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On War Volume II
(Hardcover)
Carl Von Clausewitz; Translated by Colonel J. J. Graham; Introduction by Colonel F M Maude
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The definitive account of the 10/7 attacks through the stories of its victims and the communities they called home.
On October 7, 2023―the Sabbath and the final day of the holiday of Sukkot―the Gaza-based terror group Hamas launched an unprecedented assault on the people of Israel. Crashing through the border, attacking from the sea and air, militants indiscriminately massacred civilians in what became one of the worst terror attacks in modern history, and the most lethal day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust.
A radically passionate work of investigative journalism and political critique by acclaimed Haaretz reporter Lee Yaron, 10/7 chronicles the massacre that ignited a war through the stories of more than 100 civilians. These stories are the products of extensive interviews with survivors, the bereaved, and first responders in Israel and beyond. The victims run the gamut from left-wing kibbutzniks and Burning Man-esque partiers to radical right-wingers, from Bedouins and Israeli Arabs to Thai and Nepalese guest workers, peace activists, elderly Holocaust survivors, refugees from Ukraine and Russia, pregnant women, and babies.
At a time when people are seeking a deeper understanding of the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and how internal political turmoil in Israel has affected it, they predominantly encounter perspectives from the powerful―from politicians and military officers. 10/7 takes a fresh approach, offering answers through the stories of everyday people, those who lived tenuously on the border with Gaza.
Yaron profiles victims from a wide range of communities―depicting the fullness of their lives, not just their final moments―to honor their memories and reveal the way the attack ripped open Israeli society and put the entire Middle East on the precipice of disaster. Each chapter begins with a portrait of a community, interweaving history with broader political analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to provide context for the narratives that follow. Ultimately, 10/7 shows that the tragedy is much greater than the violence of the attacks, and in fact extends back through the entire Netanyahu era, which propagated a false image of Israel as a technologically advanced, militarily formidable powerhouse so essential to the region that it could continue to ignore and undermine Palestinian statehood indefinitely.
In February 1793, in the wake of the War of American Independence
and one year after British prime minister William Pitt the Younger
had predicted fifteen years of peace, the National Convention of
Revolutionary France declared war on Great Britain and the
Netherlands. France thus initiated nearly a quarter century of
armed conflict with Britain. During this fraught and
still-contested period, historian Nathaniel Jarrett suggests, Pitt
and his ministers forged a diplomatic policy and military strategy
that envisioned an international system anticipating the Vienna
settlement of 1815. Examining Pitt's foreign policy from 1783 to
1797-the years before and during the War of the First Coalition
against Revolutionary France-Jarrett considers a question that has
long vexed historians: Did Pitt adhere to the "blue water" school,
imagining a globe-trotting navy, or did he favor engagement nearer
to shore and on the European Continent? And was this approach
grounded in precedent, or was it something new? While acknowledging
the complexities within this dichotomy, The Lion at Dawn argues
that the prime minister consistently subordinated colonial to
continental concerns and pursued a new vision rather than merely
honoring past glories. Deliberately, not simply in reaction to the
French Revolution, Pitt developed and pursued a grand strategy that
sought British security through a novel collective European
system-one ultimately realized by his successors in 1815. The Lion
at Dawn opens a critical new perspective on the emergence of modern
Britain and its empire and on its early effort to create a stable
and peaceful international system, an ideal debated to this day.
While researching for my book about the Indian Air Force Himalayan
Eagle - The Story of the Indian Air Force, I came across some very
interesting details about the military/warrior traditions of India
that seemed at odds with the general image of a country thought to
be spiritual and pacifist - the Buddha and "Mahatma" Gandhi
immediately spring to mind in this context. The details were
intriguing enough for me to embark upon another ambitious project -
to gather together and collate the data available on this Indian
warrior tradition and its resurgence in modern-day India. This work
is the presentation of certain pertinent details that are available
in the open sources but told in a comprehensive, objective and
readable form so that an interested reader gains a better
understanding of India's little-known martial and warrior history!
It is a narrative of the warrior/military traditions of India going
back to its pre-Vedic roots and covers the birth of the Indian
warrior caste, the Kshatriyas. How these warriors dominated among
the empire builders, and how their pre-eminence was superseded by
civilian rule, a change in the political scene of India that was to
have ramifications from the 10th to 20th century CE. The title
chosen for this work may confuse those readers who are aware that
the emperor Ashoka eschewed violence for pacificism as a Buddhist.
The lions in the title refer to the four represented on the Ashoka
pillars at Sarnath, each facing to the points of the compass and
which are symbolic of the present-day warriors of the country, the
Indian armed forces, guarding against intrusions from any point.
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