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Author | : John Morton Blum |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780156936286 |
A noted historian examines the impact of culture and politics on the wartime attitudes and experiences of Americans and their expectations concerning the postwar world.
Author | : Stan Cohen |
Publisher | : Pictorial Histories Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Tells of the Amerian efforts to provide equipment for World War II and tells of the situation in America at the time.
Author | : David W. Shaw |
Publisher | : Sheridan House, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781574091878 |
David W. Shaw is the author of The Sea Shall Embrace Them, Inland Passage, and Daring the Sea.
Author | : Kevin J. Weddle |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2021-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199715998 |
In the late summer and fall of 1777, after two years of indecisive fighting on both sides, the outcome of the American War of Independence hung in the balance. Having successfully expelled the Americans from Canada in 1776, the British were determined to end the rebellion the following year and devised what they believed a war-winning strategy, sending General John Burgoyne south to rout the Americans and take Albany. When British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga with unexpected ease in July of 1777, it looked as if it was a matter of time before they would break the rebellion in the North. Less than three and a half months later, however, a combination of the Continental Army and Militia forces, commanded by Major General Horatio Gates and inspired by the heroics of Benedict Arnold, forced Burgoyne to surrender his entire army. The American victory stunned the world and changed the course of the war. Kevin J. Weddle offers the most authoritative history of the Battle of Saratoga to date, explaining with verve and clarity why events unfolded the way they did. In the end, British plans were undone by a combination of distance, geography, logistics, and an underestimation of American leadership and fighting ability. Taking Ticonderoga had misled Burgoyne and his army into thinking victory was assured. Saratoga, which began as a British foraging expedition, turned into a rout. The outcome forced the British to rethink their strategy, inflamed public opinion in England against the war, boosted Patriot morale, and, perhaps most critical of all, led directly to the Franco-American alliance. Weddle unravels the web of contingencies and the play of personalities that ultimately led to what one American general called "the Compleat Victory."
Author | : William L. Bird |
Publisher | : Princeton Architectural Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1998-06 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9781568981406 |
The poster - inexpensive, colorful, and immediate - was an ideal medium for delivering messages about Americans' duties on the home front during World War II. Design for Victory presents more than 150 of these stunning images - many never reproduced since their first issue - culled from the collections of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. William L. Bird, Jr. and Harry R. Rubenstein delve beneath the surface of these colorful graphics, telling the stories behind their production and revealing how posters fulfilled the goals and needs of their creators. The authors describe the history of how specific posters were conceived and received, focusing on the workings of the wartime advertising profession and demonstrating how posters often reflected uneasy relations between labor and management.
Author | : John E. Ferling |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 694 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0195382927 |
Describes the military history of the American Revolution and the grim realities of the eight-year conflict while offering descriptions of the major engagements on land and sea and the decisions that influenced the course of the war.
Author | : Susan Johnson Hadler |
Publisher | : University of North Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781574410334 |
In 1990, Ann Mix began a search to find out about her father, who had been killed in World War II. She eventually met others whose fathers had been killed and discovered that, like her, they had little information about their fathers. As a result, Ann founded the American WWII Orphans Network to locate war orphans and become a despository for sources of information about WWII servicemen who were fathers.
Author | : William Egan Colby |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill/Contemporary |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
"For sixteen years, from the time he was assigned Chief of Station for the CIA in Saigon to his appointment as CIA Director, William Colby was deeply involved in America's role in Vietnam. During five presidential administrations -- Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford -- Colby moved from meetings in the Oval Office to the sweltering jungles of Vietnam as the war escalated from Vietcong guerilla terrorism to a massive U.S. military engagement. Lost Victory is his personal account of those years, an insider's view of America's first major military defeat told from a vantage point matched by few other officials."--Book cover, p. [4].
Author | : Editors of Time Magazine |
Publisher | : Time |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2005-09-06 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9781932994735 |
In the last, triumphant months of World War II, young Americans won their nations greatest victoryor victories. For the war they won was a world war, a conflict fought on two very different fronts in two very different ways. In Europe, the battle-tested troops who had landed in Normandy on D-Day fought their way onto Adolf Hitlers doorstep, then crossed the Rhine and brought down the Nazis thousand-year Reich. Meanwhile, across the Pacific, sailors, Marines and airmen teamed up to invade a series of crucial islands Tarawa, Iwo Jima, Okinawarolling back a tough Japanese enemy and paving the way for the surprising end of the war with the dropping of an atom bomb on Hiroshima. Every step of every day, these members of The Greatest Generation were shadowed by reporters and photographers from two great American magazines, Time and Life. Now, the editors of Time have returned to these archives to compile a memorable, visually stunning portrait of those stirring times, Americas Greatest Generation and Their World War II Triumph.
Author | : Thomas Fleming |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-10-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780306824968 |
A sweeping and insightful grand strategic overview of the American Revolution, highlighting Washington's role in orchestrating victory and creating the US Army Led by the Continental Congress, the Americans almost lost the war for independence because their military thinking was badly muddled. Following the victory in 1775 at Bunker Hill, patriot leaders were convinced that the key to victory was the home-grown militia--local men defending their families and homes. But the flush of early victory soon turned into a bitter reality as the British routed Americans fleeing New York. General George Washington knew that having and maintaining an army of professional soldiers was the only way to win independence. As he fought bitterly with the leaders in Congress over the creation of a regular army, he patiently waited until his new army was ready for pitched battle. His first opportunity came late in 1776, following his surprise crossing of the Delaware River. In New Jersey, the strategy of victory was about to unfold. In The Strategy of Victory, preeminent historian Thomas Fleming examines the battles that created American independence, revealing how the creation of a professional army worked on the battlefield to secure victory, independence, and a lasting peace for the young nation.