Tag: Postwar

Free Download Frank Zero, "Strange Tales of the Parapolitical: Postwar Nazis, Mercenaries, and Other Secret History"
English | ISBN: 1702385051 | 2020 | 392 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Strange Tales of the Parapolitical is a terrifying journey into the black heart of the national security state and beyond. S. William Snider of the famed VISUP parapolitical blog, and Frank Zero (one-half of ZeroKnight and co-author of CONTACT: Them or Us), the co-hosts of cult hitwww.TheFarmPodcast.com, team up once again to bring you this series of essays. Readers will learn how one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in the United States has molded both the counterculture and the Christian right for decades. The will discover the most infamous Nazi colony in South America, to say nothing of the arch criminal who ran it. Track the secret history of private military industry and its shocking connection to the Trump presidency. The terrifying implications of the RFID chip round out this volume. Drawing equal inspiration from synchromysticism and the scholarly political research of Peter Dale Scott and Jeffrey Bale, Snider and Zero deliver a surreal and haunting road-map of how we collectively arrived in a Trump era, and where we might go from here.

Free Download Andrew N. Buchanan, "From World War to Postwar: Revolution, Cold War, Decolonization, and the Rise of American Hegemony, 1943-1958 "
English | ISBN: 1350240214 | 2023 | 286 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 19 MB
Offering a global account of the ‘long’ World War II, this book challenges conventional narratives that picture a clearly defined war period (1939-1945) followed by a distinct postwar era dominated by the encroaching cold war. Arguing instead that while some aspects of the war did end abruptly in 1945, in many corners of the world ‘war’ bled directly and raggedly into the ‘postwar’ such as Allied Occupation in Italy, the civil war in Greece, the rise of US hegemony and struggles for national liberation in India. From World War to Postwar shows how critical developments in the latter half of the 20th century were a direct result of the Second World War, and reconceptualizes the conflict as an intersecting series of regional wars as well as an overarching world war.

Free Download Gonda Van Steen, "The Battle for Bodies, Hearts and Minds in Postwar Greece: Social Worker Charles Schermerhorn in Thessaloniki, 1946-1951"
English | ISBN: 103228174X | 2023 | 266 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 19 MB
The previously unpublished memoir of social worker Charles Schermerhorn offers new and eye-opening source material pertaining to the epicenter of the early Cold War: northern Greece. This book brings this memoir to light to enrich the discussion about the Greek Civil War and the late 1940s, through the highly perceptive views of a firsthand observer of the turmoil. Schermerhorn’s writings speak most compellingly to the power of human agency amid adverse sociopolitical circumstances. His memoir takes a child-centered and social-historical approach to controversial events, filling a great void in our knowledge.

Free Download Elizabeth Vihlen McGregor, "Jazz and Postwar French Identity: Improvising the Nation"
English | ISBN: 1498528767 | 2016 | 290 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In the context of a shifting domestic and international status quo that was evolving in the decades following World War II, French audiences used jazz as a means of negotiating a wide range of issues that were pressing to them and to their fellow citizens. Despite the fact that jazz was fundamentally linked to the multicultural through its origins in the hands of African-American musicians, happenings within the French jazz public reflected much about France’s postwar society. In the minds of many, jazz was connected to youth culture, but instead of challenging traditional gender expectations, the music tended to reinforce long-held stereotypes. French critics, musicians, and fans contended with the reality of American superpower strength and often strove to elevate their own country’s stature in relation to the United States by finding fault with American consumer society and foreign policy aims. Jazz audiences used this music to condemn American racism and to support the American civil rights movement, expressing strong reservations about the American way of life. French musicians lobbied to create professional opportunities for themselves, and some went so far as to create a union that endorsed preferential treatment for French nationals.

Free Download The Global Frontier: Postwar Travel in American Literature (New American Canon) by Eric Strand
English | June 20, 2023 | ISBN: 1609389018 | 280 pages | PDF | 1.92 Mb
Americans often associate travel with luxury, a cosmopolitan lifestyle, and relaxation. They travel to "get away from it all." Most fail to consider that modern American travel began in the straitened circumstances of the 1930s, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt encouraged citizens to tour the United States so as to stimulate the economy. The Federal Writers’ Project composed guidebooks for each state, and tourism became a form of national solidarity.

Free Download Jerry Scutts, "Modelling Postwar Tanks"
English | 2000 | pages: 66 | ISBN: 1841761389 | PDF | 18,4 mb
Since WWII tanks have proved themselves in every conflict – Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, the Gulf, the Arab-Israeli wars. This book concentrates on how to model accurately not just postwar technical developments but also changing tactical uses.

Free Download Upland Geopolitics: Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush (Culture, Place, and Nature) by Michael B. Dwyer
English | August 24, 2022 | ISBN: 0295750480, 0295750499 | True EPUB | 250 pages | 22.6 MB
In the twenty-first century, land deals in the Global South have become increasingly prevalent and controversial. Transnational access to arable land in impoverished "land-rich" countries in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia highlights the link between the shifting geopolitics of economic development and problems of food security, climate change, and regional and international trade.

Free Download Enduring Postwar: Yasuoka Shotaro and Literary Memory in Japan by Kendall Heitzman
English | December 15, 2019 | ISBN: 0826522556, 0826522564 | True EPUB | 228 pages | 24.8 MB
Yasuoka Shōtarō (1920-2013) was perfectly situated to become Japan’s premier chronicler of the Showa period (1926-89). Over fifty years as a writer, Yasuoka produced stories, novels, plays, and essays, as well as monumental histories that connected his own life to those of his ancestors. He was also the only major Japanese writer to live in the American South during the Civil Rights Movement, when he spent most of an academic year at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. In 1977, he translated Alex Haley’s Roots into Japanese.

Free Download Ewa Koodziejczyk, "Czesaw Miosz in Postwar America"
English | ISBN: 8395669631 | 2021 | 395 pages | PDF | 1423 KB
Czeslaw Milosz is at times called an American poet. This means one thing in Poland, and something else in the United States. To Polish readers, this description is mainly related to the moment of his departure from Europe to take up employment at the University of California in Berkeley, and his settlement for many years in California, where his new poems and essays were written. Milosz is to them an American poet, in a biographical sense, from the time he started living at Grizzly Peak until his return to Krakow, and in a symbolic sense, for as long as he cooperated with the publishing market, participated in literary life, and was an ambassador of Polish literature across the ocean. He is an American poet to the extent that his work was influenced by the thought and work of those cultural circles.

Free Download Markus Wahl, "Medical Memories and Experiences in Postwar East Germany"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367786192, 0367138700 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 4.5 mb
This book draws on the example of the major cities of Leipzig and Dresden to illustrate continuity and change in public health in the German Democratic Republic. Based on archival work, it will demonstrate how members of the medical profession successfully manipulated their pre-1945 past in order to continue practising, leading to persistence in the social conception of medicine and disease after Communism took hold. This was particularly evident in attitudes towards and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and the pathology of deviant behaviour among young people.