"Crossing the Pond" is a term Native Americans used to describe the process of being transferred overseas for military duty. This was both an event and a duty taken quite seriously by tribal members, who participated in every aspect of wartime America. On the homefront, Native Americans gave comparable and sometimes exemplary contributions to ......
In this history of race relations during the Vietnam War, James E.Westheider illustrates how American soldiers in Vietnam grappled with the same racial conflicts that were roiling their homeland thousands of miles away.
Controversy about women in the military continues, yet women's relations with the military go far beyond whether they serve in the ranks. This book examines the experiences of women outside of the military, such as comfort women near US bases, women engaged in peacework, and women workers affected by military spending in the federal budget.
Controversy about women in the military continues, yet women's relations with the military go far beyond whether they serve in the ranks. This book examines the experiences of women outside of the military, such as comfort women near US bases, women engaged in peacework, and women workers affected by military spending in the federal budget.
War affects women in profoundly different ways than men. Women play many roles during wartime: they are "gendered" as mothers, as soldiers, as munitions makers, as caretakers, as sex workers. How is it that womanhood in the context of war may mean, for one woman, tearfully sending her son off to war, and for another, engaging in civil ......
Women play many roles during wartime. This compelling study brings together the work of foremost scholars on women and war to address questions of ethnicity, women and the war complex, peacemaking, motherhood, and more. It leaves behind outdated arguments about militarist men and pacifist women, while still recognizing differences in men's and ......
The British Army's SAS is recognised as one of the world's premier special operations units. During the Gulf War, deep behind Iraqi lines, an SAS team was compromised. A fierce firefight ensued, and the eight men were forced to run for their lives. Only one, Chris Ryan, escaped capture. The One That Got Away is his breathtaking story of ......
At the height of the Vietnam War, American society was so severely fragmented that it seemed that Americans may never again share common concerns. Blending history and cultural criticism in a lucid style, this book discusses an ideology of unity that has emerged through widespread rhetorical and cultural references to the war.
Looking in turn at particular conflicts from the world wars to the Balkans, two veterans of the British Army trace the evolution of the role mass media has played in 20th-century military campaigns. They complain that the media now often seems to be setting the international agenda and usurping the
