Stichting Fields of Honor, Amsterdam University Press b.V.
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040782712)
In the rolling hills of the Limburg Province, near the village of Margraten, they slowly loom up, row after row: thousands of white marble crosses and Stars of David. They mark the final resting place of American soldiers who died fighting to liberat...Loe edasi...
Stichting Fields of Honor, Amsterdam University Press b.V.
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040788707)
In the rolling hills of the Limburg Province, near the village of Margraten, they slowly loom up, row after row: thousands of white marble crosses and Stars of David. They mark the final resting place of American soldiers who died fighting to liberat...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Mar-2023, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: McFarland & Co Inc, ISBN-13: 9781476648507)
Every gravestone in every graveyard can frame a story far more complex than the dates engraved upon it. Its common for spouses to be memorialized together as a final affirmation of the commitments made in life, or for bereaved parents to be burie...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Mar-2023, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: McFarland & Co Inc, ISBN-13: 9781476648507)
Every gravestone in every graveyard can frame a story far more complex than the dates engraved upon it. Its common for spouses to be memorialized together as a final affirmation of the commitments made in life, or for bereaved parents to be burie...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2020, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Missouri Press, ISBN-13: 9780826274441)
In this important new contribution to the historical literature, Amy Fluker offers a history of Civil War commemoration in Missouri, shifting focus away from the guerrilla war and devoting equal attention to Union, African American, and Confederate c...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2020, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Missouri Press, ISBN-13: 9780826274441)
In this important new contribution to the historical literature, Amy Fluker offers a history of Civil War commemoration in Missouri, shifting focus away from the guerrilla war and devoting equal attention to Union, African American, and Confederate c...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2020, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: McFarland & Co Inc, ISBN-13: 9781476625164)
Based on an exhaustive search of various sources, this book provides a comprehensive roster of all known Confederate soldiers, sailors and marines from Rockbridge County, Virginia, or those who served in units raised in the County. Washington Coll...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Feb-2020, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780429671104)
British state-supported Holocaust remembrance has dramatically grown in prominence since the 1990s. This monograph provides the first substantial discussion of the interface between public Holocaust memory in contemporary Britain and the nations cha...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Feb-2020, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780429672590)
British state-supported Holocaust remembrance has dramatically grown in prominence since the 1990s. This monograph provides the first substantial discussion of the interface between public Holocaust memory in contemporary Britain and the nations cha...Loe edasi...
Through case studies from Europe and Russia, this volume analyses memorials as a means for the present to make claims on the past in the aftermath of armed conflict. The central contention is that memorials are not backward-looking, inert reminders o...Loe edasi...
This illustrated WWI battlefield guide explores the heroic acts honored with Victoria Crosses-and the sites where they took place-in 1918 France. Historian and battlefield tour guide Paul Oldenfield spent years researching the Victoria Cross actio...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Apr-2019, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: McFarland & Co Inc, ISBN-13: 9781476634074)
Marie Marvingt (1875-1963) set the worlds first womens aviation records, won the only gold medal for outstanding performance in all sports, invented the airplane ambulance, was the first female bomber pilot in history, fought in World War I disg...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Apr-2019, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: McFarland & Co Inc, ISBN-13: 9781476634074)
Marie Marvingt (1875-1963) set the worlds first womens aviation records, won the only gold medal for outstanding performance in all sports, invented the airplane ambulance, was the first female bomber pilot in history, fought in World War I disg...Loe edasi...
There are 37,780 First World War memorials in Britain, listing names from all walks of life - estates, villages, places of work. They stand as landmarks to a defining period in British history - and yet one which is in danger of slipping away from po...Loe edasi...
Published to coincide with the centennial of the end of the First World War, this informative book is an essential guide to the memorials of the war on the Western Front, describing their history and meaning. Graveyards, memorials and monuments have...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-May-2018, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Little, Brown Book Group, ISBN-13: 9781472129185)
On Courage is a collection of twenty-eight moving and inspirational stories of valour displayed by recipients of the Victoria Cross and George Cross. * 2.70 of the publishers RRP of all copies of this book sold in the United Kingdom and Republic of...Loe edasi...
Epitaphs of the Great War Passchendaele is an edited collection of headstone inscriptions from the graves of those killed during the Third Battle of Ypres - Passchendaele. Limited by the Imperial War Graves Commission to sixty-six characters - far mo...Loe edasi...
Epitaphs of the Great War: The Somme is an edited collection of one hundred headstone inscriptions from those who paid the ultimate price during this infamous battle which marked a turning point in the public perceptions of the war in Britain....Loe edasi...
In The Greatest Medal of Honor Stories Ever Told, editor Tom McCarthy has pulled together some of the finest writings about heroes awarded the highest military honor that capture readers imaginations. The one thing the heroes in this collection have...Loe edasi...
In The Greatest Medal of Honor Stories Ever Told, editor Tom McCarthy has pulled together some of the finest writings about heroes awarded the highest military honor that capture readers imaginations. The one thing the heroes in this collection have...Loe edasi...
