Gunsmoke and Mirrors - 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 Gunsmoke and Mirrors write by Henry McDonald. This book was released on 2008. Gunsmoke and Mirrors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "31 August 1994. The IRA ceasefire is announced in Belfast. Gerry Adams takes to the podium built close to Sinn Fein headquarters. All around him are placed helium balloons, flowers, teddy bears, good luck cards, etc. It's more like a kid's birthday party than the end of a war." "What Adams had to say was even more instructive. He talked about the community once being on its knees - an appeal to those scarred in memory by the loyalist pogroms of 1969. His speech was full of references to nationalist equality and parity of esteem. In short, he was re-packaging the so-called armed struggle as somehow the outworking of the old civil rights struggle." "Gunsmoke and Mirrors challenges this epic piece of myth-making." "Henry McDonald, himself from the republican Markets area of Belfast, talks to ex-IRA men about their real motivations for starting their war. It had nothing to do with civil rights. The settlement which Sinn Fein/IRA finally secured in 2007 is almost identical with one that had been on the table thirty years earlier. McDonald exposes the memorialist culture which continues to rewrite history to justify the unjustifiable." "McDonald gets past the cheap hagiography of terrorists and the wasted lives of a generation to focus on one essential truth: none of the IRA's principal war aims was achieved. The whole sorry business was a waste of time. The people who died, died in vain." --Book Jacket.
Dark Logic
Dark Logic - 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 Dark Logic write by Robert Mandel. This book was released on 2011. Dark Logic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book constitutes the first major study showing (1) when transnational organized crime is likely to use corruption and violence tactics, (2) when transnational criminal activities most affect individual and state security, and (3) when the negative consequences of these tactics and activities can be most successfully combated.
War on the Silver Screen
War on the Silver Screen - 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 War on the Silver Screen write by Glen Jeansonne. This book was released on 2014-10. War on the Silver Screen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Americans have been almost constantly at war since 1917. In addition to two world wars, the United States has fought proxy wars, propaganda wars, and a “war on terror,” among others. But even with the constant presence of war in American life, much of what Americans remember about those conflicts comes from Hollywood depictions. In War on the Silver Screen Glen Jeansonne and David Luhrssen vividly demonstrate how war movies have burned the images and impressions of those wars onto the American psyche more concretely than has the reality of the wars themselves. That is, our feelings about wars are generated less by what we learn through study and discourse than by powerful cinematic images and dialogue. Films are compressed, intense, and immediate and often a collective experience rather than a solitary one. Actors and drama provide the visceral impact necessary to form perceptions of history that are much more enduring than those generated by other media or experiences. War on the Silver Screen draws on more than a century of films and history, including classics such as All Quiet on the Western Front, Apocalypse Now, and The Hurt Locker, to examine the legacy of American cinema on twentieth- and twenty-first-century attitudes about war.
Times of Troubles
Times of Troubles - 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 Times of Troubles write by Andrew Sanders. This book was released on 2012-05-02. Times of Troubles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How 'The Troubles' in Ulster defined the Scottish and British military experience post-WW2.
Bushworld
Bushworld - 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 Bushworld write by Maureen Dowd. This book was released on 2005. Bushworld available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA
