America's Victory
Author: David W. Shaw
Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781574091878
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →David W. Shaw is the author of The Sea Shall Embrace Them, Inland Passage, and Daring the Sea.
Author: David W. Shaw
Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781574091878
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →David W. Shaw is the author of The Sea Shall Embrace Them, Inland Passage, and Daring the Sea.
Author: Susan Johnson Hadler
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781574410334
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1990, Ann Mix began a search to find out about her father, who had been killed in World War II. She eventually met others whose fathers had been killed and discovered that, like her, they had little information about their fathers. As a result, Ann founded the American WWII Orphans Network to locate war orphans and become a despository for sources of information about WWII servicemen who were fathers.
Author: Thomas Fleming
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2017-10-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780306824968
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A sweeping and insightful grand strategic overview of the American Revolution, highlighting Washington's role in orchestrating victory and creating the US Army Led by the Continental Congress, the Americans almost lost the war for independence because their military thinking was badly muddled. Following the victory in 1775 at Bunker Hill, patriot leaders were convinced that the key to victory was the home-grown militia--local men defending their families and homes. But the flush of early victory soon turned into a bitter reality as the British routed Americans fleeing New York. General George Washington knew that having and maintaining an army of professional soldiers was the only way to win independence. As he fought bitterly with the leaders in Congress over the creation of a regular army, he patiently waited until his new army was ready for pitched battle. His first opportunity came late in 1776, following his surprise crossing of the Delaware River. In New Jersey, the strategy of victory was about to unfold. In The Strategy of Victory, preeminent historian Thomas Fleming examines the battles that created American independence, revealing how the creation of a professional army worked on the battlefield to secure victory, independence, and a lasting peace for the young nation.
Author: Doreen Rappaport
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2003-04
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 0060295155
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Readers are transported to the years of the American Revolution through the actions of real people--some famous and others not yet known--which provide an inspiring glimpse into the lives of those who took part in the fight for independence. Illustrations.
Author: Jeffrey Record
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A prominent national security analyst provides a critical examination of the origins, objectives, conduct, and consequences of the U.S. war against Iraq in this major new study. Focusing on the intersection of world politics, U.S. foreign policy, and the invasion and occupation of Iraq, Jeffrey Record presents a full-scale policy analysis of the war and its aftermath. As he looks at the political and strategic legacies of the 1991 Gulf War, the impact of 9/11 and neo-conservative ideology on the George W. Bush White House, and the formulation of the Bush Doctrine on the use of force, he assesses rather than describes, judges rather than recites facts. He decries the Bush administration's threat conflation of Saddam Hussein's Iraq and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda, and calls U.S. plans inadequate to meet postwar challenges in Iraq. With the support of convincing evidence, the author concludes that America's war against Iraq was both unnecessary and damaging to long-term U.S. security interests. He argues that there was no threatening Saddam-Osama connection and that even if Iraq had the weapons of mass destruction that the Bush administration believed necessitated war, it could have been readily deterred from using them, just as it had been in 1991. Record faults the administration for preventive, unilateralist policies that alienated friends and allies, weakened international institutions important to the United States, and saddled America with costly, open-ended occupation of an Arab heartland. He contends that far from being a major victory against terrorism, the war provided Islamic jihadists an expanded recruiting base and a new front of operations against Americans. Such a solid, thought-provoking study merits attention.
Author: Joshua London
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Published: 2011-01-07
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 111803984X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At the dawn of a new century, a newly elected U.S. president was forced to confront an escalating series of unprovoked attacks on Americans by Muslim terrorists sworn to carry out jihad against all Western powers. As timely and familiar as these events may seem, they occurred more than two centuries ago. The president was Thomas Jefferson, and the terrorists were the Barbary pirates. Victory in Tripoli recounts the untold story of one of the defining challenges overcome by the young U.S. republic. This fast-moving and dramatic tale examines the events that gave birth to the Navy and the Marines and re-creates the startling political, diplomatic, and military battles that were central to the conflict. This highly interesting and informative history offers deep insight into issues that remain fundamental to U.S. foreign policy decisions to this day.
Author: Kevin John Weddle
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 545
ISBN-13: 0195331400
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Opening Moves -- The First Invasion -- A New British Strategy -- A Question of American Command -- Laying the Groundwork -- The Fall of Fort Ticonderoga -- Defeat, Retreat, Disgrace -- Aftershocks -- Burgoyne Moves South -- The Ordeal of Philip Schuyler -- The Murder of Jane McCrea -- Not to Make a Ticonderoga of It -- Oriskany and Relief -- Cat and Mouse -- Burgoyne's Dilemma -- The Battle of Bennington -- Gates takes Command -- The Battle of Freeman's Farm -- Sir Henry Clinton to the Rescue -- The Battle of Bemis Heights -- Retreat, Pursuit, and Surrender -- British Reassessment -- The Fruits of Victory -- Conclusion: Strategy and Leadership.
Author: John E. Ferling
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 694
ISBN-13: 0195382927
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes the military history of the American Revolution and the grim realities of the eight-year conflict while offering descriptions of the major engagements on land and sea and the decisions that influenced the course of the war.
Author: William L. Bird
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 1998-06
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781568981406
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The poster - inexpensive, colorful, and immediate - was an ideal medium for delivering messages about Americans' duties on the home front during World War II. Design for Victory presents more than 150 of these stunning images - many never reproduced since their first issue - culled from the collections of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. William L. Bird, Jr. and Harry R. Rubenstein delve beneath the surface of these colorful graphics, telling the stories behind their production and revealing how posters fulfilled the goals and needs of their creators. The authors describe the history of how specific posters were conceived and received, focusing on the workings of the wartime advertising profession and demonstrating how posters often reflected uneasy relations between labor and management.
Author: William Egan Colby
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"For sixteen years, from the time he was assigned Chief of Station for the CIA in Saigon to his appointment as CIA Director, William Colby was deeply involved in America's role in Vietnam. During five presidential administrations -- Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford -- Colby moved from meetings in the Oval Office to the sweltering jungles of Vietnam as the war escalated from Vietcong guerilla terrorism to a massive U.S. military engagement. Lost Victory is his personal account of those years, an insider's view of America's first major military defeat told from a vantage point matched by few other officials."--Book cover, p. [4].