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A worldwide conflict, World War II involved alliances between
political leaders and military forces from many different
countries, including the United States and Canada. This fascinating
book looks at key figures involved during this war of expansion by
invasion. Brief biographies give details of the lives and actions
of political leaders Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Truman, Stalin,
Hirohito, and Tojo; military leaders Rommel, Goring, Donitz,
Dowding, Pound, MacArthur, and Patton; as well as flying aces, code
breakers, and activists.
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Invasion
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Walter Dean Myers
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The Middle Ages in Europe was characterized by almost constant
warfare as rival nobles fought with knights for castles and land.
At the same time, Vikings, Magyars, Mongols, and Moors were
invading parts of Europe. Medieval Warfare shows how people
defended themselves and launched attacks. Full-color medieval
drawings, museum pictures, illustrations and clear text help
children understand: - the crusades - how castles were attacked and
defended - warriors and their weapons - how battles were fought on
the battlefield - famous battles fought in the middle ages, such as
the Battle of Hastings Teacher's guide available.
This comprehensive drawing handbook covers all aspects of drawing
tanks including essential concepts such as light, tone and
composition. With its clear step-by-step labelled drawings, this is
an essential book for any budding artist who would like to master
the art of drawing a variety of military vehicles, including tanks
and trucks.
Born as Eric Blair in India in 1903, George Orwell was a sickly
child who was sent away to boarding school at age eight. Later he
won a scholarship to Eton, where he was not a good student and
earned a reputation as a rebel. Following Eton, he returned to
Burma as a police officer, deliberately postponing his dream of
becoming a writer. Orwell moved to Paris in 1928. He was concerned
with the plight of the poor and was determined to find his own
literary voice and themes. In the following years, he traveled and
lived among the poor and unemployed. Orwell published several books
and novels about his experiences, but success and recognition
seemed slow in coming. In England, Orwell became known as an angry
political writer and crusader for the left. He stood up for his
convictions and fought in the Spanish Civil War, despite ill
health. After this disillusioning experience, Orwell became an
enemy of any form of totalitarianism. He tried to do his part for
England under the Nazi siege through his journalism and broadcast
scripts. Orwell completed Animal Farm during the war but was unable
to find a publisher until the war was over. After the book s
enormous success in 1946, Orwell planned another novel set in the
future ina totalitarian society. Writing from his house on the
island of Jura in the Scottish Hebrides, he created the story of
Winston Smith, who lived in a world where Big Brother was always
watching. This was his masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell
died soon after its publication, but not before witnessing its
success. In a special epilogue, Ferrell deals with Orwell s impact
as a political moralist and the way in which the year 1984 has come
to stand as a fearful symbol."
How does sheep's wool turn into cozy clothing? Follow each step in
the production cycle--from shearing a sheep to pulling on a warm
sweater--in this fascinating book
The savage struggle to take control of the North American
wilderness during the epic Seven Years War (1756-63) between France
and England is a gripping tale. As the two European powers battled
each other for global economic, political and military supremacy in
what some have called the first world war, the brutal conflict took
on a unique North American character, particularly in the role
Native allies played on both sides.
Formal European tactics and military protocols were out of place
in the harsh, unforgiving forests of the New World. Cavalry, mass
infantry columns, and volley fire proved less effective in the
heavily wooded terrain of North America than it did in Europe. What
mattered in the colonial hinterland of New France and the British
American colonies was an ability to navigate, travel, and survive
in the uncharted wilderness. Equally important was the capacity to
strike at the enemy with surprise, speed, and violence.
After all, the reward for victory was substantial mastery of
North America."
The holy sites in Jerusalem exist as objects of international
veneration and sites of nationalist contest. They stand at the
heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, yet surprisingly, the
many efforts to promote peace, mostly by those outside the Middle
East, have ignored the problem. This 2006 book seeks to address
this omission by focusing upon proposals of development of a legal
regime to protect the holy sites separable from the final peace
negotiations to not only protect the holy sites but promote peace
by removing these particularly volatile icons from the field of
conflict. Peace and the protection of the holy sites cannot occur
without the consent and co-operation of those on the ground. This
book supports local involvement by developing a comprehensive plan
for how to negotiate: outlining the relevant history, highlighting
issues of import, and identifying effective strategies for
promoting negotiation.
America's bloodiest war was fought, not against a foreign enemy,
but family against family, brother against brother, North versus
South. After five long years of battlefield carnage, the
institution of slavery was finally abolished and the Union
preserved. In the process, many of America's now legendary figures
rose to prominence President Abraham Lincoln and Generals Ulysses
S. Grant and Robert E. Lee among them. Here in the full-color Civil
War, Revised Edition, all of the human conflicts of that war, both
political and military, on land and at sea, are described in vivid
and sometimes harrowing detail. Readers will also gain an
understanding of the military tactics and innovative equipment used
during battle.
Controversial and unpopular, the U.S.-Mexican War divided the
country's loyalties more than any event at the time since the
Revolution. But the realities of the time were powerfully shaped by
the belief in the myth of "Manifest Destiny" that the United States
was predestined to occupy the North American continent "from sea to
shining sea" and so a war of conquest was launched. When it was
over, the United States had doubled its size at the expense of
Mexico, which had shrunk by half. A fast-moving narrative filled
with evocative and historically accurate detail, U.S.-Mexican War,
Revised Edition tells the full story of a long-ignored but critical
passage in American military history that was soon overshadowed by
the Civil War. This new edition features a chapter focusing on the
innovative military tactics and weaponry involved throughout the
conflict.
The Military and Teens covers the major issues young adults should
consider before making a decision to join the armed forces.
Although each branch of the military provides print and electronic
materials on what it has to offer enlistees, very few YA books take
a pro-and-con look at military service. Moreover, commercial
military books mostly cover specific wars or give tips on surviving
induction and training. From deciding to serve, to what it's like
to face death, to being forced to kill, to discrimination in the
military, and to life afterwards, this work presents the benefits
and downsides of military service. Kathlyn Gay covers the many
available choices of careers in the military and points out where
to go for more information. Both primary and secondary sources have
been used to provide information on young participants in the
American Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Civil War, World Wars I
& II, as well as the Korean, Vietnam, and Gulf wars. In the
final pages of the book, the comprehensive list of available
sources of information includes books, magazine articles, and
websites for further research. Enhanced by young people sharing
their personal experiences as enlistees and as members of military
families, The Military and Teens is a useful resource for both
teens and those who work with teens to advise them on career
choices.
Commended for the 2009 Best Books for Kids & Teens Canadian
World War II pilot Charley Fox, now in his late eighties, has had a
thrilling life, especially on the day in July 1944 in France when
he spotted a black staff car, the kind usually employed to drive
high-ranking Third Reich dignitaries. Already noted for his skill
in dive-bombing and strafing the enemy, Fox went in to attack the
automobile. As it turned out, the car contained famed German
General Erwin Rommel, the Desert Fox, and Charley succeeded in
wounding him. Rommel, who at the time was the Germans' supreme
military commander in France orchestrating the Nazis' resistance to
the D-day invasion, was never the same after that. Author Steve
Pitt focuses on this seminal event in Charley Fox's life and in the
war, but he also provides fascinating aspects of the period,
including profiles of noted ace pilots Buzz Beurling and Billy
Bishop, Jr., and Great Escape architect Walter Floody, as well as
sidebars about Hurricanes, Spitfires, and Messerschmitts.
New York Times bestseller, now adapted for young readers, Flags of Our Fathers is the unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history: the raising of the U.S. 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 there, they raised a flag. The son of one of the flag raisers has written a powerful account of six very different men who came together in the heroic battle.
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