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Author : Basil Karslake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780785523277
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (232 download)
Download or read book 1940, the Last Act written by Basil Karslake and published by . This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Basil Karslake
Publisher : Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book 1940-the Last Act written by Basil Karslake and published by Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books. This book was released on 1979 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Craig Shirley
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 1595555358
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)
Download or read book Last Act written by Craig Shirley and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His name in American politics is more cited than any other president. Both the Republican and Democratic parties are radically different today, mainly as a result of Ronald Reagan and the force of his ideas. No twentieth century president shaped the American political landscape so profoundly. Craig Shirley’s Last Act is the important final chapter in the life of Reagan that no one has thus far covered. It’s the kind of book that widens our understanding of American history and of the presidency and the men who occupied it. To tell Reagan’s story, Craig has secured the complete, exclusive, and enthusiastic support of the Reagan Foundation and Library and spent considerable time there reviewing sealed files and confidential information. Cast in a grand and compelling narrative style, Last Act contains interesting and heretofore untold anecdotes about Reagan, Mrs. Reagan, their pleasure at retirement, the onslaught of the awful Alzheimer’s and how he and Mrs. Reagan dealt with the diagnosis, the slow demise, the extensive plans for a state funeral, the outpouring from the nation, which stunned the political establishment, the Reagan legacy, and how his shadow looms more and more over the Republican Party, Washington, the culture of America, and the world.
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Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Air University Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : G. H. Bennett
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445668173
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Desperate Victories written by G. H. Bennett and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-hand accounts from key British commanders of some of the most desperate moments in the Second World War when Britain's survival was at stake
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Total Pages : 1264 pages
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Download or read book Supreme Court written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter David Orr
Publisher : Beachfront Press
ISBN 13 : 1413748295
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Peace at Daggers Drawn written by Peter David Orr and published by Beachfront Press. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work constitutes an original piece of research and writing dedicated to relating the diplomatic initiatives (both official and unofficial, public and secret) that were intended to end or stop the spread of the Second World War in Europe. Special attention is given to specific peace proposals, initiatives, and back-channel diplomatic maneuverings, all within the general context of the foreign policies of the principal parties concerned. Diplomatic efforts designed to bring about an end to hostilities by belligerent and non-belligerent nations are included. Geographically, this work is confined to the European theater of operations. The chronological focus of this volume is on the earliest stages of the conflict, specifically from September 1, 1939, to September 1940. It is the intent of the author to expand the time period covered by way of future additions.
Author : Michael Korda
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631491334
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat into Victory written by Michael Korda and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most miraculous military rescue missions in modern history comes alive in this “superb and panoramic” (Washington Post) account of Dunkirk. No one can evince the drama of what actually happened at Dunkirk in the year 1940 with as “great narrative skill and superb delineation” (David McCullough) as Michael Korda, the historian and legendary book editor. As dramatized in Christopher Nolan’s film Dunkirk, May 1940 was a month like no other: Germany’s war machine blazed into France, the impregnable Maginot Line crumbled, and Winston Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain as prime minister as Britain, isolated and alone, faced a triumphant Nazi Germany. Against this vast canvas, best-selling author Michael Korda relates his own personal story, “by turns charming, powerful and poignant” (Minneapolis Star Tribune): that of a six-year-old boy from a glamorous movie family who would himself be evacuated. Weaving together “eyewitness detail and a fine sense of drama” (Boston Globe) to form an epic of remarkable originality, Alone movingly captures a moment of historic triumph—when an unlikely flotilla of destroyers brought 300,000 men home to safety.
Author : Michael Handel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135179344
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Intelligence and Military Operations written by Michael Handel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally the military community held the intelligence profession in low esteem, spying was seen as dirty work and information was all to often ignored if it conflicted with a commander's own view. Handel examines the ways in which this situation has improved and argues that co-operation between the intelligence adviser and the military decision maker is vital.
Author : Anne Sharp Wells
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810879441
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of World War II written by Anne Sharp Wells and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-12-24 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary covers the complex and costly conflict that began when Germany, ruled by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, invaded neighboring Poland on 1 September 1939; and concluded when Germany surrendered on 7–9 May 1945, leaving much of the European continent in ruins and its population devastated. The war against Germany, Italy, and the other European Axis members was fought primarily in Europe, the Mediterranean, the Middle East, East and North Africa, and the Atlantic Ocean. The Axis powers were defeated by the Allies, led by the “Grand Alliance” of Great Britain, the United States, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The Historical Dictionary of World War II: The War against Germany and Italy relates the history of this war through a chronology, an introductory essay, maps and photos, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 300 cross-referenced entries on the countries and geographical areas involved in the war, as well as the nations remaining neutral; wartime alliances and conferences; significant civilian and military leaders; and major ground, naval, and air operations. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about World War II.
Author : John Hixson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Combined Operations in Peace and War written by John Hixson and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eugenia C. Kiesling
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Arming Against Hitler written by Eugenia C. Kiesling and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Graeme CM Smith
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1804241237
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Falls written by Graeme CM Smith and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2023-04-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early hours of the morning of June 3rd 1949, General Harold Alexander was alongside the quay at Dunkirk as he lifted a megaphone and called "Is anyone there? Is anyone there?" There was no reply. He had directed the evacuation and was the last to leave Dunkirk. The very next day Churchill stood at the dispatch and gave his We Shall Fight Them on The Beaches speech. Tradition tells us that the dramatic events of the evacuation of Dunkirk, in which 300,000 BEF servicemen escaped the Nazis, was a victory gained from the jaws of defeat. Rather than telling the tale of those who escaped, Peter Smith reveals a story of those sacrificed in the rear-guard battles. For us the Battle for France was not over. In Jun-1940 there were still 41,000 British soldiers fighting the Germans alongside their French allies. Mounting a vigorous counterattack at Abbeville and then conducting a tough defence between the Somme front and the Seine, Peter was fighting a very uncertain battle for mere survival for an even more uncertain future. Peter Smith tells his own story and captures the drama of those military operations and subsequent capture by Rommel's 7th Panzer Division (the infamous Ghost Division') who moved with clandestine stealth towards their objectives. Nothing prepares a man for war and there can be little doubt, Peter was not prepared, even less so for a life as a POW. I lost my freedom that day on the June 8th 1940 when we were told it was every man-for-himself and didn't regain it until April 1945 when I was rescued by Americans near Halberstadt, having walked 1,600km along the Baltic coast from East Prussia. Silent for nearly 80 years, Peter tells his story about his five lost years: the terrible things he saw at Thorn, Stuttoff, Stettin and Halberstadt; working on farms, Peter experienced first had the East Prussian way of life; his period in solitary confinement for stealing apple'; the disintegration and collapse of a whole way of life in East Prussia in the face of the Soviet invasion; and the terrible Long March, when 80,000 British POWs were forced to trek through a vicious winter westwards across Poland, alongside 2 million East German refugees as the Soviets approached. We were all prisoners, as POWs, and refugees alike embraced a dance with death in the coldest winter for 50 years as we all trudged west, and similarly the German Army as it battled to save its population. Peter's story is also about friendship, of physical and mental resilience and of compassion for everyone who suffered. It was a difficult march undertaken in unimaginable wintery arctic conditions, where lack of food, the cold, and death were constant companions.
Author : Robert Forczyk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472824431
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Case Red written by Robert Forczyk and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even after the legendary evacuation from Dunkirk in June 1940 there were still large British formations fighting the Germans alongside their French allies. After mounting a vigorous counterattack at Abbeville and then conducting a tough defence along the Somme, the British were forced to conduct a second evacuation from the ports of Le Havre, Cherbourg, Brest and St Nazaire. While France was in its death throes, politicians and soldiers debated what to do – flee to England or North Africa, or seek an armistice. Case Red captures the drama of the final three weeks of military operations in France in June 1940, and explains the great impact it had on the course of relations between Britain and France during the remainder of the war. It also addresses the military, political and human drama of France's collapse in June 1940, and how the windfall of captured military equipment, fuel and industrial resources enhanced the Third Reich's ability to attack its next foe – the Soviet Union.
Author : John Ferris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134233345
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Intelligence and Strategy written by John Ferris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Ferris' work in strategic and intelligence history is widely praised for its originality and the breadth of its research. At last his major pioneering articles are now available in this one single volume. In Intelligence and Strategy these essential articles have been fundamentally revised to incorporate new evidence and information withheld by governments when they were first published. This volume reshapes the study of communications intelligence by tracing Britain's development of cipher machines providing the context to Ultra and Enigma, and by explaining how British and German signals intelligence shaped the desert war. The author also explains how intelligence affected British strategy and diplomacy from 1874 to 1940 and world diplomacy during the 1930s and the Second World War. Finally he traces the roots for contemporary intelligence, and analyzes intelligence and the RMA as well as the role of intelligence in the 2003 Gulf War. This volume ultimately brings new light to our understanding of the relations between intelligence, strategy and diplomacy between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 21st century.
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Total Pages : 1176 pages
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Download or read book Supreme Court of the State of New York written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacques Derrida
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231066594
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (665 download)
Download or read book A Derrida Reader written by Jacques Derrida and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only available collection of Jacques Derrida's contributions to philosophy, presented with a comprehensive introduction. From Speech and Phenomena to the highly influential "Signature Event Context," each excerpt includes an overview and brief summary.
