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Book Synopsis A Fair Blockade-breaker by : Thomas Cooper De Leon
Download or read book A Fair Blockade-breaker written by Thomas Cooper De Leon and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Blockade Breakers by : Helena P Schrader
Download or read book The Blockade Breakers written by Helena P Schrader and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 24 June 1948 the Soviet Union abruptly closed all land and water access to the Western Sectors of Berlin. Over 2 million civilians, dependent on the surrounding territory and the West for food, fuel, and other basic goods, were suddenly cut off from all necessities of life. The Western Allies had the option of withdrawing their garrisons and allowing the Soviet Union to take control of the entire of city, or of trying to supply the city by air. Never in history had 2 million people been supplied exclusively by air before. None of senior military commanders believed it could be done. But the political leadership in London and Washington insisted that it must be done. So the largest and most ambitious Airlift in history was set in motion. It began without the West really knowing what the Berliners needed in order to survive - much less how much those supplies weighed. It was launched despite an almost complete absence of aircraft and aircrew resources in Germany and despite the serious inadequacies in airfields and air traffic control. It was launched without airlift expertise in theatre or a unified command structure. But once it was took wing, it flew and turned into something that not even its originators and advocators had ever imagined or expected.
Book Synopsis The Narrative of a Blockade-runner by : John Wilkinson
Download or read book The Narrative of a Blockade-runner written by John Wilkinson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-07-03 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Book Synopsis Poole's Index to Periodical Literature: 1887-1892 by : William Frederick Poole
Download or read book Poole's Index to Periodical Literature: 1887-1892 written by William Frederick Poole and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Adventures of a Blockade Runner by : William Watson
Download or read book The Adventures of a Blockade Runner written by William Watson and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1898 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Adventures of a Blockade Runner by : William Watson
Download or read book The Adventures of a Blockade Runner written by William Watson and published by London, T. F. Unwin. This book was released on 1892 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Civil War Adventures of a Blockade Runner by : William Watson
Download or read book The Civil War Adventures of a Blockade Runner written by William Watson and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Watson published his account of the two years he spent evading Union gunboats and dealing with the "sharpers" who fed off the misfortune of war in 1892. Using log books, personal papers, and business memoranda, he sought to write a "plain, blunt" account of "events just as they happened." Instead, he wrote a classic adventure tale whose careful description of seafaring in the 1860s gives us a glimpse into a world now closed to us. Watson is the protagonist, but he shares his story with his ship, the Rob Roy, a center-board schooner whose shallow draft and wide beam made it the ideal vessel for slipping over shoals and dashing in and out of blockaded ports. He peoples his account with the good, the bad, and the unlucky, from the likeable and irrepressible Captain Dave McLusky to the loathsome and dishonest Mr. R. M. He takes his reader from Havana, where land sharks greeted incoming sailors, to Galveston, where sharp businessmen and corrupt officials connived to confiscate both profits and ships. He stops at Matamora, a dusty place on "a bare and barren coast," and he visits General Magruder in Houston. His crew brave gales and a hurricane that drives the Rob Roy back thirty miles; and he survives plots against his ship and his life. Through it all, Watson enjoys himself. Blockade running, he declares, was not "unlawful or dishonourable." Rather, it was "a bold and daring enterprise," an "exciting sport of the higher order," like racing yachts, and an almost obligatory act of defiance of a blockade "maintained by no other right than by the force of arms." The "commission merchants" did better than the blockade runners. But Watson recalled his years dodging federal gunboats and outwitting petty officials, treacherous crew, and dishonest businessmen as "much more congenial than the extortions and deceitful wheedling and trickeries of the legitimate trade." This is an adventure story held together by the nuts and bolts of sailing. Watson's discussion of why sail was superior to steam for running blockades is superb; his detailed accounts of surviving gales and outrunning Federal cruisers are fascinating. He takes yellow fever and high sea chases in stride. Through it all, he maintains his honor and guards his profits. For the reader who wants to ply the Gulf of Mexico under sail, play the lottery in Havana, and visit Texas when it was "a new country," Watson is the perfect guide to run the blockade that time imposes on posterity.
Book Synopsis Four Years in Rebel Capitals by : Thomas Cooper De Leon
Download or read book Four Years in Rebel Capitals written by Thomas Cooper De Leon and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Poole's Index to Periodical Literature by : William Frederick Poole
Download or read book Poole's Index to Periodical Literature written by William Frederick Poole and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Poole's Index to Periodical Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Menorah written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Poole's Index to Periodical Literature: Second Supplement, January 1, 1887-January 1, 1892 by : William Frederick Poole
Download or read book Poole's Index to Periodical Literature: Second Supplement, January 1, 1887-January 1, 1892 written by William Frederick Poole and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :William Isaac Fletcher Publisher :Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company ISBN 13 : Total Pages :508 pages Book Rating :4.E/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Poole's Index to Periodical Literature by : William Isaac Fletcher
Download or read book Poole's Index to Periodical Literature written by William Isaac Fletcher and published by Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company. This book was released on 1893 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Running the Blockade by : Thomas E. Taylor
Download or read book Running the Blockade written by Thomas E. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Poole's Index to Periodical Literature by : William Frederick Poole
Download or read book Poole's Index to Periodical Literature written by William Frederick Poole and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Never Caught by : Augustus Hobart-Hampden
Download or read book Never Caught written by Augustus Hobart-Hampden and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: