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Author : Henry Weston Farnsworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Letters of Henry Weston Farnsworth, of the Foreign Legion written by Henry Weston Farnsworth and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Weston Farnsworth
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331554786
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (547 download)
Download or read book Letters of Henry Weston Farnsworth, of the Foreign Legion (Classic Reprint) written by Henry Weston Farnsworth and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Letters of Henry Weston Farnsworth, of the Foreign Legion When eleven he went to a day-school in Boston. It was his first contact with the outside world. One day, after he had been to school for a few weeks, he came home three hours late, and said, Mother, if you were a man, would you want to experience life? I felt that way this after noon, and I have had a soda in every soda water fountain in Boston. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Henry Weston 1890-1915 Farnsworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781371396404
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (964 download)
Download or read book LETTERS OF HENRY WESTON FARNSW written by Henry Weston 1890-1915 Farnsworth and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Weston Farnsworth
Publisher : Sagwan Press
ISBN 13 : 9781340429591
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Letters Of Henry Weston Farnsworth, Of The Foreign Legion written by Henry Weston Farnsworth and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2015-08-26 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Henry Weston Farnsworth
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230395715
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (957 download)
Download or read book Letters of Henry Weston Farnsworth, of the Foreign Legion written by Henry Weston Farnsworth and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...standard is very low and 150 meters the longest range so far. Our old captain puts his ten shots in a circle of eight inches at 400, just to show us what he considers normal Legion shooting--he is considered one of the best shots in France--and Pere Uhlin, who detests marching and drilling, never appears at the butts. In the meantime, I am learning to really speak French and understand the French, and when it is all over, will have material for an interesting book. A bit of silliness that, being on the heart, must come out, is that a Martinique nigger, who believes he has divining powers, fell into a violent fever yesterday after the typhoid inoculation, and prophesied about some of us. Two were to be killed, one of them the Corporal, several of us wounded, and for myself, medaille militaire. I would give my soul for it With love to Ellen and Mother, Yours, Henry Hotel St. Petersbourg, 33 & 35 Rue Caumartin, Paris, January 21, 1915 Dear Aunt Alice: While I was eating sodden potatoes and salt beef out of a tin pail, known as the gammelle, in the room of the 15th Company of the first regiment of the Paris Battalion of the Foreign Legion, a letter was given me, and in it was a check for 5.2s. from you. I don't know when my heart has so bounded with joy. My own funds being somewhat exhausted, I had for ten days been living on the regimental pay, sou per day and half a pound of tobacco every ten days. I don't believe any of your Christmas gifts brought more joy. I immediately obtained leave for the afternoon, and am now just out of a hot bath, am smoking a good cigarette, writing in a comfortable hotel, and am brimming with gratitude. On the 31st of this month we leave for Lyons and on the 15th of February for Albert, a small town...
Author : Henry Weston Farnsworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
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Download or read book Letters of Henry Weston Farnsworth, of the Foreign Legion written by Henry Weston Farnsworth and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Kanitz
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787205762
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)
Download or read book The White Kepi written by Walter Kanitz and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heroic figures galloping across the loose sands of the Sahara, their flowing white kepis a symbol of the highest romance and adventure...or murderers and human derelicts, rejected by society and hunted by the police, seeking escape from prison in the ranks of the Légion Étrangère? Neither picture—so commonly held by the general public—is even partially accurate, writes Walter Kanitz. During World War II, Walter Kanitz fought with the Foreign Legion in Africa. He has done a vast amount of research and reading about the Legion, and has made every possible effort to check his facts. His book represents the first comprehensive and objective history of the French Foreign Legion since its inception in 1831 by the royal decree of Louis Philippe. For the better part of its history, the Foreign Legion, remote, fascinating, somewhat sinister, has been shrouded in mystery. It has been called everything from “Desert Carrion” to the “Legion of Beggars.” It was often said that “dogs bark when the Legion passes.” Yet, in battle, the Légionnaires are famed for a courage and heroism that knows no fear of death. They are considered by most professional soldiers to be, as a unit, the best fighting force in the world. When a new recruit applies for enlistment, he is made to wait 24 hours to reconsider his decision. The ranks are made up of men of all nationalities—Germans, Poles, Czechs, Slavs, Spaniards, Americans. It is the only army in existence today made up of mercenaries who have voluntarily signed to serve five years for the government of France. The discipline is harsh and the pay meager. The call to battle has taken Legion units from Mexico to Norway, from China to Morocco. Outside of battle, life consists of infinite boredom broken only by alcohol and an occasional woman. And yet, says ex-Legionnaire Kanitz, “Qu’importe, quand la Légion passe, que les chiens viennent aboyer après d’elle! Vive la Légion!”
Author : Douglas Boyd
Publisher : Ian Allen Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780711035003
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The French Foreign Legion written by Douglas Boyd and published by Ian Allen Pub. This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French Foreign Legion is an extraordinary and unique army, specifically created for foreign nationals wishing to serve in the French Armed Forces, but commanded by French officers. For nearly two centuries, adventure seekers or men on the run from all around the globe have found a home in the Foreign Legion and shed blood for France. In this book, author Douglas Boyd has been given unrivalled access to the Legion to tell its story from its inception in the 1830s, when it was primarily used to protect and expand the French colonial empire during the nineteenth century, but it has also fought in almost all French wars including the Franco-Prussian War and both World Wars. The Legion is today known as an elite military unit whose training focuses not only on traditional military skills, but also on its strong esprit de corps.
Author : Corcoran Gallery of Art
Publisher : Lucia Marquand
ISBN 13 : 9781555953614
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (536 download)
Download or read book Corcoran Gallery of Art written by Corcoran Gallery of Art and published by Lucia Marquand. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.
Author : John Bowe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
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Download or read book Soldiers of the Legion written by John Bowe and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ellen Douglas Larned
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Total Pages : 618 pages
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Download or read book History of Windham County, Connecticut: 1600-1760 written by Ellen Douglas Larned and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marshall McLuhan
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781537430058
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Understanding Media written by Marshall McLuhan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-04 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When first published, Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media made history with its radical view of the effects of electronic communications upon man and life in the twentieth century.
Author : Frances Manwaring Caulkins
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Total Pages : 686 pages
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Download or read book History of New London, Connecticut written by Frances Manwaring Caulkins and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Rose
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 055339259X
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (533 download)
Download or read book Washington's Spies written by Alexander Rose and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Turn: Washington’s Spies, now an original series on AMC Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War. For the first time, Rose takes us beyond the battlefront and deep into the shadowy underworld of double agents and triple crosses, covert operations and code breaking, and unmasks the courageous, flawed men who inhabited this wilderness of mirrors—including the spymaster at the heart of it all. In the summer of 1778, with the war poised to turn in his favor, General George Washington desperately needed to know where the British would strike next. To that end, he unleashed his secret weapon: an unlikely ring of spies in New York charged with discovering the enemy’s battle plans and military strategy. Washington’s small band included a young Quaker torn between political principle and family loyalty, a swashbuckling sailor addicted to the perils of espionage, a hard-drinking barkeep, a Yale-educated cavalryman and friend of the doomed Nathan Hale, and a peaceful, sickly farmer who begged Washington to let him retire but who always came through in the end. Personally guiding these imperfect everyday heroes was Washington himself. In an era when officers were gentlemen, and gentlemen didn’ t spy, he possessed an extraordinary talent for deception—and proved an adept spymaster. The men he mentored were dubbed the Culper Ring. The British secret service tried to hunt them down, but they escaped by the closest of shaves thanks to their ciphers, dead drops, and invisible ink. Rose’s thrilling narrative tells the unknown story of the Revolution–the murderous intelligence war, gunrunning and kidnapping, defectors and executioners—that has never appeared in the history books. But Washington’s Spies is also a spirited, touching account of friendship and trust, fear and betrayal, amid the dark and silent world of the spy.
Author : James E. Sanders
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 082237613X
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book The Vanguard of the Atlantic World written by James E. Sanders and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, Latin America was home to the majority of the world's democratic republics. Many historians have dismissed these political experiments as corrupt pantomimes of governments of Western Europe and the United States. Challenging that perspective, James E. Sanders contends that Latin America in this period was a site of genuine political innovation and popular debate reflecting Latin Americans' visions of modernity. Drawing on archival sources in Mexico, Colombia, and Uruguay, Sanders traces the circulation of political discourse and democratic practice among urban elites, rural peasants, European immigrants, slaves, and freed blacks to show how and why ideas of liberty, democracy, and universalism gained widespread purchase across the region, mobilizing political consciousness and solidarity among diverse constituencies. In doing so, Sanders reframes the locus and meaning of political and cultural modernity.
Author : John V. Denson
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412820462
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Costs of War written by John V. Denson and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest accomplishment of Western civilization is arguably the achievement of individual liberty through limits on the power of the state. In the war-torn twentieth century, we rarely hear that one of the main costs of armed conflict is long-term loss of liberty to winners and losers alike. Beyond the obvious and direct costs of dead and wounded soldiers, there is the lifetime struggle of veterans to live with their nightmares and their injuries; the hidden economic costs of inflation, debts, and taxes; and more generally the damages caused to our culture, our morality, and to civilization at large. The new edition is now available in paperback, with a number of new essays. It represents a large-scale collective effort to pierce the veils of myth and propaganda to reveal the true costs of war, above all, the cost to liberty. Central to this volume are the views of Ludwig von Mises on war and foreign policy. Mises argued that war, along with colonialism and imperialism, is the greatest enemy of freedom and prosperity, and that peace throughout the world cannot be achieved until the central governments of the major nations become limited in scope and power. In the spirit of these theorems by Mises, the contributors to this volume consider the costs of war generally and assess specific corrosive effects of major American wars since the Revolution. The first section includes chapters on the theoretical and institutional dimensions of the relationship between war and society, including conscription, infringements on freedom, the military as an engine of social change, war and literature, and the right of citizens to bear arms. The second group includes reconsiderations of Lincoln and Churchill, an analysis of the anti-interventionist idea in American politics, a discussion of the meaning of the "just war," an assessment of how World War I changed the course of Western civilization, and finally two eyewitness accounts of the true horrors of actual combat by veterans of World War II. The Costs of War is unique in its combination of historical scope and timeliness for current debates about foreign policy and military intervention. It will be of interest to historians, political scientists, economists, and sociologists.
Author : Pioneer citizens' society. Atlanta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pioneer Citizens' History of Atlanta, 1833-1902 written by Pioneer citizens' society. Atlanta and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
