Irwin R. Blacker

Irregulars, Partisans, Guerrillas (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1954, this is a collection of 32 stories from a variety of historic eras filled with missions against all odds."e;The stories in this collection are generally firsthand accounts by irregulars. The principles of selection were simple: Were they good stories-interesting, exciting and honest? And did they show fresh and different phases of guerrilla warfare? The weightier writings on irregular strategy and the politics of modern partisan warfare were omitted except for T. E. Lawrence's classic chapter on the former and Julian Amery's brilliant and brief analysis of the latter."e;I have tried briefly to set these stories in time and circumstance. As editor I have tried not to draw the fine lines between resistance which takes place in urban communities and guerrilla warfare which requires space for movement. I have tried not to belabor the differences between regulars as irregulars and the native guerrilla in the field. I have avoided the fine lines drawn between a guerrilla who attempts sabotage and the saboteur, the guerrilla who collects intelligence and the spy. In short, if too rigid a definition is observed, a fascinating and vital subject could be reduced to a dull and academic one. The irregular's objective is simply to destroy the enemy. This book attempts to tell of the many ways in which he has tried, and is still trying, to do so."e;-Irwin R. Blacker, Introduction

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lucknow Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787203266
• Artikelnr.: 47146187

Autorenporträt

Irwin R. Blacker (1919 - February 23, 1985) was an American author and screenwriter who taught some of Hollywood's most accomplished writers, directors and producers. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, where he spent most of his life there, he was drafted into the U.S. Army six months before Pearl Harbor and served for four years in various capacities in North Africa and Italy. He began his college education from scratch after the war and in less than two years graduated with the highest honors from Ohio University with a Bachelors in journalism. He received his M.A. in English and won a two-year doctoral fellowship from Western Reserve University, where he subsequently taught for two years prior to joining the faculty of Purdue University. In late 1950, his sphere of action shifted to Washington, D.C., when he entered Government service, which he left at the end of a year to become a full-time writer. He returned to teaching in the mid-1960's, this time at the University of Southern California, where he would count among his students many who would go on to illustrious Hollywood careers, including George Lucas, creator of the Star Wars movies. He retired in 1978. Blacker wrote 22 fiction and non-fiction books as well as screenplays for television shows such as Bonanza, Odyssey, and Conquest. Among his books was the novel Search and Destroy, which he co- produced for television. He died in 1985 at the age of 65.