MILITARY BIOGRAPHY OF GENERALISSIMO
Author: RAFAEL L. TRUJILLOMOLINA
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 230
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Author: RAFAEL L. TRUJILLOMOLINA
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 230
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ernesto Vega Y. Pagan
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Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781258892517
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Author: Ernesto Vega y. Pagan
Publisher:
Published: 2009-07
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781104835590
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author: Ernesto Vega i Pagán
Publisher:
Published: 1956
Total Pages: 220
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Norman H. Finkelstein
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9780875183961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovers the life and career of the U.S. Army five-star general from his early life in various military outposts to a career in two World Wars.
Author: Boris Gorbachevskiĭ
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781909384255
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new book from the author of Through the Maelstrom: A Red Army Soldier's War on the Eastern Front reveals a bitter truth about that war, which has thrown neo-Stalinists in Russia today into a fury. A frontline veteran who survived the most savage and continuous fighting of the Second World War refutes one of the primary Soviet myths: that it was Stalin's "brilliant strategic mind" and his "invaluable contributions" that brought about the eventual victory. Partially relying on his own frontline experience in fighting from Rzhev 1942 to Königsburg 1945, the author argues that the Red Army emerged victorious from the war in spite of the Kremlin tyrant, who never spared his soldiers' lives and who recognized only one strategy: to break the Wehrmacht's resistance by overloading it with the corpses of Red Army soldiers. He maintains that it was the people who won the war, but Stalin stole the mantle of victory and donned it himself after the war. Gorbachevsky goes on to argue that the Soviet regime and recent official Russian estimates deliberately understated the staggering true cost of that victory, and reveals the scandalous official mistreatment of returning prisoners-of-war, neglect of war invalids and disregard of the millions of soldiers' remains lying in shallow, unmarked, often fraternal graves and the millions more still listed as "missing-in-action" - all of which show the Stalinist system's disdain for human life.
Author: Jay Taylor
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-04-15
Total Pages: 737
ISBN-13: 0674033388
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the most momentous stories of the last century is China’s rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that promises to one day rival the United States. Chiang Kai-shek, an autocratic, larger-than-life figure, dominates this story. A modernist as well as a neo-Confucianist, Chiang was a man of war who led the most ancient and populous country in the world through a quarter century of bloody revolutions, civil conflict, and wars of resistance against Japanese aggression. In 1949, when he was defeated by Mao Zedong—his archrival for leadership of China—he fled to Taiwan, where he ruled for another twenty-five years. Playing a key role in the cold war with China, Chiang suppressed opposition with his “white terror,” controlled inflation and corruption, carried out land reform, and raised personal income, health, and educational levels on the island. Consciously or not, he set the stage for Taiwan’s evolution of a Chinese model of democratic modernization. Drawing heavily on Chinese sources including Chiang’s diaries, The Generalissimo provides the most lively, sweeping, and objective biography yet of a man whose length of uninterrupted, active engagement at the highest levels in the march of history is excelled by few, if any, in modern history. Jay Taylor shows a man who was exceedingly ruthless and temperamental but who was also courageous and conscientious in matters of state. Revealing fascinating aspects of Chiang’s life, Taylor provides penetrating insight into the dynamics of the past that lie behind the struggle for modernity of mainland China and its relationship with Taiwan.
Author: Biographiq
Publisher: Biographiq
Published: 2008-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781599863719
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeneral George S. Patton - Old Blood and Guts is the biography of General George S. Patton, a leading U.S. Army general in World War II in campaigns in North Africa, Sicily, France, and Germany (1943-1945). During World War I, Patton was a senior commander of the new tank corps and saw action in France. After the war he was an advocate of armored warfare but was reassigned to the cavalry. In World War II he commanded both corps and armies in North Africa, Sicily, and the European Theater of Operations. The popular image of "Old Blood and Guts" contrasts with historians' image of a brilliant military leader whose record was stained by a lack of personal control and his outspoken behavior. General George S. Patton - Old Blood and Guts is highly recommended for those interested in the history and life of this controversial American army general.
Author: H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 590
ISBN-13: 9780553089448
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In this candid, eagerly awaited autobiography General H. Norman Schwarzkopf reveals the story of his remarkable life and career. Here is the story of his boyhood years during World War II and a unique adolescence spent in the Middle East and Europe that would later prove invaluable to his understanding of the Gulf. Here, too, is a frank account of the West Point graduate's early disillusionment with the "real" Army - a disappointment that nearly prompted him to leave the military." "General Schwarzkopf speaks openly about his two tours of duty in Vietnam. He recounts the "dark years" that followed, and his own role in the struggle to reform the military." "For the first time ever General Schwarzkopf provides his personal, behind-the-scenes account of Desert Shield/Desert Storm, including candid portraits of such major figures as Colin Powell, Richard Cheney and President George Bush. From the general's unique perspective we experience firsthand the complexities of coordinating the campaign in a country deeply suspicious of foreigners; of maintaining strategic secrecy during America's first internationally televised war; and of ensuring that this war would not be another Vietnam." "Thoughtful and provocative, It Doesn't Take a Hero is an intensely personal portrait of an American life, the triumphant journey of a soldier who set his star by a simple but timeless motto: duty, honor, and country."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: John M. O'Flynn
Publisher: University of Alberta
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780888640314
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Micheal O'Flynn traces the development of the position of the generalissimo, or emperor's commander of the military forces, in the western part of the Roman Empire during the first century AD. From the arrogant barbarian Arbogast, who treated the youthful emperor Valentinian as his puppet, to Odovacar, who dismissed the last western emperor and was pronounced king of Italy in 476, the generalissimos' seizure of power led to dissolution and chaos from which would emerge the political patterns of medieval and modern Europe.