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Author | : Noel Carpenter |
Publisher | : Savas Beatie |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2023-07-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1611216729 |
In October of 1864, Confederate General John Bell Hood set out through Alabama on what would be the final campaign of the Army of Tennessee. One event in particular, overlooked and misunderstood for generations, portended what was to follow and is the subject of Noel Carpenters Detour to Disaster: General John Bell Hoods Slight Demonstration at Decatur and the Unravelling of the Tennessee Campaign. In this fascinating and meticulously detailed and documented accountthe first book-length study of the weighty decision to march to Decatur and the combat that followed thereCarpenter investigates the circumstances surrounding these matters and how they overwhelmed the controversial young army commander and potentially doomed his daring invasion. Detour to Disaster is required reading for everyone interested in the Western Theater, and especially the doomed Tennessee Campaign.
Author | : Noel Carpenter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781611216714 |
In October of 1864, Confederate General John Bell Hood set out through Alabama on what would be the final campaign of the Army of Tennessee. One event in particular, overlooked and misunderstood for generations, portended what was to follow and is the subject of Noel Carpenter's Detour to Disaster: General John Bell Hood's "Slight Demonstration" at Decatur and the Unravelling of the Tennessee Campaign. By late 1864, Hood's army of hardened veterans had one thin ray of hope: they would somehow invade Tennessee and defeat Union General George Thomas outside Nashville in a victory that would force General William T. Sherman to follow them into Tennessee (and perhaps even Kentucky). While weighing his options for a Tennessee River crossing, however, Hood diverted his army to the town of Decatur, Alabama, a decision that undermined his own plan for a rapid move north to Nashville. In his only mention of his army's action at Decatur, Alabama, Hood described it all in just one sentence: "While the Army turned Decatur, I ordered a slight demonstration to be made against the town till our forces passed safely beyond." In fact, this four-day detour was a turning point that set the stage for the disastrous Tennessee Campaign that followed. In this fascinating and meticulously detailed and documented account--the first book-length study of the weighty decision to march to Decatur and the combat that followed there--the author investigates the circumstances surrounding these matters and how they overwhelmed the controversial young army commander and potentially doomed his daring campaign. Detour to Disaster is required reading for everyone interested in the Western Theater, and especially the doomed Tennessee Campaign.
Author | : Barbara King Smythe |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2015-03-23 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781508700746 |
Dressed in the Urban Bus Lines uniform, Harry Wardell walked out the door of his house to find a dead bird on the sidewalk. "Is this an omen of some sort?" Officially retired, but covering for a friend's Atlantic City casino run today, it's too late to find a replacement. The routine trip of hauling day gamblers ninety miles for low-stakes gambling turns into a high-stakes fight for survival in the New Jersey Pine Barrens against criminals, forces of nature and non-so-natural enemies. Detour to Disaster is a thrilling tale of ordinary people put into an extraordinary situation and their determination to come out alive.
Author | : United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Disaster relief |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Buildings |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Public Works |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1971 |
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Author | : Peter Margulies |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2010-04-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0814796230 |
From the Justice Department’s memos defending coerced interrogation to Alberto Gonzales’ firing of U.S. Attorneys who did not fit the Bush Administration’s political needs, Law’s Detour paints an alarming picture of the many detours that George W. Bush and his allies created to thwart transparency and undermine the rule of law after September 11, 2001. Pursuing those detours, Bush officials set up a law-free zone at Guantánamo, ordered massive immigration raids that separated families, and screened candidates for civil service jobs to ensure the hiring of “real Americans.” While government needs flexibility to address genuine risks to national security—which certainly exist in the post-9/11 world—the Bush Administration’s use of detours distracted the government from urgent priorities, tarnished America’s reputation, and threatened voting and civil rights. In this comprehensive analysis of Bush officials’ efforts to stretch and strain the justice system, Peter Margulies canvasses the costs of the Administration’s many detours, from resisting accountability in the war on terrorism to thwarting economic and environmental regulation. Concise and full of compelling anecdotes, Law’s Detour maps these aberrations, surveys the damage done, and reaffirms the virtues of transparency and dialog that the Bush administration dismissed.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1248 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Administrative law |
ISBN | : |
Special edition of the Federal Register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect ... with ancillaries.
Author | : Michael Gates Gill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780670865482 |
A psychological and practical guide for the rocky road from the "corporate zoo" to the "wilds" of entrepreneurship, Fired Up! is filled with no-holds-barred realism and inspiring (and cautionary) stories that will help readers take charge of their destiny in this downsizing world.
Author | : Limin Jia |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 451 |
Release | : 2021-07-17 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 3662630338 |
This book addresses the current development status of high-speed railways globally and analyzes their operational schemes and practices under emergent conditions. It covers methods and problem-solving philosophy with regard to complexity analysis, capacity evaluation, passenger-flow forecasts, operating strategies, passenger-flow allocation, resource allocation and supporting technologies in the context of serious accidents and adverse environmental influences on train operation and service organization of high-speed railways. The abnormal scenarios, emergent conditions, adverse events and corresponding theoretical and applicational solutions dealing with the train operation both in line and network scale are all from real-world cases related to and designed for Chinese high-speed railway network which is the largest in scale, the highest in complexity and the most difficult in tackling with the complex and diverse climate and geographical environment , and thus makes the book both theoretically rigorous and practically applicable. It not only helps readers consider the train and network interactions from the perspective of complexity science, but also provides them with a philosophical framework and approaches available to construct their own roadmap and problem-solving paradigms in their daily research or management. This book is suitable for researchers, postgraduates and managerial and engineering practitioners in railway-related fields, especially in high-speed railway operation and emergency management.