Soldiers, commissars, and chaplains : civil-military relations since Cromwell by Herspring, Dale R. (Dale Roy)

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The Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 by Alpert, Michael, 1936-

Table of Contents: “…The experience of individuals -- 8. The political commissars -- 9. The communists, the anarchists and the Republican army -- 10. …”


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PAVN : People's Army of Vietnam by Pike, Douglas, 1924-2002

Table of Contents: “…The Prussians of Asia -- The early years -- Postwar PAVN -- The high command structure -- Paramilitary forces -- Party within PAVN -- The political commissar -- Leadership -- Why the communists won: Armed Dau Tranh -- Why the communists won: Political Dau Tranh -- Postwar strategic thinking -- PAVN and society -- The Vietnamese veteran -- PAVN and the future -- Appendix A: Glossary of Vietnamese communist military terms -- Appendix B: PAVN general officer roster with brief biographical sketches -- Appendix C: Biographies of senior generals.…”


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Red dust : autobiographies of Chinese Communists by Wales, Nym, 1907-1997

Table of Contents: “…Teachers and students: Liao Ch'eng-Chih, second-generation revolutionary ; Tung Pi-Wu, communist scholar ; Hsu T'e-Li, patriarch ; Hsieh Chueh-Tsai, minister of the interior ;Wu Liang-Ping, propaganda chief ; Hsu Meng-chiu, historian of the long march ; WangShou-Tao, political commissar. -- Part two. Recruits from industry: Tsai Shu-Fan, Hanyehp'ing miner ; Wang Cheng, railroad worker ; Teng Feng, chief of the secret police. -- Part three. …”


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The last girl scout by Ironside, Natalie

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Xinjiang and the expansion of Chinese Communist power : Kashgar in the early twentieth century by Dillon, Michael, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Silk Road city in the land of mountain and desert -- Kashgar and the Chinese Republic, 1911-1949 -- Kashgar and the Eastern Turkestan Islamic Republic -- Illustrations from the Hook Collection -- The view from Chinibagh 1: Britain's Consulate-General in Kashgar and Xinjiang under Governor Jin Shuren -- The view from Chinibagh 2: the Consulate-General and the 1933-4 revolt in southern Xinjiang -- Communist activists in the Kashgar region during the 1930s and 1940s -- Border security and the battle against the British and smugglers: Hu Dong in Tashkurgan -- Tax and currency reform in Kashgar -- Illustrations from the Hook Collection -- Education and running a county: Li Yunyang in Kashgar and Maralbashi (Bachu) -- Educating girls and working with women: Wu Naijun in Kashgar and Maralbashi -- Kashgar newspaperman: Wang Mo and Xinjiang Daily -- Honest and public-spirited official: Xu Liang -- Political commissar on the frontier: Zhou Chunlin -- Abudukerimhan Mehsum -- Entry of the PLA into Kashgar and the "peaceful liberation" of Xinjiang -- Liberating Khotan: Bai Chushi in southern Xinjiang -- Colonising Kashgar in the name of the people.…”


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Civil-military relations in today's China : swimming in a new sea

Table of Contents: “…Social trends in China : implications for the Pople's Liberation Army / Tony Saich -- The impact of social changes on the PLA : a Chinese military perspective / Xiaobing Li -- The new military elite : generational profile and contradictory trends / Cheng Li -- The fourth-generation leaders and the new military elite / Yu bin -- The PLA and the provinces : military district and local issues / Zhiyue Bo -- The political implications of PLA professionalism / Lyman Miller -- Unravelling the myths about political commissars / You Ji -- Searching for a twenty-first-century officer corps / Thomas J. …”


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The chairman : John J. McCloy, the making of the American establishment by Bird, Kai

Table of Contents: “…Imps of Satan ; Internment of the Japanese Americans ; Political commissar ; McCloy and the Holocaust ; Victory in Europe ; Hiroshima -- Book III: Wall Street, the World Bank, and Germany. …”


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Blood of Spain : an oral history of the Spanish Civil War by Fraser, Ronald, 1930-2012

Table of Contents: “…-JS U. education militiaman ; Madrid : revolution ; Episodes 5: In hiding ; Episodes 6: Liberation ; Episodes 7: Escape -- Spring 1937: Women and the counter-revolution ; A new state, a new life ; Militancies 10: Falangist leader ; One fatherland, one state, one Caudillo ; War and revolution, revolution and war ; Anarcho-syndicalist rural collectivization : Aragon ; Militancies 11: C.N.T. column leader ; Arnacho-syndicalist rural collectivization : Aragon ; Barcelona : civil war withing the war ; The republican state in control ; Militancies 12: P.O.U.M. leader ; The republican state in control -- Summer to Autumn 1937: The fall of Vizcaya ; Militancies 13: P.N.V. engineer ; The Basque army's surrender ; Militancies 14: C.E.D.A. lawyer ; The church ; Militancies 15: Madrid priest ; Asturias : end of the war in the north ; Episodes 8: Fugitives ; Episodes 9: Silences ; Episodes 10: Evacuees -- Winter 1937 to Summer 1938: Teruel ; Barcelona : Italian air raids ; Militancies 16: Liega Catalana lawyer ; Barcelona : the petty bourgeoisie withdraws ; Episodes 11: Imbroglios ; Barcelona : rearguard ; Madrid : life under siege ; Militancies 17: Socialist commissar-inspector ; Episodes 12: Crossing the lines ; Episodes 13: Execution ; Founding the national-syndicalist state ; Episodes 14: Survivor ; Episodes 15: Death-watch -- Winter 1938 to Spring 1939: Republican defeat on the Ebro ; The fall of Catalonia ; Madrid : civil war within the war ; Militancies 18: Socialist youth political commissar ; Madrid : surrender ; Alicante : victory ; Vae Victis! …”


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Bai Lianhua

白莲花

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The Third Reich sourcebook

Table of Contents: “…Guidelines for the treatment of political commissars (1941) --…”


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Chinese civil-military relations : the transformation of the People's Liberation Army

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