Die Anfange der Dampfschiffahrt in Niedersachsen und in den Angrenzenden Gebieten von 1817 bis 1867
by Hans Szymanski
Blood on the Battlefield (Road to Destiny)
by Leo Stonewall Jackson Chilson
The chapters in this book are by academics and researchers from United Service Institution of India and International Ataturk Alatoo University. The research was conducted through inter-disciplinary approaches giving comparative perspectives. All the chapters in this volume have identified the convergences and divergences providing in-depth discussion on the contemporary relevance of the study. The chapters give an understanding and possible direction on how to enhance the scope for cooperation...
The Czecho-Slovak Struggle for Independence, 1914-1920
by Brent Mueggenberg
Pen and Sword uncovers how a group of revolutionaries from Bohemia transformed the idea of national independence for the Czech and Slovak peoples from a fantasy into a formidable movement that fielded armies, grabbed the attention of governments and contributed decisively to the fall of an ancient monarchy. Prior to 1914, few Czechs and even fewer Slovaks seriously consider a future for themselves outside the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but the outbreak of World War I forces some Czech leaders to...
Me 262 Stormbird, The: From the Pilots Who Flew, Fought, and Survived It
by Colin D Heaton and Anne-Marie Lewis
Memorial of the Patriotism of Schuylkill County in the American Slaveholder's Rebellion
by Francis B Wallace
Soldiers of Fortune by Richard Harding Davis, 1897. In the stifling jungles of a small South American country, Robert Clay works as a civil engineer at a mine. With two American assistants, he attempts to reap all the rewards found in this challenging environment. But he also has a secret history as a mercenary, fighting for whichever side will pay him the most. Clay finds himself in love with Alice Langham, the daughter of the wealthy American owner of the mine. His competition for Alice is Reg...
The British government has taken steps to halt the prosecution of soldiers responsible for the deaths of civilians in Northern Ireland, most of whom had no connection to paramilitary activities. These killings were part of a ruthless dirty war that commenced in 1970 when Brigadier Frank Kitson, a counter-insurgency specialist, was sent to Northern Ireland. Kitson had spent decades in Britain’s colonies refining old, and developing new, techniques which he applied in Northern Ireland. He became...
The Rice Institute Pamphlet, Vol. 6 (Classic Reprint)
by William Marsh Rice University
Historical Record of The Second, or, Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot [microform]
by Richard 1779-1865 Cannon
Hollywood Remembrance and American War (Routledge Advances in Film Studies)
Hollywood Remembrance and American War addresses the synergy between Hollywood war films and American forms of war remembrance. Subjecting the notion that war films ought to be considered ʻthe war memorials of today’ to critical scrutiny, the book develops a theoretical understanding of how Hollywood war films, as rhetorical sites of remembering and memory, reflect, replicate and resist American modes of remembrance. The authors first develop the framework for, and elaborate on, the co-evoluti...
This is the official history of the Seventh Air Force. It is not a ""brass hat"" story; it is told from the point of view of the men themselves, often in their own words, with realistic vigor and with the lively sense of humor that made it possible to achieve victory in the Pacific. Originally published in 1946. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out...
During the 1964 election campaign, Lyndon Johnson pledged to limit US involvement in the Vietnam War, and yet within a year America was fully committed to resisting the Vietcong. In this study of Johnson's volte face, Brian Van de Mark considers the pressures placed on the President to choose between his Great Society social proposals and the alienation of America's right wing, a conflict of interests that was enacted before his eyes during a dramatic weekend at Camp David in July 1965.