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Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > War & defence operations > Battles & campaigns
The story of an ordinary depression era kid playing a small part in
a big war. It took a lot of luck to make it through four years of
flying the various army fighter planes over a lot of the world.
Starting from Aviation Cadet training the trail goes to Oahu and
isolated atolls in the central Pacific, to the Solomons, then to
New Guinea, and finally to the Mighty Eighth over Europe.
The quantity of journalism produced during World War I was unlike
anything the then-budding mass media had ever seen. Correspondents
at the front were dispatching voluminous reports on a daily basis,
and though much of it was subject to censorship, it all eventually
became available. It remains the most extraordinary firsthand look
at the war that we have. Published immediately after the cessation
of hostilities and compiled from those original journalistic
sources-American, British, French, German, and others-this is an
astonishing contemporary perspective on the Great War. This replica
of the first 1919 edition includes all the original maps, photos,
and illustrations, lending an even greater immediacy to readers a
century later. Volume III covers July 1915 through May 1917 on the
Western Front, from the first major Allied offensive to the German
assault on Verdun and the Allied drive on the Somme. American
journalist and historian FRANCIS WHITING HALSEY (1851-1919) was
literary editor of The New York Times from 1892 through 1896. He
wrote and lectured extensively on history; his works include, as
editor, the two-volume Great Epochs in American History Described
by Famous Writers, From Columbus to Roosevelt (1912), and, as
writer, the 10-volume Seeing Europe with Famous Authors (1914).
Her memoirs cover the pre WWII period of the 1930's in her birth
country, Bulgaria and her growing up in the German and Russian
cultures of her parents and that of Bulgaria. The uprooting of her
family because of WWII and subsequent events tells of the
increasing horrors and dislocations not only of her family but that
of countless others.
Winner of the Overseas Press Club's Cornelius J. Ryan Award for Best Nonfiction Book, the Commonwealth Club of California's Gold Medal for Nonfiction, and the PEN Center West Award for Best Research Nonfiction Twenty-five years after the end of the Vietnam War, historian and journalist A. J. Langguth delivers an authoritative account of the war based on official documents not available earlier and on new reporting from both the American and Vietnamese perspectives. In Our Vietnam, Langguth takes us inside the waffling and deceitful White Houses of Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon; documents the ineptness and corruption of our South Vietnamese allies; and recounts the bravery of soldiers on both sides of the war. With its broad sweep and keen insights, Our Vietnam brings together the kaleidoscopic events and personalities of the war into one engrossing and unforgettable narrative.
The quantity of journalism produced during World War I was unlike
anything the then-budding mass media had ever seen. Correspondents
at the front were dispatching voluminous reports on a daily basis,
and though much of it was subject to censorship, it all eventually
became available. It remains the most extraordinary firsthand look
at the war that we have. Published immediately after the cessation
of hostilities and compiled from those original journalistic
sources-American, British, French, German, and others-this is an
astonishing contemporary perspective on the Great War. This replica
of the first 1919 edition includes all the original maps, photos,
and illustrations, lending an even greater immediacy to readers a
century later. Volume II covers August 1914 through July 1915 on
the Western Front, from the German advance on Paris to the first
use of aeroplanes and zeppelins. American journalist and historian
FRANCIS WHITING HALSEY (1851-1919) was literary editor of The New
York Times from 1892 through 1896. He wrote and lectured
extensively on history; his works include, as editor, the
two-volume Great Epochs in American History Described by Famous
Writers, From Columbus to Roosevelt (1912), and, as writer, the
10-volume Seeing Europe with Famous Authors (1914).
An 'Old Contemptible' recounts the campaign of 1914
At the outbreak of the First World War, units of the British
regular army-the B. E. F-were despatched to the continent to assist
the French in an attempt to stem the tide of the advancing Imperial
German Army as it marched inexorably towards Paris. The enemy
viewed the 'Tommies' as 'that contemptible little army.' In that
way peculiar to the British the insult became a byword for courage
and honour as the highly trained and motivated soldiers in khaki
demonstrated just what a contemptible little army could do.
However, this was a war of attrition and despite the
'contemptibles' magnificent performance the 'grey horde' could not
initially be halted. What followed was the memorable retreat from
Mons. The author of this book was a subaltern officer serving in
one of the county regiments of the B. E. F and chose as his title
for this book the proudly worn designation 'Contemptible.' Although
the book was written under a pseudonym it is widely believed that
the writer was Arnold Gyde who served with the South Staffordshire
Regiment and was one of the first British soldiers to set foot on
the continent. Although the account of this vital aspect of the
opening months of the conflict is presented in a 'factional' style
it is clearly based on the author's first hand experiences.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each
title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our
hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their
spines and fabric head and tail bands.
The Shelf2Life WWI Memoirs Collection is an engaging set of
pre-1923 materials that describe life during the Great War through
memoirs, letters and diaries. Poignant personal narratives from
soldiers, doctors and nurses on the front lines to munitions
workers and land girls on the home front, offer invaluable insight
into the sacrifices men and women made for their country.
Photographs and illustrations intensify stories of struggle and
survival from the trenches, hospitals, prison camps and
battlefields. The WWI Memoirs Collection captures the pride and
fear of the war as experienced by combatants and non-combatants
alike and provides historians, researchers and students extensive
perspective on individual emotional responses to the war.
The first two books in an excellent trilogy of the Great War in the
Middle East
W. T Massey was the foremost accredited journalist reporting on
behalf of the London newspapers covering the Great War in the
Middle East as it was fought against the Ottoman Turkish Empire,
its German ally and the tribes of the region who threw in their lot
with them. He possessed a deeply held conviction that this theatre
of operations was far more important than those who only concerned
themselves with the conflict in Europe believed. He was
particularly aware of the hardships suffered by British and
Colonial troops serving in difficult climates and over unrelenting
terrain and he became, through his long association with the entire
campaign, a champion of those who fought in it. This volume in the
two book Leonaur edition-which covers the complete conflict from
the war in the Western Desert against the Senussi to the actions at
Aleppo and beyond-begins appropriately with the first book, 'The
Desert Campaigns' and follows with the campaign that culminated in
Allenby's historic walk into Jerusalem in 'How Jerusalem was Won.'
Part history, part first hand account this is a valuable history
imbued with the insight of one who was there.
This soldier's pocketbook from 1944, and the tale of its creation,
reveal a fascinating moment of history: a snapshot of prejudices,
expectations, assumptions and fears. It was created in conditions
of secrecy to prepare British and Allied soldiers for entering and
occupying Germany - but at a time when even victory was not
guaranteed. What would they face? How would they be treated? How
would they manage a population they were used to thinking of only
as "enemy combatants"?Part practical guide, part everyman's history
of the German people, part propaganda tool, it is an instantly
absorbing window on an uncertain time. It shows how the Allied
civilian and military command wanted to condition the ordinary
serviceman's thoughts about what he would encounter. Today's reader
will find here opinionated comment and crude stereotype, but also
subtle insights and humor - intentional and unintentional. The
pocketbook says as much about the mindset of its British compilers
as it does about the German people or about the Nazi regime that
eventually the soldiers would topple. An illuminating introduction,
drawing on the National Archives' unique original records, reveals
the intelligence community's misgivings and disagreements about the
content of the pocketbook as it went through its various stages.
On the evening of March 31, 1945, hours before the invasion of
Okinawa, Max Stripe, Billy Thornhill, and five other crewmen manned
the forward twin 40 mm mount of LST 791. Riley was stationed up in
the Conn, tracking enemy planes from bogey reports that came in
over the radio. An increase in air attacks could be expected at
sunset and dawn because-for a brief time-aircraft could see the
ships clearly, but it was difficult for the ships to see the
planes. Suddenly, a group of transports astern of the 791 came
under attack-tracers could be seen across the expanse of water and
air. The job of the LST crew was to deliver the troops, tanks, and
supplies to hostile beaches and, if necessary, defend those assets
with their lives. All were ordinary men; they knew they had a job
to do, and they did it. Succeeding so that they could return home
to their families was their goal. In "Pacific LST 791, " Stephen C.
Stripe, author and son of LST crewman Max Stripe, brings us the
incredible true story of the vital actions of LST 791 and her crew
in the Pacific Theater of WWII. Our admiration and thanks belong to
this hardworking, gallant breed, for their heroic courage and
sacrifice brought us hope, victory, and ultimately peace.
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