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Author: John L. McCrea Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 1510713247 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 364
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World War II from a Leader Who Saw the War from Both the White House and the Bridge of a Battleship Vice Admiral John L. McCrea worked with the president of the United States on difficult and unusual assignments, associated with royalty and world-famous political and military leaders, and he commanded the USS Iowa and a task force in the Pacific. Over the years, many urged him to write a book, and before his passing he finally recorded his reminiscences. Captain McCrea’s War captures his amazing tales from the World War II years. After the United States entered the war, McCrea served as a naval aide to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, where he set up the White House Map Room (later known as the Situation Room) and Shangri-La (now called Camp David). He supplied material for the president’s fireside chats, helped arrange the Casablanca Conference, and worked with such prominent leaders as Winston Churchill and General Douglas MacArthur. Despite his important work for the president, McCrea yearned for sea duty. Persuading FDR to release him from the White House, he was given command of the USS Iowa, the country’s newest and largest battleship. With his new ship, McCrea transported Roosevelt and the joint chiefs of staff across the Atlantic for the Tehran Conference and fought with the Fast Carrier Task Force in the Pacific. Captain McCrea’s War ends in April 1945, when McCrea was summoned back to Washington after President Roosevelt’s death. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Author: John L. McCrea Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 1510713247 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 364
Book Description
World War II from a Leader Who Saw the War from Both the White House and the Bridge of a Battleship Vice Admiral John L. McCrea worked with the president of the United States on difficult and unusual assignments, associated with royalty and world-famous political and military leaders, and he commanded the USS Iowa and a task force in the Pacific. Over the years, many urged him to write a book, and before his passing he finally recorded his reminiscences. Captain McCrea’s War captures his amazing tales from the World War II years. After the United States entered the war, McCrea served as a naval aide to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, where he set up the White House Map Room (later known as the Situation Room) and Shangri-La (now called Camp David). He supplied material for the president’s fireside chats, helped arrange the Casablanca Conference, and worked with such prominent leaders as Winston Churchill and General Douglas MacArthur. Despite his important work for the president, McCrea yearned for sea duty. Persuading FDR to release him from the White House, he was given command of the USS Iowa, the country’s newest and largest battleship. With his new ship, McCrea transported Roosevelt and the joint chiefs of staff across the Atlantic for the Tehran Conference and fought with the Fast Carrier Task Force in the Pacific. Captain McCrea’s War ends in April 1945, when McCrea was summoned back to Washington after President Roosevelt’s death. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Author: Paul Jenkins Publisher: Marvel Comics Group ISBN: 9780785140351 Category : America, Captain (Fictitious character) Languages : en Pages : 0
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Captain America the hero we know today. From skinny Steve Rogers at boot camp to the Super-Soldier leading a battalion of men against the Nazis, this is the Captain America you thought you knew but you've never seen. And when the choice is between his country or his best friend, this is the decision he had to make. Then, follow Cap as he experiences one of his darkest days when a WWII mission doesn't go the way anyone planned. Plus, witness how the legacy of the Super Soldier reverberates through the years in this all-new story set during the height of the Gulf War. Collects America the Beautiful, Brother in Arms, To Soldier On, and Ghosts of My Country.
Author: Nigel Hamilton Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0544277449 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 501
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The astonishing story of FDR’s yearlong, defining battle with Churchill in 1943, as the war raged in Africa and Italy: “Superb.” —Fareed Zakaria, The Washington Post 1943 was the year of Allied military counteroffensives, beating back the forces of the Axis powers in North Africa and the Pacific—the “Hinge of Fate,” as Winston Churchill called it. In Commander in Chief, Nigel Hamilton reveals Franklin D. Roosevelt’s true role in this saga: overruling his own Joint Chiefs of Staff, ordering American airmen on an ambush of the Japanese navy’s Admiral Yamamoto, facing down Churchill when he attempted to abandon Allied D-Day strategy (twice). This FDR is profoundly different from the one Churchill later painted. President Roosevelt’s patience was tested to the limit quelling the prime minister’s “revolt,” as Churchill pressured Congress and senior American leaders to focus Allied energy on disastrous fighting in Italy and the Aegean instead of landings in Normandy. Finally, in a dramatic showdown at Hyde Park, FDR had to stop Churchill from losing the war by making the ultimate threat, setting the Allies on their course to final victory. Hamilton masterfully chronicles the clash of nations—and of two titanic personalities—at a crucial moment in modern history. “The author offers plenty of colorful period detail . . . a solid inside view of the strategic thinking that went into the campaign against Hitler as America laid the groundwork for the D-Day invasion the following year.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Hamilton combines polished writing, a command of various sources, and broad insight in this account of Franklin Roosevelt’s pivotal WWII year.” —Publishers Weekly Includes maps
Author: Tim Hauser Publisher: Chronicle Books ISBN: 1452147612 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 165
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Pixar Animation Studios, the innovators behind Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and Ratatouille, created this genre-defying film with an intriguing and unorthodox question in mind: What if mankind had to leave Earth, and somebody forgot to turn off the last robot? WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter-Earth Class) is this last, soulful robot. When his lonely work is interrupted by the arrival of the sleek probe-droid EVE, a rollicking adventure across the galaxy ensues. The Art of WALL-E features the myriad pieces of concept art on which this fantastic, futuristic film was built, including storyboards, full-color pastels, digital and pencil sketches, character studies, color scripts, and more. Astute text-featuring quotes from the director, artists, animators, and production team-unearths the filmmakers' historical inspirations and recounts the creative process in intimate detail. This richly illustrated portal into the artistic spirit of Pixar reveals a studio confidently pushing the limits of animation.
Author: Nigel Hamilton Publisher: Biteback Publishing ISBN: 178590485X Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 568
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In the much-anticipated conclusion to his masterful trilogy chronicling the wartime career of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, renowned military and political biographer Nigel Hamilton aligns triumph with tragedy to show how FDR was the architect of a victorious peace that he would not live to witness. Providing the definitive account of the events in Normandy on 6 June 1944, Hamilton also reveals the fraught nature of the relationship between the greatest wartime leaders of the Allied forces. Using hitherto unpublished documents and interviews to counter the famous narrative of World War II strategy given by Winston Churchill in his memoirs, Hamilton highlights the true significance of FDR's leadership. Seventy-five years after the D-Day landings, we finally see, close up and in dramatic detail, who was responsible for rescuing – and insisting upon – the great American-led invasion of France in June 1944, and exactly why that invasion was orchestrated by Eisenhower. War and Peace is the rousing final installment in one of the most important historical biographies of the twenty-first century, which demonstrates how FDR's failing health only spurred him on in his efforts to build a US-backed post-war world order. In this stirring account of the life of one of the most celebrated political leaders of our time, Hamilton hails the President as the sole person capable of anticipating the requirements of peace in order to bring an end to the war.
Author: David Kilmer Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 121
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If you want to be a sailboat captain, go to the islands. That's the advice I got before I packed my seabag, threw caution to the wind and booked a one-way ticket to an unfamiliar land. I left my other life behind and went all in, abandoning the familiar and welcoming the strange.That new life was more intriguing, funnier, scarier and more spectacular than I could have imagined. The sea magnified everything. As the bright Caribbean days unfolded, I experienced beauty, fear, lust and longing in ways I never had before. I spent those seasons with a cast of characters: crazy old salts, young smugglers, A-list movie stars, wealthy guests, black sheep boat bums and beguiling islanders. I wrangled boats through wind, weather and breakdowns. Through it all, I saw the world with a blazing intensity: It was genuine and unforgiving, stunning, powerful, treacherous and quite often ridiculous. Boats demanded their price for the freedom they delivered. I've never had another job that was so close to the bone. Boats took their bites out of me, literally and figuratively. I was beaten, burned and otherwise humbled by the raw physical nature of the work. And I loved it.Along the way, I learned about the right way to poop on a boat, how to keep from being seasick and how to keep the boat in one piece and off the reefs. But more than all that, I learned a new way to be in the world. My time as a Caribbean boat captain changed me profoundly, and I want you to understand why. This story is sometimes dark, sometimes silly and ultimately hopeful. It's part travelogue, part philosophy, part primer on the world of working in yachting for others who would follow in my footsteps. It's for anyone who has ever jumped headlong into something new or fantasized of doing so. This book is for dreamers and doers, for those who love the thrill of foreign shores and sensations, either in real life or the imagination. And for anyone who's ever taken on a challenge and succeeded.Here it is, the secret life of a boat captain in all its adventure, wonder and sometimes misery.I went to the islands to prove myself, and I did. I wanted to squeeze absolutely everything I could out of life, to take the biggest bite imaginable and see how it all turned out. I wanted to see, know and feel, and those islands did not disappoint me.Thank you for hopping aboard. It's an honor to take you along for the ride. -Capt. David Kilmer
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