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Author |
: Lisa Gilman |
Publisher |
: Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages |
: 249 |
Release |
: 2016-04-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780819576019 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0819576018 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis My Music, My War by : Lisa Gilman
In the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, recent technological developments in music listening enabled troops to carry with them vast amounts of music and easily acquire new music, for themselves and to share with their fellow troops as well as friends and loved ones far away. This ethnographic study examines U.S. troops' musical-listening habits during and after war, and the accompanying fear, domination, violence, isolation, pain, and loss that troops experienced. My Music, My War is a moving ethnographic account of what war was like for those most intimately involved. It shows how individuals survive in the messy webs of conflicting thoughts and emotions that are intricately part of the moment-to-moment and day-to-day phenomenon of war, and the pervasive memories in its aftermath. It gives fresh insight into musical listening as it relates to social dynamics, gender, community formation, memory, trauma, and politics.
Author |
: Anthony Loyd |
Publisher |
: September Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 315 |
Release |
: 2015-11-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781910463178 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1910463175 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis My War Gone By, I Miss It So by : Anthony Loyd
'Undoubtedly the most powerful and immediate book to emerge from the Balkan horror of ethnic civil war' Antony Beevor, Daily Telegraph In 1993, Anthony Loyd hitchhiked to the Balkans hoping to become a journalist. Leaving behind him the legends of a distinguished military family, he wanted to see 'a real war' for himself. In Bosnia he found one. The cruelty and chaos of the conflict both appalled and embraced him; the adrenalin lure of the action perhaps the loudest siren call of all. In the midst of the daily life-and-death struggle among Bosnia's Serbs, Croats and Muslims, Loyd was inspired by the extraordinary human fortitude he discovered. But returning home he found the void of peacetime too painful to bear, and so began a longstanding personal battle with drug abuse. This harrowing account shows humanity at its worst and best. It is a breathtaking feat of reportage; an uncompromising look at the terrifyingly seductive power of war. 'As good as reporting gets. I have nowhere read a more vivid account of frontline fear and survival. Forget the strategic overview. All war is local' Martin Bell, The Times
Author |
: Andy Rooney |
Publisher |
: Public Affairs |
Total Pages |
: 358 |
Release |
: 2000-10-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1586480103 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781586480103 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis My War by : Andy Rooney
The author recounts his experiences as a young reporter to "Stars and Stripes," the American forces' daily newspaper in Europe, including his personal account of the liberation and entry into Buchenwald.
Author |
: Szegedi Szuts |
Publisher |
: Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2015-09-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780486808611 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0486808610 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis My War by : Szegedi Szuts
"In their passionate intensity these drawings are as emotionally poignant as the very best war work that Paul Nash or Nevinson ever produced, while technically the broad lines and heavy blacks of Mr. Szüts have a sledge-hammer mastery which is more akin to the work of Forain and Steinlen."―The Sunday Times (London). The pen, ink, and wash images of this graphic novel speak louder than words in relating a soldier's experiences during World War I. My War, a dramatic narrative by Hungarian veteran Szegedi Szüts, portrays the tragedy of wartime life on the battlefield as well as on the home front. With pathos and grim humor, more than 200 images trace a young recruit's progress from initial enthusiasm to ultimate disillusionment. Includes new Foreword by Peter Kuper.
Author |
: Colby Buzzell |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 418 |
Release |
: 2014-11-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781473525665 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1473525667 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis My War by : Colby Buzzell
'Once we passed the checkpoint at the border, it hit me. I was like, Holy Shit, this is it, I'm entering a combat zone. Cool!' At twenty-six Colby Buzzell, unemployed and living at home, decided to join the US Army. Within months he was in Iraq, a machine gunner in the controversial Stryker Brigade Combat Team, an army unit on the cutting edge of combat technology and the first of its kind. Trapped amid 'guerrilla warfare, urban-style' in Mosul, Iraq, Buzzell was struck by the bizarre and often frightening world surrounding him. He began writing a blog describing the war - not as being reported by CNN or official briefings - but as experienced by the soldier on the ground. His story is a brutally honest and hard-hitting account of the absurdities of modern war. These are the real stories of the war: a firefight where the resistance came from 'men in black'; a night spent chain-smoking in the guard tower counting the tracer bullets being fired over the city; and the hesitation of a young soldier who had been passed around from platoon to platoon because he was too afraid to fight. My War is a powerful story of a young man and a war, unlike any you have read before.
Author |
: K. Sophie Stallman |
Publisher |
: Hillcrest Publishing Group |
Total Pages |
: 408 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781626522534 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1626522537 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis My War, My Life by : K. Sophie Stallman
Three generations ago, author Sophie Stallman was a young girl living a normal and happy existence with her traditional and privileged Polish family. But when the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Sophie's life as she knew it would cease to exist. Under Nazi-occupied Poland, Sophie and her family were forced to endure a daily life of deprivation, fear, and struggle, but despite the abysmal war conditions to which she was subjected, Sophie was determined to pursue her own life in spite of the war. Pressing forward with her academic education and following her love of music she excelled developing her modern dance talents and mezzo-soprano voice. Sophie also made the courageous decision to join the Polish resistance organization -- a move that would put her life in constant jeopardy, especially during the 1944 Warsaw uprising.
Author |
: Xuan Phuong |
Publisher |
: EMQUAD International, Ltd. |
Total Pages |
: 310 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0971840628 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780971840621 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ao Dai by : Xuan Phuong
Xuan Phuong - chemist, physician, journalist, filmmaker, touring service operator, and art gallery owner tells her story. From leaving home at the age of 16 and joining the Vietminh, to becoming a barefoot revolutionary in the jungle, a witness to the fall of Saigon, and a wife and mother to three sons, Yuan Phuong has lived a full life.
Author |
: Donald F. Myers |
Publisher |
: Pentland Press (NC) |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1571971874 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781571971876 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Your War, My War by : Donald F. Myers
The author presents short newspaper articles concerning the war in Vietnam along with writings of his memories of sixteen months of an extended Vietnam tour with the Marines.
Author |
: J. Martin Daughtry |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2015-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199361519 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199361517 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Listening to War by : J. Martin Daughtry
To witness war is, in large part, to hear it. And to survive it is, among other things, to have listened to it--and to have listened through it. Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime Iraq is a groundbreaking study of the centrality of listening to the experience of modern warfare. Based on years of ethnographic interviews with U.S. military service members and Iraqi civilians, as well as on direct observations of wartime Iraq, author J. Martin Daughtry reveals how these populations learned to extract valuable information from the ambient soundscape while struggling with the deleterious effects that it produced in their ears, throughout their bodies, and in their psyches. Daughtry examines the dual-edged nature of sound--its potency as a source of information and a source of trauma--within a sophisticated conceptual frame that highlights the affective power of sound and the vulnerability and agency of individual auditors. By theorizing violence through the prism of sound and sound through the prism of violence, Daughtry provides a productive new vantage point for examining these strangely conjoined phenomena. Two chapters dedicated to wartime music in Iraqi and U.S. military contexts show how music was both an important instrument of the military campaign and the victim of a multitude of violent acts throughout the war. A landmark work within the study of conflict, sound studies, and ethnomusicology, Listening to War will expand your understanding of the experience of armed violence, and the experience of sound more generally. At the same time, it provides a discrete window into the lives of individual Iraqis and Americans struggling to orient themselves within the fog of war.
Author |
: Jessica Stern |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins |
Total Pages |
: 319 |
Release |
: 2020-01-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780062971173 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0062971174 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis My War Criminal by : Jessica Stern
An investigation into the nature of violence, terror, and trauma through conversations with a notorious war criminal by Jessica Stern, one of the world's foremost experts on terrorism. Between October 2014 and November 2016, global terrorism expert Jessica Stern held a series of conversations in a prison cell in The Hague with Radovan Karadzic, a Bosnian Serb former politician who had been indicted for genocide and other war crimes during the Bosnian War and who became an inspiration for white nationalists. Though Stern was used to interviewing terrorists in the field in an effort to understand their hidden motives, the conversations she had with Karadzic would profoundly alter her understanding of the mechanics of fear, the motivations of violence, and the psychology of those who perpetrate mass atrocities at a state level and who—like the terrorists she had previously studied—target noncombatants, in violation of ethical norms and international law. How do leaders persuade ordinary people to kill their neighbors? What is the “ecosystem” that creates and nurtures genocidal leaders? Could anything about their personal histories, personalities, or exposure to historical trauma shed light on the formation of a war criminal’s identity in opposition to a targeted Other? In My War Criminal, Jessica Stern brings to bear her incisive analysis and her own deeply considered reactions to her interactions with Karadzic, a brilliant and often shockingly charming psychiatrist and poet who spent twelve years in hiding, disguising himself as an energy healer, while also offering a deeply insightful and sometimes chilling account of the complex and even seductive powers of a magnetic leader—and what can happen when you spend many, many hours with that person.