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Journal of the Civil War Era, Volume 3, #1 (Spring #2013)
by William A. BlairThe Journal of the Civil War Era<P> Volume 3, Number 1<P> March 2013<P> TABLE OF CONTENTS<P> Editor's Note William Blair<P> Articles<P> Amber D. Moulton<P> Closing the "Floodgate of Impurity": Moral Reform, Antislavery, and Interracial Marriage in Antebellum Massachusetts<P><P> Marc-William Palen<P> The Civil War's Forgotten Transatlantic Tariff Debate and the Confederacy's Free Trade Diplomacy<P><P> Joy M. Giguere<P> "The Americanized Sphinx": Civil War Commemoration, Jacob Bigelow, and the Sphinx at Mount Auburn Cemetery<P><P> Review Essay<P> Enrico Dal Lago<P> Lincoln, Cavour, and National Unification: American Republicanism and Italian Liberal Nationalism in Comparative Perspective<P><P> Professional Notes<P> James J. Broomall<P> The Interpretation Is A-Changin': Memory, Museums, and Public History in Central Virginia<P><P> Book Reviews<P> Books Received<P> Notes on Contributors<P> The Journal of the Civil War Era takes advantage of the flowering of research on the many issues raised by the sectional crisis, war, Reconstruction, and memory of the conflict, while bringing fresh understanding to the struggles that defined the period, and by extension, the course of American history in the nineteenth century.
Journal of the Civil War Era, Volume 3, #2 (Summer #2013)
by William A. BlairThe Journal of the Civil War Era<P> Volume 3, Number 2<P> June 2013<P> TABLE OF CONTENTS <P> Editor's Note <P> William Blair<P> Articles<P><P> Stephen Cushman<P> When Lincoln Met Emerson<P><P> Christopher Phillips<P> Lincoln's Grasp of War: Hard War and the Politics of Neutrality and Slavery in the Western Border Slave States, 1861–1862<P><P> Jonathan W. White<P> The Strangely Insignificant Role of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Civil War<P><P> Review Essay<P> Yael Sternhell<P> Revisionism Reinvented? The Antiwar Turn in Civil War Scholarship<P><P> Professional Notes<P> Gary W. Gallagher<P> The Civil War at the Sesquicentennial: How Well Do Americans Understand Their Great National Crisis?<P><P> Book Reviews<P> Books Received<P> Notes on Contributors <P> The Journal of the Civil War Era takes advantage of the flowering of research on the many issues raised by the sectional crisis, war, Reconstruction, and memory of the conflict, while bringing fresh understanding to the struggles that defined the period, and by extension, the course of American history in the nineteenth century.
Journal of the Civil War Era, Volume 3, #3 (Fall #2013)
by William A. BlairThe Journal of the Civil War Era <P> Volume 3, Number 3 <P> September 2013 <P> TABLE OF CONTENTS <P> Articles <P><P> Robert Fortenbaugh Memorial Lecture <P> Steven Hahn <P> Slave Emancipation, Indian Peoples, and the Projects of a New American Nation-State <P><P> Beth Schweiger <P> The Literate South: Reading before Emancipation <P><P> Brian Luskey <P> Special Marts: Intelligence Offices, Labor Commodification, and Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century America <P><P> Review Essay <P> Nicole Etcheson <P> Microhistory and Movement: African American Mobility in the Nineteenth Century <P><P> Book Reviews <P>Books Received <P><P> Professional Notes <P> Megan Kate Nelson <P> Looking at Landscapes of War <P><P> Notes on Contributors <P><P> The Journal of the Civil War Era# takes advantage of the flowering of research on the many issues raised by the sectional crisis, war, Reconstruction, and memory of the conflict, while bringing fresh understanding to the struggles that defined the period, and by extension, the course of American history in the nineteenth century.
Journal of the Civil War Era, Volume 3, #4 (Winter #2013)
by William A. BlairThe Journal of the Civil War Era<P> Volume 3, Number 4<P> December 2013<P> TABLE OF CONTENTS<P><P> SPECIAL ISSUE: PROCLAIMING EMANCIPATION AT 150<P><P> Articles<P><P> Introduction<P> Martha S. Jones, Guest Editor<P> History and Commemoration: The Emancipation Proclamation at 150<P><P> James Oakes<P> Reluctant to Emancipate? Another Look at the First Confiscation Act<P><P> Stephen Sawyer & William J. Novak<P> Emancipation and the Creation of Modern Liberal States in America and France<P><P> Thavolia Glymph<P> Rose's War and the Gendered Politics of a Slave Insurgency in the Civil War<P><P> Martha Jones<P> Emancipation Encounters: The Meaning of Freedom from the Pages of Civil War Sketchbooks<P><P> Book Reviews<P> Books Received<P> Notes on Contributors
Journal of the Civil War Era, Volume 4, #1 (Spring #2014)
by William A. BlairThe Journal of the Civil War Era<P> Volume 4, Number 1<P> March 2014<P> TABLE OF CONTENTS<P> Articles<P><P> Nicholas Marshall<P> The Great Exaggeration: Death and the Civil War<P><P> Sarah Bischoff Paulus<P> America's Long Eulogy for Compromise: Henry Clay and American Politics, 1854-58<P> Ted Maris-Wolf<P> "Of Blood and Treasure": Recaptive Africans and the Politics of Slave Trade Suppression<P><P> Review Essay<P> W. Caleb McDaniel<P> The Bonds and Boundaries of Antislavery<P><P> Book Reviews<P> Books Received<P> Professional Notes<P> Craig A. Warren<P> Lincoln's Body: The President in Popular Films of the Sesquicentennial<P><P> Notes on Contributors
Journal of the Civil War Era, Volume 4, #2 (Summer #2014)
by William A. BlairThe Journal of the Civil War Era<P> Volume 4, Number 2<P> June 2014<P><P> TABLE OF CONTENTS<P><P> Tom Watson Brown Book Award<P> John Fabian Witt<P> Civil War Historians and the Laws of War<P><P> Articles<P><P> Chandra Manning<P> Working for Citizenship in Civil War Contraband Camps<P><P> Michael F. Conlin<P> The Dangerous Isms and the Fanatical Ists: Antebellum Conservatives in the South and the North Confront the Modernity Conspiracy<P><P> Nicholas Guyatt<P> "An Impossible Idea?" The Curious Career of Internal Colonization<P><P> Review Essay<P> John Craig Hammond<P> Slavery, Sovereignty, and Empires: North American Borderlands and the American Civil War, 1660-1860<P><P> Book Reviews<P> Books Received<P> Professional Notes<P><P> Jill Ogline Titus<P> An Unfinished Struggle: Sesquicentennial Interpretations of Slavery and Emancipation<P><P>
Journal of the Civil War Era, Volume 4, #3 (Fall #2014)
by William A. BlairThe Journal of the Civil War Era<P> Volume 4, Number 3, September 2014<P> TABLE OF CONTENTS<P> Editor's Note, William Blair<P><P> Articles<P><P> Felicity Turner<P> Rights and the Ambiguities of Law: Infanticide in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. South<P><P> Paul Quigley<P> Civil War Conscription and the International Boundaries of Citizenship<P><P> Jay Sexton<P> William H. Seward in the World<P><P> Review Essay<P> Patick J. Kelly<P> the European Revolutions of 1848 and the Transnational turn in Civil War History <P><P> Book Reviews<P> Books Received<P> Notes on Contributors
Journal of the Civil War Era, Volume 4, #4 (Winter #2014)
by William A. BlairThe Journal of the Civil War Era<P> Volume 4, Number 4 -- Coming to Terms with Civil War Military History: A Special Issue<P> December 2014<P><P> TABLE OF CONTENTS<P><P> Articles<P><P> Gary Gallagher & Kathryn Shively Meier<P> Coming to Terms with Civil War Military History<P><P> Peter C. Luebke<P> "Equal to Any Minstrel Concert I Ever Attended at Home": Union Soldiers and Blackface Performance in the Civil War South<P><P> John J. Hennessy<P> Evangelizing for Union, 1863: The Army of the Potomac, Its Enemies at Home, and a New Solidarity<P><P> Andrew F. Lang<P> Republicanism, Race, and Reconstruction: The Ethos of Military Occupation in Civil War America<P><P> Professional Notes<P><P> Kevin M. Levin<P> Black Confederates Out of the Attic and Into the Mainstream<P><P> Book Reviews<P> Books Received<P> Notes on Contributors<P>
A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan, 1841-2
by Lady Florentia Wynch SaleDuring the First Anglo-Afghan War, Lady Florentia Sale, wife of a British army officer, Sir Robert Henry Sale, was kidnapped in 1842, along with other women and children, as well as soldiers, and detained for nine months. The group were taken hostage by Akbar Khan, following the massacre in the Khurd Karbul Pass. Amongst the hostages with Lady Sale was her youngest daughter Alexandrina, Alexandrina’s husband Lt. John Sturt, and their newborn daughter. Sturt was fatally injured by three dagger wounds to the abdomen, with Lady Sale nursed her son-in-law in his final hours. She bribed the Afghan officers into releasing them, and they were rescued by Sir Richmond Shakespear on 17 September 1842. Her courageous and defiant actions meant that she endangered herself frequently; she was shot in the wrist, with the bullet lodging there.Throughout her time as a captive, Lady Sale kept a diary, detailing the events of the ordeal. A year later, Lady Sale published her journal as A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan, 1841-2, which documented her experiences throughout the Afghan War, and the book received critical acclaim.An action-filled story of folly, indecision, treachery and tragedy, all the while testifying to great courage and fortitude.
Journal of the Indian Wars: The Indian Wars' Civil War
by Michael HughesJournal of the Indian Wars, or JIW was a quarterly publication on the study of the American Indian Wars. Before JIW, no periodical dedicated exclusively to this fascinating topic was available. JIW's focus was on warfare in the United States, Canada, and the Spanish borderlands from 1492 to 1890. Published articles also include personalities, policy, and military technologies. JIW was designed to satisfy both professional and lay readers with original articles of lasting value and a variety of columns of interest, plus book reviews, all enhanced with maps and illustrations. JIW's lengthy essays of substance are presented in a fresh and entertaining manner. Most readers of the Civil War and Indian War history know that a small force of Indians participated in the Battle of Pea Ridge; John Pope was banished to Minnesota after his disastorous performance at Second Bull Run to face the rebellious Sioux; Stand Watie and Ely Parker rose to high rank in the Confederate and Union armies, respectively; and a region labeled simply "Indian Territory" existed somewhere in the Trans-Mississippi Theater. All true. Yet the situation of American Indians during the Civil War period was much more complex, their fate more devastating and far-reaching than most students appreciate. Each of the articles in this issue underscore this point. In this edition: Foreword Firm but Fair: The Minnesota Volunteers and the Coming of the Dakota War of 1862 The Most Terrible Stories: The 1862 Dakota Conflict in White Imagination Chiefs by Commission: Stand Watie and Ely Parker Flowing with Blood and Whiskey: Stand Watie and the Battles of First and Second Cabin Creek Nations Asunder: Western American Indian Experiences During the Civil War, 1861-1865, Part I Interview: A Conversation with Battlefield Interpreter Doug Keller Features: Wisconsin's 1832 Black Hawk Trail The Indian Wars: Organizational, Tribal, and Museum News Thomas Online: Daughters of the Lance: Native American Women Warriors Book Reviews Index
A Journal of the Russian Campaign of 1812.
by Pickle Partners Publishing Général Raymond-Aymerie-Philippe-Joseph, Duc de Montesquiou-Fézensac General Sir William Thomas KnollysThis ebook is purpose built and is proof-read and re-type set from the original to provide an outstanding experience of reflowing text for an ebook reader. An acclaimed classic of the many memoirs to have survived from the epic, tragic and disastrous Russian Campaign of 1812. This translation is taken from chapters of Fézensac's larger memoir - Souvenirs Militaires de 1804 a 1815 par le duc de Fezensac, Paris, 1863. The author starts the campaign as an aide-de-camp attached to the General Staff, and is slightly more insulated to the horrors of the march to Moscow, although glimpses of the hardships reach even the higher reaches of command. Later, after the fire and sack of Moscow, he takes command of regiment of infantry and it is then that the truly epic struggles the men undertook against their principal nature on the retreat from Moscow. His regiment forms part of Maréchal Ney's dwindling, over-worked, staving rearguard, and is witness to its trials and Homeric travails including the crossings of the Dneiper and Berezina. This edition is introduced by a withy summation of the campaign by General Knollys, who without impinging on the narrative, gives a good overall account of the campaign leaving the details of Fézensac's experiences to be brought out in his own words. Raymond-Aymerie-Philippe-Joseph de Montesquiou-Fézensac, born in Paris in 1784 into an ancient noble family, a cadet branch of the House of Gascony, he volunteered as a private soldier in 1803. He achieved rapid promotion in the campaigns of 1805 and 1806, and later serving as Maréchal Ney's aide-de-camp. His promotion would not have been hampered by his marriage to Mademoiselle Clarke, daughter of the Minister of War, General Clarke who held this post the majority of the Empire, also played a pivotal role in the fall of Paris and Napoleon's abdication in 1814. Created a baron of the empire by Napoleon, he had been promoted to the rank of chef d'escadron by the time of the 1812 Russian campaign. He was promoted to général de brigade in 1813 during the German campaign of 1813 but did not rally to Napoleon during the Hundred Days. He was elevated to the title of comte in 1817 and duc in 1821. The text is taken from the edition published in 1852 by Parker, Furnivall, and Parker, London Author: Raymond-Aymerie-Philippe-Joseph de Montesquiou-Fézensac 1784-1867 Translator and Introduction: General Sir William Thomas Knollys 1797-1883
Journal of the Waterloo Campaign
by Cavalie MercerMercers journal is the most outstanding eyewitness account of the Waterloo campaign ever published. It is a classic of military history. This new, fully illustrated edition, featuring an extensive introduction and notes by Andrew Uffindell, one of the leading authorities on the Napoleonic Wars, contains a mass of additional material not included in the original. As the bicentenary of Waterloo approaches, this beautifully prepared, scholarly edition of Mercers work will be essential reading for anyone who wishes to know what it was really like to fight in the final, great battle against Napoleon.
Journal of the Waterloo Campaign
by Cavalie MercerMercers journal is the most outstanding eyewitness account of the Waterloo campaign ever published. It is a classic of military history. This new, fully illustrated edition, featuring an extensive introduction and notes by Andrew Uffindell, one of the leading authorities on the Napoleonic Wars, contains a mass of additional material not included in the original. As the bicentenary of Waterloo approaches, this beautifully prepared, scholarly edition of Mercers work will be essential reading for anyone who wishes to know what it was really like to fight in the final, great battle against Napoleon.
Journal of the Waterloo Campaign (Journal of the Waterloo Campaign (kept throughout the campaign of 1815) #1)
by Pickle Partners Publishing General Alexander Cavalié MercerThis ebook is purpose built and is proof-read and re-type set from the original to provide an outstanding experience of reflowing text for an ebook reader. Without doubt, one of the finest accounts of a participant of the Waterloo campaign. Mercer was famously in charge of "G" troop RHA during the campaign, and from the journal he kept at the time, he formed this book. It is written with a jaunty air more often seen in the writings of French cavalry officers memoirs, a certain irreverence to rank and custom (his description of the Duc de Berri is particularly cutting) and a keen eye for detail and the anecdote. This edition is the second volume of a two volume series as originally published. Having been stationed in Belgium for over a month during which time he offers a number of telling remarks on the country and its inhabitants, and their enthusiasm for the conflict, his troop arrived belatedly at the battle of Quatre Bars on the 16th June 1815 as the fighting died down. He was involved in covering the retreat of the Allied forces northward to Waterloo on the 17th. During this retreat Mercer sights Napoleon riding with the vanguard of his advanced forces, as he struggles to cover his retreating comrades, in a moment he refers to as "sublime". During the battle on the 18th his troop is in the thick of the fighting, during which time Mercer's account leaves no detail out, apart from his disobeying Wellington's order to avoid counter-battery fire. As the battle rolls on the magnificent and yet foolhardy charges of the massed French cavalry are recounted with their brave but ultimately futile attempt to break the squares on the ridge, Mercer and his troop pour fire into the horsemen mercilessly. As the Armée du Nord recoils from its final attack in disarray, Mercer is ordered with his men to follow up the retreating hordes, he replies to his superior "How?" as the charnel house surrounding his position contains the dead and dying horses needed to pull his guns. Essential reading. The Text, whole and complete, is taken from 1870 edition, published by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh Author - General Alexander Cavalié Mercer (1783-1868)
Journal of the Waterloo Campaign (Journal of the Waterloo Campaign (kept throughout the campaign of 1815) #2)
by Pickle Partners Publishing General Alexander Cavalié MercerThis ebook is purpose built and is proof-read and re-type set from the original to provide an outstanding experience of reflowing text for an ebook reader. Without doubt, one of the finest accounts of a participant of the Waterloo campaign. Mercer was famously in charge of "G" troop RHA during the campaign, and from the journal he kept at the time he formed this book. It is written with a jaunty air more often seen in the writings of French cavalry officers memoirs, a certain irreverence to rank and custom (his description of the Duc de Berri is particularly cutting) and a keen eye for detail and the anecdote. This edition is the second volume of a two volume series as originally published. Having been stationed in Belgium for over a month during which time he offers a number of telling remarks on the country and its inhabitants, and their enthusiasm for the conflict, his troop arrived belatedly at the battle of Quatre Bars on the 16th June 1815 as the fighting died down. He was involved in covering the retreat of the Allied forces northward to Waterloo on the 17th. During this retreat Mercer sights Napoleon riding with the vanguard of his advanced forces, as he struggles to cover his retreating comrades, in a moment he refers to as "sublime". During the battle on the 18th his troop is in the thick of the fighting, during which time Mercer's account leaves no detail out, apart from his disobeying Wellington's order to avoid counter-battery fire. As the battle rolls on the magnificent and yet foolhardy charges of the massed French cavalry are recounted with their brave but ultimately futile attempt to break the squares on the ridge, Mercer and his troop pour fire into the horsemen mercilessly. As the Armée du Nord recoils from its final attack in disarray, Mercer is ordered with his men to follow up the retreating hordes, he replies to his superior "How?" as the charnel house surrounding his position contains the dead and dying horses needed to pull his guns. Essential reading. The Text, whole and complete, is taken from 1870 edition, published by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh Author - General Alexander Cavalié Mercer (1783-1868)
Journal of William Maclay: United States Senator from Pennsylvania, 1789-1791
by William MaclayThe Journal of William Maclay, a diary written by Maclay as a daily private record of Senate proceedings, was intended for personal reference. It was quite common for senators at that time to take notes of the various debates occurring in the Senate Chamber, especially given the importance of the First Congress and its role in selecting the location of the capital, the creation of the federal judicial system, and many other matters crucial in the early years of the federal government. Maclay wrote in his diary every evening, while the events of the day were still fresh in his memory. Most likely, Maclay never thought it would be published, since many entries expressed strong opinions about colleagues and events of the time. In fact, the impetus for starting the diary may have come from Maclay’s tenuous relationship with the first vice president of the United States, and thus the first president of the Senate, John Adams. They took an immediate dislike to each other. Adams considered Maclay a dullard of sorts, Maclay was disturbed by Adams’s fondness for ceremony, and they held fundamentally different views about the role of the new federal government.Maclay entered the Senate as a Federalist, or Pro-Administration, legislator, but he soon began to disagree with his Federalist colleagues in the Senate. He disliked the abundance of ceremony in interactions between President George Washington and the Senate. He objected to Washington’s presence in the Senate while business was being transacted. He opposed the chartering of the United States Bank, even at the sacrifice of personal popularity. The strong Antifederalist positions he developed, and the stubbornness with which he maintained them, even in the face of overwhelming pressure, cost Maclay the opportunity to be reelected to a full six-year term by the Pennsylvania legislature.-Senate.gov.
A Journalist's Diplomatic Mission: Ray Stannard Baker's World War I Diary (From Our Own Correspondent)
by Robert Mann John Maxwell HamiltonAt the height of World War I, in the winter of 1917--1918, one of the Progressive era's most successful muckracking journalists, Ray Stannard Baker (1870--1946), set out on a special mission to Europe on behalf of the Wilson administration. While posing as a foreign correspondent for the New Republic and the New York World, Baker assessed public opinion in Europe about the war and postwar settlement. American officials in the White House and State Department held Baker's wide-ranging, trenchant reports in high regard. After the war, Baker remained in government service as the president's press secretary at the Paris Peace Conference, where the Allied victors dictated the peace terms to the defeated Central Powers. Baker's position gave him an extraordinary vantage point from which to view history in the making. He kept a voluminous diary of his service to the president, beginning with his voyage to Europe and lasting through his time as press secretary. Unlike Baker's published books about Wilson, leavened by much reflection, his diary allows modern readers unfiltered impressions of key moments in history by a thoughtful inside observer.Published here for the first time, this long-neglected source includes an introduction by John Maxwell Hamilton and Robert Mann that places Baker and his diary into historical context.
Journals of Field-Marshal Count Von Blumenthal for 1866 and 1870-1871
by Alexander Gillespie-Addison Field-Marshal Graf Leonhard Von Blumenthal General Graf Albrecht Von BlumenthalIncludes the Franco-Prussian Map Pack with over 35 maps, plans and diagrams of the engagements of the warGraf Leonhard Von Blumenthal 1810-1900 was a Prussian General Field Marshal of forthright and upstanding principles who became a legendary figure in the German army during the Austro-Prussian and Franco-Prussian wars.After numerous staff and regimental appointments Von Blumenthal was assigned to be the Chief of the General Staff to the Crown Prince of Prussia, commanding the 2nd army, for the Austro-Prussian war in 1866. The post of Chief of the General Staff was intended to be that of a highly competent adviser to the royal titular commander of the army, and with it came great power of decision. It was upon the 2nd army that the brunt of the fighting fell during the short but brutal war, and its arrival at the battle of Königgratz saved the day. Von Blumenthal's own part in the entire campaign and particularly on the battlefield of Königgratz was most conspicuous, the grateful Crown Prince said to him, "I know to whom I owe the conduct of my army".The successful team of Crown Prince and Chief of the General Staff was revived for the struggle with the French during the Franco-Prussian war in 1870. Once again his service was nothing less than brilliant, particularly whilst herding the French Army into the bottleneck trap at Sedan. Bismarck himself said : "So far as one can see, the papers make no mention of him, although he is chief of the staff to the Crown Prince and, next after Moltke, deserves most credit for the conduct of the war. ... He won the battles of Wörth and Wissembourg, and after that of Sedan, as the Crown Prince was not always interfering with his plans."These fascinating journals are an undiscovered gem of military writing and a particularly interesting sidelight on two often forgotten wars that still shape Europe today.
Journey: Memoirs of an Air Force Chief of Staff
by Leon Panetta General Norty Schwartz Ron Levinson Suzie SchwartzAn uncensored account of General Schwartz's term as the wartime US Air Force Chief of Staff under presidents Bush and Obama.The General’s dysfunctional home life drove him to apply to the Air Force Academy over forty years ago, where he was provided with a new family and sense of worth he had never earned from his own father. This purpose has driven the General throughout his remarkable career, taking him to Alaska, the Pentagon, and Germany; to Florida during Hurricane Opal, and has also allowed him to work alongside Presidents Bush and Obama and Secretaries of Defense Don Rumsfeld, Bob Gates and Leon Panetta.Journey is a book about leadership. It is packed with the General’s lessons from life in the military: breaking the mold, flying uncharted airspace, battles?from Iraq to the Pentagon, Afghanistan to Congress. It’s about pushing limits in an era of diminishing budgets and fewer resources to fuel the furnace of innovation. He chronicles the phenomenal story of the evolution of the US special operations, such as what was achieved when taking down Bin Laden. The General discusses the controversial new technologies that have been allowing America to build new capabilities in remote aircraft and cyber warfare. Many believe General Schwartz’s greatest legacy will be the dramatic acceleration of the “drone” program. He is a staunch advocate for it and this book will explain why.
Journey Among Brave Men
by Dana Adams SchmidtA gripping account of an award-winning journalist&’s journey into the heart of rebel territory during the First Iraqi-Kurdish War. On July 4, 1962, New York Times foreign correspondent Dana Adams Schmidt left his post in Beirut to be voluntarily smuggled into Iraqi Kurdistan. It was the beginning of a nearly two-month journey that would climax in a days-long visit with the leader of the Kurdish rebellion, the most loved and feared man in Kurdistan, Mullah Mustafa Barzani. Accompanied by armed Kurdish guides and a 72-year-old Turkish interpreter, the six-feet-three-inch, seersucker-suit-clad Schmidt traveled, often at night, a secret route by foot, mule, horse and, on two occasions, jeep into the high Kurdish mountains to report on &“the fightingest people in the Middle East&” as no foreign journalist had done before. The physical dangers were acute—his group was strafed more than once by the Iraqi air force. Along the way, Schmidt learned about the history and culture of the Kurds, whose cause Barzani hoped Schmidt could convey to the world. Originally published in 1964 and now back in print with a new foreword by historian Charles Glass, Journey Among Brave Men is an enduring testament to the power of audacious journalism and to the strong will of the Kurds, an embattled people who remain in search of an independent state today. &“One can only marvel at the author&’s indefatigable industry and power of enthusiasm, which makes him one of the most reliable of all daily paper reporters . . . An excellent, fair and patently honest piece of work.&”—The New York Times
Journey Interrupted: A Family Without a Country in a World at War
by Hildegarde MahoneyIn the midst of World War II, a German-American family finds themselves stranded in Japan in this inspiring tale of an extraordinary family adapting to the hazards of fate, and finding salvation in each other. In the spring of 1941, seven-year-old Hildegarde Ercklentz and her family leave their home in New York City and set off for their native Germany, where her father has been recalled to the headquarters of the Commerz & Privat Bank in Berlin. It was meant to be an epic journey, crossing the United States, the Pacific, and Siberia--but when Hitler invades Russia, a week-long stay in Yokohama, Japan becomes six years of quasi-detention, as Hildegarde and her family are stranded in Japan until the war's end. In this spellbinding memoir, Mahoney recounts her family's moving saga, from their courage in the face of terrible difficulties--including forced relocation, scarce rations, brutal winters in the Japanese Alps--to their joyous reunion with their German relatives in Hamburg, and their eventual return to New York City in 1950. Richly detailed and remarkably vivid, Journey Interrupted is a story unlike any other--the inspiring tale of an extraordinary family adapting to the hazards of fate, and finding salvation in each other.
Journey into Hazard: Marines on Mission
by Marc ParrottJourney into Hazard: Marines on Mission, 1805-1945, first published in 1962 as Hazard: Marines on Mission, is a recounting of some of the most notable personalities and events in the history of the U.S. Marine Corps: from its humble beginnings in the early 1800s and the fight in the North African Barbary Wars, to the “ideal Marine” Lou Diamond, to the raising of the flag at Iwo Jima and the sad fate of Pima Indian Ira Hayes. While not a book of combat, Journey into Hazard provides insight into a number of nearly forgotten incidents that shaped both the Marines and the United States. Included are 10 pages of maps and illustrations. Author Marc Parrott served in the Marines during World War II.
Journey of the Giants
by Maj. Gene GurneyThe story of the B-29 Superfort—the weapon that won the war in the Pacific.Major Gurney writes about B-29 operations in the Pacific, asserting that this aircraft was instrumental in forcing the Japanese to surrender.Much has been written about this great airplane, because any account of the devastating fire raids on Japan or of the dramatic beginnings of atomic warfare would be incomplete without telling the story of the B-29s which figured so prominently in these missions. But there is also an exciting story behind that story—the story of the giant bomber’s journey from the drawing boards of its designers to the day when out of the bomb bay of the “Enola Gay” tumbled the fantastic new weapon that, with a blinding flash and unprecedented power, brought about the dawn of the nuclear age. That is the story which Gene Gurney tells in Journey of the Giants, and he tells it well.The book ends with the historic scene on the battleship Missouri which signified the end of the war in the Pacific and, with it, the end of World War II. But while this was the climax in the B-29’s long journey, it was by no means its end. B-29s continued to serve a variety of important peacetime missions; they did their share in the development and testing of advanced nuclear weapons and, in the Korean War, added new battle honors to those gained in the Pacific.—Thomas S. Power, General, USAF, Commander in Chief, Strategic Air Command
Journey through the Night
by Anne VriesThis book is a glimpse into the daily life and struggles of a Dutch family and their community during the German occupation of Holland.
A Journey to Nowhere: Among the Lands and History of Courland
by Jean-Paul KauffmannCourland is an entity that no longer exists. With the Gulf of Riga to the north, the Baltic to the west and Lithuania at its southern border, and now part of modern Latvia, the region was occupied by Nazi Germany and returned to Soviet Russia after the war, remaining largely inaccessible until 1991. It is now a nowhere land of wide skies and forests, deserted beaches, ruined castles and ex-KGB prisons. For years Jean-Paul Kauffmann has been irresistibly drawn to this buffer between the Germanic and Slav worlds. His digressive travels at the wheel of a Skoda become an investigation into the whereabouts of a former lover, a search for an excavator of tombs, and a journey in the footsteps of Louis XVIII, for whom Courland was once a place of exile.