Salient Days

Author : Elisie Medina
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1452040451
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Salient Days written by Elisie Medina and published by Author House. This book was released on 2005-03-13 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boredom never set in. She raised her six children while maintaining a family business of real estate and rentals. She painted far into the early morning hours after a long day behind the counter at Montgomery Ward. At age 51, she undertook and earned a Science degree from Pan American University in Edinburg. She and her husband travel the world studying cultures, collecting fine art, photographing wildlife, bird-watching. They began early this year to celebrate their golden anniversary. Staying busy keeps the couple young, and retirement is viewed as something for old people, something far into the future.

Author : Mark Healy
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750979577
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zitadelle written by Mark Healy and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few battles attract interest so much as the Battle of Kursk. Operation Zitadelle, the code name given by Hitler to the Wehrmacht's last offensive on the Eastern Front in July 1943, has acquired an almost mythic status as one of the greatest clashes of armour in the history of warfare. Long been depicted as the 'the swan song of the German tank arm' by virtue of the huge tank losses experienced by the Germans; the reality, in light of the emergence of new information proved it to be anything but, with historians previously accepting without question exaggerated Soviet accounts of the battle. For all the resources devoted to this operation by the Germans, Zitadelle was an abysmal failure; and whilst they were not outfought by the Red Army at Kursk, they were out-thought by commanders of outstanding quality. Zitadelle describes the German and Soviet tactics and explores the realities of the battles on sodden ground that culminated in the defeat of the panzers and the Soviet advance on the Reich.

Author : Rachel Carson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618249060
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silent Spring written by Rachel Carson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential, cornerstone book of modern environmentalism is now offered in a handsome 40th anniversary edition which features a new Introduction by activist Terry Tempest Williams and a new Afterword by Carson biographer Linda Lear.

Author : Elsie Medina
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781418499693
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Salient Days written by Elsie Medina and published by . This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boredom never set in. She raised her six children while maintaining a family business of real estate and rentals. She painted far into the early morning hours after a long day behind the counter at Montgomery Ward. At age 51, she undertook and earned a Science degree from Pan American University in Edinburg. She and her husband travel the world studying cultures, collecting fine art, photographing wildlife, bird-watching. They began early this year to celebrate their golden anniversary. Staying busy keeps the couple young, and retirement is viewed as something for old people, something far into the future.

Author : Ewart Vincent Tempest
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Sixth Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment written by Ewart Vincent Tempest and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
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Download or read book Scientific American written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cornélis De Witt Willcox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Military Digest written by Cornélis De Witt Willcox and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Musaicum Books
ISBN 13 : 8075833457
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Days to Remember - The British Empire in the Great War (Illustrated Edition) written by John Buchan and published by Musaicum Books. This book was released on 2017-06-21 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is never easy to fix upon one cause as the origin of a great war, and the war of 1914 was the outcome of several causes combined. For twenty years there had been growing up in Europe a sense of insecurity; the great Powers had become restless and suspicious of one another . . . (Excerpt) The British Army during World War I fought the largest and most costly war in its long history. Unlike the French and German Armies, its units were made up exclusively of volunteers—as opposed to conscripts—at the beginning of the conflict. Furthermore, the British Army was considerably smaller than its French and German counterparts. Yet the army showed exemplary valour and courage on the battlefield. Buchan and Newbolt bring their expert analysis into their overview of the Great War and the reasons for it. John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian and also served as Canada's Governor General. With the outbreak of the First World War, Buchan worked as a correspondent in France for The Times. Sir Henry John Newbolt (1862–1938) was an English poet, novelist and historian. He also had a very powerful role as a government adviser. He is perhaps best remembered for his poems "Vitaï Lampada" and "Drake's Drum".

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Prince of Wales' Civil Service Rifles written by Anonymous and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-27 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The History of the Prince of Wales' Civil Service Rifles," authored anonymously, delves into the rich and storied history of this esteemed regiment. While the author remains unknown, the book likely offers a comprehensive account of the regiment's formation, its role in significant events, and the valor of its members. Military enthusiasts and historians will find this work invaluable for understanding the contributions of the Prince of Wales' Civil Service Rifles to the broader context of military history.

Author : Everard Wyrall
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1781506434
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The West Yorkshire Regiment in the War 1914-1918 Vol 1 written by Everard Wyrall and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2013-02-25 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another weighty regimental history, two volumes, 820 pages in all covering the record of twenty-two battalions in France, Flanders, Italy and Gallipoli (all of them served on the Western Front). When war broke out the regiment consisted of two Regular battalions (1st and 2nd), two Special Reserve (3rd and 4th) and four Territorial battalions (5th to 8th); the 1st Battalion went to France with 6th Division in September 1914, the 2nd Battalion came home from Malta to join the newly formed 8th Division (Regular) and went to France in November 1914. Both battalions remained in the same brigades (18th and 23rd) and divisions throughout the war. The four Territorial battalions each formed a 2nd and a 3rd line battalion; the four original battalions made up the 146th Brigade, 49th (West Riding) Division, arriving in France in April 1915, the second line battalions combined to make the 185th Brigade, 62nd (2nd West Riding) Division which arrived in France in January 1917. Kitchener's call to arms resulted in eleven Service battalions being raised, 9th to 18th (the 17th was formed as a Bantam battalion) and 21st; of these only 13th and 14th did not go on active service. The 21st Battalion became a Pioneer battalion in 4th Division and the 22nd was a Labour battalion which also went to France. This history records events in chronological order, the dates of the operations being described are shown in the margin as are the identities of the battalions involved. Volume 1 (x + 355pp with 18 maps and 15 b/w photos) covers the period from the outbreak of war to the end of 1916, the close of the Somme offensive and includes the Dardanelles campaign where the 9th Battalion was in action with the 11th (Northern) Division. On 1st July 1916, the first day of the Somme, the 10th Battalion attacked at Fricourt and incurred the heaviest casualties of any battalion - 710, of whom 307 were killed including the CO, 2IC, adjutant and two company commanders. More than half of them are in in Fricourt New Military Cemetery which is in the No Man's Land across which they attacked and where they died. The CO (Lt Col Dickson) and his adjutant (Capt Shann) lie side by side. There is a Roll of Honour for the period covered in which the other ranks are listed alphabetically by battalions as are the Territorial battalion officers; the other officers are shown in one group in alphabetical order with the battalion number in front of the name. Although the note at the head of the officer casualty list states that the theatre in which death occurred is France and Flanders unless otherwise indicated, nonetheless 'Gallipoli' is not shown against the names of the officers of the 9th Battalion who died there, and so one is left with the wrong impression they died on the Western front.