Tag: War

Free Download Trinh M. Luu, "Republican Vietnam, 1963-1975: War, Society, Diaspora "
English | ISBN: 0824895185 | 2023 | 324 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English-language scholarship all too often dismisses South Vietnam as an American creation, a product of US imperialism. Republican Vietnam, 1963-1975 boldly upends this depiction, exposing a diverse and dynamic portrait of the Second Republic. In twelve essays, each based on original archival research, the volume brings to life the Second Republic in all its complexities, displaying how politicians, students, educators, publishers, journalists, musicians, religious leaders, businessmen, and ordinary citizens built a highly intricate society―with dazzling entrepreneurial zeal, an outspoken press, globally engaged religions, a vibrant intellectual and associational culture, and a level of artistic production that remains unmatched since the Vietnam War. That inspired and frenzied age, though short lived, held a resilient spirit that Vietnamese refugees have kept alive. The trove of vernacular music and print media, not to mention the many associations the Vietnamese diaspora founded, exemplify the republican values that once energized South Vietnamese culture. But this nuanced society has appeared in popular media and American scholarship as a hopelessly dependent nation, led by corrupt dictators beholden to US interests. In contrast to such negative stereotypes, this account situates South Vietnamese front and center as agents of their own histories.

Free Download David Abrutat, "Radio War: The Secret Espionage War of the Radio Security Service 1938-1946"
English | ISBN: 1781557594 | 2020 | 224 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
During the Second World War German intelligence had deployed wireless teams throughout occupied Europe. Agents had even been deployed to mainland Britain to spy on British military activity. Monitoring and reporting of their wireless transmissions fell to a small, secretive and largely unknown unit manned almost exclusively by volunteers. The Voluntary Interceptors (VI) as they became known would spend hours every day at home monitoring the short wavelengths for often faint and difficult to copy signals transmitted by these German secret intelligence services. This unit was to become known as the Radio Security Service (RSS) and was at the core of the signals intelligence production effort at Bletchley and the insights into German military tactical and strategic planning. Without interceptors like the RSS, Bletchley would not have existed. Their story has never truly been written and

Free Download Phil W. Reynolds, "Ouroboros: Understanding the War Machine of Liberalism"
English | ISBN: 1498590918 | 2019 | 300 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
Looking at partisan groups such as the FLN, the Vietcong, and the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan, Ouroboros: Understanding the War Machine of Liberalism assesses how they convert their knowledge of self into tactical and strategic advantages that nullify the Clausewitzian advantages in the distribution of military power. Reynolds argues that liberalism has a global transformative mission that requires an ideologically democratic core and an illiberal periphery. By assessing the ouroboros, which sees action as definitive and final, the book explains how it powers the new strategy of preemption that intervenes in the periphery, ostensibly to set up democratic, security-centered adjuncts.

Free Download Of Love and War: Pacific Brides of World War II (Studies in Pacific Worlds) by Angela Wanhalla
English | December 1st, 2023 | ISBN: 1496205103 | 252 pages | True EPUB | 2.57 MB
Between 1942 and 1945 more than two million servicemen occupied the southern Pacific theater, the majority of whom were Americans in service with the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines. During the occupation, American servicemen married approximately 1,800 women from New Zealand and the island Pacific, creating legal bonds through marriage and through children. Additionally, American servicemen fathered an estimated four thousand nonmarital children with Indigenous women in the South Pacific Command Area.

Free Download Lisa Purse, "Mediating War and Identity: Figures of Transgression in 20th- and 21st-century War Representation"
English | ISBN: 1474446272 | 2022 | 226 pages | PDF | 6 MB
In state and public discussion about war and conflict, figures of transgression such as deserters, pacifist and emigrants are often marginalised, but they also play a key role in rethinking cultural and national identity in the wake of military violence. Raising questions of agency, responsibility and culpability in relation to the ‘other’, their cultural representation can enable reflection on and renegotiation of values and collective norms after the destabilisation of war.

Free Download Land Combat: From World War I to the Present Day by Martin J Dougherty
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1782743340 | 320 pages | True EPUB | 48.44 MB
Since 1914 the art and increasingly science of warfare has become ever deadlier. Tanks have become more mobile and more protected, artillery has come to dominate battlefields and even ordinary infantrymen are now equipped with body armour and lightweight fully automatic weapons, usually fitted with magnifying scopes.

Free Download Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J. Bass
English | October 17th, 2023 | ISBN: 1101947101 | 912 pages | True EPUB | 39.68 MB
A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals-the largely overlooked Asian counterpart to Nuremberg

Free Download Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia, UK Edition by Gary J. Bass
English | October 19th, 2023 | ISBN: 1509812741, 1509812768 | 912 pages | True EPUB | 14.62 MB
‘A work of singular importance . . . balanced, original, human, accessible, and riveting’ – Philippe Sands, author of East-West Street.

Free Download Irena’s Gift: An Epic World War II Memoir of Sisters, Secrets and Survival by Karen Kirsten
English | October 16th, 2023 | ISBN: 1837700443 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 3.34 MB
In 1942, in Nazi-occupied Poland, a Jewish child was smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto in a backpack. That child was Karen Kirsten’s mother, but she knew nothing about this extraordinary event until one day a letter arrived from a stranger.

Free Download Holy War: How Vasco da Gama’s Epic Voyages Turned the Tide in a Centuries-Old Clash of Civilizations by Nigel Cliff
English | September 6th, 2011 | ISBN: 0061735124 | 560 pages | True EPUB | 17.37 MB
A sweeping historical epic and a radical new interpretation of Vasco da Gama’s groundbreaking voyages, seen as a turning point in the struggle between Christianity and Islam