The War Has Begun

The War Has Begun
Author: Charles E. Frye
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2017-03-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9781543073744

If you've ever wondered what it would have been like to stand beside the men and women who fought for American independence, here's your chance. The War has Begun is the first book in the Duty in the Cause of Liberty series. The books follow Isaac Frye, a farmer from Wilton, New Hampshire, who responds to the early morning alarm of April 19, 1775, carried by Paul Revere and William Dawes. This story is true, and only the actual people who participated in the events with Isaac Frye are included as characters-no fictional characters were created to enhance or embellish the narrative. The books portray the American Revolutionary War from the perspective of the middle class, as they follow Isaac Frye, who served from the first day of the Continental Army's existence through being in the last unit disbanded. No other man, including George Washington, served longer as an officer. The War Has Begun introduces Isaac and tells the story of how his commitment to liberty and eventually American independence shape unimagined sacrifices for himself, his family, and his town.

Liberty Ships

Liberty Ships
Author: David Doyle
Publisher: Schiffer Military History
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-05-28
Genre: HISTORY
ISBN: 9780764359590

Although not a weapon in the traditional sense of the word, arguably no item in the Allied arsenal contributed as much to the defeat of the Axis during WWII as did the Liberty ships. The 2,710 Liberty ships placed into service between 1941 and 1945 provided a vital link in the supply chain not only of US but also Allied forces during WWII. Although the basic design itself was obsolete even before the first one slid down the builder's ways, it had the advantage of being relatively easy to produce, and simple to operate and maintain. Thus, the vessels were mass-produced by no fewer than eighteen shipyards. Building time, initially 244 days, dropped to forty-two days per ship, although as a publicity stunt the Robert E. Peary was launched four days and fifteen and a half hours after the keel was laid.

World's War Events (Vol. 1-3)

World's War Events (Vol. 1-3)
Author: Various Authors
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 964
Release: 2020-12-11
Genre: History
ISBN:

This book features a collection of articles and official accounts and records on events of the First World War (1914-1918), contemporaneously known as the Great War or "the war to end all wars", which was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, with an estimated nine million combatant deaths and 13 million civilian deaths as a direct result of the war, while resulting genocides and the related 1918 Spanish flu pandemic caused another 17-100 million deaths worldwide._x000D_ Contents:_x000D_ What Caused the War_x000D_ The Defense of Liège_x000D_ The Great Retreat_x000D_ The Battle of the Marne_x000D_ How the French Fought_x000D_ The Race for the Channel_x000D_ The Last Ditch in Belgium_x000D_ Why Turkey Entered the War_x000D_ The Falkland Sea Fight_x000D_ Cruise of the Emden_x000D_ Capture of Tsing-Tao_x000D_ Gallipoli_x000D_ Gas: Second Battle of Ypres_x000D_ The Canadians at Ypres_x000D_ Sinking of the Lusitania_x000D_ Mountain Warfare_x000D_ The Great Champagne Offensive of 1915_x000D_ The Tragedy of Edith Cavell_x000D_ Gallipoli Abandoned_x000D_ The Death-Ship in the Sky_x000D_ The Battle of Verdun_x000D_ The Battle of Jutland Bank_x000D_ Taking the Col di Lana_x000D_ The Battle of the Somme_x000D_ Russia's Refugees_x000D_ The Tragedy of Rumania_x000D_ Sixteen Months a War Prisoner_x000D_ Under German Rule in France and Belgium_x000D_ The Anglo-Russian Campaign in Turkey_x000D_ Kitchener_x000D_ Why America Broke with Germany_x000D_ How the War Came to America_x000D_ The War Message_x000D_ British Operations at Saloniki_x000D_ In Petrograd During the Seven Days_x000D_ America's First Shot_x000D_ German Activities in the United States_x000D_ Preparing for War_x000D_ The Capture of Jerusalem_x000D_ American Ships and German Submarines_x000D_ A Destroyer in Active Service_x000D_ East Africa_x000D_ Greece's Atonement_x000D_ The Italians at Bay_x000D_ Bottling up Zeebrugge and Ostend_x000D_ With the American Submarines_x000D_ Wounded Heroes of France_x000D_ The Battle of Picardy_x000D_ Bulgaria Quits_x000D_ The Fighting Czecho-Slovaks_x000D_ Six Days on the American Firing Line_x000D_ An American Battlefield_x000D_ Night Raids from the Air_x000D_ The American Army in Europe_x000D_ The American Navy In Europe_x000D_ Armistice Terms Signed by Germany_x000D_ Covenant of the League of Nations_x000D_ Treaty of Peace with Germany_x000D_ Treaty of Peace with Austria

Merchant Marine Survivors of World War II

Merchant Marine Survivors of World War II
Author: Michael Gillen
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2015-01-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 0786494670

World War II could not have been won without the U.S. Merchant Marine. Crewed by civilian seamen in peacetime and carrying much of the nation's ocean-borne commerce, the Merchant Marine became the "fourth arm of defense" in wartime, providing vital support for beachheads in all theaters of operation. Twenty World War II Merchant Marine veterans are featured in this oral history. Most had at least one ship torpedoed, bombed, shelled or mined out from under them--some of them two. Some became prisoners of the Japanese for the duration of the war, working on the infamous River Kwai Bridge. Many spent time on lifeboats or flimsy rafts under harsh conditions; one--Donald Zubrod--endured 42 days in a lifeboat with several others before their eventual rescue, close to death. American merchant mariners suffered a casualty rate that was a close second to the Marine Corps during the war.

The Great War and America

The Great War and America
Author: Nancy Gentile Ford
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2008-02-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0313352216

The First World War marked a key turning point in America's involvement on the global stage. Isolationism fell, and America joined the ranks of the Great Powers. Civil-Military relations faced new challenges as a result. Ford examines the multitude of changes that stemmed from America's first major overseas coalition war, including the new selective service process; mass mobilization of public opinion; training diverse soldiers; civil liberties, anti-war sentiment and conscientious objectors; segregation and warfare; Americans under British or French command. Post war issues of significance, such as the Red Scare and retraining during demobilization are also covered. Both the federal government and the military were expanding rapidly both in terms of size and in terms of power during this time. The new group of citizen-soldiers, diverse in terms of class, religion, ethnicity, regional identity, education, and ideology, would provide training challenges. New government-military-business relationships would experience failures and successes. Delicate relationships with allies would translate into diplomatic considerations and battlefield command concerns.

The Rational Design of International Institutions

The Rational Design of International Institutions
Author: Barbara Koremenos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2003-12-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781139449120

International institutions vary widely in terms of key institutional features such as membership, scope, and flexibility. In this 2004 book, Barbara Koremenos, Charles Lipson, and Duncan Snidal argue that this is so because international actors are goal-seeking agents who make specific institutional design choices to solve the particular cooperation problems they face in different issue-areas. Using a Rational Design approach, they explore five features of institutions - membership, scope, centralization, control, and flexibility - and explain their variation in terms of four independent variables that characterize different cooperation problems: distribution, number of actors, enforcement, and uncertainty. The contributors to the volume then evaluate a set of conjectures in specific issue areas ranging from security organizations to trade structures to rules of war to international aviation. Alexander Wendt appraises the entire Rational Design model of evaluating international organizations and the authors respond in a conclusion that sets forth both the advantages and disadvantages of such an approach.

Evidence, History, and the Great War

Evidence, History, and the Great War
Author: Gail Braybon
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781571818010

In the English-speaking world the Great War maintains a tenacious grip on the public imagination, and also continues to draw historians to an event which has been interpreted variously as a symbol of modernity, the midwife to the twentieth century and an agent of social change. Although much 'common knowledge' about the war and its aftermath has included myth, simplification and generalisation, this has often been accepted uncritically by popular and academic writers alike. While Britain may have suffered a surfeit of war books, many telling much the same story, there is far less written about the impact of the Great War in other combatant nations. Its history was long suppressed in both fascist Italy and the communist Soviet Union: only recently have historians of Russia begun to examine a conflict which killed, maimed and displaced so many millions. Even in France and Germany the experience of 1914-18 has often been overshadowed by the Second World War. The war's social history is now ripe for reassessment and revision. The essays in this volume incorporate a European perspective, engage with the historiography of the war, and consider how the primary textural, oral and pictorial evidence has been used - or abused. Subjects include the politics of shellshock, the impact of war on women, the plight of refugees, food distribution in Berlin and portrait photography, all of which illuminate key debates in war history.

A Critical Woman

A Critical Woman
Author: Ann Oakley
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2011-06-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1849664706

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Barbara Wootton was one of the extraordinary public figures of the twentieth century. She was an outstanding social scientist, an architect of the welfare state, an iconoclast who challenged conventional wisdoms and the first woman to sit on the Woolsack in the House of Lords. Ann Oakley has written a fascinating and highly readable account of the life and work of this singular woman, but the book goes much further. It is an engaged account of the making of British social policy at a critical period seen through the lens of the life and work of a pivotal figure. Oakley tells a story about the intersections of the public and the private and about the way her subject's life unfolded within, was shaped by, and helped to shape a particular social and intellectual context.

Annual Report

Annual Report
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 758
Release: 1917
Genre: Public libraries
ISBN: