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“robert j topmiller”

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  • The Lotus Unleashed

    The Buddhist Peace Movement in South Vietnam, 1964-1966

    by Robert J. Topmiller ...
    During the Vietnam War, Vietnamese Buddhist peace activists made extraordinary sacrifices—including self-immolation—to try to end the fighting. They hoped to establish a neutralist government that would broker peace with the Communists and expel the Americans. Robert J. Topmiller explores South Vietnamese attitudes toward the war, the insurgency, and U.S. intervention, and lays bare the dissension ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Binding Their Wounds

    America's Assault on Its Veterans

    by Robert J. Topmiller, T. Kirby Neill ...
    The victims of US military campaigns are usually nameless civilians in far away places, but there are also victims closer to home - the soldiers so often used and then discarded by the establishment. Binding Their Wounds is a book about US veterans written by a US veteran - Bob 'Doc' Topmiller. Topmiller fought in Vietnam, founded a school for orphans there, and become a professor of history ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

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  • Scorched Earth

    Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam

    by Fred A. Wilcox ...
    Scorched Earth is the first book to chronicle the effects of chemical warfare on the Vietnamese people and their environment, where, even today, more than 3 million people—including 500,000 children—are sick and dying from birth defects, cancer, and other illnesses that can be directly traced to Agent Orange/dioxin exposure. Weaving first-person accounts with original research, Vietnam War scholar ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Command and Control

    Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

    by Eric Schlosser ...
    **The Oscar-shortlisted documentary Command and Control, directed by Robert Kenner, finds its origins in Eric Schlosser's book and continues to explore the little-known history of the management and safety concerns of America's nuclear aresenal.“A devastatingly lucid and detailed new history of nuclear weapons in the U.S. Fascinating.” —Lev Grossman, TIME Magazine“Perilous and gripping . . . ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • What Every Person Should Know About War

    by Chris Hedges ...
    Acclaimed New York Times journalist and author Chris Hedges offers a critical -- and fascinating -- lesson in the dangerous realities of our age: a stark look at the effects of war on combatants. Utterly lacking in rhetoric or dogma, this manual relies instead on bare fact, frank description, and a spare question-and-answer format. Hedges allows U.S. military documentation of the brutalizing ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Tragedy of American Science

    From Truman to Trump

    by Clifford D. Conner ...
    A look at the destructive history of science-for-profit, including its toll on the US pandemic response, by the author of A People's History of Science.Despite a facade of brilliant technological advances, American science has led humanity to the brink of interrelated disasters. In The Tragedy of American Science, historian of science Clifford D. Conner describes the dual processes by which this ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • They Were Soldiers

    How the Wounded Return from America's Wars

    by Ann Jones ...
    Series series Dispatch Books
    "Unsparing, scathingly direct, and gut-wrenching . . . the war Washington doesn't want you to see" (Andrew J. Bacevich, New York Times–bestselling author of Washington Rules)This "uncompromisingly visceral" account ( Mother Jones) of what combat does to American soldiers comes from a veteran journalist who was embedded with troops in Afghanistan and reveals the harrowing journeys of the wounded, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Napalm

    An American Biography

    by Robert M. Neer ...
    Napalm was invented on Valentine’s Day 1942 at a secret Harvard war research laboratory. It created an inferno that killed over 87,500 people in Tokyo—more than died in the atomic explosions at Hiroshima or Nagasaki—and went on to incinerate 64 Japanese cities. The Bomb got the press, but napalm did the work. Robert Neer offers the first history. ... Read more

    $36.09 CAD

  • Shooting Up

    A Short History of Drugs and War

    by Lukasz Kamienski ...
    Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War examines how intoxicants have been put to the service of states, empires and their armies throughout history. Since the beginning of organized combat, armed forces have prescribed drugs to their members for two general purposes: to enhance performance during combat and to counter the trauma of killing and witnessing violence after it is over. ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Waiting for an Army to Die

    The Tragedy of Agent Orange

    by Fred A. Wilcox ...
    "I died in Vietnam, but I didn’t even know it," said a young Vietnam vet on the Today Show one morning in 1978, shocking viewers across the country. Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange—the first book ever written on the effects of Agent Orange—tells this young vet’s story and that of hundreds of thousands of other former American servicemen. During the war, the US sprayed an ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • A Few Good Women

    America's Military Women from World War I to the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

    by Evelyn Monahan, Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee ...
    In this riveting narrative history, women veterans from the world wars, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Afghanistan, and Iraq tell their extraordinary stories.Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee spent fifteen years combing through archives, journals, histories, and news reports, and gathering thousands of eyewitness accounts, letters, and interviews for this unprecedented chronicle of America’s ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Those Who Have Borne the Battle

    A History of America's Wars and Those Who Fought Them

    by James Wright ...
    At the heart of the story of America's wars are our "citizen soldiers" -- those hometown heroes who fought and sacrificed from Bunker Hill at Charlestown to Pointe du Hoc in Normandy, and beyond, without expectation of recognition or recompense. Americans like to think that the service of its citizen volunteers is, and always has been, of momentous importance in our politics and society. But ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD