Author: United States Naval Academy. Class of 1945Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Class of 1945 Celebrates Its Thirtieth!.
Author: United States Naval Academy. Class of 1945Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A History of Mountainside, 1945-2007
Author: Connie McNamaraPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614231885
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Bordered by the Watchung ridges, Mountainside's picturesque four square miles afford a parklike setting in the midst of exurban activity. Author Connie McNamara provides a comprehensive look at this tight-knit community that prides itself on its bucolic surroundings and its caring and cohesiveness. She recounts anecdotes, passed on by town elders, of Mountainside's prestigious historic architecture, the establishment of the nationally renowned Children's Specialized Hospital and the Badgley House, where Revolutionary residents concealed their valuables from the British. Longtime Mountainsiders candidly recall the 1987 tornado, the 1995 centennial celebration and the galvanizing day in 1985 when the historic Hetfield House was moved down Route 22. Produced in collaboration with the Mountainside Historic Preservation Committee, A History of Mountainside unveils the extraordinary character of this beloved New Jersey town.
Bulletin - U.S. Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association
Author: United States Coast Guard Academy. Alumni AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Memory Book Class of 1945
Author: University High School (Normal, Ill.). Class of 1945Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Normal (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Princeton Alumni Weekly
Author: Publisher: princeton alumni weekly
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Year Zero
Author: Ian BurumaPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143125974
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
A marvelous global history of the pivotal year 1945 as a new world emerged from the ruins of World War II Year Zero is a landmark reckoning with the great drama that ensued after war came to an end in 1945. One world had ended and a new, uncertain one was beginning. Regime change had come on a global scale: across Asia (including China, Korea, Indochina, and the Philippines, and of course Japan) and all of continental Europe. Out of the often vicious power struggles that ensued emerged the modern world as we know it. In human terms, the scale of transformation is almost impossible to imagine. Great cities around the world lay in ruins, their populations decimated, displaced, starving. Harsh revenge was meted out on a wide scale, and the ground was laid for much horror to come. At the same time, in the wake of unspeakable loss, the euphoria of the liberated was extraordinary, and the revelry unprecedented. The postwar years gave rise to the European welfare state, the United Nations, decolonization, Japanese pacifism, and the European Union. Social, cultural, and political “reeducation” was imposed on vanquished by victors on a scale that also had no historical precedent. Much that was done was ill advised, but in hindsight, as Ian Buruma shows us, these efforts were in fact relatively enlightened, humane, and effective. A poignant grace note throughout this history is Buruma’s own father’s story. Seized by the Nazis during the occupation of Holland, he spent much of the war in Berlin as a laborer, and by war’s end was literally hiding in the rubble of a flattened city, having barely managed to survive starvation rations, Allied bombing, and Soviet shock troops when the end came. His journey home and attempted reentry into “normalcy” stand in many ways for his generation’s experience. A work of enormous range and stirring human drama, conjuring both the Asian and European theaters with equal fluency, Year Zero is a book that Ian Buruma is perhaps uniquely positioned to write. It is surely his masterpiece.
Assembly
Author: West Point Association of Graduates (Organization).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
MotorBoating
Author: The Class of 1945 on the Occasion of Its Silver Anniversary, Davidson College, June 19, 20, 21, 1970
Author: Davidson College. Class of 1945Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
The Women's Army Corps, 1945-1978
Author: Bettie J. MordenPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105093565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
After yearsout of print, this new and redesigned book brings back the best and most complete history of the Women's Army Corps. Loaded with history, tables, charts, statistics, photos, personalities, and many useful appendices (including a history of WAC uniforms), The Women's Army Corps, 1945-1978 is must reading for anyone who served those years in the Army as well as for those who want a complete history of the modern-day military. Author Bettie Morden served from 1942-1972 and she used her experience and access to people and records to compile the definitive reference work. Col. Morden is a graduate of the WAC Officers' Advanced Course (1962); Command and General Staff College (1964); and the Army Management School (1965). She has been awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, and the Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster.