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By P. K. Rao. 2015
This short book integrates the imperatives of public debt sustainability with those of socioeconomic sustainability in the context of budget…
austerity measures. It is argued that poverty, inequality and unemployment problems should be integral aspects of policy frameworks for austerity and fiscal stability. The economics of austerity in much of economic analysis remains narrowly focused and lopsided, since the implications on the role of human capital and loss of prosperity base are usually ignored. This book argues that various misapplications of policies of government austerity can be avoided if greater attention is accorded to the imperatives of maintaining the win-win approaches for socioeconomic resilience and sustainability in conjunction with debt sustainability and/or fiscal stability.By Erika Kuhlman. 2016
This book usesstory-telling to recreate the history of German veteran migration after theFirst World War. German veterans of the Great…
War were among Europe's mostvolatile population when they returned to a defeated nation in 1918, aftergreat expectations of victory and personal heroism. Some ex-servicemen chose toflee the nation for which they had fought, and begin their lives afresh in thenation against which they had fought: the United States.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 ReviewBy 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....By Francesco Paolucci. 2011
As a contribution to the search for suitable and sustainable solutions to finance rising medical care expenditures, the book proposes…
a typology of healthcare financing and insurance schemes, based on the dimensions of basic vs. supplementary services and mandatory vs. voluntary coverage, to analyse the design and the complex interactions between various financing and insurance arrangements in several OECD countries. This study provides a better understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the financial and organisational structures of different countries' healthcare financing and insurance schemes. Its main contributions are the development of a novel and rigorous theoretical framework analysing the economic rationales for the optimal design of healthcare financing and insurance schemes, and an empirical and institutional analysis investigating the consequences for efficiency and affordability of the complex interactions between basic and supplementary sources of financing.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 MONTHBy 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 alikeBy 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 GraphicBy Herbert Dirksen. 2018
First published in English in 1951 these are the fascinating memoirs of a high level German diplomat detailing…
his many years of work within German Embassies at Moscow Tokyo London and elsewhere The book provides extensive information on the formulation of foreign policy international negotiations and treaties during the Nazi era as well as the interwar period The aim of this book is to give an account of a political career spent almost exclusively in Eastern European and Far Eastern countries The task assigned to me by Hitler in London was that of a letter-carrier My efforts to break the shackles imposed on me and to oppose a policy which was bound to lead to the catastrophe of the Second World War proved futile Herbert von DirksenBy U S Army. 2018
First published just a year after the end of the war this is the story of the Second Infantry…
Division in World War II It is the story of innumerable acts of fortitude and courage of individual sacrifice and devotion to duty under fire by a fighting division which has served with honor in two world wars Closely following actual combat operations brief editions of our participation in World War II were published With the passage of time the need for a more authentic and comprehensive history of this period has become evident This book is designed to meet that need This history shows that from D 1 to V-E Day our Division in the face of repeated fanatical enemy action was employed constantly as a spearhead shock division and that in this role it maintained unblemished its proud record of never having failed to take its objective nor of having relinquished ground so gained During operations we were concerned with our immediate task Now in the light of subsequent events and broader perspective the importance to the nation and to our army of our successes becomes increasingly evident W M Robertson Major-General U S ArmyBy Thomas Jonter. 2016
Why have some nations acquired nuclear weapons while others have refrained from doing so? Most research related to this question…
has focused on states that have built nuclear weapons, yet little attention has been devoted to countries that have chosen nuclear restraint. This book analyzes Swedish plans to acquire nuclear weapons during the Cold War. Sweden was very close to putting a bomb together in 1960s but, for a number of reasons illuminated in this book, decision makers abandoned those plans and subsequently rose to become one of the most recognized players in the international game of disarmament. Thanks to the recent declassification of essential documentation in Sweden and United States, it is now possible to assemble a comprehensive analysis of the Swedish nuclear weapons program based on primary sources. This book presents that analysis, a unique perspective owing to the fact that nuclear development is a highly secretive activity in most countries - with non-existent or limited access to state archives.By David Martin, Dame West. 2018
David Martin a distinguished journalist political analyst and staff member on the Senate Judiciary Committee first published…
his book ALLY BETRAYED in 1946 Having devoted his life to uncovering the truth and to defending Mihailovich Martin s book asks the crucial questions 1 Why did the Allied press which had made a great hero of Mihailovich as a resister of Axis invaders of Yugoslavia begin to play him down after 1942 2 What was Tito s past And where was the radio station located that heralded his appearance in Yugoslavia 3 What decision was reached at Teheran with respect to Tito and Mihailovich 4 How was the ALLIED military intelligence about Yugoslavia falsified 5 Why did Churchill say of Yugoslavia I was deceived and badly informed David Martin was born in Ontario Canada in 1914 Before World War II he wrote on Canadian affairs for Current History The Nation The New Republic the New Leader and other journals He joined the Canadian Air Force in October 1942 became a pilot and flew on the Burmese frontier He was honorably discharged in 1946 With a Foreword by Dame Rebecca West one of Mihailovich s most avid supporters Solid reading Kirkus ReviewBy Margaret Bourke. 2018
THIS IS the story of the search for Faceless Fritz the most…
difficult and frightening camera-hunt ever undertaken by ace photographer-reporter Margaret Bourke-White Fearless Fritz was cable shorthand for one of several LIFE assignments that brought Miss Bourke-White and her camera to Germany some months before its fall She was to pin down the private German citizens to find out what kind of human being it was who multiplied by millions made up the Nazi terror Was he cruel Was he a villain Or was he a jolly gemutlich beer-drinking music-loving sentimentalist so many of us remembered who had really been helpless in the power of a small gang of madmen By the time Margaret Bourke-White arrived in Germany on this mission she had seen much death and danger She had been in Moscow during its fiercest bombings In Italy she had come closer to the enemy lines than any American woman before her But it was in Germany that cold horror overtook her The Germany that Miss Bourke-White saw and recorded in this book puts to shame Dali s most grotesque nightmares It is a physical and spiritual chamber of horrors a cuckoo-cloud land whose inhabitants live in a lost dream They are the people whose faces are as usual and recognizable as neighbors but whose reactions do not seem to make sense Dear Fatherland Rest Quietly which was first published in 1946 takes its title from the words of the anthem Die Wacht am Rhein to which German soldiers have marched three times in the memory of many now living It brings new light to bear on the German people in the hope that through a more immediate understanding of them a fourth march may be averted Richly illustrated throughout with 128 of her photographs with detailed captions forming an integral part of Margaret Bourke-White s important report on conquered GermanyBy J T MacCurdy. 2014
During World War I when Captain J T MacCurdy a Canadian psychiatrist and Cornell University lecturer…
was despatched on a special mission to Britain he undertook one of the earliest studies of war neuroses The new factor was the availability of high explosives following Nobel s discovery of dynamite in 1867 nitroglycerin and diatomaceous earth and developments thereof such as trinitrotoluene TNT and picric acid High explosives were a boon to the mining and the civil engineer but inflicted terrible injuries on combatants Shell shock or as we would now call it post-traumatic stress disorder resulted from extreme experiences on the battlefield injury concussion being buried alive or simply the scale of the slaughter This book which was first published in 1943 contains the text of lectures delivered by Dr J T MacCurdy to groups of officers from the army and the auxiliary women s services early in WWII MacCurdy continuing on from his findings during WWI discusses the nature of fear the national factors at play in the creation and sustainability of morale with reference to the Allied and Axis powers and the significance of psychological factors in practice in an organized community This intelligent objective analysis of the nature of the psychological factor in war was intended for the British soldier but its interest and application are universal Foreign AffairsBy Michael J. Durant, Steven Hartov. 2003
In the autumn of 1993, American special forces were dispatched to the famine-stricken land of Somalia. Their intervention in this…
war-torn country was the most dramatic US military action since Vietnam. A routine mission went horribly wrong when Michael Durant's Black Hawk helicopter was shot down over Mogadishu and he was quickly surrounded by Somali troops and taken captive. The brutal torture he underwent was made all too clear to the world when his coerced statements were broadcast on live television and his battered face appeared on the cover of magazines around the globe. Michael Durant's ordeal was first described in Mark Bowden's international bestseller Black Hawk Down and the critically acclaimed film of the same name. This, his first-person gripping account tells of bravery under fire, torture, imprisonment, and the terrifying day by day reality for a soldier, unarmed and helpless in enemy hands, fighting to survive.By Tom Carhart. 2010
The gripping story of six West Point graduates who fought each other in the Civil War. With Civil War clouds…
darkening the horizon, they were strangers from different states thrown together as West Point cadets: George Armstrong Custer, Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Henry Algernon DuPont, John Pelham, Thomas Lafayette Rosser, and Wesley Merritt. Right after their graduations, war erupted in 1861. They stayed blue or went gray, and even faced each other in battle. Acclaimed military historian Tom Carhart vividly brings to life these young men of valor and honor, and the valiant victories and crushing defeats of the war. They made their marks on the history of a new nation split apart, then reunited and reborn-but only at the cost of the blood of brothers.By Wing-Cmdr. Ira Jones. 2018
From Ypres and Verdun to the Battle of Britain—here in the story of the brave men who destroyed Richthofen’s Flying…
Circus and hurled back Goering’s Luftwaffe to bring England through her darkest hours to shining victory…“An Extraordinary Book.”—Dally Mail“A gripping picture of air combat.”—PunchMEN OF GUTS AND GLORY—the flying, fighting Commanding Officer who bagged 74 enemy aircraft in World War I—the pilot who shot down five enemy aircraft and damaged three others in a single day’s flying—the invincible pilot without legs who engineered an incredibly daring prison escape…This is the story of the courageous men of the R.A.F., led by the Tiger Squadron, the greatest combat fliers in the annals of aviation. Men of indomitable bravery who turned the tides of two world wars.Told by one of its most brilliant members, Wing Commander Ira Jones, it is the authentic account of the men who risked their lives time and again to preserve freedom and destroy tyranny. It is the gripping story of heroic men in the grim battle for their lives and their country miles above the earth where the sky was the limit as they jousted with death and earned the most glorious praise a nation can bestow in Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s tribute: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”By Mark Aesch. 2016
National polling indicates that, for the first time in American history, people believe their children will not be as well…
off as they are. Even more alarming, is that many Americans believe the biggest problem facing our nation today is government itself. The public sector receives trillions of taxpayer dollars every year, and yet because of its inability to operate effectively, government fails to deliver the quality of service we are paying for. It is clear the American people are weary of paying Ritz Carlton-level taxes for Bates Motel-quality government. In Saving America, Mark Aesch tells us where government--at the local, state, and federal level--is falling short and offers a coherent, non-partisan, seven-step plan for rebuilding our nation's public agencies. The book is not a political broadside nor is it theoretical; instead, it's an inspirational and instructional framework that will help citizens, elected officials, and public administrators make American government great--and provide taxpayers with real value. The 7 Steps to Success will lead to measurable gains for organizations large and small, including school systems, municipal governments, entire states, and even the federal government itself, producing real results for taxpayers and consumers.A dynamic and exciting way to understand success and failure, through the life of Hannibal, one of history's greatest generals.…
The life of Hannibal, the Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps with his army in 218 B. C. E. , is the stuff of legend. And the epic choices he and his opponents made-on the battlefield and elsewhere in life-offer lessons about responding to our victories and our defeats that are as relevant today as they were more than 2,000 years ago. A big new idea book inspired by ancient history, Hannibal and Me explores the truths behind triumph and disaster in our lives by examining the decisions made by Hannibal and others, including Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Steve Jobs, Ernest Shackleton, and Paul Cézanne-men and women who learned from their mistakes. By showing why some people overcome failure and others succumb to it, and why some fall victim to success while others thrive on it, Hannibal and Me demonstrates how to recognize the seeds of success within our own failures and the threats of failure hidden in our successes. The result is a page-turning adventure tale, a compelling human drama, and an insightful guide to understanding behavior. This is essential reading for anyone who seeks to transform misfortune into success at work, at home, and in life. .By Richard Bryan Mcdaniel. 2013
Zen Masters of Japan is the second book in a series that traces Zen's profoundly historic journey as it spread…
eastward from China and Japan, toward the United States. Following Zen Masters of China, this book concentrates on Zen's significant passage through Japan. More specifically, it describes the lineage of the great teachers, the Pioneers who set out to enlighten an island ready for an inner transformation based on compassionate awareness.While the existing Buddhist establishment in Japan met early Zen pioneers like Dogen and Eisai with fervent resistance, Zen Buddhism ultimately perservered and continued to become further transformed in its passage through Japan. The Japanese culture and Japanese Buddhism practices further deepened and strengthened Zen training by combining it with a variety of esoteric contemplative arts-the arts of poetry, the tea ceremony, calligraphy, and archery. Zen Masters of Japan chronicles this journey, and shows how the new practices soon gained in popularity among all walks of life-from the lowly peasant, offering a hope of reincarnation and a better life; to the Samurai warrior due to its casual approach to death; to the ruling classes, challenging the intelligentsia because of its scholarly roots. A collection of Zen stories, meditation, and their wisdom, Zen Masters of Japan also explores the illusive state of 'No Mind' achieved in Japan that is so fundamental to Zen practices today.