By exploring several historical cases (some as recent as the 1991 Persian Gulf War), the author examines why democratic and authoritarian governments alike will sometimes deliberately kill large numbers of civilians as a matter of military strategy. Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 2004. ix, 315 pages ; 25 cm.

"Offers surprising findings about the strategic rationale for killing innocent civilians in civil wars"-- "Published in association with the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St. Andrews." x, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Recounts the experiences of civilians whose lives were disrupted by the African military's involvement in wars from colonial times through the Rwandan genocide, describing the hardships and challenges civilians faced during war times. Includes bibliographical references and index. ix, 301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index. xv, 355 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm

"On November 4-5, 2008, an estimated 150 people were killed in the town of Kiwanja in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, half a mile away from United Nations peacekeeping forces. The event marks one of the worst killing sprees in North Kivu in the past two years. Most of those killed were summarily executed by forces of rebel commander Laurent Nikunda's National Congress for the Defense of People ...

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Consists of 26 photographs taken by and of PFC John W. George, a member of the 13th Field Artillery Observation Battalion of the United States Army; includes photographs of the liberation of the Nordhausen concentration camp. Also includes photographs of military destruction as well as civilian and prisoner casualties encountered by the Army as they crossed Germany in the spring of 1945.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-302). 302 pages, [8] pages plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Title card, cut off: “no means clear: problems of immense complexity remain. The wounds go deeper than we often know.” Cars drive around Place Vendome. The Pantheon. “Paris! Spared as few other capitals in Europe. A feast of beauty to the eye, but a cloak that hides the sufferings of France.” Civilians on the streets. Bridges over the Seine. A map of France, highlighting Le Havre, Caen, Montauban, ...

"Since 1996 war has raged in the Congo while the world has looked away. Waves of armed conflict and atrocities against civilians have resulted in over three million casualties, making this one of the bloodiest yet least understood conflicts of recent times." "In The Congo Wars Thomas Tinner provides the first in-depth analysis of what happened. The book describes a resource-rich region, suffering from ...

""After D-Day" fits into a growing but still small body of works that examine the Allied liberators of France. This study focuses especially on what the French experience of the U. S. military was both during the liberation and shortly afterward. It complements Fuller's The Struggle for Cooperation, Liberated France and the American Military (2018), which examines the French government's interaction ...

"This book informs the public for the first time about the impact of American psychiatry on soldiers during World War II. Breaking Point is the first in-depth history of American psychiatry in World War II. Drawn from unpublished primary documents, oral histories, and the author's personal interviews and correspondence over years with key psychiatric and military policymakers, it begins with Franklin ...

Established pursuant to an edict (2 November 1942) of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR, this commission began activities after the liberation of the Odessa region from German-Romanian forces in June 1944. It was subordinate to the Extraordinary State Commission of the Ukrainian SSR and was in turn in charge of district and city commissions. It included representatives of the public ...

"During the First World War various independent women's organisations assisted the armed forces. These included such bodies as the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY), which ran an ambulance service, and the Women's Legion, which deployed cookery and motor transport sections. Faced, however, with a manpower crisis as a result of the casualties on the western front, the military authorities were forced ...

From the landing in Normandy on 6 June 1944 until the end of the war on 8 May 1945, the Allies only needed eleven months. Over six months of which was battled from September 1944 until early March 1945 in the only 80-mile front strip between Aachen and Cologne bitterly. The expansion of the battlefield from North to South ranged from Kleve to Luxembourg. Cornerstones of this "battlefield between the ...