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Soldier of Fortune

Author : Douglas V. Meed
Publisher : Halcyon Press Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1931823057
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Soldier of Fortune written by Douglas V. Meed and published by Halcyon Press Ltd.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soldier of Fortune traces the bold and adventurous career of Emil Holmdahl, one of that swashbuckling breed of mercenaries growing out of the United States' imperialistic years during the early twentieth century. Following Holmdahl from the Philippine Insurrection, through the "banana wars" in Central America, onto the bloody stage of the Mexican Revolution and World War I, Douglas Meed captures the drama and adventure not only of Holmdahl, but of the United States' quest to become a major world power. Holmdahl's adventures in Mexico shed new light on revolutionary activities and the struggle for power, including the death of revolutionary leader Francisco "Pancho" Villa. Meed suggests that Holmdahl may have been the man who opened Villa's grave, cut off his head, and sold it to a Mexican general. The author captures the excitement and spirit of adventure in those bloody years, while Holmdahl's life mirrors the end of one era and the beginning of another -- from the twilight of the era of horse-driven armies to the age of industrial warfare. Soldier of Fortune is a fascinating account of a bygone age, and forms a distinctive addition to the annals of the American Southwest. Book jacket.

From Byron to bin Laden

Author : Nir Arielli
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674982231
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book From Byron to bin Laden written by Nir Arielli and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes people fight and risk their lives for countries other than their own? Why did diverse individuals such as Lord Byron, George Orwell, Che Guevara, and Osama bin Laden all volunteer for ostensibly foreign causes? Nir Arielli helps us understand this perplexing phenomenon with a wide-ranging history of foreign-war volunteers, from the wars of the French Revolution to the civil war in Syria. Challenging narrow contemporary interpretations of foreign fighters as a security problem, Arielli opens up a broad range of questions about individuals’ motivations and their political and social context, exploring such matters as ideology, gender, international law, military significance, and the memory of war. He shows that even though volunteers have fought for very different causes, they share a number of characteristics. Often driven by a personal search for meaning, they tend to superimpose their own beliefs and perceptions on the wars they join. They also serve to internationalize conflicts not just by being present at the front but by making wars abroad matter back at home. Arielli suggests an innovative way of distinguishing among different types of foreign volunteers, examines the mixed reputation they acquire, and provides the first in-depth comparative analysis of the military roles that foreigners have played in several conflicts. Merging social, cultural, military, and diplomatic history, From Byron to bin Laden is the most comprehensive account yet of a vital, enduring, but rarely explored feature of warfare past and present.

In Plain Sight

Author : Heribert von Feilitzsch
Publisher : Henselstone Verlag LLC
ISBN 13 : 0985031700
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book In Plain Sight written by Heribert von Feilitzsch and published by Henselstone Verlag LLC. This book was released on 2012 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Felix A. Sommerfeld was a German secret service agent assigned to Mexico. During the Mexican Revolution (1910 to 1920) he became a close confidante of Mexican President Madero as well as revolutionary leaders Carranza and Villa. He significantly influenced German and American foreign policy towards Mexico.

The Rebellion Record

Author : Frank Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rebellion Record written by Frank Moore and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Creole Rebellion

Author : Bruce Chadwick
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826363482
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book The Creole Rebellion written by Bruce Chadwick and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Creole Rebellion tells the suspenseful story of a successful mutiny on board the slave ship Creole. En route for a New Orleans slave-auction block in November 1841, nineteen captives mutinied, killing one man and injuring several others. After taking control of the vessel, mutineer Madison Washington forced the crewmen to sail to the Bahamas. Despite much local hysteria upon their arrival, all of the 135 slaves aboard the ship won their freedom there. The revolt significantly fueled and amplified the slave debate within a divided nation that was already hurtling toward a Civil War. While this is a book about the United States confronting the ugly and tumultuous issue of slavery, it is also about the 135 enslaved men and women who were unwilling to take their oppression any longer and rose up to free themselves in a bloody fight. Part history, part adventure, and part legal drama, Bruce Chadwick chronicles the most successful slave revolt in the pages of American history.

The Rebellion Record

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Rebellion Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 1-8 each in three divisions, separately paged: I. Diary of events; II. Documents and narratives; III. Poetry, rumors and incidents. Vol. 9 in two divisions, omitting "Diary of events"; v. 10-11 and supplement. "Documents" only.

Whip the Rebellion

Author : George Walsh
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765305275
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Whip the Rebellion written by George Walsh and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-02-07 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the unprepossessing Ulysses S. Grant, whose military genius ultimately preserved the Union, came to the forefront in the Civil War is a story as surprising as it is compelling. Forced to resign his commission in the peacetime army for drinking, and thereafter reduced to eking out a living for himself and his family with hardscrabble jobs, at the outbreak of hostilities he suddenly found himself a colonel, and then a general, of volunteers. Grant made the most of unexpected commands. What he knew best, it turned out, was how to wage war, relentlessly and with irresistible force. Early in 1862, with the conflict a year old and both sides in the West reluctant to fight, Grant seized the initiative and took Forts Henry and Donelson, capturing an entire rebel army. Later, in Mississippi, he conducted the arduous campaign against Vicksburg, cutting the confederacy in half and capturing a second army. All the time Grant was forced to cope with jealous superiors, like General Henry Halleck, while finding staunch allies in General William Sherman and Admiral David Dixon Porter, and dealing with disloyalty, like that of General John McClernard, who actually came close to replacing him. But for his many victories Grant was named commander in the West, and sent to relieve the siege of Chattanooga, which earned him his promotion to general-in-chief. "Whip the Rebellion" were Grant's watchwords every day of the war. This dramatic narrative--peopled with the heroics of hundreds of officers and enlisted men, crammed with first-hand accounts of battles, tactics, and civilian hardships--offers fresh insights into both the public and personal lives of Grant and his immediate circle.

The Secret War in El Paso

Author : Charles H. Harris
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826346545
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book The Secret War in El Paso written by Charles H. Harris and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2010 Spur Award for Best Contemporary Nonfiction from Western Writers of America The Mexican Revolution could not have succeeded without the use of American territory as a secret base of operations, a source of munitions, money, and volunteers, a refuge for personnel, an arena for propaganda, and a market for revolutionary loot. El Paso, the largest and most important American city on the Mexican border during this time, was the scene of many clandestine operations as American businesses and the U.S. federal government sought to maintain their influences in Mexico and protect national interest while keeping an eye on key Revolutionary figures. In addition, the city served as refuge to a cast of characters that included revolutionists, adventurers, smugglers, gunrunners, counterfeiters, propagandists, secret agents, double agents, criminals, and confidence men. Using 80,000 pages of previously classified FBI documents on the Mexican Revolution and hundreds of Mexican secret agent reports from El Paso and Ciudad Juarez in the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Relations archive, Charles Harris and Louis Sadler examine the mechanics of rebellion in a town where factional loyalty was fragile and treachery was elevated to an art form. As a case study, this slice of El Paso's, and America's, history adds new dimensions to what is known about the Mexican Revolution.

Dayworld Rebel

Author : Philip José Farmer
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504046048
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Dayworld Rebel written by Philip José Farmer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A daybreaker rebels on an overpopulated planet in this dystopian adventure by the author of the World of Tiers series. Jeff Caird was once a daybreaker: a criminal who avoided government-required suspended animation by living seven different identities. Now he goes by the name William St.-George Duncan, and he’s suppressed the memory of his past, and even his real identity, in order to avoid harsh punishment by the government of the Organic Commonwealth of Earth. But the danger is far from over, and the authorities continue to hunt him—because among the things he’s forgotten there’s something very important . . . In the wilderness of northern New Jersey, Dunc has fallen in with a group of rebel daybreakers. As he struggles to retrieve the memory that’s so valuable—and dangerous—to the government, he learns from his new allies that there’s a larger movement to break free from the control of the corrupt World Council that limits citizens to one day of consciousness per week. And the knowledge buried deep within him may be the key to their success. Hugo award–winning Science Fiction Grand Master Philip José Farmer returns to the Dayworld universe for the second installment of his richly imagined trilogy, in which Earth’s overpopulation has led to the most stringent government restrictions on personal freedom imaginable.

Massachusetts in the Rebellion

Author : Phineas Camp Headley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 950 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Massachusetts in the Rebellion written by Phineas Camp Headley and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rebels, Reformers, and Revolutionaries

Author : Douglas R. Egerton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136701532
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Rebels, Reformers, and Revolutionaries written by Douglas R. Egerton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays examines the lives and thoughts of three interrelated Southern groups - enslaved rebels, conservative white reformers, and white revolutionaries -presenting a clear and cogent understanding of race, reform, and conservatism in early American history.

Change and Perspective in Latin America

Author : C. Richard Bath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Change and Perspective in Latin America written by C. Richard Bath and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rebellion Record: June '63-Nov. '63

Author : Frank Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rebellion Record: June '63-Nov. '63 written by Frank Moore and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rebellion Record

Author : Frank Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Rebellion Record written by Frank Moore and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

"Huzza!"

Author : Timothy Symington
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476693153
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book "Huzza!" written by Timothy Symington and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raising a glass to toast someone at a wedding or birthday is a familiar and usually informal occurrence, but at one time it was a carefully orchestrated ritual. They were planned, revised, given at an event, and then printed in newspapers. Americans learned who was or was not toasted for early national celebrations: King George III, George Washington, the Fourth of July, Washington's birthday, Jefferson's election, or military victories. During the tumultuous years of partisan fighting, toasts were used to spread or attack certain ideologies. The toasts became glimpses into what Americans honored at specific moments in the years from the beginning of the American Revolution to the end of the War of 1812. This book is a history of the early American republic viewed through its many toasts, which were raised and published throughout the new nation. As one of the earliest forms of social media, they offer a unique lens to view American history and early popular opinion.

The Season of Rebels and Roses

Author : Virginia Sánchez-Korrol
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
ISBN 13 : 1518505023
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book The Season of Rebels and Roses written by Virginia Sánchez-Korrol and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At an assembly of liberals in Ponce, Puerto Rico, in 1887, Inocencia Martínez eagerly looks for Sotero Figueroa, a journalist and independence movement activist whose politics—and handsome visage—she finds extremely exciting. She is so intent on keeping him in her sights that, when he stops to speak to someone, she almost runs right into him! Inocencia, the daughter of a Spanish bureaucrat, was 18 when she first heard Figueroa speak about freedom from colonial repression and an independent Puerto Rico. Hearing the speakers at the assembly fueled her dreams of becoming a leader in the movement. Inocencia’s parents are initially horrified that a mulatto, someone of African descent, wants to court their daughter. Ultimately, just before the couple’s seditious activities force them into exile, her parents give approval for their marriage. While living in New York City, Inocencia starts her own women’s group to aid the revolutionaries. Ranging from Puerto Rico to Cuba and the United States, this engaging novel for teens follows historical figures that were instrumental in the fight for self-determination in Puerto Rico. Addressing issues that remain relevant today—racism, women’s rights and Puerto Rico’s status—The Season of Rebels and Roses also sheds light on women’s involvement in their nations’ liberation—and their own.

History of the Rebellions in Scotland Under Montrose, Dundee, Mar, and Prince Charles Stuart: History of the rebellion in Scotland in 1745, 1746

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Author : Robert Chambers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book History of the Rebellions in Scotland Under Montrose, Dundee, Mar, and Prince Charles Stuart: History of the rebellion in Scotland in 1745, 1746 written by Robert Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: