Tag: War

Free Download Eduardo Faingold, "The Kalamata Diary: Greece, War, and Emigration"
English | ISBN: 0739128892 | 2010 | 210 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
From October 28, 1940 until February of 1947, Sotiria Salivaras provided a unique eye-witness account of life in Kalamata, Greece before, during, and after World War II through her meticulous diary entries. In The Kalamata Diary: Greece, War and Emigration, Eduardo D. Faingold carefully analyzes and contextualizes the major events in modern Greek history about which Salivaras writes in her diary. He examines the expulsion of the Greek minority from Turkey in the aftermath of World War I, as well as the occupation of Greece by the Axis powers during World War II and the Greek civil war. Following Salivaras from her teenage years in Greece to her adult life in Argentina, Faingold also explores immigration patterns from Greece to Argentina and Latin America. Drawing from extensive tape-recorded interviews with Salivaras and her sons, Faingold offers a glimpse into Salivaras’s life long after she ceased maintaining her diary.

Free Download The Ides of War: George Washington and the Newburgh Crisis (Studies in Rhetoric & Communication) by Stephen Howard Browne
English | April 13th, 2022 | ISBN: 161117659X | 152 pages | True EPUB | 0.67 MB
A history and analysis of how George Washington stopped an attempted military coup at the end of the American Revolutionary War.

Free Download The Hundred Years War, Volume 5: Triumph and Illusion (Hundred Years War) by Jonathan Sumption
English | December 5th, 2023 | ISBN: 0571274579 | 1006 pages | True EPUB | 4.70 MB
The eagerly anticipated final volume in Jonathan Sumption’s prize-winning history of the Hundred Years War, "one of the great historical undertakings of our age." ― Dan Jones, Sunday Times

Free Download The Ghost Army of World War II, Updated Edition by Rick Beyer, Elizabeth Sayles
English | October 10th, 2023 | ISBN: 1797225294 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 228.17 MB
"A riveting tale told through personal accounts and sketches along the way-ultimately, a story of success against great odds. I enjoyed it enormously." -Tom Brokaw

Free Download The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading by Andrew Pettegree
English | December 5th, 2023 | ISBN: 1541604342 | 480 pages | True EPUB | 124.05 MB
A "magisterial" (Sunday Times) illumination of how books were used in war across the twentieth century-both as weapons and as agents for peace

Free Download Yagil Henkin, "The 1956 Suez War and the New World Order in the Middle East: Exodus in Reverse"
English | ISBN: 0739187201 | 2015 | 340 pages | EPUB | 35 MB
The 1956 Suez War, fought between Egypt and the improbable coalition of Britain, France, and Israel, was a key point in the history of the Middle East and the Arab-Israeli conflict. A blitzkrieg-style Israeli victory proved that Israel’s victory in the 1948 war was not an accident to be swiftly fixed by Arab armies, and gave the country eleven years of relative peace until the next major conflict. An Anglo-French blunder marked the decline of British and French influence in the Middle East, to be replaced by Soviet and US involvement. Egyptian defiance of the great powers of the past marked the high point of Arab nationalism.

Free Download Task Force Hogan: The World War II Tank Battalion That Spearheaded the Liberation of Europe by William R. Hogan
English | November 7th, 2023 | ISBN: 0063272024 | 320 pages | True EPUB | 14.27 MB
A fourth-generation soldier tells the story of his father’s tank battalion, the "Spearhead," that selflessly led the charge on the front lines from Normandy into Germany-against impossible odds, technologically superior weaponry, and a fanatical enemy on its home turf-and the heroes whose sacrifice won World War II.

Free Download Peter Whitewood, "Soviet-Polish War and its Legacy, The: Lenin’s Defeat and the Rise of Stalinism"
English | ISBN: 1350238945 | 2023 | 244 pages | PDF | 4 MB

Free Download Kevin Gordon, "Seaford and Eastbourne in the Great War"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1783036427 | EPUB | pages: 176 | 6.9 mb
How the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Seaforth and Eastbourne were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. A record of the growing disillusion of the people, their tragedies and hardships and a determination to see it through. The Sussex seaside towns of Seaford and Eastbourne were closer to the action than most places; the sound of naval battles could be heard from the coast (and sometimes witnessed by those with a good pair of binoculars). When the wind was in the right direction the rumble of artillery from France bought the frontline into the streets. At the start of the Great War, Eastbourne was an elegant and blossoming resort and did its best to maintain its tourist trade despite the arrival of soldiers, aeroplanes, refugees and the wounded. Seaford was a much smaller resort with a population of under 4,000 however thousands of troops from all over the Empire were billeted in the area either at private homes or in two massive camps. The Seaford camps were the venue for training, parades, fighting, murder and even rioting. Nearby Newhaven became an important port in which provisions were transported to the front. Conscientious Objectors, some under threat of the death penalty worked on the docks and the nearby roads. In his book "Seaford and Eastbourne in the Great War" local historian, Kevin Gordon tells the story of how the conflict affected, not only these seaside towns but also of the soldiers (many of them teenagers) who answered the call to battle. It is a story of spies, schoolchildren and sacrifice; a story that, for many, ended in the cemetery at Seaford which today is one of the largest Commonwealth War Graves in the South of England.

Free Download Dorothy Horsfield, "Russia in the Wake of the Cold War: Perceptions and Prejudices"
English | ISBN: 149855217X | 2017 | 228 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Amid widespread and increasing alarm in Western strategic and foreign policy circles following Russia’s capture of Crimea, support for rebels in Ukraine, and military intervention in Syria, this study provides a timely and sophisticated analysis of the nature and intentions of post-Soviet government under President Vladimir Putin. Based on both Russian and non-Russian sources, this book examines the enduring Cold War legacies underpinning Western perceptions of contemporary Russia. It analyzes the ways in which the West has interpreted and reacted to Russia’s domestic authoritarianism and foreign policy behavior and argues for diplomatic engagement based on liberal pluralism.