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“…Health heroes.…”

“…Health heroes.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Hero-father -- Born with a silver spoon "slightly bent" -- A disappointment to his family -- Initiation: D-day -- Proving ground: the battle of Normandy -- Becoming an officer -- The Colmar pocket: winter heroism -- The dragon's teeth: assuming command -- "Discipline of kindness" -- Götterdämmerung: the battle for Germany -- Nuremberg and the Medal of Honor -- Escaping the "hero's cage" -- Epilogue: causes greater than self.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The pleasures of war -- The warrior myth -- Training men to kill -- Anatomy of a hero -- Love and hate -- War crimes -- The burden of guilt -- Medics and the military -- Priests and padres -- Women go to war -- Return to civilian life.…”

Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- Hero -- Harvard's genius -- Anonymous research no. 4 -- American kamikazes: suicide bomber bats -- We'll fight mercilessly -- The American century -- Soldier -- Freedom's furnace -- Vietnam syndrome -- Seeing is believing -- Indicted -- Pariah -- Baby burners -- Law catches fire -- The third protocol -- Judgment day -- The weapon that dare not speak its name -- Epilogue: the whole world is watching.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Stephen McVeigh and Nicola Cooper -- Continuing to serve: representations of the elderly veteran soldier in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Caroline Nielsen -- Veterans, disability, and society in the early United States / Daniel Blackie -- Confederate defeat and the construction of lost cause nostalgia / David Anderson -- Stoics: creating identities at St Dunstan's 1914-20 / Julie Anderson -- Not another hero: the Eastern and Associated Telegraph Companies' creation of the heroic company man / Wendy Gagen -- Italian disabled veterans between experience and representation / Maria Salvante -- The detective as veteran: recasting American hard-boiled writing as a literature of traumatic war experience / Sarah Trott -- "A fabulous potency": masculinity in Icelandic occupation literature / Daisy Neijmann -- Trauma in Bosnia: European film and the peacekeeper's dilemma / Ian Roberts -- Weapons of war: masculinity and sexual violence in Pat Barker's Double vision / Sophie Smith.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Historical overview through 1990 -- Rescinding the combat exclusion laws -- Citizenship rights, responsibilities, and women in ground combat -- Women are heroes, too -- Gender, sexuality, and harassment -- Balancing life in the military -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Shields -- Scars of war : alienation and estrangement among wounded Vietnam veterans / Loch Johnson -- The politicization of the "deer hunters" : pwoer and authortiy perspectives of the Vietnam veterans / Fred Milano -- When Johnny comes marching home : veterans' "benefits" in historic perspective / Dixon Wecter -- From war hero to criminal : the negative priviliege of the Vietnam veteran / Paul Camacho -- The hooked serviceman : drug use in and after Vietnam / M. …”

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Table of Contents: “…1963-1971 -- An economic hit man is born -- "In for life" -- Indonesia: lessons for an EHM -- Saving a country from communism -- Selling my soul -- 1971-1975 -- My role as inquisitor -- Civilization on trial -- Jesus, seen differently -- Opportunity of a lifetime -- Panama's president and hero -- Pirates in the Canal Zone -- Soldiers and prostitutes -- Conversations with the general -- Entering a new and sinister period in economic history -- The Saudi Arabian money-laundering affair -- Pimping, and financing Osama bin Laden -- 1975-1981 -- Panama Canal negotiations and Graham Greene -- Iran's king of kings -- Confessions of a tortured man -- The fall of a king -- Colombia: keystone of Latin America -- American republic versus global empire -- The deceptive résumé -- Ecuador's president battles big oil -- I quit -- 1981-present -- Ecuador's presidential death -- Panama: another presidential death -- My energy company, Enron, and George W. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Memorialization: Transitional justice / Fionnuala Ní Aoláin ; Truth commissions / Robin Kirk ; The cult of heroes / Anders Ahlbäck, Ville Kiivimäki, Tuomas Tepora ; Museums / Anna Reading, Anna Khlusova ; Self-writing / Carol Acton ; Visual literacy / Banu Karaca.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Lesbian vampires of Bavaria (1981-1985) : Thoughtcrimes ; Surrender Dorothy ; Railroading ; Doreen ; Lesbian vampires of Bavaria ; Straights ; In the midnight sky ; Heroes ; Exiles ; Blanket parties ; Costs ; HTLV-III ; Dykebusters ; Friends of Helga ; Where it all began -- Book 6. …”

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