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Powering Recovery

Reform, Reconstruction, and Renewables in Conflict-Affected States in the Arab World

By: Will Todman,Lubna Yousef

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Powering Recovery

Reform, Reconstruction, and Renewables in Conflict-Affected States in the Arab World

By: Will Todman,Lubna Yousef

After pouring billions of dollars into rebuilding energy systems in Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, and Yemen, U.S. and international donors have frustratingly little to show for the effort. In a new CSIS report, Will Todman investigates what went wrong and charts a better path forward.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538170639

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9781538170632

Sustainable States

Environment, Governance, and the Future of the Middle East

By: Jon B. Alterman,Natasha Hall,Will Todman

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Sustainable States

Environment, Governance, and the Future of the Middle East

By: Jon B. Alterman,Natasha Hall,Will Todman

The importance of environmentally sustainable public utilities in the Middle East is an improbable topic for a Washington think tank study. Yet, many countries in the Middle East face serious challenges providing utilities in any manner to their populations, and the failure to do so is an increasing flashpoint for public dissatisfaction. This study finds that providing more environmentally sustainable services in the Middle East would be an effective way to address many citizens’ grievances which go beyond the reliability of those services. It would also help ameliorate deep dissatisfaction with the quality of governance and help build trust between citizens and their governments. This study examines three sectors—power, water and sanitation, and solid waste—in Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia. While the three countries are different in many ways, each faces increasing challenges providing services to their citizens. Providing these services in an environmentally sustainable way would also crucially increase each country’s resilience and diminish their vulnerability in a chronically unstable region.

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1538140381

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9781538140383

Abundance of Valor

Resistance, Survival, and Liberation: 1944-45

By: Will Irwin

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Abundance of Valor

Resistance, Survival, and Liberation: 1944-45

By: Will Irwin

The operation known as “Market Garden”—made famous in the book and film A Bridge Too Far—was the largest airborne assault in history up to that time, a high-risk Allied invasion of enemy territory that has become a legend of World War II, even as it still invites criticism from historians. Now a thrilling and revelatory new book re-creates the operation as never before, revealing for the first time the full adventures of the bold “Jedburgh” paratroopers whose exploits were almost unimaginably risky and heroic. Kicked off on September 17, 1944, Market Garden was intended to secure crucial bridges in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands by a parachute assault conducted by three Allied airborne divisions. Capture of the bridges would allow a swift advance and crossing of the Rhine by British ground forces. Jedburgh teams—Allied Special Forces—were dropped into the Netherlands to train and use the Dutch resistance in support of the larger operation. Based on new firsthand testimony of survivors and declassified documents, Abundance of Valor concentrates on the three teams that operated farthest behind enemy lines, the nine men whose treacherous missions resulted in deaths, captures, and hair-breadth escapes. Here in unprecedented detail are the heat and stench of fuel, oil, and sweat in the troop carriers going over, the remarkable (and misleading) initial success of the daylight parachute landings, and the deadly, brutally effective German response, particularly by crack SS armored units in the blood-soaked town of Arnhem. Abundance of Valor portrays with stunning verisimilitude the experiences of Lt. Harvey Allan Todd, who fought from a surrounded position against overwhelming numbers of the enemy before surviving capture, near-starvation, interrogation, and solitary confinement in German POW camps, and Maj. John “Pappy” Olmsted, who made a hazardous journey, in disguise, from safe house to safe house through enemy territory until finally reaching friendly lines. With piercing criticism of the mission’s ultimate failure from faulty use of intelligence—and Field Marshall Montgomery’s distrust of the Dutch underground—Abundance of Valor is a brutally honest and truly inspiring account of fighting men in a noble cause who did their jobs with extraordinary honor and courage.

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Presidio Press

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0345519086

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9780345519085

Gunners in Normandy

The History of the Royal Artillery in North-west Europe, January 1942 to August 1944

By: Major Frank Baldwin,Lieutenant Colonel Will Townend

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Gunners in Normandy

The History of the Royal Artillery in North-west Europe, January 1942 to August 1944

By: Major Frank Baldwin,Lieutenant Colonel Will Townend

The official account of the Royal Artillery's activities in the Normandy campaign, this volume breaks down the historic achievements of the Regiment, integrating newly published research with a detailed account of their activities, logistics and equipment in the offensive. Gunners in Normandy includes mention of every regiment that served, a Roll of Honour, and a list of the dead by unit. This book presents the definitive record of events, assembled from interviews with veterans, papers and documents from the Firepower Archives, terrain studies, personal memoirs, war diaries and other official documents. Serious students of the battle for Normandy should find this essential reading, with comprehensive coverage of the role of the Royal Artillery, and much material not published anywhere else, including orders of battle, the details of targets engaged by the guns and their effectiveness.

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The History Press

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0750991798

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9780750991797

Archbishop Oscar Romero

The Making of a Martyr

By: Emily Wade Will

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Archbishop Oscar Romero

The Making of a Martyr

By: Emily Wade Will

Who is Oscar Romero, assassinated in 1980 while saying mass, beatified by Pope Francis in 2015, a man Latin Americans already claim as Saint Romero of America? This biography, a Romero primer, sets out to answer this question for the general public ages fifteen up--readers who may know little about El Salvador, Romero's homeland, or the Roman Catholic Church. Based on interviews with some of Romero's seminary mates and siblings, this title reveals not-yet-published information to fill gaps in Romero's first twenty-five years of life. One chapter explores the archbishop's surprising relationship with "misguided" young adults. The author takes painstaking effort to convey the context in which this old-school cleric emerged as an audacious voice of the voiceless. That he did so is remarkable; Vatican officials named him archbishop confident he would remain silent, rein in activism, and ruffle no status-quo feathers. How and why Romero defied expectations ranks among the most compelling faith stories of the late twentieth century. Jose Inocencio Alas honors this work with a foreword. A former priest and colleague of Romero who narrowly survived abduction and torture by El Salvador's notorious National Guard, Alas has exclaimed, "I hope just about everyone in the world reads this book.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1498283551

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Powering Recovery

Reform, Reconstruction, and Renewables in Conflict-Affected States in the Arab World

By: Will Todman,Lubna Yousef

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Reform, Reconstruction, and Renewables in Conflict-Affected States in the Arab World

By: Will Todman,Lubna Yousef

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