Download or read book Birth of a Legend written by Capt Arthur H. Wagner Uscg (Ret) and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Competition for Army acquisition funding in the betrween wars depression years was fierce. The opposing camps of Fighter Supremacy versus Strategic Bombing played out at the Air Corps Tactical School (ACTS), at GHQ, before Congress and in the media. Military exercises pitted the Navy and the Air Corps in operations with real cloak and dagger background gambits, each trying to gain the upper hand. When leaders such as Benjamin Foulois, Billy Mitchell, and Frank Andrews eventually were able to foster a bomber competition to replace the Martin B-10, Boeing's four-engined Model 299 was a clear winner; but then it crashed at Dayton, and the Army opted for the Douglas B-18. Somehow, Frank Andrews had enough faith in his convictions and managed to have 13 Y1B-17s produced and sent to the 2nd Bombardment Group at Langley Field, VA. There Robert Olds and his three squadrons enthralled the country with long range goodwill flights, transcontinental speed runs with an obscure 1st Lt Curtis leMay navigating the way, and a thrilling movie "Test Pilot" starring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, and Spencer Tracy. Fortunately for the trials of WWII, these daring young men of the Army Air Corps put their careers on the line, and made the B-17 one of the iconic weapons of that conflict. This is the untold story of the aircraft development and the men who made it happen.

Download or read book Birth of a Legend written by LtCol Leon E. Braxton USAF and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-27 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Competition for Army acquisition funding in the betrween wars depression years was fierce. The opposing camps of Fighter Supremacy versus Strategic Bombing played out at the Air Corps Tactical School (ACTS), at GHQ, before Congress and in the media. Military exercises pitted the Navy and the Air Corps in operations with real cloak and dagger background gambits, each trying to gain the upper hand. When leaders such as Benjamin Foulois, Billy Mitchell, and Frank Andrews eventually were able to foster a bomber competition to replace the Martin B-10, Boeing's four-engined Model 299 was a clear winner; but then it crashed at Dayton, and the Army opted for the Douglas B-18. Somehow, Frank Andrews had enough faith in his convictions and managed to have 13 Y1B-17s produced and sent to the 2nd Bombardment Group at Langley Field, VA. There Robert Olds and his three squadrons enthralled the country with long range goodwill flights, transcontinental speed runs with an obscure 1st Lt Curtis leMay navigating the way, and a thrilling movie "Test Pilot" starring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, and Spencer Tracy. Fortunately for the trials of WWII, these daring young men of the Army Air Corps put their careers on the line, and made the B-17 one of the iconic weapons of that conflict. This is the untold story of the aircraft development and the men who made it happen.

Download or read book Hillbilly written by Anthony Harkins and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text argues that the hillbilly - in his various guises - has been viewed by mainstream Americans simultaneously as a violent degenerate who threatens the modern order and as a keeper of traditional values and thus symbolic of a nostalgic past free of the problems of contemporary life.

Download or read book Legends of the Dallas Cowboys written by Cody Monk and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five Super Bowl titles, 13 Hall of Famers, and a litany of legendary players, characters, and games later, the Dallas Cowboys franchise has cemented itself among the most successful in all of sports and, with a fan base that extends all over the world, among the most well known. Legends of the Dallas Cowboys takes an in-depth look at some of the legends who have shaped the Cowboys’ identity, beginning with Tom Landry, the man who was hired before Murchison had been awarded a team and who is still the franchise’s enduring image. Also included is Tex Schramm, under whom the Cowboys had 20 straight winning seasons and who is considered the most forward-thinking NFL executive ever, as well as Randy White, Ed “Too Tall” Jones, Bob Lilly, Lee Roy Jordan, Mel Renfro, and more. Also included are innovators like Bob Hayes, who forced the creation of the zone defense, and Michael Irvin and Thomas “Hollywood” Henderson, who forced the creation of behavioral clauses in contracts. Each of the legends played his own unique role in shaping the lore of one of sports’ greatest franchises, a franchise that began humbly on a winter day in Miami and is now a model of success.

Download or read book Historical Gazetteer of the United States written by Paul T. Hellmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-02-14 with total page 1666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first place-by-place chronology of U.S. history, this book offers the student, researcher, or traveller a handy guide to find all the most important events that have occurred at any locality in the United States.

Download or read book The Celluloid South written by Edward D. C. Campbell and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2003-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "southern" - as much a Hollywood genre as the "western" - is the subject of The Celluloid South. For decades the film industry, to provide profit-making entertainment, offered the public movies that neither raised difficult issues nor offended a majority of the ticket-buyers. As a result, Hollywood romanticized the south, particularly the antebellum era, in hundreds of films like Uncle Tom's Cabin, Gone With the Wind, Birth of a Nation, and Jezebel. During the 1920's and especially the Depression, the "moonlight and magnolia" romances increased to such an extent that Hollywood has been struggling since the late forties to rid films of the traditional images of the "southern." In his exploration of the "southern," Edward D.C. Campbell, Jr. examines the film plots and images - their social, literary, and historical origins, and their impact on the creation of a popular mythology of the south. The unrealistic but seemingly harmless characterizations of a planter society, and agricultural economy, and especially slavery have hindered the region's self-assessment and warped the nation's perspective on race. Campbell looks beyond the productions themselves, however, to advertising techniques and the reactions of the viewers and reviewers in his examination of the "southern," its popularity and its decline, and its influence of the public's conception of history, contemporary conditions, and black/white relations. The Celluloid South is not a study of film per se, but of film as a reflection of society and the ramifications inherent in popular entertainment. Readers interested in southern history, popular culture, or cinema studies, as well as movie fans, will find The Celluloid South a fascinating look at Hollywood's development of the southern myth. Thirty-one film stills illustrate the text.

Download or read book Who s who in Hockey written by Stan Fischler and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If there is one book that's missing from the ever-growing number of hockey books available, it is an A-to-Z guide of the sport's all-time greatest stars. Finally, that book has arrived. Veteran hockey authors Stan and Shirley Fischler's Who's Who in Hockey is the complete guide to the game's greatest players.This indispensable hockey reference book features all of the sport's most notable players, from Wayne Gretzky and Howie Morenz to Rocket Richard, Marcel Pronovost, and Bep Guidolin.For easy reference, this comprehensive 480-page volume is divided into three parts: pre-World War II players, World War II to Expansion, and From 1967-68 to the present.Each player's entry includes his biography, personal statistics, and career highlights, along with anecdotal information. In addition to player listings, this power-packed book will include: o Dozens of player photoso Capsule histories of every past and present NHL franchiseo The colorful history behind the Stanley Cupo Profiles of the game's best coaches and managers o Profiles of others who've helped make the game great, such as Pete and Jerry Cusimano, who pioneered the Detroit tradition of throwing octopuses onto the ice for luck.Perhaps the most complete compendium of biographies on hockey's greatest players ever published, Who's Who in Hockey will be a hot item with both die-hard and newer fans of this popular professional sport.

Download or read book BIRTH OFLEGEND written by Jeffrey Quill and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1986-05-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Allison Engined P 51 Mustang written by Martyn Chorlton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive technical guide to the early Allison-engined P-51 Mustang variants. While the introduction of the Merlin engine did improve the Mustang's performance and produce the bubble-canopied fighters with which we associate the name, credit must be given to the Allison-engined variants that preceded it. From its inception in early 1940, the Mustang's development was extraordinarily rapid – such was the need for a fighter at the time, and the confidence in its design. By early January 1942, the Mustang was in service with the RAF, flying low-level armed reconnaissance operations over Northern France. Despite later Merlin variants arriving in-theatre, this remained a hunting ground for the Allison Mustangs through to D-Day and beyond – a remarkable service length. This book shows how, in American hands the Allison-engined Mustangs performed as dive-bombers and fighters, serving with distinction in North Africa and the Far East.

Download or read book The Rough Guide to Rock written by Peter Buckley and published by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2003 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiles career biographies of over 1,200 artists and rock music reviews written by fans covering every phase of rock from R & B through punk and rap.

Download or read book Lenya the Legend written by David Farneth and published by . This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born Karoline Blamauer in 1898, Lenya began her career as an actress and dancer in Zurich. In 1920's Berlin she met and married the young composer Kurt Weill, and the two of them brought their talents to American theater when they left Nazi Germany. This first visual biography of the extraordinary performer is an intimate and revealing portrait that Lenya fans and theater buffs won't want to miss. 80 color photos. 350 illustrations.

Download or read book Southern Writers written by Joseph M. Flora and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1980-09-01 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical sketches of 378 writers associated with the American South are included in this important new reference work. Compiled by 172 scholars, these summaries--many of which are not readily available elsewhere--provide in their total effect a brief history of southern literature from colonial times to the present.The volume is, in part, a companion to A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Southern Literature (Louis D. Rubin, Jr., ed.), a work that has become a standard reference for anyone seriously interested in the literature of the South. With its wealth of essential biographical information on the region's writers, both major and minor, this new guide will take its place alongside that earlier volume as an invaluable aid to the study of southern writing. Especially useful will be complete listings of the first printings of the books by each writer provided after the respective summaries.Included as contributors of the individual biographical summaries are most of the better-known scholars of southern literature, plus a number of promising young scholars. The editors, each of whom is an outstanding scholar in southern literary studies, are:

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Film written by James Monaco and published by Perigee Trade. This book was released on 1991 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alphabetical reference on the major film figures (stars, producers, directors, writers, et al.), past and present. Each entry provides a substantial career biography and a complete listing of all films the individual has been involved with. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book The Book of Golden Discs written by and published by London : Barrie & Jenkins. This book was released on 1978 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The records that sold a million"--Cover.

Download or read book Czechoslovakia between Stalin and Hitler written by Igor Lukes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-05-23 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Munich crisis of 1938, in which Great Britain and France decided to appease Hitler's demands to annex the Sudentenland, has provoked a vast amount of historical writing. The era has been thoroughly examined from the perspectives of Germans, French, and British political establishments. But historians have had, until now, only a vague understanding of the roles played by the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, the country whose very existence was at the very center of the crisis. In Czechoslovakia Between Stalin and Hitler, Igor Lukes explores this turbulent and tragic era from the new perspective of the Prague government itself. At the center of this study is Edvard Benes, a Czechoslovak foreign policy strategist and a major player in the political machinations of the era. The work looks at the first two decades of Benes's diplomacy and analyzes the Prague Government's attempts to secure the existence of the Republic of Czechoslovakia in the treacherous space between the millstones of the East and West. It studies Benes's relationship with Joseph Stalin, outlines the role assigned to Czechoslovak communists by the VIIth Congress of the Communist International in 1935, and dissects Prague's secret negotiations with Berlin and Benes's role in the famous Tukhachevsky affair. The work also brings evidence regarding the so-called partial mobilization of the Czechoslovak army in May 1938, and focuses on Stalin's strategic thinking on the eve of the World War II. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall, it was difficult for Western researchers to gain access to the rich archival collections of the East. Czechoslovakia Between Stalin and Hitler makes ample use of these secret archives, both in Prague and in Russia. As a result, it is an accurate and original rendition of the events which eventually sparked the Second World War.

Download or read book Theater World 2001 2002 written by John Willis and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Theatre World). Highlights of this new Theatre World , now in its 58th year, include Mamma Mia! with Louise Pitre; Thoroughly Modern Millie starring Tony Award-winner Sutton Foster; the downtown-moves-uptown triumph Urinetown starring Sutton's sibling Hunter Foster and John Cullum; the one-woman show Elaine Stritch at Liberty ; the Tony Award-winner for Best Play, Edward Albee's The Goat ; Topdog/Underdog , the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Suzan-Lori Parks, the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer for drama; the revival of Noel Coward's Private Lives ; and Sweet Smell of Success starring John Lithgow. Some notable Off-Broadway productions of the season include Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things with Gretchen Mol, Paul Rudd and Rachel Weisz; Richard Greenberg's (Take Me Out) The Dazzle ; Jason Robert Brown's notable musical The Last Five Years ; tick, tick ... BOOM! , a musical by the late Jonathan Larson ( Rent ); Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul ; and Sam Shepard's The Late Henry Moss with Ethan Hawke. Theatre World, the statistical and pictorial record of the Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway seasons, touring companies, and professional regional companies throughout the United States, is a classic in its field. The book is complete with cast listings, replacements, producers, directors, authors, composers, opening and closing dates, and song titles. There are special sections with autobiographical data, obituary information, a longest runs listing, an expanded awards listing, and much, much more. "Nothing brings back a theatrical season better, or holds on to it more lovingly, than John Willis's Theatre World ." Harry Haun, Playbill " Theatre World commemorates the history and excitement of the theatre like no other publication. John Willis and his book are indispensable." Alec Baldwin

Download or read book Mr Mob written by Michael Newton and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-06-08 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morris "Moe" Dalitz was America's most secretive and most successful mobster. As a major architect of the United States' national crime syndicate, Dalitz was active in various fields of organized crime from 1918 until his death, all while spinning a web of myth and mock-respectability around himself so dense that decades after his demise, most mistake the legend for reality. From Prohibition-era bootlegging to the Reagan years, no other individual was present at so many pivotal events in gangland history. It's impossible to fully understand the modern Mob without knowing about Dalitz, his career, and the cunning publicity campaign that transformed his image from thug to that of a revered philanthropist. This exhaustive biography tells the story of Dalitz's life and the syndicate that he and like-minded individuals built from scratch.