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Author : Francis Irby Gwaltney
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Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The Day the Century Ended written by Francis Irby Gwaltney and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Gilbert
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 1429900377
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Day the War Ended written by Martin Gilbert and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Britain's most acclaimed historians presents the experiences and ramifications of the last day of World War II in Europe May 8, 1945, 23:30 hours: With war still raging in the Pacific, peace comes at last to Europe as the German High Command in Berlin signs the final instrument of surrender. After five years and eight months, the war in Europe is officially over. This is the story of that single day and of the days leading up to it. Hour by hour, place by place, this masterly history recounts the final spasms of a continent in turmoil. Here are the stories of combat soldiers and ordinary civilians, collaborators and resistance fighters, statesmen and war criminals, all recounted in vivid, dramatic detail. But this is more than a moment-by-moment account, for Sir Martin Gilbert uses every event as a point of departure, linking each to its long-term consequences over the following half century. In our attempts to understand the world we inherited in 1945, there is no better starting point than The Day the War Ended.
Author : George Packer
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030794817X
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Our Man written by George Packer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography* *Winner of the Los Angeles Times Prize for Biography* *Winner of the 2019 Hitchens Prize* "Portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating self-willed glory...Both a sweeping diplomatic history and a Shakespearean tragicomedy... If you could read one book to comprehend American's foreign policy and its quixotic forays into quicksands over the past 50 years, this would be it."--Walter Isaacson, The New York Times Book Review "By the end of the second page, maybe the third, you will be hooked...There never was a diplomat-activist quite like [Holbrooke], and there seldom has been a book quite like this -- sweeping and sentimental, beguiling and brutal, catty and critical, much like the man himself."--David M. Shribman, The Boston Globe Richard Holbrooke was brilliant, utterly self-absorbed, and possessed of almost inhuman energy and appetites. Admired and detested, he was the force behind the Dayton Accords that ended the Balkan wars, America's greatest diplomatic achievement in the post-Cold War era. His power lay in an utter belief in himself and his idea of a muscular, generous foreign policy. From his days as a young adviser in Vietnam to his last efforts to end the war in Afghanistan, Holbrooke embodied the postwar American impulse to take the lead on the global stage. But his sharp elbows and tireless self-promotion ensured that he never rose to the highest levels in government that he so desperately coveted. His story is thus the story of America during its era of supremacy: its strength, drive, and sense of possibility, as well as its penchant for overreach and heedless self-confidence. In Our Man, drawn from Holbrooke's diaries and papers, we are given a nonfiction narrative that is both intimate and epic in its revelatory portrait of this extraordinary and deeply flawed man and the elite spheres of society and government he inhabited.
Author : Gordon Thomas
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497658802
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)
Download or read book The Day the World Ended written by Gordon Thomas and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of a horrifying natural disaster—and the corruption that made it worse—by the New York Times–bestselling authors of Voyage of the Damned. In late April 1902, Mount Pelée, a volcano on the Caribbean island Martinique, began to wake up. It emitted clouds of ash and smoke for two weeks until violently erupting on May 8. Over 30,000 residents of St. Pierre were killed; they burned to death under rivers of hot lava and suffocated under pounds of hot ash. Only three people managed to survive: a prisoner trapped in a dungeon-like jail cell, a man on the outskirts of town, and a young girl found floating unconscious in a boat days later. So how did a town of thousands not heed the warnings of nature and local scientists, instead staying behind to perish in the onslaught of volcanic ash? Why did the newspapers publish articles assuring readers that the volcano was harmless? And why did the authorities refuse to allow the American Consul to contact Washington about the conditions? The answer lies in politics: With an election on the horizon, the political leaders of Martinique ignored the welfare of their people in order to consolidate the votes they needed to win. A gripping and informative book on the disastrous effects of a natural disaster coupled with corruption, The Day the World Ended reveals the story of a city engulfed in flames and the political leaders that chose to kill their people rather than give up their political power.
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Total Pages : 854 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Missouri School Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Gilbert
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 1250822920
Total Pages : 807 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)
Download or read book The Day the War Ended written by Martin Gilbert and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 807 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Britain's most acclaimed historians presents the experiences and ramifications of the last day of World War II in Europe May 8, 1945, 23:30 hours: With war still raging in the Pacific, peace comes at last to Europe as the German High Command in Berlin signs the final instrument of surrender. After five years and eight months, the war in Europe is officially over. This is the story of that single day and of the days leading up to it. Hour by hour, place by place, this masterly history recounts the final spasms of a continent in turmoil. Here are the stories of combat soldiers and ordinary civilians, collaborators and resistance fighters, statesmen and war criminals, all recounted in vivid, dramatic detail. But this is more than a moment-by-moment account, for Sir Martin Gilbert uses every event as a point of departure, linking each to its long-term consequences over the following half century. In our attempts to understand the world we inherited in 1945, there is no better starting point than The Day the War Ended.
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Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Scientific American written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jay Winter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192870734
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book The Day the Great War Ended, 24 July 1923 written by Jay Winter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 24 July 1923 the last Treaty ending hostilities in the Great War was signed at Lausanne in Switzerland. That Treaty closed a decade of violence. Jay Winter tells the story of what happened on that day. On the shores of Lake Geneva, diplomats, statesmen, and soldiers came from Ankara and Athens, from London, Paris, and Rome, and from other capital cities to affirm that war was over. The Treaty they signed fixed the boundaries of present-day Greece and Turkey, and marked a beginning of a new phase in their history. That was its major achievement, but it came at a high price. The Treaty contained within it a Compulsory Population Exchange agreement. By that measure, Greek-Orthodox citizens of Turkey, with the exception of those living in Constantinople, lost the right of citizenship and residence in that state. So did Muslim citizens of Greece, except for residents of Western Thrace. This exchange of nearly two million people, introduced to the peace conference by Nobel Prize winner and humanitarian Fridtjof Nansen, provided a solution to the immense refugee problem arising out of the Greek-Turkish war. At the same time, it introduced into international law a definition of citizenship defined not by language or history or ethnicity, but solely by religion. This set a precedent for ethnic cleansing followed time and again later in the century and beyond. The second price of peace was the burial of commitments to the Armenian people that they would have a homeland in the lands from which they had been expelled, tortured and murdered in the genocide of 1915. This book tells the story of the peace conference, and its outcome. It shows how peace came before justice, and how it set in motion forces leading to the global war that followed in 1939.
Author : Giuseppe Orsi
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Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Recollections of the Last Half-century written by Giuseppe Orsi and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew MacKay
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Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, Determined Upon Unerring Principles. By Andrew Mackay, ... written by Andrew MacKay and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Last Years of the Nineteenth Century written by Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 910 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katherine THOMSON
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Tracey; or, the Apparition. A tale of the last century written by Katherine THOMSON and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dr. Doran (John)
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Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book A lady of the last century, mrs Elizabeth Montagu: illustrated in her unpublished letters written by Dr. Doran (John) and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 908 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (481 download)
Download or read book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Edwin Sandys
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book From the sixth century B. C. to the end of the middle ages written by John Edwin Sandys and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 2142 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Christian Advocate and Journal and Zion's Herald written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 2142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
