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Voices of war: stories of service from the home front and the front lines (The library Of Congress Veterans History Project)
By Veterans History Project. 2004
Personal accounts of American soldiers and medical personnel active in World War I, World War II, the Korean and Vietnam…
wars, and the Persian Gulf conflicts. Extracts from interviews, letters, and diary entries collected by the Library of Congress Veterans History Project are grouped by themes: Answering the Call, Under Fire, Coming Home. 2004A rage for glory: the life of Commodore Stephen Decatur, USN
By James T. De Kay. 2004
Biography of early American hero Stephen Decatur (1779-1820) by well-known naval historian. Portraying Decatur as a brilliant, fearless, and adored…
commander, de Kay recounts his rise to national prominence through exploits in the Barbary wars and the War of 1812. Offers new details on Decatur's tragic death in a senseless duel. 2004American soldier
By General Tommy Franks. 2004
Retired army general and former commander in chief of U.S. Central Command recollects his childhood and decorated thirty-eight-year military career…
including service in Vietnam, Operation Desert Storm, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Provides an inside look at the war on terror. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2004The English Police: A Political and Social History
By Clive Emsley. 1997
A comprehensive history of policing from the eighteenth century onwards, which draws on largely unused police archives. Clive Emsley addresses…
all the major issues of debate; he explores the impact of legislation and policy at both national and local levels, and considers the claim that the English police were non-political and free from political control. In the final section, he looks at the changing experience of police life. Established as a standard introduction to the subject on its first appearance, the Second Edition has been substantially revised and is now published under the Longman imprint for the first time.The Public Budgeting and Finance Primer: Key Concepts in Fiscal Choice
By Jay Eungha Ryu. 2014
This primer succinctly summarises key theoretical concepts in fiscal choice for both practitioners and scholars. The author contends that fiscal…
choice is ultimately a choice of both politics and economics. The book first introduces budget institutions and processes at various levels of government, which restrict budget decision makers' discretion. It also explains budget decision makers' efforts to make rational resource allocations. It then shows how and why such efforts are stymied by the decision makers' capacity and institutional settings. The book's unique benefit is its emphasis on all the essential topics, with short, module-type chapters which can be read in any order.Controversies in Policing (Controversies In Crime And Justice Ser.)
By Quint Thurman, Andrew Giacomazzi. 2005
This book of original essays presents controversial topics, then encourages the readers to consider what they think ought to be…
done. The selections identify several of the existing issues in policing about which something needs to be done; then, they present various viewpoints on possible solutions. This is done against the backdrop of an era of significant change in worldwide security, post-9/11, that has caused major changes in the manner in which the U.S. conducts its political, social and economic affairs.1914 ((Champs. Histoire #1108)
By Luciano Canfora. 2014
" Et si l'on concevait la tâche de l'historien comme l'enquête d'un Sherlock Holmes ? Si la guerre pouvait être…
assimilée à un crime, les coupables se dissimulant, des alibis étant invoqués, des innocents désignés du doigt ? Dans cet ouvrage - ni livre édifiant ni commémoration -, Luciano Canfora aborde la guerre non comme un monument, mais comme un événement vivant qu'il s'agirait de retourner dans tous les sens pour comprendre ce qui s'est vraiment passé . L'enquête menée au fil de ces pages - puisqu'il s'agit bien d'une enquête - se déroule en une vingtaine de courts chapitres, tirés de conférences à la radio publique italienne, à lire d'une traite comme autant de petites histoires. Les idées reçues - surtout celles qui ont cours dans les pays vainqueurs - ne survivent pas à l'examen. La fin ne nous livre pas un unique coupable, mais nous laisse vaccinés contre les reconstructions apologétiques. C'est le livre que doit lire qui veut se faire en quelques pages une idée de la multiplicité des causes et des conjonctures qui ont conduit à la Première Guerre mondiale. " -- 4e de couvLa fabuleuse histoire des grands flics de légende
By Charles Diaz. 2010
"Des êtres d'exception, pour la plupart, que ces grands flics ! Il y a les vrais. Il y a les…
faux. Parfois on s'y perd un peu, tant la réalité dépasse souvent la fiction. [...] Qui sait quoi de Guillaume le commissaire qui inspira Simenon pour son Maigret et dont on disait que nul ne pouvait soutenir son regard ? Qui sait ce que l'on doit à Vucetich, "le maître argentin" qui s'usa sa vie durant à convaincre les polices du monde entier - et Bertillon le premier ! - que les empreintes digitales étaient l'avenir de la police ? Et les Javert, les Lavardin, les Harry Callaghan, les Columbo, Adamsberg et autres soeurs Angèle, qui sait leur place véritable dans la littérature ou ce qu'ils firent d'innovant au cinéma ? La liste est longue de tous ces personnages - extravagants, étonnants, déroutants et quelquefois inquiétants - exhumés des archives par le maître du genre, le seul qui pouvait écrire semblable saga, Charles Diaz, historien et inspecteur général de la police nationale, le premier à avoir écrit sur les fameuses Brigades du Tigre. Ce livre unique en son genre est un voyage extraordinaire dans le temps et l'imaginaire." -- 4e de couvOur mothers' war: American women at home and at the Front during World War II
By Emily Yellin. 2004
Journalist's chronicle of World War II's "other American soldiers," women from various backgrounds who filled nontraditional roles during wartime. Depicts…
women factory workers, frontline nurses, spies, and pilots. Also discusses the experiences of African American and Japanese American women. 2004Judging Thomas: the life and times of Clarence Thomas
By Ken Foskett. 2004
Biography of the African American Supreme Court justice. Journalist Foskett describes Thomas's impoverished Georgia childhood, Yale Law School matriculation, legal…
career, conservative views, and 1991 appointment to the court by fellow Republican President George Bush. Also examines controversies that surround the jurist. Strong language. 200440-45, témoignages troublants et mystérieux
By Daniel-Charles Luytens. 2010
" Daniel-Charles Luytens, fin limier de l'Histoire, est sans cesse à la recherche d'archives inédites, oubliées ou méconnues. Il nous…
livre ici sa dernière moisson de dossiers consacrés à l'une des périodes les plus tragiques du XXe siècle, 40-45, période durant laquelle Hitler et ses acolytes sévirent sur le Reich et les territoires occupés. Grâce à des documents tels que des lettres, des interviews, des bandes d'enregistrements, des journaux personnels, le lecteur découvrira entre autre : l'étrange histoire de la maison natale d'Hitler ; les sulfureuses raisons qui poussèrent Rudolph Hess à gagner l'Angleterre ; le rôle important joué par les prophéties de Nostradamus dans la propagande de Goebbels ; les révélations de certains proches sur la vie du Fûhrer et de sa compagne, Eva Braun... Un ouvrage passionnant qui ravira tous les amateurs d'Histoire et de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. " -- 4e de couvFormer Newsweek editor presents excerpts from the Final Report of the Independent Panel to Review Department of Defense Detention Operations…
and from Major General Fay's investigation of U.S. troops' abuse of Iraqi prisoners in 2003. Includes official military interrogation policies and an introductory essay by Craig R. Whitney. 2004Seize the fire: heroism, duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar
By Adam Nicolson. 2005
The author views Admiral Horatio Nelson in terms of a religious but brutal British culture that condoned war. Posits that…
"the twinning of apocalypse and millennium, of violence leading to peace," resulted in the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar, in which England defeated Napoleonic France. Violence. 2005Jimmy Stewart, bomber pilot: Bomber Pilot
By Starr Smith. 2005
Former Eighth Air Force intelligence officer chronicles Academy Award-winning actor Jimmy Stewart's World War II service as squadron commander of…
a combat bombardment group. Recounts Stewart's volunteering for service before the United States entered the war and later leading his men across Nazi Germany. Foreword by Walter Cronkite. 2005Empire of the stars: obsession, friendship, and betrayal in the quest for black holes
By Arthur I Miller. 2005
Examines the history of astrophysics in the early twentieth century when the concept of black holes was hotly debated by…
a young graduate student from India and a leading British scientist. Discusses their professional rivalry and its repercussions on their personal lives and the scientific community. 2005Biography of a German Jewish scientist whose discoveries embodied both the beneficial and the destructive capacities of science. Discusses the…
intellect of Fritz Haber (1868-1934), who moved confidently between laboratory, factory, and battlefield, who invented famine-preventing agricultural processes, and who developed poisonous gas later used in Nazi concentration camps. 2005Sleeping with Custer and the 7th Cavalry: an embedded reporter in Iraq
By Walter C. Rodgers. 2005
CNN foreign correspondent, embedded for three weeks in 2003 with a U.S. army reconnaissance unit in Iraq, describes the training…
provided to journalists, the drive to Baghdad, and the fighting he witnessed. Also relates a 2004 visit during which he reported on the country's conditions. Violence and strong language. 2005Murder in tombstone: the forgotten trial of Wyatt Earp
By Steven Lubet. 2004
Details the Arizona court case that followed the 1881 gunfight at the O.K. Corral, in which Wyatt Earp, his brothers,…
and Doc Holliday faced murder charges. Describes how lawyer Thomas Fitch defended Earp at the preliminary hearing and saved him from the gallows. 2004Summer of the war
By Gloria Whelan. 2006
Michigan, 1942. With their parents working for the war effort, Mirabelle and her siblings travel to live with their grandparents…
on Turtle Island. Fourteen-year-old Belle is resentful when her more sophisticated fifteen-year-old cousin Caroline joins them, but during the summer they become real family. For grades 6-9. 2006Summer at Tiffany
By Marjorie Hart. 2007
Eighty-three-year-old author recalls the summer of 1945 when she and Marty, her best friend from the University of Iowa, worked…
as the first female pages at Manhattan's Tiffany & Co. Reminisces about her romance with a navy midshipman and the VJ Day celebration in Times Square. 2007