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Strange Victory

Author : Ernest R. May
Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 : 1466894288
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Strange Victory written by Ernest R. May and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernest R. May's Strange Victory presents a dramatic narrative-and reinterpretation-of Germany's six-week campaign that swept the Wehrmacht to Paris in spring 1940. Before the Nazis killed him for his work in the French Resistance, the great historian Marc Bloch wrote a famous short book, Strange Defeat, about the treatment of his nation at the hands of an enemy the French had believed they could easily dispose of. In Strange Victory, the distinguished American historian Ernest R. May asks the opposite question: How was it that Hitler and his generals managed this swift conquest, considering that France and its allies were superior in every measurable dimension and considering the Germans' own skepticism about their chances? Strange Victory is a riveting narrative of those six crucial weeks in the spring of 1940, weaving together the decisions made by the high commands with the welter of confused responses from exhausted and ill-informed, or ill-advised, officers in the field. Why did Hitler want to turn against France at just this moment, and why were his poor judgment and inadequate intelligence about the Allies nonetheless correct? Why didn't France take the offensive when it might have led to victory? What explains France's failure to detect and respond to Germany's attack plan? It is May's contention that in the future, nations might suffer strange defeats of their own if they do not learn from their predecessors' mistakes in judgment.

Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War

Author : Tim Rowland
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1616083956
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War written by Tim Rowland and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a series of historical anecdotes about little-known, miscellaneous events and personal experiences of the American Civil War.

Strange Meeting

Author : Susan Hill
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9780879238308
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book Strange Meeting written by Susan Hill and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1992 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel by Susan Hill.

Civil War Curiosities

Author : Webb Garrison
Publisher : GuildAmerica Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Civil War Curiosities written by Webb Garrison and published by GuildAmerica Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating collection explores the unusual and often bizarre persons,attitudes, and events of the Civil War. Illustrated and indexed.

Truth is a Strange Fruit

Author : David Beresford
Publisher : Jacana Media
ISBN 13 : 1770099026
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Truth is a Strange Fruit written by David Beresford and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2010 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twice voted Britain's top foreign correspondent, David Beresford has produced a 'word picture' of South Africa's Apartheid War. Borrowing from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and plundering his own journalism, he gives his 'truth' of the apartheid years. He has woven through the book the love letters of John Harris - the 'station bomber', awaiting execution on Pretoria's death row. In combination, these paint an often harrowing and heart-breaking, but brilliant picture of South Africa. -- Cover, p. [4].

Weird War Two: Strange Facts and Tales from the World's Weirdest Conflict

Author : M. J. Trow
Publisher : BLKDOG Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weird War Two: Strange Facts and Tales from the World's Weirdest Conflict written by M. J. Trow and published by BLKDOG Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the wonderfully weird World War Two... The Second World War is the bloodiest on record. It was the first total war in history when civilians; men, women and children were in the front line as never before. With so many millions involved, the rumour machine went into overdrive, tall stories built on fear of the unknown. With so much at stake, boffins battled with each other to build ever more bizarre weapons to out-gun the enemy. Nazi Germany alone had so many government-orchestrated foibles that they would be funny if they were not so tragic. Parachuting sheep? Pilot pigeons? Rifles that fire round corners? Men who never were? You will find them all in these pages, the weird, wonderful and barely believable of World War Two

Strange Defeat

Author : Marc Bloch
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
ISBN 13 : 1774643901
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Strange Defeat written by Marc Bloch and published by Rare Treasure Editions. This book was released on 2021-11-09T16:36:00Z with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned historian and Resistance fighter - later executed by the Nazis - analyzes at first hand why France fell in 1940. Marc Bloch wrote Strange Defeat during the three months following the fall of France, after he returned home from military service. In the midst of his anguish, he nevertheless "brought to his study of the crisis all the critical faculty and all the penetrating analysis of a first-rate historian" (Christian Science Monitor). Bloch takes a close look at the military failures he witnessed, examining why France was unable to respond to attack quickly and effectively. He gives a personal account of the battle of France, followed by a biting analysis of the generation between the wars. His harsh conclusion is that the immediate cause of the disaster was the utter incompetence of the High Command, but his analysis ranges broadly, appraising all the factors, social as well as military, which since 1870 had undermined French national solidarity. "Much has been, and will be, written in explanation of the defeat of France in 1940, but it seems unlikely that the truth of the matter will ever be more accurately and more vividly presented than in this statement of evidence." - New York Times Book Review. "The most wisdom-packed commentary on the problem set [before] all intelligent and patriotic Frenchmen by the events of 1940." - Spectator.

A Strange Fight

Author : Anita Gupta
Publisher : Mind Melodies
ISBN 13 : 935018186X
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book A Strange Fight written by Anita Gupta and published by Mind Melodies. This book was released on with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jungle stories always fascinate the tiny tots. They not only offer the children wholesome entertainment, but also broaden their knowledge about nature and jungle life. Keeping this in mind, mind melodies has come out with a set of eight story books on jungle life. To make them more attractive, the stories are enriched with beautiful illustrations.

A Strange and Blighted Land

Author : Gregory Coco
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1940669782
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book A Strange and Blighted Land written by Gregory Coco and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An exhaustive compilation of first-hand accounts of the Gettysburg battlefield in the days, weeks, and months following the fight . . . heartbreaking.” —Austin Civil War Round Table Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863) was the largest battle fought on the American continent. Remarkably few who study it contemplate what came after the armies marched away. Who would care for the tens of thousands of wounded? What happened to the thousands of dead men, horses, and tons of detritus scattered in every direction? How did the civilians cope with their radically changed lives? Gregory Coco’s A Strange and Blighted Land offers a comprehensive account of these and other issues. Arranged in a series of topical chapters, A Strange and Blighted Land begins with a tour of the battlefield, mostly through eyewitness accounts, of the death and destruction littering the sprawling landscape. Once the size and scope are exposed to readers, Coco moves on to discuss the dead of Gettysburg, North and South, how their remains were handled, and how and why the Gettysburg National Cemetery was established. The author also discusses at length how the wounded and prisoners were handled and the fate of the thousands of stragglers and deserters left behind once the armies left before concluding with the preservation efforts that culminated in the establishment of the Gettysburg National Military Park in 1895. Coco’s prose is gripping, personal, and brutally honest. There is no mistaking where he comes down on the issue: There was nothing pretty or glorious or romantic about a battle—especially once the fighting ended.

What Strange Paradise

Author : Omar El Akkad
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525657916
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book What Strange Paradise written by Omar El Akkad and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the widely acclaimed, bestselling author of American War—a beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic, and profoundly moving novel that looks at the global refugee crisis through the eyes of a child. "Told from the point of view of two children, on the ground and at sea, the story so astutely unpacks the us-versus-them dynamics of our divided world that it deserves to be an instant classic." —The New York Times Book Review More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives back in their homelands. But miraculously, someone has survived the passage: nine-year-old Amir, a Syrian boy who is soon rescued by Vänna. Vänna is a teenage girl, who, despite being native to the island, experiences her own sense of homelessness in a place and among people she has come to disdain. And though Vänna and Amir are complete strangers, though they don’t speak a common language, Vänna is determined to do whatever it takes to save the boy. In alternating chapters, we learn about Amir’s life and how he came to be on the boat, and we follow him and the girl as they make their way toward safety. What Strange Paradise is the story of two children finding their way through a hostile world. But it is also a story of empathy and indifference, of hope and despair—and about the way each of those things can blind us to reality.

An Ethic For Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land

Author : William Stringfellow
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725212080
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book An Ethic For Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land written by William Stringfellow and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-09-24 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 'An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land': America is a fallen nation. Americans exist in time, in the era biblically called the Fall. America is a demonic principality, or conglomeration of principalities and powers in which death furnishes the meaning, in which death is the reigning idol. Enshrined in multifarious forms and guises, it enslaves human beings, exacts human sacrifices, captures and captivates Presidents as well as intimidating and dehumanizing ordinary citizens. Strong statements, yes, but timely in the biblical context which forms William Stringfellow's perspective of our contemporary situation. Identifying America as a fallen nation with the parable of Babylon in the Book of Revelation - not with Jerusalem the holy nation, as Americans are naively and vainly wont to do - Dr. Stringfellow issues as trenchant an indictment of our society as has been made since Philip Wylie's 'Generation of Vipers'. Shockingly prophetic, dismaying, and sobering, William Stringfellow's rigorous biblical theology will surely offend the self-righteous. But the citizen of Jerusalem, alien in Babylon, will welcome the bluntness and insight with which he speaks.

We are at War

Author : Simon Garfield
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0091903874
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (919 download)

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Download or read book We are at War written by Simon Garfield and published by Random House. This book was released on 2006 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes portions of the diaries of: Pam Ashford, Christopher Tomlin, Tilly Rice, Eileen Potter, and Maggie Joy Blunt.

A Strange Likeness

Author : Nancy Shoemaker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195307100
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book A Strange Likeness written by Nancy Shoemaker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-27 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When American Indians and Europeans met on the frontiers of 18th-century eastern North America, they had many shared ideas about human nature, political life, and social relations. This title is about how they came to see themselves as people so different in their customs and natures that they appeared to be each other's opposite.

Doctor Strange Epic Collection

Author : Roger Stern
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
ISBN 13 : 1302940538
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Doctor Strange Epic Collection written by Roger Stern and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Doctor Strange (1974) #29-51, Man-Thing (1979) #4; material from Chamber of Chills (1972) #3-4, Defenders (1972) #53. Roger Stern and Chris Claremont turn their magic towards the Master of the Mystic Arts-Doctor Strange! Joined by artistic icons Gene Colan, Marshall Rogers and Tom Sutton, there is no doubt the Doctor is in. Their stories featuring villains Nightmare, D'Spayre and the Dream Weaver twist reality and rend Strange and Clea's souls with inconceivable fears. Next, Baron Mordo returns, armed with the occult secrets of the Vatican. Then, Wong is captured by the Shadowqueen and Clea and Strange must traverse dimensions and battle the demonic N'Garai to save him! Also featuring mystic encounters with Nighthawk, Namor, the Avengers and the Black Knight and the return of a figure from one of Doctor Strange's first adventures.

A Strange Engine of War

Author : John Lamb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982304921
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book A Strange Engine of War written by John Lamb and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1861, with secession in full flower and Baltimore occupied by General Benjamin Beast Butler s nervous Union troops, reports emerged that southern sympathizers there possessed a terrible weapon of mass destruction, one capable of firing 300 rounds per minute and utterly destroying anything in its path. But not everyone was impressed. A very amiable machine, indeed, for killing friend and foe, said the Scientific American. We suppose the inventor intended to use it for the purpose of committing suicide. What was this awful engine of war, and did it ever work? John Lamb presents for the first time in print the full story of the Winans Steam Gun and its antecedents, from inception in the fertile sometimes fantastical minds of nineteenth-century mechanical engineers, through personal jealousies, patent disputes, and test firings. Here too is the story of Ross Winans, the colorful, rabidly pro-Southern Baltimore industrialist to whom the gun was mistakenly attributed, and who was seized and briefly imprisoned after its capture."

A Strange Freedom

Author : Howard Thurman
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807010804
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book A Strange Freedom written by Howard Thurman and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spiritual advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr.; the first black dean at a white university; cofounder of the first interracially pastored, intercultural church in the United States, Howard Thurman offered a transcendent vision of our world. This lyrical collection of select published and unpublished works traces his struggle with the particular manifestations of violence and hatred that mark the twentieth century. His words remind us all that out of religious faith emerges social responsibility and the power to transform lives.

A Strange Stirring

Author : Stephanie Coontz
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465022324
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book A Strange Stirring written by Stephanie Coontz and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1963, Betty Friedan unleashed a storm of controversy with her bestselling book, The Feminine Mystique. Hundreds of women wrote to her to say that the book had transformed, even saved, their lives. Nearly half a century later, many women still recall where they were when they first read it. In A Strange Stirring, historian Stephanie Coontz examines the dawn of the 1960s, when the sexual revolution had barely begun, newspapers advertised for "perky, attractive gal typists," but married women were told to stay home, and husbands controlled almost every aspect of family life. Based on exhaustive research and interviews, and challenging both conservative and liberal myths about Friedan, A Strange Stirring brilliantly illuminates how a generation of women came to realize that their dissatisfaction with domestic life didn't't reflect their personal weakness but rather a social and political injustice.