Download or read book Campaign Sketches of the War with Mexico Classic Reprint written by William Seaton Henry and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Campaign Sketches of the War With Mexico IN committing the subjoined pages to the tide of popular favor, the author disavows any claim to liter ary merit. He issues them as a diary of events now blended with the history of his country. They have been jotted down principally for his own amusement, or to beguile away the otherwise long and weary hours of camp life. They are now brought forth as the means of introducing into the family circle a con cise, and perhaps instructive, narrative of events, a description of the country, its scenery, the people, their manners and customs, which have been subject ed to his own observation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Sketches of the War written by Charles C. Nott and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-03 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book The Art of War for Beginners written by Vincent Gagliano and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-07-11 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of War is one of the oldest and most widely read books on tactics and strategy ever written, but it can also be one of the most mystifying for modern readers to tackle. In order to complete this book, author Vincent Gagliano studied several different translations of The Art of War, in addition to books on business, leadership, and military history. Here, he takes Sun Tzus ideas and concepts and expresses them in a simplified form for first-time readers. He also describes how he came to write the book, and how new readers can study the text, helping them learn the concepts and apply them to everyday life. Whether you are facing struggles on the literal battlefield, in the boardroom, or in the arena, the ideas first expressed by Sun Tzu 2,500 years ago are still relevant today. Mastering the concepts of combat in any situation can give you the edge up on your competition, starting today!
Download or read book The Army Sketch Book written by Edwin Forbes and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book War and Art written by Joanna Bourke and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In times of crisis, we often turn to artists for truth-telling and memory-keeping. There is no greater crisis than war, and in this sumptuously illustrated volume, we find a comprehensive visual, cultural, and historical account of the ways in which armed conflict has been represented by artists. Covering the last two centuries, from the Crimean War to the present day, the book shows how the artistic portrayal of war has changed, from a celebration of heroic exploits to a more modern, troubled, and perhaps truthful depiction of warfare and its consequences. The book investigates broad patterns as well as specific genres and themes of war art, and features more than 400 color illustrations by artists including Paul Nash, Judy Chicago, Pablo Picasso, Melanie Friend, Marc Chagall, Francis Bacon, K the Kollwitz, Joseph Beuys, Yves Klein, Robert Rauschenberg, Dora Meeson, Otto Dix, and many others. The volume also highlights the work of often overlooked artists, including children, non-Europeans, and prisoners of war. A wide range of subjects, from front-line combat to behind-the-lines wartime experiences are represented in paintings, etchings, photography, film, digital art, comics, and graffiti. Edited and with an introduction by Joanna Bourke, War and Art features essays written by premier experts in the field. This extensive survey is a fitting and timely contribution to our understanding of art, memory, and commemoration of war.
Download or read book Descriptive Sketches Illustrating Mr William Simpson s Drawings of the Seat of War in the East written by George Brackenbury and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Battle of Carthage written by Hinze, David C. and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fought by pro-Confederate Missouri State guardsmen and Union volunteers more than two weeks before First Bull Run, it was the culmination of the first major land campaign of the Civil War.
Download or read book The Army Sketch Book written by Edwin Forbes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-12 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Army Sketch Book: An Artist's Story of the War We descended the hill to the river, and crossing on the pontoons, were soon on our way towards the front. We passed through the wagon-camps on a at near the river, and ascending a gentle slope were soon in the dense woods beyond. Darkness had now fallen, and the din of the con ict increased, though we concluded that the enemy's advance had been checked, as the reports of firing came no nearer. Sounds rose and fell as the opposing forces changed position, coming clearly and distinctly from a wooded ridge but with muf ed tone from the valleys. Suddenly there came a burst of artillery, and a tremendous roar continued for one hour. Then word was received that the enemy's advance had been checked. Suddenly we met straggling parties of demoralized troops hurrying towards the rear, and found on inquiry that the Eleventh Corps, holding the right ank Of our army, had been surprised and put to rout by Stonewall Jackson, who had been making one of his famous forced marches for the purpose. These men were panic-stricken, rushing about at random with no directness of movement, their only thought being to get away from the bullets. Guards were thrown out on both sides of the road to put an end to the disgraceful confusion, and when the way was cleared we pushed forward toward the firing. I shall never forget the scene at this point, at nine O'clock. Fires were blazing on every side, which, with the pine trees that had been ignited, so lit up the road that objects were as discernible as in the day; and surging through it all was a mass of earnest, determined men who were intent only on reaching the line of battle where they could be of service to their struggling comrades. Marching hurriedly forward, they soon came to a road leading from Ely's Ford to Chancellorsville, and deploying to right and left the lines were very shortly in such a position that the damage done by Jackson's masterly surprise was almost made good, although a last desperate attempt was made at eleven o'clock to take pos session of a plateau surrounding the Chancellorsville House. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book Historical Sketch of the Second War Between the United States of America and Great Britain Events of 1814 written by Charles Jared Ingersoll and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Sketches of the War a Second Series of Letters written by Philip O'Flaherty and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Civil War and American Art written by Eleanor Jones Harvey and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the best artwork created before, during and following the Civil War, in the years between 1859 and 1876, along with extensive quotations from men and women alive during the war years and text by literary figures, including Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. 15,000 first printing.
Download or read book Sketches from a Secret War written by Timothy Snyder and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-10 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forgotten protagonist of this true account aspired to be a cubist painter in his native Kyïv. In a Europe remade by the First World War, his talents led him to different roles—intelligence operative, powerful statesman, underground activist, lifelong conspirator. Henryk Józewski directed Polish intelligence in Ukraine, governed the borderland region of Volhynia in the interwar years, worked in the anti-Nazi and anti-Soviet underground during the Second World War, and conspired against Poland’s Stalinists until his arrest in 1953. His personal story, important in its own right, sheds new light on the foundations of Soviet power and on the ideals of those who resisted it. By following the arc of Józewski’s life, this book demonstrates that his tolerant policies toward Ukrainians in Volhynia were part of Poland’s plans to roll back the communist threat. The book mines archival materials, many available only since the fall of communism, to rescue Józewski, his Polish milieu, and his Ukrainian dream from oblivion. An epilogue connects his legacy to the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the democratic revolution in Ukraine in 2004.
Download or read book The Soul of the Soldier Sketches from the Western Battle Front written by Thomas Tiplady and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sketches of the War Between the United States and the British Isles written by Gideon Miner Davison and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Download or read book The Army Sketch Book written by Edwin Forbes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Army Sketch Book: An Artist's Story of the War Special Artist with the Armies in the Field; Author of "Life Studies of the Great Army;" Centennial Exposition - Highest Art Award; Hon. Member of the London and of the French Etching Clubs, etc. When the Civil War broke out, one of the most brilliant and famous editors of New York said, "This war will absorb public attention and be the ruin of the newspapers." On the contrary, it was the making of the newspapers. The correspondents in the capital and in the field leaped to their opportunity, and suddenly developed elements of quickness, sagacity and comprehension that were potent factors of public education in all that the war was. Among those who won fame in that daring pursuit of information was a young artist whose graphic sketches and pictures in the very midst of the varied scenes of camp, march, hospital, bivouac and battlefield, made their reality familiar to the home public through the illustrated papers of the day, and whose accumulated material gave him in later years the means of vividly recalling those exciting times in a series of forty large etchings, published as "Life Studies of the Great Army." It was no small honor to Edwin Forbes, when the International Art Commission at our Centennial Exposition of 1876 gave to him the highest award in their power, privately expressing their wonder that one man should have been able to produce such a splendid array of artistic plates; and this was followed by unsought honorary memberships of the foreign Etching Clubs. What is perhaps of even more interest to us in these present days, is the strong and uniform witness of men to whom every phase of army life in that war was familiar, that Forbes' pictures are in very truth "life studies," and reproduce with startling realism the almost forgotten minutæ of the scenes they portray - the beauty, the fun, the tragedy and comedy, the brightness and dullness, the gayety and the toil, the infinite variety of picturesque fact in all arms of the service. The series of large etchings, of course, are on the United States War Office walls, but they are only a small part of his interesting material. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Sketches of the War Between the United States and the British Isles Vol 12 written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sketches of the War, Between the United States and the British Isles, Vol. 12: Intended as a Faithful History of All the Material Events From the Time of the Declaration in 1812, to and Including the Treaty of Peace in 1815: Interspersed With Geograhpical Descriptions of Places, and Biographical Notices of Distinguished Military And Who may not have perused this work, as it progressed from the press, will perceive, that these numbers were commenced, and that part of them were written for a family record, while the war was continually proclaiming its events from the embattled field. Hence, the work, from a seeming necessity, and from the then unknown duration of the war, assumed its present form. Had all the events herein registered in our numbers been matter of history, before the first was printed, they would have enabled us to have given to this work a more dignified character. Perhaps, however, what we may lose in respect, the reader may gain in information. The simple "unvarnished tale" often more instructs than the leisurely composed and rounded periods of some better writer, but semi-romantic historian. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
