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D'une carrière militaire à un emploi civil : Guide de l'intervenant en développement de carrière, 2e édition est une ressource clé pour les professionnels qui accompagnent les vétérans et leurs familles dans leur transition vers la vie civile. Cette...

Coleccion De Cruces Y Medallas De Distincion De España, written by José Velasco Dueñas and published in 1843, offers a detailed historical overview of Spanish crosses and medals of distinction. This collection provides a fascinating glimpse into...

First place winner in the category Military Nonfiction in the 2023 Firebird Book Awards.Chop that Sh*t Up! is a collection of stories by a military veteran with deployments ranging from Bosnia-Herzegovina to tours in Iraq. Follow along his...

Imagine that you are an eighteen-year-old Black man growing up in the Jim Crow South of the 1940s. You have maybe a seventh-grade education, and you enlist in the Army, where you become trained to operate and fight from a new Sherman battle tank. But...

On May 4, 1970 the Ohio National Guard fired bullets into college students in a non-violent demonstration at Kent State University.  They were protesting the Vietnam War and Cambodia Campaign of illegal bombing by the United States Government and...

In Poland and elsewhere there has been a noticeable increase of interest in various aspects of the Polish-Jewish past which can be explained, the author argues, in terms of a broader intellectual need to explore the "blank spots" of Poland's national...

This book provides a detailed analysis of one of the most prominent and widespread international phenomena to which criminal justice systems has been applied: the expression of revisionist views relating to mass atrocities and the outright denial of...

Rural crime has long been overlooked in the field of crime prevention. Sustained academic interrogation is necessary, therefore, to reduce the extensive economic and social costs of rural crime as well as to challenge some of the myths regarding the...

This book is an exacting reproduction of the 1945 original book on the 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. There may be slight typographical errors including crooked or off-center pages because they are present in the original book. Please...

Geopolitics is an increasingly important tool to understand national and international relations. This book unravels how organized crime is not just a marginal problem but part of a bigger geopolitical and asymmetrical warfare strategy. It seeks to...

"People interested in World War II Pacific will enjoy the author's direct and easily understood style." – Reviewer A vital stepping stone in America's war against the Empire of Japan Naval bombardment of the island began on June 14. By...

Das Buch ""Erinnerungen an die Geschichte der Stadt Mainz in den Jahren 1813 und 1814"" wurde im Jahr 1863 von Carl Georg Bockenheimer ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt von den Ereignissen, die sich w�����hrend der Befreiungskriege in Mainz abspielten. Der...

Le Corps d'Arm�����e aux ordres du Mar�����chal Mortier: Combat de Durrenstein (1897) est un livre �����crit par Paul Claude Alombert. Ce livre raconte l'histoire de la bataille de Durrenstein, qui a eu lieu en 1805 lors de la troisi�����me coalition...

The Present Relations of Church and State in England: In Accordance with the Teachings of Political Science is a book written by George Guerard Lawrence in 1867. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between the Church of England...

""The Origin and Services of the Prince of Wales Regiment"" is a historical book written by Ernest J. Chambers in 1897. The book provides a comprehensive account of the Prince of Wales Regiment, including its origins, history, and services. It also...

""The Military Aspect of Canada"" is a historical book written by Thomas Bland Strange in 1879. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the military history and organization of Canada up until that time. It covers topics such as the early military...

The Full Story Of Aguinaldo�������s Capture By L. Segovia Of The Expeditionary Force (1902) is a historical account written by Lisandro Segovia about the capture of Filipino revolutionary leader Emilio Aguinaldo by American troops during the...

Histoire Du Siege D�������Orleans, 1428-1429 est un livre �����crit par Fran�����ois No�����l Alexandre Dubois en 1894. Ce livre raconte l'histoire du si�����ge d'Orl�����ans qui a eu lieu pendant la guerre de Cent Ans en France. Le si�����ge a...

This book draws on Rohingya oral histories and narratives about Myanmar's genocide and ID schemes to critique prevailing international approaches to legal identities and statelessness.

This book presents the argument that solution-driven policy and treaty changes, if faithfully implemented, will rekindle the relevance of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in combatting and prosecuting atrocity crimes.

This is the first textbook of its kind to amass cases of genocide and other mass atrocities across the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries that have largely been pushed to the periphery of Genocide Studies or "forgotten" altogether.

"Frank Wade was born in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada in October 1921. He was sent to England to train for the navy in the schoolship HMS Conway in Liverpool and the Dartmouth (Devon) Royal Navy College from 1936 to December 1940. Then in May 1941 he was...

"The Rebels of Frederick County, Maryland" describes the lives of the men from the county and Frederick City that joined the Confederate Army during the War Between the States in 300-500 words each. Their basic genealogy, military service, and post-war...

Kakizaki re-examines the real image of the Thai-Japanese alliance during World War II by focusing on the incidents and accidents occurred by the passage or stationing of the Japanese army in Thailand.

The American St. Nick tells the remarkable TRUE story of a handful of American soldiers who during the chaos of war, help bring Christmas back a small Luxembourg town, and unknowingly create a holiday tradition that continues to this very...

There's an old saying that the difference between a fairy tale and a sea story is that a fairy tale starts off with "Once upon a time" and a sea story starts off with "This is no shit."Here in these pages is a heaping pile of "This is no shit" and it...

"Exceptional military history worthy of its heroic subject." --Matthew J. DavenportIn the vein of Band of Brothers and American Sniper, a riveting history of Alvin York, the World War I legend who killed two dozen Germans and captured more than 100,...

While the scholarly study of culture as a politically contested sphere in Palestine/Israel has become an established field over the past two decades, this volume highlights some particular understudied aspects of it.

In the endless series of United States military interventions, the 'humanitarian' bombing of Yugoslavia played a key role in gaining support of the centre left for war as an instrument of policy. Thanks to massive deception and self-deception by media...

Das Buch ""Das Schlachtfeld Im Teutoburger Walde"" von Th. Von Stamford wurde 1892 ver������ffentlicht und besch�����ftigt sich mit der ber�����hmten Schlacht im Teutoburger Wald im Jahr 9 n. Chr. Der Autor beschreibt detailliert die Ereignisse, die zur...

Das Buch ""Das Rathaus in N�����rnberg"" von Ernst Mummenhoff aus dem Jahr 1891 ist eine detaillierte Beschreibung des historischen Rathauses in N�����rnberg. Das Werk umfasst eine umfassende Darstellung der Geschichte, Architektur und Kunstwerke des...

Das Buch ""Das K������niglich Preu�����ische Garde Husaren-Regiment: Und Seine Abstammung, 1811-1869"" von Hubert von Meyerinck beschreibt die Geschichte des K������niglich Preu�����ischen Garde Husaren-Regiments von seiner Gr�����ndung im Jahr 1811 bis...

British Army pensioners lived in the vicinity of every major center in the Canadian Atlantic Provinces, Quebec, and Ontario. In many cases their children and grandchildren emigrated to New England, New York, Michigan, and the American West. It is likely...

From the early efforts that emerged in the struggle against Nazism, and over the past half century, the field of genocide studies has grown in reach to include five genocide centers across the globe and well over one hundred Holocaust centers. This work...

This book comprehensively studies the content, author demographics, publishing history, and media representation of the most prominent Vietnam veteran memoirs published between 1967 and 2005. These personal narratives are important because they have...

This is the shocking and inspirational memoir of a boy who survived the genocide against the Tutsi. When he was seven years old Hyppolite lost many members of his extended family and witnessed the murder of his beloved father.  Born in a mud hut...

The Zbaraz Memorial BookYears ago, a small group of people, émigrés from Zbarazh, had the idea of establishing a memorial for this ancient community, whose generations and influence spread beyond its limited borders. They wanted to...

Jews first settled in Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine) after its foundation in 1778, and in 1804 the town was included in the Pale of Settlement. The community numbered 376 in 1805 and 1,699 in 1847. With the growth of the city in the second half of the 19th...

This volume explores the roots and centennial development of radical Islam in the Balkans since the rise of early Muslim fundamentalists in the Muslim world in the early 20th century. It also follows current militant Muslim movements, which have grown in...

Student, Sailor, Skipper, Survivor goes beyond the often-told battle stories to describe the life experiences shared by millions of Americans serving during WWII. Using her late father’s journal as the framework, researcher and author...

In 1984, the Sikh community - a minority amidst the Hindu majority that dominates the Indian nation-state - faced the most traumatizing of events for any group - complete annihilation. Since its inception, the fundamental Sikh ideas of freedom and...

A small farm boy's dream of flying, his life during the depression years, and his "once in a lifetime chance" to become a pilot in the U.S. Navy during World War II. It includes many stories of his interesting travels to countries around the world...

An enlisted soldier's back seat memories from Vietnam as crew chief aboard a Huey gunship.The author writes about his service time as a crew chief/door gunner on Huey helicopters with the Aerial Rocket Artillery. Telling of some narrow escapes he and his...

""Som Account of the Falkland Islands"" is a book written by Laughlan Bellingham Mackinnon, based on his six-month residence in the Falkland Islands in 1838 and 1839. The book provides a detailed account of the geography, climate, flora, and fauna of the...