Our War was Different
Title | Our War was Different PDF eBook |
Author | Albert Hemingway |
Publisher | Naval Inst Press |
Pages | 189 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Vietnam War, 1961-1975 |
ISBN | 9781557503558 |
Shares the experiences and observations of Marines who were part of the CAP, or Combined Action Program, one of the few successes in Vietnam
Our War
Title | Our War PDF eBook |
Author | Craig DiLouie |
Publisher | Orbit |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2019-08-20 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0316525251 |
On the battlefields of America, even our children will have to fight. In his most powerful novel to date, acclaimed author Craig DiLouie presents a near future in which America is entrenched in civil war. After his impeachment, the president of the United States refuses to leave office, and the country erupts into a fractured and violent war. Orphaned by the fighting and looking for a home, 10-year-old Hannah Miller joins a citizen militia in a besieged Indianapolis. In the Free Women militia, Hannah finds a makeshift family. They'll teach her how to survive. They'll give her hope. And they'll show her how to use a gun. "An instant classic that will join the ranks of dystopian futures that at times feel all too real." - Nicholas Sansbury Smith, USA Today Bestselling Author
A Soldiers' Portfolio
Title | A Soldiers' Portfolio PDF eBook |
Author | Devin Friedman |
Publisher | Artisan Books |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 2006-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781579653095 |
Accompanied by descriptive text, a compilation of 256 snapshots taken by soldiers on the ground in Iraq offer a personal record of the Iraq War and the experiences of Americans.
Our War Stories
Title | Our War Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Marvin B. Harper |
Publisher | Infinity Publishing |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Korean War, 1950-1953 |
ISBN | 074141709X |
Your Country, Our War
Title | Your Country, Our War PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine A. Brown |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2019-02-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0190879424 |
Journalists are actors in international relations, mediating communications between governments and publics, but also between the administrations of different countries. American and foreign officials simultaneously consume the work of U.S. journalists and use it in their own thinking about how to conduct their work. As such, journalists play an unofficial diplomatic role. However, the U.S. news media largely amplifies American power. Instead of stimulating greater understanding, the U.S. elite, mainstream press can often widen mistrust as they promote an American worldview and, with the exception of some outliers, reduce the world into a tight security frame in which the U.S. is the hegemon. This has been the case in Afghanistan since 2001, particularly as emerging Afghan journalists have relied significantly on U.S. and other Western news outlets to report events within their government and their country. Based on eight years of interviews in Kabul, Washington, and New York, Your Country, Our War demonstrates how news has intersected with international politics during the War in Afghanistan and shows the global power and reach of the U.S. news media, especially within the context of the post-9/11 era. It reviews the trajectory of the U.S. news narrative about Afghanistan and America's never-ending war, and the rise of Afghan journalism, from 2001 to 2017. The book also examines the impact of the American news media inside a war theater. It examines how U.S. journalists affected the U.S.-Afghan relationship and chronicles their contribution to the rapid development of a community of Afghan journalists who grappled daily with how to define themselves and their country during a tumultuous and uneven transition from fundamentalist to democratic rule. Providing rich detail about the U.S.-Afghan relationship, especially former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai's convictions about the role of the Western press, we begin to understand how journalists are not merely observers to a story; they are participants in it.
This Was Not Our War
Title | This Was Not Our War PDF eBook |
Author | Swanee Hunt |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 343 |
Release | 2004-11-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0822386062 |
"Replacing tyranny with justice, healing deep scars, exchanging hatred for hope . . . the women in This Was Not Our War teach us how."—William Jefferson Clinton This Was Not Our War shares amazing first-person accounts of twenty-six Bosnian women who are reconstructing their society following years of devastating warfare. A university student working to resettle refugees, a paramedic who founded a veterans’ aid group, a fashion designer running two nonprofit organizations, a government minister and professor who survived Auschwitz—these women are advocates, politicians, farmers, journalists, students, doctors, businesswomen, engineers, wives, and mothers. They are from all parts of Bosnia and represent the full range of ethnic traditions and mixed heritages. Their ages spread across sixty years, and their wealth ranges from expensive jewels to a few chickens. For all their differences, they have this much in common: all survived the war with enough emotional strength to work toward rebuilding their country. Swanee Hunt met these women through her diplomatic and humanitarian work in the 1990s. Over the course of seven years, she conducted multiple interviews with each one. In presenting those interviews here, Hunt provides a narrative framework that connects the women’s stories, allowing them to speak to one another. The women describe what it was like living in a vibrant multicultural community that suddenly imploded in an onslaught of violence. They relate the chaos; the atrocities, including the rapes of many neighbors and friends; the hurried decisions whether to stay or flee; the extraordinary efforts to care for children and elderly parents and to find food and clean drinking water. Reflecting on the causes of the war, they vehemently reject the idea that age-old ethnic hatreds made the war inevitable. The women share their reactions to the Dayton Accords, the end of hostilities, and international relief efforts. While they are candid about the difficulties they face, they are committed to rebuilding Bosnia based on ideals of truth, justice, and a common humanity encompassing those of all faiths and ethnicities. Their wisdom is instructive, their courage and fortitude inspirational.
Our War on Ourselves
Title | Our War on Ourselves PDF eBook |
Author | Willem H. Vanderburg |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2011-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1442644389 |
Willem H. Vanderburg's Our War on Ourselves explores the type of war we have unleashed on our lives by emphasizing discipline-based processes.