War Party in Blue: Pawnee Scouts in the U.S. Army, Mark van de Logt, Walter R. Echo-Hawk
Автор: Pawly, Ronald Название: Napoleon`s Scouts of the Imperial Guard ISBN: 1841769568 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841769561 Издательство: Osprey Рейтинг: Цена: 1929.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Napoleon's last 'Campaign of France' in 1814 proved to be one of his most brilliant during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). He relied as never before on committing his elite Imperial Guard cavalry to battle. He raised three new regiments of crack claireurs - 'Scouts' - which were attached to the Guard Mounted Grenadiers, Empress's Dragoons and Polish Lancers respectively which would counterattack the Cossacks and gather vital information. Each regiment had its own style of uniform, but part of each was armed with lances. Although they were short-lived, these Scout units greatly distinguished themselves in the last battles of the collapsing Empire.
Автор: Ron Field Название: US Army Frontier Scouts 1840–1921 ISBN: 1841765821 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841765822 Издательство: Osprey Рейтинг: Цена: 2226.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An analysis of the role of the Frontier scout of the US Army between the years 1840 and 1921. It demonstrates how these people used their unique skills to help American expansion in the West, and looks at many colourful characters such as Tom Horn, "Wild Bill" Hikock and Mickey Free.
Описание: In this illuminating look at gender and Scouting in the United States, Benjamin Rene Jordan examines how in its founding and early rise, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) integrated traditional Victorian manhood with modern, corporate-industrial values and skills. While showing how the BSA Americanized the original British Scouting program, Jordan finds that the organization's community-based activities signaled a shift in men's social norms, away from rugged agricultural individualism or martial primitivism and toward productive employment in offices and factories, stressing scientific cooperation and a pragmatic approach to the responsibilities of citizenship.By examining the BSA's national reach and influence, Jordan demonstrates surprising ethnic diversity and religious inclusiveness in the organization's founding decades. For example, Scouting officials' preferred urban Catholic and Jewish working-class immigrants and ""modernizable"" African Americans and Native Americans over rural whites and other traditional farmers, who were seen as too ""backward"" to lead an increasingly urban-industrial society. In looking at the revered organization's past, Jordan finds that Scouting helped to broaden mainstream American manhood by modernizing traditional Victorian values to better suit a changing nation.
Автор: Echohawk Brummett, Ellenbarger Mark R. Название: Drawing Fire: A Pawnee, Artist, and Thunderbird in World War II ISBN: 0700627030 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780700627035 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4990.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In 1940 Brummett Echohawk, a seventeen-year-old Pawnee boy, joined the Oklahoma National Guard. Within the year his unit, a tough collection of dust bowl cowboys, farmers, and more than a thousand Native Americans, would land in Europe—there to distinguish themselves as, in the words of General George Patton, “one of the best if, not the best division, in the history of American arms.” During his service with the 45th Infantry, the vaunted Thunderbirds, Echohawk tapped the talent he had honed at Pawnee boarding school to document the conflict in dozens of annotated sketches.These combat sketches form the basis of Echohawk’s memoir of service with the Thunderbirds in World War II. In scene after scene he re-creates acts of bravery and moments of terror as he and his fellow soldiers fight their way through key battles at Sicily, Salerno, and Anzio. Woven with Pawnee legend and language and quickened with wry Native wit, Drawing Fire conveys in a singular way what it was like to go to war alongside a band of Indian brothers. It stands as a tribute to those Echohawk fought with and those he lost, a sharply observed and deeply felt picture of men at arms—capturing for all time the enduring spirit and steadfast strength of the Native American warrior. Brummett Echohawk was born in 1922 in Pawnee, Oklahoma, into a family with a military tradition dating back to the Indian Wars of the 1860s, when his grandfather Howard Echohawk served as a famed Pawnee scout. A celebrated illustrator and artist best known for his focus on the American Indian and the American West, he also designed the flag of the Pawnee Nation and worked on several projects, including, with Thomas Hart Benton, the mural Independence and the Opening of the West at the Truman Memorial Library in Independence, Missouri. For his service in the World War II, Echohawk earned a Combat Infantry Badge, a Bronze Star Medal, the US Army Commendation Medal, two Invasion Arrowheads, a Purple Heart with two Oak Leaf Clusters, and a posthumous Congressional Gold Medal.
Автор: Youngbull Kristin Название: Brummett Echohawk: Pawnee Thunderbird and Artist ISBN: 0806148268 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780806148267 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3442.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A true American hero who earned a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star, and a Congressional Gold Medal, Brummett Echohawk was also a Pawnee on the European battlefields of World War II. This first book-length biography depicts Echohawk as a soldier, painter, writer, humourist, and actor profoundly shaped by his Pawnee heritage.
Автор: Blaine Martha Royce Название: Some Things Are Not Forgotten: A Pawnee Family Remembers ISBN: 0803245270 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780803245273 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 4803.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The Blaine family was among the Pawnees forcibly removed to Indian Territory in 1874–75. By the early twentieth century, disease and starvation had wiped out nearly three-quarters of the reservation’s population. Government boarding schools refused to teach Pawnee customs and language, and many Pawnees found themselves without a community when their promised land was allotted to individuals and the rest sold as "surplus" to white settlers.
Where did the Blaine family find the resilience to cope with the continual assault on their dignity and way of life? In Some Things Are Not Forgotten, Martha Royce Blaine reveals the strengths of character and culture that enabled them to persevere during the reservation years.
Many memorable figures emerge: Wichita and Effie Blaine, anguished over the deaths of two young sons and driven to embrace the Ghost Dance; John Box, whose persistent attempts to farm the white man’s way are shattered in one disastrous moment by a tornado; James G. Blaine, an aspiring ballplayer whose mysterious death in jail ends his bid to join the Chicago White Sox. We also meet the young, educated James Murie, striding a conflict-ridden path between the Pawnee and white worlds. Perhaps most unforgettable are the childhood memories of Garland Blaine, the late husband of the author, who became head chief of the Pawnees in 1964.
Автор: Boggs Bradford L. Название: Lucky Davis: An Army Scout`s Story ISBN: 1630505625 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781630505622 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2619.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This is a true story of Charles Davis, an American soldier in WWII. He was assigned to motorcycle reconnaissance scouting forward enemy positions. He participated in three major amphibious invasions in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. He was named "Lucky Davis" by the men in his unit because of the many times he almost got killed. Davis was shot in the head by a German soldier in Tunisia, run over by an enemy tank at Kasserine Pass and was the lone survivor of a disastrous motorcycle attack on a German occupied Arab city. Davis tells his story in an interesting first-person account of his time in combat from enlistment until war's end. Unbelievable events of his arguments with General Patton, his personal friendship with Joe Louis, and his body-snatching assignment to get Mussolini. From Casablanca to the liberation of Rome, Davis tells of encounters with enemy booby-traps, mine-fields, taking prisoners, dangerous patrols and heart-warming stories of meeting civilians caught up in a terrible war. This book is a fast-moving, action-packed true war story for everyone interested in WWII combat. Bradford Boggs was born in Pontiac, Michigan. At an early age, his father became a Foreign Service officer with the U.S. State Department. He experienced a unique childhood growing up in diplomatic assignments in Asia. He attended international schools in Jakarta, Beirut and Ankara. He was an artillery gunner with the Second Armored Cavalry Regiment, U.S. Army Europe. He settled in Richmond, Virginia and earned a BS degree from Virginia Commonwealth University. Lucky Davis is his first book. He is working on three novels, a children's book and historical documentary of Richmond.
Автор: Wood Sumner Gilbert Название: Ulster Scots and Blandford [Massachusetts] Scouts ISBN: 0788406329 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780788406324 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4966.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Mischa Honeck’s Our Frontier Is the World is a provocative account of how the Boy Scouts echoed and enabled American global expansion in the twentieth century.
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has long been a standard bearer for national identity. The core values of the organization have, since its founding in 1910, shaped what it means to be an American boy and man. As Honeck shows, those masculine values had implications that extended far beyond the borders of the United States. Writing the global back into the history of one of the country’s largest youth organizations, Our Frontier Is the World details how the BSA operated as a vehicle of empire from the Progressive Era up to the countercultural moment of the 1960s. American boys and men wearing the Scout uniform never simply hiked local trails to citizenship; they forged ties with their international peers, camped in foreign lands, and started troops on overseas military bases. Scouts traveled to Africa and even sailed to icy Antarctica, hoisting the American flag and standing as models of loyalty, obedience, and bravery. Through scouting America’s complex engagements with the world were presented as honorable and playful masculine adventures abroad.
Innocent fun and earnest commitment to doing a good turn, of course, were not the whole story. Honeck argues that the good-natured Boy Scout was a ready means for soft power abroad and gentle influence where American values, and democratic capitalism, were at stake. In other instances the BSA provided a pleasant cover for imperial interventions that required coercion and violence. At Scouting’s global frontiers the stern expression of empire often lurked behind the smile of a boy.
Автор: Ryan Robicheaux, Robicheaux Название: Scouts out! a kiowa warrior pilot`s pers ISBN: 1737243806 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781737243809 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2344.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Truly unique view of the war in Afghanistan, reader rides along with an OH-58D Kiowa Warrior scout/attack helicopter pilot in the U.S. Air Cavalry. Provides raw and real accounts of hunting elusive enemy fighters, 70 original images and maps.
