Fragments of a Forgotten War
Author | : Judith Matloff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Angola |
ISBN | : |
The author's personal account of events in Angola between 1992 and 1997.
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Author | : Judith Matloff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Angola |
ISBN | : |
The author's personal account of events in Angola between 1992 and 1997.
Author | : Christopher Alan Bayly |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 728 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674021532 |
This is a panoramic account of the bitter wars of the end of empire, seen not only through the eyes of the fighters, but also through the personal stories of ordinary people.
Author | : Jodi Kim |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : 1452915148 |
Ends of Empire examines Asian American cultural production and its challenge to the dominant understanding of American imperialism, Cold War dynamics, and race and gender formation.Jodi Kim demonstrates the degree to which Asian American literature and film critique the record of U.S. imperial violence in Asia and provides a glimpse into the imperial and gendered racial logic of the Cold War. She unfolds this particularly entangled and enduring episode in the history of U.S. global hegemony—one that, contrary to leading interpretations of the Cold War as a simple bipolar rivalry, was significantly triangulated in Asia.The Asian American works analyzed here constitute a crucial body of what Kim reveals as transnational “Cold War compositions,” which are at once a geopolitical structuring, an ideological writing, and a cultural imagining. Arguing that these works reframe the U.S. Cold War as a project of gendered racial formation and imperialism as well as a production of knowledge, Ends of Empire offers an interdisciplinary investigation into the transnational dimensions of Asian America and its critical relationship to Cold War history.
Author | : Wayne E. Lee |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190920645 |
Taking its title from The Face of Battle, John Keegan's canonical book on the nature of warfare, The Other Face of Battle illuminates the American experience of fighting in "irregular" and "intercultural" wars over the centuries. Sometimes known as "forgotten" wars, in part because they lackedtriumphant clarity, they are the focus of the book. David Preston, David Silbey, and Anthony Carlson focus on, respectively, the Battle of Monongahela (1755), the Battle of Manila (1898), and the Battle of Makuan, Afghanistan (2020) - conflicts in which American soldiers were forced to engage in"irregular" warfare, confronting an enemy entirely alien to them. This enemy rejected the Western conventions of warfare and defined success and failure - victory and defeat - in entirely different ways. Symmetry of any kind is lost. Here was not ennobling engagement but atrocity, unanticipatedinsurgencies, and strategic stalemate.War is always hell. These wars, however, profoundly undermined any sense of purpose or proportion. Nightmarish and existentially bewildering, they nonetheless characterize how Americans have experienced combat and what its effects have been. They are therefore worth comparing for what they hold incommon as well as what they reveal about our attitude toward war itself. The Other Face of Battle reminds us that "irregular" or "asymmetrical" warfare is now not the exception but the rule. Understanding its roots seems more crucial than ever.
Author | : Joon Ho Hwang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : American poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bao Ninh |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2017-03-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0525434399 |
During the Vietnam War Bao Ninh served with the Glorious 27th Youth Brigade. Of the five hundred men who went to war with the brigade in 1969, he is one of only ten who survived. The Sorrow of War is his autobiographical novel. Kien works in a unit that recovers soldiers' corpses. Revisiting the sites of battles raises emotional ghosts for him and the memory of war scenes are juxtaposed with dreams and remembrances of his childhood sweetheart. The Sorrow of War burns the tragedy of war in our minds.
Author | : Mark H. Massé |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2011-10-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1441195203 |
The role of journalists in covering trauma and tragedy isn't new. Witnessing acts of violence, destruction and terror has long been the professional responsibility of countless print and broadcast reporters and photographers. But what is new is a growing awareness of the emotional consequences of such coverage on the victims, their families and loved ones, their communities, and on the journalists whose job it is to tell these stories. Trauma Journalism personalizes this movement with in-depth profiles of reporters, researchers and trauma experts engaged in an international effort to transform how the media work under the most difficult of conditions. Through biographical sketches concerning several significant traumatic events (Oklahoma City bombing, Columbine school tragedy, 9/11, Iraq War, the South Asian tsunami, Hurricane Katrina), students and working reporters will gain insights into the critical components of contemporary journalism practices affecting news judgment, news gathering techniques, as well as legal and ethical issues. Trauma Journalism calls for the creation - through ongoing education - of a culture of caring among journalists worldwide.
Author | : Suji Kwock Kim |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780807128725 |
Offers poems of family, history, love, and vision.
Author | : Don Bentley |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 561 |
Release | : 2024-04-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0593333578 |
"A fascinating, action-packed thriller from one of the genre's most talented authors. Don Bentley delivers a blistering adventure loaded with excitement and fabulous characters. You will not want it to end!"—Brad Thor, New York Times #1 bestselling author of Dead Fall A brotherhood born in battle is endangered by a deadly secret in the latest astonishing thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Tom Clancy Zero Hour and Hostile Intent. As a team, Matt Drake and his partner, Frodo, have watched each other's backs through some very dark days. But one thing they've never doubted was their commitment to each other...until now. Frodo has been accused of a war crime ten years after leaving Afghanistan. Matt is determined to prove his friend innocent, but what will he do when he finds that his closest friend has secrets he won't share?
Author | : Justin Pearce |
Publisher | : New Africa Books |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Angola |
ISBN | : 9780864866769 |
Shows the human face of Angola at a critical juncture in its history. Jonas Savimbi, leader of the rebel movement UNITA, was killed in February 2002. UNITA collapsed, giving Angola its first extended period of peace, since the nationalist uprising against Portuguese rule in the 1960s. This is a story of the extremes of the human condition.