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Chapters: Norman Bethune, Albert Levy, W. A. Kardash. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 25. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Henry Norman Bethune (March 3, 1890 November 12, 1939; Chinese name: ; pinyin: Bái Qiún) was a Canadian physician and medical innovator. Bethune is best known for his service in war time medical units during the Spanish Civil War and with the People's Liberation Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. He developed the first mobile blood-transfusion service in Spain in 1936. A Communist, he wrote that wars were motivated by profits, not principles. Norman Bethune's birth place, now Bethune Memorial HouseDr. Norman Bethune came from a prominent Scottish Canadian family. His great great grandfather, the Reverend John Bethune (17511815), was the family patriarch and established the first Presbyterian Church in Montreal. Norman Bethunes great grandfather, Angus Bethune (17831858), joined the North West Company at an early age and traveled extensively throughout the north western territories, exploring and trading for furs. He eventually reached the Pacific at Fort Astoria, Oregon. He became chief factor of the Lake Huron district for the Hudson's Bay Company after the merger of the rival companies. Upon retirement from the HBC in 1839 he successfully ran for Alderman of Toronto City Council. Normans grandfather, also named Norman (182292), was educated as a doctor at King's College, University of Toronto, and in London, England at Guy's Hospital, graduating in 1848 as a member of the Royal College of Physicians. Upon his return to Canada, he became one of the founders of the Upper Canada School of Medicine, which was incorporated into Trinity College, Toronto and eventually the University of Toronto. Normans father, the Rev. Malcolm Nicolson Bethune, led an uneven...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=89452 ... Read more

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Title: Rough terrain for refugees: when people flee civil war and drought, the environment is often a casualty.(CURRENTS)(World Refugee Day)
Author: Rachel Anderson
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Date: July 1, 2007
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Chapters: Thomas Nast, Walt Whitman, Frederick Law Olmsted, Joseph Medill, Henry Ward Beecher, John Mitchel, Julius Erasmus Hilgard, Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, Arthur Fremantle, List of People Associated With the American Civil War, Victor Gustav Bloede, Military Leadership in the American Civil War, Alexander Gardner, Charles Heidsieck, John B. Bachelder, George Henry Boker, Frank Bellew, Samuel C. Upham, Agnes Salm-Salm, Dennis Hart Mahan, Edward Chalmers Leavitt, Charles Tillinghast James, James Forney, John Kennedy, Alfred Waud, Cornelius Stribling, Wilmer Mclean, Henry Clay Work, Frank Leslie, Appleton Oaksmith, William Hutchinson Norris, John Alexis Edgren, John Merryman, Pinkerston R. Vaughn, William Waud, Thomas Marshall Howe, Newton Knight, Jonas R. Mcclintock, Claudio S. Grafulla, Welty Mccullogh, Joel Cook, Jack Hinson, Charles Pickard Ware, Edward C. Delevan, William Frederick Milton Arny, E. C. Singer, James W. Jackson, Walter Kittredge, Robert King Stone. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 269. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Mitchel (Irish: ; 3 November 1815 20 March 1875) was an Irish nationalist activist, solicitor and political journalist. Born in Camnish, near Dungiven, County Londonderry, Ireland he became a leading Member of both Young Ireland and the Irish Confederation. He also became a public voice for the Southern American viewpoint in the United States in the 1850s and 1860s before ending up elected to the British House of Commons, only to be disqualified because he was a convicted felon. His Jail Journal is one of Irish nationalism's most famous texts. John Mitchel's father also John, was educated mainly at the University of Glasgow, he entered the ministry early as a Presbyterian clergyman. William Dillon, Mitchel's biographer tells that "about the year 18...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=167029 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Diego Portales, José Joaquín Prieto, Ramón Freire, José Miguel Infante, Francisco Antonio Pinto, Francisco Ramón Vicuña, Juan Gregorio de Las Heras, José Tomás Ovalle, José Francisco Gana, Francisco de La Lastra, Juan Francisco Meneses, Francisco Ruiz-Tagle, Fernando Errázuriz, José Santiago Muñoz, Joaquín Vicuña. Excerpt:Diego Portales Diego José Pedro Víctor Portales Palazuelos (June 16, 1793 - June 6, 1837) was a Chilean minister , statesman, and entrepreneur . He was of Basque descent. Early life Diego Portales was born in Santiago , the son of María Fernández Palazuelos and José Santiago Portales Larraín, a superintendent of the royal mint. He did his primary studies at the Colegio de Santiago, and in 1813, attended law classes at the National Institute. As the men of his family had all become successful merchants, Portales also eventually assumed the position of a merchant, taking part in his prosperous and distinguished family s occupation. On August 15, 1819 he married his cousin, Josefa Portales Larraín. He had two daughters with her, both of whom died within days of their birth. His wife died also very soon in 1821. He never remarried after that, but took Constanza Nordenflicht as his mistress, with whom he had three children. In July 1821, he resigned his job at the Mint and went into business. He opened a trading house, Portales, Cea and Co. , based in Valparaiso with a branch in Lima , Peru. He bid and obtained the management of the government monopoly on tobacco, tea, and liquor (known in Spanish as estanco ). In exchange for the monopoly, he offered to service the full amount of the Chilean foreign debt. Nonetheless, in the anarchy that was regnant in Chile at the time, there was no means of enforcing a monopoly because the government could not regulate sales of... ... Read more

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Chapters: Franz Borkenau, Julius Deutsch. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Franz Borkenau (December 15, 1900 May 22, 1957) was an Austrian writer. Borkenau was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of a civil servant. As a university student in Leipzig, his main interests were Marxism and psychoanalysis. Borkenau is known as one of the pioneers of the totalitarianism theory. In 1921, Borkenau joined the Communist Party of Germany and was active as a Comintern agent until 1929. After graduating from the University of Leipzig in 1924, Borkenau moved to Berlin. In the 1920s, Borkenau was described by Richard Löwenthal as a "sincere Marxist" who very much wanted a world revolution. At the end of 1929, Borkenau resigned from both the Comintern and the KPD owing to his personal repulsion and disgust over the way the Communists operated, combined with an increasing horror over Stalinism. Despite his break with Communism, Borkenau remained on the Left and worked as a researcher for the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany. During his time at the Frankfurt Institute, Borkenau was a protégé of Carl Grünberg and his main interest was the relationship between capitalism and ideology. In 1933, the half-Jewish Borkenau fled from Germany and lived at various times in Vienna, Paris and Panama City. In the 1930s, Borkenau was involved in organizing support from abroad for the Neu Beginnen (New Beginnings) underground group, which was working for the overthrow of the Nazi regime. In a series of articles published in 1933-34 in the left-wing German language émigré press, Borkenau defended the Neu Beginnen group as the superior alternative to both the SPD and the KPD. In his 1936 biography of the Italian sociologist Vilfredo Pareto, Borkenau offered up a...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6140353 ... Read more

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Chapters: César Vallejo, Pablo Neruda, Spanish Maquis, Wifredo Lam, Surviving Veterans of the Spanish Civil War, Chiang Wei-Kuo, Mulk Raj Anand, Ezekias Papaioannou, Todor Angelov, Fernando Gerassi, Alberto Bayo, Jewish Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, Miklós Steinmetz, List of People of the Spanish Civil War. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 88. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904 September 23, 1973) was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean writer and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. With his works translated into many languages, Pablo Neruda is considered one of the greatest and most influential poets of the 20th century. He chose his pen name in honour of the famous Czech poet Jan Neruda. Neruda was accomplished in a variety of styles ranging from erotically charged love poems like his collection Twenty Poems of Love and a Song of Despair, surrealist poems, historical epics, and overtly political manifestos. In 1971 Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez once called him "the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language." On July 15, 1945, at Pacaembu Stadium in São Paulo, Brazil, he read to 100,000 people in honor of Communist revolutionary leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During his lifetime, Neruda occupied many diplomatic posts and served a stint as a senator for the Chilean Communist Party. When Conservative Chilean President González Videla outlawed communism in Chile in 1948, a warrant was issued for Neruda's arrest. Friends hid him for months in a house basement in the Chilean port of Valparaíso. Later, Neruda escaped into exile through a mountain pass near Maihue Lake into Argentina. Years later, Neruda was a close collaborator to socialist President Salvador Allende. When...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7673195 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by The Register Guard on January 8, 2003. The length of the article is 1100 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Historian helps people research Civil War ties.(General News)(Genealogy: Clay Feeter will appear at Books on Main in Cottage Grove today.)
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Emma Goldman, Nikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov, Rodion Malinovsky, Alexander Orlov, Ilya Ehrenburg, Timofey Khryukin, Iosif Grigulevich, Sergey Gritsevets, Alexander Rodimtsev, George Sossenko, Yakov Smushkevich, Aleksandr Sergeyevich Senatorov, Ilya Starinov. Excerpt:Aleksandr Sergeyevich Senatorov (8 October 1912 24 January 1993) was a commander in the Soviet armed forces. He was born in the village of Vyshelej in the Penzanskaya Oblast into a working class family. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1938 onwards. Senatorov trained at the Penza Aviation School of the Civil Air Fleet. He entered the Soviet Army in 1930 and graduated from the Odessa Military Aviation School in 1932. He participated in the Spanish Civil War from 1936-39, assisting the Republican government. As the commander of a detachment of a fast bomber squadron he bombed military targets deep in the rear of enemy lines. He personally led a group of bombers to the northern front, which landed without incident at a destroyed airfield. He completed 100 combat sorties. He was elevated to the status of a Hero of the Soviet Union on 14 Mar 1938. He graduated from the General Staff Academy s advanced course for command personnel in 1939. During World War II he was a Major-General of Aviation and commanded the air force of an army and then was the deputy commander of the air forces of a front. He graduated from the General Staff Academy in 1948 and retired in 1963 as a Lieutenant-General and lived in Moscow until his death. The decorations he was awarded included two Orders of Lenin , two Orders of the Red Banner, the Order of Bogdan Khmel nitskij, 1st Class, the Order of Suvorov , 2nd Class, the Order of the Great Patriotic War , 1st Class, two Orders of the Red Star, the Order of ... ... Read more

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Chapters: George Orwell, W. H. Auden, Arthur Koestler, Stephen Spender, Nancy Cunard, James Robertson Justice, Alfred Sherman, Fred Copeman, Tom Wintringham, Hugh Pollard, Fenner Brockway, Baron Brockway, Jack Jones, Esmond Romilly, Cecil Bebb, Lou Kenton, Andrew Fountaine, Laurie Lee, Stephen Fullarton, James Maley, Geoffrey Cox, George Nathan, Ethel Macdonald, Giles Romilly, Christopher Caudwell, Ralph Bates, Eileen O'shaughnessy, Henry Kelly, David Crook, Peter Kerrigan, Hugh Slater, John Cornford, Brian Howard, George Watters, Lewis Clive, Ralph Winston Fox, John Peet, Julian Bell, Jock Cunningham, David Guest, Paul Hogarth, Will Paynter, Jason Gurney, Clive Branson, Alex Mcdade. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 233. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. His work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound awareness of social injustice, an intense, revolutionary opposition to totalitarianism, a passion for clarity in language and a belief in democratic socialism. Considered perhaps the 20th century's best chronicler of English culture, as well as fiction and polemical journalism, Orwell wrote literary criticism and poetry. He is best known for the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and the satirical novella Animal Farm (1945). His Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences as a volunteer on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, and his numerous essays are also widely acclaimed. Orwell's influence on culture, popular and political, continues. Several of his neologisms, along with the term Orwellian, now a byword for any draconian or manipulative social phenomenon or concept inimical to a free society, have entered th...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=11891 ... Read more

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Chapters: Koča Popović, Žikica Jovanović Španac, Marko Orešković, Peko Dapčević, Veljko Vlahović, Vladimir Ćopić, Milan Copic. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Konstantin "Koa" Popovi ( ) (14 March 1908 - 20 October 1992) was a communist volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, 1937-1939 and Divisional Commander of the First Proletarian Division in Josip Broz Tito's Partisan army. Sometimes he was known as "the man who saved YPA" because he broke trough the German lines during the crucial Battle of Sutjeska and saved Tito and Yugoslav People's Army. Popovi came from a prosperous Belgrade family and at university studied philosophy. After university he moved to Paris where he mixed with the Left Bank world of poets, writers, artists and intellectuals. From this youthful indulgence he moved to involvement with the then illegal Yugoslav Communist Party. In Paris there was a center run by Comintern and headed by Tito which was used to feed volunteers from the Balkans to the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. Popovi was drafted through this center along with a select group of Party members. Popovi fought with Spanish Republican forces and not the International Brigades, holding the rank of artillery captain. At the close of the Spanish Civil War Popovi escaped through France and made his way back to Yugoslavia. In 1940, as a reserve officer in the Royal Yugoslav Army he was mobilised and told by his Colonel to watch out for subversive activities within the regiment. After the surrender of the Royal Yugoslav Army to the German Army in April 1941, Popovi organised the Kosmaj detachment during the rising in Serbia. On the formation of the first Proletarian Brigade, Popovi became its commander, and subsequently commanding the First Proletarian Division. During ...http://booksllc.net/?id=1681907 ... Read more

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Chapters: People of the Chilean Civil War of 1829, Diego Portales, José Joaquín Prieto, Ramón Freire, José Miguel Infante, Francisco Antonio Pinto, Francisco Ramón Vicuña, Juan Gregorio de Las Heras, José Tomás Ovalle, José Francisco Gana, Francisco de La Lastra, Juan Francisco Meneses, Francisco Ruiz-Tagle, Fernando Errázuriz, Government Junta of Chile, José Santiago Muñoz, Chilean Presidential Election, 1829, Joaquín Vicuña. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 73. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Diego José Pedro Víctor Portales Palazuelos (June 16, 1793 - June 6, 1837) was a Chilean minister, statesman, and entrepreneur. He was of Basque descent. Diego Portales was born in Santiago, the son of María Fernández de Palazuelos and José Santiago Portales y Larraín, a superintendent of the royal mint. He did his primary studies at the Colegio de Santiago, and in 1813, attended law classes at the National Institute. As the men of his family had all become successful merchants, Portales also eventually assumed the position of a merchant, taking part in his prosperous and distinguished familys occupation. On August 15, 1819 he married his cousin, Josefa Portales Larraín. He had two daughters with her, both of whom died within days of their birth. His wife died also very soon in 1821. He never remarried after that, but took Constanza Nordenflicht as his mistress, with whom he had three children. In July 1821, he resigned his job at the Mint and went into business. He opened a trading house, Portales, Cea and Co., based in Valparaiso with a branch in Lima, Peru. He bid and obtained the management of the government monopoly on tobacco, tea, and liquor (known in Spanish as estanco). In exchange for the monopoly, he offered to service the full amount of the Chilean foreign debt. Nonetheless, in...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1267168 ... Read more

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Title: A People's History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom.(Book review)
Author: Daniel E. Sutherland
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2007
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