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  • Change and Conflict in the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps since 1945

    par Anne Loveland ...
    Collections series Legacies of War
    Army chaplains have long played an integral part in America’s armed forces. In addition to conducting chapel activities on military installations and providing moral and spiritual support on the battlefield, they conduct memorial services for fallen soldiers, minister to survivors, offer counsel on everything from troubled marriages to military bureaucracy, and serve as families’ points of contact ... En savoir plus

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  • The Betrayed War Hero

    The Gripping True Story of a Combat Veteran

    par Nadia Rupniak ...
    Collections series World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension
    A daughter uncovers the hidden life of a decorated World War II hero—and the devastating legacy of war trauma and political betrayal that shaped generationsWhen Nadia Rupniak buried her father, she believed she knew the man who had ruled her childhood with harsh discipline and an explosive temper. Only after his death did she discover that he had been a highly decorated Polish officer and World ... En savoir plus

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  • Reporting World War II

    par G. Kurt Piehler, Ingo Trauschweizer, Steven Casey, Kendall Cosley, Alan Delozier, Carolyn Edy, Karen Garner, Larry Greene, Alexander Lovelace0, Nathaniel L. Moir1, Henry Oinas-Kukkonen2, James Austin Sandy3, Victoria Sotvedt4, Douglass K. Daniel5 ...
    Collections series World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension
    This set of essays offers new insights into the journalistic process and the pressures American front-line reporters experienced covering World War II. Transmitting stories through cable or couriers remained expensive and often required the cooperation of foreign governments and the American armed forces. Initially, reporters from a neutral America documented the early victories by Nazi Germany ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of World War II

    Modifié par G. Kurt Piehler, Jonathan Grant ...
    Collections series OXFORD HANDBOOKS SERIES
    World War II left virtually no nation or corner of the world untouched, dramatically transforming human life and society. It prompted the unprecedented mobilization of whole societies and witnessed a scale of state-sanctioned violence that staggers the imagination, with more than 100 million casualties. The war resulted in an almost complete collapse of any norms geared toward avoiding the ... En savoir plus

    $188.39 CAD

  • A Religious History of the American GI in World War II

    par G. Kurt Piehler ...
    Collections series Studies in War, Society, and the Military
    A Religious History of the American GI in World War II breaks new ground by recounting the armed forces’ unprecedented efforts to meet the spiritual needs of the fifteen million men and women who served in World War II. For President Franklin D. Roosevelt and many GIs, religion remained a core American value that fortified their resolve in the fight against Axis tyranny. While combatants turned to ... En savoir plus

    $71.99 CAD

  • At War

    The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond

    par David Kieran, Edwin A. Martini, Sahr Conway-Lanz, Stefan Aune, Nick Witham, Mark R. Wilson, Jennifer Mittelstadt, Christopher Hamner, Wilbur J. Scott0, Jana K. Lipman1, Christine Knauer2, Kara Dixon Vuic3, John M. Kinder4, Richard P. Tucker5, Susan L. Carruthers6, Bonnie M. Miller7, Scott Laderman8, Katherine Ellison9, William Watson0, G. Kurt Piehler1 ...
    Collections series War Culture
    The country’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its interventions around the world, and its global military presence make war, the military, and militarism defining features of contemporary American life. The armed services and the wars they fight shape all aspects of life—from the formation of racial and gendered identities to debates over environmental and immigration policy. Warfare and the ... En savoir plus

    $42.99 CAD

  • Remembering War the American Way

    par G. Kurt Piehler ...
    Wars do not fully end when the shooting stops. As G. Kurt Piehler reveals in this book, after every conflict from the Revolution to the Persian Gulf War, Americans have argued about how and for what deeds and heroes wars should be remembered.Drawing on sources ranging from government documents to Embalmer's Monthly, Piehler recounts efforts to commemorate wars by erecting monuments, designating ... En savoir plus

    $17.19 CAD

  • Encyclopedia of Military Science

    Modifié par G. Kurt Piehler ...
    The Encyclopedia of Military Science provides a comprehensive, ready-reference on the organization, traditions, training, purpose, and functions of today’s military. Entries in this four-volume work include coverage of the duties, responsibilities, and authority of military personnel and an understanding of strategies and tactics of the modern military and how they interface with political, social ... En savoir plus

    $666.99 CAD

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  • The Deaths of Others

    The Fate of Civilians in America's Wars

    par John Tirman ...
    Americans are greatly concerned about the number of our troops killed in battle--33,000 in the Korean War; 58,000 in Vietnam; 4,500 in Iraq--and rightly so. But why are we so indifferent, often oblivious, to the far greater number of casualties suffered by those we fight and those we fight for? This is the compelling, largely unasked question John Tirman answers in The Deaths of Others. Between ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Choices Under Fire

    Moral Dimensions of World War II

    par Michael Bess ...
    World War II was the quintessential “good war.” It was not, however, a conflict free of moral ambiguity, painful dilemmas, and unavoidable compromises. Was the bombing of civilian populations in Germany and Japan justified? Were the Nuremberg and Tokyo war crimes trials legally scrupulous? What is the legacy bequeathed to the world by Hiroshima? With wisdom and clarity, Michael Bess brings a fresh ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • Myth and the Greatest Generation

    A Social History of Americans in World War II

    par Kenneth Rose ...
    Myth and the Greatest Generation calls into question the glowing paradigm of the World War II generation set up by such books as The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw.Including analysis of news reports, memoirs, novels, films and other cultural artefacts Ken Rose shows the war was much more disruptive to the lives of Americans in the military and on the home front during World War II than is ... En savoir plus

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Pearl Harbor Myth

    par George Victor ...
    Did U.S. intelligence know of Japan's coming attack on Pearl Harbor? Did President Roosevelt know? If so, why did he withhold warnings from the commanders in Hawaii? The answers are embedded in the cogent analysis of The Pearl Harbor Myth. Based on voluminous data that does not appear in other books on the topic, it discusses in detail Roosevelt's developing strategy-both military and diplomatic ... En savoir plus

    $26.04 CAD