Few works of military history are able to move between the battlefield and the university. But ""Warriors and Scholars"" takes the best from both worlds by presenting scholarship from eminent historians on topics of their specialty, alongside veteran accounts for the war being discussed. Editors Peter B. Lane and Ronald E. Marcello have added ......
Maria Jimenez of Houston and Mexican American Activists
Warriors for Social Justice examines the contributions of Mexican American activists to the nation's democratic values by concentrating on the activism of Maria JimEnez (1950-2020) in Houston, Texas. Linda J. Quintanilla documents how JimEnez and other activists advanced social justice by promoting our nation's best virtues, especially equality. ......
Based on Peter Elstob's own wartime experiences, Warriors for the Working Day follows one tank crew as they proceed from the beaches of Normandy into newly liberated Western Europe, brilliantly evoking the claustrophobia, heat and intensity of tank warfare.
ISBN-13: 9781912423163
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Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
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Are you a Warrior? Are you a Settler? Are you a Nomad? Identifying your predominant personality-type changes the way you approach life. If you know yourself and, equally important, if you understand other people you can confidently tackle your career and your personal relationships knowing exactly where you are coming from and what everyone ......
The American Experience in the Civil War and World War I
Although the Civil War and the Great War were fought only fifty years apart, the perceived time between these two cataclysmic events seems far longer in popular American memory: the Civil War was the centerpiece of the nineteenth century and lies deep in America's past whereas World War I was a modern prelude to World War II, a conflict still in ......
The American Experience in the Civil War and World War I
Although the Civil War and the Great War were fought only fifty years apart, the perceived time between these two cataclysmic events seems far longer in popular American memory: the Civil War was the centerpiece of the nineteenth century and lies deep in America's past whereas World War I was a modern prelude to World War II, a conflict still in ......
Human Rights, International Order, and the Ethics of Peace
Wars have negative consequences, not the least impinging on human life, and offer infrequent and uncertain benefits, yet war is part of the human condition. This book features insightful analysis of jus ad bellum ("the right of war") that is grounded in a variety of contemporary examples from World War I through Vietnam.
For many centuries, the mountainous Caucasus region was a strategic backwater, inhabited by insular peoples and tribes, where the raw edges of Christian and Muslim empires rubbed abrasively together. Most of the Caucasus was absorbed into the Russian empire in the 10th century; its 112 recognized nationalities were thus all eventually smothered by ......
