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Letters from Iwo Jima (DVD)
Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase, Shidô Nakamura, …
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R35
Discovery Miles 350
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Clint Eastwood's completion of the Iwo Jima saga. Here the action
is seen from the Japanese point of view and the film is based on
the book 'Picture Letters from Commander in Chief' by Tadamichi
Kuribayashi. The island of Iwo Jima stands between the American
military force and the home islands of Japan. Therefore the
Imperial Japanese Army is desperate to prevent it from falling into
American hands and providing a launching point for an invasion of
Japan. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe) is given
command of the forces on the island and sets out to prepare for the
imminent attack. General Kuribayashi, however, does not favour the
rigid traditional approach recommended by his subordinates, and
resentment and resistance fester among his staff.
The untold story of how the American government assassinated the
world's most famous revolutionary In compelling detail, two leading
US civil rights attorneys recount the extraordinary life and
deliberate killing of the world's most storied revolutionary:
Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith
survey the extraordinary trajectory of Che's career from an early
politicization recounted in The Motorcycle Diaries, through
meetings with his companero Fidel Castro in Mexico, his vital role
in the Cuban revolution, and his expeditions abroad to Africa and
Latin America. But their focus is on Che's final days in Bolivia
where, after months of struggle to spread the revolution that had
begun in Havana, Che was wounded, captured, and executed. Bound and
helpless, Che's last words to his killer, a soldier in the Bolivian
Army, were: "Remember, you are killing a man." Referencing internal
US government documentation, much of it never before published,
Ratner and Smith use their forensic skills as attorneys to analyze
the evidence and present an irrefutable case that the CIA not only
knew of and approved the execution, but was instrumental in making
it happen. Cables from the agency disavowing any US role in the
murder were merely attempts to provide plausible deniability for
the Johnson administration. The spirit of Che Guevara, as an icon
and an inspiration, is as vibrant today as it ever was. Protestors
around the world continue to use his image. For anyone drawn to his
remarkable life and its violent, unlawful end, How the CIA Killed
Che will engage, anger, and educate. Skyhorse Publishing, as well
as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books
for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the
Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination,
conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution,
gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West,
and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York
Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to
books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors
whose work might not otherwise find a home.
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The Symphony (Paperback)
John Winston Ackerman, Michael Steven Rosati
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R385
Discovery Miles 3 850
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