Leach and Phillips were sipping tea from large white mugs. "I must say, Admiral," Leach said while looking straight beyond Prince of Wales' bow, "it would be still more comforting if we could be assured of air cover.
Shadows of War tells the story of World War II as few Americans know it.
Criticisms had mounted during the day, culminating in a powerful speech in the evening by Leo Amery, who had wheeled ... Herbert Morrison for the Labour Party had indicated that his party would regard the motion as a vote of censure, ...
Annotation This book captures the human face of the frontlines, revealing both the visible and the hidden realities of contemporary war, power, and international profiteering in the 21st century.
Silence lies between forgetting and remembering. This book explores how different societies have constructed silences to enable men and women to survive and make sense of the catastrophic consequences of armed conflict.
This book is based on path-breaking archival research that clarifies the objectives and tactics of the parties to the negotiations and the reasons for why the negotiations ended without an agreement.
A moving work of fiction about one soldier's struggle to come to terms with devastating injuries and news of impending fatherhood, while battling the most deadly enemy: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
In March 1855, Roger Fenton, a former solicitor and founding member of what is now known as the Royal Photographic Society, travelled to war-torn Crimea to capture the brutality of war through the medium of photgraphy, one of the first to ...
General Ariana Winston shepherds her massive mercenary brigade over enemy lines in Operation Serpent in hopes of wiping out the military force of Clan Smoke Jaguar, and finds she has bitten off more than she can chew. Original.
This is a collection of women's poetry from the phoney war of 1939 to the postwar Christmas of 1945. It looks at the impact of the conflict and its consequences....
For the first time, this book retrieves from the shadows the faces of those whose stories seldom reach the light of international recognition.
A collection of previously unpublished photographs taken by a foot soldier on the front lines of the German war machine during the Second World War captures powerful images of soldiers...
... Angola's Civil War(London: Pluto Press, 1998); Paul Hare, Angola's Last Best Chance for Peace: An Insider's Account of the Peace Process (Washington, D.C.: United States Institute for Peace, 1998); Tony Hodges, Angola: From Afro ...
This book presents the deepest and innermost thoughts drawn from some 200 interviews and responses with Australian veterans. Critically all tell of what they think of the Japanese now. This is their record in their own words.