The Museum Of Unconditional Surrender
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Author |
: Dubravka Ugrešić |
Publisher |
: I.B. Tauris |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2001-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0811214931 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780811214933 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by : Dubravka Ugrešić
Critically acclaimed experimental, literary fiction by the famous Croatian exile author.
Author |
: Dubravka Ugre I |
Publisher |
: Penn State Press |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: 027101847X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780271018478 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (7X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Culture of Lies by : Dubravka Ugre I
A funny and cynical collection of essays, observations, and sketches denouncing the perversions of political and cultural life in Croatia.
Author |
: Evelyn Waugh |
Publisher |
: DigiCat |
Total Pages |
: 229 |
Release |
: 2022-08-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: EAN:8596547162711 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Unconditional Surrender by : Evelyn Waugh
'Unconditional Surrender' is a satire on the English class system. The writer takes a dig at the way the ruling class and their sense of entitlement, even when the country is in a global conflict, can plan through the bureaucracy to make their way into the far less dangerous and more comfortable theatres of war.
Author |
: Marc Gallicchio |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2020-07-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190091125 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190091126 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Unconditional by : Marc Gallicchio
A new look at the drama that lay behind the end of the war in the Pacific Signed on September 2, 1945 aboard the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay by Japanese and Allied leaders, the instrument of surrender that formally ended the war in the Pacific brought to a close one of the most cataclysmic engagements in history. Behind it lay a debate that had been raging for some weeks prior among American military and political leaders. The surrender fulfilled the commitment that Franklin Roosevelt had made in 1943 at the Casablanca conference that it be "unconditional." Though readily accepted as policy at the time, after Roosevelt's death in April 1945 support for unconditional surrender wavered, particularly among Republicans in Congress, when the bloody campaigns on Iwo Jima and Okinawa made clear the cost of military victory against Japan. Germany's unconditional surrender in May 1945 had been one thing; the war in the pacific was another. Many conservatives favored a negotiated surrender. Though this was the last time American forces would impose surrender unconditionally, questions surrounding it continued through the 1950s and 1960s--with the Korean and Vietnam Wars--when liberal and conservative views reversed, including over the definition of "peace with honor." The subject was revived during the ceremonies surrounding the 50th anniversary in 1995, and the Gulf and Iraq Wars, when the subjects of exit strategies and "accomplished missions" were debated. Marc Gallicchio reveals how and why the surrender in Tokyo Bay unfolded as it did and the principle figures behind it, including George C. Marshall and Douglas MacArthur. The latter would effectively become the leader of Japan and his tenure, and indeed the very nature of the American occupation, was shaped by the nature of the surrender. Most importantly, Gallicchio reveals how the policy of unconditional surrender has shaped our memory and our understanding of World War II.
Author |
: Dubravka Ugrešić |
Publisher |
: Dalkey Archive Press |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1564783758 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781564783752 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Lend Me Your Character by : Dubravka Ugrešić
"Splendidly ambitious . . . A brilliant, enthralling spread of story-telling and high-velocity reflections. In her indignation and in her sorrow Ugresic speaks for many people, many experiences. She is a writer to follow. A writer to be cherished." Susan Sontag"
Author |
: Paul E. Zigo |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 76 |
Release |
: 2019-09-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1480881007 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781480881006 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Unconditional Surrender by : Paul E. Zigo
Witness the end of World War II in Europe like never before with this insightful account filled with images taken by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's wartime photographer, Al Meserlin, and analysis from one of the war's foremost scholars. Paul E. Zigo, a thirty-year Army veteran who retired as a colonel and the founder and director of the World War II Era Studies Institute, takes readers to the schoolhouse turned Allied headquarters in Rheims, France, where Nazi Germany unconditionally surrendered May 7, 1945. Nothing less than unconditional surrender was acceptable to the Allies, which U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt first proclaimed at a press conference in January 1943 following an Anglo-American summit meeting in Casablanca, French Morocco. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill vowed to never accept any armistice like that which led to the signing of the failed Versailles Peace Treaty after World War I-- and Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin agreed in absentia. Despite defeat after defeat, Nazi Germany leader Adolf Hitler insisted on fighting, and others continued to resist even after his suicide April 30, 1945. Discover how Nazi Germany finally surrendered with this narrative filled with powerful images that put history in context.ered with this narrative filled with powerful images that put history in context.
Author |
: Dubravka Ugrešić |
Publisher |
: Open Letter Books |
Total Pages |
: 307 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781934824009 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1934824003 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nobody's Home by : Dubravka Ugrešić
In her long career, Ugresic has published several novels (e.g., The Ministry of Pain), but she made her name with her essay collections, which have caused controversy and earned her the admiration of writers and critics abroad. In these latest musings, written over the course of several years, Ugresic leaves no stone unturned and no thought contained, doing what she does best: writing about the human condition through her own experience. Refusing to establish a central theme, she touches upon a wide range of topics: the paradox of multiculturalism, metaphors as our "defense against nightmares," the eerie similarities between capitalism and communism, and ways in which we try to rise hopelessly above our less-than-perfect existence. Along the way, she pays homage to the works of literature that have influenced her own creative process, in an effort to pay "a symbolic literary tax on narcissim" because "writing is not the humblest of vocations." Perhaps not, but Ugresic certainly knows how to balance being a critic with being criticized. Recommended for all libraries collecting cultural criticism.--Mirela Roncevic, Library Journal Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Author |
: Chris Wallace |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2021-05-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781982143350 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1982143355 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Countdown 1945 by : Chris Wallace
A "behind-the-scenes account of the 116 days leading up to the Americans attack on Hiroshima"--Dust jacket flap.
Author |
: Richard B. Frank |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 513 |
Release |
: 2001-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780141001463 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0141001461 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Downfall by : Richard B. Frank
In a riveting narrative that includes information from newly declassified documents, acclaimed historian Richard B. Frank gives a scrupulously detailed explanation of the critical months leading up to the dropping of the atomic bomb. Frank explains how American leaders learned in the summer of 1945 that their alternate strategy to end the war by invasion had been shattered by the massive Japanese buildup on Kyushu, and that intercepted diplomatic documents also revealed the dismal prospects of negotiation. Here also, for the first time, is a comprehensive account of how Japan's leaders were willing to risk complete annihilation to preserve the nation's existing order. Frank's comprehensive account demolishes long-standing myths with the stark realities of this great historical controversy.
Author |
: Kenneth B. Pyle |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 259 |
Release |
: 2018-10-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674989085 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674989082 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Japan in the American Century by : Kenneth B. Pyle
No nation was more deeply affected by America’s rise to world power than Japan. President Franklin Roosevelt’s uncompromising policy of unconditional surrender led to the catastrophic finale of the Asia-Pacific War and the most intrusive international reconstruction of another nation in modern history. Japan in the American Century examines how Japan, with its deeply conservative heritage, responded to the imposition of a new liberal order. The price Japan paid to end the occupation was a cold war alliance with the United States that ensured America’s dominance in the region. Still traumatized by its wartime experience, Japan developed a grand strategy of dependence on U.S. security guarantees so that the nation could concentrate on economic growth. Yet from the start, despite American expectations, Japan reworked the American reforms to fit its own circumstances and cultural preferences, fashioning distinctively Japanese variations on capitalism, democracy, and social institutions. Today, with the postwar world order in retreat, Japan is undergoing a sea change in its foreign policy, returning to an activist, independent role in global politics not seen since 1945. Distilling a lifetime of work on Japan and the United States, Kenneth Pyle offers a thoughtful history of the two nations’ relationship at a time when the character of that alliance is changing. Japan has begun to pull free from the constraints established after World War II, with repercussions for its relations with the United States and its role in Asian geopolitics.