They Served the Flag
Author : Richard L. Saunders
Publisher :
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 35,76 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Soldiers
ISBN : 9781930670051
Author : Richard L. Saunders
Publisher :
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 35,76 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Soldiers
ISBN : 9781930670051
Author : Jerry E Dutscheck
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,69 MB
Release : 2020-06-23
Category :
ISBN : 9781943492787
The U.S. Service Flag is a unique area of Americana. In this comprehensive study, author Jerry Dutscheck has gathered together more than 280 Service Flags and related artifacts - over 500 photos in total - including many previously unpublished from private collections. The scope is not limited to just flags and banners, but includes such things as badges and other awards, posters, magazine covers, even patriotic recordings and sheet music. Jerry Dutscheck spent more than nine years meticulously researching these flags and their stories. A must for collectors, historians and anyone interested in the pageantry of Service Flags.
Author : Stephen A. Dupree
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 39,55 MB
Release : 2008-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781585446414
Appointed by President Lincoln to command the Gulf Department in November 1862, Nathaniel Prentice Banks was given three assignments, one of which was to occupy some point in Texas. He was told that when he united his army with Grant’s, he would assume command of both. Banks, then, had the opportunity to become the leading general in the West—perhaps the most important general in the war. But he squandered what successes he had, never rendezvoused with Grant’s army, and ultimately orchestrated some of the greatest military blunders of the war. “Banks’s faults as a general,” writes author Stephen A. Dupree, “were legion.” The originality of Planting the Union Flag in Texas lies not just in the author’s description of the battles and campaigns Banks led, nor in his recognition of the character traits that underlay Banks’s decisions. Rather, it lies in how Dupree synthesizes his studies of Banks’s various actions during his tour of duty in and near Texas to help the reader understand them as a unified campaign. He skillfully weaves together Banks’s various attempts to gain Union control of Texas with his other activities and shines the light of Banks’s character on the resulting events to help explain both their potential and their shortcomings. In the end, readers will have a holistic understanding of Banks’s “appalling” failure to win Texas and may even be led to ask how the post–Civil War era might have been different had he been successful. This fine study will appeal to Civil War buffs and fans of military and Texas history.
Author : Ryan Parrott
Publisher :
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 21,79 MB
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780983789314
There are plenty of books and movies about what different soldiers experienced in war - but few grind out the details of why they do it. Sons of the Flag brings together the veterans from each of the American wars from WWII to the present and the veteran firefighters of 9/11 who served during the greatest attack on American soil. Each contributor tells precisely why they do what they do - putting country and brotherhood before their own safety. Weaving their chapters together, author Ryan "Birdman" Parrott, an American veteran, shares the journey that led from being a self-described screw-up to becoming the visionary and leader of Sons of the Flag, an organization dedicated to burn survivors. The contributors associate key moments in their lives that impacted them forever in putting their brothers to the right and left before themselves. Parrott asks readers to imagine a country where all citizens were as dedicated as these men in serving their fellow Americans.
Author : United States. Marine Corps
Publisher :
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 47,23 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Flags
ISBN :
Author : Tim Marshall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 39,53 MB
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1501168339
First published in Great Britain in 2016 by Elliott and Thompson Limited as: Worth dying for: the power and politics of flags.
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
Page : 1088 pages
File Size : 44,92 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Bills, Legislative
ISBN :
Author : United States. Marine Corps
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 19,47 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Flags
ISBN :
Author : Kit Hinrichs
Publisher :
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 18,47 MB
Release :
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1580089208
"A full-color photographic book presenting 100 American flag artifacts, artworks, and memorabilia from one of the world's most eminent collections"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Leslie C. Kaplan
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 26,5 MB
Release : 2003-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780823966592
What is the story behind our nations flag? The history of our flag and the birth of the United States, as well as information about traditions we practice to honor the flag are all included in this book. This volume will serve as an exciting introduction to an important holiday and to the United States history required by the curriculum.