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Download or read book Fatal Victories written by William Weir and published by . This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A bull's eye performance."- Publishers Weekly "Unique and thought-provoking."- The Historian A noted historian and master storyteller explores the costly, often calamitous effects of victories gained by brilliant military commanders in fourteen historical battles-from Hannibal at Cannae to Bunker Hill, Sarajevo, Pearl Harbor, and the Tet Offensive in Vietnam. William Weir served as an army MP and a combat correspondent during the Korean War. He has written nine books, including Fifty Battles that Changed the World , Soldiers in the Shadows , The Encyclopedia of African American Military History , and Turning Points in Military History . He lives in Guilford, Connecticut.
Download or read book Fatal Decision written by Carlo D'Este and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fatal Decision is a powerful, dramatic, moving, and ultimately definitive narrative of one of the most desperate campaigns of World War II. In the winter of 1943-44, Anzio, a small Mediterranean resort and port some thirty-five miles south of Rome, played a crucial role in the fortunes of World War II as the target of an amphibious Allied landing. The Allies planned to bypass the strong German defenses along the Gustav Line and at Monte Cassino sixty miles to the southeast, which were holding up the American and British armies and preventing the liberation of Rome. By taking advantage of Allied command of the sea and air to effect complete surprise, infantry and armored forces landing at Anzio on January 22 were expected to secure the beachhead and then push inland to cut off the two main highways and railroads supplying the German forces to the south, either trapping and annihilating the German armies or forcing them to withdraw to the north, thus opening the way to Rome. But the reality of one of the most desperate campaigns of World War II was bad management, external meddling, poorly relayed orders, and uncertain leadership. The Anzio beachhead became a death trap, with Allied troops forced to fight for their lives for four dreadful months. The eventual victory in May 1944 was muted, bitter, and overshadowed by the Allied landings in Normandy on June 6. Mixing flawless research, drama, and combat with a brilliant narrative voice, Fatal Decision is one of the best histories ever written of a World War II military campaign.
Download or read book Sermons written by Daniel de Superville and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies by : abbé Raynal (Guillaume-Thomas-François)
Download or read book A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies written by abbé Raynal (Guillaume-Thomas-François) and published by . This book was released on 1783 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 50 Battles that Changed the World (Volume 1 of 2) (Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition) by : William Weir
Download or read book 50 Battles that Changed the World (Volume 1 of 2) (Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition) written by William Weir and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2006 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a brief look at the 50 battles the author believes have had the most profound impact on world history. Listed in order of importance for our world today, they range from the ancient world to the present and span the globe.
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Book Synopsis Fatal Sunday by : Mark Edward Lender
Download or read book Fatal Sunday written by Mark Edward Lender and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have long considered the Battle of Monmouth one of the most complicated engagements of the American Revolution. Fought on Sunday, June 28, 1778, Monmouth was critical to the success of the Revolution. It also marked a decisive turning point in the military career of George Washington. Without the victory at Monmouth Courthouse, Washington's critics might well have marshaled the political strength to replace him as the American commander-in-chief. Authors Mark Edward Lender and Garry Wheeler Stone argue that in political terms, the Battle of Monmouth constituted a pivotal moment in the War for Independence. Viewing the political and military aspects of the campaign as inextricably entwined, this book offers a fresh perspective on Washington’s role in it. Drawing on a wide range of historical sources—many never before used, including archaeological evidence—Lender and Stone disentangle the true story of Monmouth and provide the most complete and accurate account of the battle, including both American and British perspectives. In the course of their account it becomes evident that criticism of Washington’s performance in command was considerably broader and deeper than previously acknowledged. In light of long-standing practical and ideological questions about his vision for the Continental Army and his ability to win the war, the outcome at Monmouth—a hard-fought tactical draw—was politically insufficient for Washington. Lender and Stone show how the general’s partisans, determined that the battle for public opinion would be won in his favor, engineered a propaganda victory for their chief that involved the spectacular court-martial of Major General Charles Lee, the second-ranking officer of the Continental Army. Replete with poignant anecdotes, folkloric incidents, and stories of heroism and combat brutality; filled with behind-the-scenes action and intrigue; and teeming with characters from all walks of life, Fatal Sunday gives us the definitive view of the fateful Battle of Monmouth.
Book Synopsis 50 Battles That Changed the World by : William Weir
Download or read book 50 Battles That Changed the World written by William Weir and published by Permuted Press+ORM. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An informative look at the military conflicts that most altered the course of history and civilization, from ancient times to the modern world. Rather than celebrating warfare, 50 Battles That Changed the World looks at the clashes the author believes have had the most profound impact on world history. Ranked in order of their relevance to the modern world, these struggles range from the ancient past to the present day and span the globe many times over. Some of the battles in this book are familiar to us all—Bunker Hill, which prevented the American Revolution from being stillborn, and Marathon, which kept the world’s first democracy alive. Others may be less familiar—the naval battle at Diu (on the Indian Coast), which led to the ascendancy of Western Civilization and the discovery of America, and Yarmuk, which made possible the spread of Islam from Morocco to the Philippines. With remarkable accounts of both famous and lesser-known clashes, 50 Battles That Changed the World provides impressive insight into the battles that shaped civilization as we know it.
Download or read book Works written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book 50 Battles that Changed the World (Volume 2 of 2) (Easyread Comfort Edition) written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Essays on His Own Times by : Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Download or read book Essays on His Own Times written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Essays on His Own Times Forming a Second Series of The Friend by : Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Download or read book Essays on His Own Times Forming a Second Series of The Friend written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Myth of the Lost Cause by : Edward H. Bonekemper
Download or read book The Myth of the Lost Cause written by Edward H. Bonekemper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History isn't always written by the winners... Twenty-first-century controversies over Confederate monuments attest to the enduring significance of our nineteenth-century Civil War. As Lincoln knew, the meaning of America itself depends on how we understand that fratricidal struggle. As soon as the Army of Northern Virginia laid down its arms at Appomattox, a group of Confederate officers took up their pens to refight the war for the history books. They composed a new narrative—the Myth of the Lost Cause—seeking to ennoble the sacrifice and defeat of the South, which popular historians in the twentieth century would perpetuate. Unfortunately, that myth would distort the historical imagination of Americans, north and south, for 150 years. In this balanced and compelling correction of the historical record, Edward Bonekemper helps us understand the Myth of the Lost Cause and its effect on the social and political controversies that are still important to all Americans.
Book Synopsis Not One of Them in Place by : Norman Finkelstein
Download or read book Not One of Them in Place written by Norman Finkelstein and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not One of Them in Place is the first book to examine the ways in which Jewish belief, thought, and culture have been shaped and articulated in modern American poetry. Based on the idea that recent American poetry has gravitated between two traditions—romantic and symbolist on the one hand, modernist and objectivist on the other—Norman Finkelstein provides a theoretical framework for reading the Jewish-American canon, as well as close readings of well known and less established poets, including Allen Ginsberg, Charles Reznikoff, Louis Zukofsky, Harvey Shapiro, Armand Schwerner, Hugh Seidman, and Michael Heller. Not One of Them in Place presents this poetry in a clear and nuanced style, paying equal attention to its historical and its aesthetic dimensions.
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Book Synopsis Conciones Ad Populum. Or, Addresses to the People by : Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Download or read book Conciones Ad Populum. Or, Addresses to the People written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
