World Conflict

Humanity is more divided now than ever, gridlocked over social issues, race, gender, climate change, immigration, and our responsibility to vulnerable people. How did we get here? And what can we do to build bridges where walls exist? As a pastor committed to building deep relationships with people whose life experiences are different than his own, Terry Crist knows the beauty and challenge of connecting across dividing lines of race, economic status, faith, and much more. And in this book, he shares how you can too.

Thought-provoking and eye-opening, Blood and Silk is an accessible, personal look at modern Southeast Asia, written by one of the region's most experienced outside observers. This is a first-hand account of what it's like to sit at the table with deadly Thai Muslim insurgents, mediate between warring clans in the Southern Philippines and console the victims of political violence in Indonesia - all in an effort to negotiate peace and understand the reasons behind endemic violence.

In the late summer of 1942, more than 10,000 members of the First Marine Division held a tenuous toehold on the Pacific island of Guadalcanal. As American marines battled Japanese forces for control of the island, they were joined by war correspondent Richard Tregaskis. Only one of two civilian reporters to land and stay with the marines, Tregaskis’ notebook captured the daily and nightly terrors faced by American forces in one of World War II’s most legendary battles - and it served as the premise for his best-selling book Guadalcanal Diary.

Rod discovers love, gold, and family secrets as he travels back to his childhood home where he remembers playing the game of "Go to" and where he must play this game again, as an adult, to help his aunt resolve conflicts from her past during the last days of war in her village.

A book that examines war fiction as told in books and films. My own works are mentioned as well as powerful writers working within that field and a look at the history of such writing.

More than two centuries after the Age of Reason culminated in the French Revolution, modern society still operates based on assumptions and attitudes formed by our ancient myths. Propagated by organized religion, these myths not only hamper efforts to apply reason to our problems, but foster violent conflicts that threaten global security Myths of the Tribe: When Religion and Ethics Diverge illustrates the negative historical impact of our major religions and their detrimental impact on modern society. Author David Rich demonstrates how centuries’ old philosophy, doctrines, and belief ...

You have been dreaming and the dream has been very deep and totally convincing … so much so that everything that is happening in your world right now looks and feels very ‘real’. Very, very few actually ‘see’ through this illusion but there is a Great SHIFT occurring now that will allow many more to see. This version of your dream world that you have called reality, is collapsing. For eons Life has been upside down … an illusion so real that only a few down through the ages have recognized the Truth and set themselves Free. Humanity is now being shaken awake through this Great ...

U.S.S. Tenacity: A Haunting Tale of Tragedy and the Supernatural Five-Star Review from Readers' Favorite In the shadow of World War II, the U.S.S. Tenacity emerges from the Baltimore shipyards. Soon, however, it appears to be a cursed vessel, plagued by inexplicable accidents, faulty welds, and a sinister aura that defies explanation. For young Irish immigrant Robert "Robbie" Larkin Jr., serving aboard this ill-fated ship becomes a descent into a nightmare where the line between reality and the supernatural blurs. As crew members meet gruesome fates and the ship resists every effort to tame...

This landmark study of the Vietnamese conflict, examined through the lens of the revolutionary and counter-revolutionary movements in the rural province of Long An up until American intervention in the area, offers a human, balanced, penetrating account of war. Two new forewords by Robert K. Brigham of Vassar College and Jeffrey Record of the Air War College explore the book's enduring influence. A new end chapter offers previously unpublished scholarship on the conflict.

Wade didn’t remember much about his early childhood. He did remember being sick constantly and he remembered his mother. She wasn’t really his mother at the time, just a kind and caring woman who lavished him with attention. He had been trapped in the facility with twenty other children, the nice lady and her husband. One morning he awakened and she was no longer there. Later he learned that she and her husband had escaped from the facility with one of the other kids. Over time he learned the nature of his illness which was tied to the nature of the facility. He learned that all of his ...

The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history. In 1884, Prince Otto von Bismarck, the German chancellor, brought the plenipotentiaries of all major powers of Europe together to deal with Africa's colonization in such a manner as to avoid provocation of war.

In 1941, John Paquette decided to enlist in the U.S. Army to fulfill his one-year military obligation. He planned to enter college on a football scholarship after he completed his service. The Japanese had other plans and after December 7, 1941, John found that he was in the army for the duration. Trained to fly C-47 transports, John found himself in the South Pacific for 18 months and won the Distinguished Flying Cross and 16 Air Medals. After the war he returned home, raised a family, and lived an honorable life. Only in recent years has he felt the need to examine his life and try to ...

In 1997, social services rescues Boi (four), Shane (five), and Glory (six), three abused and neglected siblings from a junked city bus where they have been living with their frail dying grandmother and addict mother.

She had lost her family in the conflict of others. Can she avenge her loss? Pinky was treated as the black sheep in her family. Even though she kept to herself, she took drastic steps to avenge the killings of her elder sisters. She failed and brought torment to her fellow people. She was desperate to put an end to the torment of her fellow people. Her adversaries were conspiracies, secrets and immortality. Will she ever be able to overpower immortality and rescue her people? Slaying the Sovereign is the concluding book in the two part Banglish Fairytale series. If you like a world of ...

April 13, 2006. A Jerusalem Post headline reads: "Jericho man murdered over home sale." The 42 year-old father of eight was kidnapped, shot seven times, thrown into his car, and set on fire, because he had sold his Jerusalem apartment to Jews. Radical Islam has long desired to seize Jerusalem and make it off limits to Christian and Jewish believers. In this revealing book, Dore Gold, former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, reminds us that the war on terror is also a war on faith.

In the early morning hours of February 24, 2022, Russia—or the Russian Federation—under the leadership of President Vladimir Putin, launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. To date, though Russia has realized only limited territorial gains, the toll on human life has been extensive, with nearly 500,000 casualties and massive destruction of resources, infrastructures, and food supplies.

The 19th century saw the rise of one of the largest, most powerful empires of the modern era. The sun never set on the British Empire, whose holdings spanned the globe, in one form or another. Its naval supremacy linked the Commonwealth of Canada with the colonies in South Africa and India, and through them trade flowed east and west. An integral but underutilized part of this vast trade network included China, a reclusive Asian kingdom closed off from the Western world that desired none of its goods.

This is the opposite of every self help book you've ever read. I use a lot of curse words, I speak my mind, and I don't apologize for telling you how it really is. I cut through the BS to tell you what is wrong with our lives and how we can fix it. We will talk about your professional career and about the idiots who are trying to ruin it. We will talk about your personal life and those who want to ruin that too. Are you ready for a personal revolution? Stop sitting on the sidelines.

The family saga of Johann Gehring, who at sixteen years old, travels to America. He begins his new life in the prairies of Nebraska. There he learns to dig a well and exist amid nature’s foes: tornados, prairie fires, and freezing winters. Johann changes his name to John and finds love with Helena. Together they build a home and raise five independent children including the head-strong, Berta. Helena teaches her children to be as strong as the prairie cottonwood. She warns that someday they will need to bend in the wind and support each other. Berta vow to be as formidable as the ...

Napoleon could not have known it, but his campaign was the start of 150 years of imperialism along the Nile River, as Europeans endeavored to explore, control, and colonize the Nile River. This would bring them into all kinds of conflicts, not just with the indigenous natives residing there but also with each other, as each empire sought to get a leg up on the competition. Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign failed in all of its objectives other than in the acquisition of knowledge.