Author: William Marvel
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547428065
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
A critical look at the the fourth year of Lincoln's administration and the conclusion of the author's four-volume re-examination of the Civil War.
Tarnished Victory
Author: William Marvel
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547428065
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
A critical look at the the fourth year of Lincoln's administration and the conclusion of the author's four-volume re-examination of the Civil War.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547428065
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
A critical look at the the fourth year of Lincoln's administration and the conclusion of the author's four-volume re-examination of the Civil War.
The intelligence revolution a historical perspective.
Author: Francis Harry Hinsley
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428993274
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428993274
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
The Jersey Brothers
Author: Sally Mott Freeman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501104179
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
This extraordinary adventure of three brothers at the center of the most dramatic turning points of World War II is “liable to break the hearts of Unbroken fans, and it’s all true” (The New York Times). They are three brothers, all Navy men, who end up coincidentally and extraordinarily at the epicenter of three of the war’s most crucial moments. Bill, a naval intelligence officer, is tapped by FDR to set up and run his secret map room in the White House basement. Benny is the gunnery and antiaircraft officer on USS Enterprise, one of the few ships to escape Pearl Harbor and, by the end of 1942, the only aircraft carrier left in the Pacific to defend against the Japanese. Barton, the youngest, gets a plum commission in the Navy Supply Corps because his mother wants him out of harm’s way. But this protection plan backfires when Barton is sent to Manila and listed as wounded and missing after a Japanese attack. Now it is up to Bill and Benny to find and rescue him… Based on a decade of research drawn from archives around the world, interviews with fellow shipmates and POWs, and half-forgotten letters stashed away in attics, The Jersey Brothers is “a captivating tour-de-force” (San Antonio Express-News) that whisks readers from America’s front porches to Roosevelt’s White House to the battlefronts of the Pacific. But at its heart The Jersey Brothers is a family story, written by one of its own in intimate, novelistic detail. It is a remarkable tale of agony and triumph; of an ordinary young man who shows extraordinary courage as the enemy does everything short of killing him; and of brotherly love tested under the tortures of war. “The Jersey Brothers shines in singularity. A blend of history, family saga and family questions, Freeman’s book [is] a winning and moving success, and adds an authoritative entry to the… vast canon of war literature” (Richmond Times Dispatch).
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501104179
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
This extraordinary adventure of three brothers at the center of the most dramatic turning points of World War II is “liable to break the hearts of Unbroken fans, and it’s all true” (The New York Times). They are three brothers, all Navy men, who end up coincidentally and extraordinarily at the epicenter of three of the war’s most crucial moments. Bill, a naval intelligence officer, is tapped by FDR to set up and run his secret map room in the White House basement. Benny is the gunnery and antiaircraft officer on USS Enterprise, one of the few ships to escape Pearl Harbor and, by the end of 1942, the only aircraft carrier left in the Pacific to defend against the Japanese. Barton, the youngest, gets a plum commission in the Navy Supply Corps because his mother wants him out of harm’s way. But this protection plan backfires when Barton is sent to Manila and listed as wounded and missing after a Japanese attack. Now it is up to Bill and Benny to find and rescue him… Based on a decade of research drawn from archives around the world, interviews with fellow shipmates and POWs, and half-forgotten letters stashed away in attics, The Jersey Brothers is “a captivating tour-de-force” (San Antonio Express-News) that whisks readers from America’s front porches to Roosevelt’s White House to the battlefronts of the Pacific. But at its heart The Jersey Brothers is a family story, written by one of its own in intimate, novelistic detail. It is a remarkable tale of agony and triumph; of an ordinary young man who shows extraordinary courage as the enemy does everything short of killing him; and of brotherly love tested under the tortures of war. “The Jersey Brothers shines in singularity. A blend of history, family saga and family questions, Freeman’s book [is] a winning and moving success, and adds an authoritative entry to the… vast canon of war literature” (Richmond Times Dispatch).
George Clinton
Author: John P. Kaminski
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780945612186
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The first biography in over half a century of New York's first governor and vice president under Jefferson and Madison, George Clinton analyzes the public career of this pivotal founder who has remained lost to history.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780945612186
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The first biography in over half a century of New York's first governor and vice president under Jefferson and Madison, George Clinton analyzes the public career of this pivotal founder who has remained lost to history.
Tarnished
Author: George E. Reed
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1612347231
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
"A study of toxic leadership in the U.S. military and an examination of ways to better the command structure through a revamp of the way leaders are trained and treated"--
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1612347231
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
"A study of toxic leadership in the U.S. military and an examination of ways to better the command structure through a revamp of the way leaders are trained and treated"--
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Mental Illness and Retardation
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Health
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Intellectual disability
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Intellectual disability
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Araucaniad
Author: Alonso de Ercilla y Zuniga
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826503047
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description
Now back in print! The first English translation of this epic masterpiece of Chilean poetry.
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826503047
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description
Now back in print! The first English translation of this epic masterpiece of Chilean poetry.
Democracy and Prebendal Politics in Nigeria
Author: Richard A. Joseph
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107633532
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Originally published in 1987, this book examines the relationship between the pattern of party formation in Nigeria and a mode of social, political and economic behaviour Richard Joseph terms 'prebendalism'. He demonstrates the centrality in the Nigerian polity of the struggle to control and exploit public office and argues that state power is usually viewed by Nigerians as an array of prebends, the appropriation of which provides access to the state treasury and to control over remunerative licenses and contracts. In addition, the abiding desire for a democratic political system is frustrated by the deepening of ethnic, linguistic and regional identities. By exploring the ways in which individuals at all social levels contribute to the maintenance of these practices, the book provides an analysis of the impediments to constitutional democracy that is also relevant to the study of other nations.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107633532
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Originally published in 1987, this book examines the relationship between the pattern of party formation in Nigeria and a mode of social, political and economic behaviour Richard Joseph terms 'prebendalism'. He demonstrates the centrality in the Nigerian polity of the struggle to control and exploit public office and argues that state power is usually viewed by Nigerians as an array of prebends, the appropriation of which provides access to the state treasury and to control over remunerative licenses and contracts. In addition, the abiding desire for a democratic political system is frustrated by the deepening of ethnic, linguistic and regional identities. By exploring the ways in which individuals at all social levels contribute to the maintenance of these practices, the book provides an analysis of the impediments to constitutional democracy that is also relevant to the study of other nations.
The War After the War
Author: John Patrick Daly
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820368636
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820368636
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description