Architect Of Victory

Author : Walter Reid
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857901249
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architect of Victory written by Walter Reid and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas Haig's popular image as an unimaginative butcher is unenviable and unmerited. In fact, he masterminded a British-led victory over a continental opponent on a scale that has never been matched before or since. Contrary to myth, Haig was not a cavalry-obsessed, blinkered conservative, as satirised in Oh! What a Lovely War and Blackadder Goes Forth. Fascinated by technology, he pressed for the use of tanks, enthusiastically embraced air power, and encouraged the use of new techniques involving artillery and machine-guns. Above all, he presided over a change in infantry tactics from almost total reliance on the rifle towards all-arms, multi-weapons techniques that formed the basis of British army tactics until the 1970s. Prior re-evaluations of Haig's achievements have largely been limited to monographs and specialist writings. Walter Reid has written the first biography of Haig that takes into account modern military scholarship, giving a more rounded picture of the private man than has previously been available. What emerges is a picture of a comprehensible human being, not necessarily particularly likeable, but honourably ambitious, able and intelligent, and the man more than any other responsible for delivering victory in 1918.

Author : Roger K. Lewis
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262621212
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architect? written by Roger K. Lewis and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architect? addresses issues and concerns of relevance to students choosing among different types of programme, schools, firms and architectural career paths, and explores both the up-side and the down-side to the profession.

Author : Richard W. Harrison
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786448975
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architect of Soviet Victory in World War II written by Richard W. Harrison and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-04-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Red Army's leading operational theorist in the 1930s, Georgii Samoilovich Isserson was the mastermind behind the "deep operation"--the cornerstone of Soviet offensive operations in World War II. Drawing from an in-depth analysis of Isserson's numerous published and unpublished works, his arrest file in the former KGB archives, and interviews with his family, this book provides the first full-length biography of the man. The bulk of the narrative deals with the flowering of his intellectual talents from 1929 through 1941. Additional chapters deal with Isserson's arrest and his remaining 35 years, 14 of which were spent in labor camps and internal exile.

Author : Robert P. Madison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578437453
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Designing Victory written by Robert P. Madison and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designing Victory tracks Madison from his native Cleveland and several points further south in his extraordinary journey to a first-class education in domestic and international institutions. One prize at the end of Madison's struggles was an opportunity to collaborate with and learn from virtually every one of the twentieth century's most storied architects, including Le Corbusier, Philip Johnson, Walter Gropius, and I.M. Pei. Among Madison's signature design achievements are the U.S. Embassy in Dakar, Senegal, the Engineering & Nuclear Facility at Tuskegee Institute, and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.Designing Victory also recounts Madison's adventures in love and war-he's a Buffalo Soldier and a Purple Heart medal awardee-and explores his rise to become a cultural and civic leader in Cleveland. Designing Victory tells the tale of a talented, courageous man who learned early on how to win the long game and become one of the most celebrated living architects by refusing to listen to those who told him that a black architect would starve.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architect written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 974 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architect written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Owen D Pomery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910395806
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victory Point written by Owen D Pomery and published by . This book was released on 2024-06-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a summer's day, Ellen returns to the coastal town she grew up in: Victory Point. Revisiting old haunts and people from her past, she feels increasingly disconnected from her previous life, and exhausted by her constant struggle to forge a path ahead. Exploring the town, Ellen searches for some comfort in her own history that could give her the strength to move forward in her own life. Victory Point explores the concept of how we live and choose to be remembered, asking whether we should strive for a higher calling, or if a simple, domestic legacy is the most honest and admirable achievement we can hope for. Set in a town that is itself an architectural experiment, this graphic novel is a poignant and heartfelt search for meaning in life.

Author : Peter J. Dean
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521766852
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architect of Victory written by Peter J. Dean and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lieutenant General Sir Frank Berryman is one of the most important, yet relatively unknown officers in the history of the Australian Army. Despite his reputedly caustic personality and noted conflicts with some senior officers, Berryman was crucial to Australia's success during the Second World War. But did the man known as 'Berry the Bastard' deserve his reputation? Bold, calculating and talented, Berryman was at the forefront of operations that led to the defeat of the Japanese, and his operational planning secured Australia's victories at Bardia, Tobruk and in New Guinea during the Pacific War. With access to rare private papers, Peter Dean charts Berryman's special relationships with senior US and Australian officers such as MacArthur, Chamberlin, Blamey, Lavarack and Morshead, and explains why the man poised to become the next Chief of General Staff would never fulfil his ambition.

Author : Walter Curt Behrendt
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892365630
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Victory of the New Building Style written by Walter Curt Behrendt and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book-Behrendt's principle theoretical work in German and the precursor to Modern Building- presents a revisionist concept of style that places equal emphasis on form and function. Now available in English for the first time, this incisive treatise boldly advocates international modernism to the general public.

Author : Geoffrey Roberts
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 1400066921
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stalin's General written by Geoffrey Roberts and published by Random House Incorporated. This book was released on 2012 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major profile of the Soviet general credited with a decisive role in key World War II victories compares his legend with his achievements while surveying his eventful post-war experiences as Krushchev's disgraced defense minister. 15,000 first printing.