Heroes Or Traitors

Author : Walter S. Dunn Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313051631
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heroes or Traitors written by Walter S. Dunn Jr. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-05-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a German victory became impossible, the July 1944 conspirators plotted to bring a quick end to the war, hoping to negotiate a peace with the Western allies and possibly to join them in a war against Russia. Because the Allies would not negotiate with Hitler, the plotters planned to assassinate him and seize control of the government, using the Replacement Army to overcome the S.S. and the Nazi Party. This army would also maintain order within Germany, a task that would require more than half-a-million trained men. The conspirators convinced key Replacement Army officers to withhold men from the Field Army in the spring of 1944 in preparation for taking over the country. The result was a German army that lacked enough reserve divisions to counter the invasion of France and the Red Army attack in Russia. Although the plotters failed to kill Hitler, they hastened the war's end by weakening the German army. Dunn examines the 1944 July Plot from a manpower and logistics perspective to demonstrate that the conspirators did, in fact, achieve their goal of hastening the war's end.

Author : John Bakeless
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN 13 : 9780353350243
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turncoats Traitors and Heroes written by John Bakeless and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-11 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : John Bakeless
Publisher : Philadelphia : Lippincott
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turncoats, Traitors, and Heroes written by John Bakeless and published by Philadelphia : Lippincott. This book was released on 1960 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Military Intelligence Branch History Reading List.

Author : Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heroes written by Lucy Hughes-Hallett and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 2004 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of heroism and of hero worship throughout history ranges from the ancient Trojan war to the twentieth century.

Author : Paul Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781381615
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heroes Or Traitors? written by Paul Taylor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the experiences of Irish soldiers returning from the Great War to the part of Ireland that became the Irish Free State covering the period from the Armistice to 1939.

Author : Martin Garbus
Publisher : Atheneum Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traitors and Heroes written by Martin Garbus and published by Atheneum Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this memoir Garbus, a human rights activist and trial attorney, celebrates the lives of men who have shown inexhaustible moral courage in the face of persecution for expressing their ideas. South African poet Breton Breytonbach, Soviet dissidents Anatoly Scharansky and Andrei Sakharov, and supporters of former Chilean president Allende were all prosecuted in ``show trials.'' The trials were meant to prove that the government in power was a land of laws, but instead showed the government's disdain for human rights. Garbus also discusses political dissent in the United States, and the way, he believes, our government has used the catch-phrase ``national security'' to try to limit free speech. Highly recommended. Sandra K. Lindheimer, Middlesex Law Lib., Cambridge, Mass. Copyright 1987 Cahners Business Information.

Author : Thomas L. Poteet
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781500396527
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heroes Or Traitors written by Thomas L. Poteet and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Poteet was watching the evening news and saw a preview for a forthcoming evening-news special. The preview portrayed a popular evening news anchors speaking with a young man who had stolen secrets from the U.S. government and had given them to a foreign news outlet. The young man was no longer living in the United States. He was being shielded by another nation. In the preview, there was an inference that this young man might be a hero . . . might have done something worthy and heroic in giving away how this nation collects its intelligence. Tom turned off the news. The implication that a traitor could be a hero was more than he wanted to hear. Poteet's thoughts turned to the following questions: 1.Who should be considered a hero? What behaviors are we looking for in our fellow citizens? 2.Why does the government not explain how it develops the offensive and defensive capabilities needed for current and future conflicts with our adversaries? There are no secrets related to how we, as a nation, develop our offensive and defensive capabilities in order to protect and defend our citizens and warfighters. The processes and philosophy are a matter of public record. 3.Why are we not more concerned, as citizens, with weapons of mass destruction over systems for mass intelligence? Who do we think are watching over all of these offensive and defensive capabilities; or do we think anyone is watching over them at all? 4.Why do the media make us think the government is listening in on everything we say? Is that even possible? 5.Is there a better way for an individual, who truly believes they are a patriot, to get the attention they feel they deserve in presenting what they believe is unfair? Poteet decided to answer each of these questions in the following treatise . . . based on his experience working at the Department of Defense (DoD) and at NSA. His answers are short . . . with the hope that they will spur further conversation. Poteet does not expect all to agree with his answers . . . He simply prefers to get a different conversation started.

Author : Matthew Landis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510707387
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book League of American Traitors written by Matthew Landis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it . . . When seventeen year-old Jasper is approached at the funeral of his deadbeat father by a man claiming to be an associate of his deceased parents, he’s thrust into a world of secrets tied to America’s history—and he’s right at the heart of it. First, Jasper finds out he is the sole surviving descendant of Benedict Arnold, the most notorious traitor in American history. Then he learns that his father’s death was no accident. Jasper is at the center of a war that has been going on for centuries, in which the descendants of the heroes and traitors of the American Revolution still duel to the death for the sake of their honor. His only hope to escape his dangerous fate on his eighteenth birthday? Take up the research his father was pursuing at the time of his death, to clear Arnold’s name. Whisked off to a boarding school populated by other descendants of notorious American traitors, it’s a race to discover the truth. But if Jasper doesn’t find a way to uncover the evidence his father was hunting for, he may end up paying for the sins of his forefathers with his own life. Like a mash-up of National Treasure and Hamilton, Matthew Landis’s debut spins the what-ifs of American history into a heart-pounding thriller steeped in conspiracy, clue hunting, and danger.

Author : Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593511395
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Valiant Ambition written by Nathaniel Philbrick and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller Winner of the George Washington Prize A surprising account of the middle years of the American Revolution and the tragic relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold, from the New York Times bestselling author of In The Heart of the Sea, Mayflower, and In the Hurricane's Eye. "May be one of the greatest what-if books of the age—a volume that turns one of America’s best-known narratives on its head.”—Boston Globe "Clear and insightful, [Valiant Ambition] consolidates Philbrick's reputation as one of America's foremost practitioners of narrative nonfiction."—Wall Street Journal In the second book of his acclaimed American Revolution series, Nathaniel Philbrick turns to the tragic relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold. In September 1776, the vulnerable Continental army under an unsure George Washington evacuated New York after a devastating defeat by the British army. Three weeks later, one of his favorite generals, Benedict Arnold, miraculously succeeded in postponing the British naval advance down Lake Champlain that might have lost the war. As this book ends, four years later Washington has vanquished his demons, and Arnold has fled to the enemy. America was forced at last to realize that the real threat to its liberties might not come from without but from withinComplex, controversial, and dramatic, Valiant Ambition is a portrait of a people in crisis and the war that gave birth to a nation.

Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: