Nevada Gunsmoke: Frontier Fighters of the Boom Years, 1850-1890, McInnes Elmer D., Ritchie-McInnes Lauretta

Автор: Randall Wakelam
Название: Cold War Fighters: Canadian Aircraft Procurement, 1945-54
ISBN: 0774821493 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780774821490
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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The cancellation of the CF-105 Arrow in 1959 holds such a grip on the imagination of Canadians that earlier developments in defence procurement remain in the shadows.

Randall Wakelam corrects this oversight – and offers fresh insight into the AVRO saga and contemporary procurement issues – by detailing the complexities Canada’s air force faced in buying fighter aircraft and by showing how the RCAF grew by leaps and bounds. Wakelam shows that cabinet members, chiefs of staff, and air marshals were forced to negotiate competing pressures to arm the air force, please allies, and save money. Their decisions resulted in the CF-100 Canuck and the F-86 Sabre, Canada’s front-line defensive aircraft in the coldest years of the Cold War. Although historians assume that the Arrow arrived on the heels of these successes, Wakelam reveals that neither the air force nor the government believed AVRO could manufacture even the CF-100 on budget.

Автор: Frazer Nimrod Thompson
Название: Send the Alabamians: World War I Fighters in the Rainbow Division
ISBN: 0817359796 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780817359799
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Send the Alabamians recounts the story of the 167th Infantry Regiment of the WWI Rainbow Division from their recruitment to their valiant service on the bloody fields of eastern France in the climactic final months of World War I.To mark the centenary of World War I, Send the Alabamians tells the remarkable story of a division of Alabama recruits whose service Douglas MacArthur observed had not “been surpassed in military history.” The book borrows its title from a quip by American General Edward H. Plummer who commanded the young men during the inauspicious early days of their service. Impressed with their ferocity and esprit de corps but exasperated by their rambunctiousness, Plummer reportedly exclaimed:In time of war, send me all the Alabamians you can get, but intime of peace, for Lord’s sake, send them to somebody else!The ferocity of the Alabamians, so apt to get them in trouble at home, proved invaluable in the field. At the climactic Battle of Croix Rouge, the hot-blooded 167th exhibited unflinching valor and, in the face of machine guns, artillery shells, and poison gas, sustained casualty rates over 50 percent to dislodge and repel the deeply entrenched and heavily armed enemy.Relying on extensive primary sources such as journals, letters, and military reports, Frazer draws a vivid picture of the individual soldiers who served in this division, so often overlooked but critical to the war’s success. After Gettysburg, the Battle of Croix Rouge is the most significant military engagement to involve Alabama soldiers in the state’s history. Families and genealogists will value the full roster of the 167th that accompanies the text.Richly researched yet grippingly readable, Nimrod T. Frazer’s Send the Alabamians will delight those interested in WWI, the World Wars, Alabama history, or southern military history in general. Historians of the war, regimental historians, military history aficionados, and those interested in previously unexplored facets of Alabama history will prize this unique volume as well.

Автор: Harris, Stephen L.
Название: Harlem`s hell fighters
ISBN: 1574886355 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781574886351
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Описание: When the United States entered World War I in 1917, thousands of African-American men volunteered to fight for a country that granted them only limited civil rights. Many from New York City joined the 15th N.Y. Infantry, a National Guard regiment later designated the 369th U.S. Infantry.

Автор: C. R. Anderegg, Anderegg
Название: Sierra hotel: flying air force fighters
ISBN: 1839310898 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781839310898
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Описание: Montessori teacher Saniyyah Kahalilallah makes it fun and easy for kids ages 2 to 5 to practice self-care, with step-by-step photos teaching how to wash hands, brush hair, get dressed, and perform other skills that foster independence and build self-confidence. The sturdy back cover features an interactive skills chart with sliding windows for kids to show what they`ve done each day.

Автор: Brady Cyrus Townsend
Название: Indian Fights & Fighters of the American Western Frontier of the 19th Century
ISBN: 0857064126 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857064127
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Цена: 26940.00 T
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Описание: The great clash between the U.S Army and the Plains Indian tribes

Everyone who has been fascinated by the history of the American western frontier has much for which to thank Cyrus Townsend Brady, the author of this book. Brady was a prolific author of both fiction and non fiction and in both genres his abiding interest and knowledge of the history of his own country is a well demonstrated. This book, 'Indian Fights and Fighters, ' captivated readers upon its publication and its success made the series of which it was part highly popular, although it was the fourth, not the first in his 'American Fights and Fighters Series.' Several more 'Fights and Fighters' books, based upon similar themes, followed. Brady relates-with some scholarship and with the help of maps, plans and illustrations-the principal engagements of the Plains Indian Wars in the period after the Civil War. The book draws on the first hand accounts of many of the people who were involved and is notable for bringing before the reader accounts by those who had not previously been published. Herein is a veritable cornucopia of western incident, campaigns, battles, fights and massacres, the full list of which is too numerous to catalogue here. They include the Fetterman Massacre, the Wagon Box Fight, Beecher's Island, the Fight on Beaver Creek, the Washita, the Rosebud and many, many more. This book has become an invaluable, highly regarded and enduring classic of the History of the West. Available in softcover and hardcover with dustjacket for collectors.