Author: Jim Quinn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780975323786
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Fiction. Two raucous, funny and piercing stories--"Men in Love" and "America Strikes Back"--about the "wars" we live with--you've got a front row seat.
Author: Adam Hochschild
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547549210
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 501
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In this riveting and suspenseful New York Times best-selling book, Adam Hochschild brings WWI to life as never before... World War I was supposed to be the “war to end all wars.” Over four long years, nations around the globe were sucked into the tempest, and millions of men died on the battlefields. To this day, the war stands as one of history’s most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. To End All Wars focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war’s critics, alongside its generals and heroes. Many of these dissenters were thrown in jail for their opposition to the war, from a future Nobel Prize winner to an editor behind bars who distributed a clandestine newspaper on toilet paper. These critics were sometimes intimately connected to their enemy hawks: one of Britain’s most prominent women pacifist campaigners had a brother who was commander in chief on the Western Front. Two well-known sisters split so bitterly over the war that they ended up publishing newspapers that attacked each other. Hochschild forces us to confront the big questions: Why did so many nations get so swept up in the violence? Why couldn’t cooler heads prevail? And can we ever avoid repeating history?
Author: Ernest Gordon
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN: 0310340640
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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Now a major motion picture starring Robert Carlyle and Kiefer Sutherland "Waking from a dream, I suddenly realized where I was: in the Death House--in a prison camp by the River Kwai. I was a prisoner of war, lying among the dead, waiting for the bodies to be carried away so that I might have more room." When Ernest Gordon was twenty-four he was captured by the Japanese and forced, with other British prisoners, to build the notorious "Railroad of Death," where nearly 16,000 prisoners of war gave their life. Faced with the appalling conditions of the prisoners' camp and the brutality of the captors, he survived to become an inspiring example of the triumph of the human spirit against all odds. To End All Wars is Ernest Gordon's gripping true story behind both the Academy Award-winning film The Bridge on the River Kwai, starring Alec Guinness, and the new film To End All Wars, directed by David Cunningham.
Author: Michael Humphrey
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134479603
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 193
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The Politics of Atrocity and Reconciliation examines contemporary political violence and atrocity in the context of the crisis of the nation-state. It explores the way violence is used to unmake the social world and how its product: suffering, is used to try to remake the social world. Humphrey considers both the unmaking of the world through torture, war, urbicide and ethnic cleansing and the resultant remaking of the world through testimony and witnessing in the forums of truth commissions and trials. The discussion thus moves from terror to trauma.
Author: Gloria Sloan
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1973638347
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Gloria Sloan’s ABUNDANT Faith is a genuine inspiration. She exquisitely tells about her own faith-filled journey with divine gratitude. She structures her book with personal events, biblical references and insights that encourage the reader to reflect on their own journey through faith. A great book to read individually, with your spouse or as a book-club study guide designed in such a way to keep you energized with daily reflections and motivated with questions to explore.” —Carolyn Lepore, educator “ABUNDANT Faith is a book that will make you trust God more deeply and bring rich enlightenment and understanding of the journeys-of fellow pilgrims.” —Kenneth H. Hill, pastor, author, and educator in the African Methodist Episcopal Church Gloria knows all too well that suffering comes to everyone at the most unexpected times. In this beautifully written book you will clearly see how she wants us all to experience the miraculous healing balm that comes from having Abundant Faith. Whatever you’re going through right now, she will meet you there with her stories, deepen your faith through her experience so that you too can understand that Peace of God that surpasses all understanding.” —Kelly Bouchard, success strategist, motivational speaker and coach “Abundant Faith presents an inspiring conversation, especially for those of us who have cared for a sick child, relative, or friend. The byproduct of such a commitment is our own faith development and spiritual formation.” —James M. Harrison, executive minister, American Baptist Churches of the South
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Publisher: Robert Skyler
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 45
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Author: Carl Philipp G. von Clausewitz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Author: Dietrich Jung
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113446021X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Focusing on the political economy of so-called new wars, this book presents a series of studies that analyse the complexities of current warfare by moving from the global sphere to local spots of organised violence. It thus raises questions about the very idea of intra-state wars and shows that these wars are inseparably linked to the global econom
Author: Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Author: Howard Maxford
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476629145
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 993
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Think you know everything there is to know about Hammer Films, the fabled "Studio that Dripped Blood?" The lowdown on all the imperishable classics of horror, like The Curse of Frankenstein, Horror of Dracula and The Devil Rides Out? What about the company's less blood-curdling back catalog? What about the musicals, comedies and travelogues, the fantasies and historical epics--not to mention the pirate adventures? This lavishly illustrated encyclopedia covers every Hammer film and television production in thorough detail, including budgets, shooting schedules, publicity and more, along with all the actors, supporting players, writers, directors, producers, composers and technicians. Packed with quotes, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, credit lists and production specifics, this all-inclusive reference work is the last word on this cherished cinematic institution.
