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City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman's Account of War and Resistance
by Haifa ZanganaIn City of Widows, Haifa Zangana tells the story of her country, from the early twentieth century through the US-UK invasion and the current occupation. She brings to light a sense of Iraq as a society mainly of secularists who have been denied, through years of sanctions, war, and occupation, a system within which to build the country according to their own values. She points to the long history of political activism and social participation of Iraqi women, and the fact that, before the recent invasion, they had been among the most liberated of their gender in the Middle East. Finally, she writes about Baghdad today as a city populated by bereaved women and children who have lost their loved ones and their land, but who are still emboldened by the native right to resist and liberate themselves to create an independent Iraq.
The Torturer in the Mirror
by Haifa Zangana Ramsey Clark Thomas Ehrlich ReiferBefore the US invasion of Iraq, before the American public saw the infamous photos from Abu Ghraib, the CIA went to the White House with a question: What, according to the Constitution, was the line separating interrogation from torture--and could that line be moved? The White House lawyers' answer--in the form of legal documents later known as the "Torture Memos"--became the US's justification for engaging in torture. The Torturer in the Mirror shows us how when one of us tortures, we are all implicated in the crime. In three uncompromising essays, Iraqi dissident Haifa Zangana, former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, and professor of sociology Thomas Ehrlich Reifer teach us how physically and psychologically insidious torture is, how deep a mark it leaves on both its victims and its practitioners, and how necessary it is for us as a society to hold torturers accountable.
Strike Patterns: Notes from Postwar Laos
by Leah ZaniA strike pattern is a signature of violence carved into the land—bomb craters or fragments of explosives left behind, forgotten. In Strike Patterns, poet and anthropologist Leah Zani journeys to a Lao river community where people live alongside such relics of a secret war. With sensitive and arresting prose, Zani reveals the layered realities that settle atop one another in Laos—from its French colonial history to today's authoritarian state—all blown open by the war. This excavation of postwar life's balance between the mundane, the terrifying, and the extraordinary propels Zani to confront her own explosive past. From 1964 to 1973, the United States carried out a covert air war against Laos. Frequently overshadowed by the war with Vietnam, the Secret War was the longest and most intense air war in history. As Zani uncovers this hidden legacy, she finds herself immersed in the lives of her hosts: Chantha, a daughter of war refugees who grapples with her place in a future Laos of imagined prosperity; Channarong, a bomb technician whose Thai origins allow him to stand apart from the battlefields he clears; and Bounmi, a young man who has inherited his bomb expertise from his father but now struggles to imagine a similar future for his unborn son. Wandering through their lives are the restless ghosts of kin and strangers. Today, much of Laos remains contaminated with dangerous leftover explosives. Despite its obscurity, the Secret War has become a shadow model for modern counterinsurgency. Investigating these shadows of war, Zani spends time with silk weavers and rice farmers, bomb clearance crews and black market war scrap traders, ritual healers and survivors of explosions. Combining her fieldnotes with poetry, fiction, and memoir she reflects on the power of building new lives in the ruins.
Don't Bunch Up: One Marine's Story
by William Van ZantenCaptain William Van Zanten was one of the “Magnificent Bastards” of the 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, in 1966–a year when any day could bring death or dismemberment from a Bouncing Betty or a punji stake, a firefight or a sniper bullet. He and his men faced B-52-sized mosquitoes, rain, heat, disease, and a determined and elusive enemy who kept the Marines off-balance, edgy, and sleepless. Yet Van Zanten persevered with a soldierly professionalism built on rigorous training. Dedication and boot camp forged the volunteer Marines of the early war years, so when the stakes went through the roof in Vietnam, commitment of man to man and man to unit was total. They supported each other with a soldier’s intimacy and endured with a soldier’s humor–and together that meant survival. From the Paperback edition.
Oligarquía en guerra: Élites en pugna durante la II Guerra Mundial
by Antonio Zapata Cristóbal Aljovín de LosadaLa feroz crisis de la oligarquía peruana durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial «Prado es el personaje clave del período porque primero modernizó el poder oligárquico y luego fue el testigo impotente de su final». Oligarquía y élites. Hay conceptos cuya vigencia en nuestra política es persistente. El Perú que encontró Manuel Prado no había resuelto sus problemas históricos y tampoco lo hizo al final de su primer mandato en 1945. Seguía articulado por las élites, gobernado por la oligarquía y sostenido por un respaldo militar. Los autores de este libro, Cristóbal Aljovín de Losada y Antonio Zapata, investigan este periodo marcado por la Segunda Guerra Mundial y el conflicto bélico con el Ecuador. Las fuentes consultadas son principalmente las Actas del Consejo de Ministros de Palacio de Gobierno, a las que Zapata y Aljovín tuvieron acceso. Así, en el vórtice del poder de aquellos años, es posible encontrar no solo las decisiones sino las motivaciones, prioridades e inconsecuencias del gobierno y las fuerzas políticas. Oligarquía en guerra es una investigación histórica y el retrato de una época que muestra a unas élites ya inseguras de sí mismas, cuestionadas por el pensamiento crítico y enfrentadas a las fuerzas de oposición como el Apra, la Unión Revolucionaria y la izquierda. Para la construcción de una nación es indispensable la conservación de su memoria. Si el lector desea entender cómo se configuró el escenario político de la segunda mitad del siglo XX hasta nuestros días, aquí hallará luces suficientes.
El honor del deber cumplido
by Eduardo Zapateiro Altamiranda"LA VOZ DE EDUARDO ZAPATEIRO DEBE SER ESCUCHADA. ES NECESARIO. ES DEMOCRÁTICO. ES CONVENIENTE. ES URGENTE". Del prólogo de Juan Lozano El 20 de julio del 2022 el general Eduardo Zapateiro Altamiranda, quien era el comandante del Ejército nacional, anunció que se retiraba de su cargo por sus discrepancias de fondo con el presidente electo Gustavo Petro. El general tomó esta dramática decisión para preservar el honor militar, que consideraba vulnerado después de las diversas acusaciones realizadas en contra de la institución por quien en los próximos días asumiría la presidencia y sería, además, el comandante supremo de las Fuerzas Militares. En estas memorias sinceras y reveladoras son protagonistas por igual la vida de Eduardo Zapateiro y la historia de Colombia; el general ha sido testigo y actor de primer orden de momentos cruciales del pasado reciente del país, y por el caudal de su experiencia, y por la atención y la pasión con las que sigue nuestra convulsa actualidad, sus palabras tienen hoy un enorme valor para abordar el presente y para reflexionar sobre qué futuro es posible construir
After Defeat: How the East Learned to Live with the West (Cambridge Studies in International Relations)
by Ayşe ZarakolNot being of the West; being behind the West; not being modern enough; not being developed or industrialized, secular, civilized, Christian, transparent, or democratic - these descriptions have all served to stigmatize certain states through history. Drawing on constructivism as well as the insights of social theorists and philosophers, After Defeat demonstrates that stigmatization in international relations can lead to a sense of national shame, as well as auto-Orientalism and inferior status. Ayşe Zarakol argues that stigmatized states become extra-sensitive to concerns about status, and shape their foreign policy accordingly. The theoretical argument is supported by a detailed historical overview of central examples of the established/outsider dichotomy throughout the evolution of the modern states system, and in-depth studies of Turkey after the First World War, Japan after the Second World War, and Russia after the Cold War.
Entangled in Fear: Everyday Terror in Poland, 1944–1947
by Marcin Zaremba"Fear is always experienced individually, and few experiences are as personal. There can be no collective fear without individual fear preceding it. A society's fear is born out of the convergence of individual experiences, when dozens, hundreds, thousands, and millions of people are afraid of the same thing at the same time." This is a story about postwar Polish society and its emotions. This is a story of heroes: soldiers, deserters, orphans, and beggars. Now available in English for the first time, Entangled in Fear reveals the broken society where bandits, hunger, bombs, Russia, and countless other threats had an immense influence on Poles as they struggled through the wreckage caused by World War II. Journalist and historian Marcin Zaremba uses sociology, psychology, and history to explore collective fear in official documents and the personal papers of those who were left to survive in postwar Poland. In doing so, he reveals how fear of famine and epidemics, sexual violence and looting, joblessness and invasion led directly to collective action on the part of Poles. A groundbreaking work, Entangled in Fear challenges the reader to consider how emotions have shaped human history and how a more serious engagement with emotions is key to a fuller understanding of the past.
China in War and Revolution, 1895-1949 (Asia's Transformations #Vol. 1)
by Peter ZarrowProviding historical insights essential to the understanding of contemporary China, this text presents a nation's story of trauma and growth during the early twentieth century. It explains how China's defeat by Japan in 1895 prompted an explosion of radical reform proposals and the beginning of elite Chinese disillusionment with the Qing government. The book explores how this event also prompted five decades of efforts to strengthen the state and the nation, democratize the political system, and build a fairer and more unified society.Peter Zarrow weaves narrative together with thematic chapters that pause to address in-depth themes central to China's transformation. While the book proceeds chronologically, the chapters in each part examine particular aspects of these decades in a more focused way, borrowing from methodologies of the social sciences, cultural studies, and empirical historicism. Essential reading for both students and instructors alike, it draws a picture of the personalities, ideas and processes by which a modern state was created out of the violence and trauma of these decades.
Negotiation and Conflict Management: Essays on Theory and Practice (Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management #Vol. 1)
by I. William ZartmanThis book presents a series of essays by I. William Zartman outlining the evolution of the key concepts required for the study of negotiation and conflict management, such as formula, ripeness, pre-negotiation, mediation, power, process, intractability, escalation, and order. Responding to a lack of useful conceptualization for the analysis of international negotiation, Zartman has developed an analytical framework and specific concepts that can serve as a basis for both study and practice. Negotiation is analyzed as a process, and is linked to other major themes in political science such as decision, structure, justice and order. This analysis is then applied to negotiations to manage particular types of conflicts and cooperation, including ethnic conflicts, civil wars and regime-building. It also develops typologies and strategies of mediation, dealing with such aspects as leverage, bias, interest, and roles. Written by the leading exponent of negotiation and mediation, Negotiation and Conflict Management will be of great interest to all students of negotiation, mediation and conflict studies in general.
America's First Clash with Iran: The Tanker War, 1987–88
by Lee Allen Zatarain<p>A revealing account of the US conflict with Iran over the Persian Gulf during the Reagan era—and the groundwork it set for today’s tensions.<p> <p>In May 1987, the US frigate Stark was blown apart by an Iraqi jet fighter in the Persian Gulf, jumpstarting a major conflict with Iran that came to be known as the Tanker War. In America’s First Clash with Iran, author Lee Allen Zatarain employs Pentagon documents and firsthand interviews to reveal the full story of a conflict that may have presaged further battles to come.<p> <p>At the climax of the Iran-Iraq War, Iran was losing on the battlefield. Ayatollah Khomeini decided to close the Persian Gulf against shipping from Iraq’s oil-rich backer, the emirate of Kuwait. When the United States sent a fleet to the Gulf, raising the Stars and Stripes over Kuwait’s commercial tankers, a tinderbox was set off.<p> <p>The Iranians laid mines throughout the narrow passage and launched attack boats against both tankers and US warships. The US Navy fought its largest surface battle since World War II against the Ayatollah’s assault boats. As Saddam Hussein looked on, Iranian gunners fired missiles against US forces—actions which, if made known at the time, would have required the US Congress to declare war against Iran.<p>
Battle of Roanoke Island, The: Burnside and the Fight for North Carolina (Civil War Series)
by Michael P. ZatargaIn the winter of 1861, Union armies had failed to win any significant victories over their Confederate counterparts. The Northern populace, overwhelmed by the bloodshed, questioned whether the costs of the war were too high. President Lincoln despondently wondered if he was going to lose the Union. As a result, tension was incredibly high when Union hero Ambrose Burnside embarked for coastal North Carolina. With the eyes of the nation and world on little Roanoke Island in the Outer Banks, Burnside began his amphibious assault on the beaches and earned a victory that shifted control of Southern waters. Join author and historian Michael Zatarga as he traces the story of the crucial fight on Roanoke Island.
Los horrores de la Guerra Civil: Testimonios y vivencias de los dos bandos
by José María ZavalaEl lado oscuro y menos conocido de la Guerra Civil, a través de diversos testimonios de los horrores y excesos cometidos por ambos bandos en la retaguardia. Este libro no dejará indiferente a nadie. A partir de más de doscientos testimonios y vivencias estremecedoras de los dos bandos, Los horrores de la Guerra Civil propone una lectura de la historia que atiende a aquellos que normalmente no tienen lugar en los libros. Sus protagonistas son personas con nombres y apellidos que no murieron en el frente, sino vilmente asesinadas en las retaguardias nacional y republicana. Los horrores de la trágica Guerra Civil, reunidos por primera vez en una impresionante obra, en la que el lector hallará también un completo diccionario de la represión, así como la biografía de los principales políticos y militares de aquel terrible enfrentamiento, y una extensa bibliografía y una rigurosa cronología de los acontecimientos más destacados. Un trabajo exhaustivo y ecuánime, en suma, que, dejando a un lado los intereses partidistas y las disputas de los historiadores por dirimir cuál de los dos bandos asesinó más, se ocupa de los auténticos protagonistas: las víctimas. Reseña:«Una obra original y de gran envergadura, recomendable por su objetividad y ausencia de espíritu partidista.»Stanley G. Payne
Los horrores de la Guerra Civil
by José María ZavalaEste libro no dejará indiferente a nadie. A partir de más de doscientos testimonios y vivencias estremecedoras de los dos bandos, Los horrores de la Guerra Civil propone una lectura de la historia que atiende a aquellos que normalmente no tienen lugar en los libros. Sus protagonistas son personas con nombres y apellidos que no murieron en el frente, sino vilmente asesinadas en las retaguardias nacional y republicana.Los horrores de la trágica Guerra Civil, reunidos por primera vez en una impresionante obra, en la que el lector hallará también un completo diccionario de la represión, así como la biografía de los principales políticos y militares de aquel terrible enfrentamiento, y una extensa bibliografía y una rigurosa cronología de los acontecimientos más destacados.Un trabajo exhaustivo y ecuánime, en suma, que, dejando a un lado los intereses partidistas y las disputas de los historiadores por dirimir cuál de los dos bandos asesinó más, se ocupa de los auténticos protagonistas: las víctimas.
Death In The Forest; The Story Of The Katyn Forest Massacre: The Story Of The Katyn Forest Massacre
by J. K. ZawodnyMORE THAN 15,000 Polish soldiers, among them 800 Doctors of Medicine, were murdered in one operation. Originally they had been taken into captivity by the Soviet Army in 1939. There was a possibility, however, that the prisoners, while still alive, had been taken from Soviet custody by German forces in 1941.Some of the bodies were found in German-held territory. The ropes with which their hands were tied were Soviet-made, but the bullets with which the men were killed were of German origin.The Soviet and German governments accused each other of the massacre. To obtain or remove the evidence, the intelligence services of several nations carried on a merciless secret contest in the Katyn Forest, Poland, Germany, Italy, England, and the United States. Men disappeared; so did files, including one from the United States Military Intelligence Office. In the process a key witness was found hanged, diplomatic and military careers were destroyed in the United States, personnel of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg lied by omission, and so did some of the greatest Allied leaders of the Second World War.This book attempts to reconstruct, in detail, the fate of the prisoners and to provide the answers to these questions:(1) Who killed these men?(2) How were they killed?(3) Why were they killed?
Nemesis at Potsdam: The Anglo-Americans and the Expulsion of the Germans (Routledge Revivals)
by Alfred M. ZayasFirst published in 1979, Nemesis at Potsdam discusses the expulsion and spoliation of the Germans from most of central and easter Europe during the Second World War, a process which over two million did not survive. How did this extraordinary event come about? Was it necessary for the peace of Europe? What role did Britain and the United States play in authorizing the ‘transfer’? The book answers these questions and relates the integration of the German expellees to the phenomenal resurgence of West Germany, and traces the development of Ostpolitik and détente through to the Helsinki Declaration. It will be of interest to students of history, international relations, and political science.
When Someone You Love Suffers from Posttraumatic Stress
by Claudia ZayfertFor trauma survivors struggling with intense memories and emotions, it often feels like life won't ever be "normal" again. Effective treatments are out there, but the needs of family members are often overlooked. Will the person you love ever get better? What can you do to promote healing? Where can you turn when you just can't cope? From experienced trauma specialists Drs. Claudia Zayfert and Jason C. DeViva, this compassionate guide is packed with information, support, vivid stories, and specific advice. Learn to navigate the rough spots day by day and help your loved one find a brighter tomorrow.
Star Trek: A Fury Scorned
by George Zebrowski Pamela SargentWith their sun about to go nova, the people of Epictetus III face annihilation. Although the U.S.S. Enterprise has come to lead the rescue operation, there is no way to evacuate a population of over twenty million, leaving Captain Picard to make an agonizing decision. Should he try to salvage the planet's children, its greatest leaders and thinkers, or its irreplaceable archeological treasures? No matter what he decides, millions must be sacrificed -- unless another solution can be found. With time running out, Data proposes a revolutionary scientific experiment that could save all of Epictetus III, or doom both the planet and the Enterprise as well.
Erika's Story
by Ruth Vander ZeeA woman recalls how she was thrown from a train headed for a Nazi death camp in 1944, raised by someone who risked her own life to save the baby's, and finally found some peace through her own family.
Before Action: William Noel Hodgdon and the 9th Devons, A Story of the Great War
by Charlotte ZeepvatWilliam Noel Hodgson never intended to be a soldier; he wanted to write. The Great War made his reputation as a poet but it also killed him. This groundbreaking biography traces his path through the pre-war world and explores why he set his own hopes and plans aside to join the army. His story is personal but it evokes the experience of a generation.A hundred years on, Hodgson is not only remembered for his poetry. He has become one of the best-known casualties of the first day of the Battle of the Somme, the most deadly day in British military history. His own unit, the 9th Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment, lost well over half the men who went over the top that morning and every officer but one: dead, wounded or missing, most in the first half-hour.Before Action draws on Hodgsons own writing and on the unpublished letters and diaries of his fellow officers to recreate the experiences of a 1914 volunteer battalion. Through their eyes we see everything from the lighter moments of soldiering to battle at its most violent: at Loos, where Hodgson won the Military Cross, and the opening day of the Somme offensive. The book offers an important new explanation of what happened to the 9th Devons that fateful morning. It uncovers the hidden meanings behind some of Hodgsons most familiar poems, and its wider themes of family and friendship, war, grief and remembrance, are universal.
Puyallup in World War II (Military)
by Hans ZeigerLike every community in America, young men from Puyallup put on the uniform and went off to fight in far-off parts of the world in 1941. Neighbors of all ages joined the war effort as factory and farm workers, air raid watch and Red Cross volunteers and war bond drive supporters. A relocation camp at the Puyallup Fairgrounds called Camp Harmony housed interned Japanese American citizens. And dozens of young servicemen who left home never returned. This is their story--a small Pacific Northwest town and a group of what Tom Brokaw dubbed the "Greatest Generation." Author Hans Zeiger preserves the journey of extraordinary people amid a violent and changing world.
The Case Against Adolf Eichmann
by Henry A. ZeigerEichmann...THE MAN,THE CRIMES.This book is a documentary presentation of the case prosecuting attorneys could present against the greatly captured Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann.Using affidavits, testimony from the Nuremberg trials, captured German documents, statements made by ranking Nazis, reports from concentration camp commandants, guards, Einsatz groups and survivors, Henry A. Zeiger tells the whole Eichmann story.There is a composite portrait of the man himself by the people who knew him intimately--Dieter Wisliceny, Eichmann's subordinate in Slovakia...Kaltenbrunner, Head of the Gestapo...Höss, commandant of Auschwitz. We are told how Eichmann, alone among the top-level masterminds of the anti-Jewish conspiracy, managed to escape allied retribution and was finally captured. We learn how the hideous Nazi plan for the mass murder of the Jews evolved. We see the major part Eichmann played in the abortive Nazi attempt to barter the lives of thousands of Hungarian Jews for war supplies.What emerges from the thorough documentation and terse, perceptive commentary is the complete Eichmann story from its historical beginnings to the present moment. It is not only the story of the man who is the current symbol of Nazi barbarism...It is, as well, the story of inhumanity in our time.
The Evolution of U.S. Military Policy from the Constitution to the Present, Volume II: The Formative Years for U.S. Military Policy, 1898-1940 (G - Reference,information And Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.)
by Sean M. Zeigler Alexandra Evans Gian Gentile Badreddine AhtchiTracing the evolution of the U.S. Army throughout American history, the authors of this four-volume series show that there is no such thing as a “traditional” U.S. military policy. Rather, the laws that authorize, empower, and govern the U.S. armed forces emerged from long-standing debates and a series of legislative compromises between 1903 and 1940. Volume II focuses on the laws enacted in the early 20th century that transformed the Army.
From Stalingrad to Berlin: The Illustrated Edition
by Earl ZeimkeWith scarcely an interlude, the German-Soviet conflict in World War II lasted for 3 years, 10 months, and 16 days. The conflict seesawed across eastern and central Europe between the Elbe and the Volga, the Alps, and the Caucasus. The total number of troops continuously engaged averaged between 8 and 9 million, and the losses were appalling. Wehrmacht losses numbered between 3 and 3.5 million. Deaths on the Soviet side reached more than 12 million, about 47 percent of the grand total of soldiers of all nations killed in World War II. The war and the occupation cost theSoviet Union some 7 million civilians and Germany about 1.5 million. The losses, civilian and military, of Finland, the Baltic States, and eastern and southeastern European countries added millions more.The great struggle completely unhinged the traditional European balance of power. The war consolidated the Soviet regime in Russia, and enabled it to impose the Communist system on its neighbours, Finland excepted, and on the Soviet occupation zone in Germany. The victory made the Soviet Union the second-ranking world power.This book follows the conflict from Stalingrad to Berlin. Topics include strategy and tactics, partisan and psychological warfare, coalition warfare, and manpower and production problems faced by both countries, but by the Germans in particular.With a new introduction by Emmy AwardTM winning historian Bob Carruthers and numerous rare illustrations this powerful book makes for a welcome addition to any Second World War library.
Military Logistics
by Vasileios Zeimpekis George Kaimakamis Nicholas J. DarasThis book highlights recent advances in the development of effective modeling and solution approaches to enhance the performance of military logistics. It seeks to further research in global defense-related topics, including military operations, governmental operations and security, as well as nation support. Additionally its purpose is to promote the global exchange of information and ideas amongst developers and users of military operations research tools and techniques. Over the course of its nine chapters, this edited volume addresses significant issues in military logistics including: a) Restructuring processes via OR methods aimed at improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the military logistics, b) Sense-and-Respond logistics prediction and coordination techniques that provide competitive advantage, spanning the full range of military operations across the strategic, operational and tactical levels of war, c) Procurement and auctioning, d) Inventory and stock control theories and applications, e) Military transport and logistical equipment, and, f) Maintenance, repair and overhaul on operational capability in general and equipment availability. The book aims to bridge the gap between the abundant literature on commercial logistics and its scarce defense & combat counterpart. This collection of useful insights into new trends and research will offer an ideal reference for practitioners and army related personnel interested in integrating scientific rigor to improve logistics management within defense organizations & agencies. Ultimately this book should provide a relevant platform for the latest contributions of operations management, operations research, and computational intelligence towards the enhancement of military logistics.