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They called her Reckless: a true story of war, love and one extraordinary horse
By Janet Barrett. 2013
When the Marines of the Fifth Regiment's Recoilless Rifle Platoon acquired a small Korean pony to haul ammunition up the…
steep hills to the front lines, what they got was a real-life hero they named Reckless. The courageous and indomitable warhorse stood with her buddies for two years during the Korean War, saving lives, raising spirits, and winning the love and respect of all who knew herL'arme biologique: bactéries, virus et terrorisme
By Henri H. Henri Hubert Mollaret. 2002
Poussés par leur ardeur à s'entre-tuer, les hommes recoururent très tôt à l'arme biologique. Dans l'Antiquité les archers scythes infectaient…
leurs flèches en trempant la pointe dans du sang putréfié. En 1344, les Mongols vinrent à bout de la résistance du comptoir génois de Féodosie en catapultant par-dessus les murailles des cadavres de pestiférés. Durant le siège de Paris, un médecin proposa de " prendre au Val-de-Grâce 7000 à 8000 couvertures ayant servi à des variolés et de les abandonner en se retirant. Ainsi les Prussiens attraperaient la petite vérole ". Ces exemples historiques et bien d'autres abondent dans L'Arme biologique. Mais le livre examine également les menaces pesant sur le monde depuis les événements du 11 septembre 2001. Le terrorisme a pris en effet un nouveau visage après la mort, le 5 octobre suivant, du photographe américain Robert Stevens, première victime du bioterrorisme pour avoir ouvert une lettre renfermant des spores d'une souche de bacille du charbon. Les armes biologiques seront-elles pour les terroristes, comme le prédit un expert, les armes nucléaires du XXIe siècle ? Pour répondre à la question, Henri Mollaret évoque tous les aspects de cette menace, son ampleur, les méthodes de propagation qui pourraient être adoptées par les terroristes. Il met également en lumière l'impréparation des pouvoirs publics face à un danger de cette nature et souligne - ce qui n'est pas la moindre des angoisses - que la plupart des médecins seraient aujourd'hui dans l'impossibilité de diagnostiquer ces maladies maintenant disparues, qu'ils n'ont jamais rencontrées dans leur pratique quotidienne et qui ne leur sont plus enseignées depuis longtemps.The Hanford plaintiffs: voices from the fight for atomic justice
By Trisha T Pritikin. 2020
During the Cold War there were several releases of radioactive gases from the Hanford nuclear site in Southeastern Washington. These…
releases left a pattern of cancers and birth defects among the people who were downwind of Hanford, a pattern long covered up by the government until revealed in legal cases. Adult. UnratedHistoire de l'OTAN
By Charles Zorgbibe. 2002
Alors que l'alliance atlantique a fêté son cinquantième anniversaire, il n'existe toujours aucun ouvrage qui retrace son histoire. L'auteur entend…
pallier cette lacune. S'il ne cache pas sa sympathie pour le combat mené par l'Otan tout au long de la guerre froide contre la menace sociétique, il ne verse pas pour autant dans l'hagiographie et ne tombe pas dans les travers d'un ouvrage de commande; Ainsi-par exemple-aborde-t-il l'obscur dossier du "Glaive" et se demande-t-il si celui-ci ne trahit pas un aspect pathologique, une sorte de doctrine de la souveraineté limitée à l'occidentale. Plaçant le débat sur l'actualité la plus récente, sur fond d'affaire du Kosovo, il s'interroge également sur la légalité internationale et sur la légitimité des nouvelles missions de l'OTAN... En revanche, lorsqu'il évoque le retrait français de l'organisation intégrée en 1966, il montre que la thèse gaullienne était indéfendable du point de vue juridique et passablement contestable au point stratégique.Pleading Out: How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class
By Dan Canon. 2022
A blistering critique of America&’s assembly-line approach to criminal justice and the shameful practice at its core: the plea bargain Most Americans believe that…
the jury trial is the backbone of our criminal justice system. But in fact, the vast majority of cases never make it to trial: almost all criminal convictions are the result of a plea bargain, a deal made entirely out of the public eye. Law professor and civil rights lawyer Dan Canon argues that plea bargaining may swiftly dispose of cases, but it also fuels an unjust system. This practice produces a massive underclass of people who are restricted from voting, working, and otherwise participating in society. And while innocent people plead guilty to crimes they did not commit in exchange for lesser sentences, the truly guilty can get away with murder. With heart-wrenching stories, fierce urgency, and an insider&’s perspective, Pleading Out exposes the ugly truth about what&’s wrong with America&’s criminal justice system today—and offers a prescription for meaningful change.Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison
By Daniel S. Medwed. 2022
A groundbreaking exposé of how our legal system makes it nearly impossible to overturn wrongful convictions Thousands of innocent people…
are behind bars in the United States. But proving their innocence and winning their release is nearly impossible. In Barred, legal scholar Daniel S. Medwed argues that our justice system&’s stringent procedural rules are largely to blame for the ongoing punishment of the innocent. Those rules guarantee criminal defendants just one opportunity to appeal their convictions directly to a higher court. Afterward, the wrongfully convicted can pursue only a few narrow remedies. Even when there is strong evidence of a miscarriage of justice, rigid guidelines, bias, and deference toward lower courts all too often prevent exoneration. Offering clear explanations of legal procedures alongside heart-wrenching stories of their devastating impact, Barred exposes how the system is stacked against the innocent and makes a powerful call for change.Kearny's march: the epic journey that created the American southwest, 1846-1847
By Winston Groom. 2011
In June 1846, General Stephen Watts Kearny rode out of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, with two thousand soldiers, bound for California.…
The adventures and dangers that Kearny and his troops encountered intertwines with those of mountain man Kit Carson; Brigham Young and his Mormon followers fleeing persecution and Illinois; and the ill-fated Donner party, trapped in the snow of the Sierra Nevada. AdultIf you lived during the Civil War (If you lived)
By Denise Lewis Patrick. 2022
"What do you know about the Civil War? What if you lived in a different time and place? What would…
you wear? What would you eat? How would your daily life be different? Scholastic's If You Lived...series answers all of kids' most important questions about events in American history. With a question and answer format, kid-friendly artwork, and engaging information, this series is the perfect partner for the classroom and for history-loving readers. What if you lived during the Civil War? Would you be allowed to be a soldier? How would you communicate? What is the true story of the battle between the states? Denise Lewis Patrick answers all these questions and more in this comprehensive guide to the Civil War. A great choice for Civil War units, and for teaching children about this important moment in American history." -- Provided by publisherThe Zulus at war: the history, rise, and fall of the tribe that washed its spears
By Adrian Greaves. 2014
"By tracing the long and turbulent history of the Zulus from their arrival in South Africa and the establishment of…
Zululand, |The Zulus at War| is an important and readable addition to this popular subject area. It describes the violent rise of King Shaka and his colorful successors under whose leadership the warrior nation built a fearsome fighting reputation without equal among the native tribes of South Africa. It also examines the tactics and weapons employed during the numerous intertribal battles over this period. They then became victims of their own success in that their defeat of the Boers in 1877 and 1878 in the Sekunini War prompted the well-documented British intervention. Initially the might of the British empire was humbled as never before by the shock Zulu victory at Isandlwana but the 1879 war ended with the brutal crushing of the Zulu Nation. But, as Adrian Greaves reveals, this was by no means the end of the story. The little known consequences of the division of Zululand, the Boer War, and the 1906 Zulu Rebellion are analyzed in fascinating detail. An added attraction for readers is that this long-awaited history is written not just by a leading authority but, thanks to the coauthor's contribution, from the Zulu perspective using much completely fresh material." -- Provided by publisherPresents the extraordinary story of the Newport News Shipbuilding yard in Virginia and its thirty thousand employees and shipyard workers…
who battle layoffs, the elements, impossible deadlines, extraordinary pressure, workplace dangers, and a pandemic to build the U.S. Navy's newest and most powerful aircraft carrier. AdultThe right wrong man: John Demjanjuk and the last great Nazi war crimes trial
By Lawrence Douglas. 2016
"In 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the lengthiest case…
ever to arise from the Holocaust: the trial of eighty-nine-year-old John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk's legal odyssey began in 1975, when American investigators received evidence alleging that the Cleveland autoworker and naturalized US citizen had collaborated in Nazi genocide. In the years that followed, Demjanjuk was stripped of his American citizenship and sentenced to death by a Jerusalem court as "Ivan the Terrible" of Treblinka-only to be cleared in one of the most notorious cases of mistaken identity in legal history. Finally, in 2011, after eighteen months of trial, a court in Munich convicted the native Ukrainian of assisting Hitler's SS in the murder of 28,060 Jews at Sobibor, a death camp in eastern Poland. An award-winning novelist as well as legal scholar, Douglas offers a compulsively readable history of Demjanjuk's bizarre case. The Right Wrong Man is both a gripping eyewitness account of the last major Holocaust trial to galvanize world attention and a vital meditation on the law's effort to bring legal closure to the most horrific chapter in modern history." -- Provided by publisherThe last kamikaze: the story of Admiral Matome Ugaki
By Edwin P Hoyt. 1993
"This is the story of a man and a Navy--Vice Admiral Matome Ugaki and the Imperial Japanese Navy. By 1945…
the Imperial Navy was physically destroyed and Admiral Ugaki was given the task of defending the Japanese homeland against attack, and he sent hundreds of kamikazes against the American naval forces operating around Okinawa. After Emperor Hirohito announced Japan's surrender on August 15, Ugaki stripped off his insignia of rank, climbed into a torpedo bomber, and flew to Okinawa, where he intended to crash into an American ship. But like so many of the other kamikazes, his mission was fruitless, his plane was shot down by American nightfighters. But Admiral Ugaki died, as he has promised to do, in the fashion of the thousands of young men he had sent to their deaths. Vice Admiral Matome Ugaki was the only high official of the Imperial Japanese Navy to have left a significant record, in the form of a diary started during the preparations for the China Incident, and kept throughout the war--from the planning phase of 1940, through the Pearl Harbor attack, and up until Japan's surrender. Hoyt draws on the diary and numerous other accounts by admirals and historians to create a picture of a Japanese Navy that began in a position of strength but was eventually destroyed by powerful Allied forces, shattering Japan's drive for conquest." -- AmazonThree days in Vietnam: a vet's harrowing story (Xbooks. Total war)
By John DiConsiglio. 2020
The shape of battle: the art of war : from the Battle of Hastings to D-Day and beyond
By Allan Mallinson. 2022
"Every battle is different. Each takes place in a different context-the war, the campaign, the weapons. However, battles across the…
centuries, whether fought with spears and swords or advanced technology, have much in common. Fighting is, after all, an intensely human affair; human nature doesn't change. So why were certain battles fought as they were? What gave them their shape? Why did they go as they did: victory for one side, defeat for the other? In exploring six significant feats of arms-the war and campaign in which they each occurred, and the factors that determined their precise form and course-|The Shape of Battle| answers these fundamental questions about the waging of war. Eschewing polemics, |The Shape of Battle| doesn't try to argue a case. It lets the narratives-the battles-speak for themselves." -- Provided by publisher"In When Riot Cops Are Not Enough, sociologist and activist Mike King examines the policing, and broader political repression, of…
the Occupy Oakland movement during the fall of 2011 through the spring of 2012. King's active and daily participation in that movement, from its inception through its demise, provides a unique insider perspective to illustrate how the Oakland police and city administrators lost the ability to effectively control the movement. Drawn from King's intensive field work, the book focuses on the physical, legal, political, and ideological dimensions of repression--in the streets, in courtrooms, in the media, in city hall, and within the movement itself--When Riot Cops Are Not Enough highlights the central role of political legitimacy, both for mass movements seeking to create social change, as well as for governmental forces seeking to control such movements. Although Occupy Oakland was different from other Occupy sites in many respects, King shows how the contradictions it illuminated within both social movement and police strategies provide deep insights into the nature of protest policing generally, and a clear map to understanding the full range of social control techniques used in North America in the twenty-first century." -- Provided by publisherWhen surrender was not an option
By George C Crawford. 2001
"When Surrender Was Not an Option" is the World War II account of 2nd Lt. George C. Crawford's experience as…
a prisoner of war in Nazi Germany from the time his B-24 bomber was shot down until his liberation and return to the United States. It is a saga of men on the cutting edge of courage who did not just endure a long Nazi nightmare. Rather, in the best tradition of U.S. military duty, George and his fellow captives resisted and harassed the enemy in every way possibleVeterans recall experiences of battle from World War I to the war in Iraq. Soldiers' letters, diaries, memoirs, and oral…
histories provide personal accounts of D-Day, the Tet offensive, heroic actions, and sinking ships. Includes an interview with Senator John McCain about his captivity in Vietnam. 2005Police Brutality and White Supremacy: The Fight Against American Traditions
By Etan Thomas. 2022
An NBA veteran offers engaging interviews and reflections that explore police brutality, white supremacy, and the struggle for racial justice…
in America. "Thomas's interviews demand careful reading by all who want to expose racism, hold police accountable, and create an American society that practices social justice." --Library Journal, a Best Book of the Year in Political Science/Civil Rights "The book is filled with thought-provoking interviews and commentary on police brutality, white supremacy, and the lack of racial equality in the United States. Thomas interviewed victims of police brutality and their family members to convey what they actually went through and allow them to share what they experienced directly." —Bullets Forever "My family and I are extremely grateful for the support and love from my brother in the movement, Etan Thomas." --Emerald Garner, daughter of Eric Garner "I'm extremely grateful to Etan for continuing to shine a light on how police violence has harmed families across the nation. Our stories matter." --Dr. Tiffany Crutcher, twin sister of Terence Crutcher ETAN THOMAS, an eleven-year NBA veteran and lifelong advocate for social justice, weaves together his personal experiences with police violence and white supremacy with multiple interviews of family members of victims of police brutality like exonerated Central Park Five survivor Raymond Santana and Rodney King’s daughter Lora Dene King; as well as activist athletes and other public figures such as Steph Curry, Chuck D, Isiah Thomas, Sue Bird, Jake Tapper, Jemele Hill, Stan Van Gundy, Kyle Korver, Mark Cuban, Rick Strom, and many more. Thomas speaks with retired police officers about their efforts to change policing, and white allies about their experiences with privilege and their ability to influence other white people. Thomas also examines the history of racism, white supremacy, and the prevalence of both in the current moment. He looks at the origins of white supremacy in the US, dating back to the country’s inception, and explores how it was interwoven into Christianity--interviewing leading voices both in and outside of the church. Finally, with prominent voices in the media and education, Thomas discusses the continued cultivation of these injustices in American society. Police Brutality and White Supremacy demands accountability and justice for those responsible for and impacted by police violence and terror. It offers practical solutions to work against the promotion of white supremacy in law enforcement, Christianity, early education, and across the public sphere. Featuring original interviews with: Steph Curry, Chuck D, Yamiche Alcindor, Isiah Thomas, Jemele Hill, Craig Hodges, Stan Van Gundy, Mark Cuban, Jake Tapper, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, Sue Bird, Kyle Korver, Rick Strom, Cenk Uygur, Tim Wise, Chris Broussard, Breanna Stewart, Rex Chapman, Stephen Jackson, Kori Mccoy, Lora Dene King, Chikesia Clemons, Raymond Santana, Alissa Findley, Amber and Ashley Carr, Michelle and Ashley Monterrosa, Chairman Fred Hampton Jr., Abiodun Oyewole, Marc Lamont Hill, Officer Carlton Berkley, Pastor John K. Jenkins Sr., Officer Joe Ested, Captain Sonia Pruitt, and Bishop Talbert Swan.The war that made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium
By Barry S Strauss. 2022
Dear Delia: the Civil War letters of Captain Henry F. Young, Seventh Wisconsin Infantry
By Henry Falls Young. 2019
Union soldier Henry F. Young candidly documented his experiences on the front lines of the Civil War through extensive letters…
sent home to his family in Wisconsin. Dear Delia presents his writings faithfully, along with comprehensive notes providing historical context throughout. Adult. Unrated