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Steven Casey

A major reassessment of the British government's communication of the goals of the Second World War and how its propaganda undermined the people's faith in the reliability of war news and the credibility of political leaders. While waging war against enemies overseas, governments also need to win the hearts and minds of their own citizens. The media is critical to delivering the official message, raising public support for war, maintaining morale, spelling out what is to b...

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Steven Casey

Call it the Vietnam Syndrome or Black Hawk Down blowback. It's the standard assumption that Americans won't tolerate combat casualties, that a rising body count lowers support for war. But that's not true, argues historian Steven Casey; even worse, this assumption damages democracy. Fearing a backlash, the military has routinely distorted its casualty reports in order to hide the true cost of war. When Soldiers Fall takes a new look at the way Americans have dealt with the toll of...

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Are you feeling overwhelmed with the complexity of the stock market and wonder how people REALLY make money in stocks?Do you ask yourself how on earth some ordinary person could amass a small or even larger fortune just by "letting your money work for you"?If you answered yes to one question or more, then this book just might be your first, most important step towards generating profits in the stock market.Because it does not require any prior knowl...

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Simon R. Green

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A Full Cast, Scott McCormick, Laura C. Harris, Yasmin Tuazon, Eric Messner, Steve Wannall, Marni Penning, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Dylan Lynch, Michael John Casey, Steven Carpenter, Gwen Grastorf, Alejandro Ruiz, Ken Jackson, Bradley Smith, James Lewis, Amanda Forstrom, Barbara Pinolini, Carolyn Kashner

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Ishmael Jones Mysteries

Ishmael Jones travels to the Scottish Highlands on a mysterious dual mission in this intriguing, genre-blending mystery.The Organisation has despatched Ishmael and his partner Penny to Coronach House on the shores of Loch Ness where the secretive but highly influential Baphamet Group are holding their annual meeting. The Organisation believes an imposter has infiltrated the Group and they have instructed Ishmael to root him – or her – out. It's not Ishmael's only mission. The first...

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Steven Casey, Kendall Cosley, Alan Delozier, Carolyn Edy, Karen Garner, Larry Greene, Alexander Lovelace, Nathaniel L. Moir, Henry Oinas-Kukkonen, G. Kurt Piehler, James Austin Sandy, Victoria Sotvedt, Ingo Trauschweizer, Douglass K. Daniel

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World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension

This set of essays offers new insights into the journalistic process and the pressures American front-line reporters experienced covering World War II. Transmitting stories through cable or couriers remained expensive and often required the cooperation of foreign governments and the American armed forces. Initially, reporters from a neutral America documented the early victories by Nazi Germany and the Soviet invasion of Finland. Not all journalists strove for objectivity. During her time ...

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William W. Johnstone

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A Full Cast, Mort Shelby, James Lewis, Tim Getman, James Konicek, Elizabeth Jernigan, Andy Clemence, Steven Carpenter, Michael John Casey, Richard Rohan, Drew Kopas, Thomas Penny, Joe Brack, Dylan Lynch, Michael Glenn, Eric Messner, Christopher Graybill, Tony Nam, Ken Jackson, Terence Aselford, Johann Dettweiler, Tim Carlin, Nathanial Perry

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Last Mountain Man

Smoke Jensen has a good woman by his side. Now all he needs to make Sugarloaf the best cattle ranch in Colorado is John Chisum's prime steer. But a cattle war has turned the landscape into a battleground, and a ruthless gang of rustlers is hot on Smoke's trail. The bullet-proof mountain man is determined to get what he wants--even if he has to blast every one of the dirty desperadoes back to hell!

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Steven Casey

How presidents spark and sustain support for wars remains an enduring and significant problem. Korea was the first limited war the U.S. experienced in the contemporary period - the first recent war fought for something less than total victory. In Selling the Korean War , Steven Casey explores how President Truman and then Eisenhower tried to sell it to the American public. Based on a massive array of primary sources, Casey subtly explores the government's selling activities from all angles...

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Steven Casey

How presidents spark and sustain support for wars remains an enduring and significant problem. Korea was the first limited war the U.S. experienced in the contemporary period - the first recent war fought for something less than total victory. In Selling the Korean War , Steven Casey explores how President Truman and then Eisenhower tried to sell it to the American public. Based on a massive array of primary sources, Casey subtly explores the government's selling activities from all angles...

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Steven Casey

From the North African desert to the bloody stalemate in Italy, from the London blitz to the D-Day beaches, a group of highly courageous and extremely talented American journalists reported the war against Nazi Germany for a grateful audience. Based on a wealth of previously untapped primary sources, War Beat, Europe provides the first comprehensive account of what these reporters witnessed, what they were allowed to publish, and how their reports shaped the home front's perceptio...

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Elizabeth Moon

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A Full Cast, Nanette Savard, Elisabeth Demery, M.B. Van Dorn, Corrie James, Peter Stray, Sunny Lasskey, Sherri Simpson, Lily Beacon, Steven Carpenter, Michael John Casey, Elizabeth Jernigan, Michael Glenn, Thomas Penny, Jeff Baker, Karen Carbone, Colleen Delany, Tim Getman, James Lewis, David Coyne, James Konicek, Tom Simpson, Mort Shelby, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, Ken Jackson, Kate Foster, Chris Rohan

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Serrano Legacy

Esmay Suiza and Brun Meager should be friends—they're both bright, brave, likable and adventurous. But true friendship doesn't run any smoother than true love. Brun thinks Esmay's a stuck-up prig, and Esmay thinks Brun's a spoiled rich brat who's making a play for Barin Serrano, Esmay's first love. So when Brun falls into the hands of a repressive religious militia movement, Esmay finds herself n disgrace, suspected of conniving at the capture. Even Barin, now being pursued by the beautifu...

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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

The Routledge Handbook of Argumentation Theory offers 43 chapters—written specifically for this volume by a team of leading international scholars—that survey a wide spectrum of research on the nature, purpose, and promise of argument and the associated practice of argumentation. Each chapter provides a state-of-the-art survey to help readers understand and engage with the field’s main ideas and problems.The book is split into two parts:Part I covers orientin...

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Steven Casey

America's struggle against Nazism is one of the few aspects of World War II that has escaped controversy. Historians agree that it was a widely popular war, different from the subsequent conflicts in Korea and Vietnam because of the absence of partisan sniping, ebbing morale, or calls for a negotiated peace. In this provocative book, Steven Casey challenges conventional wisdom about America's participation in World War II. Drawing on the numerous opinion polls and surveys conducted by the ...