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1914 meldete sich Fritz Rümmelein mit knapp 19 Jahren als Kriegsfreiwilliger und erlebte den Ersten Weltkrieg an vorderster Front hautnah mit. Seine Aufzeichnungen sind ein einzigartiges Dokument der Zeitgeschichte. DennRümmelein hielt seine Erlebnisse kontinuierlich in Wort und Bild fest. Mit mehr als 1000 Fotos, Tagebucheinträgen und Feldpostbriefen ist auf beeindruckende Weise dokumentiert, was es bedeutete, die »Urkatastrophe des 20. Jahrhunderts « mitzuerleben. Als Verdun-Veteran und Teilnehmer vieler weiterer großer Schlachten an der Westfront wurde ihm die höchste Tapferkeitsmedaille für Offiziere verliehen. Doch den Frieden durfte Fritz Rümmelein nicht mehr miterleben. Er starb nur eine Woche vor dem Waffenstillstand. Dank der historisch fundierten Bearbeitung seiner Aufzeichnungen wird der Erste Weltkrieg sowohl in seiner Gesamtheit als auch als Einzelschicksal greifbar.

The American Civil War of 1861-65 is Greek tragedy writ large. Beginning in 1619, when the first colonists land in Virginia, Prelude to War painstakingly shows how slavery was built into the fabric of American society. Author Robert Drane traces the events that make the Civil War inevitable, beginning with the U.S. Constitution's declaration, ratified in 1788, that Africans are three-fifths of a free individual, officially sanctioning slavery. The 1819 Tallmadge Amendment signals the North's intent to block the expansion of slavery - a threat to southern wealth based on new plantations, sales of cotton, and the "auction value" of "bred slaves." With "Manifest Destiny," the Mexican-American War in 1856, and the expansion west, the South and North grow further apart with the South's contention that slavery should expand into the new territory. In 1860, with the election of Abraham Lincoln, the south will secede, paving the way for the beginning Civil War at Fort Sumter, South Carolina.With primary source material, first-hand accounts, archival maps and photographs, Robert Drane creates a rich tapestry embracing the sounds of Negro Spirituals, the cries of those enslaved, the efforts of Black clergy and activists to secure freedom and respect; the small band of white abolitionists whose missions were born of the Second Religious Awakening; and the voices of Northern politicians who passed the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery.

"Silent Echoes: The Bravery of a Forgotten WWII Heroine" is an enthralling biography that uncovers the hidden story of a remarkable woman whose actions during World War II changed the course of history. Shrouded in secrecy, her tale of bravery and resilience has remained untold until now. This book invites you on a gripping journey through shadowy operations and audacious acts of defiance, revealing the pivotal role she played behind the scenes of the war. Filled with suspense and intrigue, "Silent Echoes" is a must-read for anyone eager to discover the untold stories of history's heroes. Unearth her legacy and experience the thrill of uncovering a hidden chapter of WWII. Don't miss out on this compelling narrative that brings to light the extraordinary impact of one woman's courage.

Echoes of Vietnam captures an American soldier's memories of the journey from the comforts of home, to the jungles of Southeast Asia, and the grim realities of war. A retrospective five decades in the making, Echoes includes a first-person assessment of our nation's leaders in their role as overseers of the Vietnam war.Against the backdrop of our nation's current struggle to retain a constitutional republic, Echoes provides timeless insight into leadership shortcomings which can erase citizen confidence and erode the very freedoms our soldiers fought to protect.Echoes provides a soldier's analysis and comparison of Vietnam and Afghanistan end-of-conflict scenarios, and probes America's subsequent involvement in the Russia/Ukraine war.

The publication is a collection of research articles that provide an insight to mnemonic governance - a process of shaping the shared social imaginary of the past by legislators, courts, scholars and other actors. This phenomenon can be observed as an element of political discourse or as changes in law consolidating certain officially recognized states. The contributions in this volume offer a political, legal and historical analysis of transitional justice legislation, emerging memory laws, and the societal perception of the past. With this publication, we intend to contribute to the ongoing and changing debate surrounding memory politics and highlight the practical consequences of mnemonic governance.

In the tradition of All Quiet on the Western Front, Elton E. Mackin's memoirs are a haunting portrayal of war as seen through the eyes of a highly decorated Marine who fought in every Marine Brigade battle from Belleau Wood to the crossing of the Meuse on the eve of the Armistice.Praise for Suddenly We Didn't Want to Die"This beautifully written and truly gripping war memoir is a significant addition to battlefield literature. A minor classic . . . An altogether remarkable job [comparable] to Crane, Remarque and Mailer. Deserves the widest possible audience."-The Cleveland Plain Dealer "This immediate, eloquent report merit[s] comparison with Thomas Boyd's Marine Corps [1923] classic Through the wheat."-Publishers Weekly "A real curiosity: a highly mannered World War I diary, published nearly 80 years after being written and 20 years after its author's death. Bright snapshots abound…sometimes a young man's lyricism takes over [but] the horror of war never departs. The diary has the faults one expects, and the promise one prays for. A fine addition to WWI literature."-Kirkus Reviews "A forthright, eloquent, and powerful memoir certain to become an enduring testament to the drama and tragedy of World War I. Threaded with no small measure of poetry, this superb memoir is sure to become a classic."-Great Battles "A plain but powerful tale . . . [in] vivid prose loaded with details that bring the horrors of World War I to life, he tells an exceptional new version of the old story of battle transforming a boy into a veteran."-American Library Association Booklist "To the ranks of Erich Maria Remarque, E.E. Cummings, John Dos Passos and Siegfried Sassoon, we must now add Elton Mackin . . . who, in a terse style reminiscent of Hemingway, [succeeds] in making someone unfamiliar with war truly now the frightfulness of the trenches and the greatness of the many men who fought in them."-Marine Corps Gazette

Established by the Army Air Force in 1943, the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program opened to civilian women with a pilot's license who could afford to pay for their own transportation, training, and uniforms. Despite their highly developed skill set, rigorous training, and often dangerous work, the women of WASP were not granted military status until 1977, denied over three decades of Army Air Force benefits as well as the honor and respect given to male and female World War II veterans of other branches. Sarah Parry Myers not only offers a history of this short-lived program but considers its long-term consequences for the women who participated and subsequent generations of servicewomen and activists. Myers shows us how those in the WASP program bonded through their training, living together in barracks, sharing the dangers of risky flights, and struggling to be recognized as military personnel, and the friendships they forged lasted well after the Army Air Force dissolved the program. Despite the WASP program's short duration, its fliers formed activist networks and spent the next thirty years lobbying for recognition as veterans. Their efforts were finally recognized when President Jimmy Carter signed a bill into law granting WASP participants retroactive veteran status, entitling them to military benefits and burials.

Less than five years after naval aviation led the forces that defeated Imperial Japan that very organization was in serious trouble. The force had been drastically reduced and, despite the Korean War, growing sentiment supported by no less than the chairman of the Joint Chiefs argued that the new Air Force could do anything naval aviation might be required to do. Meanwhile, the naval aviation mishap rate soared. The very survival of naval aviation was at stake. It took fifty years to turn this around. Today, in spite of hot wars, cold wars, contingencies, and peacetime operations in support of friends and allies, the Navy and Marine Corps accident rate is at least as good as that of the Air Force, and it approaches that of commercial aviation. Gear Up, Mishaps Down explains that this accomplishment was achieved through dedicated and professional leadership, a focus on lessons learned from mishaps and near-mishaps, a willingness to learn from other enterprises, and by better leadership, training, maintenance, supply and more.

Fighting the Fleet recognizes that fleets conduct four distinct but interlocking tasks at the operational level of war-striking, screening, scouting, and basing-and that successful operational art is achieved when they are brought to bear in a cohesive, competitive scheme. In explaining these elements and how they are conjoined for advantage, a central theme emerges: despite the utility and importance of jointness among the armed forces, the effective employment of naval power requires a specialized language and understanding of naval concepts that is often diluted or completely lost when too much jointness is introduced. Woven into the fabric of the book are the fundamental principles of three of the most important naval theorists of the twentieth century: Rear Admiral Bradley Fiske, Rear Admiral J.C. Wylie, and Captain Wayne Hughes. While Cares and Cowden advocate the reinvigoration of combat theory and the appropriate use of operations research, they avoid over-theorizing and have produced a practical guide that empowers fleet planners to wield naval power appropriately and effectively in meeting today's operational and tactical challenges.

This is a detailed study of the development of the Russian small arms industry. Humiliated in the Crimean War, Russia turned to the United States for help. Using archival sources, Bradley, author of Muzhik and Muscovite: Urbanization in Late Imperial Russia (Univ. of California Pr., 1985), describes the role of famous gunsmiths like Colt, Smith, and Wesson; they provided Russia with machinery, tools, production techniques, and even workers to build an independent arms industry. Assimilation was only partially successful; an inflexible economy hindered military modernization. A 30-page bibliography and 40 pages of footnotes testify to Bradley's meticulous research and academic style. Recommended for specialists.

From April 1945, when Stalin broke the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact and Harry Truman assumed the presidency, to the final Soviet military actions against Japan, Hasegawa brings to light the real reasons Japan surrendered. From Washington to Moscow to Tokyo and back again, he shows us a high-stakes diplomatic game as Truman and Stalin sought to outmaneuver each other in forcing Japan's surrender; as Stalin dangled mediation offers to Japan while secretly preparing to fight in the Pacific; as Tokyo peace advocates desperately tried to stave off a war party determined to mount a last-ditch defense; and as the Americans struggled to balance their competing interests of ending the war with Japan and preventing the Soviets from expanding into the Pacific.

On July 31, the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Maddox (DD-731) began a reconnaissance cruise off the coast of North Vietnam. On August 2, three North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked the ship. On the night of August 4, the Maddox and another destroyer, the USS Turner Joy (DD-951), expecting to be attacked, saw what they interpreted as hostile torpedo boats on their radars and reported themselves under attack. The following day, the United States bombed North Vietnam in retaliation. Congress promptly passed, almost unanimously and with little debate, a resolution granting President Lyndon Johnson authority to take "all necessary measures" to deal with aggression in Vietnam. The incident of August 4, 1964, is at the heart of this book. The author interviewed numerous Americans who were present. Most believed in the moment that an attack was occurring. By the time they were interviewed, there were more doubters than believers, but the ones who still believed were more confident in their opinions. Factoring in degree of assurance, one could say that the witnesses were split right down the middle on this fundamental question. A careful and rigorous examination of the other forms of evidence, including intercepted North Vietnamese naval communications, interrogations of North Vietnamese torpedo boat personnel captured later in the war, and the destroyers' detailed records of the location and duration of radar contacts, lead the author to conclude that no attack occurred that night.

If you want to uncover more about some of the Vietnam War's most courageous American heroes, then keep on reading...Not many historic events have had such a strong impact on the way we see and live our nation's values as the Vietnam War.Entering the conflict to defend democracy and fight against the communists, countless Americans departed towards the unknown in the mid-60s.One of these units of brave men was the 173rd Airborne Brigade, better known as the "Sky Soldiers," or simply as "the Herd."During their six years in Vietnam, the Sky Soldiers fought relentlessly against the communist forces. From their early involvement in War Zone D operations, to the Battle of Dak To, this book pays tribute to their valiant efforts in the bid to prevent the collapse of democracy in Vietnam.Thank them for their service.

Ein Schatz in zwei Papiertüten: 500 Briefe ihres Vaters, geschrieben zwischen 1934 und 1946, verdichtet die Autorin zu einer biografischen Studie ihrer Familie in der NS-Zeit. Sie folgt dabei den Spuren ihres unbekannten Vaters, von dem sie bereits in früher Jugend getrennt wurde. Sie lernt einen Menschen kennen, dessen Lebensweg in einem christlich geprägten bildungsbürgerlichen Milieu in Osnabrück beginnt und der sich als angehender Buchhändler in Leipzig dem Studium der Literatur verschreibt, wo er auch seiner ersten Liebe begegnet. Seine weitere Lebensplanung wird jäh durchkreuzt durch die Einberufung zur Wehrmacht und den sich anschließenden Dienst als Offizier im Russlandfeldzug 1941/42 und als Besatzer in Dänemark. Nach Gefangenschaft in Frankreich kehrt er in ein zerstörtes Osnabrück zurück.Vor diesem Hintergrund zeigt die Autorin den schleichenden Prozess der Vereinnahmung aller Lebensbereiche durch die NS-Ideologie auf, ein ebenso schmerzhafter wie auch notwendiger Prozess, in dem es um die immer wieder und immer noch bewegende Frage geht, wie es möglich war, dass sich persönlich liebenswerte und unbescholtene Menschen in den Bann eines mörderischen Regimes ziehen ließen. Einfühlsam, aber auch mit kritischer Distanz beschreibt die Autorin den Werdegang ihres Vaters, der nach eigener Aussage nicht zum Soldaten geboren wurde, dessen Leben aber Schritt für Schritt vom NS-System vereinnahmt wurde, dem er sich bis zum bitteren Ende verpflichtet fühlte.

Blood Brothers 1-0 and 1-1: The Beginning takes you on a surreptitious daring rescue attempt during the Vietnam War Tet Offensive.The reader gains insight into the emotions, lives and actions of the soldiers and civilians who participated either willingly or by edict.It is a compelling story of bravery, enduring camaraderie and the evolution of forged friendships destined to last a lifetime.

The Clans implement a plan to utilize the McCarthy "Gold" for the coming revolution before rebel forces begin hostilities under Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera. Tadgh and Morgan McCarthy suffer brutal consequences from the merciless British oppression before continuing their search for O'Donnell treasure. War correspondent Collin O'Donnell, sent back to Ireland on assignment, reluctantly promises his wife Kathy that he won't risk his life searching for his Clan's treasure, but can he keep that promise? The Templars and Barbary pirate descendants stalk the Clans and each other in search of a greater prize.

Der russische Hellseher Danilo Gromow liegt tot in seiner düsteren Villa und seine Butlerin Jana ist wie immer sturzbetrunken. Ausgerechnet Kriminalkommissär Heiner Glut, der tags zuvor einen Wald in Brand gesteckt hat, soll diesen Fall lösen. Den einzigen Hinweis, den er findet, ist der Eintrag »Novosti« in Gromows Agenda. Unterstützte der dubiose Prophet die Berner Filiale der sowjetischen Nachrichtenagentur Novosti, die Bundesrat Rudolf Friedrich gerade in einer Hauruckaktion schließen lassen will? 1983.?Verfluchte Hitze verdichtet drei historische Ereignisse - den Skandal um die Berner Novosti¬-Agentur, den spektakulären Fall einer Basler Spionin in sowjetischen Diensten und den Mord an einem Hellseher - zu einer tragikomischen Bestandsaufnahme des Jahrs 1983. Es ist der letzte Höhepunkt des Kalten Kriegs, Europa streitet über den Nato¬-Doppelbeschluss, Nenas »99 Luftballons« laufen in Dauerschleife und die Sommertemperaturen steigen erstmals auf 40 Grad.Während Holliger seinen historischen Figuren verbriefte Zitate in den Mund legt, schreibt er für sein Ermittlerteam pointierte Dialoge, die den vielfach ausgezeichneten Theater- und Hörspielautor erkennen lassen.

Eine Landkarte der Erinnerung Vom Widerstandsversteck "Igel" bis zum Feriendomizil der Familie Goebbels - in wenigen anderen Regionen Österreichs liegen die Widersprüche auch geografisch so nah beieinander wie im Salzkammergut. Hier kreuzen sich die Spuren von Rebellen und Widerstandskämpferinnen, Opfern und Verfolgten mit denen von Kriegsverbrechern und hochrangigen NS-Tätern. In einem kleinen Handbuch werden die einzelnen Orte kurz beschrieben. Der beiliegende Faltplan markiert die Plätze und gibt Hinweise zur Orientierung. Unter anderem finden sich: - Zwangsarbeiterlager in Nußdorf am Attersee - KZ-Stollen und -Friedhof in Ebensee - Haus von Franz Kain in Bad Goisern - Villa Roth am Grundlsee - Fluchtroute von Sepp Plieseis - Theresia-Pesendorfer-Platz in Bad Ischl - Löwendenkmal am Traunsee Die ländliche Postkarten-Idylle weist auch blinde Flecken auf, diese Karte macht sie sichtbar! - Handbuch mit Faltplan - Mit rund 30 Orten, an die wir uns aus unterschiedlichen Gründen erinnern sollten - Von bekannten und weniger bekannten Villen, Schlössern und Lagern aus der NS-Zeit über vergessene Verstecke und Fluchtrouten bis hin zu bedeutsamen Denkmälern und Kunstinstallationen - Zeitraum: 1914 bis 1963

This book explores the concept of 'resilience' in the context of militaries and militarization. Focusing on the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia, and continental Europe, it argues that, post-9/11, there has been a shift away from 'trauma' and towards 'resilience' in framing and understanding human responses to calamitous events. The contributors to this volume show how resilience-speech has been militarized, and deeply entrenched in imagined communities. As the concept travels, it is applied in diverse and often contradictory ways to a vast array of experiences, contexts, and scientific fields and disciplines. By embracing diverse methodologies and perspectives, this book reflects on how resilience has been weaponized and employed in highly gendered ways, and how it is central to neoliberal governance in the twenty-first century. While critical of the use of resilience, the chapters also reflect on more positive ways for humans to respond to unforeseen challenges.