Ike S Last Battle

Author : Kasey S. Pipes
Publisher : WND Books
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780977898459

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Ike's Final Battle by Kasey S. Pipes Pdf

He called it one of the hardest things he ever didas difficult as leading the D-Day invasion. When Dwight Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne to Little Rock to integrate Central High School in September 1957, he couldn't know that he was fighting the last great battle of his career...one that would change forever both him and his country. This is the story of how one of America's greatest leaders confronted America's greatest sin. This is the unlikely tale of how Ike became a civil rights president."Ike" represents is a revolution in scholarship on Eisenhower and civil rights. Though not uncritical, the book credits his steady personal advance on the issue as well as his accomplishments in the military and as president. Drawing on thousands of primary documents (including newly released material), "Ike's Last Battle" builds to its climax at Little Rockone of the most pivotal events of the civil rights movement. Little Rock is at the epicenter, but the book will also look at the cause, and the aftermath.

Author : Charles Whiting
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780850527995

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Bloody Bremen by Charles Whiting Pdf

In early 1945, with the whole of Central Europe in the hands of the Russians, more serious problems loomed for the Anglo-American armies. The Red Army was heading rapidly for Denmark. Suddenly a real fortified city emerged in Eisenhower's thinking - BREMEN. Eisenhower gave orders to Montgomery to capture Bremen and the Schleswig-Holstein peninsula around it. The fight for 'Bloody Bremen' commenced..

Author : Charles Whiting
Publisher : Pen & Sword Military
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 085052914X

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Ike's Last Battle by Charles Whiting Pdf

March - April 1945. Victory for the Allies was only a matter of time. Two great armies were racing towards each other crushing German resistance in their path. Berlin was the prize, which the Soviets were in the event to seize. Instead Eisenhower, always more a political, rather than military, figure opted to destroy the German armies in and around the Ruhr. Churchill's warnings were ignored and Mongomery's plans overruled. What drove the decision-making at this vital time? Was it high level strategy or naked personal ambition? Charles Whiting sets out to examine the facts in his own distinctive style and reach a conclusion, no matter how unpalatable.

Author : Joyce Weatherford
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743216715

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Heart of the Beast by Joyce Weatherford Pdf

In her remarkable debut, Joyce Weatherford writes with raw power, muscular beauty, and firsthand experience about life in the twentieth-century American West. Twenty-eight-year-old Iris Steele has just inherited her family's ranch in northeast Oregon. It is the ranch where she grew up herding cattle and harvesting wheat, and where her brother and father both died. It is also, it turns out, land that the Nez Percé Indians now claim is rightfully theirs. As Iris begins to piece together the property's legitimate ownership, she unearths not only her family's turbulent history, but also two centuries of tortured relationships between homesteaders and Native Americans. Struggling with a new crop and a fragile romance, she must ultimately confront the true nature of her legacy. In astonishing language, Joyce Weatherford combines unflinching descriptions of ranch life with the sensuous beauty of the Oregon landscape. Part romance, mystery, courtroom drama, and history, Heart of the Beast is a family saga of epic power and import.

Author : Ike Morah
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780557736669

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Ninth Group of Assignments - Please Save the Last Fight for Me by Ike Morah Pdf

Action packed thriller. Adventurous justice seeker. Captivating maneuvers. Law enforcer.

Author : William Gilmore Beymer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 080326206X

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Scouts and Spies of the Civil War by William Gilmore Beymer Pdf

The Civil War was the backdrop for the formation of numerous secret service organizations and the theater for a host of characters involved in espionage from both the North and the South. The pool of spies and scouts comprised diverse individuals, ranging from eager young volunteers signing up for ?extra dangerous duty? for their respective armies to society ladies spying for both the Union and the Confederacy. ø At the turn of the nineteenth century, William Gilmore Beymer went in search of the stories of these first spies and recorded his findings in Scouts and Spies of the Civil War. Beymer?s endeavor was one of the first attempts to move the study of Civil War scouts and spies away from the realm of ?cloak and dagger? romance stories to historical research grounded in factual details. Included in this dynamic collection are personal narratives told to Beymer by a few surviving secret service operatives; stories pieced together from diaries, journals, letters, and archival research; and the remembrances of family and friends that tell of the mothers, daughters, fathers, and sons who risked their lives for their cause.

Author : Evan Thomas
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316217279

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Ike's Bluff by Evan Thomas Pdf

Evan Thomas's startling account of how the underrated Dwight Eisenhower saved the world from nuclear holocaust. Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower set about to make good on his campaign promise to end the Korean War. Yet while Eisenhower was quickly viewed by many as a doddering lightweight, behind the bland smile and simple speech was a master tactician. To end the hostilities, Eisenhower would take a colossal risk by bluffing that he might use nuclear weapons against the Communist Chinese, while at the same time restraining his generals and advisors who favored the strikes. Ike's gamble was of such magnitude that there could be but two outcomes: thousands of lives saved, or millions of lives lost. A tense, vivid and revisionist account of a president who was then, and still is today, underestimated, Ike's Bluff is history at its most provocative and thrilling.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1450 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Law
ISBN : MSU:31293011645417

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

Author : Chris Mackowski,Kristopher D. White
Publisher : Savas Beatie
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611211610

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Grant's Last Battle by Chris Mackowski,Kristopher D. White Pdf

The remarkable story of how one of America’s greatest military heroes became a literary legend. The former general in chief of the Union armies during the Civil War . . . the two-term president of the United States . . . the beloved ambassador of American goodwill around the globe . . . the respected New York financier—Ulysses S. Grant—was dying. The hardscrabble man who regularly smoked twenty cigars a day had developed terminal throat cancer. Thus began Grant’s final battle—a race against his own failing health to complete his personal memoirs in an attempt to secure his family’s financial security. But the project evolved into something far more: an effort to secure the very meaning of the Civil War itself and how it would be remembered. In this maelstrom of woe, Grant refused to surrender. Putting pen to paper, the hero of Appomattox embarked on his final campaign: an effort to write his memoirs before he died. The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant would cement his place as not only one of America’s greatest heroes but also as one of its most sublime literary voices. Authors Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White have recounted Grant’s battlefield exploits as historians at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, and Mackowski, as an academic, has studied Grant’s literary career. Their familiarity with the former president as a general and as a writer bring Grant’s Last Battle to life with new insight, told with the engaging prose that has become the hallmark of the Emerging Civil War Series.

Author : Dwight D. Eisenhower,United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Printing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000156167078

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Memorial Services in the Congress of the United States and Tributes in Eulogy of Dwight David Eisenhower, Late a President of the United States by Dwight D. Eisenhower,United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Printing Pdf

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015004936731

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Memorial Services in the Congress of the United States and Tributes in Eulogy of Dwight David Eisenhower, Late a President of the United States by United States. Congress Pdf

Author : Felix Abayateye
Publisher : Graphic Communications Group
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Graphic Sports by Felix Abayateye Pdf

Author : E.N.O. Provencal
Publisher : Graphic Communications Group
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1997-04-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Mirror by E.N.O. Provencal Pdf

Author : Margaret Safo (Mrs.)
Publisher : Graphic Communications Group
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Mirror by Margaret Safo (Mrs.) Pdf

Author : Chester J. Pach
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119027676

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A Companion to Dwight D. Eisenhower by Chester J. Pach Pdf

A Companion to Dwight D. Eisenhower brings new depth to the historiography of this significant and complex figure, providing a comprehensive and up-to-date depiction of both the man and era. Thoughtfully incorporates new and significant literature on Dwight D. Eisenhower Thoroughly examines both the Eisenhower era and the man himself, broadening the historical scope by which Eisenhower is understood and interpreted Presents a complete picture of Eisenhower’s many roles in historical context: the individual, general, president, politician, and citizen This Companion is the ideal starting point for anyone researching America during the Eisenhower years and an invaluable guide for graduate students and advanced undergraduates in history, political science, and policy studies Meticulously edited by a leading authority on the Eisenhower presidency with chapters by international experts on political, international, social, and cultural history