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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks, a dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, with a focus on the pivotal years from the mid-1930s through the 1940s, when their farsighted vision and inspired action in the face of the threat of fascism and communism helped preserve democracy for the world. Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's--Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 422 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A new history of the Civil Rights Movement with an emphasis on its nonviolent use of military tactics and strategy"--
In Waging a Good War, bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks offers a fresh perspective on Americas greatest moral revolutionthe civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s--and its legacy today. While the Movement has become synonymous with Martin Luther King Jr.s ethos of nonviolence, Ricks, a Pulitzer Prizewinning war reporter, draws...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
320 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The unvarnished account of a brigade commander's tour of duty in Baghdad during the first chaotic year of the American occupation following the 2003 invasion. What went wrong and what was wrong with the U.S. military is closely examined. The ten major mistakes made in Washington and on the battlefield are brought to light--Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Pegasus books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A powerful and intimate look into torture and its effect on both the tortured and the torturer. In May of 2005, the U.S. government finally acknowledged that the invasion of Iraq had spawned an insurgency. With that admission, training the Iraqi Forces suddenly became a strategic priority. Lt. Col. Bill Edmonds, then a Special Forces captain, was in the first group of "official" military advisors. He arrived in Mosul in the wake of Abu Ghraib, at...