Bedrooms of the Fallen is a masterpiece of documentary photography and an unforgettable reckoning with the human cost of war.

Welcome Home - The Lucky Ones (Paperback): Ken Byerly, John Laughlin, Mike Moran Welcome Home - The Lucky Ones (Paperback)
Ken Byerly, John Laughlin, Mike Moran
R279 Discovery Miles 2 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Least Worst Place - How Guantanamo Became the World's Most Notorious Prison (Hardcover): Karen J. Greenberg The Least Worst Place - How Guantanamo Became the World's Most Notorious Prison (Hardcover)
Karen J. Greenberg
R1,027 Discovery Miles 10 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Ever since its foundation in 2002, the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility has become the symbol for many people around the world of all that is wrong with the 'war on terror'. Secretive, inhumane, and illegal by most international standards, it has been seen by many as a testament to American hubris in the post-9/11 era. Yet until now no one has written about the most revealing part of the story - the prison's first 100 days. It was during this time that a group of career military men and women tried to uphold the traditional military codes of honour and justice that informed their training in the face of a far more ruthless, less rule-bound, civilian leadership in the Pentagon. They were defeated. This book tells their story for the first time. It is a tale of how individual officers on the ground at Guantanamo, along with their direct superiors, struggled with their assignment from Washington, only to be unwittingly co-opted into the Pentagon's plan to turn the prison into an interrogation facility operating at the margins of the law and beyond.

Triumph Forsaken - The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 (Paperback): Mark Moyar Triumph Forsaken - The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 (Paperback)
Mark Moyar
R1,247 Discovery Miles 12 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Drawing on a wealth of new evidence from all sides, Triumph Forsaken, first published in 2007, overturns most of the historical orthodoxy on the Vietnam War. Through the analysis of international perceptions and power, it shows that South Vietnam was a vital interest of the United States. The book provides many insights into the overthrow of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 and demonstrates that the coup negated the South Vietnamese government's tremendous, and hitherto unappreciated, military and political gains between 1954 and 1963. After Diem's assassination, President Lyndon Johnson had at his disposal several aggressive policy options that could have enabled South Vietnam to continue the war without a massive US troop infusion, but he ruled out these options because of faulty assumptions and inadequate intelligence, making such an infusion the only means of saving the country.

Promises Betrayed - An Afghan Interpreter at The Fall of Kabul (Paperback): Jamil Hassan Promises Betrayed - An Afghan Interpreter at The Fall of Kabul (Paperback)
Jamil Hassan; Foreword by David Petraeus
R498 R467 Discovery Miles 4 670 Save R31 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Christmas Far from Home - An Epic Tale of Courage and Survival during the Korean War (Paperback): Stanley Weintraub A Christmas Far from Home - An Epic Tale of Courage and Survival during the Korean War (Paperback)
Stanley Weintraub
R442 Discovery Miles 4 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the tradition of his Silent Night and Pearl Harbor Christmas , historian Stanley Weintraub presents another gripping narrative of a wartime Christmas season- the epic story of the 1950 holiday season in Korea, when American troops faced extreme cold, a determined enemy, and long odds. A Military Book Club main selection

Reporting Vietnam - Media and Military at War (Paperback, New edition): William M. Hammond Reporting Vietnam - Media and Military at War (Paperback, New edition)
William M. Hammond
R988 R929 Discovery Miles 9 290 Save R59 (6%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For many Americans during the Vietnam era, the war on the home front seemed nearly as wrenching and hardfought as the one in Southeast Asia. Its primary battlefield was the news media, its primary casualty the truth. But as William Hammond reveals, animosity between government and media wasn't always the rule; what happened between the two during the Vietnam War was symptomatic of the nation's experiences in general. As the "light at the end of the tunnel" dimmed, relations between them grew ever darker.

"Reporting Vietnam" is an abridgment and updating of Hammond's massive two-volume work issued by the Government Printing Office. Based on classified and recently declassified government documents--including Nixon's national security files--as well as on extensive interviews and surveys of press war coverage, it tells how government and media first shared a common vision of American involvement in Vietnam. It then reveals how, as the war dragged on, upbeat government press releases were consistently challenged by journalists' reports from the field and finally how, as public sentiment shifted against the war, Presidents Johnson and Nixon each tried to manage the news media, sparking a heated exchange of recriminations.

Hammond strongly challenges the assertions of many military leaders that the media lost the war by swaying public opinion. He takes readers through the twists and turns of official public affairs policy as it tries to respond to a worsening domestic political environment and recurring adverse "media episodes." Along the way, he makes important observations about the penchant of American officials for placing appearance ahead of substance and about policy making in general.

Although Richard Nixon once said of the Vietnam war, "Our worst enemy seems to be the press," Hammond clearly shows that his real enemies were the contradictions and flawed assumptions that he and LBJ had created. Reporting Vietnam brings a critical study to a wider audience and is both a major contribution to an ongoing debate and a cautionary guide for future conflicts.


Tales from the Sak-Sak (Paperback): Max Quanchi Tales from the Sak-Sak (Paperback)
Max Quanchi
R420 Discovery Miles 4 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Certain Victory - U.S.Army in the Gulf War (Paperback): Robert H. Scales Certain Victory - U.S.Army in the Gulf War (Paperback)
Robert H. Scales
R664 Discovery Miles 6 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This study provides a picture of the US Army's performance during the Gulf War. It begins by chronicling the Army's regeneration in the two decades after Vietnam - the foundation of the Desert Storm victory. Each chapter starts with a personal combat story that puts the conflict into a human perspective. The book brings the civilian reader into battle alongside individual soldiers. It is a comprehensive account that allows individual conclusions, including accounts by Iraqi soldiers, about the largest armour battle since World War II.

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