Author: Turning pointPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Turning-point of Life and the Double Warfare
Author: Turning pointThe Turning-Point of Life and the Double Warfare. By the Author of The Pilgrim, and Other Allegories, Etc
Author: Saratoga
Author: Richard M. KetchumPublisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1466879521
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Historian Richard M. Ketchum's Saratoga vividly details the turning point in America's Revolutionary War. In the summer of 1777 (twelve months after the Declaration of Independence) the British launched an invasion from Canada under General John Burgoyne. It was the campaign that was supposed to the rebellion, but it resulted in a series of battles that changed America's history and that of the world. Stirring narrative history, skillfully told through the perspective of those who fought in the campaign, Saratoga brings to life as never before the inspiring story of Americans who did their utmost in what seemed a lost cause, achieving what proved to be the crucial victory of the Revolution. A New York Times Notable Book, 1997 Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Award, 1997
The Battle of Midway
Author: Craig L. SymondsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199315981
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
A close-up look at the battle of Midway Island analyzes this crucial naval victory, which marked the turning point for the American fleet in the Pacific theater of World War II.
The Athenaeum
Author: The English Catalogue of Books ...
Author: Sampson LowPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
Author: Chris HedgesPublisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610395107
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
General George S. Patton famously said, "Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, I do love it so!" Though Patton was a notoriously single-minded general, it is nonetheless a sad fact that war gives meaning to many lives, a fact with which we have become familiar now that America is once again engaged in a military conflict. War is an enticing elixir. It gives us purpose, resolve, a cause. It allows us to be noble. Chris Hedges of The New York Times has seen war up close -- in the Balkans, the Middle East, and Central America -- and he has been troubled by what he has seen: friends, enemies, colleagues, and strangers intoxicated and even addicted to war's heady brew. In War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, he tackles the ugly truths about humanity's love affair with war, offering a sophisticated, nuanced, intelligent meditation on the subject that is also gritty, powerful, and unforgettable.
Turning Point
Author: Danielle SteelPublisher: Dell
ISBN: 0399179364
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In Danielle Steel’s powerful new novel, four trauma doctors—the best and brightest in their field—confront exciting new challenges, both personally and professionally, when given an unusual opportunity. Bill Browning heads the trauma unit at San Francisco’s busiest emergency room, SF General. With his ex-wife and daughters in London, he immerses himself in his work and lives for rare visits with his children. A rising star at her teaching hospital, UCSF at Mission Bay, Stephanie Lawrence has two young sons, a frustrated stay-at-home husband, and not enough time for any of them. Harvard-educated Wendy Jones is a dedicated trauma doctor at Stanford, trapped in a dead-end relationship with a married cardiac surgeon. And Tom Wylie’s popularity with women rivals the superb medical skills he employs at his Oakland medical center, but he refuses to let anyone get too close, determined to remain unattached forever. These exceptional doctors are chosen for an honor and a unique project: to work with their counterparts in Paris in a mass-casualty training program. As professionals, they will gain invaluable knowledge from the program. As ordinary men and women, they will find that the City of Light opens up incredible new possibilities, exhilarating, enticing, and frightening. When an unspeakable act of mass violence galvanizes them into action, their temporary life in Paris becomes a stark turning point: a time to face harder choices than they have ever made before—with consequences that will last a lifetime.
Dogged Jack
Author: Frances Palmer (writer of children's stories.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Plain Words to Children
Author: William Walsham How (successively Bishop of Bedford and of Wakefield.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description