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Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-06-07 - Publisher:
Barred from the Army by his asthma, George Beardmore started the War working as a cost clerk in the BBC. At the end of 1940 he was moved to Droitwich to help er
Language: en
Pages: 329
Pages: 329
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-05-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press
Accidental harm to civilians in warfare often becomes an occasion for public outrage, from citizens of both the victimized and the victimizing nation. In this v
Language: en
Pages: 418
Pages: 418
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Americans are greatly concerned about the number of our troops killed in battle--33,000 in the Korean War; 58,000 in Vietnam; 4,500 in Iraq--and rightly so. But
Language: en
Pages: 385
Pages: 385
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-04-16 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Claiming more than 600,000 lives, the American Civil War had a devastating impact on countless numbers of common soldiers and civilians, even as it brought free
Language: en
Pages: 316
Pages: 316
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
While recognizing the changing face of war casualties (the civilian casualty rate has escalated from five percent in World War I to up to 90 percent in recent c