| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
224 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Changing perspectives |
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Changing perspectives (New York Times Educational Publishing)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Language |
In English. |
| Contents |
World War I. All the powers massing great armies in fear of possible conflict / by The New York Times -- Voice of Verdun : France's reply to peace hints / G.H. Perris -- Wilson approves staff's army bill / by The New York Times -- German counter-artillery fire silenced by our guns in 38 minutes / Cameron Mackenzie -- Should America have entered World War I? / Michael Kazin -- Long echoes of war and speech / Ted Widmer -- The war to end all wars? Hardly. But it did change them forever / Steven Erlanger -- World War II. The international situation / by The New York Times -- War of the world : Japanese attack merges conflicts - we must not discount foe's strength / Hanson W. Baldwin -- For those who died / by The New York Times -- Enemy maneuvers / by The New York Times -- First atomic bomb dropped on Japan : missile is equal to 20,000 tons of TNT ; Truman warns foe of a 'rain of ruin' / Sidney Shalett -- Which date should live in infamy? / Jon Meacham -- At the site of Germany's biggest World War II battle, a changing view of history / Alison Smale -- The Vietnam war. 160 U.S. and Saigon planes bomb 2 bases in north in record raid / Jack Langguth -- McNamara report to Johnson on the situation in Saigon in '63 / by The New York Times -- End of a nightmare / by The New York Times -- The Americans depart / by The New York Times -- What was the Vietnam War about? / Christian G. Appy -- Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam / Mark K. Updegrove -- How Vietnam changed journalism / Andrew Pearson -- The Iraq War. Bush orders start of war on Iraq ; Missiles apparently miss Hussein / David E. Sanger with John F. Burns -- The war begins / by The New York Times -- Wave of protests, from Europe to New York / John Tagliabue -- Cheers, tears and looting in capital's streets / John F. Burns -- President says military phase in Iraq has ended / David E. Sanger -- The failure to find Iraqi weapons / by The New York Times -- A shifting enemy : U.S. generals say civil war, not insurgency, is greatest threat / Mark Mazzetti -- A matter of definition : what makes a civil war, and who declares it so? / Edward Wong -- 3,000 deaths in Iraq, countless tears at home / Lizette Alvarez and Andrew Lehren -- Obama declares an end to combat mission in Iraq / Helene Cooper and Sheryl Gay Stolberg -- Fifteen years ago, America destroyed my country / Sinan Antoon -- 15 years ago, I helped start a war that hasn't ended / Matt Ufford -- The war on terror. U.S. and Britain strike Afghanistan, aiming at bases and terrorist camps ; Bush warns 'Taliban will pay a price' / Patrick E. Tyler -- Long war is seen / Steven Lee Myers with Alan Cowell -- A merciful war / Nicholas D. Kristof -- How a 'good war' in Afghanistan went bad / David Rohde and David E. Sanger -- Obama adds troops, but maps exit plan / Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Helene Cooper -- Keeping a promise to Afghans by The New York Times -- In Afghanistan's unwinnable war, what's the best loss to hope for? / Max Fisher -- Drone strikes reveal uncomfortable truth : U.S. is often unsure about who will die / Scott Shane -- Telling the truth abou the cost of war / by The New York Times -- Our drone war burnout / Pratap Chatterjee -- I helped sell the false choice of war once. It's happening again / Lawrence Wilkerson. |
| Subject |
War.
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Terrorism.
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World War, 1914-1918.
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World War, 1939-1945.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
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Iraq War, 2003-2011.
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War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
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Conflict management. (OCoLC)fst00874778
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Fighting (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst00924019
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Terrorism. (OCoLC)fst01148101
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War. (OCoLC)fst01170328
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| Added Author |
New York Times Company, editor.
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New York Times Educational Publishing, publisher.
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| ISBN |
9781642820676 |
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1642820679 |
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9781642820669 |
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1642820660 |
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