Years of Deadly Peril, 1939-1941
Author | : Henry Hitch Adams |
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Total Pages | : 559 |
Release | : 1947 |
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Author | : Henry Hitch Adams |
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Total Pages | : 559 |
Release | : 1947 |
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Author | : Henry Hitch Adams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
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This book is a chronicle of the dark years of the war, from its beginning in September, 1939 to the Pearl Harbor attack, December 7, 1941. This volume focuses not only on military events, although they are thoroughly covered, but also on the people -- fighting the battles, enduring the blows of war. It depicts vividly their lives at home and how they were affected day-to-day in differing ways by the sudden powerful surge of Nazism. - Jacket flap.
Author | : Henry Hitch Adams |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : T. H. Watkins |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 2000-09 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780805065060 |
Draws from oral histories, memoirs, local newspaper reports, and scholarly texts to tell the story of America's Great Depression in the words of people who lived through it.
Author | : John J. Sbrega |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1078 |
Release | : 2015-06-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317431790 |
With over 5,200 entries, this volume remains one of the most extensive annotated bibliographies on the USA’s fight against Japan in the Second World War. Including books, articles, and de-classified documents up to the end of 1987, the book is organized into six categories: Part 1 presents reference works, including encyclopedias, pictorial accounts, military histories, East Asian histories, hisotoriographies. Part 2 covers diplomatic-political aspects of the war against Japan. Part 3 contains sources on the economic and legal aspects of the war against Japan. Part 4 presents sources on the military apsects of the war – embracing land, air and sea forces. Religious aspects of the war are covered in Part 5 and Part 6 deals with the social and cultural aspects, including substantial sections on the treatment of Japanese minorities in the USA, Hawaii, Canada and Peru.
Author | : T. H. Watkins |
Publisher | : Plunkett Lake Press |
Total Pages | : 707 |
Release | : 2019-08-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Born in rural western Pennsylvania, Harold LeClair Ickes (1874-1952), son of a gambler, womanizer, drunk father and of a strictly reared Presbyterian mother, grew up desperately poor and desperately ambitious. He became a Chicago newsman during its gilded era, a key figure in the Progressive Party, and in FDR’s cabinet became America’s longest serving and most influential Interior Secretary. As Interior Secretary, he helped change the face of America, forging that department into the most powerful tool for the protection of our lands. He was also a major force in reshaping the character and quality of American society, often seeming to speak ex cathedra as the conscience of FDR’s administration. Opinionated, vigorously outspoken, as impassioned defending minorities as defending our wild places, Ickes, who happily styled himself “the Old Curmudgeon,” was arguably the most controversial and most beloved figure in the New Deal. When Ickes wrote his first column in the New Republic, the editors of the magazine introduced him on May 2, 1949 as “old enough to be called an Elder Statesman, but he is too salty for that label. He himself has cheerfully accepted the epithet of Curmudgeon, which likewise is insufficient to his case. A more accurate description would be that he is America’s most venerable progressive and one of the stoutest fighters, at any age, for justice and good government.” Righteous Pilgrim was a non-fiction National Book Award finalist in 1990, and received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography in 1991 and was a finalist for theNational Book Critics Circle Award. “an outstanding biography that is also a major work of social history spanning the first half of the 20th century... [Ickes was] a courageous public servant who in Righteous Pilgrim receives long overdue recognition.” — Herbert Mitgang, The New York Times “highly successful... Written in a delightful conversational style that disguises the impressive scholarly research that went into its preparation, this is an appreciative biography of a man who was so temperamental, thin-skinned and bluntly outspoken that he acknowledged these traits himself... This thoughtful, readable, and yet gripping book is so persuasive it may well force a more positive reassessment of the New Deal... Righteous Pilgrim is likely to be one of the most significant histories of the Progressive and New Deal reform impulse to appear in a decade.” — Howard R. Lamar,Washington Post “[an] elegant and exhaustive new biography of Ickes... Using primary sources (such as the diary Ickes religiously maintained through most of his life) with great sensitivity, [Watkins] provides an astonishingly intimate portrait of a public man... Watkins, editor of The Wilderness Society magazine Wilderness, is a wonderfully skillful writer... As Watkins powerfully demonstrates in this rewarding and illuminating work, Ickes had no shortage of ego — but his real fuel was conviction, burning at an octane hardly ever seen in Washington any more.” — Ronald Brownstein, Los Angeles Times “[an] engaging, monumental biography” — Publishers Weekly “Researched with amazing thoroughness and organized with a sure hand, this will undoubtedly prove to be the definitive work on Harold L. Ickes... Watkins portrays the currents of political maneuvering that swirled and eddied about Ickes with admirable clarity. A complex, fascinating, and convincing portrait.” — Kirkus Reviews “[a] worthy, well-written biography.“ — Clayton R. Koppes, Reviews in American History “Harold Ickes was one of the most interesting political figures of the first half of the twentieth century, and T. H. Watkins vividly sets forth both the complexities of his personality and personal life and the remarkable scope of his achievements.” — Frank Freidel “A superbly written story of the preeminent Progressive of this century. I couldn’t put it down.” — Stewart L. Udall “Righteous Pilgrim is one of those rare and wonderful biographies that are at once incisive portraiture and important social history.” — Wallace Stegner “Harold Ickes stomps across the pages of T. H. Watkins’s biography as one of the most arresting and essential figures of the American twentieth century.” — Frederick Turner “At last, a biography worthy of its extraordinary subject — vivid, impassioned, larger-than-life.” — Geoffrey C. Ward
Author | : E. B Potter |
Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2014-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1612517676 |
A classic work covering over 2,000 years of naval history, from Greek and Roman galley warfare to Vietnam.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Aeronautics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Donal Sexton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 583 |
Release | : 2011-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135906874 |
The Western European and Mediterranean Theaters in World War II is a concise, comprehensive guide for students, teachers, and history buffs of the Second World War. With an emphasis on the American forces in these theaters, each entry is accompanied by a brief annotation that will allow researchers to navigate through the vast amount of literature on the campaigns fought in these regions with ease. Focusing on all aspects surrounding the U.S. involvement in the Western European and Mediterranean theaters, including politics, religion, biography, strategy, intelligence, and operations, this bibliography will be a welcome addition to the collection of any academic or research library. Routledge Research Guides to American Military Studies provide concise, annotated bibliographies to the major areas and events in American military history. With the inclusion of brief critical annotations after each entry, the student and researcher can easily assess the utility of each bibliographic source and evaluate the abundance of resources available with ease and efficiency. Comprehensive, concise, and current—Routledge Research Guides to American Military Studies are an essential research tool for any historian.
Author | : Henry Hitch Adams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Preface; 1. Normandy to Notre Dam; 2. One -Two Punches: New Guinea and the Marianas; 3. Victory Is Everywhere; 4. Return to the Philippines; 5. The Battle for the Leyte Gulf; 6. Harmony to Discord; 7. The Road to Japan; 8. To the End in Germany; 9. To Tokyo Bay; 10. To Bear the Unbearable; Epilogue: These Proceedings are Now Closed; Bibliography; Index