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Voices Against War: A Century of Protest – Lyn Smith, 2009 [35] War and Democracy – Paul Gottfried, 2012; War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning – Chris Hedges, 2003; War Is a Lie – David Swanson, 2010; War Is a Racket – former U.S. Marine Major General Smedley Butler speech, 1933 and pamphlet, 1935; We Will Not Cease – Archibald ...
First edition, cover art by Wenck. Generals Die in Bed is an anti-war novella by the Canadian writer Charles Yale Harrison.Based on the author's own experiences in combat, it tells the story of a young soldier fighting in the trenches of World War I.
The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future is a 2022 non-fiction book by Canadian novelist and journalist Stephen Marche. [1] In the book, Marche suggests that the US could come to be governed by a right-wing dictatorship within the next decade.
During this time he heard about a pioneering settler in British Columbia named Ralph Edwards and spent 12 days in his remote cabin interviewing him for the book Crusoe of Lonesome Lake (1957) which became one of Stowe's most popular books. He taught at the university until he retired in 1970, after which he was a professor emeritus of ...
A Bridge Too Far (1974) by Cornelius Ryan gives an account of Operation Market Garden, a failed Allied attempt to break through German lines at Arnhem by taking a series of bridges in the occupied Netherlands during World War II. Ryan named his book after a comment attributed to Lieutenant General Frederick Browning before the operation, who ...
The Secret Battle is a novel by A. P. Herbert, first published in 1919.The book draws upon Herbert's experiences as a junior infantry officer in the First World War, and has been praised for its accurate and truthful portrayal of the mental effects of the war on the participants.
The book centers on Paul Bäumer, a German soldier on the Western Front during World War I. Before the war, Paul lived with his parents and sister in a charming German village. He attended school, where the patriotic speeches of his teacher Kantorek led the whole class to volunteer for the Imperial German Army shortly after the start of the ...
He refers specifically to Russian resistance during the French invasion of Russia and the Abyssinians' failures to resist Italian aggression in the Second Italo-Abyssinian War. He also makes reference to the use of guerrilla tactics in the Sanyuanli incident during the First Opium War , the Taiping Rebellion , and the Boxer Uprising .