Too Proud to Fight - 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 Too Proud to Fight write by Patrick Baron Devlin. This book was released on 1975. Too Proud to Fight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A massive study of how America got involved in World War I, seen primarily through the personality and policies of Woodrow Wilson.
First to Fight
First to Fight - 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 First to Fight write by Steven T. Tom. This book was released on 2019-09-20. First to Fight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Five days after the outbreak of World War I in the summer of 1914, American Kiffin Rockwell was on a ship headed for France. The United States would not join the war for nearly three years, but Rockwell believed it was time to fight. He joined the elite French Foreign Legion and was soon fighting in the trenches of the Western Front. A combat wound in 1915 rendered him unfit to fight on the ground, so Rockwell volunteered to fight in the air, becoming a charter member of the soon-to-be legendary Lafayette Escadrille, a fighter squadron of volunteer American pilots. In May 1916, Rockwell became the first pilot to score a victory for the new unit when he shot down a German plane. He was wounded in the skies over Verdun but refused hospitalization, insisting on remaining in the air. He flew more missions with the Lafayette Escadrille than any other pilot until his death in aerial combat in September 1916. First to Fight is a high-octane drama of a remarkable soldier and pilot who fought in the trenches and in the skies during World War I. It is the story of one of the first American fighter pilots at the dawn of aerial combat, the era of the Red Baron, with dogfighting biplanes high above the trench lines. But more than a World War I story, more than an aviation story, this is the story of an idealist who volunteered—long before his country drafted its first soldier—to fight, and ultimately die, in defense of civilization.
The Moralist
The Moralist - 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 Moralist write by Patricia O'Toole. This book was released on 2019-04-16. The Moralist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Acclaimed author Patricia O’Toole’s “superb” (The New York Times) account of Woodrow Wilson, one of the most high-minded, consequential, and controversial US presidents. A “gripping” (USA TODAY) biography, The Moralist is “an essential contribution to presidential history” (Booklist, starred review). “In graceful prose and deep scholarship, Patricia O’Toole casts new light on the presidency of Woodrow Wilson” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis). The Moralist shows how Wilson was a progressive who enjoyed unprecedented success in leveling the economic playing field, but he was behind the times on racial equality and women’s suffrage. As a Southern boy during the Civil War, he knew the ravages of war, and as president he refused to lead the country into World War I until he was convinced that Germany posed a direct threat to the United States. Once committed, he was an admirable commander-in-chief, yet he also presided over the harshest suppression of political dissent in American history. After the war Wilson became the world’s most ardent champion of liberal internationalism—a democratic new world order committed to peace, collective security, and free trade. With Wilson’s leadership, the governments at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 founded the League of Nations, a federation of the world’s democracies. The creation of the League, Wilson’s last great triumph, was quickly followed by two crushing blows: a paralyzing stroke and the rejection of the treaty that would have allowed the United States to join the League. Ultimately, Wilson’s liberal internationalism was revived by Franklin D. Roosevelt and it has shaped American foreign relations—for better and worse—ever since. A cautionary tale about the perils of moral vanity and American overreach in foreign affairs, The Moralist “does full justice to Wilson’s complexities” (The Wall Street Journal).
Issues and Events
Issues and Events - 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 Issues and Events write by Francis J. L. Dorl. This book was released on 1916. Issues and Events available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Americanism and Preparedness
Americanism and Preparedness - 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 Americanism and Preparedness write by Theodore Roosevelt. This book was released on 1917. Americanism and Preparedness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
