The Drums of War
Author : Henry De Vere Stacpoole
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Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,17 MB
Release : 1910
Category : France
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Author : Henry De Vere Stacpoole
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Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,17 MB
Release : 1910
Category : France
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Author : Henry De Vere Stacpoole
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Page : pages
File Size : 28,54 MB
Release : 1926
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Author : Henry De Vere Stacpoole
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 28,37 MB
Release : 1920
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Author : Robert Jones Burdette
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 14,96 MB
Release : 1914
Category : History
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A narrative of service in the 47th Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, 1862-1865.
Author : Edith Morris Hemingway
Publisher : White Mane Kids
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,69 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781572490277
In 1861 Charley, a twelve-year-old drummer boy with the Army of the Potomac, is caught up in the excitement and horrors of the Civil War as he travels from Washington towards Antietam.
Author : Jim Glassman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 30,67 MB
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9004377522
In Drums of War, Drums of Development, Jim Glassman analyses the geopolitical economy of industrial development in East and Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War era, showing how it was shaped by the collaborative planning of US and Asian elites. Challenging both neo-liberal and neo-Weberian accounts of East Asian development, Glassman offers evidence that the growth of industry (the 'East Asian miracle') was deeply affected by the geopolitics of war and military spending (the 'East Asian massacres'). Thus, while Asian industrial development has been presented as providing models for emulation, Glassman cautions that this industrial dynamism was a product of Pacific ruling class manoeuvring which left a contradictory legacy of rapid growth, death, and ongoing challenges for development and democracy. Shortlisted for the 2019 Deutscher Memorial Prize
Author : James H. McRandle
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,41 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780890966112
Historian McRandle contends that war is a deep-rooted human institution, like marriage and food sharing, that depends on ritual and myth. He began his inquiry after being struck by the similarity of letters from common soldiers as long as 2,000 years ago, and has mustered evidence from psychological concepts, literature, and studies of animal behavior. He suggests that soldiers raping conquered women, rather than an atrocious side effect of war, may be its fundamental purpose. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : John Norris
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 31,12 MB
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0752483633
Military drummers have played a crucial role in warfare throughout history. Soldiers marched to battle to the sound of the drums and used the beat to regulate the loading and re-loading of their weapons during the battle. Drummers were also used to raise morale during the fight. This is the first work to chart the rise of drums in military use and how they came to be used on the battlefield as a means of signalling. This use was to last for almost 4,000 years when modern warfare with communications rendered them obsolete. Even so, drummers continued to serve in the armies of the world and performed many acts of heroism as the served as stretcher bearers to rescue the wounded from the battlefield. From ancient China, Egypt and the Mongol hordes of Genghis Khan the drum was used on the battlefield. The 12th century Crusaders helped re-introduce the drum to Europe and during the Napoleonic Wars of the 18th and 19th centuries the drum was to be heard resonating across Europe. Drummers had to flog their comrades and beat their drums on drill parade. Today they are ceremonial but this work tells how they had to face enemies across the battlefield with only their drum.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,8 MB
Release : 2017
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Author : Sandra Paretti
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 36,25 MB
Release : 2014-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1590774590
The Drums of Winter is a sweeping epic, a family saga, a novel of history. Set in the time of the American Revolution, it details the decline and fall of a great family, the proud love of a noble woman, a young man’s search for his true father, and a conflict between brothers which moves from Europe to American and climaxes in one of the decisive battles of the Revolutionary War. The Haynows are the most powerful family in Hessia. Baron Haynow is a strong, self-made man, deeply in love with his wife, Anna, whom he rescued from poverty twenty years before. When the American colonists rebel against the British, it seems at first a chance to increase the Haynow family power by monopolizing the American tobacco trade. Then an intrusive figure from the past appears, resurrecting old loves, old jealousies. Anna learns that her first husband , long believed dead, is still alive in America—and that Haynow has withheld his letters from her. The revelation sets in motion a chain of conflicts that shatter the Haynow family. How these conflicts are resolved on the battlefields of the American Revolution—with Robert a mercenary under the command of his hated brother, Claus; and Anna risking death in search of her first love—provides the unexpected climax to this rich and compelling novel.