An Active Service

Author : Jesse Lemisch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Active Service in War and Peace written by Jesse Lemisch and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This essay was originally entitled 'Present-mindedness revisited: anti-radicalism as a goal of American historical writing since World War II.'" Includes bibliographical references.

Author : Henry L. Stimson
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473350662
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Active Services in Peace and War written by Henry L. Stimson and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry L. Stimson’s 1947 autobiography features an account of Stimson's 13 years' public service, and explores his actions, motives, and results in great detail. On Active Services in Peace and War is highly recommended for those with an interest in the life and work of this great American statesman, and would make for a worthy addition to any collection. The contents include: - Attorney for the Government - Roosevelt and Taft - Responsible Government - The World Changes - As Private Citizen - Governor General of the Philippines - Constructive Beginnings - The Beginnings of Disaster - The Far Eastern Crisis - The Tragedy of Timidity Henry Lewis Stimson (1867–1950) was an American politician who held many important governmental positions under numerous American presidents, including Herbert Hoover, Harry S. Truman, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Author : Richard Dorney
Publisher : Helion & Company Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781874622482
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Active Service written by Richard Dorney and published by Helion & Company Limited. This book was released on 2005 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Active Service' traces a young Sid Dowland from civilian life into the tough environment of the Guards Depot in the 1930's and then on to a Guards service Battalion in London and prewar Egypt. The outbreak of war found Sid taking part in the retreat to Dunkirk and then service in North Africa before volunteering for the SAS. Captured after a disastrous raid in Sardinia, he escaped from a POW camp in Italy before making it back to England. The end of the war did not signal peace as the Guards were sent into action in Palestine and subsequently to the jungles of Malaya where Sid found that his SAS experience is in great demand. Sid later told his story to Richard Dorney, himself a Guardsman. An Active Service is a tale of adventure but will be of interest to anyone studying the Second World War or the early days of the SAS. Most of the historical information is previously unpublished and much of it is drawn from SAS operation reports in the National Archives and from the war diaries of the Grenadier Guards. The lively text is accompanied by many previously unseen photographs from private collections and is brought to life by a series of high quality and accurate drawings depicting the uniforms of the day. It is an enjoyable human story but is also an accurate account of military life during the war years which will be of interest to anyone researching or studying this period, particularly those with an interest in the early days of the SAS, the world's premier élite force. Key sales points: Fascinating personal story of a member of the Grenadier Guards and SAS, covering pre-WWII service as a regular, Dunkirk, the early days of the SAS, and postwar Palestine and Malaya / Contains much previously unpublished information from archives and war diaries, as well as Sid's account of the early days of the SAS, and service with the Grenadier Guards / Lively text supplemented by a number of interesting photos and superb drawings by artist Sean Bolan.

Author : Stephen Crane (Schriftsteller, USA)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Active Service written by Stephen Crane (Schriftsteller, USA) and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matt Young
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1639732802
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book End of Active Service written by Matt Young and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A raw and rampaging debut novel from the author of the “inventive, unsparing, irreverent and consistently entertaining” (NYTBR) memoir Eat the Apple--the last phase of war for US veterans: returning home. What was it like? It's the only thing anyone wants to know about war--and the last thing Corporal Dean Pusey wants to talk about, at least not with one of these fat and happy civilians crowding the bar. Dean is two months free from the Marine Corps, and life back in his Indiana hometown is anything but peaceful. That's when the woman next to him offers to buy him a drink. Max is nice--gorgeous, funny, easy to talk to. Dean doesn't dare tell her about the sheep he took care of on his first deployment, only to watch it get torn to shreds by a pack of wild dogs; or the naked, shivering Iraqi teenager his platoon detained after an IED blast. He needs to leave all that behind and become a new person-the kind who sticks around when Max gets pregnant. He's white-knuckling it, trying to keep calm, and it's not easy. Harder still when his friend and comrade Ruiz starts showing up all over the place like he's been invited--like he didn't die a year ago. He has Max now, he has his baby daughter, River. He doesn't have time for ghosts. With his signature black humor, hard-eyed honesty, and stylistic ingenuity, Matt Young delivers a novel that turns the typical war story on its head--beginning not with enlistment but with retirement, and locating the life-or-death stakes not in battle, but in the domestic theaters of fatherhood, family, forgiveness, and love.

Author : Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scenes from the Life of a Soldier in Active Service written by Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Major-Gen. Sir Thomas Seaton K.C.B.
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786252015
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Cadet To Colonel: The Record Of A Life Of Active Service written by Major-Gen. Sir Thomas Seaton K.C.B. and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the tender age of 16 Thomas Seaton took up a cadestship in the East India Company in 1822, and waved farewell to his native London for a career of soldiering in India. He was to spend most of his life in the Indian sub-continent and its border regions, at the sharp end of the expansion of the British Empire. Plunged into a new world of sights and scenes of India Lieutenant Seaton of the 35th Native Infantry had little time to adjust before beginning his first major campaign at the bloody siege of the siege of Bhurtpore. A few years later, he was part of the very unsuccessful British incursion into Afghanistan in 1842, his memoirs as one of the besieged in Jalalabad are among the best that have ever been written. A decade later, as the first signs of Great Mutiny among were noticed among the native troops, Seaton’s superiors ordered him from his sick bed to take command of the 60th Native Infantry, a regiment that was known to be close to open revolt, despite Seaton's dest efforts the 60th mutinied and their British officers barely escaped with their lives. Seaton served with distinction at the siege of Delhi and after the fall of the city was sent with reinforcements to the beleagured Fatehgarh. In command of the forces that would soon be outnumbered, Colonel Seaton determined on a brave course of action; a night march followed by a surprize attack on the rebels. Colonel Seaton smashed the rebel troops leaving the entire area free from their influence. In this brilliant action he and his men “had marched, out and home, forty-four miles, had fought an action, defeating the enemy with considerable loss, and capturing their guns, ammunition, tents, stores, and baggage, and they had returned home safely with the captured guns, without leaving behind a single straggler, and, in spite of the tremendous heat, doing all in a little over twenty-two hours.”. A fine action packed memoir filled with vignettes and anecdotes of the British Raj.

Author : C. R. N. Burne
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book With the Naval Brigade in Natal, 1899-1900: Journal of Active Service written by C. R. N. Burne and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "With the Naval Brigade in Natal, 1899-1900: Journal of Active Service" by C. R. N. Burne. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Rolf Stadler
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540481001
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Active Technologies for Network and Service Management written by Rolf Stadler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-07-31 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series contains all papers accepted for presentation at the 10th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (DSOM’99), which took place at the ETH Zürich in Switzerland and was hosted by the Computer Engineering and Networking Laboratory, TIK. DSOM’99 is the tenth workshop in a series of annual workshops, and Zürich is proud to host this 10th anniversary of the IEEE/IFIP workshop. DSOM’99 follows highly successful meetings, the most recent of which took place in Delaware, U.S.A. (DSOM'98), Sydney, Australia (DSOM'97), and L’Aquila, Italy (DSOM'96). DSOM workshops attempt to bring together researchers from the area of network and service management in both industry and academia to discuss recent advancements and to foster further growth in this ?eld. In contrast to the larger management symposia IM (In- grated Network Management) and NOMS (Network Operations and Management S- posium), DSOM workshops follow a single-track program, in order to stimulate interaction and active participation. The speci?c focus of DSOM’99 is “Active Technologies for Network and Service Management,” re?ecting the current developments in the ?eld of active and program- ble networks, and about half of the papers in this workshop fall within this category.

Author : Egbert L. Viele
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hand-book for Active Service written by Egbert L. Viele and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: