The Embattled Past
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The Embattled Past
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Author : Edward M. Coffman
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2014-01-07
The Embattled Past written by Edward M. Coffman and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-07 with History categories.
“This collection makes evident Coffman’s importance in defining the field of modern American military history. Lucid, astute, and immensely entertaining.” —Brian Linn, Texas A&M University, author of The Echo of Battle: The Army’s Way of War Distinguished military historian Edward M. Coffman is a dedicated and much-admired teacher and mentor. In The Embattled Past, several of his most important essays have been assembled into a collection that serves as an essential reference to the discipline and an initiation to the study of military history for aspiring scholars. The essays explore a range of critical issues in military historiography?such as strategies for conducting oral history and research methodologies?and examine questions at the heart of the field. Included are two seminal essays on World War I, which provide a fascinating overview of American war strategies and illuminate the reasons why so many historians have ignored this critical turning point in twentieth-century history. The volume concludes with an unpublished essay detailing Coffman’s experience of interviewing General Douglas MacArthur in 1960. Offering readers insights into more than two hundred years of United States military history,The Embattled Past is a primer on the profession from one of the most honored scholars of our time. “No one who professes to work in this field, especially as it relates to the history of the Army in the 19th and 20th centuries, can go very far without consulting what Professor Coffman has written on his subject.” —Roger Spiller, George C. Marshall Professor of Military History, emeritus, US Army Command and General Staff College “Displays Coffman’s years of scholarly expertise and personal experiences as a preeminent historian.” —Quarterly Journal of Military History
The Embattled Past
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Author : Edward M. Coffman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
The Embattled Past written by Edward M. Coffman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.
The Embattled Gods
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Author : Ogbu Kalu
language : en
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
Release Date : 2003
The Embattled Gods written by Ogbu Kalu and has been published by Africa Research and Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Religion categories.
Military Review
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Military Review written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Military art and science categories.
A Patterned Past
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Author : David Schaberg
language : en
Publisher: Harvard Univ Asia Center
Release Date : 2001
A Patterned Past written by David Schaberg and has been published by Harvard Univ Asia Center this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with China categories.
The narratives are so constructed as to demonstrate the truth and indeed the naturalness of these attitudes. Their dominant perspective is that of officials rather than rulers, and the anecdotes represent the efforts of a group of officials and ministers to argue for a moralizing interpretation of the events of Zhou history and for their own value as skilled interpreters of events and advisors to the rulers of the day."--BOOK JACKET.
Mau Mau Nationhood
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Author : E. S. Atieno Odhiambo
language : en
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Release Date : 2003
Mau Mau Nationhood written by E. S. Atieno Odhiambo and has been published by Ohio State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
Decades on from independence the role of Mau Mau still excites argument and controversy, not least in Kenya itself.
Scott S Poems The Lay Of The Last Minstrel With Intr Notes And Glossary By J S Phillpotts
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Author : sir Walter Scott (bart.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1874
Scott S Poems The Lay Of The Last Minstrel With Intr Notes And Glossary By J S Phillpotts written by sir Walter Scott (bart.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1874 with categories.
Last Men Out
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Author : Bob Drury
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011-05-03
Last Men Out written by Bob Drury and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-03 with History categories.
A “thrilling narrative of bravery, bravado, and loss” (Kirkus Reviews) that tells the “gripping story of a handful of marines who formed the last body of Americans to leave Saigon on April 30, 1975” (Booklist). In a gripping, moment-by-moment narrative based on a wealth of recently declassified documents and in-depth interviews, Bob Drury and Tom Clavin tell the remarkable drama that unfolded over the final, heroic hours of the Vietnam War. This closing chapter of the war would become the largest-scale evacuation ever carried out, as improvised by a small unit of Marines, a vast fleet of helicopter pilots flying nonstop missions beyond regulation, and a Marine general who vowed to arrest any officer who ordered his choppers grounded while his men were still on the ground. Drury and Clavin focus on the story of the eleven young Marines who were the last men to leave, rescued from the U.S. Embassy roof just moments before capture, having voted to make an Alamo-like last stand. As politicians in Washington struggled to put the best face on disaster and the American ambassador refused to acknowledge that the end had come, these courageous men held their ground and helped save thousands of lives. Drury and Clavin deliver a taut and stirring account of a turning point in American history that unfolds with the heartstopping urgency of the best thrillers—a riveting true story finally told, in full, by those who lived it.
Until The Last Man Comes Home
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Author : Michael J. Allen
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2009-09-18
Until The Last Man Comes Home written by Michael J. Allen and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-18 with History categories.
Fewer Americans were captured or missing during the Vietnam War than in any previous major military conflict in U.S. history. Yet despite their small numbers, American POWs inspired an outpouring of concern that slowly eroded support for the war. Michael J. Allen reveals how wartime loss transformed U.S. politics well before, and long after, the war's official end. Throughout the war's last years and in the decades since, Allen argues, the effort to recover lost warriors was as much a means to establish responsibility for their loss as it was a search for answers about their fate. Though millions of Americans and Vietnamese took part in that effort, POW and MIA families and activists dominated it. Insisting that the war was not over "until the last man comes home," this small, determined group turned the unprecedented accounting effort against those they blamed for their suffering. Allen demonstrates that POW/MIA activism prolonged the hostility between the United States and Vietnam even as the search for the missing became the basis for closer ties between the two countries in the 1990s. Equally important, he explains, POW/MIA families' disdain for the antiwar left and contempt for federal authority fueled the conservative ascendancy after 1968. Mixing political, cultural, and diplomatic history, Until the Last Man Comes Home presents the full and lasting impact of the Vietnam War in ways that are both familiar and surprising.
Imagining The Anglo Saxon Past
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Author : Eric Gerald Stanley
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2000
Imagining The Anglo Saxon Past written by Eric Gerald Stanley and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
Decisive argument on the issues under review by one of the leading Anglo-Saxon scholars.