Journal
Journal

Author: Military Service Institution of the United States

Publisher:

Published: 1917

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13:

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Women Nobel Peace Prize Winners, 2d ed.
Women Nobel Peace Prize Winners, 2d ed.

Author: Anita Price Davis

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-12-01

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1476622124

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From the first woman Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Bertha von Suttner (1905), to the latest and youngest female Nobel laureate, Malala Yousafzai (2014), this book in its second edition provides a detailed look at the lives and accomplishments of each of these sixteen Prize winners. They did not expect recognition or fame for their work--economist Emily Greene Balch (1946) was surprised to learn that anyone knew about her. But they did not work in isolation: all met with discouragement, derision, threats or--in Yousafazi's case--attempted murder and exile. A history of the Prize and a biographical sketch of Alfred Nobel are included.

Blood in the Argonne
Blood in the Argonne

Author: Alan D. Gaff

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9780806136967

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In this unique history of the “Lost Battalion” of World War I, Alan D. Gaff tells for the first time the story of the 77th Division from the perspective of the soldiers in the ranks. On October 2, 1918, Maj. Charles W. Whittlesey led the 77th Division in a successful attack on German defenses in the Argonne Forest of northeastern France. His unit, comprised of men of a wide mix of ethnic backgrounds from New York City and the western states, was not a battalion nor was it ever “lost,” but once a newspaper editor applied the term “lost battalion” to the episode, it stuck. Gaff draws from new, unimpeachable sources—such as sworn testimony by soldiers who survived the ordeal—to correct the myths and legends and to reveal what really happened in the Argonne Forest during early October 1918.