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Tragedy at Graignes

Margaret R. O'Leary,Dennis S. O'Leary
Tragedy at Graignes Book PDF

Author : Margaret R. O'Leary,Dennis S. O'Leary
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781450283311

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Tragedy at Graignes by Margaret R. O'Leary,Dennis S. O'Leary Pdf

Tragedy at Graignes tells the story of Captain Bud Sophian, the only US Army officer who did not flee Graignes, France, as the Waffen SS overran the American positions and stormed the village. Sophian was a surgeon, and he refused to abandon the fourteen wounded paratroopers in his care. He surrendered by waving a white flag at the door of the badly shelled Norman church where his aid station was located. He hoped for fair prisoner treatment in accordance with the Geneva Convention of 1929. The German troops instead committed unspeakable atrocities, leaving many of the American prisoners mutilated in grotesque heaps. All of the American prisoners, including Sophian, were killed. Captain Sophians judgment and actions in the US Army were the culmination of the rich and challenging life he led prior to the Second World War. Buds correspondence with his sister and other Sophian archival materials tell the story of this compelling life. These letters are reproduced verbatim in Tragedy at Graignes: The Bud Sophian Story so that Bud and other authors may speak directly to you and to the historical record.

Tragedy at Graignes

Margaret R. O'Leary
Tragedy at Graignes Book PDF

Author : Margaret R. O'Leary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1450283306

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Tragedy at Graignes by Margaret R. O'Leary Pdf

Tragedy at Graignes tells the story of Captain Bud Sophian, the only US Army officer who did not flee Graignes, France, as the Waffen SS overran the American positions and stormed the village. Sophian was a surgeon, and he refused to abandon the fourteen wounded paratroopers in his care. He surrendered by waving a white flag at the door of the badly shelled Norman church where his aid station was located. He hoped for fair prisoner treatment in accordance with the Geneva Convention of 1929. The German troops instead committed unspeakable atrocities, leaving many of the American prisoners mutilated in grotesque heaps. All of the American prisoners, including Sophian, were killed. Captain Sophian's judgment and actions in the US Army were the culmination of the rich and challenging life he led prior to the Second World War. Bud's correspondence with his sister and other Sophian archival materials tell the story of this compelling life. These letters are reproduced verbatim in Tragedy at Graignes: The Bud Sophian Story so that Bud and other authors may speak directly to you and to the historical record.

The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy

Stephen G. Rabe
The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy Book PDF

Author : Stephen G. Rabe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781009206372

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The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy by Stephen G. Rabe Pdf

The inspiring story of 162 US paratroopers, dropped hopelessly off target, and the French villagers who assisted and supported them.

7 Leadership Lessons of D-Day

John Antal
7 Leadership Lessons of D Day Book PDF

Author : John Antal
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781612005300

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7 Leadership Lessons of D-Day by John Antal Pdf

“Drawing universal truths from urgent battlefield crises, the author provides a terrific guide and training tool for leaders at all levels” (Ralph Peters, New York Times–bestselling author). The odds were against the Allies on June 6, 1944. The task ahead of the paratroopers who jumped over Normandy and the soldiers who waded ashore onto the beaches, all under fire, was colossal. In such circumstances, good leadership can be the deciding factor of victory or defeat. This book is about the extraordinary leadership of seven men who led American soldiers on D-Day and the days that followed. Some of them, like Eisenhower, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., and Lt. Dick Winters, are well known, while others are barely a footnote in the history books. This book is not a full history of D-Day, nor does it cover the heroic leadership shown by men in the armies of the Allies or members of the French Resistance, who also participated in the Normandy assault and battles for the lodgment areas. It is, however, a primer on how you can lead today, no matter what your occupation or role in life, by learning from the leadership of these seven figures. A critical task for every leader is to understand what leadership is. Socrates once said that you cannot understand something unless you can first define it in your own words. This book provides the reader with the means to define leadership by telling seven dramatic, immersive, and memorable stories that the reader will never forget. “Nobody tells a story better than John Antal and nobody knows better how to root out the lessons of history.” —James Jay Carafano, author of Wiki at War

The Kansas City Meningitis Epidemic, 1911–1913

Margaret R. O’Leary MD,Dennis S. O’Leary MD
The Kansas City Meningitis Epidemic 1911 1913 Book PDF

Author : Margaret R. O’Leary MD,Dennis S. O’Leary MD
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781532062308

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The Kansas City Meningitis Epidemic, 1911–1913 by Margaret R. O’Leary MD,Dennis S. O’Leary MD Pdf

In The Kansas City Meningitis Epidemic, 1911–1913: Violent and Not Imagined, two physician authors present the dramatic medical history of a monstrous midwestern disease epidemic. The authors bring the events to startling life by skillfully drawing on original texts that evoke the resolute efforts of the Kansas City medical, nursing, and health department communities to care for the horribly stricken while inoculating the still well to prevent spread of the epidemic.

Cerf Berr of Médelsheim 1726–1793

Margaret R. O’Leary, MD
Cerf Berr of M delsheim 1726 1793 Book PDF

Author : Margaret R. O’Leary, MD
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781491734186

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Cerf Berr of Médelsheim 1726–1793 by Margaret R. O’Leary, MD Pdf

On December 7, 1793, an old man lay motionless at last, surrounded by his family, rabbis, and members of the society who would prepare his body for Jewish burial. Sixteen days after he was sentenced to jail, his family would go to extraordinary efforts to bury him in a Jewish cemetery ordered destroyed by the French government just two weeks earlier. The old man was Cerf Berr of Mdelsheim, the tenacious eighteenth-century Ashkenazi emancipator of the French Jews. Margaret R. OLeary, MD, presents Cerf Berrs life story, recognizing his profound contributions to the liberation of the Jews of France. While chronicling his incredible journey, OLeary not only highlights Cerf Berrs scrupulous honesty and reliability that earned him the deep appreciation of the French Crown, but also details how he besieged authorities in both Strasbourg and Versailles to grant political, social, and economic equality for all of his coreligionists in France. Cerf Berr achieved that milestone on September 27, 1791, only to die two years later after imprisonment by sadistic French revolutionaries. Cerf Berr of Mdelsheim is the biography of a man who was faithful to his people, sought the good for the community, and cherished justiceall while making a momentous contribution to the history of France and the Jews.

The English Professor

Margaret R. O’Leary/Dennis S. O’Leary
The English Professor Book PDF

Author : Margaret R. O’Leary/Dennis S. O’Leary
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781491772737

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The English Professor by Margaret R. O’Leary/Dennis S. O’Leary Pdf

Across the span of more than forty years, Raphael Dorman O’Leary, a professor of English rhetoric and English literature, taught his students at the University of Kansas to think straight, to put sinew into their sentences, and to embrace the magnificent literary treasures of their mother tongue. The English Professor, by authors Margaret R. O’Leary and Dennis S. O’Leary, offers a narrative of the life, work, and times of a revered Midwestern university English teacher. This memoir narrates how the professor, born in 1866, was raised on a Kansas farm in the post-bellum era. Like his father before him, he was committed to a life of learning and teaching. His colleagues knew him for his unpretentious exterior, honesty, and integrity, and his flashing anger at cheapness, vulgarity, pretense, and, above all, charlatanism. When Professor O’Leary died after a short illness in 1936, his personal effects passed through two generations to his grandson, Dennis S. O’Leary, who, with his wife, Margaret, discovered his papers while restoring a family house. The trove of material served as the core resource for the compilation of The English Professor. It provides insights into the histories of Kansas and the University of Kansas and of Harvard University, as well as perspectives on higher education, including the teaching of English rhetoric, language, literature, journalism, and oratory in the United States.

The Texas Meningitis Epidemic (1911–1913)

Margaret R. O’Leary MD,Dennis S. O’Leary MD
The Texas Meningitis Epidemic 1911 1913 Book PDF

Author : Margaret R. O’Leary MD,Dennis S. O’Leary MD
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781532054327

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The Texas Meningitis Epidemic (1911–1913) by Margaret R. O’Leary MD,Dennis S. O’Leary MD Pdf

In The Texas Meningitis Epidemic (1911–1913): Origin of the Meningococcal Vaccine, two physician authors present the dramatic medical history of a monstrous southwestern disease epidemic. They also describe the development of the intraspinal antimeningitis serum treatment for curing the disease and the meningococcal vaccine for preventing it. The authors bring the events to blazing life by skillfully drawing on original texts that evoke the grit and grace of everyday people who united to vanquish a brutal disease in early twentieth-century Texas.

Dr. Thomas Addison 1795-1860

Margaret R. O’Leary, MD
Dr Thomas Addison 1795 1860 Book PDF

Author : Margaret R. O’Leary, MD
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781491707715

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Dr. Thomas Addison 1795-1860 by Margaret R. O’Leary, MD Pdf

Dr. Thomas Addison (17951860): Agitating the Whole Medical World presents Dr. Addisons life story, considers his reception during his lifetime, and recognizes his profound contributions to modern medicine. Dr. Addison weathered five years of scorching criticism from peers for asserting that the adrenal glands were essential to life and that diseased adrenal glands could darken a white persons skin to mulatto hues. History validated his discoveries, which led other investigators to isolate and identify epinephrine, the adrenocortical steroids, and even vitamin B12.

Adventures at Wohelo Camp

Margaret R. O'Leary
Adventures at Wohelo Camp Book PDF

Author : Margaret R. O'Leary
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781462025046

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Adventures at Wohelo Camp by Margaret R. O'Leary Pdf

This is the true story of the 1928 Wohelo camp experience of fourteen-year-old Emily Sophian (19131994) of Kansas City, Missouri. The story is told in part through letters to her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Abraham Sophian, and to her schoolteachers, Mre Emmanuel and Mre Irene of the Roman Catholic Notre Dame de Sion School in Kansas City. Luther and Charlotte Gulick founded Wohelo in 1907 as the first American summer camp dedicated exclusively to girls. Both founders came from American Protestant missionary families. Clad in middy, bloomers, over-the-knee stockings, and tennis shoes, Emily chronicled with compassion and insight her struggles, triumphs, and observations of camp life on the shores of Sebago Lake in the backwoods of Maine.

Calming America

Dennis S. O’Leary MD
Calming America Book PDF

Author : Dennis S. O’Leary MD
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781663232922

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Calming America by Dennis S. O’Leary MD Pdf

Pot Luck Spokesman? The information void in the hours following the shooting of US President Ronald Reagan late Monday afternoon, March 30, 1981, spawned many false rumors and misinformation, which White House political adviser Lyn Nofziger understood threatened the credibility of the White House. He therefore took the podium before the 200 plus assembled press in Ross Hall to tell them that he would be bringing with him a credible physician to brief them once the president was out of surgery. However, he didn’t have many options to draw from for that credible physician. At the hospital, the surgeons tending the three shooting victims had first-hand information about the afternoon’s events, but each surgeon knew only about his own injured patient. White House physician Dan Ruge meanwhile had been at the president’s side throughout the afternoon and was a possible candidate, but his White House association made his credibility suspect according to White House aides. The job became the drafting of the most logical person to be spokesman. That would have been the seasoned physician CEO of the George Washington University Medical Center Ron Kaufman, but he was out of town. Next up was Dennis O’Leary, the physician dean for clinical affairs, as the preferred spokesman. To the White House, O’Leary was a total unknown, but a review of his credentials would hardly have been reassuring. He had originally been recruited to George Washington University as a blood specialist. Reticent by nature, he had minimal public-relations and public-speaking experience, save two years as a member of his hometown high school debate team. He had no surgical or trauma training or experience. But beggars can’t be choosers, as the saying goes. Kindly stated, O’Leary was probably the least bad choice to serve as White House/hospital spokesman to inform the world of the status of the wounded President Reagan, special agent Tim McCarthy, and press secretary Jim Brady. Yet, with a little bit of luck, it might all work out. And it did.

The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy

Stephen G. Rabe
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Author : Stephen G. Rabe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009206426

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The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy by Stephen G. Rabe Pdf

The fateful days and weeks surrounding 6 June 1944 have been extensively documented in histories of the Second World War, but less attention has been paid to the tremendous impact of these events on the populations nearby. The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy tells the inspiring yet heartbreaking story of ordinary people who did extraordinary things in defense of liberty and freedom. On D-Day, when transport planes dropped paratroopers from the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions hopelessly off-target into marshy waters in northwestern France, the 900 villagers of Graignes welcomed them with open arms. These villagers – predominantly women – provided food, gathered intelligence, and navigated the floods to retrieve the paratroopers' equipment at great risk to themselves. When the attack by German forces on 11 June forced the overwhelmed paratroopers to withdraw, many made it to safety thanks to the help and resistance of the villagers. In this moving book, historian Stephen G. Rabe, son of one of the paratroopers, meticulously documents the forgotten lives of those who participated in this integral part of D-Day history.

If Chaos Reigns

Flint Whitlock
If Chaos Reigns Book PDF

Author : Flint Whitlock
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781480406636

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If Chaos Reigns by Flint Whitlock Pdf

“A gem of a book that highlights the ‘fog of war’ as seen by American, British, and Canadian airborne units when they parachuted behind enemy lines.” —WWII History Magazine “Gentlemen, do not be daunted if chaos reigns; it undoubtedly will.” So said Brigadier S. James Hill, commanding officer of the British 3rd Parachute Brigade, in an address to his troops shortly before the launching of Operation Overlord—the D-Day invasion of Normandy. No more prophetic words were ever spoken, for chaos indeed reigned on that day, and many more that followed. Much has been written about the Allied invasion of France, but award-winning military historian Flint Whitlock has put together a unique package—the first history of the assault that concentrates exclusively on the activities of the American, British, and Canadian airborne forces that descended upon Normandy in the dark, pre-dawn hours of June 6, 1944. Landing into the midst of the unknown, the airborne troops found themselves fighting for their lives on every side in the very jaws of the German defenses, while striving to seize their own key objectives in advance of their seaborne comrades to come. Whitlock details the formation, recruitment, training, and deployment of the Allies’ parachute and glider troops. First-person accounts by veterans who were there—from paratroopers to glidermen to the pilots who flew them into the battle, as well as the commanders (Eisenhower, Taylor, Ridgway, Gavin, and more)—make for compelling, “you-are-there” reading. If Chaos Reigns is a fitting tribute to the men who rode the wind into battle and managed to pull victory out of confusion, chaos, and almost certain defeat.

Freedom Fighters: Rise of a Nation

Robert Venditti
Freedom Fighters Rise of a Nation Book PDF

Author : Robert Venditti
Publisher : DC Comics
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781779506412

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Freedom Fighters: Rise of a Nation by Robert Venditti Pdf

When a Kryptonian rocket crash-landed in 1930s Czechoslovakia, the Nazi war machine discovered the most powerful weapon on the planet: baby Kal-El. More than 50 years later, a new resistance has arisen... the Freedom Fighters! To crush Hitler's regime, the Human Bomb, Phantom Lady, Black Condor, and Doll Woman launch a guerrilla campaign to reignite the American spirit in the hope of bringing Uncle Sam back from the dead! Collects Freedom Fighters #1-12.

D-Day with the Screaming Eagles

George Koskimaki
D Day with the Screaming Eagles Book PDF

Author : George Koskimaki
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781480406582

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D-Day with the Screaming Eagles by George Koskimaki Pdf

A collection of eyewitness accounts of the Normandy landings that “gives you the [feeling] that you are there during the frenzied first hours of the invasion” (Kepler’s Military History Book Reviews). Many professional historians have recorded the actions of D-Day but here is an account of the airborne actions as described by the actual men themselves, in eyewitness detail. Participants range from division command personnel to regimental, battalion, company, and battery commanders, to chaplains, surgeons, enlisted medics, platoon sergeants, squad leaders and the rough, tough troopers who adapted quickly to fighting in mixed, unfamiliar groups after a badly scattered drop. And yet they managed to gain the objectives set for them in the hedgerow country of Normandy. This book is primary source material. It is a “must read” for anyone interested in the Normandy landings, the 101st Airborne Division, and World War II in general. Hearing the soldiers speak is an entirely different experience from reading about the action in a narrative history.