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Author |
: Kathleen Belew |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2019-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674237698 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674237692 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bring the War Home by : Kathleen Belew
The white power movement in America wants a revolution. It has declared all-out war against the federal government and its agents, and has carried out—with military precision—an escalating campaign of terror against the American public. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but are highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling worldview of white supremacy, anticommunism, and apocalypse. In Bring the War Home, Kathleen Belew gives us the first full history of the movement that consolidated in the 1970s and 1980s around a potent sense of betrayal in the Vietnam War and made tragic headlines in the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building. Returning to an America ripped apart by a war that, in their view, they were not allowed to win, a small but driven group of veterans, active-duty personnel, and civilian supporters concluded that waging war on their own country was justified. They unified people from a variety of militant groups, including Klansmen, neo-Nazis, skinheads, radical tax protestors, and white separatists. The white power movement operated with discipline and clarity, undertaking assassinations, mercenary soldiering, armed robbery, counterfeiting, and weapons trafficking. Its command structure gave women a prominent place in brokering intergroup alliances and giving birth to future recruits. Belew’s disturbing history reveals how war cannot be contained in time and space. In its wake, grievances intensify and violence becomes a logical course of action for some. Bring the War Home argues for awareness of the heightened potential for paramilitarism in a present defined by ongoing war.
Author |
: Art Beltrone |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 216 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: WISC:89062203856 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Wartime Log by : Art Beltrone
Excerpts and artwork from log books belonging to Americans in German prison camps
Author |
: Mike Brown |
Publisher |
: The History Press |
Total Pages |
: 186 |
Release |
: 2005-10-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780752494722 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0752494724 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wartime House by : Mike Brown
What was it like to live in Britain during the Second World War? What kind of house did the average family live in? How did people cope with the ever-present threat of air-raids, not to mention the hardship of food and clothes rationing? How was a typical suburban home built? What were the choices open to householders when it came to interior decoration and furnishing? How did the war affect the domestic routines of an average household? The demands of a nation at war had many other far-reaching effects on the average home. How did women cope with bringing up a family single-handedly after their husbands were conscripted for military service? How did they use the rations and keep up their families spirits? What was it like to 'Make do and Mend' or 'Dig for Victory', or to sleep in an Anderson shelter? By looking at the lives of ordinary people who inhabited the semi-detached world of suburbia, Mike Brown and Carol Harris have painted a vivid picture of daily life on the Home Front in wartime Britain.
Author |
: John W. Jeffries |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 217 |
Release |
: 2018-03-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781442276505 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1442276509 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wartime America by : John W. Jeffries
Designed to give students a concise compass to probe the history of World War II America and to assess the war’s impact on American life, the new edition of Wartime America retains the framework of the original edition but adds new important focus on topics such as other home fronts, the lives of veterans, expanded coverage of World War II as the Good War, and the concept of “the Greatest Generation.”Jeffries paints a picture of a people emerging from the Great Depression and eager for a better life, yet often reluctant to abandon the touchstones of their past. Combining both an original interpretation and synthesis of recent scholarship, Wartime America offers students a concise exploration of the war’s transformative role in American life.
Author |
: Ronald H. Bailey |
Publisher |
: Seafarer Books |
Total Pages |
: 212 |
Release |
: 1977 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0809424789 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780809424788 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Home Front, U.S.A. by : Ronald H. Bailey
Author |
: Nancy French |
Publisher |
: Center Street |
Total Pages |
: 205 |
Release |
: 2011-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781599954318 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1599954311 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Home and Away by : Nancy French
David French, potential independent candidate for the 2016 presidential election, and his wife Nancy deliver a powerful story of what happens when a person--or rather, a family--answers the call to serve their nation. David French picked up the newspaper in the comfort of his penthouse in Philadelphia, and read about a soldier - father of two - who was wounded in Iraq. Immediately, he was stricken with a question: Why him and not me? David was a 37-year-old father of two, a Harvard Law graduate and president of a free speech organization. In other words, he was used to pushing pencils, not toting M16s. His wife Nancy was raising two children and writing from home. She was worrying about field trips and playdates, not about her husband going to war. HOME AND AWAY chronicles not just a soldier at war, but a family at war - a husband in Iraq, a wife and children at home, greeting each day with hope and fear, facing the challenge with determination, tears, and more than a little joy.
Author |
: Matthew Taylor |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 249 |
Release |
: 2020-05-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000071368 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000071367 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sport and the Home Front by : Matthew Taylor
Sport and the Home Front contributes in significant and original ways to our understanding of the social and cultural history of the Second World War. It explores the complex and contested treatment of sport in government policy, media representations and the everyday lives of wartime citizens. Acknowledged as a core component of British culture, sport was also frequently criticised, marginalised and downplayed, existing in a constant state of tension between notions of normality and exceptionality, routine and disruption, the everyday and the extraordinary. The author argues that sport played an important, yet hitherto neglected, role in maintaining the morale of the British people and providing a reassuring sense of familiarity at a time of mass anxiety and threat. Through the conflict, sport became increasingly regarded as characteristic of Britishness; a symbol of the ‘ordinary’ everyday lives in defence of which the war was being fought. Utilised to support the welfare of war workers, the entertainment of service personnel at home and abroad and the character formation of schoolchildren and young citizens, sport permeated wartime culture, contributing to new ways in which the British imagined the past, present and future. Using a wide range of personal and public records – from diary writing and club minute books to government archives – this book breaks new ground in both the history of the British home front and the history of sport.
Author |
: Sten Rynning |
Publisher |
: Brookings Institution Press |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2021-03-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780815738954 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0815738951 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis War Time by : Sten Rynning
Perceptions of time contributed to recent Western military failings The “decline of the West” is once again a frequent topic of speculation. Often cited as one element of the alleged decline is the succession of prolonged and unsuccessful wars—most notably those waged in recent decades by the United States. This book by three Danish military experts examines not only the validity of the speculation but also asks why the West, particularly its military effectiveness, might be perceived as in decline. Temporality is the central concept linking a series of structural fractures that leave the West seemingly muscle-bound: overwhelmingly powerful in technology and military might but strategically fragile. This temporality, the authors say, is composed of three interrelated dimensions: trajectories, perceptions, and pace. First, Western societies to tend view time as a linear trajectory, focusing mostly on recent and current events and leading to the framing of history as a story of rise and decline. The authors examine whether the inevitable fall already has happened, is underway, or is still in the future. Perceptions of time also vary across cultures and periods, shaping socio-political activities, including warfare. The enemy, for example, can be perceived as belong to another time (being “backward” or “barbarian”). And war can be seen either as cyclical or exceptional, helping frame the public's willingness to accept its violent and tragic consequences. The pace of war is another factor shaping policies and actions. Western societies emphasize speed: the shorter the war the better, even if the long-term result is unsuccessful. Ironically, one of the Western world's least successful wars also has been America's longest, in Afghanistan. This unique book is thus a critical assessment of the evolution and future of Western military power. It contributes much-needed insight into the potential for the West's political and institutional renewal.
Author |
: Kayla Williams |
Publisher |
: National Geographic Books |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2015-02-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393350623 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393350622 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Plenty of Time When We Get Home by : Kayla Williams
“Intimate and brave . . . a testament to how love soldiers on.”—People Brian, on his way back to base after mid-tour leave, was wounded by a roadside bomb that sent shrapnel through his brain. Kayla waited anxiously for news and, on returning home, sought out Brian. The two began a tentative romance and later married, but neither anticipated the consequences of Brian’s injury on their lives. Lacking essential support for returning veterans from the military and the VA, Kayla and Brian suffered through posttraumatic stress amplified by his violent mood swings, her struggles to reintegrate into a country still oblivious to women veterans, and what seemed the callous, consumerist indifference of civilian society at large. Kayla persevered. So did Brian. They fought for their marriage, drawing on remarkable reservoirs of courage and commitment. They confronted their demons head-on, impatient with phoniness of any sort. Inspired by an unwavering ethos of service, they continued to stand on common ground. Finally, they found their own paths to healing and wholeness, both as individuals and as a family, in dedication to a larger community.
Author |
: Doris Kearns Goodwin |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 790 |
Release |
: 2008-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781439126196 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1439126194 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis No Ordinary Time by : Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic about the relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, and how it shaped the nation while steering it through the Great Depression and the outset of World War II. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking number of story lines—Eleanor and Franklin’s marriage and remarkable partnership, Eleanor’s life as First Lady, and FDR’s White House and its impact on America as well as on a world at war. Goodwin effectively melds these details and stories into an unforgettable and intimate portrait of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt and of the time during which a new, modern America was born.