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Book Roving And Fighting  Adventures Under Four Flags

Download or read book Roving And Fighting Adventures Under Four Flags written by Edward S. O'Reilly and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2012 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a very rare book and a book of rare experiences. The author spent his early days on a Texas ranch. He enlisted for the Spanish War and finally went to Japan, where he opened the O'Reilly School of English in Kobe. He served as t a bodyguard for a Chinese rent collector, took part in the great wheelbarrow strike, was bouncer in a Chinese theatre, instructor in the Chinese army, and once more was on his way, this time back to America. Ultimately he arrived in Chicago "hoboing" most of the way. Then came a great deal of experience in Mexico with Villa, Oroczo, Zapata and other rebel leaders.

Book Minnesota Under Four Flags

Download or read book Minnesota Under Four Flags written by Minnesota Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maps include territory as claimed (over history) by France, England, Spain, the new country of United States (Virginia, Unorganized U.S., Northwest Territory), Indiana Territory, District of Louisiana, Missouri and Illinois Territory, Missouri and Michigan Territory, Michigan and Unorganized, Michigan Territory, Wisconsin Territory, Iowa & Wisconsin Territory, Unorganized, Minnesota Territory, State of Minnesota (northern boundary from Lake Superior to the Lake of the Woods) etc.

Book Flags of Our Fathers

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Bradley
  • Publisher : Bantam
  • Release : 2006-08-29
  • ISBN : 0553902768
  • Pages : 602 pages

Download or read book Flags of Our Fathers written by James Bradley and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2006-08-29 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America. In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima—and into history. Through a hail of machine-gun and mortar fire that left the beaches strewn with comrades, they battled to the island's highest peak. And after climbing through a landscape of hell itself, they raised a flag. Now the son of one of the flagraisers has written a powerful account of six very different young men who came together in a moment that will live forever. To his family, John Bradley never spoke of the photograph or the war. But after his death at age seventy, his family discovered closed boxes of letters and photos. In Flags of Our Fathers, James Bradley draws on those documents to retrace the lives of his father and the men of Easy Company. Following these men's paths to Iwo Jima, James Bradley has written a classic story of the heroic battle for the Pacific's most crucial island—an island riddled with Japanese tunnels and 22,000 fanatic defenders who would fight to the last man. But perhaps the most interesting part of the story is what happened after the victory. The men in the photo—three were killed during the battle—were proclaimed heroes and flown home, to become reluctant symbols. For two of them, the adulation was shattering. Only James Bradley's father truly survived, displaying no copy of the famous photograph in his home, telling his son only: “The real heroes of Iwo Jima were the guys who didn't come back. ” Few books ever have captured the complexity and furor of war and its aftermath as well as Flags of Our Fathers. A penetrating, epic look at a generation at war, this is history told with keen insight, enormous honesty, and the passion of a son paying homage to his father. It is the story of the difference between truth and myth, the meaning of being a hero, and the essence of the human experience of war.

Book Four Flags

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ray Von Rosenberg
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2009-10
  • ISBN : 1449025765
  • Pages : 638 pages

Download or read book Four Flags written by Ray Von Rosenberg and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1812 until 1826, young Ernst von Rosenberg served as a soldier under the flags of four different countries: the Russian, the Prussian, the Texas, and the Mexican.

Book Minnesota

    Book Details:
  • Author : Theodore Christian Blegen
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 1975
  • ISBN : 9780816607549
  • Pages : 774 pages

Download or read book Minnesota written by Theodore Christian Blegen and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed history is brought up to date through placement of the political, economic, social, and cultural developments since 1963 within the larger context of national and international events

Book Under Two Flags

Download or read book Under Two Flags written by Max Egremont and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1997 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of one of the greatest churchillians, a crucial lynch-pin between Britain and France

Book Flags and Faces

    Book Details:
  • Author : David M. Lubin
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2015-02-21
  • ISBN : 0520283635
  • Pages : 122 pages

Download or read book Flags and Faces written by David M. Lubin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-02-21 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 to the declaration of war against Germany in 1917, American artists and designers used their well-honed visual skills to campaign for or against intervention. During this period, Old Glory assumed its present role as a patriotic icon. After the war, as Americans tried to forget the horrors their soldiers had encountered abroad, medical advances in facial reconstruction for disfigured combatants gave rise to cosmetic plastic surgery and a flourishing makeup industry, elements in a conspicuously new distaste for plainness and aging and obsession with youth and beauty. Flags and Faces analyzes these respective aspects of American visual culture in the shadow of the First World War"--Provided by publisher.

Book Under the Black Flag

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Cordingly
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2013-02-06
  • ISBN : 0307763072
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Under the Black Flag written by David Cordingly and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is the most authoritative and highly literate account of these pernicious people that I have ever read.”—Patrick O'Brian “[A] wonderfully entertaining history of pirates and piracy . . . a rip-roaring read . . . fascinating and unexpected.”—Men's Journal This rollicking account of the golden age of piracy is packed with vivid history and high seas adventure. David Cordingly, an acclaimed expert on pirates, reveals the spellbinding truth behind the legends of Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, Sir Francis Drake, the fierce female brigands Mary Read and Anne Bonny, and others who rode and robbed upon the world's most dangerous waters. Here, in thrilling detail, are the weapons they used, the ships they sailed, and the ways they fought—and were defeated. Under the Black Flag also charts the paths of fictional pirates such as Captain Hook and Long John Silver. The definitive resource on the subject, this book is as captivating as it is supremely entertaining. Praise for Under the Black Flag “[A] lively history . . . If you've ever been seduced by the myth of the cutlass-wielding pirate, consider David Cordingly's Under the Black Flag.”—USA Today, “Best Bets” “Engagingly told . . . a tale of the power of imaginative literature to re-create the past.”—Los Angeles Times “Entirely engaging and informative . . . a witty and spirited book.”—The Washington Post Book World “Plenty of thrills and adventure to satisfy any reader.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer

Book American Showman

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ross Melnick
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2014-03-04
  • ISBN : 0231159056
  • Pages : 582 pages

Download or read book American Showman written by Ross Melnick and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel ÒRoxyÓ Rothafel (1882Ð1936) built an influential and prolific career as film exhibitor, stage producer, radio broadcaster, musical arranger, theater manager, war propagandist, and international celebrity. He helped engineer the integration of film, music, and live performance in silent film exhibition; scored early Fox Movietone films such as Sunrise (1927); pioneered the convergence of film, broadcasting, and music publishing and recording in the 1920s; and helped movies and moviegoing become the dominant form of mass entertainment between the world wars. The first book devoted to RothafelÕs multifaceted career, American Showman examines his role as the key purveyor of a new film exhibition aesthetic that appropriated legitimate theater, opera, ballet, and classical music to attract multi-class audiences. Roxy scored motion pictures, produced enormous stage shows, managed many of New YorkÕs most important movie houses, directed and/or edited propaganda films for the American war effort, produced short and feature-length films, exhibited foreign, documentary, independent, and avant-garde motion pictures, and expanded the conception of mainstream, commercial cinema. He was also one of the chief creators of the radio variety program, pioneering radio broadcasting, promotions, and tours. The producers and promoters of distinct themes and styles, showmen like Roxy profoundly remade the moviegoing experience, turning the deluxe motion picture theater into a venue for exhibiting and producing live and recorded entertainment. RoxyÕs interest in media convergence also reflects a larger moment in which the entertainment industry began to create brands and franchises, exploit them through content release Òevents,Ó and give rise to feature films, soundtracks, broadcasts, live performances, and related consumer products. Regularly cited as one of the twelve most important figures in the film and radio industries, Roxy was instrumental to the development of film exhibition and commercial broadcasting, musical accompaniment, and a new, convergent entertainment industry.

Book Bayonet Fighting for War

Download or read book Bayonet Fighting for War written by Leopold McLaglen and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Put Out More Flags

    Book Details:
  • Author : Evelyn Waugh
  • Publisher : Hachette+ORM
  • Release : 2012-12-11
  • ISBN : 0316216437
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book Put Out More Flags written by Evelyn Waugh and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upper-class scoundrel Basil Seal, mad, bad, and dangerous to know, creates havoc wherever he goes, much to the despair of the three women in his life-his sister, his mother, and his mistress. When Neville Chamberlain declares war on Germany, it seems the perfect opportunity for more action and adventure. So Basil follows the call to arms and sets forth to enjoy his finest hour-as a war hero. Basil's instincts for self-preservation come to the fore as he insinuates himself into the Ministry of Information and a little-known section of Military Security. With Europe frozen in the "phoney war," when will Basil's big chance to fight finally arrive?

Book Under Two Flags

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ouida
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1871
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book Under Two Flags written by Ouida and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fort Harrison on the Banks of the Wabash  1812 1912

Download or read book Fort Harrison on the Banks of the Wabash 1812 1912 written by Fort Harrison Centennial Association and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book United Whelan Shield

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  • Author : United Cigar-Whelan Stores Corporation
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1919
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book United Whelan Shield written by United Cigar-Whelan Stores Corporation and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Asiatic Pilot

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Hydrographic Office
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1917
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 638 pages

Download or read book Asiatic Pilot written by United States. Hydrographic Office and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Red Flags

    Book Details:
  • Author : George Magnus
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2018-09-11
  • ISBN : 0300240953
  • Pages : 247 pages

Download or read book Red Flags written by George Magnus and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trusted economic commentator provides a penetrating account of the threats to China's continued economic riseUnder President Xi Jinping, China has become a large and confident power both at home and abroad, but the country also faces serious challenges. In this critical take on China’s future, economist George Magnus explores four key traps that China must confront and overcome in order to thrive: debt, middle income, the Renminbi, and an aging population. Looking at the political direction President Xi Jinping is taking, Magnus argues that Xi’s authoritarian and repressive philosophy is ultimately not compatible with the country’s economic aspirations.Thorough and well researched, the book also investigates the potential for conflicts over trade, China’s evolving relationship with Trump, and the country’s attempt to win influence and control in Eurasia through the Belt and Road initiative.

Book Abolition and the Underground Railroad in South Jersey

Download or read book Abolition and the Underground Railroad in South Jersey written by Ellen Alford and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern New Jersey was a hotbed of slave fugitives, freedmen and abolitionists in the Civil War era. The proud 22nd Regiment of the United States Colored Troops included hundreds of Black New Jerseyans ready to fight for emancipation and the Union cause. Abolitionists such as Harriet Tubman, Abigail Goodwin and Benjamin Sheppard operated among key landmarks of the Underground Railroad in South Jersey counties such as Cape May, Cumberland and Salem. Slavery and the rights of Black Americans were at the forefront of the region's attention including stories such as a melee in a Cape May hotel between Black waiters and white patrons, the covert signaling of boats ferrying fugitive slaves across the Delaware River and the daring rescue of a runway slave from the hands of slave catches by local church worshipers. Author Ellen Alford reveals the history of abolition and the Underground Railroad in South Jersey.