Download or read book The Civil War in Books written by David J. Eicher and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the assistance of several scholars, including James M. McPherson and Gary Gallagher, and a long-time specialist in Civil War books, Ralph Newman, David Eicher has selected for inclusion in The Civil War in Books the 1,100 most important books on the war. These are organized into categories as wide-ranging as "Battles and Campaigns," "Biographies, Memoirs, and Letters," "Unit Histories," and "General Works." The last of these includes volumes on black Americans and the war, battlefields, fiction, pictorial works, politics, prisons, railroads, and a host of other topics. Annotations are included for all entries in the work, which is presented in an oversized 8 1/2 x 11 inch volume in two-column format. Appendixes list "prolific" Civil War publishers and other Civil War bibliographies, and the works included in Eicher's mammoth undertaking are indexed by author or editor and by title. Gary Gallagher's foreword traces the development of Civil War bibliographies and declares that Eicher's annotation exceeds that of any previous comprehensive volume. The Civil War in Books, Gallagher believes, is "precisely the type of guide" that has been needed. The first full-scale, fully-annotated bibliography on the Civil War to appear in more than thirty years, Eicher's The Civil War in Books is a remarkable compendium of the best reading available about the worst conflict ever to strike the United States. The bibliography, the most valuable reference book on the subject since The Civil War Day by Day, will be essential for college and university libraries, dealers in rare and secondhand books, and Civil War buffs.
Download or read book Life among the Dead in the Trenches History War Books Children s Military Books written by Baby Professor and published by Speedy Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you just imagine what it’s like to be stuck in the trenches during the war? This book will give you an idea of what Life among the Dead in the Trenches was like. Sure, war stories are never happy but they carry important lessons that could influence your decisions today. So fill up on interesting and valuable tales. Read this book today!
Download or read book Everything There Is to Know about the Vietnam War History Facts Books Children s War Military Books written by Baby Professor and published by Speedy Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, the Vietnam War is the longest, largest and most complex colonial wars. During the war, the North and South Vietnam fought each other with the help of their backers. The Vietnam War largely influenced the history of the country, and its neighbors Cambodia and Laos. In addition, it was also a major player in Southeast Asia, China, Russia, America and France. Learn the facts here.
Download or read book Books and Libraries in American Society during World War II written by Patti Clayton Becker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War II presented America's public libraries with the daunting challenge of meeting new demands for war-related library services and materials with Depression-weakened collections, inadequate budgets and demoralized staff, in addition to continuing to serve the library's traditional clientele of women and children seeking recreational reading. This work examines how libraries could respond to their communities need through the use of numerous primary and secondary sources.
Download or read book When Books Went to War written by Molly Guptill Manning and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the joint effort of the U.S. government, the publishing industry, and the nation's librarians to boost troop morale during World War II by shipping more than one hundred million books to the front lines for soldiers to read during what little downtime they had.
Download or read book Comic Books and the Cold War 1946 1962 written by Chris York and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conventional wisdom holds that comic books of the post-World War II era are poorly drawn and poorly written publications, notable only for the furor they raised. Contributors to this thoughtful collection, however, demonstrate that these comics constitute complex cultural documents that create a dialogue between mainstream values and alternative beliefs that question or complicate the grand narratives of the era. Close analysis of individual titles, including EC comics, Superman, romance comics, and other, more obscure works, reveals the ways Cold War culture--from atomic anxieties and the nuclear family to communist hysteria and social inequalities--manifests itself in the comic books of the era. By illuminating the complexities of mid-century graphic novels, this study demonstrates that postwar popular culture was far from monolithic in its representation of American values and beliefs.
Download or read book The history of the war between the Peloponnesians and Athenians Books I II written by Thucydides and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Anti Communist Manifestos Four Books That Shaped the Cold War written by John V. Fleming and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-08-17 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of this work consists of four influential books that had informedthe great political struggle known as the Cold War: "Darkness at Noon, Out ofthe Night, I Chose Freedom," and "Witness."
Download or read book General William Sherman s Great March to the Sea American Civil War Books Biography 5th Grade Children s Biographies written by Dissected Lives and published by Speedy Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to bravery, General William Sherman is definitely somewhere at the top. This biography book features the life and times of one of the heroes of the American Civil War. Read about General William Sherman and his great march to the sea. Discuss his involvement in the burning of Atlanta. Grab a copy and begin reading today.
Download or read book The history of the war between the Peloponnesians and Athenians Books 1 2 ed with notes and intr by C Bigg Books 3 4 ed by G A Simcox written by Thucydides and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book War written by DK Publishing and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War has been central to the rise and fall of civilizations since the dawn of time. The history of warfare first emerges from legend in Mesopotamia, the cradle of civilization, around 3,000 years before the birth of Christ. The first armies that we know about fought in Sumeria, Ancient Egypt, and Syria. From these first battles, fought with spears or axes on horseback or on foot, War traces the campaigns and conflicts that have shaped world history and examines the evolution of military tactics and technology. The story of the development from these primitive battles to the global conflicts of the 20th century and the modern 'War on Terror' is the story of humanity itself, reflecting the same political, cultural and technological forces that have defined human history. From longbows to laser-guided missiles; from chariots to jet aircraft; and from Samurai warriors to SAS soldiers, War provides the definitive visual chronicle of this intense, brutal, and often heroic tale. War combines a coherent and compelling spread-by-spread historical narrative with a wealth of supporting features on weapons and technology, strategy and tactics, the experience of war, and history's fighting elites to recount the epic 5,000-year story of warfare and combat through the ages.
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Download or read book How WWI Changed Modern Warfare History War Books Children s Military Books written by Baby Professor and published by Speedy Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that apart from lessons on ethics and morals, the World War 1 also gives valuable contributions to the progress of military science? Open this book to learn How WWI Changed Modern Warfare. Take a look at how necessity proves to be the mother of all inventions, even if it means creating devices that took lives to ensure liberty. Grab a copy today!
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Download or read book European Military Books and Intellectual Cultures of War in 17th Century Russia written by Oleg Rusakovskiy and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-09-16 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the role Western military books and their translations played in 17th-century Russia. By tracing how these translations were produced, distributed and read, the study argues that foreign military treatises significantly shaped intellectual culture of the Russian elite. It also presents Tsar Peter the Great in a new light – not only as a military and political leader but as a devoted book reader and passionate student of military science.
Download or read book The Book of War written by Dwight Jon Zimmerman and published by Tess Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of War covers all the significant armed conflicts from 1479 b.c. right up to the present day. Organised chronologically, this fascinating survey details the clashes of early military empires through modern warfare, charting all the major wars and battles fought in between.
Download or read book What Every Person Should Know About War written by Chris Hedges and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed New York Times journalist and author Chris Hedges offers a critical -- and fascinating -- lesson in the dangerous realities of our age: a stark look at the effects of war on combatants. Utterly lacking in rhetoric or dogma, this manual relies instead on bare fact, frank description, and a spare question-and-answer format. Hedges allows U.S. military documentation of the brutalizing physical and psychological consequences of combat to speak for itself. Hedges poses dozens of questions that young soldiers might ask about combat, and then answers them by quoting from medical and psychological studies. • What are my chances of being wounded or killed if we go to war? • What does it feel like to get shot? • What do artillery shells do to you? • What is the most painful way to get wounded? • Will I be afraid? • What could happen to me in a nuclear attack? • What does it feel like to kill someone? • Can I withstand torture? • What are the long-term consequences of combat stress? • What will happen to my body after I die? This profound and devastating portrayal of the horrors to which we subject our armed forces stands as a ringing indictment of the glorification of war and the concealment of its barbarity.
