Publication date: 2000-03-30
Dewey code: 355.0092
List Price: $131.95
Price: $131.25
Review The Making of a Professional: Manton S. Eddy, USA (Contributions in Military Studies) / Greenwood Press:An examination of the life of General Manton S. Eddy, this study details his experiences in World War II as leader of the U. S. 9th Infantry Division through North Africa, Sicily and France, and subsequently, as commander of XII Corps, into the heart of Germany. While much has been written about the top military leaders of this era, there is little information about corps commanders whose missions were limited to doing battle and whose organizations were tailored exclusively for this task. Eddy's career provides a model for the Army's most ambitious officers, particularly those who, like Eddy, faced the challenge without family connections or the traditional West Point education. He devoted his life to the U. S. Army, enhancing his innate talents through the incorporation of a daily program of self-education. Eddy had an excellent grasp of the basic principles of military tactics and strategy. [+]He attained this art through home study and assiduous application at the Army's professional education institutions, in particular at the Command and General Staff College, where he served as an instructor for four years. He focused on people, quickly learning and applying basic skills to draw out their best efforts. He came to know what to expect from them in the chaos and under the pressure of combat. This facilitated his development of strong, mission-oriented subordinates. His personal goal was always to maximize all available power at the correct point for crushing his nation's enemies, and to this end, he was extraordinarily successful.
Publication date: 2001-10
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $120.99
Price: $120.99
Review Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis / IndyPublish.com:"He was altogether too red-blooded for that and I believe the students whom he antagonized rather admired his chivalric point of honor even if they failed to imitate it. ".
Publication date: 1999-01
List Price: $75.95
Price: $121.75
Review Diana: Retrato de Una Princesa / Evergreen:
Publication date: 2005-01-31
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $36.95
Price: $121.22
Review With Lawrence in Arabia / Kessinger Publishing:1924. Original Photographs taken by H. A. Chase and by the Author. Lowell Thomas began as a reporter for the Chicago Evening Journal. Inspired by the growing art of documentary film, Thomas set off to film the war in Europe with his wife and cameraman, Harry Chase. Depressed by the brutality of the war on the Western Front they headed for the Middle East where they would meet the man who would make them famous, Captain Lawrence. Allegedly Lawrence was introduced to Thomas as the Uncrowned King of Arabia. Thomas and Chase were invited to Feisal's desert camp where they shot moving and still pictures of Lawrence with the Arabs. The romantic and adventurous tales of this mysterious blue-eyed Arab in the garb of prince wandering the streets was a hit. [+]This is Thomas's narrative of his adventures in the desert. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
Publication date: 1997-10
Price: $25.00
Review Mark Anthony / Malvern Publishing Company:
Creator: H. C. G. Matthew
Publication date: 1994-10-20
Dewey code: 941
List Price: $264.00
Price: $192.72
Review The Gladstone Diaries: With Cabinet Minutes and Prime-Ministerial Correspondence Volume XII: 1887-1891 (Gladstone Diaries) / Oxford University Press, USA:Volumes XII and XIII, the final volumes of W. E. Gladstone's diaries, depict the extraordinary energy of a remarkable octogenarian. They focus on his pursuit of "justice for Ireland" through the successful passage of a Home Rule Bill. There is also a wealth of material on imperial, foreign, domestic, and religious politics contained in the daily diary entries, the minutes of the Cabinets of the 1892-4 government, and the five hundred letters which accompany the entries for the governmental period. With Volume XIV, Indexes, the publication of this magisterial work of scholarship is complete.
Publication date: 1996-01
Price: $121.37
Review The Dissolution of the Lancastrian Kingship: Sir John Fortescue and the Crisis of Monarchy in Fifteenth-Century England (Paul Watkins Medieval Studies) / Paul Watkins:
Creator: E. F. K. Koerner
Publication date: 1998-12
Dewey code: 410.92273
List Price: $165.00
Price: $120.45
Review First Person Singular III: Autobiographies by North American Scholars in the Language Sciences (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic ... in the History of the Language Sciences) / John Benjamins Publishing Co:
Creator: Valerie Jean Chase
Publication date: 1995-04
Dewey code: 940.53161
Price: $9.00
Review A Transported Life: Memories of Kindertransport / HerBooks:
Publication date: 1994-09-09
Dewey code: 344.20092
Review Dewsbury Boy / Basset Publications:
Publication date: 1996-07-01
Dewey code: 359.331092
Price: $39.99
Review The Autobiography of a Seaman: Volume II (Autobiography of a Seaman) / Constable and Robinson:A new version of the autobiography by Britain's most controversial admiral of the Napoleonic era, Lord Cochrane, charting his dramatic career as it reached new heights of achievement and new lows of scandal and disgrace.
Publication date: 2005-01
Review Cervantes: Biografia Razonada / SILEX:
Publication date: 2003-03
Dewey code: 355
List Price: $30.95
Price: $129.95
Review Count Luckner: The Sea Devil / Kessinger Publishing:1927. This book lends a biographical account of the life of Count Luckner, the Sea Devil, the man who commanded the raider Seeadler. The Seeadler was a sailing ship that had broken through the British blockade and played havoc with Allied shipping in the Atlantic and Pacific during the latter part of the war. Luckner looked the part of a Sea Devil; he was a tall, massive man with huge shoulders and a voice that boomed like a foghorn.
Publication date: 2003-04
Price: $28.95
Review React: CIA Black Ops / iUniverse.com:When John F. Kennedy was asked what he thought about media criticism of the CIA the president retorted: "The triumphs are unheralded, its failures trumpeted. " Succeeding presidents echoed similar sentiments about negative media reports. REACT: CIA BLACK OPS corrects this news imbalance. In previously undisclosed accounts of the dark side of U. S. intelligence, covert field operatives tell about CIA successes against terrorists and communists during the last twenty-five years of the Cold War. Among the successes of these unsung covert operatives was the Black Op against the Islamic terrorist cell responsible for bombing the U. S. Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983; also, the Black Op that terminated the terrorists who placed the fatal bomb aboard Pam Am flight 103 that exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. [+]During the context of the Cold War, the twenty-two Black Ops related here were Deemed necessary and in accord with the purpose of REACT: "To maintain the national order by Direct Action. ".
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-08-28
Dewey code: 937.07092
List Price: $125.00
Price: $121.44
Review Strabo of Amasia: Greek Man of Letters in Augustan Rome / Routledge:Strabo of Amasia offers an intellectual biography of Strabo, a Greek man of letters, set against the political and cultural background of Augustan Rome. It offers the first full-scale interpretation of the man and his life in English. It emphasizes the place and importance of Strabo's Geography and of geography itself within these intellectual circles. It argues for a deeper understanding of the fusion of Greek and Roman elements in the culture of the Roman Empire. Though he wrote in Greek, Strabo must be regarded as an 'Augustan' writer like Virgil or Livy.
Publication date: 1989-12
List Price: $15.00
Price: $139.21
Review General Officers of the Confederate Army: Officers of the Executive Departments of the Confederate States, Members of the Confederate Congress by Stat / Heritage Books Inc:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-02-24
Dewey code: 938.07092
List Price: $125.00
Price: $121.26
Review Alexander the Great: A Reader / Routledge:With his unprecedented conquests from Greece in the west to India in the East, Alexander the Great was the type of man that legends are made of; therein lies the problem for those studying him. Ought we to accept the image of a dashing king enjoying a string of spectacular successes, or adopt a more cynical evaluation, taking note of all the negative aspects of his reign? In the light of the evidence at our disposal, does he even deserve to be called "Great"? This exciting new volume is an indispensable guide for undergraduates to the study of Alexander the Great, showing the problems of the ancient source material, and making it clear that there is no single approach to be taken. The eleven thematic chapters contain a broad selection of the most significant published articles about Alexander, examining the main areas of debate and discussion:the sources; Alexander's background; Alexander's aims; Alexander and the Greeks; Alexander and Asia; Alexander, India and the Final Years; Alexander as General; Alexander and "The unity of Mankind"; Alexander and Deification; Alexander and Conspiracies; Alexander: The 'Great'? The Reader has the distinctive feature of translating a substantial number of the more inaccessible primary sources; each chapter is also prefaced with a succinct introduction to the topic under consideration.
Publication date: 1999-09-01
Review Far from the Short Grass: The Story of Kildare Men in Two World Wars / James Durney:
Publication date: 1983-03
Dewey code: 973.73
Price: $90.00
Review Lee's Lieutenants (Lees Lieutenants 3 Vol Set CL Tsp) / Scribner Book Company:A towering landmark in Civil War literature, long considered one of the great masterpieces of military history - now available in a one-volume abridgment. Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command is the most colorful and popular of Douglas Southall Freeman's works. A sweeping narrative that presents a multiple biography against the flame-shot background of the American Civil War, it is the story of the great figures of the Army of Northern Virginia who fought under Robert E. Lee. Dr. Freeman describes the early rise and fall of General Beauregard, the developing friction between Jefferson Davis and Joseph E. Johnston, the emergence and failure of a number of military charlatans, and the triumphs of unlikely men at crucial times. He also describes the rise of the legendary "Stonewall" Jackson and traces his progress in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign and into Richmond amid the acclaim of the South. The Confederacy won resounding victories throughout the war, but seldom easily or without tremendous casualties. Death was always on the heels of fame, but the men who survived - among them Jackson, Longstreet, and Ewell - developed as commanders and men. [+]Lee's Lieutenants follows these men to the costly battle at Gettysburg, through the deepening twilight of the South's declining military might, and finally to the collapse of Lee's command and his formal surrender in 1865. To his unparalleled descriptions of men and operations, Dr. Freeman adds an insightful analysis of the lessons learned and their bearing upon the future military development of the nation. Accessible at last in a one-volume edition abridged by noted Civil War historian Stephen W. Sears, Lee's Lieutenants is essential reading for all Civil War buffs, students of war, and admirers of the historian's art as practiced at its very highest level. When Douglas Southall Freeman's original three-volume version of Lee's Lieutenants appeared in the 1940s, it marked a high point in Civil War history, and the books were lauded not only for their scholarship but for their elegant writing. This monument of Civil War literature has been skillfully abridged by one of the most noted present-day Civil War historians, Stephen W. Sears. The new one-volume abridgement retains the core material of the original and makes Freeman's fine writing available in a much more accessible format.
Publication date: 2000-12
Dewey code: 920
Review Eminent Victorians / Random House Inc (T):
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Eddy, USA (Contributions in Military Studies), Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis, Diana: Retrato de Una Princesa, With Lawrence in Arabia, Mark Anthony, The Gladstone Diaries: With Cabinet Minutes and Prime-Ministerial Correspondence Volume XII: 1887-1891 (Gladstone Diaries), The Dissolution of the Lancastrian Kingship: Sir John Fortescue and the Crisis of Monarchy in Fifteenth-Century England (Paul Watkins Medieval Studies), First Person Singular III: Autobiographies by North American Scholars in the Language Sciences (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic ... in the History of the Language Sciences), A Transported Life: Memories of Kindertransport, Dewsbury Boy, The Autobiography of a Seaman: Volume II (Autobiography of a Seaman), Cervantes: Biografia Razonada, Count Luckner: The Sea Devil, React: CIA Black Ops, Strabo of Amasia: Greek Man of Letters in Augustan Rome, General Officers of the Confederate Army: Officers of the Executive Departments of the Confederate States, Members of the Confederate Congress by Stat, Alexander the Great: A Reader, Far from the Short Grass: The Story of Kildare Men in Two World Wars, Lee's Lieutenants (Lees Lieutenants 3 Vol Set CL Tsp), Eminent VictoriansTop headlines: Key to HIV shot may be bodys initial reaction: The body's initial response to contracting HIV could provide the answers scientists need to develop a vaccine for the AIDS-causing virus, a Nobel-winning expert said on Monday. ›19:34 Mumbai attack puts focus on Pakistan: The militant group blamed for the Mumbai attacks has roots in the disputed Kashmir region where Pakistan's military has faced off against India for decades. ›23:57 Producers use LA Times ad to toss salvo at SAG: Hollywood's studio heads, trapped in a standoff with the Screen Actors Guild, are making their plea to the industry in a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times as the threat of a strike looms. ›00:34 2 Dec, Tue Rice won't give Clinton too much advice: Happily contemplating another woman as the top U.S. diplomat, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday she will offer advice, privately, and then get out of the way. ›20:24 Thai PM unable to quell crisis: An explosion killed one anti-government protester and wounded 22 others at Bangkok's blockaded Don Muang airport on Tuesday, an emergency services official said. ›01:00 2 Dec, Tue Mom loses Ugly memoir libel suit: London's High Court ruled against a British woman who claimed that her daughter falsified stories of childhood cruelty and neglect in her book. ›17:44 'Butt Bandit' suspect faces charges: Ten misdemeanor counts have been filed against a man Cherry County authorities believe is the vandal some townspeople have dubbed the "Butt Bandit." ›20:52 25 Nov, Tue How do you get to Carnegie Hall? 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