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America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag is the second book by Sarah Palin.It was released on November 23, 2010, and has been described as containing selections from Palin's favorite speeches, sermons, and inspirational works, as well as vignettes about Americans she met in the fall of 2009 while on her book tour for Going Rogue: An American Life.
The book drew heavily on his experiences of the turmoil in Northern Ireland. In 1976 he published his second book, American Heartbeat, which deals with his travels through the American heartland. [15] Winchester's first truly successful book was The Professor and the Madman (1998) published by Penguin UK as The Surgeon of Crowthorne.
The words “absolution” and “absolved” pop up repeatedly in the book that serves as a nod to “ The Quiet American," another look at early U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Its author ...
The Causes of World War Three – C. Wright Mills, 1958 [21] Choosing Peace: A Handbook on War, Peace, and Your Conscience – Robert A. Seeley, 1994; The Cold and the Dark: The World after Nuclear War – Paul R. Ehrlich, Carl Sagan and Donald Kennedy, 1984; Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians – Chris Hedges, 2008
He notes that the court declined to investigate if NATO forces had committed war crimes during the bombing of Yugoslavia. [2] The last part of the book focussed on the International Criminal Court, the Nuremberg Trials, the Tokyo Trials, the UK's House of Lords examination of the cases against Augusto Pinochet, and Belgium's War Crimes Law. [2]
It also was a finalist for the 2018 Arthur C. Clarke Award, [9] and was one of five books in the finals of the 2018 Canada Reads contest, placing fourth. [10] In November 2019, a panel of six writers, curators and critics selected by the BBC News included American War among a list of 100 novels that have had an impact on their lives. [11]
Drift opens with an analysis of the politics surrounding the Vietnam War, focusing on the Abrams Doctrine, which stressed public support for military operations.Maddow writes that Lyndon B. Johnson's reluctance to utilize the National Guard and the Army Reserve began the trend of separating the military and its use from the purview of the American population. [4]
The Starbuck Chronicles are a series of historical fiction novels by British author Bernard Cornwell set during the American Civil War. They follow the exploits of Boston-born Confederate officer Nathaniel Starbuck. Four novels have been written, and the series is still unfinished due to Cornwell's commitment to other projects.