C. a. Brannen Series – serie
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Over There in the Air
The Fightin' Texas Aggies in World War I, 1917-1918
Inbunden, 2019
333 kr
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Over There in the Air tells the little known story of the contribution of Texas A&M University to early aviation in World War I. Over two thousand students served in the war in one capacity or another, and of those about 250 were involved in the newest martial development-military aviation. The …
Unraveling the Myth of Sgt. Alvin York
The Other Sixteen
Inbunden, 2022
382 kr
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On October 8, 1918, seventeen soldiers from the 82nd Division, American Expeditionary Force, led by acting Sgt. Bernard Early, flanked a German machine gun nest that had inundated their unit with withering fire. In this sneak attack, they successfully surprised and captured more than 80 German …
Grand Tours and the Great War
Ima Hogg's Diaries, 1907–1918
Av Virginia Bernhard, Virginia Bernhard
Inbunden, 2022
364 kr
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Ima Hogg, whose name made her a Texas legend, was a noted philanthropist, preservationist, art collector, and musician. She was also a compelling diarist. In 1907, 25-year-old Ima left Texas for her first European tour. In England, Scotland, Germany, and Italy, from June to October, she recorded …
To the Line of Fire!
Mexican Texans and World War I
Inbunden, 2009
353 kr
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Winner of the 2009 Robert A. Calvert Prize In January 1917, German foreign minister Arthur Zimmermann sent a telegram to Germany’s Mexican ambassador, authorizing the offer of U.S. territory in exchange for Mexico’s alliance with Germany in the Great War. After the interception of this …
School of Hard Knocks
Combat Leadership in the American Expeditionary Forces
Inbunden, 2012
353 kr
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This important new history of the development of a leadership corps of officers during World War I opens with a gripping narrative of the battlefield heroism of Cpl. Alvin York, juxtaposed with the death of Pvt. Charles Clement less than two kilometers away.Clement had been a captain and an example …
World War I Diary of Jose De La Luz Saenz
Av Jose de la Luz Saenz, Emilio Zamora
Inbunden, 2014
601 kr
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I am home, safe and sound, and reviewing all these memories as if in a dream. All of this pleases me. I have been faithful to my duty."" Thus José de la Luz Saenz ends his account of his military service in France and Germany in 1918. Published in Spanish in 1933, his annotated book of diary …
World War I Diary of Jose De La Luz Saenz
Av Jose de la Luz Saenz, Emilio Zamora
Häftad, 2014
289 kr
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I am home, safe and sound, and reviewing all these memories as if in a dream. All of this pleases me. I have been faithful to my duty."" Thus José de la Luz Saenz ends his account of his military service in France and Germany in 1918. Published in Spanish in 1933, his annotated book of diary …
Smell of War
Three Americans in the Trenches of World War I
Inbunden, 2018
378 kr
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Historian Virginia Bernhard has deftly woven together the memoirs and letters of three American soldiers—Henry Beston Sheahan, Mike Hogg, and George Wythe—to capture a vivid, poignant portrayal of what it was like to be “over there.” These firsthand recollections focus the lens of history onto one …
Hunter Liggett
A Soldier's General
Inbunden, 2019
468 kr
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Lt. Gen. Hunter Liggett's forty-year career spanned the period from the Indian Wars in the territories of Montana and Dakota to the trenches of World War I. For someone who experienced many individual triumphs and battlefield victories—including the final push of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive—he …
