Book Description
Integrating interviews with individuals ranging from senior policymakers to frontline soldiers, a look at the Persian Gulf War shows how the conflict transformed modern warfare.
Author : Rick Atkinson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 12,84 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780395710838
Integrating interviews with individuals ranging from senior policymakers to frontline soldiers, a look at the Persian Gulf War shows how the conflict transformed modern warfare.
Author : Gordon Patterson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,67 MB
Release : 2009-04-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0813547008
Among the struggles of the twentieth century, the one between humans and mosquitoes may have been the most vexing, as demonstrated by the long battle to control these bloodsucking pests. As vectors of diseases such as malaria, yellow fever, encephalitis, and dengue fever, mosquitoes forced open a new chapter in the history of medical entomology. Based on extensive use of primary sources, The Mosquito Crusades traces this saga and the parallel efforts of civic groups in New Jersey's Meadowlands and along San Francisco Bay's east side to manage the dangerous mosquito population. Providing readers with a fascinating exploration of the relationship between science, technology, and public policy, Gordon Patterson's narrative begins in New Jersey with John B. Smith's effort to develop a comprehensive plan and solution for mosquito control, one that would serve as a national model. From the Reed Commission's 1900 yellow fever experiment to the first Earth Day seventy years later, Patterson provides an eye-opening account of the crusade to curtail the deadly mosquito population.
Author : Régine Pernoud
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 10,21 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780898709490
Author : George Zabriskie Gray
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 34,18 MB
Release : 1872
Category : Children's Crusade, 1212
ISBN :
Author : Glen Weldon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 21,26 MB
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1476756732
"Since his debut in Detective Comics #27, Batman has been many things: a two-fisted detective; a planet-hopping gadabout; a campy Pop Art sensation; a pointy-eared master spy; and a grim ninja of the urban night. Yet, despite these endless transformations, he remains one of our most revered cultural icons. [In this book, Weldon provides a] look at the cultural history of Batman and his fandom"--Amazon.com.
Author : Michael Alexander Eisner
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 47,58 MB
Release : 2011-06-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0385673833
It is the Year of Our Lord 1275, Santes Creus monastery, Spain. Brother Lucas, a venal but moderately trustworthy monk, is put in charge of an exorcism. His former fellow acolyte, the brooding and magnetic aristocrat Francisco Montcada, has returned from the Crusades possessed by demons. If Brother Lucas can drive out the demons, his monastery will be enriched by the Montcada patriarch and he himself will be made a bishop. Gradually, Francisco comes out of his possession and begins to spin the tale of his Crusade: How he set out to free the soul of his dead brother lost at sea before he could reach the Holy Land; his fierce friendship with his cousin Andres, a mighty warrior with an honest heart; his intense love for Andres’s feisty sister, Isabel; the high ideals of his battle-hardened commander Ramon; and the amoral cruelty of the perfidious Don Fernando, a noble who delights in executing Muslim women and children. The Crusaders win a great battle at Toron, taking it back from the Infidel, but at the gigantic fortress Krak des Chevaliers, the key to the Christian position in the Holy Land, the Saracens have laid siege. In the fierce battle to defend the fortress, Francisco will lose everything: including, unless the dodgy Brother Lucas succeeds, his immortal soul.
Author : Timothy Stanley
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 17,58 MB
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312581742
Tells the fascinating life story of Pat Buchanan, the three-time presidential candidate, Nixon confidant, White House communications director during Iran-Contra, pundit, and bestselling author.
Author : Joseph Fr. Michaud
Publisher :
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 34,82 MB
Release : 1852
Category :
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Author : Stefan Heym
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 1359 pages
File Size : 16,75 MB
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1789120349
This moving, suspense-filled story about men at war, and after wear, is a historical novel with all the drama and the verity of the best of its kind. Bu tin one major respect it differs from other stories which vividly re-create exciting and meaningful events in the past: the difference is that we, of today, made the history of which this story grew. We know there were men in the American Army like Sergeant Dondolo and Major Willoughby, for whom World War II was chiefly a once-in-a-lifetime chance to feather their own nests in characteristic though quite dissimilar fashions. There were also unimaginative, methodical good eggs like Corporal Ambramovici, tired, honest, and frustrated officers like Colonel DeWitt, and flamboyant brass like General Farrish. And any one of us might have been Lieutenant David Yates, torn between his loyalty to his wife at home and his passion for a French girl, trying to determine, in the welter of conflict, whether he was involved in a Crusade or a Conquest. We might not know so well Sergeant Bing, fighting against his former countrymen, for whom the war was surely a personal crusade. Men, and often women, are the theme of this novel. The story lies in the development of people, especially of Bing and Yates, under the intensified emotions of war. Some of the people are connected with a Propaganda Intelligence Unit, some with an Armored Division; others are civilians on our side and on the enemy’s. “...Unquestionably the most important fiction to come out of World War II...only a writer of understanding and sympathy, combined with creative artistry, can clothe his characters in flesh and blood—and that is exactly what Heym has done.”—Capt. P. J. Searles, reviewer for the New York Herald Tribune, New York Times and Boston Post.
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Publisher :
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 50,41 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Lungs
ISBN :