Sentences with phrase «war history books»

I decided to write a book on the Transylvanian Saxons of Romania in 2008, it is a niche market and a Second World War history book.

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«I realized that World War II wasn't just a chapter in a history book.

In 2009, his book The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War was published to critical acclaim.

In his book The Lost Science of Money, Stephen Zarlenga has traced the following monetary history of the civil war greenbacks (through the Campbell paragraph below).

any idiot that brings up the crusades saying it was the christians has no clue about history the christians were fighting to take back land stolen by murder and war perpetrated by muslims and islam read a book idiot

The main reason for the Niebuhr revival, as demonstrated by Charles Lemert's new book, Why Niebuhr Matters, is that liberals started rereading The Irony of American History during the Gulf Wars.

His books include Christianity, Diplomacy and War and Christianity and History.

In the second part — on our history's major constitutional disputes — the book reaches its dramatic climax: an expertly told story of the constitutional transformations wrought by the Civil War.

And, my the «culture wars» will simply be a paragraph, if that, within a history book.

Those who shudder at inscriptions on monuments or passages in history books which refer simply to «the Great War» or «the World War» — written as though what we call World War I would indeed prove to be «the war to end war» — will feel saddened to read her portentous observation that «we have no guarantee that it will not recur.&raqWar» or «the World War» — written as though what we call World War I would indeed prove to be «the war to end war» — will feel saddened to read her portentous observation that «we have no guarantee that it will not recur.&raqWar» — written as though what we call World War I would indeed prove to be «the war to end war» — will feel saddened to read her portentous observation that «we have no guarantee that it will not recur.&raqWar I would indeed prove to be «the war to end war» — will feel saddened to read her portentous observation that «we have no guarantee that it will not recur.&raqwar to end war» — will feel saddened to read her portentous observation that «we have no guarantee that it will not recur.&raqwar» — will feel saddened to read her portentous observation that «we have no guarantee that it will not recur.»

God is the God of peace, who does not will the destruction of even one little child, but God is also the God of war, who orders war throughout the whole history of the Old Testament and even in the last book of the New.

In one chapter of his book, Engaging the Powers (which is a book every Christian should read), Walter Wink lays out the history of nonviolent resistance and shows how when it is properly used, nonviolent resistance is more successful than war at stopping evil and violence.

While most of his books since his move to that liberal aerie have dealt with American history, he has also joined the culture wars now raging inside the Catholic Church, and very much on the liberal side.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Thucydides» history of the Peloponnesian War is one of the great books of all time.

I've also been reading a lot, as usual — currently historical fiction (Hundred Years Wars / Wars of the Roses period) and the real period of history that is the subject of my historical fiction reads as well as Tom Standage's books about the Turk, a chess - playing automaton, (reviewed here) and the history of the telegraph.

After publishing Postwar in 2005, a tour de force of European history since World War II, winning the Arthur Ross Book Award for best book in international affairs and numerous other awards, Tony Judt prepared to write an ambitious intellectual and cultural history of Twentieth Century social thouBook Award for best book in international affairs and numerous other awards, Tony Judt prepared to write an ambitious intellectual and cultural history of Twentieth Century social thoubook in international affairs and numerous other awards, Tony Judt prepared to write an ambitious intellectual and cultural history of Twentieth Century social thought.

The American journalist Bob Woodward has been given unique access to President George W Bush and his latest book The War Within: A Secret White House History, 2006 - 2008 (Simon Schuster, # 18.99), uses interviews with Bush and leading members of the administration to examine the debates over the Iraq War from 2006 to the summer of 2008.

Once again this is a personal list of books, mainly politics, history and war — the latter a good antidote for Brexit.

But as Rana Mitter shows in his illuminating and meticulously researched new book about the Sino - Japanese war, not only did Chinese history not end with the fall of Nanjing, but in many ways the war helped to create modern China.

The book — an expansion of his doctoral thesis — is a well - researched account of events surrounding one of the most important periods in the history of the Middle East: one which saw Israel secure a resounding victory over the Arab armies in the six day war, therein gaining territory 3 times the size of its nation and, after 2000 years, returning a united Jerusalem to Jewish authority.

Margaret MacMillan, Professor of International History at the University of Oxford and Warden of St Antony's College, discusses her new book «The War That Ended Peace» with DPhil student Katharine Brooks.

This has been another bumper year for books on politics, history and war.

Another strength of the book is that, unlike most histories of the origins of the war, it writes the history of women of the time.

For those who relish the opportunity to read something substantial from a rich crop of recently published books on politics, history and war then here are a few suggestions.

Total Politics books editor Keith Simpson MP looks at a timely history of the Labour Party and the influence of war reporting

Kwasi Kwarteng, Conservative MP for Spelthorne as been an active author with books such as Ghosts of Empire: Britain's Legacies in the Modern World and War and Gold: A Five Hundred Year History of Empires, Adventure and Debt.

A noted, Mexica Empire had a specific religion which required human sacrifices to War God (Danielle Bolelli's recent History on Fire podcast had several excellent episodes on Cortez and the Spanish conquest of Mexica empire, for those not in the mood for more scholarly history books on the topic; and it covered pre-Cortez Mexica prettyHistory on Fire podcast had several excellent episodes on Cortez and the Spanish conquest of Mexica empire, for those not in the mood for more scholarly history books on the topic; and it covered pre-Cortez Mexica prettyhistory books on the topic; and it covered pre-Cortez Mexica pretty well).

Other military histories followed and his book Barbarossa, on the Nazi - Soviet War, won critical acclaim.

She has now told the political history of Britain since the Great War through the diaries of politicians, literary figures and ordinary people in Events, Dear Boy, Events: A Political Diary of Britain from the Great War to the Present (Profile Books, # 25).

Gershman is a noted photographer whose photographs capture the essence of this time in history in his book, Besa: Muslims Who Saved Jews in World War II.

The ship and her fliers and sailors have been the subject of the 10 - part History Channel series «Battle - 360» and the non-fiction book by Barrett Tillman published earlier this year titled Enterprise: America's Fightingest Ship and the Men Who Helped Win World War II.

HeritageQuest Online contains U.S. federal census records from 1790 - 1940, special federal census schedules, over 20,000 local and family history books, over 20,000 U.S. city directories, a genealogical and local history serials index, Revolutionary War Pension Files, Freedman's Bank Records, and select content from the U.S. Serial Set.

Davis's new book, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Basic Books, $ 27.50), is a wake - up call for all those who have accepted the poisons of our age of plenty without a blink.

Princeton University historian of science Michael D. Gordin adds in his forthcoming book The Pseudoscience Wars (University of Chicago Press, 2012), «No one in the history of the world has ever self - identified as a pseudoscientist.

As important, by examining the political, technological, and even cultural history of this quest during the post-World War II era, this book highlights the essential role played by space exploration in shaping our understanding of life back on Earth.»

The first victim on record was Albert Gitchell, a cook at Camp Funston, part of the Fort Riley military base, says Kenneth C. Davis, historian and author of the forthcoming book «More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War» on the pandemic.

Eran received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2015 and used it to write a book, «War and Plants», in which he surveys historical, botanical, and geographical influences to explain how plant biochemistry influenced human history.

I've also been reading a lot, as usual — currently historical fiction (Hundred Years Wars / Wars of the Roses period) and the real period of history that is the subject of my historical fiction reads as well as Tom Standage's books about the Turk, a chess - playing automaton, (reviewed here) and the history of the telegraph.

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Man's Search for Meaning is a 1946 book by Viktor Frankl chronicling his experiences as an Auschwitz concentration camp inmate during World War II, and Search Names, name meanings, etymology and history of names, surnames, cities and more.

The works of Max Brooks, who wrote 2003's satirical and subversively political, «The Zombie Survival Guide», and 2006's, «World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War», provided the kernels of inspiration for this mega-budgeted horror - action - thriller that mostly makes up its own narrative, independent of much of the book content (jettisoning the first - person account style and most of the events), to make it fit more with the ranks of current, eye - candy loaded popcorn movies than a thoughtful adaptation of the best - seller.

It is in the middle of nowhere, there are more banned books in town than actual books to check out at the library, the high school history teacher teaches The War of Northern Aggression, and there are more churches than any other buildings.

From what the history books and rare footage explares for us, it was a filthy war, fought in the mud and trenches across Europe with horses, guns, cannons and deadly mustard gas.

Taking a leaf out of the history books plus lots of artistic liberty, Bladestorm Nightmare focuses on the war between England and France called the Hundred Years War which was between two powerful houses, that of Plantagenet and Valowar between England and France called the Hundred Years War which was between two powerful houses, that of Plantagenet and ValoWar which was between two powerful houses, that of Plantagenet and Valois.

Based on the book «Truth and Duty: The Press, The President and the Power of Privilege» by Pulitzer and Emmy winning television producer Mary Mapes and detailing the explosive story of then President George W. Bush's questionable history with the National Guard during the Vietnam War, Truth is a riveting piece of cinema with a powerhouse performance by two - time Academy Award ® winner Cate Blanchett as Mapes.

The Debt is a sometimes haunting fiction that starts out as a celebration of the publication of a book that chronicles an important moment in the history of Israel — the death of a Nazi war criminal known as the Surgeon of Birkenau.

by Roland Laird with Taneshia Nash Laird Illustrated by Elihu «Adofo» Bay Foreword by Charles Johnson Sterling Publishing Paperback, $ 14.95 240 pages, illustrated ISBN: 978 -1-4027-6226-0 Book Review by Kam Williams «One of the invaluable features of Still I Rise, the first cartoon history of black America, is the wealth of information it provides about the marginalized — and often suppressed — political, economic and cultural contributions black people have made on this continent since the 17th C... Using pictures, it transports us back through time, enabling us to see how dependent American colonists were on the agricultural sophistication of African slaves and indentured servants; how blacks fought and died for freedom during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars; and how, in ways both small and large, black genius shaped the evolution of democracy, the arts and sciences, and the English language in America, despite staggering racial and social obstacles.

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The book tells Paraguayan myths through human stories that are mythical, epic and yet related to Paraguayan landscapes and Paraguayan history, specifically the Chaco War of 1932 - 35 (1); universal stories that are Paraguayan in their basic elements.