Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil
Author : Worrall Reed Carter
Publisher :
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 14,13 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
Author : Worrall Reed Carter
Publisher :
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 14,13 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
Author : Charles R. Gallagher
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 26,46 MB
Release : 2008-06-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300148216
In the corridors of the Vatican on the eve of World War II, American Catholic priest Joseph Patrick Hurley found himself in the midst of secret diplomatic dealings and intense debate. Hurley’s deeply felt American patriotism and fixed ideas about confronting Nazism directly led to a mighty clash with Pope Pius XII. It was 1939, the earliest days of Pius’s papacy, and controversy within the Vatican over policy toward Nazi Germany was already heated. This groundbreaking book is both a biography of Joseph Hurley, the first American to achieve the rank of nuncio, or Vatican ambassador, and an insider’s view of the alleged silence of the pope on the Holocaust and Nazism. Drawing on Hurley’s unpublished archives, the book documents critical debates in Pope Pius’s Vatican, secret U.S.-Vatican dealings, the influence of Detroit’s flamboyant anti-Semitic priest Charles E. Coughlin, and the controversial case of Croatia’s Cardinal Stepinac. The book also sheds light on the powerful connections between religion and politics in the twentieth century.
Author : Peter R. Mansoor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 25,32 MB
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1108485731
Examines how military culture forms and changes, as well as its impact on the effectiveness of military organizations.
Author : Frank A. Blazich (Jr.)
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 35,75 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Air defenses
ISBN : 9781585663057
"Military historian and Civil Air Patrol (CAP) member Frank A. Blazich Jr. collects oral and written histories of the CAP's short-lived--but influential--coastal air patrol operations of World War II and expands it in a scholarly monograph that cements the legacy of this vital civil-military cooperative effort"--
Author : Gregory Pedlow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 37,95 MB
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1634508513
The CIA’s 2013 release of its book The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance 1954–1974 is a fascinating and important historical document. It contains a significant amount of newly declassified material with respect to the U-2 and Oxcart programs, including names of pilots; codenames and cryptonyms; locations, funding, and cover arrangements; electronic countermeasures equipment; cooperation with foreign governments; and overflights of the Soviet Union, Cuba, China, and other countries. Originally published with a Secret/No Foreign Dissemination classification, this detailed study describes not only the program’s technological and bureaucratic aspects, but also its political and international context, including the difficult choices faced by President Eisenhower in authorizing overflights of the Soviet Union and the controversy surrounding the shoot down there of U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers in 1960. The authors discuss the origins of the U-2, its top-secret testing, its specially designed high-altitude cameras and complex life-support systems, and even the possible use of poison capsules by its pilots, if captured. They call attention to the crucial importance of the U-2 in the gathering of strategic and tactical intelligence, as well as the controversies that the program unleashed. Finally, they discuss the CIA’s development of a successor to the U-2, the Oxcart, which became the world’s most technologically advanced aircraft. For the first time, the more complete 2013 release of this historical text is available in a professionally typeset format, supplemented with higher quality photographs that will bring alive these incredible aircraft and the story of their development and use by the CIA. This edition also includes a new preface by author Gregory W. Pedlow and a foreword by Chris Pocock. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Author : Thomas Buell
Publisher : Crown
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 34,37 MB
Release : 1998-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0609801732
master historian gives readers a fresh new picture of the Civil War as it really was. Buell examines three pairs of commanders from the North and South, who met each other in battle. Following each pair through the entire war, the author reveals the human dimensions of the drama and brings the battles to life. 38 b&w photos.
Author : United States. Department of the Navy. Library
Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 12,39 MB
Release : 1976
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN :
Author : Donald I. Warren
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 28,34 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Contains primary source material.
Author : Robert H. Ferrell
Publisher : Charles Scribner's Sons
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,85 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780684195797
In 757 articles, of which 469 are on new topics, this supplement attempts to cover recent monumental changes in American civilization from the impact of foreign affairs, through domestic political events, Supreme Court decisions, medical and scientific discoveries, social changes, popular cultural evolution, and religious developments.
Author : Stephanie Gutmann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,98 MB
Release : 2000
Category : United States
ISBN : 0684852918
Gutmann charges into the armed forces to observe "the new military, " showing why the complete integration of women into the military is physically and sociologically impossible and how the pursuit of this unrealistic ideal is demoralizing to soldiers of both sexes and a sure set-up for battlefield disaster.