Last Reflections on a War

Last Reflections on a War
Title Last Reflections on a War PDF eBook
Author Bernard B. Fall
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2000
Genre United States
ISBN 9780811709040

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Bernard B Fall was 40 years old when he was killed by a booby trap in northern South Vietnam on February 21, 1967. By the time of his death he had already authored seven books on Vietnam. This book, first published shortly after Dr Fall's death, is a tribute to his life's work. It contains the only known autobiographical account of his life, several previously unpublished articles, notes for 'Street Without Joy Revisited', and transcripts of Dr Fall's tape recordings, including his last recorded words.

Reflections on War

Reflections on War
Title Reflections on War PDF eBook
Author Thean Potgieter
Publisher AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Pages 298
Release 2012-10-01
Genre Technology & Engineering
ISBN 1920338845

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Reflections on War is a comprehensive and objective investigation into the problems of war. The book explores the crucial link between theory, strategy and objectives in war, taking all the evidence and theory into account, and should be of interest to military practitioners, specialists in defence studies, and others interested in military history. Also notable about the work is its ability to draw insights together from international legal theory, management sciences, history, sociology and the political economy of war ? showing due respect for the moral complexities involved in waging war.

Imagined Battles

Imagined Battles
Title Imagined Battles PDF eBook
Author Peter Paret
Publisher UNC Press Books
Pages 168
Release 1997
Genre Art
ISBN 9780807823569

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For thousands of years, art has interpreted the experience of war_its methods, human costs, and moral ambiguities_and has offered historians a wealth of testimony that is only beginning to be systematically explored. In this wide-ranging study, Peter Paret discusses forty-seven paintings and prints as complex documents of war in Europe since the Renaissance and as examples of the artist's use of war as a metaphor for the human condition. The images include works by such major artists as Uccello, GĂ©ricault, and Dix as well as academic history paintings and popular prints. By setting each in its historical environment and analyzing it from the perspective of the wars of its time, illuminates the place of war in Western consciousness and expands our understanding of works that are too often approached with little concern for the reality they depict or symbolically transform. Perhaps the most significant of the themes he traces over five centuries is the gradual change from the prince or general to the common soldier and civilian victim as central figures in the interpretation of war in art.

If the War Goes On

If the War Goes On
Title If the War Goes On PDF eBook
Author Hermann Hesse
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages 172
Release 2013-01-22
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1466835524

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One of the most astonishing aspects of Hesse's career is the clear-sightedness and consistency of his political views, his passionate espousal of pacifism and internationalism from the start of World War I to the end of his life. The earliest essay in this book was written in September 1914 and was followed by a stream of letters, essays, and pamphlets that reached its high point with Zarathustra's Return (published anonymously in 1919, the year that also saw the publication of Demian), in which Hesse exhorted German youth to shake off the false gods of nationalism and militarism that had led their country into the abyss. Such views earned him the labels "traitor" and "viper" in Germany, but after World War II he was moved to reiterate his beliefs in another series of essays and letters. Hesse arranged his anti-war writing for publication in one volume in 1946; an amplified edition appeared in 1949 and that text has been followed for this first English-language edition. In his foreword Hesse describes the heart of the philosophy expressed here: "In each one of these essays I strive to guide the reader not into the world theater with its political problemns but into his innermost being, before the judgment seat of his very personal conscience." This faith in salvation via the Inward Way, so familiar to readers of Hesse's fiction, is persuasively set forth as the answer to questions of war and peace.

George Washington Remembers

George Washington Remembers
Title George Washington Remembers PDF eBook
Author George Washington
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 206
Release 2004
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780742533721

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"George Washington Remembers makes this very personal and little-known document available for the first time and offers a glimpse of Washington in a self-reflective mood - a side of the man seldom seen in his other writings.

Passion for Peace

Passion for Peace
Title Passion for Peace PDF eBook
Author Thomas Merton
Publisher Crossroad Publishing
Pages 0
Release 2006
Genre Religion
ISBN 9780824524159

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Essential writings on an urgent theme.

The Invention of Peace

The Invention of Peace
Title The Invention of Peace PDF eBook
Author Michael Howard
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 142
Release 2000-01-01
Genre Political Science
ISBN 9780300088663

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In this book, a preeminent military historian considers why this is so."--BOOK JACKET.