The Battle of the Huertgen Forest

The Battle of the Huertgen Forest PDF Author: Charles B. MacDonald
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812218312
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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An account of the first setback suffered by the Allies following the invasion of Europe.

The Battle of the Huertgen Forest

The Battle of the Huertgen Forest PDF Author: Charles B. MacDonald
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812218312
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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An account of the first setback suffered by the Allies following the invasion of Europe.

The Battle Forest

The Battle Forest PDF Author: John Augustine Wilstach
Publisher:
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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The Battle of Hurtgen Forest

The Battle of Hurtgen Forest PDF Author: Charles Whiting
Publisher: Spellmount, Limited Publishers
ISBN: 9781862273962
Category : Hürtgen Forest, Battle of, Germany, 1944
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Battle of Hurtgen Forest

The Battle Forest

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Languages : en
Pages : 18

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The Bloody Forest

The Bloody Forest PDF Author: Gerald Astor
Publisher: Presidio Press
ISBN: 0307755231
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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The definitive account of one of World War II’s bloodiest campaigns—the five-month battle between American and German forces in the Huertgen Forest—told through the words of the men who were there. From the preface: “In the course of research and interviews while writing a series of books on World War II, I became increasingly aware of the campaign for the Huertgen Forest. While survivors of other battles sometimes criticized the strategy and the orders they were given, there was a depth of anger about the Huertgen that surpassed anything I had encountered elsewhere. The unhappiness with what occurred and the absence of much objective coverage in the memoirs of those in the top command slots convinced me to produce this history. As I have reiterated in all of my books, which rely heavily on oral or eyewitness reports, there are always the dangers of flawed memory, limited vantage points, and the possibility of self-interest in such accounts. But the almost universal condemnation of their superiors’ critical decisions by individuals who were under fire in that ‘green hell’ offers a cautionary note on the accuracy and the truths of histories that draw from the official documents and the personal papers of the likes of Dwight Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, Courtney Hodges (who apparently left little in the way of records), J. Lawton Collins and others in similar positions. . . . Each new war differs from that of the past, but to ignore what happened in the Huertgen enhances the possibilities for another bitter victory, if not a defeat.”

Hell Itself

Hell Itself PDF Author: Chris Mackowski
Publisher: Savas Beatie
ISBN: 1611213169
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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A Civil War historian recounts the first battle between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee—a bloody and horrifying conflict in the Wilderness of Virginia. Known simply as the Wilderness, soldiers called the seventy square miles of dense Virginian forest one of the “waste places of nature” and “a region of gloom.” Yet here, in the spring of 1864, the Civil War escalated to a new level of horror. Ulysses S. Grant, commanding all Federal armies, opened the Overland Campaign with a vow to never turn back. Robert E. Lee, commanding the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, moved into the Wilderness to block Grant’s advance. Thick underbrush made for difficult movement and low visibility. And these challenges were terrifyingly compounded by the outbreak of fires that burned casualties and left both sided blinded in a sea of smoke. Driven by desperation, duty, confusion, and fire, soldiers on both sides marveled that anyone might make it out alive. “This, viewed as a battleground, was simply infernal,” a Union soldier later said. Another called it “Hell itself.”

The Final Forest

The Final Forest PDF Author: William Dietrich
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295802251
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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2011 Outstanding Title, University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award Before Forks, a small town on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, became famous as the location for Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight book series, it was the self-proclaimed “Logging Capital of the World” and ground zero in a regional conflict over the fate of old-growth forests. Since Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist William Dietrich first published The Final Forest in 1992, logging in Forks has given way to tourism, but even with its new fame, Forks is still a home to loggers and others who make their living from the surrounding forests. The new edition recounts how forest policy and practices have changed since the early 1990s and also tells us what has happened in Forks and where the actors who were so important to the timber wars are now. For more information on the author to to: http://williamdietrich.com/

Give Me Back My Legions!

Give Me Back My Legions! PDF Author: Harry Turtledove
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1429967080
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Bestselling author Harry Turtledove turns his attention to an epic battle that pits three Roman legions against Teutonic barbarians in a thrilling novel of Ancient Rome: Give Me Back My Legions! Publius Quinctilius Varus, a Roman politician, is summoned by the Emperor, Augustus Caesar. Given three legions and sent to the Roman frontier east of the Rhine, his mission is to subdue the barbarous German tribes where others have failed, and bring their land fully under Rome's control. Arminius, a prince of the Cherusci, is playing a deadly game. He serves in the Roman army, gaining Roman citizenship and officer's rank, and learning the arts of war and policy as practiced by the Romans. What he learns is essential for the survival of Germany, for he must unite his people against Rome before they become enslaved by the Empire and lose their way of life forever. An epic battle is brewing, and these two men stand on opposite sides of what will forever be known as The Battle of the Teutoberg Forest—a ferocious, bloody clash that will change the course of history.

Fight for the Forests

Fight for the Forests PDF Author: PAUL. BENSEMANN
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780947503130
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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The remarkable and inspring story of how New Zealand's native forests were saved between 1960 and 2000. The greatest success stories of the modern environmental movement in New Zealand were the public campaigns to save our native forests, beginning in the 1960s with the battle to stop Lake Manapouri being drowned. By 2000, all the significant lowland forest in South Westland had become part of a World Heritage Area, the beech forests of the West Coast had largely been protected, Paparoa National Park had been established, the magnificent podocarp forests of Pureora and Whirinaki in the central North Island had been saved from the chainsaw, and many other smaller areas of forest had been included into the conservation estate. Fight for the Forest tells this remarkable story, how a group of young activists became aware of government plans to mill vast areas of West Coast beech forest, and began campaigning to halt this. From small beginnings, a much larger movement grew, mainly centred around the work of the Native Forests Action Council, whose young, committed and extremely capable conservationists tapped into huge public support and changed the course of environmental history in this country. Mainly based on interviews with key players, author Paul Bensemann has recorded a largely untold but significant and inspiring history, one that reminds us that change for good is always possible.

Bighorn National Forest (N.F.), Livestock Grazing on the Battle Park C&H and Mistymoon S&G Allotments

Bighorn National Forest (N.F.), Livestock Grazing on the Battle Park C&H and Mistymoon S&G Allotments PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 182

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