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Words on Words
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 424

Words on Words

Surveying the expanding conflict in Europe during one of his famous fireside chats in 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt ominously warned that "we know of other methods, new methods of attack. The Trojan horse. The fifth column that betrays a nation unprepared for treachery. Spies, saboteurs, and traitors are the actors in this new strategy." Having identified a new type of war -- a shadow war -- being perpetrated by Hitler's Germany, FDR decided to fight fire with fire, authorizing the formation of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to organize and oversee covert operations. Based on an extensive analysis of OSS records, including the vast trove of records released by the CIA in the 198...

“Here Is Hell”
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 242

“Here Is Hell”

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-11-01
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  • Publisher: UBC Press

Grant Dawson's analysis of political, diplomatic, and military decision making avoids a narrow focus on the shocking offences of a few Canadian soldiers, deftly investigating the broader context of the deployment in Somalia. He shows how media pressure, government optimism about the United Nations, and the Canadian traditions of multilateralism and peacekeeping all helped to determine the level, length, and tenor of the country's operations. His findings will undoubtedly play a seminal role in informing scholarly debate about this important period in Canadian diplomacy and military engagement.

There's Magic All Around Us
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 116

There's Magic All Around Us

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-05
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  • Publisher: iUniverse

I have always wanted to be a journalist. Even as a boy, I would get my mother to drive me into town to pick up sheets of newsprint at the local weekly newspaper shop. Back home with these sheets, I would sit at the kitchen table or at the desk in my bedroom, creating newspapers and magazines. I wrote such scintillating prose as, "My grandpa tells me he can't let his sheep get sick. My grandpa says a sick sheep is a dead sheep." In some cases, I would make extra copies of my publications and send them to my aunts and uncles and suggest that they might want to subscribe-at a reasonable rate, of course.

The Navy List
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1130

The Navy List

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1846
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Oliver & Boyd's new Edinburgh almanac and national repository. [With] Western suppl
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1032

Oliver & Boyd's new Edinburgh almanac and national repository. [With] Western suppl

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1879
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The London Gazette
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1666

The London Gazette

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1804
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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