Tag: Casualties

Free Download Bernard D. Rostker, "Providing for the Casualties of War: The American Experience Through World War II"
English | ISBN: 0833078356 | 2013 | 324 pages | EPUB | 14 MB
War has always been a dangerous business, bringing injury, wounds, and death, and-until recently-often disease. What has changed over time, most dramatically in the last 150 or so years, is the care these casualties receive and who provides it. This book looks at the history of how humanity has cared for its war casualties and veterans, from ancient times through the aftermath of World War II.

Free Download The Hidden Victims: Civilian Casualties of the Two World Wars
by Cormac Ó Gráda
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0691258759 | 521 Pages | PDF | 41 MB

Free Download The Hidden Victims: Civilian Casualties of the Two World Wars by Cormac Ó Gráda
English | September 3rd, 2024 | ISBN: 0691258759 | 520 pages | True EPUB | 68.74 MB
A staggering new account of the civilian death toll of the world wars-and what it reveals about the true nature and cost of modern war

Free Download John W. Busey, "Confederate Casualties at Gettysburg: A Comprehensive"
English | ISBN: 078646450X | 2016 | 2390 pages | PDF | 49 MB
This reference book provides information on 24,000 Confederate soldiers killed, wounded, captured or missing at the Battle of Gettysburg. Casualties are listed by state and unit, in many cases with specifics regarding wounds, circumstances of casualty, military service, genealogy and physical descriptions. Detailed casualty statistics are given in tables for each company, battalion and regiment, along with brief organizational information for many units. Appendices cover Confederate and Union hospitals that treated Southern wounded and Federal prisons where captured Confederates were interned after the battle. Original burial locations are provided for many Confederate dead, along with a record of disinterments in 1871 and burial locations in three of the larger cemeteries where remains were reinterred. A complete name index is included.

Free Download Casualties of the New World Order: The Causes of Failure of UN Missions to Civil Wars By Michael Wesley
1997 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 0333682440 | PDF | 15 MB
Casualties of the New World Order contends that the high rate of failure among post-Cold War UN missions are attributable to common weaknesses which are vulnerable to civil war dynamics. These mission weaknesses derive from the high level of control over the missions’ mandates and operations wielded by combinations of self-interested and distracted UN member-states. The effects of these weaknesses if examined in the failed missions in Bosnia, Somalia, and Angola, while their absence is observed in the successful missions to El Salvador, Mozambique, and Cambodia.