America's Buried History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook America's Buried History write by Kenneth R. Rutherford. This book was released on 2020. America's Buried History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "America's Buried History traces the development of landmines from their first use before the Civil War, to the early use of naval mines, through the establishment of the Confederacy's Army Torpedo Bureau, the world's first institution devoted to developing, producing, and fielding mines in warfare."--Provided by publisher,
America's Buried History
America's Buried History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook America's Buried History write by Kenneth R. Rutherford. This book was released on 2020-04-21. America's Buried History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Masterfully researched . . . destined to become a classic study of one of the most horrific weapons ever utilized during the Civil War—landmines.” —Jonathan A. Noyalas, director, Shenandoah University’s McCormick Civil War Institute Despite all that has been published on the American Civil War, one aspect that has never received the in-depth attention it deserves is the widespread use of landmines across the Confederacy. These “infernal devices” dealt death and injury in nearly every Confederate state and influenced the course of the war. Kenneth R. Rutherford rectifies this oversight with America’s Buried History: Landmines in the Civil War, the first book devoted to a comprehensive analysis and history of the fascinating and important topic. Modern landmines were used for the first time in history on a widespread basis during the Civil War when the Confederacy, in desperate need of an innovative technology to overcome significant deficits in material and manpower, employed them. The first American to die from a victim-activated landmine was on the Virginia Peninsula in early 1862 during the siege of Yorktown. Their use set off explosive debates inside the Confederate government and within the ranks of the army over the ethics of using “weapons that wait.” As Confederate fortunes dimmed, leveraging low-cost weapons like landmines became acceptable and even desirable. Dr. Rutherford, who is known worldwide for his work in the landmine discipline, and who himself lost his legs to a mine in Africa, has written an important contribution to the literature on one of the most fundamental, contentious, and significant modern conventional weapons. “A MUST for military history buffs! A thrilling and chilling read.” —His Royal Highness Prince Mired Raad Al-Hussein, UN Special Envoy for Landmine Prohibition Treaty
Buried in the Bitter Waters
Buried in the Bitter Waters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Buried in the Bitter Waters write by Elliot Jaspin. This book was released on 2008-05-06. Buried in the Bitter Waters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist exposes the secret history of racial cleansing in America
Buried Beneath Us
Buried Beneath Us - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Buried Beneath Us write by Anthony Aveni. This book was released on 2013-11-19. Buried Beneath Us available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A beautifully illustrated look at the forces that help cities grow—and eventually cause their destruction—told through the stories of the great civilizations of ancient America. You may think you know all of the American cities. But did you know that long before New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, or Boston ever appeared on the map—thousands of years before Europeans first colonized North America—other cities were here? They grew up, fourished, and eventually disappeared in the same places that modern cities like St. Louis and Mexico City would later appear. In the pages of this book, you'll find the astonishing story of how they grew from small settlements to booming city centers—and then crumbled into ruins.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee write by Dee Brown. This book was released on 2012-10-23. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The “fascinating” #1 New York Times bestseller that awakened the world to the destruction of American Indians in the nineteenth-century West (The Wall Street Journal). First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of American Indian tribes across the western frontier. In this nonfiction account, Dee Brown focuses on the betrayals, battles, and massacres suffered by American Indians between 1860 and 1890. He tells of the many tribes and their renowned chiefs—from Geronimo to Red Cloud, Sitting Bull to Crazy Horse—who struggled to combat the destruction of their people and culture. Forcefully written and meticulously researched, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee inspired a generation to take a second look at how the West was won. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dee Brown including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
