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History of Enniscorthy - the Cathedral, St. John's Priory, Franciscan Friary, St. Senan's Church, the Castle, Religious and Educational Establishments, Bormount Manor, Brownswood Castle, Ferns Castle, Edermine, Macmine, Wilton, Castleboro, With The... (Hardcover)
William H Grattan (William H Flood, Walter Lord Fitzgerald, Printer T & W Goulding (Firm)
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Discovery Miles 8 760
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A special 60th anniversary edition of the bestselling re-creation of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, by the author of A Night to Remember.
Sunday, December 7, 1941, was, as President Roosevelt said, "a date which will live in infamy." Day of Infamy is a fascinating account of that unforgettable day's events. In brilliant detail Walter Lord traces the human drama of the great attack: the spies behind it; the Japanese pilots; the crews on the stricken warships; the men at the airfields and the bases; the Japanese pilot who captured an island single-handedly when he could not get back to his carrier; the generals, the sailors, the housewives, and the children who responded to the attack with anger, numbness, and magnificent courage.
In piecing together the saga of Pearl Harbor, Lord traveled over fourteen thousand miles and spoke or corresponded with over five hundred individuals who were there. He obtained exclusive interviews with members of the Japanese attacking force and spent hundreds of hours with the Americans who received the blow -- not just the admirals and generals, but enlisted men and families as well. He visited each of the Hawaiian bases attacked and pored over maps, charts, letters, diaries, official files, newspapers, and some twenty-five thousand pages of testimony, discovering a wealth of information that had never before been revealed. Day of Infamy is an inspiring human document and the best account we have of one of the epic events in American history.
The true story of the World War II evacuation portrayed in the
Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk, by the #1 New York
Times-bestselling author of Day of Infamy. In May 1940, the
remnants of the French and British armies, broken by Hitler's
blitzkrieg, retreated to Dunkirk. Hemmed in by overwhelming Nazi
strength, the 338,000 men gathered on the beach were all that stood
between Hitler and Western Europe. Crush them, and the path to
Paris and London was clear. Unable to retreat any farther, the
Allied soldiers set up defense positions and prayed for
deliverance. Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered an evacuation
on May 26, expecting to save no more than a handful of his men. But
Britain would not let its soldiers down. Hundreds of fishing boats,
pleasure yachts, and commercial vessels streamed into the Channel
to back up the Royal Navy, and in a week nearly the entire army was
ferried safely back to England. Based on interviews with hundreds
of survivors and told by "a master narrator," The Miracle of
Dunkirk is a striking history of a week when the outcome of World
War II hung in the balance (Arthur Schlesinger Jr.).
The classic minute-by-minute account of the sinking of the
"Titanic," in a 50th anniversary edition with a new introduction by
Nathaniel Philbrick
First published in 1955, "A Night to Remember" remains a
completely riveting account of the "Titanic"'s fatal collision and
the behavior of the passengers and crew, both noble and
ignominious. Some sacrificed their lives, while others fought like
animals for their own survival. Wives beseeched husbands to join
them in lifeboats; gentlemen went taut-lipped to their deaths in
full evening dress; and hundreds of steerage passengers, trapped
below decks, sought help in vain.
Available for the first time in trade paperback and with a new
introduction for the 50th anniversary edition by Nathaniel
Phil-brick, author of "In the Heart of the Sea" and "Sea of Glory,"
Walter Lord's classic minute-by-minute re-creation is as vivid now
as it was upon first publication fifty years ago. From the initial
distress flares to the struggles of those left adrift for hours in
freezing waters, this semicentennial edition brings that moonlit
night in 1912 to life for a new generation of readers.
In the summer of 1814, enemy naval and ground forces made a
coordinated assault on Washington, DC, capital of the new republic,
and then set their sights on Baltimore, home port to some of the
most rapacious American privateers on the high seas. In "The Dawn's
Early Light," Walter Lord captures these events during the War of
1812.
A native Baltimorean, Lord wrote with great force and feeling of
the subsequent defense of Fort McHenry, the circumstances of
Francis Scott Key's writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner," and the
rebirth of a young country. Students consider this book to be one
of the best short narratives of the Chesapeake campaign.
This reissue of "The Dawn's Early Light" celebrates the
bicentennial of the Battle of Baltimore. Scott S. Sheads, a
National Park Service ranger and specialist on the event,
introduces the book, which will remain a popular favorite for years
to come.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
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History of Enniscorthy - the Cathedral, St. John's Priory, Franciscan Friary, St. Senan's Church, the Castle, Religious and Educational Establishments, Bormount Manor, Brownswood Castle, Ferns Castle, Edermine, Macmine, Wilton, Castleboro, With The... (Paperback)
William H Grattan (William H Flood, Walter Lord Fitzgerald, Printer T & W Goulding (Firm)
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R618
Discovery Miles 6 180
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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This is a new release of the original 1960 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1960 edition.
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The Admiral Schley. Consolidation Coal Company, Libellant, Appellant, v. American Mail Steamship Company, Claimant, Appellee. The Charles F. Mayer. Consolidation Coal Company, Claimant, Appellant, v. American Mail Steamship Company, Libellant, Appellee (Paperback)
J. Walter Lord
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Discovery Miles 8 420
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Full Title: "The Admiral Schley Consolidation Coal Company,
Libellant, Appellant, v. American Mail Steamship Company, Claimant,
Appellee. The Charles F. Mayer. Consolidation Coal Company,
Claimant, Appellant, v. American Mail Steamship Company, Libellant,
Appellee"Description: "The Making of the Modern Law: Trials,
1600-1926" collection provides descriptions of the major trials
from over 300 years, with official trial documents, unofficially
published accounts of the trials, briefs and arguments and more.
Readers can delve into sensational trials as well as those
precedent-setting trials associated with key constitutional and
historical issues and discover, including the Amistad Slavery case,
the Dred Scott case and Scopes "monkey" trial."Trials" provides
unfiltered narrative into the lives of the trial participants as
well as everyday people, providing an unparalleled source for the
historical study of sex, gender, class, marriage and
divorce.++++The below data was compiled from various identification
fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is
provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition
identification: ++++513-514Court Record1903Harvard Law School
LibraryBoston: Printed under Direction of the Clerk. 1904
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
The true story of the World War II evacuation portrayed in the
Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk, by the #1 New York
Times-bestselling author of Day of Infamy. In May 1940, the
remnants of the French and British armies, broken by Hitler's
blitzkrieg, retreated to Dunkirk. Hemmed in by overwhelming Nazi
strength, the 338,000 men gathered on the beach were all that stood
between Hitler and Western Europe. Crush them, and the path to
Paris and London was clear. Unable to retreat any farther, the
Allied soldiers set up defense positions and prayed for
deliverance. Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered an evacuation
on May 26, expecting to save no more than a handful of his men. But
Britain would not let its soldiers down. Hundreds of fishing boats,
pleasure yachts, and commercial vessels streamed into the Channel
to back up the Royal Navy, and in a week nearly the entire army was
ferried safely back to England. Based on interviews with hundreds
of survivors and told by "a master narrator," The Miracle of
Dunkirk is a striking history of a week when the outcome of World
War II hung in the balance (Arthur Schlesinger Jr.).
'There is no danger that Titanic will sink. The boat is unsinkable
and nothing but inconvenience will be suffered by the passengers.'
- Phillip Franklin, White Star Line Vice-President On April 15th,
1912, Titanic, the world's largest passenger ship, sank after
colliding with an iceberg, claiming more than 1,500 lives. Walter
Lord's classic bestselling history of the voyage, the wreck and the
aftermath is a tour de force of detailed investigation and the
upstairs/downstairs divide. A Night to Remember provides a vivid,
gripping and deeply personal account of the 'unsinkable' Titanic's
descent. WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY JULIAN FELLOWES
On the morning of March 6, 1836, in an old abandoned mission called
the Alamo, a small Texas garrison fought to the death rather than
yield to an overwhelming army of Mexicans. Through the years the
garrison's heroic stand has become so clothed in folklore and
romance that the truth has nearly been lost. In "A Time to Stand"
Walter Lord rediscovers and recreates the whole fascinating story.
From contemporary documents, diaries, and letters, he has mined a
wealth of fresh information that throws intriguing sidelights on
the epic of the Alamo. What were the defenders like? Why did they
take their stand? Did any escape? Did Davy Crockett surrender?
The cast of characters includes not only famous figures like Jim
Bowie but unknown, unsung men: John Purdy Reynolds, the wandering
Pennsylvania surgeon; George Kimball, the industrious New York
hatter, Micajah Autry of Tennessee, who was a far better poet than
a businessman. And then there are the Mexicans: the fabulous Santa
Anna; the smooth Colonel Almonte; the forlorn private Juan Basquez,
who only wanted to stay home and make shoes.
Walter Lord--author of such best-sellers as "A Night to
Remember" and "A Day of Infamy"--brings to life the remarkable
events of what we now call The War of 1812--including the burning
of Washington and the attack on Baltimore's Fort McHenry that
inspired the Francis Scott Key to write what would become our
national anthem. Lord gives readers a dramatic account of how a new
sense of national identity emerged from the smoky haze of what
Francis Scott Key so lyrically called "the dawn's early light."
"Maryland Paperback Bookshelf."
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