Author: American Battle Monuments Commission
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Category : National cemeteries, American
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial
Author: American Battle Monuments Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : National cemeteries, American
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : National cemeteries, American
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial
Author: American Battle Monuments Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : National cemeteries, American
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : National cemeteries, American
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
American Battle Monuments Commission. Federal Communications Commission. Renegotiation Board. Securities and Exchange Commission. U.S. Army Memorial Affairs Agency
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on HUD-Space-Science-Veterans
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
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Annual Report of the American Battle Monuments Commission to the President of the United States
Author: American Battle Monuments Commission
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ISBN:
Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Publisher:
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Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Writing to Save a Life
Author: John Edgar Wideman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501147285
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
An award-winning writer traces the life of the father of iconic Civil Rights martyr Emmett Till--a man who was executed by the Army ten years before Emmett's murder. An evocative and personal exploration of individual and collective memory in America by one of the most formidable Black intellectuals of our time. In 1955, Emmett Till, aged fourteen, traveled from his home in Chicago to visit family in Mississippi. Several weeks later he returned, dead; allegedly he whistled at a white woman. His mother, Mamie, wanted the world to see what had been done to her son. She chose to leave his casket open. Images of her brutalized boy were published widely. While Emmett's story is known, there's a dark side note that's rarely mentioned. Ten years earlier, Emmett's father was executed by the Army for rape and murder. In Writing to Save a Life, John Edgar Wideman searches for Louis Till, a silent victim of American injustice. Wideman's personal interaction with the story began when he learned of Emmett's murder in 1955; Wideman was also fourteen years old. After reading decades later about Louis's execution, he couldn't escape the twin tragedies of father and son, and tells their stories together for the first time. Author of the award-winning Brothers and Keepers, Wideman brings extraordinary insight and a haunting intimacy to this devastating story. An amalgam of research, memoir, and imagination, Writing to Save a Life is completely original in its delivery--an engaging and enlightening conversation between generations, the living and the dead, fathers and sons. Wideman turns seventy-five this year, and he brings the force of his substantial intellect and experience to this beautiful, stirring book, his first nonfiction in fifteen years.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501147285
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
An award-winning writer traces the life of the father of iconic Civil Rights martyr Emmett Till--a man who was executed by the Army ten years before Emmett's murder. An evocative and personal exploration of individual and collective memory in America by one of the most formidable Black intellectuals of our time. In 1955, Emmett Till, aged fourteen, traveled from his home in Chicago to visit family in Mississippi. Several weeks later he returned, dead; allegedly he whistled at a white woman. His mother, Mamie, wanted the world to see what had been done to her son. She chose to leave his casket open. Images of her brutalized boy were published widely. While Emmett's story is known, there's a dark side note that's rarely mentioned. Ten years earlier, Emmett's father was executed by the Army for rape and murder. In Writing to Save a Life, John Edgar Wideman searches for Louis Till, a silent victim of American injustice. Wideman's personal interaction with the story began when he learned of Emmett's murder in 1955; Wideman was also fourteen years old. After reading decades later about Louis's execution, he couldn't escape the twin tragedies of father and son, and tells their stories together for the first time. Author of the award-winning Brothers and Keepers, Wideman brings extraordinary insight and a haunting intimacy to this devastating story. An amalgam of research, memoir, and imagination, Writing to Save a Life is completely original in its delivery--an engaging and enlightening conversation between generations, the living and the dead, fathers and sons. Wideman turns seventy-five this year, and he brings the force of his substantial intellect and experience to this beautiful, stirring book, his first nonfiction in fifteen years.
War and Remembrance
Author: Thomas H. Conner
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813176336
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
"No soldier could ask for a sweeter resting place than on the field of glory where he fell. The land he died to save vies with the one which gave him birth in paying tribute to his memory, and the kindly hands which so often come to spread flowers upon his earthly coverlet express in their gentle task a personal affection."—General John J. Pershing To remember and honor the memory of the American soldiers who fought and died in foreign wars during the past hundred years, the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) was established. Since the agency was founded in 1923, its sole purpose has been to commemorate the soldiers' service and the causes for which their lives were given. The twenty-five overseas cemeteries honoring 139,000 combat dead and the memorials honoring the 60,314 fallen soldiers with no known graves are among the most beautiful and meticulously maintained shrines in the world. In the first comprehensive study of the ABMC, Thomas H. Conner traces how the agency came to be created by Congress in the aftermath of World War I, how the cemeteries and monuments the agency built were designed and their locations chosen, and how the commemorative sites have become important "outposts of remembrance" on foreign soil. War and Remembrance powerfully demonstrates that these monuments—living sites that embody the role Americans played in the defense of freedom far from their own shores—assist in understanding the interconnections of memory and history and serve as an inspiration to later generations.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813176336
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
"No soldier could ask for a sweeter resting place than on the field of glory where he fell. The land he died to save vies with the one which gave him birth in paying tribute to his memory, and the kindly hands which so often come to spread flowers upon his earthly coverlet express in their gentle task a personal affection."—General John J. Pershing To remember and honor the memory of the American soldiers who fought and died in foreign wars during the past hundred years, the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) was established. Since the agency was founded in 1923, its sole purpose has been to commemorate the soldiers' service and the causes for which their lives were given. The twenty-five overseas cemeteries honoring 139,000 combat dead and the memorials honoring the 60,314 fallen soldiers with no known graves are among the most beautiful and meticulously maintained shrines in the world. In the first comprehensive study of the ABMC, Thomas H. Conner traces how the agency came to be created by Congress in the aftermath of World War I, how the cemeteries and monuments the agency built were designed and their locations chosen, and how the commemorative sites have become important "outposts of remembrance" on foreign soil. War and Remembrance powerfully demonstrates that these monuments—living sites that embody the role Americans played in the defense of freedom far from their own shores—assist in understanding the interconnections of memory and history and serve as an inspiration to later generations.
The Fifth Field
Author: French L. MacLean
Publisher: Schiffer Military History
ISBN: 9780764345777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The Fifth Field reveals one of the final secrets of the war: how 96 American soldiers in Europe and North Africa were tried by American General Courts-Martial, convicted by military juries, sentenced to death, executed and buried in an obscure, secret plot at an American military cemetery in France"--Author's website.
Publisher: Schiffer Military History
ISBN: 9780764345777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The Fifth Field reveals one of the final secrets of the war: how 96 American soldiers in Europe and North Africa were tried by American General Courts-Martial, convicted by military juries, sentenced to death, executed and buried in an obscure, secret plot at an American military cemetery in France"--Author's website.
Annual Report of the American Battle Monuments Commission, Fiscal Year 1978
Author: American Battle Monuments Commission
Publisher:
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Category : War memorials
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : War memorials
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Annual Report of the American Battle Monuments Commission, Fiscal Year ...
Author: American Battle Monuments Commission
Publisher:
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Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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American Battle Monuments Commission
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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