Download or read book The Good Years From 1900 To The First World War Illustrated Edition written by Walter Lord and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes more than 25 illustrations WALTER LORD NEVER STARTS FROM SCRATCH. For months before a word of this book was written, he could be found roaming the country, ferreting out the fascinating people who helped shape these years. One week it might be Elijah Baum, who piloted Wilbur Wright to his first lodgings at Kitty Hawk...the next, and old fireman who fought the flames at San Francisco...the next, some militant suffragette. Even in his raids on old diaries, letters, memoirs and newspapers, Mr. Lord usually headed straight for the scene. He was as likely to be found in an attic with a flashlight as at a desk with a pencil. That’s why the book is full of such fresh discoveries: secret Pinkerton reports on a famous murder, unpublished notes left by McKinley’s physician, the caterer’s instructions for Mrs. Astor’s ball, and many other factors unknown to the participants themselves. It’s his loving attention to first-hand sources that makes Mr. Lord’s books so vivid for the thousands who read them. Editorial Reviews: “Informative and entertaining...although The Good Years is naturally and properly selective, it still achieves something of a panoramic effect.” —The New York Times “[Lord uses] a kind of literary pointillism, the arrangement of contrasting bits of fact and emotion in such a fashion that a vividly real impression of an event is conveyed to the reader.” —New York Herald Tribune “[Lord had] the extraordinary ability to bring the past to life.” —Jenny Lawrence, author of The Way It Was: Walter Lord on His Life and Books
Download or read book An Illustrated History of the First World War written by John Keegan and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2001 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrates life on the home front, important battles, war from the perspective of generals and soldiers, the collapse of empires, and glimpses of World War II through photographs, paintings, cartoons, and posters.
Download or read book World War II written by H. P. Willmott and published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of this unique global account of the Second World War in all its brutal intensity Evoking the sheer, epic scale of combat and its appalling impact across the globe, this is a unique telling of the Second World War in all its brutal intensity. Digital maps and timelines cover every major campaign and phase of the war highlighting the strategic problems, critical moments, decisions and military actions that decided its outcome. Eyewitness accounts from civilians and soldiers paint a vivid picture of wartime life, covering both crucial battles and daily life under siege or aerial bombardment. This new edition includes a Second World War visitor�s guide to the hundreds of battlefields, war cemeteries, museums and memorials to the fallen in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Ideal for all the family, this is an essential chronicle of the War that defined the modern world.
Download or read book 50 Things You Should Know About the First World War written by Jim Eldridge and published by QEB Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the War, brought to life through illustrations, photographs, diaries, and newspaper reports. In this illustrated exploration of World War I, readers discover what caused the war and why it eventually affected every corner of the globe. The key battles, events, and figures are all explored and recounted in succinct and easy-to understand text while illustrations and photographs bring the past vividly back to life.
Download or read book Knit Your Bit written by Deborah Hopkinson and published by G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his father leaves to fight in World War I, Mikey joins the Central Park Knitting Bee to help knit clothing for soldiers overseas.
Download or read book America and the Great War written by Margaret E. Wagner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Titles of the Year for 2017 "A uniquely colorful chronicle of this dramatic and convulsive chapter in American--and world--history. It's an epic tale, and here it is wondrously well told." --David M. Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of FREEDOM FROM FEAR From August 1914 through March 1917, Americans were increasingly horrified at the unprecedented destruction of the First World War. While sending massive assistance to the conflict's victims, most Americans opposed direct involvement. Their country was immersed in its own internal struggles, including attempts to curb the power of business monopolies, reform labor practices, secure proper treatment for millions of recent immigrants, and expand American democracy. Yet from the first, the war deeply affected American emotions and the nation's commercial, financial, and political interests. The menace from German U-boats and failure of U.S. attempts at mediation finally led to a declaration of war, signed by President Wilson on April 6, 1917. America and the Great War commemorates the centennial of that turning point in American history. Chronicling the United States in neutrality and in conflict, it presents events and arguments, political and military battles, bitter tragedies and epic achievements that marked U.S. involvement in the first modern war. Drawing on the matchless resources of the Library of Congress, the book includes many eyewitness accounts and more than 250 color and black-and-white images, many never before published. With an introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David M. Kennedy, America and the Great War brings to life the tempestuous era from which the United States emerged as a major world power.
Download or read book The New York Times Book Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1991-07 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Good Years written by Walter Lord and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1960 edition.
Download or read book The Progressive Movement Revised Edition written by Tim McNeese and published by Infobase Holdings, Inc. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduced in the last decade of the 19th century as a direct response to the changes brought about by industrialization, the progressive movement helped reform the political process in the United States. Progressives believed that monopolies and political machines should be eliminated, people should be more involved in the political process, and the U.S. government should play a more prominent role in dealing with America's social ills, including poverty and child labor. This eBook brings the incredible story of the progressive movement to life thanks to its striking blend of rich photographs, concise text, and helpful features such a chronology, a bibliography, and suggestions for further reading.
Download or read book The Luger P 08 Vol 1 written by Luc Guillou and published by Schiffer Military History. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of two volumes on the legendary P.08 Luger (Pistole Parabellum), this illustrated book presents the design, manufacturing, and development of the various models from 1900 through the Weimar Republic period of the 1920s. Adopted by the Swiss in 1901 and then by the German army, the Luger would remain in service until the beginning of World War II and see use in the postwar East Germany, as well as many other nations throughout the world. Details include close-up views of markings, as well as a serial numbers list, and a visual breakdown of the weapon. Accessories such as magazines, ammunition, holsters, and cleaning kits are featured throughout the book, as well as rarely seen combat-related uniform and equipment items.
Download or read book Library Journal written by Melvil Dewey and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Issued also separately.
Download or read book Lugers at Random written by Charles Kenyon and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Story of World War II written by Henry Steele Commager and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published. Here are the horror and heroism of World War II in the words of the men who fought it, the journalists who covered it, and the civilians who were caught in its fury. Miller gives us an up-close, deeply personal view of a war that was more savagely fought—and whose outcome was in greater doubt—than readers might imagine. This is the war that Americans at the home front would have read about had they had access to the previously censored testimony of the soldiers on which Miller builds his gripping narrative. Miller covers the entire war—on land, at sea, and in the air—and provides new coverage of the brutal island fighting in the Pacific, the bomber war over Europe, the liberation of the death camps, and the contributions of African Americans and other minorities. He concludes with a suspenseful, never-before-told story of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, based on interviews with the men who flew the mission that ended the war.
Download or read book The Best SF Stories of Mack Reynolds Illustrated Edition written by Mack Reynolds and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-07-18 with total page 1075 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted collection presents some of Mack Reynolds' best SF stories. These stories are set in a near future and cover an assortment of social systems including anarchy, communism, technocracy, syndicalism, meritocracy, various forms of socialism, and an extrapolation of free-enterprise economics, People's Capitalism. Reynolds' heroes seek to improve their societies by direct revolutionary action. Contents: Revolution Combat Freedom Subversive Mercenary Ultima Thule Black Man's Burden Border, Breed nor Birth Frigid Fracas Status Quo Dogfight – 1973 Potential Enemy Off Course After Some Tomorrow Happy Ending Unborn Tomorrow I'm a Stranger Here Myself Summit Medal of Honor Gun for Hire Farmer Mercenary The Common Man Expediter Spaceman on a Spree Adaptation
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1961 with total page 2006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Number 1 & 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - December)
Download or read book The Progressive Movement written by Tim McNeese and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduced in the last decade of the 19th century as a direct response to the changes brought about by industrialization, the progressive movement helped reform the political process in the United States. This book brings the story of the progressive movement to life with photographs, concise text, and helpful features.
