World War Ii Memorial Washington D C

Author : Douglas Brinkley
Publisher : Harper Paperbacks
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0060851589

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The World War II Memorial by Douglas Brinkley Pdf

In May 2004, the sixtieth anniversary year of D-Day, the nation paid tribute to its World War II heroes with the dedication of a memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. This beautifully illustrated keepsake offers a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the memorial and its place in American history. Exclusive photographs show the memorial in all stages of development, accompanied by text exploring the symbolism of each part -- the Rainbow Pool, the Wall of Remembrance, the Field of Stars, the Freedom Wall, and the Pillars of the States and Territories. George H. W. Bush, former senator Bob Dole, Yogi Berra, and other veterans share their personal stories, and leading military historians contribute essays on the war efforts at home and abroad. Like the memorial it commemorates, this book pays tribute to the "greatest generation" -- the everyday Americans who rose up to defend our freedom.

Author : Stephen R. Brown
Publisher : Stephen R Brown Publishing
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780976615002

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Jewel of the Mall by Stephen R. Brown Pdf

WWII Memorial: Jewel of the Mall is a full-color photographic book on the WWII Memorial with an introduction by Senator Robert Dole and photographs by renowned photographer Stephen R. Brown. The photographs are exclusive never-to-be duplicated images. Panoramic scenes of the new face of the Mall comprise seventy-five pages of the book while the rest are a documentary of the creation and installation of the sculpture and marble ornamentation.

Author : Paul Kelsey Williams,T. Luke Young
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0738514756

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Washington, by Paul Kelsey Williams,T. Luke Young Pdf

Washington, D.C. is well known for its expansive mall and world famous monuments, but relatively little has been published about the district's historic neighborhoods, where residents have lived since its selection as the nation's capitol in 1790. This volume compares rare vintage photographs with contemporary views and paints a fascinating historical portrait of the dynamic neighborhoods that support the growth and prosperity of the nation's capitol. Then and Now: Washington, D.C. includes images of U Street's nightlife, produce and fish markets along the waterfront, the prestigious Congressional Cemetery of Capitol Hill, popular drinking holes on Pennsylvania Avenue, Orville Wright's groundbreaking test flight in 1909, and Georgetown's renowned Dodge Mansion radically changed over the years. These photographs, many of them never before published, shed new light on D.C.'s rich cultural, social, and architectural heritage.

Author : Nicolaus Mills
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786728428

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Their Last Battle by Nicolaus Mills Pdf

On Memorial Day weekend in 2004, the National World War II Memorial on the Mall in Washington will officially open to the public. What began as a casual conversation between a Congresswoman and one of her constituents in 1987 grew into a struggle that lasted more than four times longer than it took America to fight the war itself. Its rocky progress to completion is a compelling story about how America chooses to memorialize its past and how we view World War II.Nicolaus Mills recounts the development of the Washington Mall, from its time as swampland to Southern outrage over the Lincoln Memorial to Maya Lin's controversial Vietnam Veterans' Memorial. The World War II Memorial would prove just as controversial; it took the support of WW II vet Bob Dole and actor Tom Hanks to overrule the strong objections of interest groups, self-appointed art critics, and others.In Their Last Battle, a story vividly narrated through interviews with politicians and vets, architects and citizens, Mills discovers what a public monument can tell us about America and the values it honors.

Author : Thomas B. Grooms
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Government publications
ISBN : PURD:32754078047663

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World War II Memorial, Washington, D.C. by Thomas B. Grooms Pdf

This book is based primarily in information provided in extensive oral interviews with individuals who played a major role in the design and construction of the national World War II Memorial in Washington, DC.

Author : Douglas Brinkley
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781588342102

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The World War II Memorial by Douglas Brinkley Pdf

Assuming its rightful place of honor on the National Mall between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, the World War II Memorial is an eloquent and moving tribute to “The Greatest Generation.” Sixteen million Americans served in the armed forces—more than 400,000 gave their lives—and millions supported the war effort from home, all in the name of protecting that which we, as Americans, hold most dear: freedom. The World War II Memorial, published in conjunction with the dedication of this long-overdue memorial, commemorates the everyday Americans who in countless ways rose up to defeat one of history's gravest threats to freedom. Veterans—including George H.W. Bush, Sen. Daniel Inouye, former senators Bob Dole and George McGovern, Yogi Berra, and many, many others—contribute their own personal stories while leading historians look at the military campaigns of the war. The memorial's architect and its sculptor provide insights into how it symbolizes the fortitude and perseverance of a generation, and the exclusive photographs present the memorial through all stages of construction. Fittingly, this historic tribute falls in the 60th anniversary year of D-Day, a time when our nation once again reflects on its greatest sacrifice and greatest victory in the name of freedom.

Author : Thomas B. Grooms
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UOM:39015060805895

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World War II Memorial, Washington, D.C. by Thomas B. Grooms Pdf

This book is based primarily in information provided in extensive oral interviews with individuals who played a major role in the design and construction of the national World War II Memorial in Washington, DC.

Author : Maureen Robins
Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781615907854

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World War II Memorial by Maureen Robins Pdf

Learn Detailed Information About The World War II Memorial And Basic History About This War.

Author : Joseph M. Pereira,John L. Wilson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640124226

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All Souls Day by Joseph M. Pereira,John L. Wilson Pdf

The U.S. Army attacked three villages near the German-Belgium border, surprising the Germans who surrendered with little resistance. The German army regrouped and counterattacked. A brief but horrific battle ensued, and as the enemy pressed forward, the Americans retreated in haste, leaving behind their wounded and their dead. Discussion of this week-long conflict that began on All Souls Day, November 2, 1944, has been confined to officer training school, in part due to its heavy losses and ignominy. After the war the U.S. Army returned to the battlefield to bring home its fallen. To its dismay it found that many of these men had vanished. The disappearances were puzzling and for decades the U.S. government searched unsuccessfully for clues. After poring over now-declassified battlefield reports and interviewing family members, the authors reconstruct a spellbinding story of love and sacrifice, honor and bravery, as well as a portrait of the gnawing pain of families not knowing what became of their loved ones. Ultimately this work of history and in-depth contemporary journalism proffers a glimmer of light in the ongoing search.

Author : Jörg Echternkamp,Stephan Jaeger
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789201277

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Views of Violence by Jörg Echternkamp,Stephan Jaeger Pdf

Twenty-first-century views of historical violence have been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War. Within Europe, one of the key sites for such representation has been the vast array of museums and memorials that reflect contemporary ideas of war, the roles of soldiers and civilians, and the self-perception of those who remember. This volume takes a historical perspective on museums covering the Second World War and explores how these institutions came to define political contexts and cultures of public memory in Germany, across Europe, and throughout the world.

Author : Elizabeth D. Samet
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374716127

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Looking for the Good War by Elizabeth D. Samet Pdf

“A remarkable book, from its title and subtitle to its last words . . . A stirring indictment of American sentimentality about war.” —Robert G. Kaiser, The Washington Post In Looking for the Good War, Elizabeth D. Samet reexamines the literature, art, and culture that emerged after World War II, bringing her expertise as a professor of English at West Point to bear on the complexity of the postwar period in national life. She exposes the confusion about American identity that was expressed during and immediately after the war, and the deep national ambivalence toward war, violence, and veterans—all of which were suppressed in subsequent decades by a dangerously sentimental attitude toward the United States’ “exceptional” history and destiny. Samet finds the war's ambivalent legacy in some of its most heavily mythologized figures: the war correspondent epitomized by Ernie Pyle, the character of the erstwhile G.I. turned either cop or criminal in the pulp fiction and feature films of the late 1940s, the disaffected Civil War veteran who looms so large on the screen in the Cold War Western, and the resurgent military hero of the post-Vietnam period. Taken together, these figures reveal key elements of postwar attitudes toward violence, liberty, and nation—attitudes that have shaped domestic and foreign policy and that respond in various ways to various assumptions about national identity and purpose established or affirmed by World War II. As the United States reassesses its roles in Afghanistan and the Middle East, the time has come to rethink our national mythology: the way that World War II shaped our sense of national destiny, our beliefs about the use of American military force throughout the world, and our inability to accept the realities of the twenty-first century’s decades of devastating conflict.

Author : Kirk Savage
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520271333

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Monument Wars by Kirk Savage Pdf

Kirk Savage explores the National Mall in Washington D.C., site of some of the most important & poignant memorials in the U.S. He shows how the idea of monument has changed over the decades, & how the 19th century concept of the monument has given way to the late 20th century idea of 'space', the monument as an experience.

Author : Edwin C. Bearss
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789121162

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Rebel Victory at Vicksburg by Edwin C. Bearss Pdf

Originally published in 1963, Rebel Victory at Vicksburg by renowned American Civil War and World War II historian Edwin C. Bearss details the Confederate victory. Told with great power and imagery, this book will make an invaluable addition to any historian’s collection.

Author : Friedrich St. Florian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architectural drawing
ISBN : UOM:39015058142343

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National World War II Memorial, Washington, D.C. by Friedrich St. Florian Pdf

Author : Keith Lowe
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250235046

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Prisoners of History by Keith Lowe Pdf

A look at how our monuments to World War II shape the way we think about the war by an award-winning historian. Keith Lowe, an award-winning author of books on WWII, saw monuments around the world taken down in political protest and began to wonder what monuments built to commemorate WWII say about us today. Focusing on these monuments, Prisoners of History looks at World War II and the way it still tangibly exists within our midst. He looks at all aspects of the war from the victors to the fallen, from the heroes to the villains, from the apocalypse to the rebuilding after devastation. He focuses on twenty-five monuments including The Motherland Calls in Russia, the US Marine Corps Memorial in the USA, Italy’s Shrine to the Fallen, China’s Nanjin Massacre Memorial, The A Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, the balcony at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem and The Liberation Route that runs from London to Berlin. Unsurprisingly, he finds that different countries view the war differently. In monuments erected in the US, Lowe sees triumph and patriotic dedications to the heroes. In Europe, the monuments are melancholy, ambiguous and more often than not dedicated to the victims. In these differing international views of the war, Lowe sees the stone and metal expressions of sentiments that imprison us today with their unchangeable opinions. Published on the 75th anniversary of the end of the war, Prisoners of History is a 21st century view of a 20th century war that still haunts us today.