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Nations in the Balance

The India-Burma Campaigns, December 1943–August 1944

By: Christopher L. Kolakowski

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Nations in the Balance

The India-Burma Campaigns, December 1943–August 1944

By: Christopher L. Kolakowski

An account of the decisive WWII battles that helped shape Asia’s future: “Reminds us of the high stakes at risk for both Allies and Axis powers in Burma.” —Military Review From December 1943 to August 1944, Allied and Japanese forces fought the decisive battles of World War II in Southeast Asia. Fighting centered around North Burma, Imphal, Kohima, and the Arakan, involving troops from all over the world along a battlefront the combined size of Pennsylvania and Ohio. The campaigns brought nations into collision for the highest stakes: British and Indian troops fighting for Empire, the Indo-Japanese forces seeking a prestige victory with an invasion of India and the Americans and Chinese focused on helping China and reopening the Burma Road. Events turned on the decisions of the principal commanders—Admiral Louis Mountbatten and Generals Joseph Stilwell, William Slim, Orde Wingate, and Mutaguchi Renya, among many others. The impact of the fighting was felt in London, Tokyo, Washington, and other places far away from the battlefront, with effects that presaged postwar political relationships. This was also the first U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia, and Stilwell’s operations in some ways foreshadowed battles in Vietnam two decades later. Nations in the Balance recounts these battles, offering dramatic and compelling stories of people fighting in difficult conditions against high odds, with far-reaching results. It also shows how they proved important to the postwar future of the participant nations and Asia as a whole, with effects that still reverberate decades after the war.

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The Civil War at Perryville

Battling for the Bluegrass

By: Christopher L Kolakowski

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The Civil War at Perryville

Battling for the Bluegrass

By: Christopher L Kolakowski

A comprehensive history of the bloody Battle of Perryville, Kentucky, featuring over sixty historic images and maps. Desperate to seize control of Union-held Kentucky, a border state, the Confederate army launched an invasion into the commonwealth in the fall of 1862. The incursion viciously culminated at an otherwise quiet Bluegrass crossroads and forever altered the landscape of the war. The Battle of Perryville lasted just one day yet produced nearly eight thousand combined casualties and losses, and some say nary a victor. The Rebel army was forced to retreat, and the United States kept its imperative grasp on Kentucky throughout the war. Famous Confederate diarist Sam Watkins, whose Company Aytch journals were featured as a major narrative thread in Ken Burns’ award-winning Civil War documentary series, declared Perryville the hardest fighting that he experienced. Indeed, history would record that Perryville the second bloodiest battle of the Western Theater after Shiloh. Few know this hallowed ground like Christopher L. Kolakowski, former director of the Perryville Battlefield Preservation Association, who draws on letters, reports, memoirs and other primary sources to offer the most accessible and engaging account of the Kentucky Campaign yet, featuring over sixty historic images and maps.

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Arcadia Publishing

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161423048X

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The Stones River and Tullahoma Campaigns: This Army Does Not Retreat

By: Christopher L. Kolakowski

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The Stones River and Tullahoma Campaigns: This Army Does Not Retreat

By: Christopher L. Kolakowski

Go inside the story of the battles for Midle Tennessee in late 1862-63 through letters, reports and memoirs. After the Battle of Perryville in October 1862, the focus of the Civil War in the West shifted back to Tennessee. The Union Army of the Cumberland regrouped in Nashville, while the Confederate Army of Tennessee camped 30 miles away in Murfreesboro. On December 26 the Federals marched southward and fought a three-day brawl at Stones River with their Confederate counterparts. The Confederates withdrew, and both armies spent the winter and spring harassing each other and regrouping for the next round. In the Confederate camp, dissention corroded the army's high command. The critical engagement at Stones River (by percentage of loss the Civil War's bloodiest battle) and the masterful Tullahoma operation will receive detailed attention in this journey through the historic moment in time.

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1614233446

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Bound by War

How the United States and the Philippines Built America's First Pacific Century

By: Christopher Capozzola

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Bound by War

How the United States and the Philippines Built America's First Pacific Century

By: Christopher Capozzola

A sweeping history of America's long and fateful military relationship with the Philippines amid a century of Pacific warfare Ever since US troops occupied the Philippines in 1898, generations of Filipinos have served in and alongside the US armed forces. In Bound by War, historian Christopher Capozzola reveals this forgotten history, showing how war and military service forged an enduring, yet fraught, alliance between Americans and Filipinos. As the US military expanded in Asia, American forces confronted their Pacific rivals from Philippine bases. And from the colonial-era Philippine Scouts to post-9/11 contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, Filipinos were crucial partners in the exercise of US power. Their service reshaped Philippine society and politics and brought thousands of Filipinos to America. Telling the epic story of a century of conflict and migration, Bound by War is a fresh, definitive portrait of this uneven partnership and the two nations it transformed.

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Basic Books

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1541618262

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9781541618268

Last Stand on Bataan

The Defense of the Philippines, December 1941-May 1942

By: Christopher L. Kolakowski

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Last Stand on Bataan

The Defense of the Philippines, December 1941-May 1942

By: Christopher L. Kolakowski

In the opening days of World War II, a joint U.S.-Filipino army fought desperately to defend Manila Bay and the Philippines against a Japanese invasion. Much of the five-month campaign was waged on the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor Island. Despite dwindling supplies and dim prospects for support, the garrison held out as long as possible and significantly delayed the Japanese timetable for conquest in the Pacific. In the end, the Japanese forced the largest capitulation in U.S. military history. The defenders were hailed as heroes and the legacy of their determined resistance marks the Philippines today. Drawing on accounts from American and Filipino participants and archival sources, this book chronicles these critical months of the Pacific War, from the first air strikes to the fall of Bataan and Corregidor.

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McFarland

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1476624925

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U.S. Army Campaigns of the Civil War: Virginia Campaigns, March-August 1862

By: Christopher L. Kolakowski

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U.S. Army Campaigns of the Civil War: Virginia Campaigns, March-August 1862

By: Christopher L. Kolakowski

Since the Civil War began in April 1861 at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, both the United States government and the rebellious Confederate States of America had placed a premium on controlling the Commonwealth of Virginia. Home to the Confederate capital at Richmond, and adjacent to the Federal capital at Washington, D.C., Virginia’s strategic importance was undeniable. The Civil War’s first major engagement, the Battle of Bull Run, had taken place on Virginia soil near Manassas Junction on 21 July 1861. Elsewhere in 1861, Union forces had won victories in Missouri, Kentucky, and North Carolina, yet in Virginia the Confederacy had remained defiant, and it was on Virginia that all eyes focused. By year’s end the Federal government’s failure to capture Richmond had discouraged Northerners and buoyed the spirits of rebellious southerners. Anxious to end the bloodshed, President Abraham Lincoln hoped that 1862 would be the year in which Federal forces swept into Virginia, captured Richmond, and put an end to the insurrection. In this he was destined to be disappointed. Contains descriptive maps, photographs and drawings from the time period, and beautiful color illustrations of important people and events.

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Government Printing Office

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0160934400

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Sociology in Action (Routledge Revivals)

A Critique of Selected Conceptions of the Social Role of the Sociologist

By: Christopher G. A. Bryant

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Sociology in Action (Routledge Revivals)

A Critique of Selected Conceptions of the Social Role of the Sociologist

By: Christopher G. A. Bryant

This book, first published in 1976, discusses four classical paradigms for sociology – the positivism of Saint-Simon and Comte, Durkheim, Marx and Weber – and four contemporary developments or revisions of them – the sociologie active of Dumazedier and his colleagues in France, sociology in Socialist Poland, the work of Dahrendorf and the ‘new sociology’ of Mills and his successors. Christopher Bryant suggests that no neutral language exists in which to compare the characteristics of these different paradigms, yet highlights those features which are common to all of them. Unique in its approach and analysis of the relationship between sociology and action, this book is of value and interest to students of sociology and theory and professional sociologists.

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113503673X

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China In The Post-utopian Age

By: Christopher J. Smith

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China In The Post-utopian Age

By: Christopher J. Smith

China in the Post-Utopian Age is an interdisciplinary book about China in the post-utopian age, focusing on the transformations that have occurred during the leaderships of Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

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0429720289

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9780429720284

Radical Christianity

A Reading of Recovery

By: Christopher Rowland

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Radical Christianity

A Reading of Recovery

By: Christopher Rowland

At different times and places, Christian ideas have had a radical, critical role and have served as a basis for programs of social change. This concise and clearly written book documents the history of radical Christianity by discussing some of the most important developments and figures, from the millenarian movements of early Christianity to the liberation theology of today. Christopher Rowland begins by discussing the character and transformation of early Christian ideas and the ongoing patterns of protest against the status quo. Subsequent chapters deal with the legacy of the Apocalypse and with the work of Thomas Muenzer and Gerrard Winstanley. A final chapter on liberation theology examines the role of religion in Latin America today, where basic Christian communities have emerged as power-houses of social and political reform. 'Radical Christianity' is a reading of recovery which shows that social criticism and hope for a better world are integral features of the Christian tradition. The book will be of great interest to students of religion and to anyone concerned with the role of religious ideas in past and present-day societies.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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159752011X

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The Stones River and Tullahoma Campaigns: This Army Does Not Retreat

By: Christopher L. Kolakowski

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The Civil War at Perryville

Battling for the Bluegrass

By: Christopher L Kolakowski

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Battling for the Bluegrass

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Nations in the Balance

The India-Burma Campaigns, December 1943–August 1944

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The India-Burma Campaigns, December 1943–August 1944

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Milton and the English Revolution

By: Christopher Hill

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Milton and the English Revolution

By: Christopher Hill

In this remarkable book Christopher Hill used the learning gathered in a lifetime's study of seventeenth-century England to carry out a major reassessment of Milton as man, politician, poet, and religious thinker. The result is a Milton very different from most popular representations: instead of a gloomy, sexless "Puritan", we have a dashingly thinker, branded with the contemporary reputation of a libertine.

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Verso Books

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1788736842

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Last Stand on Bataan

The Defense of the Philippines, December 1941-May 1942

By: Christopher L. Kolakowski

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The Defense of the Philippines, December 1941-May 1942

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U.S. Army Campaigns of the Civil War: Virginia Campaigns, March-August 1862

By: Christopher L. Kolakowski

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Nations in the Balance

Nations in the Balance

The Civil War at Perryville

The Civil War at Perryville

The Stones River and Tullahoma Campaigns: This Army Does Not Retreat

The Stones River and Tullahoma Campaigns: This Army Does Not Retreat

Bound by War

Bound by War

Last Stand on Bataan

Last Stand on Bataan

U.S. Army Campaigns of the Civil War: Virginia Campaigns, March-August 1862

U.S. Army Campaigns of the Civil War: Virginia Campaigns, March-August 1862

Sociology in Action (Routledge Revivals)

Sociology in Action (Routledge Revivals)

China In The Post-utopian Age

China In The Post-utopian Age

Radical Christianity

Radical Christianity

The Stones River and Tullahoma Campaigns: This Army Does Not Retreat

The Stones River and Tullahoma Campaigns: This Army Does Not Retreat

The Civil War at Perryville

The Civil War at Perryville

Nations in the Balance

Nations in the Balance

Milton and the English Revolution

Milton and the English Revolution

Last Stand on Bataan

Last Stand on Bataan

U.S. Army Campaigns of the Civil War: Virginia Campaigns, March-August 1862

U.S. Army Campaigns of the Civil War: Virginia Campaigns, March-August 1862

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