Victory from Defeat - 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 Victory from Defeat write by Andrew Mason. This book was released on 1998. Victory from Defeat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Victory From Defeat offers its readers inspiring true stories about famous individuals who, despite misfortune, heartache, and despair, overcame their many obstacles and conquered destiny. Imagine having the courage and resilience to dream of becoming a professional runner even though you couldn't walk, or to become history's most renowned scientist despite being thought of as mentally retarded. This book is a captivating collection of triumphant tales which features the struggles and glories of several notable people, including Bill Cosby, Bob Hope, Albert Einstein, Walt Disney, and more. By sharing their tales of failures and successes, and his own, Mason identifies the key components of victory for readers to learn and emulate. Victory From Defeat proves that no failure can cast its victim into a valley so deep that he or she can not recover to attain greater heights than the world has ever known.
Defeat Into Victory
Defeat Into Victory - 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 Defeat Into Victory write by William Joseph Slim Slim (Viscount). This book was released on 1956. Defeat Into Victory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A personal account of military field command during the Second World War as told by Sir William Slim, who led the British forces in Burma. In Mar. 1942 he took command of the Burma Corps and then led the British 14th Army, formed in 1943. They were British, Australians, Canadians, South Africans, Burmese, Chinese, and African soldiers, but mainly drawn from the volunteer Indian Army. For three years Slim's soldiers tied down tens of thousands of Japanese troops in Burma which keep them from fighting in the Pacific. Slim relates the long retreat through Burma and the final hard-fought victory over the Japanese forces, capturing the harsh realities of war. This narrative was first published during his appointment as the 13th Governor General of Australia, granted by the, then new, Queen Elizabeth II, in May, 1953.
Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory - 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 Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory write by David W. Wragg. This book was released on 2000. Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At many points in the 20th century, failures in command or political direction have resulted in military campaigns and operations failing to achieve their objectives. This text explores a selection of such instances including Pearl Harbor, the Bay of Pigs, the Falklands and Serbia in 1999.
Victory in Defeat
Victory in Defeat - 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 Victory in Defeat write by Gregory J. W. Urwin. This book was released on 2010. Victory in Defeat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a book that draws on interviews with American POWs, as well as their Japanese captors, and diaries secretly kept by prison-camp inmates, the author of Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island offers a moving history of the incarceration of the American defenders of Wake Island after their surrender to the Japanese during World War II.
Failing to Win
Failing to Win - 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 Failing to Win write by Dominic D. P. Johnson. This book was released on 2009-07-01. Failing to Win available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do people decide which country came out ahead in a war or a crisis? Why, for instance, was the Mayaguez Incident in May 1975--where 41 U.S. soldiers were killed and dozens more wounded in a botched hostage rescue mission--perceived as a triumph and the 1992-94 U.S. humanitarian intervention in Somalia, which saved thousands of lives, viewed as a disaster? In Failing to Win, Dominic Johnson and Dominic Tierney dissect the psychological factors that predispose leaders, media, and the public to perceive outcomes as victories or defeats--often creating wide gaps between perceptions and reality. To make their case, Johnson and Tierney employ two frameworks: "Scorekeeping," which focuses on actual material gains and losses; and "Match-fixing," where evaluations become skewed by mindsets, symbolic events, and media and elite spin. In case studies ranging from the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and the current War on Terror, the authors show that much of what we accept about international politics and world history is not what it seems--and why, in a time when citizens offer or withdraw support based on an imagined view of the outcome rather than the result on the ground, perceptions of success or failure can shape the results of wars, the fate of leaders, and the "lessons" we draw from history.
