Author: Edward S Miller
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612511465
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Based on twenty years of research in formerly secret archives, this book reveals for the first time the full significance of War Plan Orange—the U.S. Navy's strategy to defeat Japan, formulated over the forty years prior to World War II.
War Plan Orange
Author: Edward S Miller
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612511465
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Based on twenty years of research in formerly secret archives, this book reveals for the first time the full significance of War Plan Orange—the U.S. Navy's strategy to defeat Japan, formulated over the forty years prior to World War II.
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612511465
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Based on twenty years of research in formerly secret archives, this book reveals for the first time the full significance of War Plan Orange—the U.S. Navy's strategy to defeat Japan, formulated over the forty years prior to World War II.
Where the Orange Blooms
Author: Thomas Taylor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Diamonds, Gold, and War
Author: Martin Meredith
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1586486772
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But then prospectors chanced upon the world's richest deposits of diamonds and gold, setting off a titanic struggle between the British and the Boers for control of the land. The result was the costliest, bloodiest, and most humiliating war that Britain had waged in nearly a century, and the devastation of the Boer republics. The New Yorker calls this magisterial account of those years “[an] astute history.… Meredith expertly shows how the exigencies of the diamond (and then gold) rush laid the foundation for apartheid.”
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1586486772
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But then prospectors chanced upon the world's richest deposits of diamonds and gold, setting off a titanic struggle between the British and the Boers for control of the land. The result was the costliest, bloodiest, and most humiliating war that Britain had waged in nearly a century, and the devastation of the Boer republics. The New Yorker calls this magisterial account of those years “[an] astute history.… Meredith expertly shows how the exigencies of the diamond (and then gold) rush laid the foundation for apartheid.”
Abraham Esau's War
Author: Bill Nasson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521530590
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This book describes the participation of black people in the conduct of the war, and their subsequent exclusion from the fruits of peace.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521530590
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This book describes the participation of black people in the conduct of the war, and their subsequent exclusion from the fruits of peace.
Hidden Histories of Gordonia
Author: Martin Legassick
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1868149552
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
The Gordonia region of the Northern Cape province has received relatively little attention from historians. In Hidden Histories of Gordonia: Land dispossession and resistance in the Northern Cape, 1800–1990, Martin Legassick explores aspects of the generally unknown ‘brown’ and ‘black’ history of the region. Emphasising the lives of ordinary people, his writing is also in part an exercise in ‘applied history’ – historical writing with a direct application to people’s lives in the present. Tracing the indigenous history of Gordonia as well as the northward movement of Basters and whites from the western Cape through Bushmanland to the Orange River, the book presents accounts of family histories, episodes of indigenous resistance to colonisation, and studies of the ultimate imposition of racial segregation and land dispossession on the inhabitants of the region. A recurrent theme is the question of identity and how the extreme ethnic fluidity and social mixing apparent in earlier times crystallised in the colonial period into racial identities, until with final conquest came imposed racial classification.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1868149552
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
The Gordonia region of the Northern Cape province has received relatively little attention from historians. In Hidden Histories of Gordonia: Land dispossession and resistance in the Northern Cape, 1800–1990, Martin Legassick explores aspects of the generally unknown ‘brown’ and ‘black’ history of the region. Emphasising the lives of ordinary people, his writing is also in part an exercise in ‘applied history’ – historical writing with a direct application to people’s lives in the present. Tracing the indigenous history of Gordonia as well as the northward movement of Basters and whites from the western Cape through Bushmanland to the Orange River, the book presents accounts of family histories, episodes of indigenous resistance to colonisation, and studies of the ultimate imposition of racial segregation and land dispossession on the inhabitants of the region. A recurrent theme is the question of identity and how the extreme ethnic fluidity and social mixing apparent in earlier times crystallised in the colonial period into racial identities, until with final conquest came imposed racial classification.
Soldier of Orange
Author: Erik Hazelhoff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781544732275
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Over one million copies of the book, a LA Critic's award for best foreign film starring Rutger Hauer, and presently a record-breaking musical ... here is the new US edition,(of Soldier of Orange) with the original foreword from HRH Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands.When the Germans bombed Rotterdam to rubble in May,1940, Erik Hazelhoff was a carefree student. After being imprisoned by the Gestapo, he escaped from Nazi-occupied Holland, was recruited by the British Secret Service to land agents for the Dutch underground, joined the RAF, earning Dutch and British DFC's for his many missions as a Pathfinder pilot. (His chapter on a Mosquito raid to Berlin is so detailed that one feels being with him in the cockpit!) He returned at the end of the war, knighted with Holland's highest military order by Wilhelmina, the Queen of the Netherlands. As her post-war ADC he brings one into her daily life with its challenges and surprises.'Soldier of Orange' is a riveting story. Its focus is on choices in time of war. Acts of heroism, friendship, and deceit form the fate of his early fellow students and war-time comrades. (Those wanting to know more of Erik Hazelhoff's entire life ("a hundred lives'" according to Len Deighton) should look for 'Win A Few' , his autobiography from birth in Java, through international intrigues and American adventures, to his final resting place at 90, in Hawaii)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781544732275
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Over one million copies of the book, a LA Critic's award for best foreign film starring Rutger Hauer, and presently a record-breaking musical ... here is the new US edition,(of Soldier of Orange) with the original foreword from HRH Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands.When the Germans bombed Rotterdam to rubble in May,1940, Erik Hazelhoff was a carefree student. After being imprisoned by the Gestapo, he escaped from Nazi-occupied Holland, was recruited by the British Secret Service to land agents for the Dutch underground, joined the RAF, earning Dutch and British DFC's for his many missions as a Pathfinder pilot. (His chapter on a Mosquito raid to Berlin is so detailed that one feels being with him in the cockpit!) He returned at the end of the war, knighted with Holland's highest military order by Wilhelmina, the Queen of the Netherlands. As her post-war ADC he brings one into her daily life with its challenges and surprises.'Soldier of Orange' is a riveting story. Its focus is on choices in time of war. Acts of heroism, friendship, and deceit form the fate of his early fellow students and war-time comrades. (Those wanting to know more of Erik Hazelhoff's entire life ("a hundred lives'" according to Len Deighton) should look for 'Win A Few' , his autobiography from birth in Java, through international intrigues and American adventures, to his final resting place at 90, in Hawaii)
War in South Africa and the Dark Continent from Savagery to Civilization
Author: William Harding
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boer War
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boer War
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Agent Orange
Author: Edwin A. Martini
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781558499744
Category : Agent Orange
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
5. "All Those Others So Unfortunate": Vietnam and the Global Legacies of the Chemical War -- Conclusion: Agent Orange and the Limits of Science and History -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781558499744
Category : Agent Orange
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
5. "All Those Others So Unfortunate": Vietnam and the Global Legacies of the Chemical War -- Conclusion: Agent Orange and the Limits of Science and History -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover
World War Z
Author: Max Brooks
Publisher: Broadway Books
ISBN: 0770437400
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
An account of the decade-long conflict between humankind and hordes of the predatory undead is told from the perspective of dozens of survivors who describe in their own words the epic human battle for survival, in a novel that is the basis for the June 2013 film starring Brad Pitt. Reissue. Movie Tie-In.
Publisher: Broadway Books
ISBN: 0770437400
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
An account of the decade-long conflict between humankind and hordes of the predatory undead is told from the perspective of dozens of survivors who describe in their own words the epic human battle for survival, in a novel that is the basis for the June 2013 film starring Brad Pitt. Reissue. Movie Tie-In.
Agent Orange and Rural Development in Post-war Vietnam
Author: Vu Le Thao Chi
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000045013
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Vu tells the story of Vietnamese farmers who have survived a 30-year war of independence and unification, its damaging legacies in their living environment, and the unfamiliar pressure of the market economy. Vietnamese famers are neither simply obedient beneficiaries of policy decisions made by higher authorities nor convention-ridden cyphers. Rather, they are sophisticated decision-makers capable of navigating the changes threatening to disrupt their lives over multiple generations. Vu’s research pays particular attention to those farmers whose families have suffered from direct and indirect exposure to the toxic herbicides popularly known as Agent Orange. She demonstrates that their priority has tended to be the protection of their existing assets, rather than pursuing the promise of new riches, and that this tendency has helped them maintain stability in a turbulent economic environment. A fascinating study for scholars of Vietnamese anthropology and society, the book will also be of interest to sociologists and economists with a broader interest in the impact of economic and political change on rural lifestyles.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000045013
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Vu tells the story of Vietnamese farmers who have survived a 30-year war of independence and unification, its damaging legacies in their living environment, and the unfamiliar pressure of the market economy. Vietnamese famers are neither simply obedient beneficiaries of policy decisions made by higher authorities nor convention-ridden cyphers. Rather, they are sophisticated decision-makers capable of navigating the changes threatening to disrupt their lives over multiple generations. Vu’s research pays particular attention to those farmers whose families have suffered from direct and indirect exposure to the toxic herbicides popularly known as Agent Orange. She demonstrates that their priority has tended to be the protection of their existing assets, rather than pursuing the promise of new riches, and that this tendency has helped them maintain stability in a turbulent economic environment. A fascinating study for scholars of Vietnamese anthropology and society, the book will also be of interest to sociologists and economists with a broader interest in the impact of economic and political change on rural lifestyles.