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Smedley Darlington Butler

War Is a Racket

The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier

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US Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler collected an award cabinet full of medals for his battlefield bravery. But perhaps his bravest act of all was to declare, after his retirement in the early 1930s, who was really winning (and losing) during the bloody clashes.It was business interests, he revealed, who commercially benefited from warfare. War Is a Racket is the title of the influential speech Butler delivered on a tour across the United States, as well the expanded version of the talk that was later published in 1935-and is now reprinted here. This seminal piece of writing rings as true today as it did during Butler's lifetime.In hi… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-5107-0428-2
  • EAN: 9781510704282
  • Produktnummer: 22303872
  • Verlag: Simon + Schuster Inc.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 232 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 22'704 KB

Über den Autor


Smedley Darlington Butler was a major general in the US Marine Corps and at the time of his death was the most decorated marine in US history. He was the only person ever to be awarded the Brevet Medal and two Medals of Honor.Jesse Ventura is a former Independent governor of Minnesota, US Navy SEAL, professional wrestler, movie actor, New York Times bestselling author, and visiting fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.David Talbot is the founder of Salon.com and author of history books Devil Dog (on Smedley Butler), Brothers, Season of the Witch, and The Devil's Chessboard. He lives in San Francisco, California.Cindy Sheehan is an author and activist, and the mother of Spc. Casey A. Sheehan, KIA in Iraq, April 4, 2004.Visit her at www.cindysheehanssoapbox.com.

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