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| Author | : Isaac Gordon Bradwell |
| Publisher | : Mercer University Press |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780865546677 |
The unforgettable events witnessed by an impressionable young Georgian originally found their way into print, piecemeal fashion, courtesy of the Confederate Veteran magazine. Long buried in the pages of this magazine's volumes, Bradwell's engaging and readable story is finally told in its entirety.
| Author | : Cpt. Francis D. Cronin |
| Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 813 |
| Release | : 2018-04-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 178912185X |
“THIS IS THE WORLD WAR II HISTORY OF AN ORGANIZATION CONSIDERED BY many as one of the unique and most colorful combat units ever to serve in the United States Army in time of war—the Americal Division. “Despite its early entry into combat on Guadalcanal in 1942, and its subsequent long period of service in the Pacific, the Americal, as a unit, cannot lay claim to having beaten the Japanese alone. Japan was beaten to her knees by the collective power of the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, The Air Forces, and our allies. The Americal Division was a significant member of this powerful team of armed might which successfully overcame aggression in the Pacific. “The story of the Americal is primarily that of the humble riflemen of the infantry regiments, without whom the Division’s combat record would not be what it is today. No mere words of praise or of appreciation for their daily sacrifices are sufficient to express the gratitude in the hearts of those who have seen them in action. “The story of the Americal is also that of the many men who worked with the riflemen or for them, directly or indirectly. Theirs were thankless tasks, performed under hardships of all kinds, but without these valuable men the regiments could not have operated efficiently for long. “This history of the Americal Division represents the fruits of more than two years of work among records of the Division. As a whole, covering the entire life of the Division, it is as complete as time and space will allow. As such, it should stand primarily as a record, and a symbol, of the sincere courage and devotion to duty of all who served in the Americal.”
| Author | : Thomas McKelvey Cleaver |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2021-05-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1472838211 |
From August 7, 1942 until February 24, 1944, the US Navy fought the most difficult campaign in its history. Between the landing of the 1st Marine Division on Guadalcanal and the final withdrawal of the Imperial Japanese Navy from its main South Pacific base at Rabaul, the US Navy suffered such high personnel losses that for years it refused to publicly release total casualty figures. The Solomons campaign saw the US Navy at its lowest point, forced to make use of those ships that had survived the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and other units of the pre-war navy that had been hastily transferred to the Pacific. 140 days after the American victory at Midway, USS Enterprise was the only pre-war carrier left in the South Pacific and the US Navy would have been overwhelmed in the face of Japanese naval power had there been a third major fleet action. At the same time, another under-resourced campaign had broken out on the island of New Guinea. The Japanese attempt to reinforce their position there had led to the Battle of the Coral Sea in May and through to the end of the year, American and Australian armed forces were only just able to prevent a Japanese conquest of New Guinea. The end of 1942 saw the Japanese stopped in both the Solomons and New Guinea, but it would take another 18 hard-fought months before Japan was forced to retreat from the South Pacific. Under the Southern Cross draws on extensive first-hand accounts and new analysis to examine the Solomons and New Guinea campaigns which laid the groundwork for Allied victory in the Pacific War.
| Author | : Bob Livingstone |
| Publisher | : Turner Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : B-24 (Bomber) |
| ISBN | : 1563114321 |
Follow Australian author, Bob Livingstone as he follows the B-24 Liberator as it arrives in Australia during the turning point of the war against Japan and enables attacks to penetrate deep into Japanese held territory. The B-24 was the most numerous USAAF heavy bomber based in Australia and New Guinea in the most desperate phase of the Pacific War, and the first four-engine heavy bomber to serve with Royal Australian Air Force home squadrons. Includes many never before published photographs and an index.
| Author | : Vasile Marin |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 150 |
| Release | : 2019-06-23 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781072757658 |
Between 1936 and 1939 a brutal civil war engulfed Spain, one which pitted a bloodthirsty coalition of communist fanatics against those who wished to return Spain to her Christian traditions. In the midst of this struggle, a curious drama of life unfolded. Seven men from Orthodox Romania arrived to shed their blood for Catholic Spain. Two of these soldiers gave their lives for the cause, far from their native homeland. Presented here are a selection of writings from Ion Mota and Vasile Marin, as well as Mota's final letters, his testament, through which is shown the miracle of the martyr's mind.Fully illustrated with 90 images from the period, these writings are presented in English for the first time, with commentary from Alexandru Groppe on the contextual and spiritual significance of the Archangel Michael's servants, who perished in the shadow of the southern cross.
| Author | : Rainer Baudendistel |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2006-05-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1782388729 |
The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have highlighted again the precarious situation aid agencies find themselves in, caught as they are between the firing lines of the hostile parties, as they are trying to alleviate the plight of the civilian populations. This book offers an illuminating case study from a previous conflict, the Italo-Ethiopian war of 1935-36, and of the humanitarian operation of the Red Cross during this period. Based on fresh material from Red Cross and Italian military archives, the author examines highly controversial subjects such as the Italian bombings of Red Cross field hospitals, the treatment of Prisoners of War by the two belligerents; and the effects of Fascist Italy’s massive use of poison gas against the Ethiopians. He shows how Mussolini and his ruthless regime, throughout the seven-month war, manipulated the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) – the lead organization of the Red Cross in times of war, helped by the surprising political naïveté of its board. During this war the ICRC redefined its role in a debate, which is fascinating not least because of its relevance to current events, about the nature of humanitarian action. The organization decided to concern itself exclusively with matters falling under the Geneva Conventions and to give priority to bringing relief over expressing protest. It was a decision that should have far-reaching consequences, particularly for the period of World War II and the fate of Jews in Nazi concentration camps.
| Author | : Robert F. Jefferson |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 350 |
| Release | : 2008-11-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 080188828X |
Integrating social history and civil rights movement studies, Fighting for Hope examines the ways in which political meaning and identity were reflected in the aspirations of these black GIs and their role in transforming the face of America.
| Author | : Frederic C. Spurr |
| Publisher | : Good Press |
| Total Pages | : 206 |
| Release | : 2019-12-19 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : |
Five Years Under the Southern Cross by Frederic C. Spurr is an essay about the English perspective of the Australian empire and its westward expansion. Excerpt: "Going to the Ends of the Earth, The Golden West, An Accomplished Miracle and a Prediction, Adelaide, the Queen City of Australia, The Romance of Melbourne, The Beauty of Sydney, At Botany Bay, Brisbane, the Queen City of the North, Queensland, the Rich Unpeopled State, The Romance of Queensland Sugar, The Australian Winter and Spring, Bush Holidays, Some Bush Yarns, 114, A Honeymoon in the Bush, 15, The Highwaymen of the Bush 130."
| Author | : Glen O'Brien |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 237 |
| Release | : 2018-04-17 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1351189212 |
Most Wesleyan-Holiness churches started in the US, developing out of the Methodist roots of the nineteenth-century Holiness Movement. The American origins of the Holiness movement have been charted in some depth, but there is currently little detail on how it developed outside of the US. This book seeks to redress this imbalance by giving a history of North American Wesleyan-Holiness churches in Australia, from their establishment in the years following the Second World War, as well as of The Salvation Army, which has nineteenth-century British origins. It traces the way some of these churches moved from marginalised sects to established denominations, while others remained small and isolated. Looking at The Church of God (Anderson), The Church of God (Cleveland), The Church of the Nazarene, The Salvation Army, and The Wesleyan Methodist Church in Australia, the book argues two main points. Firstly, it shows that rather than being American imperialism at work, these religious expressions were a creative partnership between like-minded evangelical Christians from two modern nations sharing a general cultural similarity and set of religious convictions. Secondly, it demonstrates that it was those churches that showed the most willingness to be theologically flexible, even dialling down some of their Wesleyan distinctiveness, that had the most success. This is the first book to chart the fascinating development of Holiness churches in Australia. As such, it will be of keen interest to scholars of Wesleyans and Methodists, as well as religious history and the sociology of religion more generally.
| Author | : Bill Cheng |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 2013-05-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0062225030 |
In the tradition of Cormac McCarthy and Flannery O’Connor, Bill Cheng’s Southern Cross the Dog is an epic literary debut in which the bonds between three childhood friends are upended by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. In its aftermath, one young man must choose between the lure of the future and the claims of the past. Having lost virtually everything in the fearsome storm—home, family, first love—Robert Chatham embarks on an odyssey that takes him through the deep South, from the desperation of a refugee camp to the fiery and raucous brothel Hotel Beau-Miel and into the Mississippi hinterland, where he joins a crew hired to clear the swamp and build a dam. Along his journey he encounters piano-playing hustlers, ne’er-do-well Klansmen, well-intentioned whores, and a family of fur trappers, the L’Etangs, whose very existence is threatened by the swamp-clearing around them. The L’Etang brothers are fierce and wild but there is something soft about their cousin Frankie, possibly the only woman capable of penetrating Robert’s darkest places and overturning his conviction that he’s marked by the devil. Teeming with language that renders both the savage beauty and complex humanity of our shared past, Southern Cross the Dog is a tour de force that heralds the arrival of a major new voice in fiction.
