Columbia War Papers
Author | : Walter B. Pitkin |
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Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : Walter B. Pitkin |
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Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : Winston Churchill |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 1898 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : 9780393019599 |
The much-anticipated third volume of Churchill's fascinating papers.
Author | : Gustavus Woodson Smith |
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Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : Confederate States of America |
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Release | : 1977 |
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Author | : Daniel Ellsberg |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-12-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781439193761 |
In his second public contribution to ending the American intervention in Vietnam, Daniel Ellsberg brings together and revises his papers that best explain US policy and strategies during the war. Drawing upon his virtually unique range of experience as a participant, field observer, analyst, and critic, Papers on the War shares a selection of Daniel Ellsberg’s writings as he critiques the presence of US policies in Vietnam. With the major contribution of a greatly expanded and redefined version of his crucial study “The Quagmire Myth and the Stalemate Machine,” Ellsberg reveals consistent patterns of decision-making with respect to Indo-china that ran from Truman’s Administration into Nixon’s. From the first participant permitted to make use of the entire study that led to the Pentagon Papers, this book shares analysis on the invasion of Laos, the internal policies of South Vietnam, the failure of rural pacification, the American way of war, and the renewed escalation in the spring of 1972.
Author | : Craig Whitlock |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2022-08-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1982159014 |
A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 The #1 New York Times bestselling investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about America’s longest war, foreshadowing the Taliban’s recapture of Afghanistan, by Washington Post reporter and three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Craig Whitlock. Unlike the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 had near-unanimous public support. At first, the goals were straightforward and clear: defeat al-Qaeda and prevent a repeat of 9/11. Yet soon after the United States and its allies removed the Taliban from power, the mission veered off course and US officials lost sight of their original objectives. Distracted by the war in Iraq, the US military become mired in an unwinnable guerrilla conflict in a country it did not understand. But no president wanted to admit failure, especially in a war that began as a just cause. Instead, the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations sent more and more troops to Afghanistan and repeatedly said they were making progress, even though they knew there was no realistic prospect for an outright victory. Just as the Pentagon Papers changed the public’s understanding of Vietnam, The Afghanistan Papers contains “fast-paced and vivid” (The New York Times Book Review) revelation after revelation from people who played a direct role in the war from leaders in the White House and the Pentagon to soldiers and aid workers on the front lines. In unvarnished language, they admit that the US government’s strategies were a mess, that the nation-building project was a colossal failure, and that drugs and corruption gained a stranglehold over their allies in the Afghan government. All told, the account is based on interviews with more than 1,000 people who knew that the US government was presenting a distorted, and sometimes entirely fabricated, version of the facts on the ground. Documents unearthed by The Washington Post reveal that President Bush didn’t know the name of his Afghanistan war commander—and didn’t want to meet with him. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld admitted that he had “no visibility into who the bad guys are.” His successor, Robert Gates, said: “We didn’t know jack shit about al-Qaeda.” The Afghanistan Papers is a “searing indictment of the deceit, blunders, and hubris of senior military and civilian officials” (Tom Bowman, NRP Pentagon Correspondent) that will supercharge a long-overdue reckoning over what went wrong and forever change the way the conflict is remembered.
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Release | : 1976 |
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Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Maine |
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Author | : Military Order of the Loyal Legio Maine |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2017-06-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780282243074 |
Excerpt from War Papers, Vol. 1 A Remarkable Reconnaissance. By Major Sidney W. Thaxter. Read May 2, 1888. Twenty-two Hours Prisoner of War in Dixie. By Brevet major-general Henry G. Thomas.' Read September 5, 1888. At Gettysburg in 1863 and 1888. By Lieutenant and Adjutant Charles W. Roberts. Read December 5, 1888. The Battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864. By Commander Oliver A. Batcheller, ' U. S. N. Read May 1, 1889. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.