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Winston Churchill - A Biography of Historical Icon Winston Churchill (Hardcover): Henry Hanson Winston Churchill - A Biography of Historical Icon Winston Churchill (Hardcover)
Henry Hanson
R601 R544 Discovery Miles 5 440 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hugh Lenox Scott, 1853-1934 - Reluctant Warrior (Hardcover): Armand S. La Potin Hugh Lenox Scott, 1853-1934 - Reluctant Warrior (Hardcover)
Armand S. La Potin
R1,155 Discovery Miles 11 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A newly minted second lieutenant fresh from West Point, Hugh Lenox Scott arrived on the northern Great Plains in the wake of the Little Bighorn debacle. The Seventh Cavalry was seeking to subdue the Plains tribes and confine them to reservations, and Scott adopted the role of negotiator and advocate for the Indian "adversaries." He thus embarked on a career unique in the history of the U.S. military and the western frontier. Hugh Lenox Scott, 1853-1934: Reluctant Warrior is the first book to tell the full story of this unlikely, self-avowed "soldier of peace," whose career, stretching from Little Bighorn until after World War I, reflected profound historical changes. The taste for adventure that drew Scott to the military also piqued his interest in the tenacity of Native cultures in an environment rife with danger and uncertainty. Armand S. La Potin describes how Scott embraced the lifeways of the Northern Plains peoples, making a study of their cultures, their symbols, and most notably, their use of an intertribal sign language to facilitate trade. Negotiating with dissident bands of Indians whose lands were threatened by Anglo settlers and commercial interests, he increasingly found himself advocating federal responsibility for tribal welfare and assuming the role of "Indian reformer." La Potin makes clear that "reform" was understood within the context of Scott's own culture, which scaled "civilization" to the so-called Anglo race. Accordingly, Scott promoted the "civilization" of Native Americans through assimilation into Anglo-American society-an approach he continued in his later interactions with the Moro Muslims of the southern Philippines, where he served as a military governor. Although he eventually rose to the rank of army chief of staff, over time Scott the peacemaker and Indian reformer saw his career stall as Native tribes ceased to be seen as a military threat and military merit was increasingly defined by battlefield experience. From these pages the picture emerges of an uncommon figure in American military history, at once at odds with and defined by his times.

A Short History & Photographic Record of the 101st U.S. Field Artillery, 1917 - Col. John H. Sherburne Commanding Officer... A Short History & Photographic Record of the 101st U.S. Field Artillery, 1917 - Col. John H. Sherburne Commanding Officer (Hardcover)
Anonymous
R788 Discovery Miles 7 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Killing the Hydra - A Novel of the Roman Empire (Hardcover): Adam Alexander Haviaras Killing the Hydra - A Novel of the Roman Empire (Hardcover)
Adam Alexander Haviaras
R1,053 Discovery Miles 10 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Diplomats & Admirals - From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story... Diplomats & Admirals - From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway (Hardcover)
Dale A Jenkins
R857 R759 Discovery Miles 7 590 Save R98 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
France at War - On the Frontier of Civilization (Hardcover): Rudyard Kipling France at War - On the Frontier of Civilization (Hardcover)
Rudyard Kipling
R671 R625 Discovery Miles 6 250 Save R46 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Cincinnati in the Civil War - The Union's Queen City (Hardcover): David L Mowery Cincinnati in the Civil War - The Union's Queen City (Hardcover)
David L Mowery
R726 Discovery Miles 7 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Truth About the Titanic (Hardcover): Archibald Gracie The Truth About the Titanic (Hardcover)
Archibald Gracie
R974 Discovery Miles 9 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Ross-shire Roll of Honour - (with Souter's Ross-shire Directory); 1915 (Hardcover): George Ross-Shire Directory Souter Ross-shire Roll of Honour - (with Souter's Ross-shire Directory); 1915 (Hardcover)
George Ross-Shire Directory Souter
R933 Discovery Miles 9 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War, Volume 3 - Battles, Sieges, And Campaigns (Hardcover): Albert Bushnell... Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War, Volume 3 - Battles, Sieges, And Campaigns (Hardcover)
Albert Bushnell 1854-1943 Hart
R1,042 Discovery Miles 10 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Enumeration of Soldiers, Sailors and Marines of the War of 1812, the Mexican War and the War of the Rebellion, Residing in... Enumeration of Soldiers, Sailors and Marines of the War of 1812, the Mexican War and the War of the Rebellion, Residing in Nebraska June 1st, 1887 (Hardcover)
Nebraska Secretary of State Cn
R1,037 Discovery Miles 10 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Officer's Manual - Napoleon's Maxims of War (Hardcover): Emperor of the French Napoleon The Officer's Manual - Napoleon's Maxims of War (Hardcover)
Emperor of the French Napoleon
R782 Discovery Miles 7 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares - The American Civil War as an Apocalyptic Conflict (Hardcover): John H Matsui Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares - The American Civil War as an Apocalyptic Conflict (Hardcover)
John H Matsui
R1,425 Discovery Miles 14 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares, John H. Matsui argues that the political ideology and racial views of American Protestants during the Civil War mirrored their religious optimism or pessimism regarding human nature, perfectibility, and the millennium. While previous historians have commented on the role of antebellum eschatology in political alignment, none have delved deeply into how religious views complicate the standard narrative of the North versus the South. Moving beyond the traditional optimism/pessimism dichotomy, Matsui divides American Protestants of the Civil War era into ""premillenarian"" and ""postmillenarian"" camps. Both postmillenarian and premillenarian Christians held that the return of Christ would inaugurate the arrival of heaven on earth, but they disagreed over its timing. This disagreement was key to their disparate political stances. Postmillenarians argued that God expected good Christians to actively perfect the world via moral reform-of self and society-and free-labor ideology, whereas premillenarians defended hierarchy or racial mastery (or both). Northern Democrats were generally comfortable with antebellum racial norms and were cynical regarding human nature; they therefore opposed Republicans' utopian plans to reform the South. Southern Democrats, who held premillenarian views like their northern counterparts, pressed for or at least acquiesced in the secession of slaveholding states to preserve white supremacy. Most crucially, enslaved African American Protestants sought freedom, a postmillenarian societal change requiring nothing less than a major revolution and the reconstruction of southern society. Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares adds a new dimension to our understanding of the Civil War as it reveals the wartime marriage of political and racial ideology to religious speculation. As Matsui argues, the postmillenarian ideology came to dominate the northern states during the war years and the nation as a whole following the Union victory in 1865.

Military and All Metal Buttons - Army, Navy, Police, Fire Department, School and Livery .. (Hardcover): Waterbury Button... Military and All Metal Buttons - Army, Navy, Police, Fire Department, School and Livery .. (Hardcover)
Waterbury Button Company (Waterbury
R789 Discovery Miles 7 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Book of Remembrance for Tweeddale; 1923 (Hardcover): Clement Bryce 1860-1933 Gunn The Book of Remembrance for Tweeddale; 1923 (Hardcover)
Clement Bryce 1860-1933 Gunn
R822 Discovery Miles 8 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Classical Antiquity - A Captivating Guide to Ancient Greece and Rome and How These Civilizations Influenced Europe, North... Classical Antiquity - A Captivating Guide to Ancient Greece and Rome and How These Civilizations Influenced Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia (Hardcover)
Captivating History
R725 R642 Discovery Miles 6 420 Save R83 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Brazilian Green Book, Consisting of Diplomatic Documents Relating to Brazil's Attitude With Regard to the European... The Brazilian Green Book, Consisting of Diplomatic Documents Relating to Brazil's Attitude With Regard to the European War, 1914-1917, as Issued by the Brazilian Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Authorized English Version, With an Introd. and Notes By... (Hardcover)
Brazil Ministerio Das Relacoes Exter; Andrew Boyle
R827 Discovery Miles 8 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Women as Army Surgeons - Being The History Of The Women's Hospital Corps 1914-1919 (Hardcover): Flora Murray Women as Army Surgeons - Being The History Of The Women's Hospital Corps 1914-1919 (Hardcover)
Flora Murray
R851 Discovery Miles 8 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812. Vol.I (Hardcover): A.T. Mahan Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812. Vol.I (Hardcover)
A.T. Mahan
R1,074 Discovery Miles 10 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Speed of Advance - How the U.S. Navy's Convergence of People, Process, and Technology Can Help Your Business Win in the... Speed of Advance - How the U.S. Navy's Convergence of People, Process, and Technology Can Help Your Business Win in the 4th Industrial Revolution (Hardcover)
Marty Groover
R683 R610 Discovery Miles 6 100 Save R73 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Our Adventures During the War of 1870 - the Experiences of Two British Nurses During the Franco-Prussian War (Hardcover): Emma... Our Adventures During the War of 1870 - the Experiences of Two British Nurses During the Franco-Prussian War (Hardcover)
Emma Maria Pearson, Louisa Elisabeth McLaughlin
R910 Discovery Miles 9 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Down to the Sea - An Epic Story of Naval Disaster and Heroism in World War II (Paperback): Bruce Henderson Down to the Sea - An Epic Story of Naval Disaster and Heroism in World War II (Paperback)
Bruce Henderson
R463 Discovery Miles 4 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This epic story opens at the hour the Greatest Generation went to war on December 7, 1941, and follows four U.S. Navy ships and their crews in the Pacific until their day of reckoning three years later with a far different enemy: a deadly typhoon. In December 1944, while supporting General MacArthur's invasion of the Philippines, Admiral William "Bull" Halsey neglected the Law of Storms, placing the mighty U.S. Third Fleet in harm's way. Drawing on extensive interviews with nearly every living survivor and rescuer, as well as many families of lost sailors, transcripts and other records from naval courts of inquiry, ships' logs, personal letters, and diaries, Bruce Henderson finds some of the story's truest heroes exhibiting selflessness, courage, and even defiance.

How Long Is Exile? - BOOK III: The Long Road Home (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition): Astrida... How Long Is Exile? - BOOK III: The Long Road Home (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Astrida Barbins-Stahnke
R865 Discovery Miles 8 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Island of Barbed Wire - The Remarkable Story of World War Two Internment on the Isle of Man (Paperback): Connery Chappell Island of Barbed Wire - The Remarkable Story of World War Two Internment on the Isle of Man (Paperback)
Connery Chappell
R400 Discovery Miles 4 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Many aspects of Britain's involvement in World War Two only slowly emerged from beneath the barrage of official secrets and popular misconception. One of the most controversial issues, the internment of 'enemy aliens' (and also British subjects) on the Isle of Man, received its first thorough examination in this remarkable account by Connery Chappell of life in the Manx camps between 1940 and 1945. At the outbreak of war there were approximately 75,000 people of Germanic origin living in Britain, and Whitehall decided to set up Enemy Alien Tribunals to screen these 'potential security risks'. The entry of Italy into the war almost doubled the workload. The first tribunal in February 1940 considered only 569 cases as high enough risks to warrant internment. The Isle of Man was chosen as the one place sufficiently removed from areas of military importance, but by the end of the year the number of enemy aliens on the island had reached 14,000. With the use of diaries, broadsheets, newspapers and personal testimonies, the author shows how a traditional holiday isle was transformed into an internment camp. of earning extra income. Eventually the internees took part in local farm work, ran their own camp newspapers and even set up internal businesses. With inmates of the calibre of Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, Lord Weidenfeld, Sir Charles Forte, Professor Geoffrey Elton and R.W. 'Tiny' Rowland, the life of the camp quickly took on a busy and constructive air; but the picture was not always such a happy one, as angry disputes flared between Fascist inmates and their Jewish neighbours, and a dangerous riot forced the intervention of the Home Office. Even now, there remains the persistent question never settled satisfactorily. Were the internments ever justified or even consistent?

Home of the Unknown Soldier - How Coming Back Became the Other Ultimate Sacrifice (Hardcover): Jill Dawn Armijo Home of the Unknown Soldier - How Coming Back Became the Other Ultimate Sacrifice (Hardcover)
Jill Dawn Armijo; Contributions by Joe Lorenzo Armijo; Edited by Gailyc Sonia Braunstein
R787 Discovery Miles 7 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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