Harvard's Military Record in the World War
Author: Frederick Sumner Mead
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 1168
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Harvard's Military Record in the World War
Author: Frederick Sumner Mead
Publisher:
Published: 1921
Total Pages: 1168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA War To Be Won
Author: Williamson Murray
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 736
ISBN-13: 0674041305
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChronicles the military operations and tactics of World War II in both the European and Pacific theaters from the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to the surrender of Japan in 1945.
Harvard's Military Record in the World War (Classic Reprint)
Author: Frederick Sumner Mead
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-11-29
Total Pages: 1166
ISBN-13: 9780332228846
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Harvard's Military Record in the World War To the loyal and efficient stafi of the othee are the editor's gratitude and thanks most due. He would especially mention with warmest appreciation Miss Fanny Chandler, Miss Madelon Chandler, Miss Dubois, Miss Harlow, Miss Magruder, Miss Richardson, Miss Whittlesey, and Miss Wilson. For nearly four years the othee worked faithfully and enthusiastically to make these records worthy of the men and of the University. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Somme
Author: Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2016-08-15
Total Pages: 680
ISBN-13: 0674545192
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe notion of battles as the irreducible building blocks of war demands a single verdict of each campaign—victory, defeat, stalemate. But this kind of accounting leaves no room to record the nuances and twists of actual conflict. In Somme: Into the Breach, the noted military historian Hugh Sebag-Montefiore shows that by turning our focus to stories of the front line—to acts of heroism and moments of both terror and triumph—we can counter, and even change, familiar narratives. Planned as a decisive strike but fought as a bloody battle of attrition, the Battle of the Somme claimed over a million dead or wounded in months of fighting that have long epitomized the tragedy and folly of World War I. Yet by focusing on the first-hand experiences and personal stories of both Allied and enemy soldiers, Hugh Sebag-Montefiore defies the customary framing of incompetent generals and senseless slaughter. In its place, eyewitness accounts relive scenes of extraordinary courage and sacrifice, as soldiers ordered “over the top” ventured into No Man’s Land and enemy trenches, where they met a hail of machine-gun fire, thickets of barbed wire, and exploding shells. Rescuing from history the many forgotten heroes whose bravery has been overlooked, and giving voice to their bereaved relatives at home, Hugh Sebag-Montefiore reveals the Somme campaign in all its glory as well as its misery, helping us to realize that there are many meaningful ways to define a battle when seen through the eyes of those who lived it.
The United States in World War I
Author: James T. Controvich
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2023-05-08
Total Pages: 657
ISBN-13: 0810883198
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the centennial of the First World War rapidly approaching, historian and bibliographer James T. Controvich offers in The United States in World War I: A Bibliographic Guide the most comprehensive, up-to-date reference bibliography yet published. Organized by subject, this bibliography includes the full range of sources: vintage publications of the time, books, pamphlets, periodical titles, theses, dissertations, and archival sources held by federal and state organizations, as well as those in public and private hands, including historical societies and museums. As Controvich’s bibliographic accounting makes clear, there were many facets of World War I that remain virtually unknown to this day. Throughout, Controvich’s bibliography tracks the primary sources that tell each of these stories—and many others besides—during this tense period in American history. Each entry lists the author, title, place of publication, publisher, date of publication, and page count as well as descriptive information concerning illustrations, plates, ports, maps, diagrams, and plans. The armed forces section carries additional information on rosters, awards, citations, and killed and wounded in action lists. The United States in World War I: A Bibliographic Guide is an ideal research tool for students and scholars of World War I and American history.
Freedom Struggles
Author: Adriane Lentz-Smith
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010-03-01
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 0674054180
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor many of the 200,000 black soldiers sent to Europe with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, encounters with French civilians and colonial African troops led them to imagine a world beyond Jim Crow. They returned home to join activists working to make that world real. In narrating the efforts of African American soldiers and activists to gain full citizenship rights as recompense for military service, Adriane Lentz-Smith illuminates how World War I mobilized a generation. Black and white soldiers clashed as much with one another as they did with external enemies. Race wars within the military and riots across the United States demonstrated the lengths to which white Americans would go to protect a carefully constructed caste system. Inspired by Woodrow Wilson’s rhetoric of self-determination but battered by the harsh realities of segregation, African Americans fought their own “war for democracy,” from the rebellions of black draftees in French and American ports to the mutiny of Army Regulars in Houston, and from the lonely stances of stubborn individuals to organized national campaigns. African Americans abroad and at home reworked notions of nation and belonging, empire and diaspora, manhood and citizenship. By war’s end, they ceased trying to earn equal rights and resolved to demand them. This beautifully written book reclaims World War I as a critical moment in the freedom struggle and places African Americans at the crossroads of social, military, and international history.
Five Lieutenants
Author: James Carl Nelson
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2012-11-13
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 1250018587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJames Carl Nelson tells the dramatic true story of five brilliant young soldiers from Harvard, a thrilling tale of combat and heroism. Five Lieutenants tells the story of five young Harvard men who took up the call to arms in the spring of 1917 and met differing fates in the maelstrom of battle on the Western Front in 1918. Delving deep into the motivations, horrific experiences, and ultimate fates of this Harvard-educated quintet—and by extension of the brilliant young officer class that left its collegiate and post-collegiate pursuits to enlist in the Army and lead America's rough-and-ready doughboys—Five Lieutenants presents a unique, timeless, and fascinating account of citizen soldiers at war, and of the price these extraordinary men paid while earnestly giving all they had in an effort to end "the war to end all wars." Drawing upon the subjects' intimate, eloquent, and uncensored letters and memoirs, this is a fascinating microcosm of the American experience in the First World War, and of the horrific experiences and hardships of the educated class of young men who were relied upon to lead doughboys in the trenches and, ultimately, in open battle.
Memoirs of the Harvard Dead in the War Against Germany
Author: Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe
Publisher:
Published: 1924
Total Pages: 794
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Author: Jonathan Reed Winkler
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-07
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 0674033906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn an illuminating study that blends diplomatic, military, technology, and business history, Winkler shows how U.S. officials during World War I discovered the enormous value of global communications. In this absorbing history, Winkler sheds light on the early stages of the global infrastructure that helped launch the United States as the predominant power of the century.
