Defeat From The Jaws Of Victory

Author : David W. Wragg
Publisher : Sutton Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780750924740
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory written by David W. Wragg and published by Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At many points in the 20th century, failures in command or political direction have resulted in military campaigns and operations failing to achieve their objectives. This text explores a selection of such instances including Pearl Harbor, the Bay of Pigs, the Falklands and Serbia in 1999.

Author : Richard Heffernan
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9780860915614
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defeat from the Jaws of Victory written by Richard Heffernan and published by Verso. This book was released on 1992 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using original research from archives, interviews with MPs and party officials, and first hand testimonies from grass roots activists, the authors go behind the scenes to name names, record the votes, and lay bare the machinations of those who led the Labour Party to electoral defeat in 1992.

Author : William Safire
Publisher : Avon Books
ISBN 13 : 9780380564576
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Language written by William Safire and published by Avon Books. This book was released on 1981 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes chapters on slang, jargon, and neologisms.

Author : Matthew Kroenig
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190080248
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Return of Great Power Rivalry written by Matthew Kroenig and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to answer to a central international politics: why do great powers rise and fall? It provides an innovative argument about how domestic political institutions are the key to a state's ability to amass power and influence in the international system. This text also offers a sweeping historical analysis of democratic and autocratic competitors from ancient Greece through the Cold War. This book employs a unique framework to understand and analyze the state of today's competition between the democratic United States and its autocratic competitors, Russia and China.

Author : Dominic D. P. Johnson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674039173
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Failing to Win written by Dominic D. P. Johnson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do people decide which country came out ahead in a war or a crisis? Why, for instance, was the Mayaguez Incident in May 1975--where 41 U.S. soldiers were killed and dozens more wounded in a botched hostage rescue mission--perceived as a triumph and the 1992-94 U.S. humanitarian intervention in Somalia, which saved thousands of lives, viewed as a disaster? In Failing to Win, Dominic Johnson and Dominic Tierney dissect the psychological factors that predispose leaders, media, and the public to perceive outcomes as victories or defeats--often creating wide gaps between perceptions and reality. To make their case, Johnson and Tierney employ two frameworks: "Scorekeeping," which focuses on actual material gains and losses; and "Match-fixing," where evaluations become skewed by mindsets, symbolic events, and media and elite spin. In case studies ranging from the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and the current War on Terror, the authors show that much of what we accept about international politics and world history is not what it seems--and why, in a time when citizens offer or withdraw support based on an imagined view of the outcome rather than the result on the ground, perceptions of success or failure can shape the results of wars, the fate of leaders, and the "lessons" we draw from history.

Author : Jonathan Leaf
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1596981202
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Sixties written by Jonathan Leaf and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready to break on through to the other side as critically-acclaimed playwright and journalist Jonathan Leaf reveals the politically incorrect truth about one of the most controversial decades in historythe 1960s.

Author : Matt García
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520283856
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Jaws of Victory written by Matt García and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Jaws of Victory:The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement is the most comprehensive history ever written on the meteoric rise and precipitous decline of the United Farm Workers, the most successful farm labor union in United States history. Based on little-known sources and one-of-a-kind oral histories with many veterans of the farm worker movement, this book revises much of what we know about the UFW. Matt Garcia’s gripping account of the expansion of the union’s grape boycott reveals how the boycott, which UFW leader Cesar Chavez initially resisted, became the defining feature of the movement and drove the growers to sign labor contracts in 1970. Garcia vividly relates how, as the union expanded and the boycott spread across the United States, Canada, and Europe, Chavez found it more difficult to organize workers and fend off rival unions. Ultimately, the union was a victim of its own success and Chavez’s growing instability. From the Jaws of Victory delves deeply into Chavez’s attitudes and beliefs, and how they changed over time. Garcia also presents in-depth studies of other leaders in the UFW, including Gilbert Padilla, Marshall Ganz, Dolores Huerta, and Jerry Cohen. He introduces figures such as the co-coordinator of the boycott, Jerry Brown; the undisputed leader of the international boycott, Elaine Elinson; and Harry Kubo, the Japanese American farmer who led a successful campaign against the UFW in the mid-1970s.

Author : Robert R. Owens
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 1594672954
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America Won the Vietnam War!, Or, How the Left Snatched Defeat from the Jaws of Victory written by Robert R. Owens and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan A. Noyalas
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614230412
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battle of Cedar Creek: Victory from the Jaws of Defeat written by Jonathan A. Noyalas and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-07 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nestled between the Allegheny and Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia's Shenandoah Valley enjoyed tremendous prosperity before the Civil War. This valuable stretch of land--called the Breadbasket of the Confederacy due to its rich soil and ample harvests--became the source of many conflicts between the Confederate and Union armies. Of the thirteen major battles fought here, none was more influential than the Battle of Cedar Creek. On October 19, 1864, General Philip Sheridan's Union troops finally gained control of the valley, which eliminated the Shenandoah as a supply source for Confederate forces in Virginia, ended the valley's role as a diversionary theater of war and stopped its use as an avenue of invasion into the North. Civil War historian, preservationist, and author Jonathan A. Noyalas explains the battle and how it aided Abraham Lincoln's reelection campaign and defined Sheridan's enduring legacy.

Author : Andrew Villalon
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004345809
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Win and Lose a Medieval Battle written by Andrew Villalon and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2019 Brigadier General James L. Collins Jr. Prize In To Win and Lose a Medieval Battle, Andrew Villalon and Donald Kagay provide a full treatment of one of the major battles of the Hundred Years War. The authors have investigated the background to Nájera, traced its immediate events, and laid out its effects on Iberia and the principal adversaries in the Hundred Years War.