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Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2001-10-01
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 0801867126
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A New York Times bestselling author writes about West Point. This new paperback edition of Stephen E. Ambrose's highly regarded history of the United States Military Academy features the original foreword by Dwight D. Eisenhower and a new afterword by former West Point superintendent Andrew J. Goodpaster.
Author: Douglas MacArthur
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2018-12-01
Total Pages: 27
ISBN-13: 1789125375
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The present volume, first published in 1962, consists of two distinguished speeches given by the General of the U.S. Army, Douglas MacArthur. The first address took place on April 19, 1951 and was held before a joint meeting of the two houses of United States Congress—the House of Representatives and the Senate—and took place in the Hall of the House of Representatives. This meeting followed on just one week from MacArthur’s removal from command by President Harry S. Truman. The second address was held on May 12, 1921 and was given to The Members of the Association of Graduates, U.S.M.A., The Corps of Cadets, and Distinguished Guests. It was given on the occasion of MacArthur’s acceptance of the Sylvanus Thayer Award for outstanding service to the nation, which had gone to Eisenhower the year before. The event was held at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York.
Author: Steve Hardwick
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2012-12
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 1475966598
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This book was written to provide and preserve an oral history of the eighty-four men and women who were interviewed...sharing their memories of World War II. The stories include seventy-six veterans and eight women who served as USO volunteers, Red Cross service workers, a Holocaust survivor, and women who worked on the home front...All of the veterans and the women who served in various support roles have a connection to Indiana"--from the Preface.
Author: Mickey Herskowitz
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
Published: 2003-02-04
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 141853076X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A profile of the Bush political clan patriarch—who he was and what he stood for, the examples he set, the events he shared, and the lives he touched. Prescott Bush is the only person in US history to be father of a US President, grandfather of a US President, and grandfather of a state governor. Duty, Honor, Country is more than a biography of the U.S. Senator from Connecticut, although it is that. It looks at the principles that Prescott Bush passed on like family heirlooms to his five children, including George H.W. Bush, the forty-first President of the United States: discipline, duty, ethics, commitment, courage, honor, honesty, loyalty, and responsibility. And it looks at the ways the Bush family legacy has made Prescott Bush, former President George Bush, George W. Bush, and Jeb Bush give themselves to public service. “My father believed in the concept of noblesse oblige,” said former President George Bush. “You made your money and you had a duty to serve the community or your country.” Written with the encouragement and enthusiasm of former President Bush, the book is a readable story of noblesse oblige in action, from the time Prescott Bush served in town government in Greenwich, Connecticut, to his career as a US Senator from Connecticut, to his role in passing far-reaching legislation in the Eisenhower years. It also deals honestly with Prescott Bush’s alleged business relationships with Nazi industrialists and other accusations. Half of the book also shows how the commitment to public service was lived out in the lives of Prescott’s children and grandchildren, focusing on his son George H.W. Bush and his grandsons George W. Bush and Jeb Bush.
Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780801862939
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Author: Charles Summerall
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2010-10-29
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 0813126193
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →After graduating from West Point in 1892, Charles Pelot Summerall (1867–1955) launched a distinguished military career, fighting Filipino insurgents in 1899 and Boxers in China in 1900. His remarkable service included brigade, division, and corps commands in World War I; duty as chief of staff of the U.S. Army from 1926 to 1930; and presidency of the Citadel for twenty years, where he was instrumental in establishing the school’s national reputation. Previously available only in the Citadel’s archives, Summerall’s memoir offers an eyewitness account of a formative period in U.S. Army history. Edited and annotated by Timothy K. Nenninger, the memoir documents critical moments in American military history and details Summerall’s personal life, from his impoverished childhood in Florida to his retirement from the Citadel in 1953. From the perspective of both a soldier and a general, Summerall describes how the very nature of war changed irrevocably during his lifetime.
Author: Tom Mueller
Publisher:
Published: 2013-08
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781457521645
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Nearly 27,000 men and women from Wisconsin have made the Ultimate Sacrifice in the nation's wars, from the Civil War to the two World Wars to Korea to Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan. They are represented in "Duty, Honor, Country and Wisconsin" by several dozen men and women ranging from Oak Creek to Mayville and Beaver Dam to Menomonie to Sauk City / Prairie du Sac; and from Marshfield to Laona to Ettrick to Waupun; and from Dousman to Plover to Milwaukee. Author Tom Mueller has been reporting on this topic for three decades, and this is his fourth book. It includes more than two dozen who were lost in World War II, and two chapters about the 37 Wisconsin MIAs in Vietnam - the most extensive coverage of them as a group in decades, if not ever. Plus the stories of seven Civil War veterans who became Wisconsin governor, and some surprising details about Badger State men in World War I. And a review of the women who have made the Ultimate Sacrifice and how that has sharply increased in the last decade. The book also has interviews with more than three dozen veterans of wars ranging from World War II to Afghanistan.
Author: Clifford Worthy
Publisher:
Published: 2019-01-08
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781641800303
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the 1940s, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point was out of reach for most African Americans due to racial barriers. Clifford Worthy was one of the first who was accepted and excelled as a Black Knight of the Hudson. His courageous Army service around the world balanced military and family life, even as they raised a child with special needs.
Author: Wesley K. Clark
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2007-09-04
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0230610773
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Four-star General Wesley K. Clark became a major figure on the political scene when he was drafted by popular demand to run for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 2003. But this was just one of many exceptional accomplishments of a long and extraordinary career. Here, for the first time, General Clark uses his unique life experience—from his difficult youth in segregated Arkansas where he was raised by his poor, widowed mother; through the horror of Vietnam where he was wounded; the post-war rebuilding of national security and the struggles surrounding the new world order after the Cold War—as a springboard to reveal his vision for America, at home and in the world. General Clark will address issues such as foreign policy, the economy, the environment, education and health care, family, faith, and the American dream. Rich with breathtaking battle scenes, poignant personal anecdote and eye-opening recommendations on the best way forward, General Clark's new book is a tour de force of gripping storytelling and inspiring vision.
Author: Ed Schroeder
Publisher:
Published: 2013-03-01
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781615729104
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The fictional account of the United States most secret Special Operations unit, the "Activity." One day training with Norwegian Special Forces in the snow, the next carrying out a mission in the sweltering heat of the Horn of Africa; life is never boring for America's most secret Special Operations unit. Their current "Black" designation is "Tacit Avenger, operational name Ranger-1; formally known as the Army Intelligence Support Activity, still referred to as the "Activity." This unit never makes the news and very little is known about them. The unit is unique in the world of special operations in that they have the ability to generate their own intelligence through electronics means and immediately act on it. This is the fictional account of the real unit of nameless, faceless men who silently and without fanfare keep America safe in the ongoing Global War on Terrorism. Their heroism and bravery only known to themselves, upholding the values of Duty, Honor, Country.
