[PDF] Fragments Of War eBook

Author : Judith Matloff
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 35,71 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Angola
ISBN :

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The author's personal account of events in Angola between 1992 and 1997.

Author : Joyce Hibbert
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 39,47 MB
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1554881692

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The young girl from the Ottawa Valley who served as a nurse in North Africa with only a helmet of fresh water a day, the teenage soldier from Fredericton who stole pig swill to survive in a Hong Kong prisoner of war camp, the English woman who survived the sinking of the Athenia to become a war-bride, and an Alberta airman who crashed off the icy coast of Greenland, these are but only four of the thirty compelling personal accounts of war experiences. Many private photographs from their own albums illustrate these stories, which reflect the world wide aspect of the war from the Indian Ocean to the North Atlantic, from Poland to the Middle East, and the varied activities and duties of these young men and women. Their hardships, their adventures, frustrations, fears, joys and romances are chronicled in a poignant and often humorous manner.

Author : Françoise Mengin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 39,84 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 0190264055

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This remarkable book reveals how little we know about what lies behind the superficial antagonism between the PRC and Taiwan, especially where business is concerned.

Author : Jean Said Makdisi
Publisher :
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 14,82 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780892552450

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A new edition of the widely acclaimed account of the civilian experience of fifteen years of war in Beirut- "a profound, heartbreaking book" (Los Angeles Times Book Review), "an impassioned cry against indifference" (New York Times Book Review), "a work ringing with truth and insight" (Arab Book World)-now with an Afterword about the postwar years. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book An intensely personal yet timelessly crafted portrait of life in a worn-torn city, Beirut Fragments spans the years of the civil war in Lebanon, 1975-1990. When thousands fled, Jean Said Makdisi chose to stay. She raised three sons, taught English and Humanities at Beirut University College-and she wrote. She records the breakdown of society and the physical destruction of Beirut, the massacres of Sabra and Shatila, the Israeli Invasion, everyday acts of terrorism, the struggle to maintain ordinary routines amid chaos, and the incredible spirit of a people. A Palestinian, a Christian, a woman who has lived in Jerusalem, Cairo, the United States, and Beirut, Jean Said Makdisi uses the migrations of her own life as a paradigm which helps elucidate many of the conflicts in the region. The new afterword covers the postwars years, from the last ceasefire to the present day.

Author : Bruce H. Bretthauer
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 39,62 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781493654901

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A collection of short stories from the Families War, and after. What happened to some of the people we met in the main novels after the fighting ended? These stories cover some of that, and more.

Author : Joyce Hibbert
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 21,15 MB
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0919670954

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Many private photographs from their own albums illustrate these stories, which reflect the world wide aspect World War II from the Indian Ocean to the North Atlantic, from Poland to the Middle East, and the varied activities and duties of these young men and women.

Author : Andrew Arsan
Publisher : Hurst & Company
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 49,44 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 1849047006

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A reflective examination of everyday life in Lebanon in times of precarity and political torpor.

Author : Martha Gellhorn
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 11,9 MB
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802191169

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A collection of “first-rate frontline journalism” from the Spanish Civil War to US actions in Central America “by a woman singularly unafraid of guns” (Vanity Fair). For nearly sixty years, Martha Gellhorn’s fearless war correspondence made her a leading journalistic voice of her generation. From the Spanish Civil War in 1937 through the Central American wars of the mid-eighties, Gellhorn’s candid reporting reflected her deep empathy for people regardless of their political ideology. Collecting the best of Gellhorn’s writing on foreign conflicts, and now with a new introduction by Lauren Elkin, The Face of War is a classic of frontline journalism by “the premier war correspondent of the twentieth century” (Ward Just, The New York Times Magazine). Whether in Java, Finland, the Middle East, or Vietnam, she used the same vigorous approach. “I wrote very fast, as I had to,” she says, “afraid that I would forget the exact sound, smell, words, gestures, which were special to this moment and this place.” As Merle Rubin noted in his review of this volume for The Christian ScienceMonitor, “Martha Gellhorn’s courageous, independent-minded reportage breaks through geopolitical abstractions and ideological propaganda to take the reader straight to the scene of the event.”

Author : Mary Palevsky
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 23,71 MB
Release : 2000-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0520220552

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"Scientists Hans Bethe, Edward Teller, Joseph Rotblat, Herbert York, Philip Morrison, and Robert Wilson, and philosopher David Hawkins, responded to Palevsky's personal approach in a way that dramatically expands their previously published statements."--BOOK JACKET.