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  • War is a Racket
    Smedley D. Butler
    A timeless exposé by Major General Smedley D. Butler, War is a Racket reveals how profit, not patriotism, drives conflict. Drawing on his military career, Butler condemns war’s corruptionand exploitation, warning citizens to recognize and resist the interests that sacrifice lives for financial gain. ...
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    12,36 €

  • War Is a Racket (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
    Smedley Darlington Butler
    Known as 'the Maverick Marine' and 'Fighting Hell-Devil,' Brigadier General Smedley Darlington was the most decorated U.S. Marine Corps officer in U.S. military history. Butler’s 1935 lecture 'War is a Racket' presents several key arguments against war and its profiteering nature. Among his points, Butler argues that wars are conducted for the benefit of a small group of inside...
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  • Guerra
    Augustine Jones / Irving Fisher / Mark Twain / Ralph Waldo Emerson / Randolph Bourne / Smedley Butler / Williams James
    ¿Es la guerra la suspensión de toda ética, o es posible y deseable que haya normas que la dignifiquen hasta donde eso es posible? ¿Hay algo valioso que podamos aprender del comportamiento humano en las peores circunstancias?Este volumen traslada a nuestra lengua algunos de los mejores ensayos breves jamás escritos sobre este tema. Casi todos se redactaron en la primera mitad de...
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    18,72 €

  • War is a Racket
    Smedley D. Butler
    2024 Reprint of the 1935 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition software.  Butler was a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his career military experience, Butler discusses how business interests commercially benefit from warfare. After Butler retired from the US M...
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    5,42 €

  • La guerra es una atrocidad
    Smedley D. Butler
    En 1933, Smedley D. Butler se vio envuelto en una intriga política conocida como el «Business Plot», cuando declaró ante un comité del Congreso que un grupo de empresarios ricos estaba planeando un golpe militar para derrocar al presidente Franklin D. Roosevelt, y que el propio Butler había sido seleccionado para liderar una marcha de veteranos que llevarían al poder al nuevo d...
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    15,60 €

  • War is a Racket
    Smedley Butler / Thomas Schueman
    Critics of war are often labeled treasonous lunatics.  Even those who are critical of the government are scrutinized and dragged through the mud.  Young men and women volunteer to fight wars on their nation’s behalf, and we should commend them for their actions, but we should question the steps to board ships and planes bound for foreign soil before their military service is re...
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    8,88 €

  • War Is A Racket
    Smedley D. Butler / Smedley DButler
    "War is a Racket" is marine general, Smedley Butler's classic treatise on why wars are conducted, who profits from them, and who pays the price. Few people are as qualified as General Butler to advance the argument encapsulated in his book's sensational title. When "War is a Racket" was first published in 1935, Butler was the most decorated American soldier of his time....
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    7,13 €

  • War Is A Racket; with The War Prayer and The Complaint of Peace
    Smedley D Butler
    Major General Smedley D Butler was a military hero of the first rank, the winner of two Medals of Honour, a true 'fighting marine' whose courage and patriotism could not be doubted. Yet he came to believe that the wars in which he and his men had fought and bled and died were all pre-planned conflicts, designed not so much to defend America as to bloat the balance sheet...
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    11,71 €

  • General Smedley Darlington Butler
    Ann Cipriano Venzon / Smedley D. Butler / Smedley DButler
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    94,89 €