Author: p>Nicholas</p> <p>Atkin</p>
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: daily, civilians, wartime, lives, life, history, press, series, century, twentieth, europe, greenwood
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2008-08-30
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0313336571
ISBN-13: 9780313336577

Expert contributors write on the experiences of civilians who lived through occupation and bloodshed in the First World War; the Russians who lived or died during the the devastating civil war in 1917-1922, leading eventually to the terrors of Stalinism; the Spaniards of many factions who fought against each other in bloody civil wars; the ordinary people of France, Germany, Britain, Italy and other countries who faced the hardship and horrors of the Second World War; and the ethnic- and religious-based fighting and atrocities, often targeted at civilians, in the former Yugoslavia from 1991 in

Author: Walter Cisco
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Keywords: civilians, southern, crimes, war
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-04-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 158980466X
ISBN-13: 9781589804661

This is the untold story of the Union’s "hard war" against the people of the Confederacy. Styled the "Black Flag" campaign, it was agreed to by Lincoln in a council with his generals in 1864. Cisco reveals the shelling and burning of cities, systematic destruction of entire districts, mass arrests, forced expulsions, wholesale plundering of personal property, and even murder of civilians. Carefully researched largely from primary sources, this examination also gives full attention to the suffering of Black victims of Federal brutality.

Author: Aton Edwards
Publisher: Process
Keywords: civilians, families, guide, survival, emergency, preparedness
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 2006-05-15
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 097608225X
ISBN-13: 9780976082255

PREPAREDNESS NOW! is a practical and comprehensive emergency survival guide to help regular folks wisely navigate the new realities of 21st Century living: extreme weather, global warming, bird flu, terrorist attacks, and more. This book empowers individuals and communities to take care of themselves and each other in the face of any emergency. Packed with checklists, resources, and step-by-step instructions, PREPAREDNESS NOW! has everything from home, office and car preparedness to information on Buckminster Fuller and building disaster-resistant geodesic domes. PREPAREDNESS NOW! is wri

Author: Hugo Slim
Publisher: Columbia University Pre
Keywords: war, columbia, hurst, morality, madness, civilians, method, killing
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-03-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0231700369
ISBN-13: 9780231700368

When civilians suffer in war, it is often a deliberate act. Massacres, rape, displacement, famine, and disease are the strategic decisions of political and military leaders who make civilians their targets in order to gain the upper hand in battle. Yet there still exists the precious and fragile belief-ingrained in modern international law-that unarmed and innocent people should be protected in war, even if, in practice, the principle of civil immunity is often ignored or rejected.Hoping to rectify this injustice, Hugo Slim uses detailed historical and contemporary examples to reveal the many

Authors:Chris Hedges, Laila Al-Arian,
Publisher: Nation Books
Keywords: iraqi, civilians, war, america, damage, collateral
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-02-10
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1568584164
ISBN-13: 9781568584164

Collateral Damage brings together testimony from the largest number of on the record, named, combat veterans who reveal the disturbing, daily reality of war and occupation in Iraq.Through their eyes, we learn how the mechanics of war lead to the abuse and frequent killing of innocents. They describe convoys of vehicles roaring down roads, smashing into cars, and hitting Iraqi civilians. They detail raids that leave families shot dead in the mayhem. And they describe a battlefield in which troops, untrained to distinguish between combatants and civilians, are authorized to shoot whenever they f

Author: James Bacque
Publisher: Talonbook
Keywords: allied, occupation, civilians, german, mercies, fate, crimes
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-08-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0889225672
ISBN-13: 9780889225671

More than nine million Germans died as a result of deliberate Allied starvation and expulsion policies after the Second World War - one quarter of the country was annexed, and about fifteen million people expelled in the largest act of ethnic cleansing the world has ever known. Western governments continue to conceal and deny these deaths. At the same time, Herbert Hoover and Canadian Prime Minister MacKenzie King created the largest charity in history, a food-aid program that saved an estimated 800 million lives during three years of global struggle against post-Second World War famine - a pr

Author: Helen Jones
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Keywords: productivity, wartime, culture, raids, air, civilians, line, british
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-04-30
List price: $89.00
ISBN-10: 0719072905
ISBN-13: 9780719072901

This is the first full-length study of the behavior of British civilians and their reactions to air raids during the Second World War. It unravels the day-to-day influence on people at these times of great danger, risk and uncertainty, and challenges the traditional image of civilians as passive shelterers under attack. It uncovers Churchill and his government’s desperate attempts to persuade key workers to continue with their work once the air raid siren had sounded, and reveals the complex reasons why so many workers were willing to run such risks.