Автор: Gray Название: Enlightenment`S Wake Rc ISBN: 0415424046 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415424042 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 2142.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: Turning his back on neoliberalism at exactly the moment that its advocates were in their pomp, Gray`s was a lone voice of scepticism. shows, John Gray has been trying to warn us for some fifteen years - the rest of us are only now catching up with him.
Автор: Gray Edward G. Название: Colonial America: A History in Documents ISBN: 0199765952 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199765959 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3483.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: By examining the lives of the colonists through their own words-in diaries, letters, sermons, newspaper columns, and poems-Colonial America: A History in Documents, Second Edition, reveals how immigrants, despite their vast differences, laid the foundations for a new nation.
Описание: From slave narratives to the Civil War, and from country music to Southern sport, this Companion is the definitive guide to the literature and culture of the American South.
Описание: Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914) was an American naval officer and highly influential naval strategist. This study, first published in 1901, contains detailed biographies of six eighteenth-century British admirals, contrasting their command styles and tactics. It provides fascinating insights into a period of dramatic change in British naval warfare.
Автор: Salter Krewasky Название: The Story of Black Military Officers, 1861-1948 ISBN: 0415716314 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415716314 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 24499.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Black members of the military served in every war, conflict and military engagement between 1861 and 1948. Beyond serving only as enlisted soldiers and non-commissioned officers, many also served as commissioned officers in positions of leadership and authority. This book offers the first complete and conclusive work to specifically examine the history of black commissioned officers.
Описание: This book recounts the experiences of a young US Marine officer during the Vietnam War as he fights that war over a nineteen month period in three different geographical areas of South Vietnam. He graphically explains to the reader what it was like to perform three distinct combat missions: long-range ground reconnaissance in the Annamite Mountains of I Corps, infantry operations in the rice paddies and mountains of Quang Nam Province, and special police operations for the CIA in Tay Ninh Province. The author describes in rich detail each of these distinct military activities and provides powerful and explicit examples of each. Using primary sources, such has US Marine Corps official unit histories, CIA documents, and his weekly letters home to his parents, the author relies almost exclusively on primary sources to convey to the reader a story that is devoid of hyperbole and focused on providing an accurate and honest account of combat at the small unit level. Of particular interest to students of the war is his description of his assignment to the CIA as a Provincial Reconnaissance Unit (PRU) advisor in Tay Ninh Province, where he participated in several secret missions as part of the controversial Phoenix Program. He also reveals the name and contribution of the CIA's most valuable spy during the war, the famous “Tay Ninh Source”.
Описание: "As I am ingaged in this glories Cause I am will to go whare I am Called"-so Joseph Hodgkins, a shoemaker of Ipswich, Massachusetts, declared to his wife the purpose that sustained him through four crucial years of the American Revolution. Hodgkins and his fellow townsman Nathaniel Wade, a carpenter, turned out for the Lexington alarm, fought at Bu
Описание: This official report, published in 1884, proposes a third expedition, much more carefully planned and equipped, to rescue any survivors of the 1881 Greely expedition to the Arctic, two previous relief efforts having failed. When they were eventually found, only seven of Greely`s original team of twenty-five were still alive.
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