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Book Synopsis In the Highest Degree Tragic by : Donald M. Kehn
Download or read book In the Highest Degree Tragic written by Donald M. Kehn and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Highest Degree Tragic tells the heroic story of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet's sacrifice defending the Dutch East Indies from the Japanese in the first three months of the Pacific War. Donald M. Kehn Jr.'s comprehensive narrative history of the operations involving multiple ships and thousands of men dramatically depicts the chaotic nature of these battles. His research has uncovered evidence of communications failures, vessels sinking hundreds of miles from where they had been reported lost, and entire complements of men simply disappearing off the face of the earth. Kehn notes that much of the fleet went down with guns blazing and flag flying, highlighting, where many others have failed to do so, the political and strategic reasons for the fleet's deployment to the region in the first place. In the Highest Degree Tragic rectifies the historical record, showcasing how brave yet all-too-human sailors and officers carried out their harrowing tasks. Containing rare first-person accounts and anecdotes, from the highest command echelons down to the lowest enlisted personnel, Kehn's book is the most comprehensive and exhaustive study to date of this important part of American involvement in World War II.
Book Synopsis In the Highest Degree Tragic by : Donald M. Kehn
Download or read book In the Highest Degree Tragic written by Donald M. Kehn and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Highest Degree Tragic tells the heroic story of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet’s sacrifice defending the Dutch East Indies from the Japanese in the first three months of the Pacific War. Donald M. Kehn Jr.’s comprehensive narrative history of the operations involving multiple ships and thousands of men dramatically depicts the chaotic nature of these battles. His research has uncovered evidence of communications failures, vessels sinking hundreds of miles from where they had been reported lost, and entire complements of men simply disappearing off the face of the earth. Kehn notes that much of the fleet went down with guns blazing and flag flying, highlighting, where many others have failed to do so, the political and strategic reasons for the fleet’s deployment to the region in the first place. In the Highest Degree Tragic rectifies the historical record, showcasing how brave yet all-too-human sailors and officers carried out their harrowing tasks. Containing rare first-person accounts and anecdotes, from the highest command echelons down to the lowest enlisted personnel, Kehn’s book is the most comprehensive and exhaustive study to date of this important part of American involvement in World War II.
Book Synopsis The Fleet the Gods Forgot by : Walter G. Winslow
Download or read book The Fleet the Gods Forgot written by Walter G. Winslow and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic tale of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet in World War II received little attention prior to the publication of this book in 1982, when Winslow chronicled their short and tragic story of heroism and defeat.Greatly outnumbered by vastly superior forces, and saddled with defective equipment; a lack of supplies, reinforcements, and air cover; and, towards the end, an incompetent and bungled Allied combined command, the Asiatic fleet met the Japanese head-on. Within a matter of three months, however, the beleaguered ships were totally wiped out. Captain Walter Winslow, a naval aviator on board the USS Houston, flagship of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, was in a unique position to tell the riveting story. As an active participant in all the major battles the fleet engaged in, he had an intimate understanding of the calamities that befell it. In addition, he drew upon the his own extensive notes he kept from a POW camp while interviewing other American, British, Dutch, and Australian prisoners from the Allied fleet. Winslow also painstakingly tracked down war documents and battle reports from all the ships assigned to the fleet to paint a complete picture filled with graphic details of the fleet’s only victory at Balikpapan; the disastrous Battle of the Java Sea that broke the back of the combined Asiatic fleet; the ghastly spectacle at Sunda Strait where the Houston struggled to survive; the suspenseful episode in the submarine Perch trapped in the mud at the bottom of the sea; and the daring escape from Corregidor of eighteen crewmembers from the USS Quail who refused to surrender to the Japanese forces.
Book Synopsis The Essence of Ancient Tragedy by : Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Hinrichs
Download or read book The Essence of Ancient Tragedy written by Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Hinrichs and published by Gegensatz Press. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An elaboration of Hegel's interpretation of Sophocles' Antigone by one of Hegel's own students, first published in German in 1827.
Book Synopsis The Villain as Hero in Elizabethan Tragedy by : Clarence Valentine Boyer
Download or read book The Villain as Hero in Elizabethan Tragedy written by Clarence Valentine Boyer and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis We Were Eight Years in Power by : Ta-Nehisi Coates
Download or read book We Were Eight Years in Power written by Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by One World. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “urgently relevant”* collection featuring the landmark essay “The Case for Reparations,” the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me “reflects on race, Barack Obama’s presidency and its jarring aftermath”*—including the election of Donald Trump. New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times • USA Today • Time • Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle • Essence • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Week • Kirkus Reviews *Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “We were eight years in power” was the lament of Reconstruction-era black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democracy ended with the return of white supremacist rule in the South. In this sweeping collection of new and selected essays, Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the tragic echoes of that history in our own time: the unprecedented election of a black president followed by a vicious backlash that fueled the election of the man Coates argues is America’s “first white president.” But the story of these present-day eight years is not just about presidential politics. This book also examines the new voices, ideas, and movements for justice that emerged over this period—and the effects of the persistent, haunting shadow of our nation’s old and unreconciled history. Coates powerfully examines the events of the Obama era from his intimate and revealing perspective—the point of view of a young writer who begins the journey in an unemployment office in Harlem and ends it in the Oval Office, interviewing a president. We Were Eight Years in Power features Coates’s iconic essays first published in The Atlantic, including “Fear of a Black President,” “The Case for Reparations,” and “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” along with eight fresh essays that revisit each year of the Obama administration through Coates’s own experiences, observations, and intellectual development, capped by a bracingly original assessment of the election that fully illuminated the tragedy of the Obama era. We Were Eight Years in Power is a vital account of modern America, from one of the definitive voices of this historic moment.
Download or read book Greek Tragedy written by H.D.F. Kitto and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed study of Greek tragedy by a renowned Classical scholar Kitto is author of 'The Greeks', a legendary introduction to the Greek world and Penguin bestseller Examines three of the great Greek dramatists: Aeschylus, Sophocloes and Euripides and famous plays such as Agamemnon, Antigone and Medea New foreword by Edith Hall
Download or read book Terror at Beslan written by John Giduck and published by Deer Creek Awards. This book was released on 2005 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by : Jeff Hobbs
Download or read book The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace written by Jeff Hobbs and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces a young man's effort to escape the dangers of the streets and his own nature after graduating from Yale, describing his youth in violent 1980s Newark, efforts to navigate two fiercely insular worlds and life-ending drug deals. 75,000 first printing.
Book Synopsis Studies in Greek Tragedy by : Louise E. Matthaei
Download or read book Studies in Greek Tragedy written by Louise E. Matthaei and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Studies in Greek Tragedy by : Lady Louise Ernestine Matthaei Howard
Download or read book Studies in Greek Tragedy written by Lady Louise Ernestine Matthaei Howard and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tragedy and Philosophy by : Walter Kaufmann
Download or read book Tragedy and Philosophy written by Walter Kaufmann and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical re-examination of the views of Plato, Aristotle, Hegel and Nietzsche on tragedy. Ancient Greek tragedy is revealed as surprisingly modern and experimental, while such concepts as mimesis, catharsis, hubris and the tragic collision are discussed from different perspectives.
Book Synopsis Shadowed Ground by : Kenneth E. Foote
Download or read book Shadowed Ground written by Kenneth E. Foote and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize, Association of American Geographers, 1997 Shadowed Ground explores how and why Americans have memorialized—or not—the sites of tragic and violent events spanning three centuries of history and every region of the country. For this revised edition, Kenneth Foote has written a new concluding chapter that looks at the evolving responses to recent acts of violence and terror, including the destruction of the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Columbine High School massacre, and the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
Book Synopsis The Tragedy of Hamlet by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book The Tragedy of Hamlet written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by : A. C. Bradley
Download or read book Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth written by A. C. Bradley and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth" by A. C. Bradley. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Book Synopsis Shakespearean Tragedy by : A.C. Bradley
Download or read book Shakespearean Tragedy written by A.C. Bradley and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Shakespearean Tragedy by A.C. Bradley
Book Synopsis Works by : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Download or read book Works written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
