No Peace, No Honor. An expose of Kissinger's secret negotiations to end the Vietnam War argues that the final agreement to end the war betrayed America's former South Vietnamese allies and left thousands of American soldiers dead in vain. In this introduction to the representations of the Vietnam War in American history, literature and film, Mark Taylor offers a concise, interdisciplinary approach to this most popular but complex of subjects.
His aim is to show the intricate nature of crucial events in Vietnam, indicate the different ways in which. It outlines, in detail, the strategies and tactics the commandos employed during the historic km trek from Calabar to Port Harcourt and narrates the hostile climate, terrain environment, health and survival hazards they had to surmount on the day march.
The think-tank, the mapping out of operations and disciplined control of men and materials by Alabi-Isama, the chief of staff, as well as the officers of 3 Marine Commando Division of the Nigerian army, sustained the Nigerian side of the conflict.
Rather, they wallow in poverty and are discredited by their military leaders who assumed political offices with all the accompanying largesse. The book is a rich manual, a repository of invaluable information, a document that gives a precise and veritable first-person account of the Nigerian civil war, in the Atlantic theatre.
It is a must for every serving and retired member of the armed forces to own. An Engaging Book! By Kindle Customer Brigadier-General Alabi-Isama's book carries you through the jungles, the trenches, the puddles and the rivers in a captivating story that gives you a 3D-movie like perspective to the events of the Nigeria civil war from the South of the Country.
This book also exposes a well too known character in Nigerian politics, in the unfolding events just before the war ended and after it ended, that will validate the title of the book 'Tragedy Of Victory', at least from the author's personal angle It is a pity that one who has given so much to his country, along with so many of his colleagues at the war theatre, and arguably was the brains behind Nigeria emerging from the civil war intact as one country, has hardly been known for such feat, nor ever rewarded accordingly.
It is also quite pathetic and unfortunate that Alabi-Isama a true veteran would be framed and vilified in the same country he fought so hard to keep intact and undivided Godwin Alabi-Isama, granted the accounts in your book is the truth about events during the Nigerian civil war, at least from the 3MCDO perspective, where you were a front-Iine Commander and Commando In, I raise my foot to a degree angle, and stamp that foot with such thud the effect is felt on my spine. I sharply raise my right hand to my brow, in a most curtly salute and I salute you great veteran, true son of Nigeria.
Posterity will ever smile on you I strongly recommend this book especially to the generation born after the Nigerian civil war, who wish to obtain first class information on the matters giving rise to the war and how the war was fought and won.
Ogunleye Brig. Isama has written for posterity. His addition to the already considerable body of literature on the Nigerian civil war is needed and welcomed as it adds a perspective of an officer from the front lines. I wish his editors did a better job of reducing the multiple repetitions in narratives and photographs.
The dominance of France's military and cultural prestige during this period is reflected in the important, almost exclusive, space dedicated in this volume to the French stage. This book covers the tragedies of France's two greatest playwrights - Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine - which would dominate not only the French stage but, through translations and adaptations, became the model of tragic theater across Europe, finding imitators in England Dryden , Italy Alfieri and as far afield as Russia.
This dominance continued well into the 18th century with the triumph of Voltaire's tragedies. This volume also examines how the writings of Diderot and Lessing changed the direction of theatre and how after the Revolution, in the writings of Goethe, Shiller, Hegel, tragedy and the tragic were reimagined and became the sign of European modernity.
Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.
This book by David P. Chandler is the first to give a full account of this tumultuous period. Drawing on his experience as a foreign service officer in Phnom Penh, on interviews, and on archival material. Chandler considers why the revolution happened and how it was related to Cambodia's earlier history and to other events in Southeast Asia.
He describes Cambodia's brief spell of independence from Japan after the end of World War II; the long and complicated rule of Norodom Sihanouk, during which the Vietnam War gradually spilled over Cambodia's borders; the bloodless coup of that deposed Sihanouk and put in power the feeble, pro-American government of Lon Nol; and the revolution in that ushered in the radical changes and horrors of Pol Pot's Communist regime. Chandler discusses how Pol Pot and his colleagues evacuated Cambodia's cities and towns, transformed its seven million people into an unpaid labor force, tortured and killed party members when agricultural quotas were unmet, and were finally overthrown in the course of a Vietnamese military invasion in
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