Under Two Flags
Author | : Ouida |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1871 |
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Author | : Ouida |
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Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1871 |
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Author | : William M Fowler |
Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2012-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1612511961 |
Vividly written and well researched by a noted historian of the period, this succinct history credits the Union Navy as an essential element in the northern victory. Neither ponderous nor hagiographic, the work presents characters and events that have been previously neglected and offers candid assessments of officers, men, and material. Originally published in 1990, when it was a Military History Book Club selection, the work is considered a must for Civil War buffs. It is an authoritative and gripping story of the battles waged. The author provides a rare look at the war fought by primitive northern gunboats drifting through Louisiana's muddy bayous, Yankee merchantmen captured by rebel privateers at sea, and Union ironclads subduing hotly defended Southern forts. Nor does William Fowler neglect the subtler sparrings behind the scenes: War Secretary Stanton and Navy Secretary Welles competing for Lincoln's favor and Welles's fierce duel of strategies with his Confederate counterpart, Stephen Mallory. Finally, the author describes the astonishing transformation of the Navy itself from a ragtag fleet of aging steamers and paddleboats to one of the most powerful waterborne forces in the world.
Author | : Max Egremont |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780297813477 |
A biography of one of the greatest churchillians, a crucial lynch-pin between Britain and France
Author | : James Bradley |
Publisher | : Bantam |
Total Pages | : 602 |
Release | : 2006-08-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0553902768 |
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America. In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima—and into history. Through a hail of machine-gun and mortar fire that left the beaches strewn with comrades, they battled to the island's highest peak. And after climbing through a landscape of hell itself, they raised a flag. Now the son of one of the flagraisers has written a powerful account of six very different young men who came together in a moment that will live forever. To his family, John Bradley never spoke of the photograph or the war. But after his death at age seventy, his family discovered closed boxes of letters and photos. In Flags of Our Fathers, James Bradley draws on those documents to retrace the lives of his father and the men of Easy Company. Following these men's paths to Iwo Jima, James Bradley has written a classic story of the heroic battle for the Pacific's most crucial island—an island riddled with Japanese tunnels and 22,000 fanatic defenders who would fight to the last man. But perhaps the most interesting part of the story is what happened after the victory. The men in the photo—three were killed during the battle—were proclaimed heroes and flown home, to become reluctant symbols. For two of them, the adulation was shattering. Only James Bradley's father truly survived, displaying no copy of the famous photograph in his home, telling his son only: “The real heroes of Iwo Jima were the guys who didn't come back. ” Few books ever have captured the complexity and furor of war and its aftermath as well as Flags of Our Fathers. A penetrating, epic look at a generation at war, this is history told with keen insight, enormous honesty, and the passion of a son paying homage to his father. It is the story of the difference between truth and myth, the meaning of being a hero, and the essence of the human experience of war.
Author | : Gordon Levett |
Publisher | : Frank Cass & Company |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780714641027 |
Author | : Juris Jurjevics |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547564511 |
In the remote central highlands of Vietnam, Army CID officer Eric Rider confronts drug-running and corruption that crosses enemy lines and divides loyalties.
Author | : Lonely Planet Kids |
Publisher | : Lonely Planet |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019-09-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1788686543 |
Did you know that flags are actually pictures that send a message to everyone who sees them? In The Flag Book you'll uncover the hidden meanings of flags- from country and state colours to flags used in sports, on ships and aeroplanes, and by the most dastardly of Caribbean pirates.
Author | : Eldred D. Jones |
Publisher | : James Currey Limited |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781847010551 |
Ghost-written by his wife Marjorie Jones.--Front flap
Author | : William Faulkner |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2012-01-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307946762 |
The complete text of Faulkner’s third novel, published for the first time in 1973, appeared with his reluctant consent in a much cut version in 1929 as Sartoris.
Author | : David Cordingly |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2013-02-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307763072 |
“This is the most authoritative and highly literate account of these pernicious people that I have ever read.”—Patrick O'Brian “[A] wonderfully entertaining history of pirates and piracy . . . a rip-roaring read . . . fascinating and unexpected.”—Men's Journal This rollicking account of the golden age of piracy is packed with vivid history and high seas adventure. David Cordingly, an acclaimed expert on pirates, reveals the spellbinding truth behind the legends of Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, Sir Francis Drake, the fierce female brigands Mary Read and Anne Bonny, and others who rode and robbed upon the world's most dangerous waters. Here, in thrilling detail, are the weapons they used, the ships they sailed, and the ways they fought—and were defeated. Under the Black Flag also charts the paths of fictional pirates such as Captain Hook and Long John Silver. The definitive resource on the subject, this book is as captivating as it is supremely entertaining. Praise for Under the Black Flag “[A] lively history . . . If you've ever been seduced by the myth of the cutlass-wielding pirate, consider David Cordingly's Under the Black Flag.”—USA Today, “Best Bets” “Engagingly told . . . a tale of the power of imaginative literature to re-create the past.”—Los Angeles Times “Entirely engaging and informative . . . a witty and spirited book.”—The Washington Post Book World “Plenty of thrills and adventure to satisfy any reader.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer