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Author: Robert P. Broadwater
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780865548213
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Battle of Despair examines Johnston's struggle to create an army with which to oppose Sherman, the long odds Johnston faced, and the eventual surrender of that army - the largest body of Confederate men to surrender at the end of the war."--Jacket.
Author: David Silkenat
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2011-03-07
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 0807877956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the Civil War era, black and white North Carolinians were forced to fundamentally reinterpret the morality of suicide, divorce, and debt as these experiences became pressing issues throughout the region and nation. In Moments of Despair, David Silkenat explores these shifting sentiments. Antebellum white North Carolinians stigmatized suicide, divorce, and debt, but the Civil War undermined these entrenched attitudes, forcing a reinterpretation of these issues in a new social, cultural, and economic context in which they were increasingly untethered from social expectations. Black North Carolinians, for their part, used emancipation to lay the groundwork for new bonds of community and their own interpretation of social frameworks. Silkenat argues that North Carolinians' attitudes differed from those of people outside the South in two respects. First, attitudes toward these cultural practices changed more abruptly and rapidly in the South than in the rest of America, and second, the practices were interpreted through a prism of race. Drawing upon a robust and diverse body of sources, including insane asylum records, divorce petitions, bankruptcy filings, diaries, and personal correspondence, this innovative study describes a society turned upside down as a consequence of a devastating war.
Author: Ed Boland
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2016-02-09
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 145556060X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this insightfully honest and moving memoir about the realities of teaching in an inner-city school, Ed Boland "smashes the dangerous myth of the hero-teacher [and] shows us how high the stakes are for our most vulnerable students" (Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black). In a fit of idealism, Ed Boland left a twenty-year career as a non-profit executive to teach in a tough New York City public high school. But his hopes quickly collided headlong with the appalling reality of his students' lives and a hobbled education system unable to help them. Freddy runs a drug ring for his incarcerated brother; Nee-cole is homeschooled on the subway by her brilliant homeless mother; Byron's Ivy League dream is dashed because he is undocumented. In the end, Boland isn't hoisted on his students' shoulders and no one passes AP anything. This is no urban fairy tale of at-risk kids saved by a Hollywood hero, but a searing indictment of schools that claim to be progressive but still fail their students. Told with compassion, humor, and a keen eye, Boland's story is sure to ignite debate about the future of American education and attempts to reform it.
Author: Scott Bowden
Publisher:
Published: 2017-06-01
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780692867426
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert E. Lee at War: Hope Arises from Despair, by Scott Bowden, addresses the titanic struggle for Richmond in the Seven Days Campaign of 1862 between Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and George McClellan's Army of the Potomac. In addition to an analysis of this decisive campaign, the author provides an in-depth study of the conceptual and philosophical underpinnings of Lee's generalship.
Author: Bob Welch
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-04-27
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1684510333
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A true 'Band of brothers' story"--Dust jacket.
Author: Robert Zubrin
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2012-02-28
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 1594035695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere was a time when humanity looked in the mirror and saw something precious, worth protecting and fighting for—indeed, worth liberating. But now, we are beset on all sides by propaganda promoting a radically different viewpoint. According to this idea, human beings are a cancer upon the Earth, a horde of vermin whose aspirations and appetites are endangering the natural order. This is the core of antihumanism. Merchants of Despair traces the pedigree of this ideology and exposes its pernicious consequences in startling and horrifying detail. The book names the chief prophets and promoters of antihumanism over the last two centuries, from Thomas Malthus through Paul Ehrlich and Al Gore. It exposes the worst crimes perpetrated by the antihumanist movement, including eugenics campaigns in the United States and genocidal anti-development and population-control programs around the world. Combining riveting tales from history with powerful policy arguments, Merchants of Despair provides scientific refutations to all of antihumanism’s major pseudo-scientific claims, including its modern tirades against nuclear power, pesticides, population growth, biotech foods, resource depletion, and industrial development.
Author: Scott Bowden
Publisher:
Published: 2013-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780985357221
DOWNLOAD EBOOKROBERT E. LEE AT WAR is a multi-volume study sure to become an indispensable account of Lee's war years. The focus of the series is to evaluate, as never done before, Lee's tenure as army commander, and to capture him as never before through ground-breaking analysis and contextualization. As a result, this title presents a fresh and compelling portrait of the true warrior that is sure to illuminate his legacy for generations to come. AUTHOR: Scott Bowden is a graduate of Texas Christian University and is the award-winning author of numerous books on Napoleonic and American Civil War military history. His Last Chance for Victory: Robert E. Lee and the Gettysburg Campaign, is acclaimed as one of the most compelling and riveting military history books of our age, receiving awards, and accolades: Required reading at U. S. Army School for Advanced Military Studies, Command and General Staff College Named to the Chief of Staff, U. S. Air Force, recommended Reading List Winner of five distinguished literary awards, including the Douglas Southall Freeman American History Award. Building upon the historiography and the award-winning analysis displayed in Last Chance for Victory, Bowden brings the legendary American to life. Robert E. Lee at War reconstructs Lee's momentous decisions and actions that combine to create a gripping narrative of unprecedented scope. Fully supported with a lavish array of maps, diagrams, vintage photographs and illustrations, Robert E. Lee at War will be a beautiful and indispensable addition to any library. ILLUSTRATIONS: Colour & b/w photographs
Author: William Shakespeare
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Published: 1891
Total Pages: 1286
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Published: 1877
Total Pages: 1210
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Cornelius Ryan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-02-16
Total Pages: 749
ISBN-13: 1439127018
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe classic account of the final offensive against Hitler’s Third Reich. The Battle for Berlin was the culminating struggle of World War II in the European theater, the last offensive against Hitler’s Third Reich, which devastated one of Europe’s historic capitals and marked the final defeat of Nazi Germany. It was also one of the war’s bloodiest and most pivotal battles, whose outcome would shape international politics for decades to come. The Last Battle is Cornelius Ryan’s compelling account of this final battle, a story of brutal extremes, of stunning military triumph alongside the stark conditions that the civilians of Berlin experienced in the face of the Allied assault. As always, Ryan delves beneath the military and political forces that were dictating events to explore the more immediate imperatives of survival, where, as the author describes it, “to eat had become more important than to love, to burrow more dignified than to fight, to exist more militarily correct than to win.” The Last Battle is the story of ordinary people, both soldiers and civilians, caught up in the despair, frustration, and terror of defeat. It is history at its best, a masterful illumination of the effects of war on the lives of individuals, and one of the enduring works on World War II.
