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  • Sweden, Japan, and the Long Second World War

    1931-1945

    Series series Routledge Studies in Second World War History
    We thank Ekman & Co AB and Gadelius Holding Ltd for their kind and generous support, making this research available online for free.Lottaz and Ottosson explore the intricate relationship between neutral Sweden and Imperial Japan during the latter’s 15 years of warfare in Asia and in the Pacific. While Sweden’s relationship with European Axis powers took place under the premise of existential ... Read more

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  • Crusade: The Uses of a Word from the Middle Ages to the Present

    Edited by Benjamin Weber ...
    Series series Crusades - Subsidia
    The word ‘crusade’ covers today a wide variety of meanings in most European languages. The link between these uses and the historical phenomenon labelled as ‘crusade’ by historians is often very narrow and particularly changing. Understanding the real meaning of the word ‘crusade’, its connotations and implications, and thus the conscious or unconscious intentions of its uses requires a precise ... Read more

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  • Notes from Underground: A Cold War Missileer Goes Home

    by Paul Kijinski ...
    The author, a missile launch control officer in the waning years of the Cold War, returns to his old Air Force unit in North Dakota. His goal is to learn firsthand how today's missileers are faring in the gray environment of the post-Cold War era. Have they managed to maintain a sense of mission, and if so, upon what is it founded? Do they harbor any bitterness toward military or political leaders ... Read more

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  • In Search of Canaan

    Black Migration to Kansas, 1879-80

    Word spread across the southern farm country, and into the minds of those who labored over cotton or sugar crops, that the day of reckoning was near at hand, that the Lord had answered black prayers with the offer of deliverance in a western Eden. In this vast state where Brown had caused blood to flow in his righteous wrath, there was said to be land for all, and land especially for poor blacks ... Read more

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  • AFV Alphabet

    Russell Phillips wrote an "A to Z" series of blog posts around the theme of AFVs (Armoured Fighting Vehicles). They have been edited and collated into this ebook. ... Read more

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  • Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain

    Series series Material Culture and Modern Conflict
    How do children cope when their world is transformed by war? This book draws on memory narratives to construct an historical anthropology of childhood in Second World Britain, focusing on objects and spaces such as gas masks, air raid shelters and bombed-out buildings. In their struggles to cope with the fears and upheavals of wartime, with families divided and familiar landscapes lost or ... Read more

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  • Researching Non-state Actors in International Security

    Theory and Practice

    Series series Routledge Critical Security Studies
    This volume provides researchers and students with a discussion of a broad range of methods and their practical application to the study of non-state actors in international security.All researchers face the same challenge, not only must they identify a suitable method for analysing their research question, they must also apply it. This volume prepares students and scholars for the key challenges ... Read more

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  • StormnStress

    by Phil Tamarr ...
    In this work the author presents an argument that the Empire of Germany, created by Count von Bismarck in 1871 subsequent to Prussia’s defeat of France, was presented in the year 1899 with an opportunity to supplant Great Britain as the world’s leading power.The fact that Germany did not do so was down essentially to a quibble: whether it was important, or not, at the time, to ally your nation ... Read more

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  • The Pattern of History and Fate of Humanity

    Every great nation eventually faces the war it fears most, and seeks to avoid. That’s as true today as any other time in history. We stand on the abyss of another world war. Download the free book, find out if our fate can be changed – or is humanity doomed?This book has come out of many years of research and is based on an experience in the late 90s, when I realized that the threat of global ... Read more

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  • Still Downrange, but in Country: PTSD Parables

    by David Lefavor ...
    For those who have endured the battle; wars, unlike fairy tales, rarely end happily-ever-after. For homecomings, victory speeches, and parades quickly fade and are replaced by the quotidian rhythms of life—rhythms consisting of conscious and unconscious memories that are simultaneously distant but ever-near. These are the memories that both reveal and hide the psychic, social, and spiritual wounds ... Read more

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  • The Ficuses in the Open

    Although the number of personae dramatis is pretty limited—they are just a family and their closest relatives and neighbors as well as a pinch of colleagues from the demised establishment, and though the action mostly consist of monotonous household chores, this here artifact is an attempt at honestly depicting the besieged Stepanakert town in winter 1992 when physical survival was the foremost ... Read more

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  • Pauulu’s Diaspora

    Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice

    by Quito J. Swan ...
    Choice Outstanding Academic TitleFinalist, Association for the Study of African American Life and History Book PrizeHonorable Mention, Organization of American Historians Liberty Legacy Foundation AwardA Black Perspectives Best Black History Book of 2020Winner of the African American Intellectual History Society Pauli Murray Book PrizeBermuda Literar... ... Read more

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  • Killing Korea: The Fight for Control of Korea

    by Victor Maere ...
    How two opposing sides killed Korea in an effort to save it.You surely have heard something about the Korean War. Or the Forgotten War as some call it.But do you really know all that happened?Have you heard the personal stories from the people who actually saw or did the fighting?If you haven't, you are in for a treat.While the war was among the shortest in history, it left an invisible mark - a ... Read more

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  • Warriors and Politicians

    US Civil-Military Relations under Stress

    Series series Cass Military Studies
    With historical case studies ranging from the Revolutionary War to the war in Iraq, this new book shows how and why the US military is caught between two civilian masters – the President and Congress – in responding to the challenges of warfighting, rearmament, and transformation.Charles Stevenson skilfully shows how, although the United States has never faced the danger of a military coup, the ... Read more

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  • World War 2 History: Eyewitness Accounts: Crimes Of The German FBK & SS

    World War 2 History

    Series series World War 2 History
    When Heinrich Himmler was appointed as its fourth leader in 1929, the SS consisted of less than three hundred volunteers whose job was to protect Nazi Party speakers. The SS was so short of cash that its members had to provide their own uniforms and fund their own meetings and transport.By the end of World War Two, just sixteen years later, more than one million men had served in the combat arm of ... Read more

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  • Korean Echoes

    by Tom Sheehan ...
    Reading the 45 pieces of Korean Echoes draws the reader into piecing together a puzzle, each piece a small measure of the Korean War soldier's world, a world wholly embedded in the deepest design at the heart of human experience, embedded as if words were shrapnel, steel moments of clarity rendered from language and pounded into consciousness through Tom Sheehan's craftsmanship, each piece of his ... Read more

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  • Alexander The Great: A Life From Beginning To End

    by Henry Freeman ...
    What does it mean to be great? There have been many that have come through the sands of time proclaiming their own greatness. We see it in the news every day; leaders, heroes, tyrants, and even reality star presidential candidates claim that they are great. But what about Alexander the Great?Inside you will read about...✓ Alexander and the Happiness of Horses✓ Aristotle and the First Day of School ... Read more

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  • Memories of Nam

    by Ron Gannon ...
    A story about my adventure in Vietnam from May '68 to May '69. ... Read more

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  • Eventful War

    This is Nick's new anti war poetry collection about World War Two. A very varied collection of work in several different poem styles like verse, rhyme and Haiku. There are poems on the machines of war like the Hurricane fighter, on the bomber plane, on U-Boats, and tanks. The men who did the fighting and those who sent them off to war are covered. Why would two brothers fight one another on ... Read more

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  • Poker According to Sun Tzu

    by Mike Evan ...
    Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” has been studied by great military leaders throughout the centuries. Its methods have shaped military strategy and tactics, even up to the present day. Along the way, many have found its teachings valuable for a host of non-martial fields, such as business, management, and sports. Indeed, its lessons on how to embrace conflict, and turn disadvantage into advantage, are ... Read more

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  • DUTY

    An Epic Novel of West Point and the Civil War

    by Bob Mayer ...
    Series Book 1 - Duty, Honor, Country
    "Will leave you spellbound. Mayer’s long suit is detail, giving the reader an in-depth view of the inner workings of the Army and West Point." Book NewsAn epic series in the vein of HBO's Rome, following two ordinary men through extraordinary times; from West Point, through the Mexican War, into the Civil War.Elijah Cord and Lucius Rumble swore oaths, both personal and professional. They were ... Read more

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  • The Story of Our Submarines

    A History of British Royal Navy Submarines during the First World War ( Introduction by Richard .T. Holt)

    The First World War was a pivotal time in the use and development of submarines and consequently anti-submarine warfare. This book is based on the author Commander John Graham Bower´s personal knowledge and experience as a submariner. He takes us onto the frontline of the war at sea inside the submarines and also those on the anti submarine ships fighting the German U-boats using recollections and ... Read more

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  • Dog Soldiers: Part 1 of 3: Love, loyalty and sacrifice on the front line

    by Isabel George ...
    Dog Soldiers can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 1 of 3.Dog Soldiers tells the story of two brave young ‘dog soldiers’ (Army bomb dog handlers), killed in action in Afghanistan with their dogs by their side, through the inspirational words of their mothers.Lance Corporal Kenneth Rowe and Lance Corporal Liam Tasker were both dog lovers from ... Read more

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  • 'Royal Marines' 350 Years

    'Royal Marines' 350 Years, is a brief history of the Royal Marines that were formed way back at 11.58 am on Tuesday 28th October 1664 by King Charles II. It describes some of its history up to the present day. Along with its traditions that have moulded Royal Marines into what has always been one of the finest fighting military forces in the world. Those that they fought in battle were so ... Read more

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