After Tet - 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 After Tet write by Ronald H. Spector. This book was released on 1993. After Tet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Military historian and ex-marine Ronald Spector marks the upcoming 25th anniversary of the Tet offensive which presaged the worst fighting that took place the year following. Detailing the deterioration of race relations, the growth of the drug culture, and even the experience of South Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers, this comprehensive history may stand as one of the most important books about Vietnam.
The Bloodiest Year
The Bloodiest Year - 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 The Bloodiest Year write by Ken Wharton. This book was released on 2011-10-21. The Bloodiest Year available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 1972 was the bloodiest year of an already bloody conflict played out on the streets of Northern Ireland. Over twelve months the country was rocked by the atrocities of Bloody Friday and the Claudy bombing, civilian casualties mounted, and the soldiers of the British Army were caught between the factions. 169 servicemen died that year, their deaths unnoticed at home except by their loved ones, fighting a forgotten war on British soil. In The Bloodiest Year, Ken Wharton, a former soldier who did two tours of Northern Ireland, tells the story of the worst year of the Troubles through the accounts of the men who patrolled the streets of Belfast and Londonderry, who saw their comrades die and walked with death themselves. He examines almost every single death during that year, and names the men behind the violence, many of whom now hold high office in the country they tried so hard to break apart.
Rise to Greatness
Rise to Greatness - 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 Rise to Greatness write by David Von Drehle. This book was released on 2012-10-30. Rise to Greatness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Von Drehle has chosen a critical year ('the most eventful year in American history' and the year Lincoln rose to greatness), done his homework, and written a spirited account."N"Publishers Weekly."
The Great Big Book of Horrible Things
The Great Big Book of Horrible Things - 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 The Great Big Book of Horrible Things write by Matthew White. This book was released on 2011-10-25. The Great Big Book of Horrible Things available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A compulsively readable and utterly original account of world history—from an atrocitologist’s point of view. Evangelists of human progress meet their opposite in Matthew White's epic examination of history's one hundred most violent events, or, in White's piquant phrasing, "the numbers that people want to argue about." Reaching back to 480 BCE's second Persian War, White moves chronologically through history to this century's war in the Congo and devotes chapters to each event, where he surrounds hard facts (time and place) and succinct takeaways (who usually gets the blame?) with lively military, social, and political histories. With the eye of a seasoned statistician, White assigns each entry a ranking based on body count, and in doing so he gives voice to the suffering of ordinary people that, inexorably, has defined every historical epoch. By turns droll, insightful, matter-of-fact, and ultimately sympathetic to those who died, The Great Big Book of Horrible Things gives readers a chance to reach their own conclusions while offering a stark reminder of the darkness of the human heart.
Our Year of War
Our Year of War - 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 Our Year of War write by Daniel P. Bolger. This book was released on 2017-11-07. Our Year of War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Two brothers--Chuck and Tom Hagel--who went to war in Vietnam, fought in the same unit, and saved each other's life. They disagreed about the war, but they fought it together. 1968. America was divided. Flag-draped caskets came home by the thousands. Riots ravaged our cities. Assassins shot our political leaders. Black fought white, young fought old, fathers fought sons. And it was the year that two brothers from Nebraska went to war. In Vietnam, Chuck and Tom Hagel served side by side in the same rifle platoon. Together they fought in the Mekong Delta, battled snipers in Saigon, chased the enemy through the jungle, and each saved the other's life under fire. But when their one-year tour was over, these two brothers came home side-by-side but no longer in step--one supporting the war, the other hating it. Former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and his brother Tom epitomized the best, and withstood the worst, of the most tumultuous, shocking, and consequential year in the last half-century. Following the brothers' paths from the prairie heartland through a war on the far side of the world and back to a divided America, Our Year of War tells the story of two brothers at war--a gritty, poignant, and resonant story of a family and a nation divided yet still united.
