Twelve American Wars

Author : Eugene G. Windchy
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781796040586

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Twelve American Wars by Eugene G. Windchy Pdf

Eugene Windchy lays bare the tricks, errors and secret plans that have led the American people into avoidable wars. In order to prevent wars in the future, we need to know how they have come about in the past. A harsh light is thrown on our wars with Muslim nations. Did a “policy coup” in Washington demand regime changes in seven countries, as alleged by retired four-star General Wesley Clark? Our greatest national catastrophe was the Civil War, which began with Southerners firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, S.C. Why did the Southerners reject an opportunity to take the fort peacefully? We learn who opened fire and why. America’s entering World War I saved the Allies from defeat. Why in 1936 did Winston Churchill say the Americans ought to have stayed home and minded their own business? Did Germany start World War I? Triggering the war, according to our textbooks, was a young Bosnian Serb, Gavrilo Princip, who shot Austria’s Archduke Ferdinand. Was he a lone wolf? He was not. At trial sixteen men were convicted of participating in the crime. They were part of an international conspiracy that did not include Germany.

Author : Eugene G. Windchy
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781664174597

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Fifteen American Wars by Eugene G. Windchy Pdf

Eugene G. Windchy, author of Tonkin Gulf, investigates how fifteen wars began and how they might have been avoided. Among his surprising conclusions: Russia started World War I by killing the Archduke Ferdinand. The assassination of Austria’s Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo, Bosnia, triggered World War I, an unprecedented catastrophe which led to Fascist and Communist states, World War II, anti-Communist wars in Korea and Vietnam, and a world bristling with nuclear missiles. Textbooks tell us very little about the triggering event. Some do not mention the assassination. Others read as if the killer was a lone wolf. Disputing the lone wolf theory Windchy reports that sixteen men were convicted at trial, and he presents evidence that Russia was behind the operation. To gain territory, Russia in 1914 was trying to undermine the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire. This led to World War I in 1914 and to the Armenian genocide in 1915. Wars often begin in ways unknown to the public. The American Civil War began when the Confederates fired upon Fort Sumter. But did you know the fort was trying to surrender? Why was it fired upon? Did a “policy coup” in Washington demand that the United States change the governments of seven foreign countries? This was alleged by retired General Wesley Clark, former Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, after a series of informal visits to the Pentagon beginning in 1991.

Author : Gerhard Falk
Publisher : Hamilton Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780761860815

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Twelve Inventions Which Changed America by Gerhard Falk Pdf

Gerhard Falk describes twelve inventions that transformed the United States from a rural and small-town community to an industrial country of unprecedented power. The book is both a sociological analysis and a history of technology in the United States in the past two hundred years.

Author : Joan Waugh,Gary W. Gallagher
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807898449

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Wars within a War by Joan Waugh,Gary W. Gallagher Pdf

Comprised of essays from twelve leading scholars, this volume extends the discussion of Civil War controversies far past the death of the Confederacy in the spring of 1865. Contributors address, among other topics, Walt Whitman's poetry, the handling of the Union and Confederate dead, the treatment of disabled and destitute northern veterans, Ulysses S. Grant's imposing tomb, and Hollywood's long relationship with the Lost Cause narrative. The contributors are William Blair, Stephen Cushman, Drew Gilpin Faust, Gary W. Gallagher, J. Matthew Gallman, Joseph T. Glatthaar, Harold Holzer, James Marten, Stephanie McCurry, James M. McPherson, Carol Reardon, and Joan Waugh.

Author : Terence T. Finn
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780425268582

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America at War by Terence T. Finn Pdf

War—organized violence against an enemy of the state—seems part and parcel of the American journey. Indeed, the United States was established by means of violence as ordinary citizens from New Hampshire to Georgia answered George Washington’s call to arms. Since then, war has become a staple of American history. Counting the War for Independence, the United States has fought the armed forces of other nations at least twelve times, averaging a major conflict every twenty years. In so doing, the objectives have been simple: advance the cause of freedom, protect U.S. interests, and impose America’s will upon a troubled world. More often than not, the results have been successful as America’s military has accounted itself well. Yet the cost has been high, in both blood and treasure. Americans have fought and died around the globe—on land, at sea, and in the air. Without doubt, their actions have shaped the world in which we live. In this comprehensive collection, Terence T. Finn provides a set of narratives—each concise and readable—on the twelve major wars America has fought. He explains what happened, and why such places as Saratoga and Antietam, Manila Bay and Midway are important to an understanding of America’s past. Readers will easily be able to brush up on their history and acquaint themselves with those individuals and events that have helped define the United States of America.

Author : William Nester
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811773799

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World of War by William Nester Pdf

World of War is an epic journey through America’s array of wars for diverse reasons with diverse results over the course of its existence. It reveals the crucial effects of brilliant, mediocre, and dismal military and civilian leaders; the dynamic among America’s expanding economic power, changing technologies, and the types and settings of its wars; and the human, financial, and moral costs to the nation, its allies, and its enemies. Nester explores the violent conflicts of the United States—on land, at sea, and in the air—with meticulous scholarship, thought-provoking analysis, and vivid prose.

Author : William Nester
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2025-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781399081191

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America's Unending Civil War by William Nester Pdf

The Civil War fascinates Americans like no other war in their history. Many Americans are still fighting some of the war’s issues in an Odyssey that stretches back to the first settlement and will persist until the end of time. The war itself was an Iliad of brilliant generals like Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan for the Union, or Lee, Jackson, and Forrest for the Confederacy; epic battles like Gettysburg and Chickamauga; epic sieges like Vicksburg and Petersburg; and epic naval combats such as Monitor versus Merrimack, or Kearsarge versus Alabama. It was America’s most horrific war, with more dead than all others combined. Around 625,000 soldiers and 125,000 civilians died from various causes, bringing the total to 750,000 people. Of 31 million Americans, 2.1 million northerners and 880,000 southerners donned uniforms. Why did eleven states eventually ban together to rebel against the United States? President Jefferson Davis began an answer when he said: ‘If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone, Died of a Theory.’ That theory justified the enslavement of blacks by whites as a natural right and duty of a superior race over an inferior race; a theory, it was believed, that morally and economically elevated both races. Although slavery was the Civil War’s core cause, there were related chronic conflicts over the nature of government, citizenship, liberty, property, equality, wealth, race, identity, justice, crime, voting, power, and history – some of which issues have never entirely gone away. America’s Unending Civil War is unique among thousands of books on the subject. None before has explored the Civil War’s related and enduring conflicts of ideas and principles through four centuries of a nation’s history.

Author : David Nevin
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Historical fiction
ISBN : 0312855109

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Eighteen Twelve by David Nevin Pdf

A novel on the War of 1812 between the United States and England. Providing the big picture are President Madison, General Jackson and their wives, while everyday action is seen through the eyes of Winfield Scott, a young soldier, and Sally McQuirk, a war correspondent. By the author of Dream West.

Author : Bert Rainwater
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781453526019

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American Wars: Good, Bad, and Ugly by Bert Rainwater Pdf

Synopsis American Wars: Good, Bad, and Ugly This work contains an unusual view of American wars that may stimulate new thoughts of the price we have paid and the gains we have made in the folly of our wars. Disagreements are bound to arise, but no one will walk away from this book having been bored by another of those dull books on history. Promises should be made to be kept. I promise you that you will gain a different insight into our wars: the good, bad, and ugly.

Author : Omar El Akkad
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771009402

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American War by Omar El Akkad Pdf

Shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize A Globe and Mail Best Book A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Quill & Quire Best Book of 2017 An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle -- a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself. Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, that unmanned drones fill the sky. And when her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she quickly begins to be shaped by her particular time and place until, finally, through the influence of a mysterious functionary, she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. Telling her story is her nephew, Benjamin Chestnut, born during war as one of the Miraculous Generation and now an old man confronting the dark secret of his past -- his family's role in the conflict and, in particular, that of his aunt, a woman who saved his life while destroying untold others.

Author : Michael H. Hunt,Steven I. Levine
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807835289

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Arc of Empire by Michael H. Hunt,Steven I. Levine Pdf

Argues that America's wars in The Philippines, Japan, Korea and Vietnam were actually all part of a sustained U.S. bid for dominance in Asia.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Appleton's annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year ...
ISBN : IOWA:31858045883935

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An Index to Appleton's Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events, Twelve Volumes, 1876 to 1887 Inclusive by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Quince
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476629544

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Resistance to the Spanish-American and Philippine Wars by Charles Quince Pdf

 Following the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in 1898, pro-war arguments in the American press led public opinion to favor engaging in the Spanish-American War—or so goes the popular version of events. Yet there was a substantial anti-imperialist segment of the public that tried to halt the advance towards conflict. Drawing on contemporary sources, the author analyzes the anti-war arguments that preceded the Spanish-American War and continued during the war in the Philippines. News articles, letters to editors, opinion pieces and the yellow journalism of the day show how anti-war groups ultimately failed to stop a war with Spain.

Author : Andrew J. Bacevich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Middle East
ISBN : 9780553393934

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America's War for the Greater Middle East by Andrew J. Bacevich Pdf

A critical assessment of America's foreign policy in the Middle East throughout the past four decades evaluates and connects regional engagements since 1990 while revealing their massive costs.

Author : Steven W. Hook,John Spanier,Andrea K. Grove
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781071814697

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American Foreign Policy Since World War II by Steven W. Hook,John Spanier,Andrea K. Grove Pdf

Now in its Twenty-Second Edition, Hook, Spanier, and Grove’s American Foreign Policy Since World War II has long set the standard in guiding students through the complexities of American foreign policy. The text introduces students to the American "style" of foreign policy, imbued with a distinct sense of national exceptionalism. By giving students the historical context they need, this book allows them to truly grasp the functions and dysfunctions of the nation’s foreign policy agenda with historical insight into modern policy context.