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By Kenneth E. Lawson

ISBN-10: 016076436X

ISBN-13: 9780160764363

Chaplain Lawson's preliminary historic assessment of the Balkans presents the surroundings to aid one comprehend what ended in America's involvement within the zone. He deftly works his approach in the course of the key issues of a complicated historical past that finally ends up in US and overseas engagement within the region. Later within the publication, he presents a superb precis of the Bosnia and Kosovo areas and the resultant US presence there. This history info is particularly worthy in knowing the an important nature of chaplain ministry, simply because a lot of the Balkans clash is said to non secular matters. Chaplain Lawson's use of private military chaplain and chaplain assistant bills makes up the majority of the paintings. His use of costs, tales, written money owed, and private observations offers a vast examine non secular ministry during this really new military environment—an setting of peacekeeping and multinational, joint-service coordination. He issues out that the spiritual help within the Balkans clash used to be additionally a interval during which the military needed to use the Reserve elements (Army nationwide protect and armed forces Reserve) in an important approach.  

By Anne Schraff

ISBN-10: 1599052547

ISBN-13: 9781599052540

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt eternally replaced the way in which humans within the usa take into consideration executive and its leaders. He, with his first woman Eleanor, led the United States with braveness and imaginative and prescient via bad instances. jointly they inspired the lives of each American, and their impact remains to be obvious this day. See how this targeted guy overcame tricky stumbling blocks to develop into one among America's maximum leaders.Guided by way of Time Magazines record of a hundred so much influential humans, the Biographies of the twentieth Century sequence of softcover 64-page biographies specializes in the leaders, scientists, and icons who formed our international. those humans, many from very humble beginnings, replaced how the realm works. every one biography contains a thesaurus, timeline, and illustrations. somebody consultant for every identify presents reproducible actions to increase the textual content.

By Ethan M. Fishman, William D. Pederson, Mark J. Rozell

ISBN-10: 0275968685

ISBN-13: 9780275968687

ISBN-10: 0313074186

ISBN-13: 9780313074189

There were many severe abuses of presidential strength in contemporary many years, together with Watergate, the Iran-Contra scandal, and the Lewinsky affair, in this case americans have proven renewed curiosity in discussing the connection among personality and political management. via an research of the existence and profession of George Washington, usually thought of the exemplary ethical president, the chapters supply a balanced scholarly contribution to this analysis.Fishman, Pederson, Rozell, and their individuals learn the legacy of Washingtons presidency. major political scientists and historians describe and assessment the impression of Washington's management at the establishment of the presidency and on those that have for the reason that occupied the Oval workplace. within the modern period of just about never-ending hypothesis concerning the position of personality in presidential management, an research of Washington's personality and the version he confirmed is mainly germane.The chapters supply different interpretations of the price of figuring out Washington's management and the nature of the trendy presidency. a number of the students finish that Washington certainly laid the basis for solid personality and robust management within the presidency. Others take a extra severe process and spot Washington, like lots of his successors, as a fallible individual who possessed either personality strengths and weaknesses. The lasting price of this research for political scientists, historians, and different scholars of the yank presidency is that it demonstrates the continuing bright debate over Washington's actual legacy to the workplace.

By Sarah Byrn Rickman

ISBN-10: 1441609156

ISBN-13: 9781441609151

ISBN-10: 1574412418

ISBN-13: 9781574412413

She flew the rapid P-51 and the capricious P-38, however the heavy, four-engine B-17 bomber and C-54 shipping have been her specialty. this is often the tale of Nancy Harkness Love who, early in global conflict II, recruited and led the 1st crew of twenty-eight girls to fly army airplane for the U.S. military. whilst the USA entered international battle II, the military wanted pilots to move or "ferry" its combat-bound airplane around the usa for out of the country deployment and its coach airplanes to flight education bases. Male pilots have been briefly provide, so into this vacuum stepped Nancy Love and her Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS). before everything the military applied either the WAFS software and Jacqueline Cochran's extra bold plan to coach girls to do a number of the military's flight-related jobs stateside. via 1943, common Hap Arnold determined to mix the women's courses and shaped the ladies Airforce carrier Pilots (WASP), with Cochran because the Director of girls Pilots. Love used to be named the administrative for WASP. Nancy Love urged the Ferrying department, which used to be a part of the Air shipping Command, as to the simplest use in their civilian WASP ferry pilots. She supervised their allocation and air-training application. via instance, Love gained the fitting for girls ferry pilots to transition into progressively more advanced airplanes. She looked at on twenty-three various army plane and have become the 1st lady to fly a number of of them, together with the B-17 Flying castle. Her global warfare II occupation ended on a excessive be aware: following a general's orders, she piloted a huge C-54 military shipping over the fabled China-Burma-India "Hump," the an important airlift course over the Himalayas. younger ladies serving this present day as strive against pilots owe a lot to like for growing the chance for girls to serve. Now writer Sarah Byrn Rickman, aviation historian, offers the 1st full-length biography of Nancy Love and her position within the WAFS and WASP courses. Her e-book will entice all with a love of flight.

By Richard Milhous Nixon

ISBN-10: 0448143747

ISBN-13: 9780448143743

The previous president recounts his lifestyles and political rises and falls, focusing on the occasions, family and foreign, of his presidency and people major as much as his exceptional resignation.

By James Megellas

ISBN-10: 0891417842

ISBN-13: 9780891417842

In mid-1943 James Megellas, referred to as “Maggie” to his fellow paratroopers, joined the 82d Airborne department, his new “home” for the length. His first style of strive against was once within the rugged mountains open air Naples.

In October 1943, whilst lots of the 82d departed Italy to arrange for the D-Day invasion of France, Lt. Gen. Mark Clark, the 5th military commander, asked that the division’s 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Maggie’s outfit, remain in the back of for a bold new operation that will outflank the Nazis’ obdurate protective traces and open the line to Rome. On 22 January 1944, Megellas and the remainder of the 504th landed around the seashore at Anzio. Following preliminary good fortune, 5th Army’s amphibious attack, Operation Shingle, slowed down within the face of heavy German counterattacks that threatened to force the Allies into the Tyrrhenian Sea. Anzio became a fiasco, one of many bloodiest Allied operations of the warfare. no longer until eventually April have been the remnants of the regiment withdrawn and shipped to England to get well, reorganize, refit, and teach for his or her subsequent mission.

In September, Megellas parachuted into Holland besides the remainder of the 82d Airborne as a part of one other star-crossed project, box Marshal Montgomery’s vainglorious Operation industry backyard. Months of demanding strive against in Holland have been via the conflict of the Bulge, and the lengthy challenging highway throughout Germany to Berlin.

Megellas used to be the main adorned officer of the 82d Airborne department and observed extra motion throughout the conflict than so much. but All tips on how to Berlin is greater than simply Maggie’s global conflict II memoir. all through his narrative, he skillfully interweaves tales of the opposite paratroopers of H corporation, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment. the result's a amazing account of guys at struggle.

By Lynn White

This learn examines the position of technological innovation in the course of the upward thrust of social teams within the center a long time.

By Cohen

ISBN-10: 0391041584

ISBN-13: 9780391041585

ISBN-10: 9004059229

ISBN-13: 9789004059221

Josephus, a Palestinian Jew, authored "Bellum Judaicum", which chronicled the Jewish insurrection opposed to Rome started in sixty six advert in Jerusalem, and approximately twenty years later wrote "Antiquitates Judaicae", a examine of Jewish heritage from the production to sixty six advert. In either "Bellum Judaicum" and the "Vita", an appendix to "Antiquitates Judaicae", Josephus bargains along with his personal rule within the warfare. even if either works have apologetic goals, Josephus adjustments his tale from one paintings to the subsequent. via viewing those works within the larger context of Josephus's existence and never in isolation from each other, Shaye J.D. Cohen strains Josephus's improvement as a historian, as an apologist, and as a Jew. Cohen bases old reconstruction of Josephus's participation within the struggle on a delineation of particular contradictions among the 2 works, a survey of the scholarship at the topic, a dialogue of the literary courting among the 2 files, an research of the way Josephus taken care of his assets, and a close research of either the "Bellum Judaicum" and the "Vita".

By Henning Köhler

ISBN-10: 3732501078

ISBN-13: 9783732501076

ISBN-10: 3869950765

ISBN-13: 9783869950761

Ist er nun einer der ganz Großen oder nicht? An der Bedeutung Helmut Kohls scheiden sich die Geister. Warum eigentlich? Für seine Kritiker warfare Helmut Kohl der Kanzler des Aussitzens. Im entscheidenden second aber hat er Geschichte gemacht. Als die Wiedervereinigung möglich schien, hat er die probability erkannt und entschlossen gehandelt. Das Deutschland, in dem wir heute leben, unser Europa, hat er ganz wesentlich geprägt. Später geriet er wegen der Spendenaffäre in Misskredit. Wer additionally ist dieser Mann? Eine Neubewertung.

By Nick Thomas

ISBN-10: 1473866669

ISBN-13: 9781473866669

ISBN-10: 1781593140

ISBN-13: 9781781593141

While requested to conjure an impact of the 'typical fighter pilot', you can be prone to consider the convinced, extroverted, gregarious style, rallying his males and flying within the pursuit of victory. George Frederick 'Screwball' Beurling, DSO, DFC, and DFM, definitely accomplished extra victories than commonest fighter pilots dream of, yet in temperament, character and magnificence, he was once a one-off.

A religious Christian, teetotaler and nonsmoker, Beurling wasn't to be came across patronizing the neighborhood bars along with his fellow pilots. as a substitute, he devoted himself completely to the artwork of aerial wrestle. His first actual missions observed him pursuing lone German combatants that he finally destroyed. He was resolute to hold concentration, noting how the lads who did indulge had a lot briefer and no more powerful tours.

In Maltese skies he particularly got here into his personal, taking pictures down 27 Axis plane in precisely 14 days. within the month of July 1942, he secured 5 'kills' in precisely 4 days. within the approach he was once presented the DSO, DFC and DFM, besides hero-status among his fellow pilots and participants of the general public. He survived the warfare, simply to be killed 3 years later when touchdown a shipping plane following a try flight. This biographical examine serves as a tribute to at least one of the main winning and interesting fighter pilots of the 20th century, and will charm greatly to lovers of the style