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Asian American War Stories examines contemporary Asian American literature that considers both the short-term and the long-term effects of war, trauma, and displacement on civilians, as well as the ways that individuals seek healing in the face of suffering.

This book explores the value of Corbett's seminal work Some Principles of Maritime Strategy over time in a changing context and with evolving technology.

Visitor Experience at Holocaust Memorials and Museums is the first volume to offer comprehensive insights into visitor reactions to a wide range of museum exhibitions, memorials, and memory sites.

A dramatic intellectual biography of Victorian jurist Travers Twiss, who provided the legal justification for the creation of the brutal Congo Free StateEminent jurist, Oxford professor, advocate to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Travers Twiss (1809-1897) was a model establishment figure in Victorian Britain, and a close collaborator of Prince Metternich, the architect of the Concert of Europe. Yet Twiss's life was defined by two events that threatened to undermine the order that he had so stoutly defended: a notorious social scandal and the creation of the Congo Free State. In King Leopold's Ghostwriter, Andrew Fitzmaurice tells the incredible story of a man who, driven by personal events that transformed him from a reactionary to a reformer, rewrote and liberalised international law-yet did so in service of the most brutal regime of the colonial era.In an elaborate deception, Twiss and Pharailde van Lynseele, a Belgian prostitute, sought to reinvent her as a woman of suitably noble birth to be his wife. Their subterfuge collapsed when another former client publicly denounced van Lynseele. Disgraced, Twiss resigned his offices and the couple fled to Switzerland. But this failure set the stage for a second, successful act of re-creation. Twiss found new employment as the intellectual driving force of King Leopold of Belgium's efforts to have the Congo recognised as a new state under his personal authority. Drawing on extensive new archival research, King Leopold's Ghostwriter recounts Twiss's story as never before, including how his creation of a new legal personhood for the Congo was intimately related to the earlier invention of a new legal personhood for his wife.Combining gripping biography and penetrating intellectual history, King Leopold's Ghostwriter uncovers a dramatic, ambiguous life that has had lasting influence on international law.

This book explores the largely neglected issue of responses to the US Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI, or the 'Star Wars' missile defence programme) across NATO.

This book treats on a board canvas one vital aspect of the German Problem in 1919: the redistribution, through territorial change, of the elements of power between Germany and the victors.

A captivating and poignant biography of a Coldstream Guardsman in World War Two which looks at the hardships faced during battle by a man on the front line.

Departing from conventional studies of border confrontation and weaving together international, national, and transnational-local histories, Yin presents a new approach to Sino-Vietnamese relations during the Cold War, centering on the revolutionary states' competitive and collaborative state building on the borderlands and local responses to it.

A vivid history of how Cold War politics helped solve one of the twentieth century's biggest refugee crisesWhen World War II ended, about one million people whom the Soviet Union claimed as their citizens were outside the borders of the USSR, mostly in the Western-occupied zones of Germany and Austria. These "displaced persons," or DPs-Russians, prewar Soviet citizens, and people from West Ukraine and the Baltic states forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1939-refused to repatriate to the Soviet Union despite its demands. Thus began one of the first big conflicts of the Cold War. In Lost Souls, Sheila Fitzpatrick draws on new archival research, including Soviet interviews with hundreds of DPs, to offer a vivid account of this crisis, from the competitive maneuverings of politicians and diplomats to the everyday lives of DPs. American enthusiasm for funding the refugee organizations taking care of DPs quickly waned after the war. It was only after DPs were redefined-from "victims of war and Nazism" to "victims of Communism"-in 1947 that a solution was found: the United States would pay for the mass resettlement of DPs in America, Australia, and other countries outside Europe. The Soviet Union protested this "theft" of its citizens. But it was a coup for the United States. The choice of DPs to live a free life in the West, and the West's welcome of them, became an important theme in America's Cold War propaganda battle with the Soviet Union. A compelling story of the early Cold War, Lost Souls is also a rare chronicle of a refugee crisis that was solved.

June 6, 1944 minutes after midnight, silent silhouettes fly through the clouds and veer over from l'Orne, north of Caen. At more than 150 km / h, they touch the ground and finish their race a few meters from the bridge of Bénouville, who will enter into posterity under the name of Pegasus Bridge.

Sword, commonly known as Sword Beach, was the code name given to one of the five main landing areas along the Normandy coast during the initial assault phase, Operation Neptune, of Operation Overlord; the Allied invasion of German-occupied France that commenced on 6 June 1944.

On the night of the 31st of December 1943, two British commandos successfully collected a few samples of sand and peat under the very nose of the Germans posted at Ver-sur-Mer. Five months later, some 25,000 men followed in their footsteps and landed on the same shores, codenamed Gold Beach.

Why use an artificial port ? How they were made and assembled, risks and chances, questions and answers to determine and explain this titanesque enterprise to produce prefabricated ports.

"e;The definitive account of Union Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans' operational masterpiece-the almost bloodless conquest . . . of Middle Tennessee."e; -Sam Davis Elliott, author of Soldier of TennesseeJuly 1863 was a momentous month in the Civil War. News of Gettysburg and Vicksburg electrified the North and devastated the South. Sandwiched geographically between those victories and lost in the heady tumult of events was news that William S. Rosecrans's Army of the Cumberland had driven Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee entirely out of Middle Tennessee. The brilliant campaign nearly cleared the state of Rebels and changed the calculus of the Civil War in the Western Theater. Despite its decisive significance, few readers even today know of these events. The publication of Tullahoma by award-winning authors David A. Powell and Eric J. Wittenberg, forever rectifies that oversight.Powell and Wittenberg mined hundreds of archival and firsthand accounts to craft a splendid study of this overlooked campaign that set the stage for the Battles of Chickamauga and Chattanooga, the removal of Rosecrans and Bragg from the chessboard of war, the elevation of U.S. Grant to command all Union armies, and the early stages of William T. Sherman's Atlanta Campaign. Tullahoma-one of the most brilliantly executed major campaigns of the war-was pivotal to Union success in 1863 and beyond. And now readers everywhere will know precisely why."e;An outstanding study of the decidedly under-appreciated 1863 Tullahoma Campaign in Middle Tennessee."e; -Carol Reardon, George Winfree Professor Emerita of American History, Penn State University"e;Tullahoma ranks among the best of modern Civil War campaign histories."e; -Civil War Books and Authors

Volume III examines the latter stages of the Vietnam War and its legacies long after it ended. Essential reading for students and scholars of the Vietnam War, US foreign relations, and Cold War studies.

Volume II examines the escalation of the Vietnam War and its development into a violent stalemate in the years between 1963 and 1968. Essential reading for students and scholars of the Vietnam War, US foreign relations, and Cold War studies.

Volume I explores when, how, and why the Vietnam War began. Essential reading for students and scholars of the Vietnam War, US foreign relations, and Cold War studies.

This innovative collection uses visual sources to explore the role of Asia in Cold War global diplomacy. Scholars across disciplines demonstrate how leaders in the region exploited the symbolic value of diplomacy to emphasise their agency in relationships with Great Powers, shedding new light on how culture shapes international relations.

The definitive history of world war two aircraftA visually-stunning and fascinating history of all the key aircraft during the World War 2. Features main British aircraft, plus key German, Russian, Japanese and US. With fascinating insights into technological advances and the role these iconic warplanes played in the theatre of war.

The Hungarian National Gallery commemorates the 80th anniversary of the Holocaust with a graphic art exhibition in cooperation with the Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives. The exhibition on the terrible events of eight decades ago will therefore focus on artists who themselves were victims of this catastrophe. The exhibition will present one-off and reproductive prints and albums that record everyday life in the ghettos, the concentrations camps and the forced labour camps in a narrative, figurative, or sometimes graphic-novel-like format.

This is the first book to critically and visually explore the incidental and improvised approaches that have created spaces of protection from conflict and displacement, using case studies from Iraq and its diaspora that also resonate in a wider, global, context. Written by an Iraqi architect, who has lived through wars and conflict, the book focuses on three different spheres of spatial practice - the domestic, the city and the fringes. This approach offers a rounded analysis of spatial creativity as a result of the traumatic events that have impacted the region, from the 2003 invasion up until the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic and the peak of its political turmoil. In the face of the many injustices suffered by the Iraqi people, there has also been a wealth of creativity and imagination in the ingenuity of their design and adaptability to change. Rupturing Architecture combines textual analysis and interviews with Iraqi citizens with illustrative maps drawings and photographs, providing an architectural and spatial practice view from the Global South that is rarely seen or written about to show how the incidental improvised architecture of traumatic events could influence and shape a new design and spatial practice of humanitarian structures of living and protection.

With the unprecedented global conflict of the First World War as an overarching theme, Rudolf Steiner addresses timeless issues such as the search for harmony between peoples and nations, the development of the human capacity for love, the contemporary presence of Christ, and the questions of reincarnation and life after death.