Tag: War

Free Download The Military Women in the World War II
by Josh Taylor
English | January 10, 2025 | ISBN: 823046667X | 101 Pages | True epub | 0,13 MB

Free Download International Intervention in the Post-Cold War World: Moral Responsibility and Power Politics By Michael C. Davis, Wolfgang Dietrich, Bettina Scholdan
2003 | 344 Pages | ISBN: 0765612445 | EPUB | 1 MB
International intervention on humanitarian grounds has been a contentious issue for decades. First, it pits the principle of state sovereignty against claims of universal human rights. Second, the motivations of intervening states may be open to question when avowals of moral action are arguably the fig leaf covering an assertion of power for political advantage. These questions have been salient in the context of the Balkan and African wars and U.S. policy in the Middle East. This volume undertakes a serious, systematic, and broadly international review of the issues.

Free Download Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front By Joel Salatin
2007 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0963810952 | EPUB | 1 MB
Drawing upon 40 years’ experience as an ecological farmer and marketer, Joel Salatin explains with humor and passion why Americans do not have the freedom to choose the food they purchase and eat. From child labor regulations to food inspection, bureaucrats provide themselves sole discretion over what food is available in the local marketplace. Their system favors industrial, global corporate food systems and discourages community-based food commerce, resulting in homogenized selection, mediocre quality, and exposure to non-organic farming practices. Salatin’s expert insight explains why local food is expensive and difficult to find and will illuminate for the reader a deeper understanding of the industrial food complex.

Free Download J. C. Grayson, "Treason in the Northern Quarter: War, Terror, and the Rule of Law in the Dutch Revolt"
English | 2009 | pages: 310 | ISBN: 0691135649, 0691178046 | PDF | 1,2 mb
In the spring of 1575, Holland’s Northern Quarter-the waterlogged peninsula stretching from Amsterdam to the North Sea-was threatened with imminent invasion by the Spanish army. Since the outbreak of the Dutch Revolt a few years earlier, the Spanish had repeatedly failed to expel the rebels under William of Orange from this remote region, and now there were rumors that the war-weary population harbored traitors conspiring to help the Spanish invade. In response, rebel leaders arrested a number of vagrants and peasants, put them on the rack, and brutally tortured them until they confessed and named their principals-a witch-hunt that eventually led to a young Catholic lawyer named Jan Jeroenszoon.

Free Download The Royal Navy in the Cold War Years, 1966-1990: Retreat and Revival by Edward Hampshire
English | August 15, 2024 | ISBN: 1399041231 | 798 pages | PDF | 31 Mb
The Royal Navy in the Cold War Years, 1966-1990: Retreat and Revival is the first book to cover this subject in depth for more than thirty years. With unique access to primary, archival sources, Edward Hampshire offers important and fascinating insights into the naval dimension of the Cold War. During the period covered by this new book the Royal Navy faced some of its greatestchallenges, both at sea confronting the increasingly capable and impressive Soviet Navy,and on shore when it faced policy crises that threatened the survival of much of the fleet.During this remarkable period, the Navy had rarely been so focused on a single theater ofwar-the Eastern Atlantic-but also rarely so politically vulnerable. The author sets out to analyze shadowing operations and confrontations at sea withSoviet ships and submarines; the Navy’s role in the enormous NATO and Warsaw Pactnaval exercises that acted out potential war scenarios; individual operations from theFalklands and the 1990-91 Gulf War to the Beira and Armilla patrols; the development ofadvanced naval technologies to counter Soviet capabilities; policy-making controversiesas the three services fought for resources-including the controversial 1981 Nott defensereview; and what life was like in the Cold War navy for ratings and officers. The book, thefirst to cover this subject in depth for more than thirty years, will make use of the full rangeof archival sources that have been publicly available over the last two decades, but ofwhich little use has been made by historians. This work is destined to become a definitive naval history of the period. It also provides afascinating and gripping narrative of a navy under threat from many directions but whichsurvived and eventually prospered, winning a remarkable victory in the far South Atlanticmore than seven thousand from its expected battleground in the North Atlantic. Written for a wide audience, this book will appeal to professional and enthusiast alike.

Free Download Ernest C. Coleman, "The Pig War: The Most Perfect War in History"
English | ISBN: 0752452274 | 2010 | 240 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
With a Description to grace any comic opera, the 1859-1872 "Pig War" broke out when an American living on a quietly disputed small island in the Gulf of Georgia (present-day San Juan Island in Washington State) shot a British pig he found rooting up his garden produce. The authorities on nearby Vancouver Island and the military leadership of adjacent Washington Territory both felt they had good reasons to escalate a trivial incident into a full-blown war between the U.S. and Great Britain. Soon, American soldiers found themselves looking down the barrels of the Royal Navy’s cannons. While both the British authorities and the Americans continued to threaten and bluster, the Royal Marines and their U.S. counterparts settled down to a round of social events, including sports days, combined dinners, and even summer balls. Despite the outbreak of the American Civil War, and British intervention on the Confederate side, it was decided that the problem should become one of the earliest examples of international arbitration. The German Kaiser was brought in-and came to the wrong decision. Set against the framework of U.S. attempts to gain control of the whole North American continent, this history is a highly readable account of a little-known episode in Anglo-American history.

Free Download Michael FitzGerald, "The Nazi Occult War: Hitler’s Compact with the Forces of Evil"
English | ISBN: 1782122141 | 2013 | 208 pages | MOBI | 21 MB
A gripping account of the occult and magical thinking that dominated Nazi beliefs and actions in the years leading up to and including the Second World War. Intriguing subjects covered include the Vril Society, the New Teutonic Knights, Black Camelot, the Nazi Occult Bureau, Atlantis, and Aryan science.

Free Download Vladimir Gennadyevich Shubin, "The Hot ‘Cold War’: The USSR in Southern Africa"
English | 2008 | pages: 337 | ISBN: 0745324738, 074532472X | PDF | 1,9 mb
This book analyses the causes of armed conflicts in Southern Africa during the Cold War. It examines the influence of the various external forces in the region during this period and their relationship to local movements and governments. The book focuses on states experiencing violent internal conflict and foreign intervention, that is Angola, Mozambique, Namibia , South Africa and Zimbabwe. The author provides an unique history of the key part that the Soviet Union played in these developments. Spanning 30 years, the book explores how each country struggled for genuine independence against colonialism and apartheid and their place in the wider conflicts encompassed by the Cold War.

Free Download William Wright, "A Tidy Little War: The British Invasion of Egypt 1882"
English | ISBN: 0752450905 | 2010 | 320 pages | EPUB | 458 KB
In 1882 the British invaded Egypt in an audacious war that gave them control of the country, and the Suez Canal, for more than 70 years. William Wright gives the first full account of that hard-fought and hitherto neglected campaign, which was not nearly as "tidy" as the British commander would later claim. Using unpublished documents and forgotten books, including the discovery of General Sir Garnet Wolseley’s diaries, Wright highlights how the Egyptian War, climaxing in the dawn battle of Tel-el-Kebir was altogether a close-run thing. The major combined services operation of the late Victorian era also saw the Royal Navy sail into battle for the last time in its old glory and the book has the first full account of the Bombardment of Alexandria.

Free Download A Thirst for Wine and War: The Intoxication of French Soldiers on the Western Front (Intoxicating Histories) by Adam D. Zientek
English | February 13, 2024 | ISBN: 0228019923, 0228019931 | True EPUB/PDF | 288 pages | 7.6/18.7 MB
Beginning in the fall of 1914, every French soldier on the Western Front received a daily ration of wine from the army. At first it was a modest quarter litre, but by 1917 it had increased to the equivalent of a full bottle each day. The wine ration was intended to sustain morale in the trenches, making the men more willing to endure suffering and boredom. The army also supplied soldiers with doses of distilled alcohol just before attacks to increase their ferocity and fearlessness. This strategic distribution of alcohol was a defining feature of French soldiers’ experiences of the war and amounted to an experimental policy of intoxicating soldiers for military ends.