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Spiller combines a mastery of the primary sources with a vibrant historical imagination to locate a dozen turning points in the world's history of warfare that altered our understanding of war and its pursuit. We are conducted through profound moments by the voices of those who witnessed them and are given a graphic understanding of war, the devastating choices, the means by which battles are won and lost, and the enormous price exacted. Spiller's attention to the sights and sounds of battle enables us to feel the sting and menace of past violent conflicts as if they were today's.

The John Harvard Library presents the first American edition of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, one of the first non-romantic novels of the Civil War - and the first account to gain wide popularity. Paul Sorrentino introduces Red Badge to a new generation of readers for a fuller appreciation of the novel and its effects.

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This classic story of two nineteenth-century social climbers is the basis for countless films and TV series, and one of the UK's \"Best-Loved Novels.\" Before the Real Housewives, there were Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley.

What does it mean to live during wartime away from the battle zone? What is it like for citizens to go about daily routines while their country sends soldiers to kill and be killed across the globe? Timely and thought-provoking, War at a Distance considers how those left on the home front register wars and wartime in their everyday lives, particularly when military conflict remains removed from immediate perception, available only through media forms. Looking back over two centuries, Mary Favret locates the origins of modern wartime in the Napoleonic era and describes how global military operations affected the British populace, as the nation's army and navy waged battles far from home for decades. She reveals that the literature and art produced in Britain during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries obsessively cultivated means for feeling as much as understanding such wars, and established forms still relevant today.

Drawn by visions of glory on the battlefield, Henry Fleming joins the Union Army to fight the Confederates. But his dreams of valor are outweighed by his fear, and after one battle, Harry runs away. As he runs, he meets several wounded men whose \"red badges of courage\" make him even more ashamed of his cowardice. Henry returns to the front line and, inspired by the men who sacrificed their limbs and lives, fights with a passion he never knew he had. This is an unabridged version of the classic Civil War novel by American author Stephen Crane, first published in 1895.

The finest novel of the Civil War, and one of the greatest battle stories ever told The question of courage enters Henry Fleming's mind the moment he dons the blue uniform of the Union Army. But his first firefight reveals the emptiness of words such as  bravery and  fear. Pinned in by his comrades, he can only fire his rifle like a cog in a machine. There is no chance to run. Then comes the true test. Waking from a nap, Henry sees the enemy advancing once again. Gripped by an unshakable terror, he flees—from his regiment, from duty, from everything he wanted to believe about himself. A corpse bears witness to his shame. The nightmare has come true. Henry Fleming is a coward. Only one thing can save him now: a visible wound, the red badge of courage. With his regiment's colors in hand, Henry looks the enemy in the eye—and charges. Stephen Crane was born six years after Lee's surrender at Appomattox and had yet to see a battlefield when he wrote  The Red Badge of Courage. Nevertheless, the novel is widely regarded as one of the most realistic depictions of war ever published, and a masterpiece of American literature. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

[...]the ignorance expressed by Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) accurately reflects the murky histories of the majority of wartime cruisers deployed by the U.S. Navy during the Second World War2. [...]the story of the Indianapolis occupies an uncomfortable place in relation to a general taboo in Hollywood: the atomic bombing of Hiroshima6. Subsequently, the dissolution of Communism throughout Eastern Europe (which peaked upon the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991) provided Bush with the rhetorical window of opportunity to construct his Churchillian vision of a new post-Cold War world in which 'the principles of justice and fair play protect the weak against the strong'8, evidenced both in the 1989 Panamanian intervention (\"Operation Just Cause\") to dispose the de facto ruler General Manuel Noriega and leading coalition forces into the Gulf War in 1990 following Iraq's invasion and annexation of neighbouring Kuwait9. [...]Mission of the Shark was produced and released amidst a distinctly more amicable period of diplomatic relations between Washington and Tokyo, mirroring the Bush administration's desire to ensure the \"Japan Bashing\"15 trade tensions of the 1980s did not spill over into issues of national security and impinge upon both nations ability to collaborate together in confronting the various challenges posed to them by this new-post Cold War world.