Tag: War

The Fatal Alliance A Century of War on Film


Free Download The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film by David Thomson
English | November 14, 2023 | ISBN: 0063041413 | True EPUB | 448 pages | 3 MB
"A marvelous bombshell of a book, by one of our most formidably knowledgeable and insightful writers on film, it is filled with surprises and witty asides. Though Thomson is quick to pounce on the hypocrisies and historical omissions of some of these war movies, there is nothing compromised about his own daredevil judgments. We are in the hands of a master critic/essayist."-Phillip Lopate

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Selective Security in the War on Drugs The Coloniality of State Power in Colombia and Mexico


Free Download Alke Jenss University of Freiburg Germany, "Selective Security in the War on Drugs: The Coloniality of State Power in Colombia and Mexico "
English | ISBN: 153815109X | 2023 | 298 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1113 KB + 4 MB
Paramilitaries, crime, and tens of thousands of disappeared persons-the so-called war on drugs has perpetuated violence in Latin America, at times precisely in regions of economic growth. Legal and illegal economy are difficult to distinguish. A failure of state institutions to provide security for its citizens does not sufficiently explain this.

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Powell and Pressburger’s War The Art of Propaganda, 1939-1946


Free Download Powell and Pressburger’s War: The Art of Propaganda, 1939-1946 by Garrett A. Sullivan Jr., Greg M. Colón Semenza
English | October 19, 2023 | ISBN: 9798765105733, 9798765105771, ASIN: B0BXBNS64P | True EPUB/PDF | 282 pages | 2.6/21.4 MB
A focused study on Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s cinematic contributions to the war effort, arguing for the centrality of propaganda to their work as film artists.

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Otto Dix and the Memorialization of World War I in German Visual Culture, 1914-1936


Free Download Otto Dix and the Memorialization of World War I in German Visual Culture, 1914-1936 (Visual Cultures and German Contexts) by Ann Murray
English | November 30, 2023 | ISBN: 1350354627 | True EPUB/PDF | 240 pages | 11.1/45.5 MB
This book examines the confrontational war pictures of Otto Dix (1891-1969) and explores their role in shaping the memory of World War I in Germany from 1914 to 1936.

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British Humour and the Second World War ‘Keep Smiling Through’


Free Download British Humour and the Second World War: ‘Keep Smiling Through’ (New Directions in Social and Cultural History) edited by Juliette Pattinson, Linsey Robb
English | June 29, 2023 | ISBN: 1350201669 | True EPUB | 230 pages | 3.3 MB
This book skilfully combines cutting-edge historical research by leading and emerging researchers in the field to investigate the utilization of British humour during the Second World War as well as its legacy in British popular culture.

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A Song of War A Novel of Troy


Free Download A Song of War: A Novel of Troy by Kate Quinn, Vicky Alvear, Simon Turney, Russell Whitfield, Stephanie Thornton, Libbie Hawker, David Alexander Blixt
English | November 21, 2023 | ISBN: 0063310651, ASIN: B0C6KN6H4S | True EPUB | 428 pages | 1.5 MB
Troy: city of gold, gatekeeper of the east, haven of the god-born and the lucky, a city destined to last a thousand years. But the Fates have other plans-the Fates, and a woman named Helen. In the shadow of Troy’s gates, all must be reborn in the greatest war of the ancient world: slaves and queens, heroes and cowards, seers and kings . . . and these are their stories.

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The Vietnam War [TTC Audio]


Free Download The Vietnam War [TTC Audio]
English | November 04, 2022 | ASIN: B0BL44BMQF | M4B@128 kbps | 11h 23m | 654 MB
Lecturer: John C. McManus
The war in Vietnam was initially a localized civil conflict-a bloody and brutal contest for state control between the communist government in the north and a Western-backed republican government in the south. But the war quickly became a global event. American involvement in the skies and on the ground sowed deep discontent and discord back home. Bombing campaigns spilled into neighboring Laos and Cambodia. Defense systems and new tech flowed to North Vietnam from major communist powers like China and the USSR. And a broad swath of ordinary people both inside of and beyond Vietnam-private citizens, army grunts, peace activists-were profoundly impacted by the fighting there.
In The Vietnam War, you will learn about the causes and consequences of the war in Vietnam. You will explore the scope of American intervention from air campaigns to large-scale military operations on the ground. You will survey the history of Vietnam from colonial Indochina onward, getting to know the homegrown ideas, personalities, and politics that would come to shape the conflict. You will reconstruct major military operations like the Tet Offensive and Rolling Thunder. You will examine the strategies used by US, South Vietnamese, and VC troops and determine their effectiveness in both the short and long term. And you will head to America to investigate the domestic politics of war, alongside the rise of a powerful anti-war movement that would come to define the decade.

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The Suburban Crisis White America and the War on Drugs [Audiobook]


Free Download Matthew D. Lassiter, Tom Beyer (Narrator), "The Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs"
English | ASIN: B0CLVSW5J6 | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~29:05:00 | 835 MB
Since the 1950s, the American war on drugs has positioned white middle-class youth as sympathetic victims of illegal drug markets who need rehabilitation instead of incarceration. The Suburban Crisis traces how politicians, the media, and grassroots political activists crusaded to protect white families from perceived threats while criminalizing and incarcerating urban minorities, and how a troubling legacy of racial injustice continues to inform the war on drugs today.
In this incisive political history, Matthew Lassiter shows how the category of the "white middle-class victim" has been as central to the politics and culture of the drug war as racial stereotypes like the "foreign trafficker," "urban pusher," and "predatory ghetto addict." He describes how the futile mission to safeguard and control white suburban youth shaped the enactment of the nation’s first mandatory-minimum drug laws in the 1950s, and how soaring marijuana arrests of white Americans led to demands to refocus on "real criminals" in inner cities.

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