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The Fog of War: Large-Scale Smoke Screening Operations of First Canadian Army in Northwest Europe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Smoke screens have been employed in sea and land warfare for many centuries for a variety of purposes. They have been used to conceal troop movements, to deceive the enemy as to combat strengths, point of attack, and preparations for offensive operations.
Bond, James C.
core   +1 more source

Wrestling Voices: Amplifying Patriotism and Ethnic Stereotypes in 1980s American Professional Wrestling

open access: yesThe Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the use of promotional interviews (“promos”) in American professional wrestling of the 1980s. I argue that promos introduced a vocal modality into a form of sports entertainment that, as Roland Barthes ([1957] 1972) showed in Mythologies, had always been dominated by visual spectacle. I then undertake a focused linguistic
Jens Kjeldgaard‐Christiansen
wiley   +1 more source

The Kelly Gang reborn: The first Australian mounted unit to see active service in the Second World War [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
In the pre-dawn chill the sentries shifted in their positions and stared at the rocky hills and mountains beyond their position. The camp stirred to the familiar smell of horse feed and the jingle of a bridle as the men, adorned in their distinctive ...
Dean, Peter J
core   +1 more source

‘It's Like a Horror Movie That You Walk Through’: Experiencing Horror Through Immersive Recreation

open access: yesThe Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Horror stories have provided enjoyable forms of leisure for centuries. Over the past five decades, however, these experiences have evolved into increasingly immersive forms of popular culture. What once involved constructing the narrative world internally through reading has expanded into sensory engagement through visual and auditory media ...
Susan Weidmann
wiley   +1 more source

Counter-Mortar Operational Research in the 21 Army Group [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The campaign in Northwest Europe has been the subject of thousands of books and articles, including a number based on careful documentary research. But even the best accounts pay insufficient attention to the German weapons systems that inflicted the ...
Copp, Terry
core   +1 more source

The Epistemic Harms of Botched Apologies for Past Wrongs

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Apologies often create expectations of meaningful change and repair. Yet when institutions or states deliver apologies for past wrongs that lack substantive reparative action, they risk deepening, rather than redressing, the harms they acknowledge.
Abraham Tobi
wiley   +1 more source

From Hopeful Heroes to Cynical Martyrs: Identity Work and the Path‐Dependent Identification with Maladaptive Logics

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Scholars have long attended to both the persistence and change of institutional logic–identity constellations, but we know less about why and how organizational members might cling to a logic despite its evident maladaptive character and the resulting emotional upheaval.
Lindie Botha, Ralph Hamann
wiley   +1 more source

Military TBI-What civilian primary care providers should know. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Family Med Prim Care, 2021
Lindberg MA   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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