Tag: Enemy

Behind Enemy Lines with the SAS The story of Amédée Maingard, SOE Agent


Free Download Paul McCue, "Behind Enemy Lines with the SAS: The story of Amédée Maingard, SOE Agent"
English | 2008 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 1844156184, 152675665X | EPUB | 2,0 mb
Amedee Maingard was a young Mauritian studying in London in 1939 who volunteered for the British Army. After a frustrating spell in the infantry, Maingard joined the Special Operations Executive (SOE), He parachuted into occupied France in 1943 to join the Stationer circuit, initially as radio operator but soon was second-in-command in the circuit, arranging the delivery of weapons, supplies and personnel to the Resistance.

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Enemy Aliens Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism


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English | 2003 | pages: 331 | ISBN: 1565848004, 1565849388 | PDF | 4,9 mb
When David Cole was first writing Enemy Aliens, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the anti-immigrant brand of American patriotism was at a fever pitch. Now, as the pendulum swings back, and court after court finds the Bush administration’s tactics of secrecy and assumption of guilt unconstitutional, Cole’s book stands as a prescient and critical indictment of the double standards we have applied in the war on terror.

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Children of the Enemy Oral Histories of Vietnamese Amerasians and Their Mothers


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2013 | 309 Pages | ISBN: 078647601X | EPUB | 6 MB
When US troops withdrew from Vietnam, they left behind thousands of young children fathered by American soldiers. The new regime regarded the Amerasians as children of the enemy and ostracised them from Vietnamese society. The U.S. government passed the Homecoming Act of 1988, finally facilitating immigration of Amerasians to the United States. Now young adults, most who have emigrated have faced difficulty adjusting to a new culture and only about 2 percent have been reunited with their fathers. Revealing and often poignant, the 38 interviews here give voice to the struggle that Amerasians and their mothers faced in their homeland.

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The Enemy Harassed Washington’s New Jersey Campaign of 1777 [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0C7SNF68B | 2023 | 10 hours and 34 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 301 MB
Author: Jim Stempel
Narrator: Stephen Bowlby

In late December 1776, the American War of Independence appeared to be on its last legs. General George Washington’s continental forces had been reduced to a shadow of their former strength, and the British Army had chased them across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania. Desperate times call for desperate measures, however, and George Washington responded to this crisis with astonishing audacity. On Christmas night 1776, he recrossed the Delaware as a nor’easter churned up the coast, burying his small detachment under howling sheets of snow and ice. Undaunted, they attacked a Hessian brigade at Trenton, New Jersey, taking the German auxiliaries by complete surprise.

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To Serve the Enemy Informers, Collaborators, and the Laws of Armed Conflict


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English | 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B082T2975J | MP3@64 Kbps | Duration: 11:35 h | 318 Mb
A constant yet oftentimes concealed practice in war has been the use of informers and collaborators by parties to an armed conflict. Despite the prevalence of such activity, and the serious and at times fatal consequences that befall those who collaborate with an enemy, international law applicable in times of armed conflict does not squarely address the phenomenon. The recruitment, use, and treatment of informers and other collaborators is addressed only partially and at times indirectly by international humanitarian law.
In this book, Shane Darcy examines the development and application of the relevant rules and principles of the laws of armed conflict in relation to collaboration. With a primary focus on international humanitarian law as may be applicable to various forms of collaboration, the book also offers an assessment of the relevance of human rights and considers how the phenomenon of collaboration has been addressed post-conflict.

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Behind enemy lines Gender, passing and the Special Operations Executive in the Second World War


Free Download Juliette Pattinson, "Behind enemy lines: Gender, passing and the Special Operations Executive in the Second World War "
English | ISBN: 0719075696 | 2007 | 256 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Behind enemy lines is an examination of gender relations in wartime using the Special Operations Executive as a case study. Drawing on personal testimonies, in particular oral history and autobiography, as well as official records and film, it explores the extraordinary experiences of male and female agents who were recruited and trained by a British organisation and infiltrated into Nazi-Occupied France to encourage sabotage and subversion during the Second World War.

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