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Author : Ouida
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Under Two Flags written by Ouida and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William M Fowler
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612511961
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Under Two Flags written by William M Fowler and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vividly written and well researched by a noted historian of the period, this succinct history credits the Union Navy as an essential element in the northern victory. Neither ponderous nor hagiographic, the work presents characters and events that have been previously neglected and offers candid assessments of officers, men, and material. Originally published in 1990, when it was a Military History Book Club selection, the work is considered a must for Civil War buffs. It is an authoritative and gripping story of the battles waged. The author provides a rare look at the war fought by primitive northern gunboats drifting through Louisiana's muddy bayous, Yankee merchantmen captured by rebel privateers at sea, and Union ironclads subduing hotly defended Southern forts. Nor does William Fowler neglect the subtler sparrings behind the scenes: War Secretary Stanton and Navy Secretary Welles competing for Lincoln's favor and Welles's fierce duel of strategies with his Confederate counterpart, Stephen Mallory. Finally, the author describes the astonishing transformation of the Navy itself from a ragtag fleet of aging steamers and paddleboats to one of the most powerful waterborne forces in the world.
Author : Max Egremont
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9780297813477
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (134 download)
Download or read book Under Two Flags written by Max Egremont and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1997 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of one of the greatest churchillians, a crucial lynch-pin between Britain and France
Author : Juris Jurjevics
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547564511
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Red Flags written by Juris Jurjevics and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the remote central highlands of Vietnam, Army CID officer Eric Rider confronts drug-running and corruption that crosses enemy lines and divides loyalties.
Author : Anthony G. Russell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781785370014
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Between Two Flags written by Anthony G. Russell and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between Two Flags tells the gripping story of the turbulent yet enduring and loving marriage of John Mitchel and Jenny Verner. Their courtship was opposed by both families, and their elopement and marriage caused public consternation, but this remarkable couple went on to live through and influence the politics of mid-19th-century Ireland and the United States. Both were ardent supporters of physical force Republicanism and of the American Confederates. Their story spans the landscape - of Ulster, Europe, the Americas, and Van Diemen's Land (the island of Tasmania) - on a journey through the Great Famine, the American Civil War, Fenianism, revolution, and deportation. Beset by tragedies within their family life, theirs was a world of paradox and adventure, counter-pointed by sacrifice to shared political ideals. Controversially, their enthusiastic support of the institution of slavery is a subject that the book meets head on in an evocation of the period and its context. Destined to be separated by death in different continents, John Mitchel's and Jenny Verner's heroic relationship is sympathetically documented and analyzed in this engaging and captivating story. *** "As fascinating as it is edifying, 'Between Two Flags' is highly recommended." -- Midwest Book Review, Wisconsin Bookwatch: November 2015, The Biography Shelf [Subject: Biography, Irish Studies, History, Politics]
Author : James Bradley
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553902768
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (539 download)
Download or read book Flags of Our Fathers written by James Bradley and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2006-08-29 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America. In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima—and into history. Through a hail of machine-gun and mortar fire that left the beaches strewn with comrades, they battled to the island's highest peak. And after climbing through a landscape of hell itself, they raised a flag. Now the son of one of the flagraisers has written a powerful account of six very different young men who came together in a moment that will live forever. To his family, John Bradley never spoke of the photograph or the war. But after his death at age seventy, his family discovered closed boxes of letters and photos. In Flags of Our Fathers, James Bradley draws on those documents to retrace the lives of his father and the men of Easy Company. Following these men's paths to Iwo Jima, James Bradley has written a classic story of the heroic battle for the Pacific's most crucial island—an island riddled with Japanese tunnels and 22,000 fanatic defenders who would fight to the last man. But perhaps the most interesting part of the story is what happened after the victory. The men in the photo—three were killed during the battle—were proclaimed heroes and flown home, to become reluctant symbols. For two of them, the adulation was shattering. Only James Bradley's father truly survived, displaying no copy of the famous photograph in his home, telling his son only: “The real heroes of Iwo Jima were the guys who didn't come back. ” Few books ever have captured the complexity and furor of war and its aftermath as well as Flags of Our Fathers. A penetrating, epic look at a generation at war, this is history told with keen insight, enormous honesty, and the passion of a son paying homage to his father. It is the story of the difference between truth and myth, the meaning of being a hero, and the essence of the human experience of war.
Author : William Faulkner
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307946762
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Flags in the Dust written by William Faulkner and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete text of Faulkner’s third novel, published for the first time in 1973, appeared with his reluctant consent in a much cut version in 1929 as Sartoris.
Author : Ouida
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Under Two Flags written by Ouida and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Marshall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501168339
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book A Flag Worth Dying For written by Tim Marshall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in Great Britain in 2016 by Elliott and Thompson Limited as: Worth dying for: the power and politics of flags.
Author : Gordon Levett
Publisher : Frank Cass & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780714641027
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Flying Under Two Flags written by Gordon Levett and published by Frank Cass & Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eldred D. Jones
Publisher : James Currey Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781847010551
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Freetown Bond written by Eldred D. Jones and published by James Currey Limited. This book was released on 2012 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghost-written by his wife Marjorie Jones.--Front flap
Author : Ha Jin
Publisher : Steerforth
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Under the Red Flag written by Ha Jin and published by Steerforth. This book was released on 1999 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the northern Chinese provincial town of Dismount Fort, these 12 stories offer a fascinating glimpse of the lives of peasants, soldiers, workers, and party officials during the Great Cultural Revolution.
Author : Mark Sullivan
Publisher : Lake Union Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781503902374
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Beneath a Scarlet Sky written by Mark Sullivan and published by Lake Union Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A teenage boy in 1940s Italy becomes part of an underground railroad that helps Jews escape through the Alps, but when he is recruited to be the personal driver for a powerful Third Reich commander, he begins to spy for the Allies.
Author : Ouida
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Under Two Flags written by Ouida and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Cordingly
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307763072
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Under the Black Flag written by David Cordingly and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is the most authoritative and highly literate account of these pernicious people that I have ever read.”—Patrick O'Brian “[A] wonderfully entertaining history of pirates and piracy . . . a rip-roaring read . . . fascinating and unexpected.”—Men's Journal This rollicking account of the golden age of piracy is packed with vivid history and high seas adventure. David Cordingly, an acclaimed expert on pirates, reveals the spellbinding truth behind the legends of Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, Sir Francis Drake, the fierce female brigands Mary Read and Anne Bonny, and others who rode and robbed upon the world's most dangerous waters. Here, in thrilling detail, are the weapons they used, the ships they sailed, and the ways they fought—and were defeated. Under the Black Flag also charts the paths of fictional pirates such as Captain Hook and Long John Silver. The definitive resource on the subject, this book is as captivating as it is supremely entertaining. Praise for Under the Black Flag “[A] lively history . . . If you've ever been seduced by the myth of the cutlass-wielding pirate, consider David Cordingly's Under the Black Flag.”—USA Today, “Best Bets” “Engagingly told . . . a tale of the power of imaginative literature to re-create the past.”—Los Angeles Times “Entirely engaging and informative . . . a witty and spirited book.”—The Washington Post Book World “Plenty of thrills and adventure to satisfy any reader.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
Author : Michael Chabon
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453234098
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book The Mysteries of Pittsburgh written by Michael Chabon and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s “astonishing” debut novel, about a son’s struggle to find his own identity and integrity (The New York Times). Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Moonglow, and The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, is one of the most acclaimed talents in contemporary fiction. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, published when Chabon was just twenty-five, is the beautifully crafted debut that propelled him into the literary stratosphere. Art Bechstein may be too young to know what he wants to do with his life, but he knows what he doesn’t want: the life of his father, a man who laundered money for the mob. He spends the summer after graduation finding his own way, experimenting with a group of brilliant and seductive new friends: erudite Arthur Lecomte, who opens up new horizons for Art; mercurial Phlox, who confounds him at every turn; and Cleveland, a poetry-reciting biker who pulls him inevitably back into his father’s mobbed-up world. A New York Times bestseller, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh was called “astonishing” by Alice McDermott, and heralded the arrival of one of our era’s great voices. This ebook features a biography of the author.
Author : Cheryl Harness
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN 13 : 0807524719
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Flags Over America written by Cheryl Harness and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every flag tells a story. Whether it’s a scrap of cloth tied to a stick or an elaborate banner, people have used flags to announce themselves, identify their lands, and display their beliefs. Award-winning author and illustrator Cheryl Harness brings to life a picture book history of flags focusing on the United States’ revolutionary beginnings, from liberty poles to the legendary “Star-Spangled Banner” that flew over Fort McHenry in 1814. Includes a glossary of flag terminology and an American flag timeline.
