Author: Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2188
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The United States Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2188
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History of the Twelfth Engineers, U. S. Army (Classic Reprint)
Author: John A. LairdPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331606010
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Excerpt from History of the Twelfth Engineers, U. S. Army This publication is the result of a desire on the part of the members of the Twelfth Engineers to preserve in permanent form a record of the works and achievements of their regiment in its service, 1917 - 1919, as a part of the Allied Armies in the World War. It has been the endeavor of those engaged in its compilation and publication to reflect accurately the circum stances and conditions under which the unit Operated, as well as the results accomplished. The data used in the writing of this volume were derived from official reports and memoranda in the files of Headquarters Office, Regimental Orders, the War Diary and the Chronological Record of Events begun in November, 1917, by Captain Bur den, regimental adjutant and carried on by Captain Johnson, who succeeded him. In the spring of 1918 when War Department orders made obligatory the appointment of a Regimental Historian, Colonel Willing named Lieutenant Colonel Laird and assigned Lieutenant Lieber as an assistant. All fragmentary data were then assembled and gradually worked up into narrative form which was continued with the progress of events by the Historian and his assistants, Lieutenant Dolch replacing Lieutenant Lieber, until the regi ment was demobilized in May, 1919. At the time the Twelfth entered the Zone of the Advance with the British Army in 1917, censorship regulations then in force strictly forbade the use of a camera by any but Signal Corps troops. These photographic restrictions were not modi fied until after the Armistice. Consequently all the illustrations made in France were from photographs taken in the winter and spring of 1919 subsequent to the cessation of hostilities. In order to show pictorially the character of territory occupied by the regiment and the type of work done while with the British Armies in the Somme, an expedition under Lieutenant Kinney with Sergeant Miles Standish as camera man, was sent from Menil la Tour in January, 1919, to cover this region and make all necessary photographs. This explains the large number of snow scenes. The territory around Baccarat was covered in like manner. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A History of the U.S. Army's Residential Communities Initiative, 1995-2010
Author: Matthew C. GodfreyPublisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
"Prepared for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army, Installations, Energy & Environment."
American Military History Volume 1
Author: Army Center of Military HistoryPublisher:
ISBN: 9781944961404
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
American Military History provides the United States Army-in particular, its young officers, NCOs, and cadets-with a comprehensive but brief account of its past. The Center of Military History first published this work in 1956 as a textbook for senior ROTC courses. Since then it has gone through a number of updates and revisions, but the primary intent has remained the same. Support for military history education has always been a principal mission of the Center, and this new edition of an invaluable history furthers that purpose. The history of an active organization tends to expand rapidly as the organization grows larger and more complex. The period since the Vietnam War, at which point the most recent edition ended, has been a significant one for the Army, a busy period of expanding roles and missions and of fundamental organizational changes. In particular, the explosion of missions and deployments since 11 September 2001 has necessitated the creation of additional, open-ended chapters in the story of the U.S. Army in action. This first volume covers the Army's history from its birth in 1775 to the eve of World War I. By 1917, the United States was already a world power. The Army had sent large expeditionary forces beyond the American hemisphere, and at the beginning of the new century Secretary of War Elihu Root had proposed changes and reforms that within a generation would shape the Army of the future. But world war-global war-was still to come. The second volume of this new edition will take up that story and extend it into the twenty-first century and the early years of the war on terrorism and includes an analysis of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq up to January 2009.
Essayons
Author: The Swamp
Author: Michael GrunwaldPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416537279
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
“Brilliant.” —The Washington Post Book World * “Magnificent.” —The Palm Beach Post * “Rich in history yet urgently relevant to current events.” —The New Republic The Everglades in southern Florida were once reviled as a liquid wasteland, and Americans dreamed of draining it. Now it is revered as a national treasure, and Americans have launched the largest environmental project in history to try to save it. The Swamp is the stunning story of the destruction and possible resurrection of the Everglades, the saga of man's abuse of nature in southern Florida and his unprecedented efforts to make amends. Michael Grunwald, a prize-winning national reporter for The Washington Post, takes readers on a riveting journey from the Ice Ages to the present, illuminating the natural, social and political history of one of America's most beguiling but least understood patches of land. The Everglades was America's last frontier, a wild country long after the West was won. Grunwald chronicles how a series of visionaries tried to drain and “reclaim” it, and how Mother Nature refused to bend to their will; in the most harrowing tale, a 1928 hurricane drowned 2,500 people in the Everglades. But the Army Corps of Engineers finally tamed the beast with levees and canals, converting half the Everglades into sprawling suburbs and sugar plantations. And though the southern Everglades was preserved as a national park, it soon deteriorated into an ecological mess. The River of Grass stopped flowing, and 90 percent of its wading birds vanished. Now America wants its swamp back. Grunwald shows how a new breed of visionaries transformed Everglades politics, producing the $8 billion rescue plan. That plan is already the blueprint for a new worldwide era of ecosystem restoration. And this book is a cautionary tale for that era. Through gripping narrative and dogged reporting, Grunwald shows how the Everglades is still threatened by the same hubris, greed and well-intentioned folly that led to its decline.
Research and Development in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Author: Damon MandersPublisher:
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Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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This Kind of War
Author: T. R. FehrenbachPublisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1597978787
Category : Korean War, 1950-1953
Languages : en
Pages : 905
Book Description
Updated with maps, photographs, and battlefield diagrams, this special fiftieth anniversary edition of the classic history of the Korean War is a dramatic and hard-hitting account of the conflict written from the perspective of those who fought it. Partly drawn from official records, operations journals, and histories, it is based largely on the compelling personal narratives of the small-unit commanders and their troops. Unlike any other work on the Korean War, it provides both a clear panoramic overview and a sharply drawn you were there account of American troops in fierce combat against th.
The United States Catalog Supplement, July 1921-June 1924
Author: Eleanor E. HawkinsPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2176
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Engineers of Victory
Author: Paul KennedyPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 158836898X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Paul Kennedy, award-winning author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers and one of today’s most renowned historians, now provides a new and unique look at how World War II was won. Engineers of Victory is a fascinating nuts-and-bolts account of the strategic factors that led to Allied victory. Kennedy reveals how the leaders’ grand strategy was carried out by the ordinary soldiers, scientists, engineers, and businessmen responsible for realizing their commanders’ visions of success. In January 1943, FDR and Churchill convened in Casablanca and established the Allied objectives for the war: to defeat the Nazi blitzkrieg; to control the Atlantic sea lanes and the air over western and central Europe; to take the fight to the European mainland; and to end Japan’s imperialism. Astonishingly, a little over a year later, these ambitious goals had nearly all been accomplished. With riveting, tactical detail, Engineers of Victory reveals how. Kennedy recounts the inside stories of the invention of the cavity magnetron, a miniature radar “as small as a soup plate,” and the Hedgehog, a multi-headed grenade launcher that allowed the Allies to overcome the threat to their convoys crossing the Atlantic; the critical decision by engineers to install a super-charged Rolls-Royce engine in the P-51 Mustang, creating a fighter plane more powerful than the Luftwaffe’s; and the innovative use of pontoon bridges (made from rafts strung together) to help Russian troops cross rivers and elude the Nazi blitzkrieg. He takes readers behind the scenes, unveiling exactly how thousands of individual Allied planes and fighting ships were choreographed to collectively pull off the invasion of Normandy, and illuminating how crew chiefs perfected the high-flying and inaccessible B-29 Superfortress that would drop the atomic bombs on Japan. The story of World War II is often told as a grand narrative, as if it were fought by supermen or decided by fate. Here Kennedy uncovers the real heroes of the war, highlighting for the first time the creative strategies, tactics, and organizational decisions that made the lofty Allied objectives into a successful reality. In an even more significant way, Engineers of Victory has another claim to our attention, for it restores “the middle level of war” to its rightful place in history. Praise for Engineers of Victory “Superbly written and carefully documented . . . indispensable reading for anyone who seeks to understand how and why the Allies won.”—The Christian Science Monitor “An important contribution to our understanding of World War II . . . Like an engineer who pries open a pocket watch to reveal its inner mechanics, [Paul] Kennedy tells how little-known men and women at lower levels helped win the war.”—Michael Beschloss, The New York Times Book Review “Histories of World War II tend to concentrate on the leaders and generals at the top who make the big strategic decisions and on the lowly grunts at the bottom. . . . [Engineers of Victory] seeks to fill this gap in the historiography of World War II and does so triumphantly. . . . This book is a fine tribute.”—The Wall Street Journal “[Kennedy] colorfully and convincingly illustrates the ingenuity and persistence of a few men who made all the difference.”—The Washington Post “This superb book is Kennedy’s best.”—Foreign Affairs