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Purple Hibiscus. Purple Hibiscus is a novel by Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, published on 30 October 2003 by Algonquin Books. Narrated in the first person, Kambili Achike, the central character struggles to find her voice as the daughter of a wealthy, devout Catholic businessman, Eugene who violently abuses his family.
The three trillion dollar war: the true cost of the Iraq conflict (1st ed.). New York: W.W. Norton. pp. xvii. ISBN 978-0-393-06701-9. THIS BOOK is based on a paper that we presented in January 2006, in which we conservatively estimated that the cost of the war would be between $1 and $2 trillion. Our goal was simple: to determine the true cost ...
At points, the book must be rotated to be read, making it a prime example of ergodic literature. [1] [2] The book is most often described as a horror story, though the author has also endorsed readers' interpretation of it as a love story. [3] House of Leaves has also been described as an encyclopedic novel, [4] or conversely a satire of ...
The Third World War and The Third World War: The Untold Story are war novels by General Sir John Hackett, published in 1978 and 1982, by Macmillan in New York and Sidgwick & Jackson in London, respectively. The novels detail a hypothetical World War III waged between NATO and the Warsaw Pact in 1985, written in the style of a non-fiction ...
The book was received very positively in post-9/11 America, as the book presented the public with undisclosed information about the United States' dealings with the Afghan Mujahideen. [3] Crile's book also details significant events that occurred over the course of the 13 years, how Charlie Wilson was able to run a covert war with very little ...
34912692. For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War is a book by the Pulitzer Prize –winning author James M. McPherson. The book was published by Oxford University Press in 1997 and covers the lives and ideals of American Civil War soldiers from both sides of the war. Drawing from a compilation of over 25,000 letters and 250 ...
Absolute war. The concept of absolute war was a theoretical construct developed by the Prussian military theorist General Carl von Clausewitz in his famous but unfinished philosophical exploration of war, Vom Kriege (in English, On War, 1832). It is discussed only in the first half of Book VIII (there are only a couple of references to it ...
Worldwar: In the Balance is a 1994 alternate history novel by American writer Harry Turtledove. [1] It is the first novel of the Worldwar tetralogy, as well as the first installment in the extended Worldwar series that includes the Colonization trilogy and the novel Homeward Bound. The plot begins in late 1941, while the Earth is torn apart by ...