Power Without Victory
Title | Power Without Victory PDF eBook |
Author | Trygve Throntveit |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 411 |
Release | 2017-07-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 022645990X |
The ethical republic -- Common counsel -- A certain blindness -- Trials of neutrality -- Trojan horsemanship -- Provincials no longer -- The will to believe -- The fable of the Fourteen points -- A living thing is born -- Conclusion: power without victory and the right to believe
Triumph Without Victory
Title | Triumph Without Victory PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Three Rivers Press |
Total Pages | 518 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
The remarkable hardcover success of Triumph Without Victory was evidence of the public's need for a three-dimensional behind-the-scenes account of the Gulf War. Now this acclaimed work is available in trade paperback, published to coincide with the war's second anniversary. 15 maps.
Success Without Victory
Title | Success Without Victory PDF eBook |
Author | Jules Lobel |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Total Pages | 331 |
Release | 2006-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0814751911 |
An examination of how some legal issues are losing cases - but that's okay because advances are still possible.
War without Mercy
Title | War without Mercy PDF eBook |
Author | John Dower |
Publisher | Pantheon |
Total Pages | 411 |
Release | 2012-03-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0307816141 |
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • AN AMERICAN BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A monumental history that has been hailed by The New York Times as “one of the most original and important books to be written about the war between Japan and the United States.” In this monumental history, Professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific War—race—while writing what John Toland has called “a landmark book ... a powerful, moving, and evenhanded history that is sorely needed in both America and Japan.” Drawing on American and Japanese songs, slogans, cartoons, propaganda films, secret reports, and a wealth of other documents of the time, Dower opens up a whole new way of looking at that bitter struggle of four and a half decades ago and its ramifications in our lives today. As Edwin O. Reischauer, former ambassador to Japan, has pointed out, this book offers “a lesson that the postwar generations need most ... with eloquence, crushing detail, and power.”
After Victory
Title | After Victory PDF eBook |
Author | G. John Ikenberry |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 332 |
Release | 2019-04-02 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 140088084X |
The end of the Cold War was a "big bang" reminiscent of earlier moments after major wars, such as the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the end of the world wars in 1919 and 1945. But what do states that win wars do with their newfound power, and how do they use it to build order? In After Victory, John Ikenberry examines postwar settlements in modern history, arguing that powerful countries do seek to build stable and cooperative relations, but the type of order that emerges hinges on their ability to make commitments and restrain power. He explains that only with the spread of democracy in the twentieth century and the innovative use of international institutions—both linked to the emergence of the United States as a world power—has order been created that goes beyond balance of power politics to exhibit "constitutional" characteristics. Blending comparative politics with international relations, and history with theory, After Victory will be of interest to anyone concerned with the organization of world order, the role of institutions in world politics, and the lessons of past postwar settlements for today.
On War
Title | On War PDF eBook |
Author | Carl von Clausewitz |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 388 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Military art and science |
ISBN |
Visions of Victory
Title | Visions of Victory PDF eBook |
Author | Gerhard L. Weinberg |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 328 |
Release | 2005-04-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521852548 |
Visions of Victory, first published in 2005, explores the views of eight leaders of the major powers of World War II - Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Chiang Kai-shek, Stalin, Churchill, de Gaulle, and Roosevelt. He compares their visions of the future in the event of victory. While the leaders primarily focused on fighting and winning the war, their decisions were often shaped by their aspirations for the future. What emerges is a startling picture of postwar worlds. After exterminating the Jews, Hitler intended for all Slavs to die so Germans could inhabit Eastern Europe. Mussolini and Hitler wanted extensive colonies in Africa. Churchill hoped for the re-emergence of British and French empires. De Gaulle wanted to annex the northwest corner of Italy. Stalin wanted to control Eastern Europe. Roosevelt's vision included establishing the United Nations. Weinberg's comparison of the individual portraits of the war-time leaders is a highly original and compelling study of history that might have been.