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The Citizen Soldiers: The Plattsburg Training Camp Movement, 1913-1920
ISBN: 9780813154077 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Citizen Soldiers explores the military reform movement that took its name from the famous Business Men's Military Training Camps at Plattsburg, New York. It also illuminates the story of two exceptional men: General Leonard Wood, the rambunctious and controversial former Rough Rider who galvanized the Plattsburg Idea with his magnetic personality; and Grenville Clark, a young Wall Street lawyer. The Plattsburg camps strove to advertise the lack of military preparation in the United States and stressed the military obligation every man owed to his country. Publicized by... The Citizen Soldiers explores the military reform movement that took its name from the famous Business Men's Military Training Camps at Pla... |
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163,39 zł |
The Desperate Diplomat: Saburo Kurusu's Memoir of the Weeks Before Pearl Harbor
ISBN: 9780826222015 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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145,16 zł |
Presidents, Diplomats, and Other Mortals
ISBN: 9780826217479 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From Abraham Lincoln s stance on international slavery to George W. Bush s incursions on the world stage, American presidents and other leaders have taken decisive actions to shape our country s foreign policy. This new collection of essays provides analytical narratives of how and why policies were devised and implemented that would determine the place of the United States in the international arena from the 1860s to the present. Showing what individuals do or choose not to do is central to understanding diplomacy in peace and war. These writings by such prominent historians as Terry... From Abraham Lincoln s stance on international slavery to George W. Bush s incursions on the world stage, American presidents and other leaders ha... |
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290,87 zł |
The Desperate Diplomat: Saburo Kurusu's Memoir of the Weeks Before Pearl Harbor
ISBN: 9780826220370 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. On December 7, 1941, the course of U.S. history changed forever with the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Three weeks prior, Japanese Special Envoy to the United States Saburo Kurusu visited Washington in an attempt to further peace talks between Japan and America and spare his country the loss he knew would occur if a war began. But as he reported, Working for peace is not as simple as starting a war. For more than seventy years, many have unfairly viewed Kurusu and his visit as part of the Pearl Harbor plot. Editors J. Garry Clifford and Masako R. Okura seek to dispel this myth with their edition...
On December 7, 1941, the course of U.S. history changed forever with the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Three weeks prior, Japanese Special Envoy to the Uni...
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225,96 zł |
The First Peacetime Draft
ISBN: 9780700611027 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Introduced into Congress two days before the fall of France and signed into law three months later as Luftwaffe bombs set London afire, the Selective Training and Service Act began the process by which fifteen million Americans were inducted into the armed services during the Second World War. Clifford and Spencer recount a neglected but vitally important development in the transformation of American policies prior to Pearl Harbor--the first time in American history when men were conscripted into military service during peacetime. Central to the discussion in The First Peacetime...
Introduced into Congress two days before the fall of France and signed into law three months later as Luftwaffe bombs set London afire, the Selective ...
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215,19 zł |