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Ex-Combatants, Gender and Peace in Northern Ireland
By Azrini Wahidin. 2016
This book explores the contours of women's involvement in the Irish Republican Army, political protest and the prison experience in…
Northern Ireland. Through the voices of female and male combatants, it demonstrates that women remained marginal in the examination of imprisonment during the Conflict and in the negotiated peace process. However, the book shows that women performed a number of roles in war and peace that placed constructions of femininity in dissent. Azrini Wahidin argues that the role of the female combatant is not given but ambiguous. She indicates that a tension exists between different conceptualisations of societal security, where female combatants both fought against societal insecurity posed by the state and contributed to internal societal dissonance within their ethno-national groups. This book tackles the lacunae that has created a disturbing silence and an absence of a comprehensive understanding of women combatants, which includes knowledge of their motivations, roles and experiences. It will be of particular interest to scholars of criminology, politics and peace studies.Mediterranean Modernism
By Adam J. Goldwyn, Renée M. Silverman. 2016
This book explores howModernist movements all across the Mediterranean basin differed from thoseof other regions. The chapters show how the…
political and economicturmoil of a period marked by world war, revolution, decolonization,nationalism, and the rapid advance of new technologies compelled artists,writers, and other intellectuals to create a new hybrid Mediterranean Modernistaesthetic which sought to balance the tensions between local and foreign,tradition and innovation, and colonial and postcolonial.EU Borders and Shifting Internal Security
By Raphael Bossong, Helena Carrapico. 2016
This edited volume analyzes recent key developments in EU border management. In light of the refugee crises in the Mediterranean…
and the responses on the part of EU member states, this volume presents an in-depth reflection on European border practices and their political, social and economic consequences. Approaching borders as concepts in flux, the authors identify three main trends: the rise of security technologies such as the EUROSUR system, the continued externalization of EU security governance such as border mission training in third states, and the unfolding dynamics of accountability. The contributions show that internal security cooperation in Europe is far from consolidated, since both political oversight mechanisms and the definition of borders remain in flux. This edited volume makes a timely and interdisciplinary contribution to the ongoing academic and political debate on the future of open borders and legitimate security governance in Europe. It offers a valuable resource for scholars in the fields of international security and migration studies, as well as for practitioners dealing with border management mechanisms.History of Social Law in Germany
By Michael Stolleis. 2014
The sole available comprehensive history of social law and the model of social welfare in Germany. The book explains the…
origins since the medieval times, but concentrates on the 19th and 20th centuries, especially on the introduction of the social insurance 1881-1889, of the expansion of the system in the Weimar Republic, under the Nazi-System and after World War II in the FRG and the GDR. The system of social welfare in Germany is one of the pillars of economic stability.The Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic in the 1920s and 1930s in Poland
By Roman Murawski. 2014
The aim of this book is to present and analyze philosophical conceptions concerning mathematics and logic as formulated by Polish…
logicians, mathematicians and philosophers in the 1920s and 1930s. It was a remarkable period in the history of Polish science, in particular in the history of Polish logic and mathematics. Therefore, it is justified to ask whether and to what extent the development of logic and mathematics was accompanied by a philosophical reflection. We try to answer those questions by analyzing both works of Polish logicians and mathematicians who have a philosophical temperament as well as their research practice. Works and philosophical views of the following Polish scientists will be analyzed: WacÅ,aw SierpiÅ,,ski, Zygmunt Janiszewski, Stefan Mazurkiewicz, Stefan Banach Hugo Steinhaus, Eustachy Å»yliÅ,,sk and Leon Chwistek, Jan Åukasiewicz, Zygmunt Zawirski, StanisÅ,aw LeÅ>niewski, Tadeusz KotarbiÅ,,ski, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Alfred Tarski, Andrzej Mostowski and Henryk Mehlberg, Jan SleszyÅ,,ski, StanisÅ,aw Zaremba and Witold Wilkosz. To indicate the background of scientists being active in the 1920s and 1930s we consider in Chapter 1 some predecessors, in particular: Jan Åsniadecki, Józef Maria Hoene-WroÅ,,ski, Samuel Dickstein and Edward Stamm.Emden: My Experiences in S.M.S. Emden
By Prinz Franz Joseph von Hohenzollern. 2018
During World War I Franz Joseph Prinz von Hohenzollern served in Germany s Kaiserliche Marine Imperial…
Navy as the second torpedo officer on the light cruiser SMS Emden at the Battle of Cocos The SMS Emden had an extraordinary record capturing British ships This book which was first published in its English translation in 1928 is a fascinating record of Franz Joseph s naval service on the SMS Emden SMS Emden His Majesty s Ship Emden was the second and final member of the Dresden class of light cruisers built for the Imperial German Navy Kaiserliche Marine Named after the town of Emden she was laid down at the Kaiserliche Werft Imperial Dockyard in Danzig in 1906 Her hull was launched in May 1908 and completed in July 1909 She had one sister ship Dresden Like the preceding K nigsberg-class cruisers Emden was armed with ten 10 5 cm 4 1 in guns and two torpedo tubes Emden spent the majority of her career overseas in the German East Asia Squadron based in Tsingtao in the Kiautschou Bay concession in China In 1913 she came under the command of Karl von M ller who would captain the ship during WWI At the outbreak of hostilities Emden captured a Russian steamer and converted her into the commerce raider Cormoran Emden rejoined the East Asia Squadron after which she was detached for independent raiding in the Indian Ocean The cruiser spent nearly two months operating in the region and captured nearly two dozen ships On October 28 1914 Emden launched a surprise attack on Penang in the resulting Battle of Penang she sank the Russian cruiser Zhemchug and the French destroyer Mousquet The SMS Emden s extraordinary record capturing British ships resulted in all those who served on her including Franz Joseph being given the right to add the ship s name to the end of their surnamesMajor Mick Mannock VC was the top-scoring RAF air ace of the…
First World War an almost legendary figure who personified the bravery and modesty that came to be expected of aerial heroes While other aces of that war became better known Mannock in his own quiet way topped them all with an official tally of 73 victories by the time of his death On the award of his posthumous VC the London Gazette described him as an outstanding example of fearless courage remarkable skill devotion to duty and self-sacrifice that has never been surpassed King of Air Fighters is an exciting account of Mannock s character and career by another great air ace For author Taffy Jones himself ranks sixth in the British list of First World War aces with 41 victories This is a tale of adventure courage and gallantry told with an experienced insider s understanding of the feelings and psychology of the air aces and with a thorough analysis of aerial combat techniquesWar in the Air, 1936
By Claud Sykes, Major Helders. 2018
In War in the Air 1936 which was first published in English in 1932 author Robert Knauss…
fantasizes about a confrontation between England and France Writing under the pseudonym Major Helders and using detailed descriptions of battles strategies and weaponry Knauss aim is for the reader to realize that air power in general and flying fortress bombers in particular would decide the outcome of the next war In this novel the hero is the English air force commander Brackley a carbon copy of the imaginary German leaders in other right-wing prophecies firm mysterious infallible In times of crisis he surveys the situation with lightning speed His war is one of movement of risk-taking of annihilation Modern airplane technology allows him to carry out a style of warfare that fits his chivalric warrior spirit Only for an instant does he pity the population of Paris as his planes pour bombs over the city in a surprise attack Pity though is not a virtue in the nationalist mind though Vernichtungswille the will to annihilate isTwo Roads Diverge
By Christopher A., Hartwell. 2016
The dramatic events of Maidan in February 2014 shone a spotlight on the immense problems facing Ukraine. At the same…
time that Ukraine was undergoing turmoil, its western neighbor Poland was celebrating twenty-five years of post-communism with a rosy economic outlook and projections of continued growth. How could two countries who shared similar linguistic, cultural, economic and political heritages diverge so wildly in economic performance in such a short span of time? The main argument of this book is that institutions, and more specifically the evolution or neglect of the particular institutions needed for a market economy, explain the economic divergence between Ukraine and Poland. This book discusses the evolution of key institutions such as property rights, trade, and the role of the executive branch of government to explain the recent relative performance of the two countries.My Three Years in Moscow
By Gen Walter Bedell Smith. 2018
MY THREE YEARS IN MOSCOW is a good deal more than an account of diplomatic negotiations General Smith undertook…
to study the whole framework of Soviet life-the people their leaders and their institutions In this study he had the help of a large and well-informed staff and in addition he has had the advantage of closer personal contact with Marshal Stalin than any other Westerner There are vivid portraits of the men who run the Soviet Union all the way from the members of the all-powerful Politburo to the director of a small collective farm There are revealing discussions of the efficiency of Soviet industry and agriculture In the course of his duties General Smith met numbers of Russians of all kinds and his pages contain fascinating sketches of them thus building a picture of the life of the ordinary man in a collectivized economy The American Ambassador had his own housekeeping problems like the incident of the supply of fresh eggs which eventually involved ponderous governmental machinery MY THREE YEARS IN MOSCOW is one of the important books of our time distinguished in its character and permanent in historical value casts more light on the Soviet system on Marshal Stalin and on the tortuous twists and turns of Soviet policy than anything published thus far The New York TimesHIS STORY IS HERE but Tom Treanor the young correspondent of the Los Angeles Times is off…
to the wars again Meanwhile of the present book he says Alice never saw more different things in Wonderland than I ve seen since June 13 1942 I ve rung the changes from Chungking to Anzio and written 1 000 words a day about it Because it s all too new and confusing I can t explain any of the riddle I can only give you the world all disconnected just as I saw it in travelling a sequence of separate worlds nearly as crazy independent and self-centered as they were in Columbus time I have no theme but only a pocketful of pictures That s what he thinks Well he may not have a theme but he has an astounding knack for being in places where things happen a high-octane sense of the ludicrous and a zest and zip in his writing that make his book tops in entertainment It is emphatically the war book with a differenceThe Edge of War
By James Atkinson, Adm Arleigh A Burke. 2018
Originally published in 1960 in The Edge of War Georgetown University associate professor and author James David Atkinson provides…
an examination of both the Western and Communist approaches to war He also covers the evolution of unconventional war and includes case histories of Guatemala and the stand-up of the Shah of Iran It is a privilege to have the opportunity to state my agreement with Dr Atkinson s general thesis and especially his observation that warfare of the latter part of the 20th Century is above all a battle of the spirit of ideas and of the human will This battle will be fought in the hearts in the minds and in the souls of men everywhere It is hoped that this book will serve to awaken many to this fact Adm Arleigh A BurkeRoosevelt’s Road to Russia (Fdr And The Era Of The New Deal Ser.)
By George Crocker. 2018
Many people will be made angry by this book They will be angry first at its author for daring…
to attack the memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Then as they read with an increasing sense of shame this shocking story of the summit conferences of World War II they will be moved to anger at F D R himself The trust which the American people bestowed in the leadership of Roosevelt is a matter of historical record The manner in which the four-times President used that trust is only little by little coming to be realized The truth is that ever since victory was won western civilization has been at bay with men everywhere preparing for new wars What went wrong Was there a monstrous miscalculation Bad faith in high places Incompetence What really happened at the fateful summit conferences of World War II The documents notes and memoirs of men who were there at Casablanca Teheran and Yalta and the others how now dredged up the pieces of a horrendous jigsaw puzzle ROOSEVELT S ROAD TO RUSSIA for the first time puts the pieces together Crocker has presented this sad epoch in American history more interestingly and more competently than any previous writer he gives the first complete picture of just how and why we lost the peace it is an important contribution to the history of our times We are in danger of being deceived by Khrushchev as Roosevelt was deceived by Stalin Let us read this record as Crocker has faithfully compiled it and heed the warning H V Kaltenhorn A tale of colossal incompetence monstrous misunderstanding outrages of freedom it should be read by everyone who wants to understand the world today The Chicago Tribune a scholarly brief with all the logic and persuasion of a grand jury presentation Columbus DispatchThe Twenty-Year Revolution from Roosevelt to Eisenhower
By Chesly Manly. 2018
In The Twenty-Year Revolution from Roosevelt to Eisenhower which was first published in 1954 author Chesly Manly …
the United Nations Correspondent of the Chicago Tribune leaves practically no part of government operation untouched He covers the advent of the New Deal the first year of the Eisenhower administration with revelations of diplomatic relations with an implacable enemy subversion of national policies by collectivist legal and economic experts willful toleration of communist infiltration into the government active encouragement of such infiltration into the labor unions and wilful toleration of communist infiltration into the government to active encouragement of such infiltration into the labor unions and reliance upon the Communists for political support A gripping readRiots
By Matthew Moran, David Waddington. 2016
The past ten years have been marked by a series of high profile and heavily mediatised riots across the globe.…
From the overspill of racial tensions in Sydney to anti-police riots in London, democratic societies have witnessed powerful and costly outbursts of anger and violence. But what are the causes of these large-scale episodes of collective disorder? Do they share common features? And what can they tell us about the nature and significance of riots more broadly? In this book, the authors address these questions and more with a wide-ranging comparative study of rioting in five countries (Australia, England, France, Greece and the United States). Using a revised and expanded version of the Flashpoints Model of Public Disorder, Matthew Moran and David Waddington dissect these violent and ephemeral social phenomena, laying bare their internal logic and demonstrating the essentially political nature of riots.The Enemy Below
By Cmdr Denys Arthur Rayner. 2018
DUEL AT SEAFrom the moment the radar indicated a German sub the captain of the destroyer Hecate knew he…
would achieve his life s ambition a duel to the death in deserted waters between his ship and an enemy submarine Below the choppy sea sped the U-121 commanded by Kapit n von Stolberg an efficient brutal sailor who also welcomed a fight to the finish but for a different reason His submarine was entrusted with a mission that could prove catastrophic to the Allied war effort Nothing least of all a British destroyer must stand in his way Plotting his strategy like a deadly game of chess the destroyer captain doggedly tailed the elusive sub Depth charge answered torpedo cannon matched gun and finally man faced man in a climactic battle for supremacy at sea THE ENEMY BELOW was also made into the Academy Award winning 1957 movie starring Robert Mitchum and Curt J rgens and produced and directed by Dick Powell THE ENEMY BELOW Simply terrific Christian HeraldTHE ENEMY BELOW Commander Rayner has spun a grand yarn The battle he has described is a thriller a cross between a game of chess and a hunt to the death He tells it well with mounting suspense much clever manipulation of the possibilities of naval action and with a slam-bang climax which ought to be terrific in the forthcoming movie The New York TimesTHE ENEMY BELOW A thumping good narrative of primordial war at sea told from an unusual point of view The New York Times Book ReviewThe Crippled Tanker
By Cmdr. Denys Arthur Rayner. 2018
This rousing World War II tale is set in February 1943. H.M.S. destroyer ‘Hecate’ is pulled out of convoy escort…
duty to tow the crippled (and abandoned) Greek tanker ‘Antioch’ 500 miles across the North Atlantic from the spot where she had been attacked by a German wolfpack to the safety of a British port. The ‘Antioch’, at 15,000 tons, had been the largest ship in her convoy and her cargo of four million gallons of high-octane petroleum (enough to send 2,000 Wellington bombers to Berlin and back) is of vital importance to Britain’s wartime economy.Initially angered by their rather inglorious assignment, the warship’s officers and crew slowly begin to take pride in their towing assignment as they try and fend off a German U-boat and a succession of Luftwaffe warplanes after the ‘Antioch’ and ‘Hecate’ are spotted by a German reconnaissance airplane....The Small Spark of Courage
By Cmdr. Denys Arthur Rayner. 2018
THEY KNEW THEY WOULD NOT RETURN…Having outrun their supply lines, they now await the enemy’s counterattack…In order to determine the…
enemy’s intention the brigade commander is compelled to expose one company to certain destruction. At the height of the battle, the commander of the ‘suicide’ company appeals for assistance to an armoured unit. Its young troop officer hesitates.Dare he disobey order to prevent a massacre?“It is a gem: the day-long battle is vastly exciting, words are not wasted. Effects are as sure as the characters. Commander Rayner has great writing talent.”—DAILY EXPRESS“In a tense series of battle scenes an unexpected and entirely unplanned victory is won. An exciting engagement which also provokes speculation about men in action and morale.”—BOOKS OF THE MONTHHitler Was My Friend: The Memoirs Of Hitler's Photographer
By Heinrich Hoffmann, Lt. 2014
Heinrich Hoffmann was the photographer to kings princes and the glitterati of the first half of the 20th…
Century His archive of images ran into the millions and he grew to be rich and moderately famous An assistant in London to Emil Otto Hopp the undisputed leader of pictorial portraiture in Europe at the time Hoffmann returned to Germany progressed through the tumult of WWI into the chaos of the Weimar and there he came into contact with an idealist with a growing following Adolf Hitler As official court photographer Heinrich Hoffmann played a critical role in the painstaking cultivation of Hitler s public image and the glorification of the Third Reich However his influence stretched far beyond the realm of propaganda not only was he present during many of the key moments in the history of the Third Reich he was also a close personal friend of the F hrer with exclusive and intimate access to Hitler s inner circle and to the man himself It was Hoffmann who introduced Hitler to Eva Braun his studio assistant It was also Hoffmann with whom Hitler was on a trip from Munich to Hamburg when the F hrer received word that his beloved niece Geli Raubal had committed suicide Hoffmann took over two million photographs of Hitler and published several books including The Hitler Nobody Knows 1933 At the end of the war Hoffmann was arrested by the U S military who seized his photographic archive and was sentenced to imprisonment for Nazi profiteering These memoirs were first published in English in 1955 four years after his release from prison and represent a crucial eyewitness source for the historian and general reader alikeAlways To-morrow
By John Leeming. 2018
In November 1940 an R A F aeroplane crashed near Catania Sicily On board were Air…
Marshal O T Boyd on his way to Cairo as Air Officer Commanding Middle East and John Leeming a member of his staff who before the war was a well-known private pilot and the author of several amusing books Air Marshal Boyd and Mr Leeming were taken prisoner by the Italians and six months later they were joined by a bevy of generals and other senior British officers including Major-General Neame V C Lieutenant-General O Connor Major-General Carton de Wiart V C and Major-General Gambier-Perry Always To-morrow which was first published in 1951 is an account of the life as prisoners of war in Italy of this group of high ranking officers beginning with the aircraft crash in Sicily which wrecked the career of Air Marshal Boyd Widely regarded as one of the most amusing books written about World War II the hopes and disappointments of the several attempts at escape are told in a most entertaining way and the lack of emphasis on the less amusing aspects of life as a prisoner of war only serves to underline the unfailing courage enterprise and patience of these senior officers The funniest war story of all Leeming s adventures as a prisoner of the Italians are told with a rare humour and a keen eye for the absurd There is drama too in his story but Mr Leeming is irrepressible Sunday Graphic