When the Guns Fall Silent - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook When the Guns Fall Silent write by James Riordan. This book was released on 2001. When the Guns Fall Silent available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jack Loveless attempts to avert his grandson's questions about his role in World War I by taking him to visit the battlefield graveyards in France. While there he meets a German soldier from the past and vividly remembers the Christmas truce, a miraculous moment when the guns fell silent and horrors of war were temporarily forgotten in a football match. Suggested level: secondary.
After the Guns Fall Silent
After the Guns Fall Silent - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook After the Guns Fall Silent write by Shawn Roberts. This book was released on 1995-01-01. After the Guns Fall Silent available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Years after peace treaties have been signed and military conflict is nominally over, anti-personnel mines continue to claim innocent lives. This text offers data showing that landmines victimize civilians in direct contravention of the Geneva convention and examines the impact landmines have on people, on their communities and on their outlook and view of life. The report, commissioned by the VVAF, examines the consequences of landmine use on post-conflict reconstruction and development, on refugee movement and resettlement and on the environment. It also investigates mine clearance and mine awareness and medical, rehabilitative and psychological costs. Using original research, the report uses case studies from countries including Angola, Mozambique, Cambodia and the former Yugoslavia. Scholarly and accurate analysis combines with people's own words and real personal stories to present a detailed evaluation of the effect of this most potent of weapons. This work is published by the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation and distributed in the UK and Ireland by Oxfam.
The Echo of Battle
The Echo of Battle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Echo of Battle write by Brian McAllister Linn. This book was released on 2009-07-01. The Echo of Battle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Lexington and Gettysburg to Normandy and Iraq, the wars of the United States have defined the nation. But after the guns fall silent, the army searches the lessons of past conflicts in order to prepare for the next clash of arms. In the echo of battle, the army develops the strategies, weapons, doctrine, and commanders that it hopes will guarantee a future victory. In the face of radically new ways of waging war, Brian Linn surveys the past assumptions--and errors--that underlie the army's many visions of warfare up to the present day. He explores the army's forgotten heritage of deterrence, its long experience with counter-guerrilla operations, and its successive efforts to transform itself. Distinguishing three martial traditions--each with its own concept of warfare, its own strategic views, and its own excuses for failure--he locates the visionaries who prepared the army for its battlefield triumphs and the reactionaries whose mistakes contributed to its defeats. Discussing commanders as diverse as Dwight D. Eisenhower, George S. Patton, and Colin Powell, and technologies from coastal artillery to the Abrams tank, he shows how leadership and weaponry have continually altered the army's approach to conflict. And he demonstrates the army's habit of preparing for wars that seldom occur, while ignoring those it must actually fight. Based on exhaustive research and interviews, The Echo of Battle provides an unprecedented reinterpretation of how the U.S. Army has waged war in the past and how it is meeting the new challenges of tomorrow.
The Silent Guns of Two Octobers
The Silent Guns of Two Octobers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Silent Guns of Two Octobers write by Theodore Voorhees. This book was released on 2020-05-12. The Silent Guns of Two Octobers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Silent Guns of Two Octobers uses new as well as previously under-appreciated documentary evidence to link the Cuban Missile Crisis to the Checkpoint Charlie tank standoff to achieve the impossible—craft a new, thoughtful, original analysis of a political showdown everyone thought they knew everything about. Ultimately the book concludes that much of the Cold War rhetoric the leaders employed was mere posturing; in reality neither had any intention of starting a nuclear war. Theodore Voorhees reexamines Khrushchev’s and Kennedy’s leadership, decision, and rhetoric in light of the new documentary evidence available. Voorhees examines the impact of John F. Kennedy's domestic political concerns about his upcoming first midterm elections on his handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis through his use of back-channel dealings with Khrushchev during the lead-up to the crisis and in the closing days when the two leaders managed to reach a settlement.
When the Guns Fell Silent
When the Guns Fell Silent - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook When the Guns Fell Silent write by Edna Iturralde. This book was released on 2012-02-01. When the Guns Fell Silent available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Twelve short stories that portray the experiences of children as they face situations of conflict in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Colombia, Liberia, the Basque Countries (Spain), Northern Ireland, Israel and Palestine, Chechnya (Russia), Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, and Sri Lanka"--edited from P. [4] of cover.
