Author: United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Force Management Policy)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decorations of honor
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Manual of Military Decorations & Awards
Author: United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Force Management Policy)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decorations of honor
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The Connoisseur
Author: Spanish Orders of Chivalry and Decorations of Honour
Author: Harrold Edgar GillinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decorations of honor
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
War Medals and Their History
Author: William Augustus StewardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military decorations
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
British Campaign Medals of the First World War
Author: Peter DuckersPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0747811717
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
Britain has issued medals rewarding war service since at least the early nineteenth century, and increasingly through the period of its imperial expansion prior to 1914, but examples of many of the early types are now scarce. However, few families escaped some involvement with “the Great War” of 1914 18, and many still treasure the medals awarded to their ancestors for wartime service. Today, with a growing interest in British military history and particularly in family history and genealogy, more and more people want to trace their ancestors' past. This book looks in detail at the origin, types and varieties of the British medals awarded for general war service between 1914 and '18, and gives advice on researching the awards and their recipients.
Index of Art Sales Catalogs, 1981-1985: Main index, January 5, 1981-October 6, 1984
Author: Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
The Medal of Honor
Author: Dwight S. MearsPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700626654
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Medal of Honor may be America’s highest military decoration, but all Medals of Honor are not created equal. The medal has in fact consisted of several distinct decorations at various times and has involved a number of competing statutes and policies that rewarded different types of heroism. In this book, the first comprehensive look at the medal’s historical, legal, and policy underpinnings, Dwight S. Mears charts the complex evolution of these developments and differences over time. The Medal of Honor has had different qualification thresholds at different times, and indeed three separate versions—one for the army and two for the navy—existed contemporaneously between World Wars I and II. Mears traces these versions back to the medal’s inception during the Civil War and continues through the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—along the way describing representative medal actions for all major conflicts and services as well as legislative and policy changes contemporary to each period. He gives particular attention to retroactive army awards for the Civil War; World War I legislation that modernized and expanded the army’s statutory award authorization; the navy’s grappling with both a combat and noncombat Medal of Honor through much of the twentieth century; the Vietnam-era act that ended noncombat awards and largely standardized the Medal of Honor among all services; and the perceived decline of Medals of Honor awarded in the ongoing Global War on Terror. Mears also explores the tradition of awards via legislative bills of relief; extralegislative awards; administrative routes to awards through Boards of Correction of Military Records; restoration of awards previously revoked by the army in 1917; judicial review of military actions in federal court; and legislative actions intended to atone for historical discrimination against ethnic minorities. Unprecedented in scope and depth, his work is sure to be the definitive resource on America’s highest military honor.
Newsletter
Author: Sotheby Parke Bernet IncPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Investors Chronicle
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capitalists and financiers
Languages : en
Pages : 1500
Book Description
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