Tag: War

Free Download Daniel R. Brunstetter, "Just War Thinkers "
English | ISBN: 1138122483 | 2017 | 282 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This volume offers a set of concise and accessible introductions to the seminal figures in the historical development of the just war tradition.

Free Download Hubris: The Origins of Russia’s War Against Ukraine by Jonathan Haslam
English | September 12th, 2024 | ISBN: 1804548227 | 368 pages | True EPUB | 4.58 MB
On February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in an escalation of the Russo-Ukraine conflict that began eight years earlier. But the roots of the conflict began long before that historic date.

Free Download Alcinda Honwana, Alex de Waal, "Getting Somalia Wrong?: Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered State"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1842779338, 184277932X | EPUB | pages: 232 | 1.3 mb
Somalia is a failed state, representing a threat to itself, its neighbours and the wider world. In recent years, it has become notorious for the piracy off its coast and the rise of Islamic extremism, opening it up as a new ‘southern front’ in the war on terror. At least that is how it is inevitably portrayed by politicians and in the media.

Free Download Michael Duffy, "From Chicago to Vietnam: A Memoir of War"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1087930464, 1629013676 | EPUB | pages: 328 | 3.1 mb
In the early hours of January 31, 1968, eighty-thousand North Vietnamese and Vietcong combat troops attacked every major city and military base in South Vietnam. The perimeter of the massive Saigon Airbase, Tan Son Nhut, was breached, and fighting raged all morning.

Free Download Mark A. Lause, "Free Labor: The Civil War and the Making of an American Working Class"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0252039335, 0252080866 | EPUB | pages: 296 | 3.3 mb
Monumental and revelatory, Free Labor explores labor activism throughout the country during a period of incredible diversity and fluidity: the American Civil War.

Free Download Robert H. Miller, "Finding My Father’s War: Revelations from the Red Cross Diary of an American POW in Nazi Germany"
English | ISBN: 0615322395 | 2009 | 299 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This is the remarkable story of my father, Herbert Henry Miller, who was drafted into the army in August 1942. So begins this book about an ordinary man thrust into extraordinary circumstances during World War II. The writer is Herbert Miller’s son, Robert, who was amazed to discover his father’s Red Cross war diary at the back of a drawer in the weeks following his 1994 death. The diary was crammed full of his dreams for survival and of the death and destruction he had witnessed as a soldier and a POW. Finding his father’s journal became the catalyst for Robert Miller to learn more about his father and his father’s war. He spent hours interviewing his mother, the only person who knew of her husband’s nightmares and understood that he suffered from life-long posttraumatic stress disorder. Robert also traveled throughout Europe and America interviewing World War II survivors and their families and digging into archives.

Free Download China Is Going to War (Encounter Broadside) by Gordon G. Chang
English | September 12th, 2023 | ISBN: 1641773715 | 48 pages | True EPUB | 0.41 MB
The Communist Party of China is fast-tracking the largest military buildup since the Second World War; it is sanctions-proofing itself; it is stockpiling grain; it is surveying America for nuclear weapons strikes; and, most ominously, it is mobilizing China’s civilians for battle.

Free Download Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone by Serhii Plokhy
English | September 3rd, 2024 | ISBN: 132407941X | 240 pages | True EPUB | 3.66 MB
A harrowing account of Russia’s occupation of the Chernobyl and Zaporizhia nuclear power plants, and the dangers of nuclear power colliding with warfare.

Free Download Captives of Liberty: Prisoners of War and the Politics of Vengeance in the American Revolution (Early American Studies) by T. Cole Jones
English | November 15, 2019 | ISBN: 0812251695 | 336 pages | PDF | 10 Mb
Contrary to popular belief, the American Revolutionary War was not a limited and restrained struggle for political self-determination. From the onset of hostilities, British authorities viewed their American foes as traitors to be punished, and British abuse of American prisoners, both tacitly condoned and at times officially sanctioned, proliferated. Meanwhile, more than seventeen thousand British and allied soldiers fell into American hands during the Revolution. For a fledgling nation that could barely afford to keep an army in the field, the issue of how to manage prisoners of war was daunting.

Free Download Gennady Shubin, Andrei Tokarev, "Bush War: The Road to Cuito Cuanavale, Soviet Soldiers’ Accounts of the Angolan War"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1431401854 | PDF | pages: 218 | 4.0 mb
For almost 15 years, South Africa was involved in a civil war in Angola: the so-called Bush War on behalf of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola faction. The climax of the conflict portrayedin this historywas the battle of Cuito Cuanavale, the largest military engagement on African soil since World War II. This book provides the firsthand, personal accounts of the clash leading up to Cuito Cuanavale for the first time in English, as told by the Soviet advisers to the Angolan army. Their experiences of the war as well as their views and assessment of their South African enemies and Cuban and Angolan allies will not only surprise and fascinate readers, but will also offer new insights into the war itself.