The War's Greatest Scandal!
Author | : Dwight Macdonald |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : African American sailors |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Dwight Macdonald |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : African American sailors |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David Fletcher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Tanks (Military science) |
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Author | : John Harper |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2016-07-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1510708596 |
Two high-ranking officers defied the British Admiralty to tell the tale of World War I’s first naval battle against Germany. The Royal Navy had ruled the sea unchallenged for one hundred years since Nelson triumphed at Trafalgar. Yet when the Grand Fleet faced the German High Seas Fleet across the grey waters of the North Sea near Jutland, the British battleships and cruisers were battered into a draw, losing far more men and ships than the enemy. The Grand Fleet far outnumbered and outgunned the German fleet, so something clearly had gone wrong. The public waited for the official histories of the battle to be released to learn the truth, but month after month went by with the Admiralty promising, but failing, to publish an account of Jutland. Questions were raised in Parliament (twenty-two times), yet still no official report was produced, due to objections from Admiral Beatty. This led to Admiral Bacon producing his own account of the battle, called The Jutland Scandal, in 1925. Two years later the man instructed to write the official report, Rear-Admiral Harper, decided to publish his account independently, under the title The Truth about Jutland. Together, these two books lay bare the facts about Jutland and reveal the failings of senior officers and the distortions of the early historians. Produced as one volume for the first time, this book tells the truth about the scandal that developed following the largest battle ever fought at sea. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Author | : Wendell Lloyd Jones |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2024-05-10 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1476651841 |
The National League was in its second season of existence in 1877. In mid-season, the Louisville Grays suddenly took the league by storm and by mid-August were considered a lock to win the pennant. Then, disaster struck. The Grays fell out of first place, and the pennant was lost. Suspicions were high that the club had sold out to gamblers. Three players were tricked into confessing to the selling of exhibition games and were blacklisted from the sport along with a fourth player who refused to cooperate with the investigation. Since then, historians have presented a simple narrative about how the Grays sold the pennant to gamblers, how that treachery was discovered, and the steps that followed. However, none of this is true. For nearly 150 years the story of the Louisville Grays has been told, and the story has been wrong. For the first time, the objective evidence that was there all along is examined in comparison to the narrative that has been told about the Grays. The evidence shows the Grays did not sell the pennant; they simply lost it. This is the story of how Major League Baseball's first great scandal never truly happened.
Author | : J. Seymour Currey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Laton McCartney |
Publisher | : Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2009-01-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812973372 |
In this amazing and at times ribald story, Laton McCartney tells how Big Oil handpicked Warren G. Harding, an obscure Ohio senator, to serve as our twenty-third president. Harding and his “oil cabinet” made it possible for cronies to secure vast fuel reserves that had been set aside for use by the U.S. Navy. In exchange, the oilmen paid off senior government officials, bribed newspaper publishers, and covered the GOP campaign debt. When news of the scandal finally emerged, the consequences were disastrous. Drawing on contemporary records newly made available to McCartney, The Teapot Dome Scandal reveals a shocking, revelatory picture of just how far-reaching the affair was, how high the stakes, and how powerful the conspirators–all told in a dazzling narrative style.
Author | : William P. Jones |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2013-07-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393082857 |
A history professor describes the impact and history of the opening speech made during the March on Washington by the trade unionist Philip Randolph, whose vision and fight for equal economic and social citizenship began in 1941.
Author | : Charles Thomas-Stanford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Arthur C Conan Doyle |
Publisher | : Pearson UK |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1292303042 |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 990 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |