wyszukanych pozycji: 7
Soldiers and Citizens: An Oral History of Operation Iraqi Freedom from the Battlefield to the Pentagon
ISBN: 9780230601642 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book is the first comprehensive oral history of the Iraq War. It presents the raw and vivid testimonies and recollections from combat veterans, family members, conscientious objectors, Bush administration officials, Iraqi leaders, and many others, forming a gripping and moving portrait of the war.
This book is the first comprehensive oral history of the Iraq War. It presents the raw and vivid testimonies and recollections from combat veterans, f...
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192,74 zł |
Soldiers and Citizens: An Oral History of Operation Iraqi Freedom from the Battlefield to the Pentagon
ISBN: 9780230601550 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book is the first comprehensive oral history of the Iraq War. It presents the raw and vivid testimonies and recollections from combat veterans, family members, conscientious objectors, Bush administration officials, Iraqi leaders, and many others, forming a gripping and moving portrait of the war.
This book is the first comprehensive oral history of the Iraq War. It presents the raw and vivid testimonies and recollections from combat veterans, f...
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192,74 zł |
American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity
ISBN: 9780143128342 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The critically acclaimed author of Patriots offers profound insight into Vietnam's place in America's self-image How did the Vietnam War change the way we think of ourselves as a people and a nation? In American Reckoning, Christian G. Appy--author of Patriots, the widely praised oral history of the Vietnam War--examines the war's realities and myths and its lasting impact on our national self-perception. Drawing on a vast variety of sources that range from movies, songs, and novels to official documents, media coverage, and contemporary commentary, Appy...The critically acclaimed author of Patriots offers profound insight into Vietnam's place in America's self-image How did the Vie... |
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130,41 zł |
Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam
ISBN: 9780807843918 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. No one can understand the complete tragedy of the American experience in Vietnam without reading this book. Nothing so underscores the ambivalence and confusion of the American commitment as does the composition of our fighting forces. The rich and the powerful may have supported the war initially, but they contributed little of themselves. That responsibility fell to the poor and the working class of America.--Senator George McGovern
"Reminds us of the disturbing truth that some 80 percent of the 2.5 million enlisted men who served in Vietnam--out of 27 million men who reached... No one can understand the complete tragedy of the American experience in Vietnam without reading this book. Nothing so underscores the ambivalence and...
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232,79 zł |
Cold War Constructions
ISBN: 9781558492189 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The end of the Cold War has inspired a wave of exciting new scholarship about the central international struggle in the decades following World War II. Dissatisfied with traditional diplomatic and military interpretations, historians have begun to investigate the crucial role that political culture played in shaping global conflicts. Cold War Constructions contributes to this reappraisal by illuminating the political and cultural assumptions underlying U.S. policies from the end of World War II to the mid-1960s. How were Cold War ideas and events shaped by American culture? How were they... The end of the Cold War has inspired a wave of exciting new scholarship about the central international struggle in the decades following World War... |
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125,31 zł |
Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides
ISBN: 9780142004494 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Intense and absorbing... If you buy only one book on the Vietnam War, this is the one you want." -Chicago Tribune
Christian G. Appy's monumental oral history of the Vietnam War is the first work to probe the war's path through both the United States and Vietnam. These vivid testimonies of 135 men and women span the entire history of the Vietnam conflict, from its murky origins in the 1940s to the chaotic fall of Saigon in 1975. Sometimes detached and reflective, often raw and emotional, they allow us to see and feel what this war meant to people literally on all sides:... "Intense and absorbing... If you buy only one book on the Vietnam War, this is the one you want." -Chicago Tribune
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130,41 zł |
Vietnam: The Definitive Oral History, Told From All Sides
ISBN: 9780091910129 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Suitable for anyone with even a passing interest in one of the 20th century's defining conflicts, this title offers an accounts of 135 men and women that span the entire history of the Vietnam conflict from its murky origins in the 1940s to the chaotic fall of Saigon in 1975.
Suitable for anyone with even a passing interest in one of the 20th century's defining conflicts, this title offers an accounts of 135 men and women t...
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112,27 zł |