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The American military mission to China, 1941-1942 : lend-lease logistics, politics and the tangles of wartime cooperation / by Grieve, William G., 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Creation of the mission : why AMMISCA was established -- America before the Lend-Lease Program : isolationism and anti-war feelings -- The commanders : the leaders of World War II in Asia -- Culture clash : the historical foundation of Sino-Western relations -- The antecedents of the Burma-to-China supply route -- Early East Asian advisory missions -- Maintenance and repairs on the Burma Road -- The mission's involvement at Rangoon -- Logistics problems on the Burma Road -- The mission's role in the American volunteer Group -- International strategic planning -- The culmination of AMMISCA -- Epilogue.…”
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Lloyd George at war, 1916-1918 by Cassar, George H.

Table of Contents: “…Setting the stage -- The home front: The search for a manpower policy ; The challenge of labor ; Controlling shipping and food -- Strategy and the war: The first attempt at a unified command ; Facing the submarine menace ; Prelude to catastrophe ; The horror of Passchendaele ; The peripheral war ; The quest for a negotiated peace ; The creation of the Supreme War Council ; The plans for 1918 ; Before the storm ; Crisis on the western front ; The Maurice Affair ; The origins of intervention in Russia ; The German advance halted ; The turn of the tide ; The road to the armistice -- Conclusion.…”
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In Scripture the first stories of Jewish sexual identities / by Lefkovitz, Lori Hope, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Knowledge and nakedness : Eve in the garden of signs -- Sarah's laughter : matriarchal incoherence and the vexed sign of woman -- Passing as a man : patriarchal gender performances -- Leah behind the veil : sex with sisters from the Bible through Woody Allen -- Coats and tales : Joseph and myths of Jewish masculinity -- Miriam's fluid identity -- Bedrooms and battlefields : command performances of femininity -- Other boundary crossings : of talking beasts and bodies fragmented -- Oy! …”
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Brewed in Japan the evolution of the Japanese beer industry / by Alexander, Jeffrey W.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: beer's evolution into a Japanese commodity -- Foreign influences: the origins of Japan's beer brewing industry, 1868-1906 -- Keeping up appearances: maintaining beer's German authenticity, 1906-36 -- Brewing self-sufficiency: beer, empire, and the wartime command economy, 1937-45 -- "The taste of home": beer as postwar Japanese commodity, 1945-72 -- Learning from Japan: "Orion beer" and Okinawan consumer identity, 1945-72 -- Indigenous brews: innovation, entrepreneurship, and beer's continuing evolution.…”
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The American military mission to China, 1941-1942 : lend-lease logistics, politics and the tangles of wartime cooperation / by Grieve, William G., 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Creation of the mission : why AMMISCA was established -- America before the Lend-Lease Program : isolationism and anti-war feelings -- The commanders : the leaders of World War II in Asia -- Culture clash : the historical foundation of Sino-Western relations -- The antecedents of the Burma-to-China supply route -- Early East Asian advisory missions -- Maintenance and repairs on the Burma Road -- The mission's involvement at Rangoon -- Logistics problems on the Burma Road -- The mission's role in the American volunteer Group -- International strategic planning -- The culmination of AMMISCA -- Epilogue.…”
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The Muslim-Croat civil war in Central Bosnia a military history, 1992-1994 / by Shrader, Charles R.

Table of Contents: “…The operational milieu -- Organization of the opposing forces -- Command, control, and communications -- Training, doctrine, and logistics -- Prelude to civil war in central Bosnia -- The ABiH probing attack, January, 1993 -- The ABiH main attack, April, 1993 : the Vitez area -- The ABiH main attack, April, 1993 : Busovaca, Kiseljak, Zenica, and elsewhere -- The continuation of the Muslim offensive, May-June, 1993 -- The continuation of the Muslim offensive, July-August, 1993 -- Operations from September, 1993-February, 1994.…”
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The guns of independence the siege of Yorktown, 1781 / by Greene, Jerome A.

Table of Contents: “…The campaign of the allies -- The lion comes to Yorktown -- The British positions -- Washington takes command -- Investment -- The noose tightens -- The lion at bay -- On the verge -- The guns of October -- The earth trembles -- Night of heroes -- Hopes bright and dim -- Britain against the sky -- Broken sword -- Endings, beginnings -- Postscript : thereafter -- Appendix 1. …”
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The life and wars of Gideon J. Pillow by Hughes, Nathaniel Cheairs

Table of Contents: “…-- A place he so exactly fits -- I only want a respectable command -- A bitter cup -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: And afterward -- Appendix 2: Some of Gideon J. …”
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Carved from granite West Point since 1902 / by Betros, Lance, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Superintendents -- Appendix B. Commandants -- Appendix C. Deans of the academic board -- Appendix D. …”
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The guns of independence the siege of Yorktown, 1781 / by Greene, Jerome A.

Table of Contents: “…The campaign of the allies -- The lion comes to Yorktown -- The British positions -- Washington takes command -- Investment -- The noose tightens -- The lion at bay -- On the verge -- The guns of October -- The earth trembles -- Night of heroes -- Hopes bright and dim -- Britain against the sky -- Broken sword -- Endings, beginnings -- Postscript : thereafter -- Appendix 1. …”
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The life and wars of Gideon J. Pillow by Hughes, Nathaniel Cheairs

Table of Contents: “…-- A place he so exactly fits -- I only want a respectable command -- A bitter cup -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: And afterward -- Appendix 2: Some of Gideon J. …”
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Carved from granite West Point since 1902 / by Betros, Lance, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Superintendents -- Appendix B. Commandants -- Appendix C. Deans of the academic board -- Appendix D. …”
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New wars and new soldiers military ethics in the contemporary world /

Table of Contents: “…/ Gerhard Overland -- On a duty of humanitarian intervention / David Lefkowitz -- Emerging military technologies : a case study in neurowarfare / Nick Evans -- Robotic weapons and the future of war / Robert Sparrow -- Ethics and mercenaries / Uwe Steinhoff -- Ethics and the human terrain : the ethics of military anthropology / George Lucas -- To whom does a private military commander owe allegiance? / Deane-Peter Baker -- Deconstructing the evil zone : an exploration of why ordinary individuals can commit atrocities / Paolo Tripodi -- Psychological foundations of unethical actions in military operations / Peter Bradley -- Moral formation of the strategic corporal / Rebecca Johnson -- Loyalty and professionalization in the military / Peter Olsthoorn.…”
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New wars and new soldiers military ethics in the contemporary world /

Table of Contents: “…/ Gerhard Overland -- On a duty of humanitarian intervention / David Lefkowitz -- Emerging military technologies : a case study in neurowarfare / Nick Evans -- Robotic weapons and the future of war / Robert Sparrow -- Ethics and mercenaries / Uwe Steinhoff -- Ethics and the human terrain : the ethics of military anthropology / George Lucas -- To whom does a private military commander owe allegiance? / Deane-Peter Baker -- Deconstructing the evil zone : an exploration of why ordinary individuals can commit atrocities / Paolo Tripodi -- Psychological foundations of unethical actions in military operations / Peter Bradley -- Moral formation of the strategic corporal / Rebecca Johnson -- Loyalty and professionalization in the military / Peter Olsthoorn.…”
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Beyond bumper sticker ethics : an introduction to theories of right and wrong / by Wilkens, Steve, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…. : narrative ethics -- All you need is love: situation ethics -- Doing what comes naturally: natural law ethics -- God said it, I believe it, that settles it: divine command theory -- Unraveling the options.…”
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Three knots to nowhere : a Cold War submariner on the undersea frontline / by Dubay, Ted E.

Table of Contents: “…Battle stations -- Troubled times -- Odyssey -- Admiral Rickover's nuclear power school -- Submarine school; The final preparation -- Reporting to the USS Henry clay -- Inside the Henry Clay -- The forbidden zone : the engineering spaces -- Test depth -- Transit to Hawaii -- The eve of my first patrol -- Getting underway -- Christmas on patrol -- Dolphins and patrol pins -- R&R in Hawaii -- The escape tower -- Change of command; The good, the bad and the ugly -- Surprise package from the Blue Crew -- Typhoon -- Farewell to the Henry Clay -- Flight back to Hawaii -- Ford Island -- The circle begins.…”
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Beyond bumper sticker ethics : an introduction to theories of right and wrong / by Wilkens, Steve, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…. : narrative ethics -- All you need is love: situation ethics -- Doing what comes naturally: natural law ethics -- God said it, I believe it, that settles it: divine command theory -- Unraveling the options.…”
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Three knots to nowhere : a Cold War submariner on the undersea frontline / by Dubay, Ted E.

Table of Contents: “…Battle stations -- Troubled times -- Odyssey -- Admiral Rickover's nuclear power school -- Submarine school; The final preparation -- Reporting to the USS Henry clay -- Inside the Henry Clay -- The forbidden zone : the engineering spaces -- Test depth -- Transit to Hawaii -- The eve of my first patrol -- Getting underway -- Christmas on patrol -- Dolphins and patrol pins -- R&R in Hawaii -- The escape tower -- Change of command; The good, the bad and the ugly -- Surprise package from the Blue Crew -- Typhoon -- Farewell to the Henry Clay -- Flight back to Hawaii -- Ford Island -- The circle begins.…”
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Northern men with Southern loyalties : the Democratic Party and the sectional crisis / by Landis, Michael Todd

Table of Contents: “…Democrats and the slave power -- Fidelity and firmness: Northern Democrats and the crises of 1850 -- Harmony, unity, and victory: state politics and presidential posturing -- One of the most reliable politicians on the subject of slavery: the rewards of fidelity and the perils of power -- Pandora's box: Northern Democrats in command -- Leave us of the North to fight the great battle: party punishments and purges -- The strongest Northern man on Southern principles: James Buchanan and Southern power -- let us stand by our colors: Lecompton and minority rule -- We regarded you as brothers: defeat and division -- Though the heavens fall: 1860 and beyond.…”
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Northern men with Southern loyalties : the Democratic Party and the sectional crisis / by Landis, Michael Todd

Table of Contents: “…Democrats and the slave power -- Fidelity and firmness: Northern Democrats and the crises of 1850 -- Harmony, unity, and victory: state politics and presidential posturing -- One of the most reliable politicians on the subject of slavery: the rewards of fidelity and the perils of power -- Pandora's box: Northern Democrats in command -- Leave us of the North to fight the great battle: party punishments and purges -- The strongest Northern man on Southern principles: James Buchanan and Southern power -- let us stand by our colors: Lecompton and minority rule -- We regarded you as brothers: defeat and division -- Though the heavens fall: 1860 and beyond.…”
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