Highlights of a Fighting History
Author: Philip Abraham Bart
Publisher:
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Speeches, essays and documents arranged by topic and by date from 1919-1969. A brief summary begins each section.
Author: Philip Abraham Bart
Publisher:
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Speeches, essays and documents arranged by topic and by date from 1919-1969. A brief summary begins each section.
Author: Alfred Price
Publisher: PRC Publishing
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781856480154
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Very Good,No Highlights or Markup,all pages are intact.
Author: H. W. Crocker
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2024-01-09
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 1684515742
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Fighting Men Who Made America Great In this stirring and contrarian modern classic, bestselling author H. W. Crocker III unfolds four hundred years of American military history, revealing how Americans were born Indian fighters whose military prowess carved out first a continental and then a global empire—a Pax Americana that made the modern world. From the seventeenth century on, he argues, Americans have shown a jealous regard for their freedom—and have backed it up with an unheralded skill in small-unit combat operations, a tradition that includes Rogers’s Rangers, Merrill’s Marauders, and today’s Special Forces. He shows that Americans were born to the foam, too, with a mastery of naval gunnery and tactics that allowed their navy, even in its infancy, to defeat French and British warships and expand U.S. commerce on the seas. Most of all, Crocker highlights the courage of the dogface infantry, the fighting leathernecks, and the daring sailors and airmen who have turned the tide of battle again and again. In Don’t Tread on Me, still forests are suddenly pierced by the Rebel Yell and a surge of grey. Teddy Roosevelt’s spectacles flash in the sunlight as he leads his Rough Riders’ charge up San Juan Hill. Yankee doughboys rip into close-quarters combat against the Germans. Marines drive the Japanese out of their island fortresses with flamethrowers, grenades, and guts. GIs slug their way into Hitler’s Germany. The long twilight struggle against communism is fought in the snows of Korea and the steaming jungles of Vietnam. Navy SEALs and Army Rangers battle Islamist terrorists in the bleak mountains of Afghanistan, just as their forefathers fought Barbary pirates two hundred years ago. And we are reminded of the wisdom of America’s greatest generals: George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses Grant, John Pershing, George Patton, Douglas MacArthur, and Norman Schwarzkopf. Fast-paced and riveting—and completely updated from its original 2006 publication—Don’t Tread on Me is a bold look at the history of America at war.
Author: Howard Kimeldorf
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0520078861
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Why is the American working class different? For generations, scholars and activists alike have wrestled with this question, with an eye to explaining why workers in the United States are not more like their radicalized European counterparts. Approaching the question from a different angle, Reds or Rackets? provides a fascinating examination of the American labor movement from the inside out, as it were, by analyzing the divergent sources of radicalism and conservatism within it. Kimeldorf focuses on the political contrast between East and West Coast longshoremen from World War I through the early years of the Cold War, when the difference between the two unions was greatest. He explores the politics of the West Coast union that developed into a hot bed of working class insurgency and contrasts it with the conservative and racket-ridden East Coast longshoreman's union. Two unions, based in the same industry—as different as night and day. The question posed by Kimeldorf is, why? Why "reds" on one coast and racketeers on the other? To answer this question Kimeldorf provides a systematic comparison of the two unions, illuminating the political consequences of occupational recruitment, industry structure, mobilization strategies, and industrial conflict during this period. In doing so, Reds orRackets? sheds new light on the structural and historical bases of radical and conservative unionism. More than a comparative study of two unions, Reds or Rackets? is an exploration of the dynamics of trade unionism, sources of membership loyalty, and neglected aspects of working class consciousness. It is an incisive and valuable study that will appeal to historians, social scientists, and anyone interested in understanding the political trajectory of twentieth-century American labor.
Author: Immanuel Ness
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-07-17
Total Pages: 1625
ISBN-13: 131747189X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This four-volume set examines every social movement in American history - from the great struggles for abolition, civil rights, and women's equality to the more specific quests for prohibition, consumer safety, unemployment insurance, and global justice.
Author: Sara Halprin
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780826338471
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The fascinating life of a cultural and political icon.
Author: John A. Haymond
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2018-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780811737951
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Presents the shared experiences of soldiers at war, from the Napoleonic Wars through World War II."--Provided by publisher.
Author: United States. Naval History Division
Publisher:
Published: 1959
Total Pages: 784
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