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Author : Brian Garfield
Publisher : Bantam Books
ISBN 13 : 9780553251944
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)
Download or read book Thousand-Mile War written by Brian Garfield and published by Bantam Books. This book was released on 1981-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Garfield
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1602231176
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)
Download or read book Thousand-Mile War written by Brian Garfield and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thousand-Mile War, a powerful story of the battles of the United States and Japan on the bitter rim of the North Pacific, has been acclaimed as one of the great accounts of World War II. Brian Garfield, a novelist and screenwriter whose works have sold some 20 million copies, was searching for a new subject when he came upon the story of this "forgotten war" in Alaska. He found the history of the brave men who had served in the Aleutians so compelling and so little known that he wrote the first full-length history of the Aleutian campaign, and the book remains a favorite among Alaskans. The war in the Aleutians was fought in some of the worst climatic conditions on earth for men, ships, and airplanes. The sea was rough, the islands craggy and unwelcoming, and enemy number one was always the weather--the savage wind, fog, and rain of the Aleutian chain. The fog seemed to reach even into the minds of the military commanders on both sides, as they directed men into situations that so often had tragic results. Frustrating, befuddling, and still the subject of debate, the Aleutian campaign nevertheless marked an important turn of the war in favor of the United States. Now, half a century after the war ended, more of the fog has been lifted. In the updated University of Alaska Press edition, Garfield supplements his original account, which was drawn from statistics, personal interviews, letters, and diaries, with more recently declassified photographs and many more illustrations.
Author : Brian Garfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Thousand-mile War written by Brian Garfield and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the Aleutian campaign fought for fifteen months in 1942-43.
Author : Brian Garfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)
Download or read book The thousandmile war written by Brian Garfield and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Garfield, Robert
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 9780345221520
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)
Download or read book Thousand Mile War written by Garfield, Robert and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1971-06-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Muir
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (Illustrated Edition) written by John Muir and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "JOHN MUIR, Earth-planet, Universe."—These words are written on the inside cover of the notebook from which the contents of this volume have been taken. They reflect the mood in which the late author and explorer undertook his thousand-mile walk to the Gulf of Mexico. No less does this refreshingly cosmopolitan address, which might have startled any finder of the book, reveal the temper and the comprehensiveness of Mr. Muir's mind. He never was and never could be a parochial student of nature. In September 1867, Muir undertook a walk of about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from Kentucky to Florida, which he recounted in his book A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf. He had no specific route chosen, except to go by the "wildest, leafiest, and least trodden way I could find."
Author : Fern Chandonnet
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1602231354
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)
Download or read book Alaska at War, 1941-1945 written by Fern Chandonnet and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2007-09-15 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the past two hundred years, only one United States territory has experienced foreign occupation: Alaska. Available for the first time in paperback, Alaska at War brings readers face to face with the North Pacific front in World War II. Wide-ranging essays cover the war as seen by Alaskan eyes, including the Japanese invasion of the Attu and Kiska islands, the effects of the war on Aleutian Islanders, and the American campaign to recover occupied territory. Whether you’re a historian or a novice student interested in this pivotal period of American history, Alaska at War provides fascinating insight into the background, history, and cultural impact of war on the Alaskan homefront.
Author : Brendan M. Greeley
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781603440080
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Two Thousand Yard Stare written by Brendan M. Greeley and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "El Paso artist Tom Lea was commissioned by Life Magazine to paint the war as it was being experienced by U.S. and Allied soldiers, sailors, and airmen. Along with his sketchbook, Lea carried on these assignments his "record of work", a notebook in which he recorded observations and details on the images he hoped to create from the events he had seen." "Brendan M. Greeley, Jr. has collected virtually all of Tom Lea's firsthand accounts of his assignments for Life, along with his powerful sketches and unforgettable paintings, and placed them in context, along with photographs and research focusing on the people, places, and wartime events encountered by Tom Lea. Drawing on previously unpublished sources - the artist's diary, letters to the Texas historian J. Frank. Dobie, oral interviews, and archival materials from Texas and national collections - Greeley presents in The Two Thousand Yard Stare a uniquely comprehensive and sustained treatment of Lea's creative accomplishments during World War II." "This well-documented and astonishingly illustrated volume will fascinate those interested in the realistic depiction of war, in both images and words. Also a must-read for students, scholars, and collectors of the artist's work, The Two Thousand Yard Stare: Tom Lea's World War II is a brilliant compendium of the work and thought of one of America's most compelling painters and writers."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Precious McKenzie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781681917764
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Thousand Miles written by Precious McKenzie and published by . This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Cherokee boy and his family are forced to leave their home when the Indian Removal Act is enforced.
Author : W. E. Crosskill
Publisher : Robert Hale
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Two Thousand Mile War written by W. E. Crosskill and published by Robert Hale. This book was released on 1980 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A first hand critical account of one of the most important, but least known, campaigns of the Second World War; that in East Africa and Abyssinia during 1940-41. While massive Italian forces remained there intact, they were a threat to the left flank of the British army in the Western Desert."--Jacket.
