Soldiers Saints And Sinners

Author : Jeffrey A. Keshen
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 077485099X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saints, Sinners, and Soldiers written by Jeffrey A. Keshen and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-ever synthesis of both the patriotic and the problematic in wartime Canada, Saints, Sinners, and Soldiers shows how moral and social changes, and the fears they generated, precipitated numerous, and often contradictory, legacies in law and society. From labour conflicts, to the black market, to prostitution, and beyond, Keshen acknowledges the underbelly of Canada’s Second World War, and demonstrates that the “Good War” was a complex tapestry of social forces – not all of which were above reproach.

Author : James Murphy
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1642290653
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saints and Sinners in the Cristero War written by James Murphy and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative account of the persecution of the Catholic Church in Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s tells the stories of eight pivotal players. The saints are now honored as martyrs by the Catholic Church, and the sinners were political and military leaders who were accomplices in the persecution. The saintly standouts are Anacleto González Flores, whose non-violent demonstrations ended with his death after a day of brutal torture; Archbishop Francisco Orozco y Jiménez, who ran his vast archdiocese from hiding while on the run from the Mexican government; Fr. Toribio Romo González, who was shot in his bed one morning simply for being a Catholic priest; and Fr. Miguel Pro, the famous Jesuit who kept slipping through the hands of the military police in Mexico City despite being on the "most wanted" list for sixteen months. The four sinners are Melchor Ocampo, the powerful politician who believed that Catholicism was the cause of Mexico's problems; President Plutarco Elías Calles, the fanatical atheist who brutally persecuted the Church; José Reyes Vega, the priest who ignored the orders of his archbishop and became a general in the Cristero army; and Tomás Garrido Canabal, a farmer-turned-politician who became known as the "Scourge of Tabasco". This cast of characters is presented in a compelling narrative of the Cristero War that engages the reader like a gripping novel while it unfolds a largely unknown chapter in the history of America.

Author : Rita Katz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231555083
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saints and Soldiers written by Rita Katz and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2022 Nellie Bly Book Award, Chanticleer International Book Awards More than a decade ago, counterterrorism expert Rita Katz began browsing white supremacist and neo-Nazi forums. The hateful rhetoric and constant threats of violence immediately reminded her of the jihadist militants she spent her days monitoring, but law enforcement and policy makers barely paid attention to the Far Right. Now, years of attacks committed by extremists radicalized online—including mass murders at a synagogue in Pittsburgh and mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, as well as the Capitol siege—have brought home the danger. How has the internet shaped today’s threats, and what do the online origins of these movements reveal about how to stop them? In Saints and Soldiers, Katz reveals a new generation of terrorist movements that don’t just use the internet, but exist almost entirely on it. She provides a vivid view from the trenches, spanning edgy video game chat groups to what ISIS and Far-Right mass-shooters in El Paso, Orlando and elsewhere unwittingly reveal between the lines of their manifestos. Katz shows how the online cultures of these movements—far more than their ideologies and leaders—create today’s terrorists and shape how they commit “real world” violence. From ISIS to QAnon, Saints and Soldiers pinpoints the approaches needed for a new era in which arrests and military campaigns alone cannot stop these never-before-seen threats.

Author : Jane Hollenbeck Conner
Publisher : Parker Pub.
ISBN 13 : 9780970837011
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sinners, Saints, and Soldiers in Civil War Stafford written by Jane Hollenbeck Conner and published by Parker Pub.. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Over 135,000 Union soldiers came to Stafford during the Civil War. This book relates the stories of six unique individuals who visited the area. The writings of these soldiers, nurses, and civilians help paint a picture of what Stafford and Fredericksburg were like during this devastating war."--Cover.

Author : Ray Filby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780995506909
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soldiers, Saints and Sinners written by Ray Filby and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fictional backgrounds of some of the minor biblical characters whom Jesus and St. Paul encountered during their ministries. These backgrounds make these characters more than mere walk-on parts but real people whose needs Jesus was able to meet through his teaching or miracles.. Bible passages and study questions are included.

Author : Alban Goodier
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 9780898704631
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saints for Sinners written by Alban Goodier and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Karen Wright Marsh
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830892370
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vintage Saints and Sinners written by Karen Wright Marsh and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outreach Resource of the Year Foreword INDIES Award Finalist Saints are people too. The word saint conjures up images of superstar Christians revered for their spectacular acts and otherworldly piety. But when we take a closer look at the lives of these spiritual heavyweights, we learn that they also experienced struggle, doubt, and heartache. In fact, we learn that in many ways they're not all that different from you and me. Narrating her own winding pilgrimage through faith, Karen Marsh reveals surprising lessons in everyday spirituality from these "saints"—folks who lived and breathed, and failed and followed God. Told with humor and vulnerability, Vintage Saints and Sinners introduces us afresh to twenty-five brothers and sisters who challenge and inspire us with their honest faith. Using the included conversation starters, you can join Karen on her journey with the likes of Augustine, Brother Lawrence, and Saint Francis, as well as Amanda Berry Smith, Søren Kierkegaard, Dorothy Day, Howard Thurman, Flannery O'Connor, and many more. Let their lives and their wisdom be an invitation to authentic life in Christ.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060528192
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terrorist Hunter written by Anonymous and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-05-06 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable memoir of an Iraqi woman who escaped from captivity in Baghdad and became America's leading undercover counter-terrorist expert. Here is the story of an anonymous counter-terrorism expert, a young woman, who, in disguise, has penetrated front groups of anti-American terrorist organizations operating in this country. In this edge-of-the-seat memoir, she chronicles her escape from Iraq via Iran to Israel, following a great tragedy that befell her family at the hands of Saddam Hussein. She also details how she became involved in intelligence gathering for the United States, her adoptive country, while working for an antiterrorism group. With her unique insights into how terrorist groups veil their true operations by various means, she was able to infiltrate and identify dangerous terrorist organizations and entities working undetected in the United States. Terrorist Hunter provides fascinating and shocking information on how federal agencies, chiefly the FBI and the State Depart-ment, repeatedly ignored or mishandled important information she provided. She reveals her role in exposing terrorist supporters who the White House considered to be friends, in preventing the government from funding terrorist activities, and in the deportation of terrorists and their supporters. She also reveals how she discovered a billion-dollar scheme that rich Saudi Arabians set up to filter money to terrorist groups, through charities and businesses in the United States -- information that the FBI sat on for years, until after 9-11.

Author : Daniel Byers
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774830549
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zombie Army written by Daniel Byers and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zombie Army tells the story of Canada’s Second World War military conscripts – reluctant soldiers pejoratively referred to as “zombies” for their perceived similarity to the mindless movie monsters of the 1930s. In the first full-length book on the subject in almost forty years, Byers combines underused and newly discovered records to argue that although conscripts were only liable for home defence, they soon became a steady source of recruits from which the army found volunteers to serve overseas. He also challenges the traditional nationalist-dominated impression that Quebec participated only grudgingly in the war.

Author : Denise Giardina
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393081664
Total Pages : 729 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saints and Villains: A Novel written by Denise Giardina and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astonishing historical novel in the tradition of Schindler's List--evoking powerfully the danger and heroism of the Nazi resistance. What is the price of acting morally in a time of great evil, when sin and necessity seem twinned? Saints and Villains is a strikingly resonant novel that dramatizes this painful dilemma through the fictional re-creation of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. This emblematic figure risked his life--and finally lost it--through his participation in the failed plot to assassinate Hitler and topple the Nazi regime. In a gripping and sweeping narrative that moves from Berlin to London to New York City, encompassing shattering historical events, clandestine meetings, perilous missions abroad, and eventual imprisonments and death, Denise Giardina brings to life an instance of shining courage in the charnel house that was Europe in the Second World War. A novel that is bold in conception and utterly convincing in its powers of fictional re-creation--a literary event.