By M. Evan Brooks

ISBN-10: 1597974609

ISBN-13: 9781597974608

In 1944 U.S. military Lt. Gen. Leslie J. McNair used to be by accident killed via USAAF bombers that dropped their bombs wanting the objective, hence turning into the highest-ranking American casualty of global conflict II. Union Gen. Daniel Sickels was once the 1st individual to be effectively acquitted of homicide through pleading transitority madness after he shot and killed the son of “Star-Spangled Banner” composer Francis Scott Key in chilly blood. Ten years earlier than Custer’s notorious final stand, U.S. cavalry Capt. William J. Fetterman disobeyed orders and led his eighty-man detachment in pursuit of a band of Sioux Indians. Neither he nor his males again. within the usa, Benedict Arnold’s identify is synonymous with treason, yet in Russia Andrei Vlasov holds that doubtful contrast. After being captured through the Germans in the course of international warfare II, he led a military of former Soviet POWs opposed to the purple military. recognized males of the humanities and letters, resembling Maurice Chevalier and Jean-Paul Sartre, overtly collaborated with the Axis in the course of international battle II but controlled to flee punishment after the conflict. Entertainer Martha Raye was once so loved through the troops that she earned an honorary fee as “Colonel Maggie” and used to be allowed to be buried in fortress Bragg’s army cemetery. James Bond writer Ian Fleming graduated from Sandhurst and was once a naval intelligence officer in international warfare II. through the Thirty Years’ conflict, count number Tilly misplaced keep an eye on of his troops after shooting Magdeburg. After 3 days of looting, that they had killed 25,000 of the city’s 30,000 inhabitants.

Military History's such a lot Wanted™ chronicles seven-hundred of the main outlandish commanders, battles, and accomplishments in army heritage. Its seventy lists comprise warfare's best ten winners, losers, traitors, entertainers, conflict novels, and flicks. army historians, buffs, and lovers will take pleasure in this usually irreverent and arguable examine the occupation of fingers.

By Paul Naudon

ISBN-10: 1620553376

ISBN-13: 9781620553374

Explores the hidden historical past of Freemasonry from historical Rome, throughout the center a long time, to the present

• indicates the shut connection among medieval masons and the Knights Templar
• Illustrates the sacred nature of Roman and medieval exchange associations
• unearths the lacking hyperlink that connects the inns of recent Freemasonry to the medieval brotherhoods of builders

Historians usually make a pointy contrast among the operative Masonry of the center a long time and the speculative Masonry of contemporary instances, emphasizing that there's no direct bridge connecting the 2. sleek historians even have scoffed at Masonic claims in regards to the shut dating among the resort and the Temple. utilizing medieval documents housed all through Europe, historian Paul Naudon finds that there has been in truth a truly intimate connection among the Masons and the Knights Templar. Church documents of medieval Paris express that the majority, if now not all, the Masons of that point have been citizens of the Templar censive, which allowed them to take pleasure in nice exemptions and liberties from either church and country end result of the safeguard afforded them through this robust order.

Naudon exhibits that the origins of Freemasonry may be traced again to the collegia of old Rome. He strains the evolution of companies comparable to the Comacine Masters, the Arab turuqs, and the brotherhoods of developers created lower than the aegis of the Benedictines and the Knights Templar, all of which supply the car for the transmission of a sacred culture from pre-Christian instances to the fashionable period. this practice is the resource of Masonic ritual and symbolism, and it presents the lacking hyperlink within the transformation of the operative Masonry of the medieval cathedral developers to the religious ideas of recent speculative Masonry.

By Sina Akşin

ISBN-10: 9754065640

ISBN-13: 9789754065640

Türkiye Tarihi, Oğuz Akkan ile Sina Akşin'in 1980 yılında oluşturdukları bir tasarının ve uzunca bir çalışma ve hazırlık döneminin ürünüdür. Türkiye Tarihi five ciltten oluşmaktadır. Her ciltte, dönemin siyaset, iktisat, düşünce, mimarlık ve sanat tarihleri ayrı bölümlerde incelenmektedir. 1. Cilt Osmanlı Devleti öncesindeki Türkleri ele almaktadır. 2. Cilt Osmanlı Tarihini 1600 yılına değin gözden geçirmektedir. three. Cilt 1600-1908 yıllarını kapsıyor. four. Cilt 1908-1980 dönemini inceliyor. five. Cilt 1980-1995 dönemini, yani şimdiki Türkiye'yi ele alıyor.
Sina Akşin yazarlar kadrosunu oluşturmuş ve yayın yönetmenliğini üstlenmiştir. Siyaset Tarihi bölümlerinin yazarları Ümit Hassan, Metin Kunt, Sina Akşin, Mete Tunçay, Cemil Koçak, Hikmet Özdemir, Bülent Tanör'dür. İktisat Tarihi bölümlerini Halil Berktay, Suraiya Faroqhi, Korkut Boratav, Zafer Toprak yazmışlardır. Düşünce Tarihi bölümleri Ümit Hassan, Hüseyin Yurdaydın, Sina Akşin, Selahattin Hilav, Murat Katoğlu tarafından kaleme alınmıştır. Mimarlık ve Sanat tarihi bölümlerinin tek yazarı Ayla Ödekan'dır.
Sina Akşin Türkiye Tarihi'nin amacını şöyle açıklamaktadır: "... Türkiye'de okullarda ve üniversitelerde okutulan tarih genellikle yüzeysel bir tarihtir. Okullarda öğrenciler için tarih en çekilmez, ezbere dayalı, anlamsız ders durumundadır. Üniversite tarih bölümlerinin puanları, yani tarihçiliğe rağbet, çok düşüktür. Tarih, birçoklarımızın gözünde gerçeğin araştırılacağı, heyecan verici bir bilim dalı değil, kabul edilmiş belirli ideolojik ya da siyasal tutumları destekleyecek kanıtların derleneceği bir alandan ibarettir. İşte biz, bu kitabın, ülkemiz tarihçiliğini hal-i pur melalinden kurtarmaya belki mütevazi bir katkısı olur diye düşündük."
Elinizdeki bu cilt, 1300-1600 dönemi Osmanlı Tarihi'nin ilk üç yüzyılı için vazgeçilmez bir kaynak niteliğindedir.

By Mary Prince

ISBN-10: 0140437495

ISBN-13: 9780140437492

The heritage of Mary Prince (1831) was once the 1st narrative of a black girl to be released in Britain. It describes Prince's sufferings as a slave in Bermuda, Turks Island and Antigua, and her eventual arrival in London along with her brutal proprietor Mr wooden in 1828. Prince escaped from him and sought the aid of the Anti-Slavery Society, the place she dictated her awesome tale to Susanna Strickland (later Moodie). A relocating and photo record, The heritage drew realization to the continuation of slavery within the Caribbean, regardless of an 1807 Act of Parliament formally finishing the slave exchange. It encouraged libel activities and bumped into 3 variants within the 12 months of its e-book. This strong rallying cry for emancipation continues to be a rare testomony to Prince's ill-treatment, agony and survival.

By Robert Henlopen Labberton

ISBN-10: 1436773415

ISBN-13: 9781436773416

This scarce antiquarian booklet is a range from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint sequence. as a result of its age, it can comprise imperfections akin to marks, notations, marginalia and improper pages. simply because we think this paintings is culturally vital, we've got made it on hand as a part of our dedication to retaining, conserving, and selling the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is where to discover thousands of infrequent and hard-to-find books with whatever of curiosity for everybody!

By Brad Dukes

ISBN-10: 061596883X

ISBN-13: 9780615968834

Reflections: An Oral historical past of dual Peaks examines David Lynch and Mark Frost's mythical tv sequence that aired at the ABC community from 1990-91. because the secret of "Who Killed Laura Palmer?" performed out on tv units the world over, one other compelling drama was once unfolding within the daily lives of the show's forged and workforce. Twenty-five years later, Reflections is going behind the scenes of dual Peaks and records the series' not likely beginnings, frequent luck, and weird cave in. that includes first-hand money owed from sequence cocreator Mark Frost and solid contributors together with Kyle MacLachlan, Madchen Amick, Richard Beymer, Joan Chen, Sherilyn Fenn, Miguel Ferrer, Piper Laurie, Sheryl Lee, Michael Ontkean, Ray clever, Billy Zane, and plenty of extra - Reflections explores the magic and mystique of a real tv phenomenon, dual Peaks.

By Stuart Banner

ISBN-10: 0674010833

ISBN-13: 9780674010833

Now, for the 1st time, we have now a entire background of the demise penalty within the usa. Stuart Banner tells the tale of ways, over 4 centuries, dramatic adjustments have taken position within the methods capital punishment has been administered and skilled. Banner strikes past the debates to offer us an remarkable realizing of the numerous meanings of capital punishment in the US.

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By Mark Stein

ISBN-10: 0061431397

ISBN-13: 9780061431395

Mark Stein is a playwright and screenwriter. His performs were played off-Broadway and at theaters during the nation. His movies comprise Housesitter, with Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn. He has taught at American collage and Catholic college.

By Meg Jacobs

ISBN-10: 0374714894

ISBN-13: 9780374714895

In Panic on the Pump, Meg Jacobs indicates how a succession of crises starting with the 1973 Arab oil embargo triggered American politicians to hunt power independence, and the way their failure to take action formed the realm we are living in. while the challenge hit, the Democratic occasion was once divided, with older New Deal liberals who prized entry to cheap strength squaring off opposed to younger environmentalists who driven for conservation. in the meantime, conservative Republicans challenged either sorts of governmental activism and argued that there will be no strength quandary if the govt. acquired out of ways and enable the marketplace paintings. the end result was once a stalemate in Washington and panic around the kingdom: miles-long fuel strains, giant Oil conspiracy theories, even violent truckers' strikes.

Jacobs argues that the power crises of the Nineteen Seventies grew to become, for lots of american citizens, a major item lesson within the boundaries of governmental strength. Washington proved not able to layout a countrywide strength coverage, and the lack to enhance assets and preserve simply made the us extra depending on oil from out of the country. As we are facing the repercussions of a altering weather, a unstable oil industry, and persevered unrest within the center East, Panic on the Pump is an important and instructive account of a formative interval in American political history.

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