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Author | : Jill Lepore |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2009-09-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307488578 |
BANCROFF PRIZE WINNER • King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war—colonists against Indigenous peoples—that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres and outrages on both sides were too horrific to "deserve the name of a war." The war's brutality compelled the colonists to defend themselves against accusations that they had become savages. But Jill Lepore makes clear that it was after the war—and because of it—that the boundaries between cultures, hitherto blurred, turned into rigid ones. King Philip's War became one of the most written-about wars in our history, and Lepore argues that the words strengthened and hardened feelings that, in turn, strengthened and hardened the enmity between Indigenous peoples and Anglos. Telling the story of what may have been the bitterest of American conflicts, and its reverberations over the centuries, Lepore has enabled us to see how the ways in which we remember past events are as important in their effect on our history as were the events themselves.
Author | : Peter Conradi |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2019-09-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1643132695 |
The broadcast that George VI made to the British nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939—which formed the climax of the multi-Oscar-winning film The King's Speech—was the product of years of hard work with Lionel Logue, his iconoclastic, Australian-born speech therapist. Yet the relationship between the two men did not end there. Far from it: in the years that followed, Logue was to play an even more important role at the monarch's side.The King's War follows that relationship through the dangerous days of Dunkirk and the drama of D-Day to eventual victory in 1945—and beyond. Like the first book, it is written by Peter Conradi, a London Sunday Times journalist, and Mark Logue (Lionel's grandson), and again draws on exclusive material from the Logue Archive—the collection of diaries, letters, and other documents left by Lionel and his feisty wife, Myrtle. This gripping narrative provides a fascinating portrait of two men and their respective families—the Windsors and the Logues—as they together face the greatest challenge in Britain's history.
Author | : Eric B. Schultz |
Publisher | : The Countryman Press |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2000-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 158157701X |
King Philip's War--one of America's first and costliest wars--began in 1675 as an Indian raid on several farms in Plymouth Colony, but quickly escalated into a full-scale war engulfing all of southern New England. At once an in-depth history of this pivotal war and a guide to the historical sites where the ambushes, raids, and battles took place, King Philip's War expands our understanding of American history and provides insight into the nature of colonial and ethnic wars in general. Through a careful reconstruction of events, first-person accounts, period illustrations, and maps, and by providing information on the exact locations of more than fifty battles, King Philip's War is useful as well as informative. Students of history, colonial war buffs, those interested in Native American history, and anyone who is curious about how this war affected a particular New England town, will find important insights into one of the most seminal events to shape the American mind and continent.
Author | : Jeana E. Mann |
Publisher | : Jeana E. Mann |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2018-12-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1943938385 |
A fairytale marriage enters the battlefield when the exiled prince reveals his secrets and claims his throne as The War King. I married the man of my dreams and landed in a nightmare of secret government agencies, assassins, and military coups. To keep him, I must fight his enemies. To love him, I must tame my fears. He’s not the man I thought he was. He’s more. From award-winning author Jeana E. Mann comes the thrilling final installment to The Exiled Prince Trilogy.
Author | : Brooke King |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2019-03-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1640121838 |
Brooke King has been asked over and over what it’s like to be a woman in combat, but she knows her answer is not what the public wants to hear. The answers people seek lie in the graphic details of war—the sex, death, violence, and reality of it all as she experienced it. In her riveting memoir War Flower, King breaks her silence and reveals the truth about her experience as a soldier in Iraq. Find out what happens when the sex turns into secret affairs, the violence is turned up to eleven, and how King’s feelings for a country she knew nothing about as a nineteen-year-old become more disturbing to her as a thirty-year-old mother writing it all down before her memories fade into oblivion. The story of a girl who went to war and returned home a woman, War Flower gathers the enduring remembrances of a soldier coming to grips with post-traumatic stress disorder. As King recalls her time in Iraq, she reflects on what violence does to a woman and how the psychic wounds of combat are unwittingly passed down from mother to children. War Flower is ultimately a profound meditation on what it means to have been a woman in a war zone and an unsettling exposé on war and its lingering aftershocks. For veterans such as King, the toughest lesson of service is that in the mind, some wars never end—even after you come home.
Author | : Daphne Du Maurier |
Publisher | : Sourcebooks, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1402217080 |
"Daphne du Maurier has no equal." Sunday Telegraph As civil war rages across England, the weak prove their courage and the privileged become traitors
Author | : Cicely V. Wedgwood |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1978 |
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Author | : Lawrence Miles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2002-09-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781570329050 |
Marking the first five decades of the conflict, THE BOOK OF THE WAR is an A to Z of a self-contained continuum and a complete guide to the Spiral Politic, from the beginning of recordable time to the fall of humanity.
Author | : M. S. King |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Antisemitism |
ISBN | : 9781507764992 |
Subject: "During the decades that have passed since the end of the history-altering geopolitical event known as World War II, only a single narrative of the great conflict in which tens of millions perished has ever been heard. It is a story which has been scripted by the victors and implanted, no, pounded, into the minds of subsequent generations. Every medium of mass indoctrination has been harnessed to the task fo training the obedient masses as to what the proper view of this event should be. Academia, news media, public education, book publishing, TV documentaries, Hollywood films, clergymen and political whores of every stripe all sing the same dreadful anthem of lies, ignorance, and hundreds of 'missing notes.' World War 2 was a cataclysm of unparalleled human suffering, but we don't have to be victimized and
Author | : James David Drake |
Publisher | : Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Sometimes described as "America's deadliest war," King Philip's War proved a critical turning point in the history of New England, leaving English colonists decisively in command of the region at the expense of native peoples. Although traditionally understood as an inevitable clash of cultures or as a classic example of conflict on the frontier between Indians and whites, in the view of James D. Drake it was neither. Instead, he argues, King Philip's War was a civil war, whose divisions cut across ethnic lines and tore apart a society composed of English colonizers and Native Americans alike. According to Drake, the interdependence that developed between English and Indian in the years leading up to the war helps explain its notorious brutality. Believing they were dealing with an internal rebellion and therefore with an act of treason, the colonists and their native allies often meted out harsh punishments. The end result was nothing less than the decimation of New England's indigenous peoples and the consequent social, political, and cultural reorganization of the region. In short, by waging war among themselves, the English and Indians of New England destroyed the world they had constructed together. In its place a new society emerged, one in which native peoples were marginalized and the culture of the New England Way receded into the past.