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Frank Aiken

Author : Bryce Evans
Publisher : Merrion Press
ISBN 13 : 0716532565
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Frank Aiken written by Bryce Evans and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolutionary; statesman; polymath: Frank Aiken cuts a colossal figure in twentieth century Irish history. However, he remains a controversial figure regarded as a war criminal by some and a principled proponent of National liberation by others. In this engaging biographical collection, contributors scrutinise Aiken s thoughts and actions at several critical junctures in modern Irish and world history, taking readers through the War of Independence, Civil War, the birth of the new state, the Second World War, the Cold War and the modern Northern Ireland Troubles. Divided into two sections Nationalist and Internationalist and based on an unrivalled breadth of testimony from academics, family members, rivals and colleagues, this study ultimately details the footprints Aiken left on the national and international political stage. Aiken owed his early eminence to military rather than political leadership; he was commandant of the 4th Northern Division of the IRA during the War of Independence and was driven to undertake the most daring and spectacular feats of the Irish Civil War. He went on to become the Chief of Staff of the Anti-Treaty IRA but was expelled for backing de Valera s plan for a Republican government the beginnings of Fianna Fáil. Thereafter his instrumental role was to be political: a Minister for Defence, Finance, and External Affairs over the course of the following decades; he was to oversee much success and controversy in the burgeoning state. This biography represents the first deserving assessment of a monumental personality in 20th century Irish History.

Churchill's Navigator

Author : John Mitchell
Publisher : Grub Street Publishing
ISBN 13 : 190811794X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Churchill's Navigator written by John Mitchell and published by Grub Street Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An RAF pilot who flew around the world with Winston Churchill during World War II tells his story. An RAF Volunteer Reserve officer, John Mitchell was mobilized on the outbreak of war—and just missed going to join a Battle Squadron in France where he would have undoubtedly been killed. Instead, he was posted to No. 58 Squadron flying Whitleys, surviving a tour of operations in 1940–41 that included ditching in the North Sea. Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, he was sent to the US, becoming involved in the development of the first navigation training simulators with the famous Link Trainer factory. There, he was awarded the US Legion of Merit, signed by Harry S. Truman. Then, returning to the UK in 1942, he was personally selected to join the crew of Winston Churchill’s private aircraft, one of the early prototype Avro Yorks called Ascalon. For two years he navigated Churchill to conferences around the world—from North Africa to Italy, the Middle East to Moscow, including the famous Teheran and Yalta conferences. He also flew “General Lyon” (aka His Majesty George VI) on several occasions. After the war, he enjoyed an eventful career as an air attaché, including an intelligence posting to Moscow, and was senior navigation officer for the long range exercises over the Pole in the converted Lincoln, Aries III. His is an exceptional story, told with wit and verve to military aviation historian Sean Feast, who adds authoritative and informed insights.

The Divorce Colony

Author : April White
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0306827689
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book The Divorce Colony written by April White and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE, "10 BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF 2022"** **AMAZON, "BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH (Nonfiction)"** **APPLE, "BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH"** From a historian and senior editor at Atlas Obscura, a fascinating account of the daring nineteenth-century women who moved to South Dakota to divorce their husbands and start living on their own terms For a woman traveling without her husband in the late nineteenth century, there was only one reason to take the train all the way to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, one sure to garner disapproval from fellow passengers. On the American frontier, the new state offered a tempting freedom often difficult to obtain elsewhere: divorce. With the laxest divorce laws in the country, five railroad lines, and the finest hotel for hundreds of miles, the small city became the unexpected headquarters for unhappy spouses—infamous around the world as The Divorce Colony. These society divorcees put Sioux Falls at the center of a heated national debate over the future of American marriage. As clashes mounted in the country's gossip columns, church halls, courtrooms and even the White House, the women caught in the crosshairs in Sioux Falls geared up for a fight they didn't go looking for, a fight that was the only path to their freedom. In The Divorce Colony, writer and historian April White unveils the incredible social, political, and personal dramas that unfolded in Sioux Falls and reverberated around the country through the stories of four very different women: Maggie De Stuers, a descendent of the influential New York Astors whose divorce captivated the world; Mary Nevins Blaine, a daughter-in-law to a presidential hopeful with a vendetta against her meddling mother-in-law; Blanche Molineux, an aspiring actress escaping a husband she believed to be a murderer; and Flora Bigelow Dodge, a vivacious woman determined, against all odds, to obtain a "dignified" divorce. Entertaining, enlightening, and utterly feminist, The Divorce Colony is a rich, deeply researched tapestry of social history and human drama that reads like a novel. Amidst salacious newspaper headlines, juicy court documents, and high-profile cameos from the era's most well-known players, this story lays bare the journey of the turn-of-the-century socialites who took their lives into their own hands and reshaped the country's attitudes about marriage and divorce.

The Secret Army

Author : J. Bowyer Bell
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412838886
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Army written by J. Bowyer Bell and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive work on the Irish Republican Army. It is an absorbing account of a movement which has had a profound effect on the shaping of the modern Irish state. This book is the culmination of twenty-five years of work and tens of thousands of hours of interviews.

Jennings Co, in - Pictorial

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Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1563115212
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book Jennings Co, in - Pictorial written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999-06-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Frank Aiken's War

Author : Matthew Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910820452
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Frank Aiken's War written by Matthew Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vinton Co, Oh

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Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1563112957
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book Vinton Co, Oh written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (From the introduction) The material for Vinton County and Its Families was compiled over a period of many years. The information included is principally from 1850, the date of the establishment of the county, to the near present time (1996).

The Men Will Talk to Me

Author : Síobhra Aiken
Publisher : Merrion Press
ISBN 13 : 1785371665
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book The Men Will Talk to Me written by Síobhra Aiken and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2018-05-14 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Men Will Talk to Me is a collection of interviews conducted and recorded by famed Irish republican revolutionary Ernie O’Malley during the 1940s and 1950s. The interviews were carried out with survivors of the four Northern Divisions of the IRA, chief among them Frank Aiken, Peadar O’Donnell and Paddy McLogan, who offer fascinating insights into Ulster’s centrality in the War of Independence and the slide towards Civil War. The title refers to the implicit trust that shadows these interviews, earned through Ernie O’Malley’s reputation as a fearsome military commander in the revolutionary movement – the veterans interviewed divulge details to O’Malley which they wouldn’t have disclosed to even their closest family members. Startlingly direct, the issues covered include the mobilization of the Dundalk Volunteers for the 1916 Rising, the events of Bloody Sunday (1920), the Belfast Pogroms, and the planning of historical escapes from the Curragh and Kilkenny Gaol. The Men Will Talk to Me is an insightful and painstaking reflection of the horror of the Irish War of Independence and Civil War; in words resolute and faltering, the physical and psychological debts of the revolutionary mindset – those of hardened Pro- and Anti-Treaty veterans – are fiercely apparent.

Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography: A-F

Author : Dan L. Thrapp
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803294189
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (941 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography: A-F written by Dan L. Thrapp and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1991-06-01 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes biographical information on 4,500 individuals associated with the frontier

The Michigan Alumnus

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Publisher : UM Libraries
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Michigan Alumnus written by and published by UM Libraries. This book was released on 1935 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In v.1-8 the final number consists of the Commencement annual.

Official Register of the United States

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1720 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Official Register of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Michigan

Author : Bruce Madej
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781571671158
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Michigan written by Bruce Madej and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 1997 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Year in and year out, the Wolverines have placed championship banner upon banner atop their record collection. The Wolverines have 47 national team championships, 281 Big Ten titles, more than 1,600 first team All-Americans, nearly 1,300 individual Big Ten champions, and the list goes on. While many schools note periods of success, the U-M has made winning a way of life, emerging from the battles victorious more than 10,000 times. This great tradition has been filled with notable names and spectacular performances.

South Dakota, Sui Generis

Author : Doane Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South Dakota, Sui Generis written by Doane Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

University of Michigan Official Publication

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Publisher : UM Libraries
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1746 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book University of Michigan Official Publication written by and published by UM Libraries. This book was released on 1939 with total page 1746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Official Register of the United States ...

Author : United States Civil Service Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Official Register of the United States ... written by United States Civil Service Commission and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Aeroplane

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Aeroplane written by and published by . This book was released on 1941-07 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

St. George's Gazette

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book St. George's Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: