War is a Racket

War is a Racket
Author: Smedley Butler
Publisher: Jovian Press
Total Pages: 23
Release: 2018-01-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1537820796

War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book, by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his career military experience, Butler frankly discusses how business interests commercially benefit (including war profiteering) from warfare. He had been appointed commanding officer of the Gendarmerie during the United States occupation of Haiti, which lasted from 1915 to 1934.

The Candy Smash

The Candy Smash
Author: Jacqueline Davies
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2013
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0544022084

Jessie and Evan Treski have waged a lemonade war, sought justice in a class trial, and even unmasked a bell thief. Now they are at opposite ends over the right to keep secrets. Evan believes some things (such as his poetry) are private. Jessie believes scandal makes good news. When anonymously sent candy hearts appear in Class 4-0, self-appointed ace reporter Jessie determines to get the scoop on class crushes.

War is a Racket

War is a Racket
Author: Smedley D. Butler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1935-04-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781640323933

Complete 1935 edition of War is a Racket by retired Major General Smedley D. Butler USMC. Butler turns against his life-long profession and exposes war as a racket, in which the few profit and the many pay the aching costs.This is a hard-hitting book by a hard-hitting soldier.

The War System

The War System
Author: Bert Cochran
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1965
Genre: Military policy
ISBN:

Examines alternatives to war as a means of adjusting international problems through the development of social institutions, world government and world law.

On War

On War
Author: Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1908
Genre: Military art and science
ISBN:

War Is a Racket

War Is a Racket
Author: Smedley D. Butler
Publisher: Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 23
Release: 2018-02-18
Genre: History
ISBN:

War Is a Racket is a famous anti-war book written by retired Major General Smedley Buter. In the book, Butler discusses how businesses profit from conflict.

The Two Nations

The Two Nations
Author: Christopher Hollis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136619992

This book was first published in 1935. An exploration of the 'two nations' looking the medieval managed currency and its collapse, the failure of the Stuarts through to Bishop Berkeley, the corn law revolts, Ireland and America, to the 1920s and prosperity, crisis and counter attack in 1935.