Tag: War

Free Download Arctic Convoys: Bletchley Park and the War for the Seas (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CN1MWYVV | 2023 | 10 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 308 MB
Author: David Kenyon
Narrator: Mike Cooper
An incisive account of the Arctic convoys, and the essential role Bletchley Park and Special Intelligence played in Allied success. Between 1941 and 1945, more than eight hundred shiploads of supplies were delivered to the Soviet Union protected by allied naval forces. Each journey was a battle against the elements, with turbulent seas, extreme cold, and the constant dread of torpedoes. These Arctic convoys have been mythologized as defenseless vessels at the mercy of deadly U-boats-but was this really the case?

Free Download Ruben Andersson, "Wreckonomics: Why It’s Time to End the War on Everything"
English | ISBN: 0197645925 | 2023 | 352 pages | PDF | 11 MB
The United States’ ignominious exit from Afghanistan in 2021 topped two decades of failure and devastation wrought by the war on terror. A long-running "fight against migration" has stoked chaos and rights abuses while pushing migrants onto more dangerous routes. For its part, the war on drugs has failed to dampen narcotics demand while fueling atrocities from Mexico to the Philippines. Why do such "failing" policies persist for so long? And why do politicians keep feeding the very crises they say they are combating?

Free Download Putin’s War and the Re-Opening of History by Jean-François Caron
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 108 Pages | ISBN : 9819981662 | 2 MB
This book explores the emerging politics of Eurasia from the vantage point of Kazakhstan. Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine in February 2022 has led to the end of the post-Cold War paradigm of liberal convergence and has triggered a geopolitical shift that will lead to the establishment of a renewed bipolar world order. However, if Russia is responsible for that shift, it will most likely not be the power that will be the leading force of the anti-Western bloc. The leading force of this emerging bloc will rather be China to which Russia is inevitably destined to be relegated as a junior partner in Beijing’s geopolitical orbit. This book, analyzing the geopolitics of a changing region, will interest scholars of international relations, Eurasia, and the economics of energy.

Free Download Farhan M. Chak, "Nuclear Flashpoint: The War Over Kashmir"
English | ISBN: 0745346162 | 2023 | 240 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
"An urgent and trenchant examination of Kashmir. Beautifully meshing history with modern political analysis, Chak masterfully interrogates the flashpoints that make the Kashmir crisis one of the most politically sensitive issues in modern world history" Khaled A. Beydoun, Law Professor and author of American Islamophobia

Free Download Grkem Akgz, "In the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialisation, Nation-building, and Working-class Politics in Turkey "
English | ISBN: 9004416749 | 2023 | 392 pages | PDF | 51 MB
In the Shadow of War and Empire tells the story of how workers in Turkey, who were recategorised from imperial subjects to citizens, lived and worked through the simultaneous processes of postimperial nation-building and state-led industrialisation, and struggled to be heard amid the thunder of nationalist developmentalism.

Free Download Diane Carlson Evans, "Healing Wounds: A Vietnam War Combat Nurse’s 10-Year Fight to Win Women a Place of Honor in Washington, D.C."
English | ISBN: 1682619125 | 2020 | 288 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
What is the price of honor? It took ten years for Vietnam War nurse Diane Carlson Evans to answer that question-and the answer was a heavy one.

Free Download Derek Robbins, "French Post-War Social Theory: International Knowledge Transfer "
English | ISBN: 0761949720 | 2011 | 216 pages | EPUB | 465 KB
French social and philosophical thought has played a very significant role in the development of European and American social theory. This detailed, timely book provides a map of the production and reception of French social thought within a global sociological context. Critically comparing the work of five key theorists Derek Robbins examines how their ideas were produced and received before persuasively setting out the key differences between their philosophical and ideological positions. The book sensitively traces the cross-currents of social theory and confidently leads the reader through the complex foundations of Western social thought. Each chapter represents a textual analysis of the production of a critical intellectual and focuses upon the work of Althusser, Foucault, Aron, Lyotard, and Bourdieu.

Free Download Anselm Heinrich, "Dramaturgies of War: Institutional Dramaturgy, Politics, and Conflict in 20th-Century Germany"
English | ISBN: 3031393171 | 2024 | 296 pages | EPUB, PDF | 12 MB + 5 MB
This book examines the institutional contexts of dramaturgical practices in the changing political landscape of 20th century Germany. Through wide-ranging case studies, it discusses the way in which operationalised modes of action, legal frameworks and an established profession have shaped dramaturgical practice and thus links to current debates around the "institutional turn" in theatre and performance studies. German theatre represents a rich and well-chosen field as it is here where the role of the dramaturg was first created and where dramaturgy played a significantly politicised role in the changing political systems of the 20th century. The volume represents an important addition to a growing field of work on dramaturgy by contributing to a historical contextualisation of current practice. In doing so, it understands dramaturgy not only as a process which occurs in rehearsal rooms and writers’ studies, but one that has far wider institutional and political implications.

Free Download Michael Brown, "Bannockburn: The Scottish War and the British Isles 1307-1323"
English | ISBN: 0748633324 | 2008 | 216 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The battle of Bannockburn, fought on the fields south of Stirling at midsummer 1314, is the best known event in the history of Medieval Scotland. It was a unique event. The clash of two armies, each led by a king, followed a clear challenge to a battle to determine the status of Scotland. As a key point in the Anglo-Scottish wars of the fourteenth century, the battle has been extensively discussed, but Bannockburn was also a pivotal event in the history of the British Isles. This book analyses the road to Bannockburn, the campaign of 1314 and the aftermath of the fight. It demonstrates that in both its context and legacy the battle had a central significance in the shaping of nations and identities in the late Medieval British Isles.

Free Download Alexios Alecou, "Acceleration of History: War, Conflict, and Politics"
English | ISBN: 1498540686 | 2016 | 174 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
We willingly imagine that the speed of development of events has always remained constant here on earth. This is reflected in the fact that it is generally believed that the rate of natural phenomena is the same today as it has always been in the past and will remain this way more or less in the future. It is, now, a fact that the speed of progression of events is not constant over time. It was ascertained that since around the beginning of the 20th century the rate has accelerated in various fields, hence the term "acceleration of history" came to describe this phenomenon. This acceleration continues its course today and will even intensify.