The oral history of D-Day.
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Nothing Less Than Victory: An Oral History of D-Day
(New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1925), although Sir Edward needs a modern biographer. ... Modifying Harbaugh's claim, John Milton Cooper Jr.'s The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt (Cambridge, ...
Composed almost entirely of Midwesterners and molded into a lean, skilled fighting machine by Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, the Army of the Tennessee marched directly into the heart of the Confederacy and won major ...
Quoted in Jeffery S. Underwood, The Wings of Democracy: The Influence of Air Power on the Roosevelt ... Alan L. Gropman, Mobilizing U.S. Industry in World War II (Washington, DC: National Defense University Press, 1996), 6n.
Administration policy theoretically barred Ford from receiving government contracts because the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) had repeatedly cited the company for violations of the Wagner Act, but Knudsen had overruled Hillman ...
How exactly doesone demolish a spiky tetrahedron with wire and mines dangling offit? Along with those early units wentanother groupof specialists, the naval “spotters,”to scramble onshore toanearby hilland control the firefromthe ...
Davies has established himself as a preeminent scholar of World War II. No Simple Victory is an invaluable contribution to twentieth-century history and an illuminating portrait of a conflict that continues to provoke debate.
Describes the military history of the American Revolution and the grim realities of the eight-year conflict while offering descriptions of the major engagements on land and sea and the decisions that influenced the course of the war.