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(Top) 1 Contents summary. 2 References. ... Download as PDF; Printable version ... War is a nonfiction book authored by journalist Bob Woodward and published by Simon ...
Kit Carson: Frontiersman, wilderness guide and member of the Union Army. Narbona: Prominent Navajo strongman and leader. Stephen W. Kearny: Brigadier General in the United States Army and fixture of the Mexican–American War. Henry Hopkins Sibley: Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army.
The Washington Post published a positive review, specifically directing praise at the book's prose and refusal to label the war as having been sparked by any specific political party. [3] The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal praised the book's characters, especially their inner conflicts about the war and its origins.
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society is a book by Dave Grossman exploring the psychology of the act of killing and the military law enforcement establishments attempt to understand and deal with the consequences of killing.
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam is a 2012 book by historian Fredrik Logevall, then a professor at Cornell University. The book won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History , the inaugural American Library in Paris Book Award , and the 2013 Arthur Ross Book Award and was a runner-up for the Cundill Prize . [ 1 ]
The book rejects the idea that white supremacist violence is only done by lone wolves. [8] Although the book was written before the Unite the Right rally, [9] it provides a history of the movements that lead to the rally. [10] [11] Belew traces William Luther Pierce and his 1978 novel The Turner Diaries to the rise of white supremacists. [12]
This book is a comprehensive history of the war, arguing that one of the primary reasons for the Taliban's success was their deep connection to the religious and social identity of Afghanistan, [7] and that the inability of the American-supported Afghan government to attract popular support and retain control of the country [8] was due to Afghans’ viewing the American military as a foreign ...
Guerrilla Warfare was influenced by two books from the Spanish Civil War: Nuevas Guerras and Medicina contra invasión. South African revolutionaries read the work in the early 1960s; former Minister of Intelligence Ronnie Kasrils noted that the apartheid regime's police questioned his late wife about an order of "Che Guevara's book on ...