Download or read book The Polk Conspiracy written by Kati Marton and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In war-torn Greece, the murder of a young American reporter sent a shock through the West and set the stage for the four-decade Cold War; now with a new introduction by the author Greece in 1948 was a country reeling from two major conflicts. The Nazi occupation and World War II had left it weakened, and the Greek Civil War—already raging for two years—had torn it apart. One of the earliest clashes of the Cold War, Greece’s civil dispute pitted the American-backed royalist government against the Soviet-funded Greek Communist Party. Reporting at the front lines for CBS News, George Polk drew the ire of both sides with his uncompromising and incisive coverage. In mid-May, days after going missing, Polk was found dead, shot execution style with his hands and feet bound. What transpired next was a mad scramble of finger pointing and international outrage. To appease its American backers, the Greek government quickly secured the dubious confession of a Communist journalist—though the bulk of the evidence pointed to the royalists. An influential moment in the early days of the Cold War and a powerful force in the formation of the Truman Doctrine, the Polk conspiracy was emblematic of the ideological conflict that would embroil the globe for the next forty years.

Download or read book A Country of Vast Designs written by Robert W. Merry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ROBERT MERRY’S BRILLIANT AND HIGHLY ACCLAIMED HISTORY OF A CRUCIAL EPOCH IN U.S. HISTORY. In a one-term presidency, James K. Polk completed the story of America’s Manifest Destiny—extending its territory across the continent by threatening England with war and manufacturing a controversial and unpopular two-year war with Mexico.

Download or read book Polk s Bankers Encyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 2368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Polk s Palo Alto Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Polk s Trow s New York Copartnership and Corporation Directory Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Diary of James K Polk During His Presidency 1845 to 1849 written by James Knox Polk and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Polk s Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 2994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Polk s Folly written by William R. Polk and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2001-07-17 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polk's Folly is William Polk's captivating investigation of his impressive family tree and of the broader American tale it narrates. Growing up in Texas in the late 1930s, listening to his grandmother's memories of her childhood amidst the Civil War, Polk became fascinated by tales of his family's engagement in monumental moments of our nation's history. Beginning when Robert Pollok fled Ireland in the 1680s, Polk's saga includes an Indian trader, an early drafter of the Declaration of Independence, one of our greatest presidents, heroes and rascals on both sides of the Civil War, Indian fighters, a World War I diplomat, and Polk's own brother, a journalist who reported on the Nuremberg Trials. Full of stunning detail and based on primary historical documents, Polk's Folly is a grand American chronicle that allows history to include the lives that made it happen.

Download or read book Polk s Baltimore Maryland City Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 2120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Polk s Peoria City Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Polk s Ann Arbor Ypsilanti and Washtenaw County Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Polk s Crocker Langley San Francisco City Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1888-05 with total page 1516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Polk s Detroit City Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 3266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Polk s Medical Register and Directory of the United States and Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 1508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Mr Polk s Army written by Richard Bruce Winders and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on numerous diaries, journals, and reminiscences, Richard Bruce Winders presents the daily life of soldiers at war; links the army to the society that produced it; shares his impressions of the soldiers he "met" along the way; and concludes that American participants in the Mexican War shared a common experience, no matter their rank or place of service. Taking a "new" military history approach, Mr. Polk's Army: The American Military Experience in the Mexican War examines the cultural, social, and political aspects of the regular and volunteer forces that made up the army of 1846-48, presents the organizational framework of the army, and introduces the different styles of leadership exhibited by Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott.