Author: Lara Leigh Kelland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781625343420
Category : Civil rights movement
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In a long line of protest -- The Civil Rights Movement and a new collective memory -- Knowledge of self liberation and education through black separatist collective memory -- A history of one's own -- Feminist collective memory in the second wave Women's Movement -- Scripted to win -- Collective memory in the Gay Liberation Movement -- For the sake of cultural survival -- Red power and collective memory
A Foot Soldier for Patton
Author: Michael C. Bilder
Publisher: Casemate
ISBN: 1935149628
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This candid memoir of a GI serving under Gen. Patton offers a rare glimpse into the realities of life and combat in Europe during WWII. Though Gen. Patton’s army is famous for dashing armored attacks, some of the most intensive fighting of World War II was done by Patton’s infantry—the foot sloggers who were deployed to reduce enemy strong points. This candid account of the US infantry in the European theater takes the reader from the beaches of Normandy to the conquest of Germany—all through the eyes of an infantryman who had the unique perspective of speaking the enemy’s language. A fluent German speaker, Michael Bilder was called upon for interrogations and other special duties. As a combat lifeguard, he also played a key role in successive river crossings. Here, Bilder relates his experiences of infantry life, from German snipers to intoxicated Frenchwomen, to the often morbid humor of combat. He also describes the Battle of Metz in all its horror, as well as the 5th Infantry’s drive into the Bulge, where they faced their first winter battle against enemy veterans of Russia.
Publisher: Casemate
ISBN: 1935149628
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This candid memoir of a GI serving under Gen. Patton offers a rare glimpse into the realities of life and combat in Europe during WWII. Though Gen. Patton’s army is famous for dashing armored attacks, some of the most intensive fighting of World War II was done by Patton’s infantry—the foot sloggers who were deployed to reduce enemy strong points. This candid account of the US infantry in the European theater takes the reader from the beaches of Normandy to the conquest of Germany—all through the eyes of an infantryman who had the unique perspective of speaking the enemy’s language. A fluent German speaker, Michael Bilder was called upon for interrogations and other special duties. As a combat lifeguard, he also played a key role in successive river crossings. Here, Bilder relates his experiences of infantry life, from German snipers to intoxicated Frenchwomen, to the often morbid humor of combat. He also describes the Battle of Metz in all its horror, as well as the 5th Infantry’s drive into the Bulge, where they faced their first winter battle against enemy veterans of Russia.
Clio's Foot Soldiers
Author: Lara Leigh Kelland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781625343420
Category : Civil rights movement
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In a long line of protest -- The Civil Rights Movement and a new collective memory -- Knowledge of self liberation and education through black separatist collective memory -- A history of one's own -- Feminist collective memory in the second wave Women's Movement -- Scripted to win -- Collective memory in the Gay Liberation Movement -- For the sake of cultural survival -- Red power and collective memory
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781625343420
Category : Civil rights movement
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In a long line of protest -- The Civil Rights Movement and a new collective memory -- Knowledge of self liberation and education through black separatist collective memory -- A history of one's own -- Feminist collective memory in the second wave Women's Movement -- Scripted to win -- Collective memory in the Gay Liberation Movement -- For the sake of cultural survival -- Red power and collective memory
The Foot Soldiers
Author: Gerald Seymour
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1529340438
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
'[A] masterly novel' - The Sunday Times 'Strong echoes of George Smiley' - Financial Times 'A novel of real quality. Top brass' - The Times Thriller of the Month ***** Beware of Russians bearing gifts. Defectors are not always welcome. Is the information they bring worth the cost of protecting them for the rest of their lives? Is it even genuine? Might they be double agents? These are some of the questions facing MI6 when a Russian agent hands himself in to them in Denmark. As a team begins to assess his value, his former employers in the Kremlin develop a brutal plan to show that no defector will ever be safe. And they know where to find him. Which means there must be a mole in MI6. So it is that the cavaliers of Six find themselves being interrogated by nondescript Jonas Merrick of Five - the man called back from retirement and his beloved caravan, the man the young guns call the Eternal Flame because 'he never goes out.' But while he may be grey, Jonas is also ruthless. As he quietly works through the suspects in London, and violent mayhem breaks out in Denmark, Jonas plans not just to unmask a traitor, but to hit back at the Russians with deadly force. First encountered in The Crocodile Hunter, Jonas Merrick is set to become one of the great figures of modern spy fiction. ***** Readers love THE FOOT SOLDIERS: 'I was completely gripped by the plot and interdepartmental jealousies and rivalries. I couldn't put it down!' ***** 'A book that fans of the George Smiley series will love' ***** 'A brilliant, suspenseful and contemporary thriller . . . A wonderfully complex and unputdownable tale of defectors, traitors, internal politics . . . and assassination' ***** 'Seymour continues to carry the flame for the espionage genre, and his sublime creation, Jonas Merrick, a 21st-century George Smiley . . . is slowly but surely becoming a classic literary creation' ****
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1529340438
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
'[A] masterly novel' - The Sunday Times 'Strong echoes of George Smiley' - Financial Times 'A novel of real quality. Top brass' - The Times Thriller of the Month ***** Beware of Russians bearing gifts. Defectors are not always welcome. Is the information they bring worth the cost of protecting them for the rest of their lives? Is it even genuine? Might they be double agents? These are some of the questions facing MI6 when a Russian agent hands himself in to them in Denmark. As a team begins to assess his value, his former employers in the Kremlin develop a brutal plan to show that no defector will ever be safe. And they know where to find him. Which means there must be a mole in MI6. So it is that the cavaliers of Six find themselves being interrogated by nondescript Jonas Merrick of Five - the man called back from retirement and his beloved caravan, the man the young guns call the Eternal Flame because 'he never goes out.' But while he may be grey, Jonas is also ruthless. As he quietly works through the suspects in London, and violent mayhem breaks out in Denmark, Jonas plans not just to unmask a traitor, but to hit back at the Russians with deadly force. First encountered in The Crocodile Hunter, Jonas Merrick is set to become one of the great figures of modern spy fiction. ***** Readers love THE FOOT SOLDIERS: 'I was completely gripped by the plot and interdepartmental jealousies and rivalries. I couldn't put it down!' ***** 'A book that fans of the George Smiley series will love' ***** 'A brilliant, suspenseful and contemporary thriller . . . A wonderfully complex and unputdownable tale of defectors, traitors, internal politics . . . and assassination' ***** 'Seymour continues to carry the flame for the espionage genre, and his sublime creation, Jonas Merrick, a 21st-century George Smiley . . . is slowly but surely becoming a classic literary creation' ****
Birmingham Foot Soldiers
Author: Nick Patterson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781626192201
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., Andrew Young and Fred Shuttlesworth are iconic names associated with the Birmingham campaign of the civil rights movement. But credit is also due to many local residents who risked their lives for the cause. In this book, the author interviews some of these people and recounts the struggle and adversity they overcame.--From back cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781626192201
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., Andrew Young and Fred Shuttlesworth are iconic names associated with the Birmingham campaign of the civil rights movement. But credit is also due to many local residents who risked their lives for the cause. In this book, the author interviews some of these people and recounts the struggle and adversity they overcame.--From back cover.
Napoleonic Foot Soldiers and Civilians
Author: Rafe Blaufarb
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN: 1319242723
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
By highlighting the experiences of common soldiers and civilians, this volume by Rafe Blaufarb and Claudia Liebeskind presents a broad view of the Napoleonic Wars not found in typical military histories. The introduction recounts the key events of the wars and how they marked a shift in the modern notion of “total war” and provides necessary political and military background on the issues of recruitment and evasion, the military community, combat and its aftermath, the homefront, and demobilization. The rich collection of memoirs, letters, and popular engravings -- from familiar sources such as German infantryman Jakob Walter to an account of a French woman canteen worker -- offers contrasting voices, some offered here in English for the first time. These documents and images explore core civil-military interactions, including foraging, plunder, sexuality, violence, eating, religion, and commerce. Headnotes to the documents, a chronology, questions for consideration, and a selected bibliography provide pedagogical support.
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN: 1319242723
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
By highlighting the experiences of common soldiers and civilians, this volume by Rafe Blaufarb and Claudia Liebeskind presents a broad view of the Napoleonic Wars not found in typical military histories. The introduction recounts the key events of the wars and how they marked a shift in the modern notion of “total war” and provides necessary political and military background on the issues of recruitment and evasion, the military community, combat and its aftermath, the homefront, and demobilization. The rich collection of memoirs, letters, and popular engravings -- from familiar sources such as German infantryman Jakob Walter to an account of a French woman canteen worker -- offers contrasting voices, some offered here in English for the first time. These documents and images explore core civil-military interactions, including foraging, plunder, sexuality, violence, eating, religion, and commerce. Headnotes to the documents, a chronology, questions for consideration, and a selected bibliography provide pedagogical support.
Foot Soldiers for Democracy
Author: Horace Huntley
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252076680
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Firsthand accounts from the Civil Rights Movement's frontlines
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252076680
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Firsthand accounts from the Civil Rights Movement's frontlines
Footsoldiers: Political Party Membership in the 21st Century
Author: Tim Bale
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351400223
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This accessible, rigorously researched and highly revealing book lifts the lid on political party membership. It represents the first in-depth study of six of the UK's biggest parties – Labour, the Conservatives, the Scottish National Party, the Liberal Democrats, UK Independence Party and the Greens – carried out simultaneously, thereby providing invaluable new insights into members' social characteristics, attitudes, activities and campaigning, reasons for joining and leaving, and views on how their parties should be run and who should represent them. In short, at a time of great pressure on, and change across parties, this book helps us discover not only what members want out of their parties but what parties want out of their members. This text is essential reading for those interested in political parties, party membership, elections and campaigning, representation, and political participation, be they scholars and students of British and comparative politics, or politicians, journalists and party members – in short, anyone who cares about the future of representative democracy.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351400223
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This accessible, rigorously researched and highly revealing book lifts the lid on political party membership. It represents the first in-depth study of six of the UK's biggest parties – Labour, the Conservatives, the Scottish National Party, the Liberal Democrats, UK Independence Party and the Greens – carried out simultaneously, thereby providing invaluable new insights into members' social characteristics, attitudes, activities and campaigning, reasons for joining and leaving, and views on how their parties should be run and who should represent them. In short, at a time of great pressure on, and change across parties, this book helps us discover not only what members want out of their parties but what parties want out of their members. This text is essential reading for those interested in political parties, party membership, elections and campaigning, representation, and political participation, be they scholars and students of British and comparative politics, or politicians, journalists and party members – in short, anyone who cares about the future of representative democracy.
The Footsoldiers
Author: William Crooks
Publisher: [Brookvale, N.S.W.] : Printcraft Press [for the 2/33rd Australian Infantry Battalion, A.I.F. Association
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Publisher: [Brookvale, N.S.W.] : Printcraft Press [for the 2/33rd Australian Infantry Battalion, A.I.F. Association
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Line Doggie
Author: Charles Gadd
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671662431
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This dramatic autobiography should appeal to all Vietnam and military history buffs. Here is an incredible story of guts and courage, of those who died in the Vietnam War and those who made it out alive--as only someone who lived it can tell it.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671662431
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This dramatic autobiography should appeal to all Vietnam and military history buffs. Here is an incredible story of guts and courage, of those who died in the Vietnam War and those who made it out alive--as only someone who lived it can tell it.
Shadow Armies
Author: Dhirendra K. Jha
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789386228246
Category : Hinduism and politics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789386228246
Category : Hinduism and politics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description