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Author : Stephen Longstreet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9150040022
Author : Stephen Longstreet
Publisher : W H Allen
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Airplanes, Military
ISBN : 0491004788
Author : Stephen Longstreet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : PSU:000026394237
Beretter om luftkrigen over Europa under 1. verdenskrig.
Author : William B. Colgan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786458356
Among the offensive aerial missions employed in World War II, air-to-ground gun fighting was one of the most valuable. Strafing, which involved the extensive damage of ground, air and naval forces by pilots flying in deadly, low-altitude skies, helped the Allies to their victory. This historical text examines the role of strafing in combat, particularly during World War II, but also during the Korea and Vietnam wars. The nature of gunnery, strafing and gunfighting are explored within the context of particular missions and actions. First-hand accounts and gun camera film evidence contribute to the exploration of this most dangerous form of combat and honor the courage of America's veterans who served as pilots or aerial crewmen.
Author : Spencer C. Tucker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 2532 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781851099658
Offering exhaustive coverage, detailed analyses, and the latest historical interpretations of events, this expansive, five-volume encyclopedia is the most comprehensive and detailed reference source on the First World War available today. One hundred years after the beginning of World War I in 1914, this conflict still stands as perhaps the most important event of the 20th century. World War I toppled all of the existing empires at the time, transformed the Middle East, and vaulted the United States to becoming the world's leading economic power. Its effects were profound and lasting—and included outcomes that led to World War II. This multivolume encyclopedia provides a wide-ranging examination of World War I that covers all of the important battles; key individuals, both civilian and military; weapons and technologies; and diplomatic, social, political, cultural, military, and economic developments. Suitable as a reference tool for high school and undergraduate students as well as faculty members and graduate-level researchers, World War I: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection offers accessible, in-depth information and up-to-date analyses in a format that lends itself to quick and easy use. The set comprises alphabetically arranged, cross-referenced entries accompanied by further reading selections as well as a comprehensive bibliography. A fifth volume provides chronologically arranged documents and an A–Z index.
Author : James J. Hudson
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1557281246
Profiles the twenty-eight Americans who joined the Royal Air Force and became aces during the first World War
Author : Edward A. Gutiérrez
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700624447
“It is impossible to reproduce the state of mind of the men who waged war in 1917 and 1918,” Edward Coffman wrote in The War to End All Wars. In Doughboys on the Great War the voices of thousands of servicemen say otherwise. The majority of soldiers from the American Expeditionary Forces returned from Europe in 1919. Where many were simply asked for basic data, veterans from four states—Utah, Minnesota, Connecticut, and Virginia—were given questionnaires soliciting additional information and “remarks.” Drawing on these questionnaires, completed while memories were still fresh, this book presents a chorus of soldiers’ voices speaking directly of the expectations, motivations, and experiences as infantrymen on the Western Front in World War I. What was it like to kill or maim German soldiers? To see friends killed or maimed by the enemy? To return home after experiencing such violence? Again and again, soldiers wrestle with questions like these, putting into words what only they can tell. They also reflect on why they volunteered, why they fought, what their training was, and how ill-prepared they were for what they found overseas. They describe how they interacted with the civilian populations in England and France, how they saw the rewards and frustrations of occupation duty when they desperately wanted to go home, and—perhaps most significantly—what it all added up to in the end. Together their responses create a vivid and nuanced group portrait of the soldiers who fought with the American Expeditionary Forces on the battlefields of Aisne-Marne, Argonne Forest, Belleau Wood, Chateau-Thierry, the Marne, Metz, Meuse-Argonne, St. Mihiel, Sedan, and Verdun during the First World War. The picture that emerges is often at odds with the popular notion of the disillusioned doughboy. Though hardened and harrowed by combat, the veteran heard here is for the most part proud of his service, service undertaken for duty, honor, and country. In short, a hundred years later, the doughboy once more speaks in his own true voice.
Author : Stephen Longstreet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : OCLC:1020207735
Author : R. Kent Rasmussen
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781613745595
One hundred years after the start of the “Great War,” World War I for Kids provides an intriguing and comprehensive look at this defining conflict that involved all of the world's superpowers. Why and how did the war come about? What was daily life like for soldiers in the trenches? What roles did zeppelins, barbed wire, and the passenger ship Lusitania play in the war? Who were Kaiser Wilhelm, the Red Baron, and Edith Cavell? Young history buffs will learn the answers these questions and many others, including why the western front bogged down into a long stalemate; how the war ushered in an era of rapid military, technological, and societal advances; and how the United States' entry helped end the war. Far from a dry catalog of names, dates, and battles, this richly illustrated book goes in depth into such fascinating topics as turn-of-the-20th-century weaponry and the important roles animals played in the war, and explains connections among events and how the war changed the course of history. Hands-on activities illuminate both the war and the times. Kids can: &· Make a periscope &· Teach a dog to carry messages &· Make a parachute &· Learn a popular World War I song &· Cook Maconochie Stew &· And much more
Author : Anonim
Publisher : NFI
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Neil Hanson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781446421901
Of all the million British dead of the First World War, only one - the Unknown Soldier - was ever returned to his native land. An anonymous symbol of all those lost without trace in the carnage of the battlefields, he was laid to rest in Westminster Abbey amid an outpouring of grief that brought the whole nation to a standstill, far outweighing even the emotion expressed over the death of Princess Diana over eighty years later. Inspired by this example, almost every combatant nation buried its own Unknown Soldier and the graves became the focus of a pilgrimage that still continues today. Drawing on largely unpublished letters and diaries, Neil Hanson has resurrected the lives and experiences of three unknown soldiers - a Briton, a German and an American. Every word is based on the testimony of those who fought, those who died and those who mourned. Few books have ever shown the terrible reality of warfare in such compelling, unforgettable detail, or told such a moving story of human life and loss. Amid all their sufferings, the common humanity of the men and their loved ones shines through. Each soldier lives on in the memory of his family to this day. They stand at the head of a ghost army three million strong, all of whom have no known grave. Their story is the story of the Unknown Soldier.
Author : Elizabeth A. Sudduth
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 1570035903
Bruccoli Great War Collection at the University of South Carolina: An Illustrated Catalogue provides a reference tool for the study of one of the great watershed moments in history on both sides of the Atlantic serving historians, researchers, and collectors.
Author : Ian V. Hogg
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810868625
From the A7V tank to the Zimmerman telegram, this dictionary focuses heavily on the military aspects of World War I. Entries of a paragraph to a page cover major battles from Palestine to China, biographical notes on selected soldiers, geographical features which affected the fighting, and various military equipment. Chronologies of the major events and battles of the war and a short summary are included to provide context. Originally published in 1998 under the title Historical dictionary of World War I.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1642 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119497621
Author : Lawrence P. Scott,William M. Womack
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870139536
On April 12, 1945, the United States Army Air Force arrested 101 of its African American officers. They were charged with disobeying a direct order from a superior officer—a charge that could carry the death penalty upon conviction. They were accused of refusing to sign an order that would have placed them in segregated housing and recreational facilities. Their plight was virtually ignored by the press at the time, and books written about the subject did not detail the struggle these aviators underwent to win recognition of their civil rights. The central theme of Double V is the promise held out to African American military personnel that service in World War II would deliver to them a double victory—a "double V"—over tyranny abroad and racial prejudice at home. The book's authors, Lawrence P. Scott and William M. Womack Sr., chronicle for the first time, in detail, one of America's most dramatic failures to deliver on that promise. In the course of their narrative, the authors demonstrate how the Tuskegee airmen suffered as second-class citizens while risking their lives to serve their country. Among the contributions made by this work is a detailed examination of how 101 Tuskegee airmen, by refusing to live in segregated quarters, triggered one of the most significant judicial proceedings in U.S. military history. Double V uses oral accounts and heretofore unused government documents to portray this little-known struggle by one of America's most celebrated flying units. In addition to providing background material about African American aviators before World War II. the authors also demonstrate how the Tuskegee airmen's struggle foretold dilemmas faced by the civil rights movement in the second half of the 20th century. Double V is destined to become an important contribution in the rapidly growing body of civil rights literature.