Books about Rearmament from Amazon.com

In Germans to the Front, David Large charts the path from Germany's total demilitarization immediately after World War II to the appearance of the Bundeswehr, the West German army, in 1956. The book is the first comprehensive study in English of West German rearmament during this critical period. Large's analysis of the complex interplay between the diplomatic and domestic facets of the rearmament debate illuminates key elements in the development of the Cold War and in Germany's ongoing difficulty in formulating a role for itself on the international scene. Rearmament severely tested West Germany's new parliamentary institutions, dramatically defined emerging power relationships in German politics, and posed a crucial challenge for the NATO alliance. Although the establishment of the Bundeswehr ultimately helped stabilize the nation, the acrimony surrounding its formation generated deep divisions in German society that persisted long after the army took the field. According to Large, the conflict was so bitter because rearmament forced a confrontation with fundamental questions of national identity and demanded a painful reckoning with the past..
Price: $21.84 [Notify me when price goes down.]

A colorful account of an unusual journey by a "greatest generation" author, columnist, orator, and educator–a pilgrimage that took him on a wide range from a typical midwestern boyhood in the town that stopped Jesse James, on out to higher education, Washington DC, LA's Olvera Street, the Guinness Book of World Records, and a biography of Charles Lindbergh.

Along the way, the author was an activist on Capitol Hill for a new spirit in government.

His association with Frank Buchman and Moral Re-Armament (Initiatives of Change) led him to work with some of the early pioneers of Alcoholics Anonymous and he is credited with restoring communications between MRA and AA..
Price: $19.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]

These are stories taken from the personal diaries, letters and newspaper clippings, and word of mouth accounts of my father's life just behind the combat lines of North Africa, France, and Germany This is not a "I jumped out of a B-29, then stormed the beaches" type of book. These are the more day to day accounts of the personal lives, backgrounds, and feelings of a group of men. For example:

How do you stay "seated" on a toilet on a ship in the middle of the middle of the North Atlantic ocean when the ship is riding 30 to 40 foot waves?

• You take your pants belt, loop it under the back of the toilet, then across your lap (If you happen to be seasick at the time, then you really have a problem).

How do you bathe approximately 2000 men who have just spent 30 days on a ship with rationed fresh water?

• You run them through a human "car wash".

What do you do when your sick to death of eating dried, powdered, canned and reprocessed food?

• You go out and shoot a couple of wild boars (and save a guy's life in the process even after he did something real stupid.).

How do you put out a fire in a wooden boxcar on a train in North Africa and you have no water at your disposal?

• You pee in it.

What do you do with a dead Frenchman in the middle of Paris?

• You drop him off at the nearest police station.

.
Price: $15.09 [Notify me when price goes down.]

This book examines the ability of the tsarist government and Russian industrialists to respond to the multiple challenges of war, revolution, political reform, international diplomacy and rearmament in the early twentieth century. Using Russian archive materials, Peter Gatrell analyzes the process and outcome of decision-making by government and business in the key sphere of defense, and makes an important contribution to the literature on the capacity of the old regime to fend off challenges to its authority at home and its prestige abroad..
Price: $28.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]