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August Reckoning

Jack Turner and Racism in Post-Civil War Alabama

By: William Warren Rogers,Robert David Ward

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August Reckoning

Jack Turner and Racism in Post-Civil War Alabama

By: William Warren Rogers,Robert David Ward

An important story of one man's life, lived with courage and principle.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817351191

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9780817351199

The Whales of August

A Play in Two Acts

By: David Berry

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THE STORY: The scene is a beach house on an island off the Maine coast, where two widowed sisters, Sarah Walker and Elizabeth Strong, have been summering for many years, Elizabeth, the eldest and now blind, has grown increasingly reclusive and irri

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

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082221234X

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9780822212348

Six Days in August: The Story of Stockholm Syndrome

By: David King

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Six Days in August: The Story of Stockholm Syndrome

By: David King

A rollicking account of the bizarre hostage drama that gave rise to the term "Stockholm syndrome." On the morning of August 23, 1973, a man wearing a wig, makeup, and a pair of sunglasses walked into the main branch of Sveriges Kreditbank, a prominent bank in central Stockholm. He ripped out a submachine gun, fired it into the ceiling, and shouted, "The party starts!" This was the beginning of a six-day hostage crisis—and media circus—that would mesmerize the world, drawing into its grip everyone from Sweden’s most notorious outlaw to the prime minister himself. As policemen and reporters encircled the bank, the crime-in-progress turned into a high-stakes thriller broadcast on live television. Inside the building, meanwhile, complicated emotional relationships developed between captors and captives that would launch a remarkable new concept into the realm of psychology, hostage negotiation, and popular culture. Based on a wealth of previously unpublished sources, including rare film footage and unprecedented access to the main participants, Six Days in August captures the surreal events in their entirety, on an almost minute-by-minute basis. It is a rich human drama that blurs the lines between loyalty and betrayal, obedience and defiance, fear and attraction—and a groundbreaking work of nonfiction that forces us to consider "Stockholm syndrome" in an entirely new light.

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334

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393635090

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9780393635096

One Day in August

Ian Fleming, Enigma, and the Deadly Raid on Dieppe

By: David O'Keefe

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One Day in August

Ian Fleming, Enigma, and the Deadly Raid on Dieppe

By: David O'Keefe

A lively and readable account' Spectator 'A fine book ... well-written and well-researched' Washington Times In less than six hours in August 1942, nearly 1,000 British, Canadian and American commandos died in the French port of Dieppe in an operation that for decades seemed to have no real purpose. Was it a dry-run for D-Day, or perhaps a gesture by the Allies to placate Stalin's impatience for a second front in the west? Historian David O'Keefe uses hitherto classified intelligence archives to prove that this catastrophic and apparently futile raid was in fact a mission, set up by Ian Fleming of British Naval Intelligence as part of a 'pinch' policy designed to capture material relating to the four-rotor Enigma Machine that would permit codebreakers like Alan Turing at Bletchley Park to turn the tide of the Second World War. 'A fast-paced and convincing book ... that clears up decades of misinformation about the ignoble raid' Toronto Star

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409

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Icon Books

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1785786318

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9781785786310

August Storm: The Soviet 1945 Strategic Offensive In Manchuria [Illustrated Edition]

By: Colonel David M Glantz

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August Storm: The Soviet 1945 Strategic Offensive In Manchuria [Illustrated Edition]

By: Colonel David M Glantz

[Includes 15 tables, 1 tables, 26 maps] In August 1945, only three months after the rumble of gunfire had subsided in Europe, Soviet armies launched massive attacks on Japanese forces in Manchuria. In a lightning campaign that lasted but ten days, Soviet forces ruptured Japanese defenses on a 4,000-kilometer front, paralyzed Japanese command and control, and plunged through 450 kilometers of forbidding terrain into the heartland of Manchuria. Effective Soviet cover and deception masked the scale of offensive preparations and produced strategic surprise. Imaginative tailoring of units to terrain, flexible combat formations, and bold maneuvers by armor-heavy, task-organized forward detachments and mobile groups produced operational and tactical surprise and, ultimately, rapid and total Soviet victory. For the Soviet Army, the Manchurian offensive was a true postgraduate combat exercise. The Soviets had to display all the operational and tactical techniques they had learned in four years of bitter fighting in the west. Though the offensive culminated an education, it also emerged as a clear case study of how a nation successfully begins a war in a race against the clock arid not only against an enemy, but also against hindering terrain. Soviet military historians and theorists have recently focused on the Manchurian offensive, a theater case study characterized by deep mobile operations on a broad front designed to pre-empt and overcome defenses. Because these characteristics appear relevant to current theater operations, the Soviets study the more prominent operational and tactical techniques used in Manchuria in 1945. What is of obvious interest to the Soviet military professional should be of interest to the U.S. officer as well.

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249

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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178625042X

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9781786250421

The August Offensive at ANZAC 1915

By: David W. Cameron

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The August Offensive at ANZAC 1915

By: David W. Cameron

The August offensive or Anzac Breakout at Gallipoli saw some of the bloodiest fighting since the landing as Commonwealth and Turkish troops fought desperate battles at Lone Pine, German Officers' Trench, Turkish Quinn's the Chessboard, the Nek, Chunuk Bair, the Farm, Hill Q and Hill 971.

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205

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Simon and Schuster

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1921941693

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9781921941696

August Storm: Soviet Tactical And Operational Combat In Manchuria, 1945 [Illustrated Edition]

By: Colonel David M Glantz

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August Storm: Soviet Tactical And Operational Combat In Manchuria, 1945 [Illustrated Edition]

By: Colonel David M Glantz

[Includes 19 tables, 7 figures, 41 maps] To be successful, a strategic military operation requires careful planning and meticulous execution. History applauds the commander who orchestrates the operation, and major subordinate commanders share in the glory. In reality, however, commanders and soldiers at the operational and tactical levels play an even more critical role in achieving battlefield success. History often accords them little attention. Practitioners of war must study war at all levels. An understanding of the strategic aspects of military operations is essential in order to provide a context for a more detailed and equally critical understanding of precise operational and tactical techniques. Few officers practice war at the strategic level. The majority wrestle with the myriad of problems associated with implementing those strategic plans. Leavenworth Paper no. 8. through the medium of detailed case studies, examines the operational and tactical aspects of a major strategic operation—the Soviet offensive m Manchuria in 1945. The case studies, which involve army, corps, division, regimental, and battalion operations, focus on the many problems commanders and soldiers at that level face. Constrained by time, a desperate enemy, rugged terrain, and severe climatic conditions—the realities of war— Soviet commanders devised find implemented techniques that produced victory. This paper highlights those techniques in the knowledge that Soviet theorists have likewise studied them in detail, both historically and in a contemporary context.

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1786250411

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9781786250414

The Initial Period of War on the Eastern Front, 22 June - August 1941

Proceedings Fo the Fourth Art of War Symposium, Garmisch, October, 1987

By: David M. Glantz

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The Initial Period of War on the Eastern Front, 22 June - August 1941

Proceedings Fo the Fourth Art of War Symposium, Garmisch, October, 1987

By: David M. Glantz

Beginning with Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, this volume draws upon eye-witness German accounts supplemented with German archival and detailed Soviet materials. Formerly classified Soviet archival materials has been incorporated.

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Routledge

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1136289690

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9781136289699

Book's by David August

August Reckoning

August Reckoning

The Whales of August

The Whales of August

Six Days in August: The Story of Stockholm Syndrome

Six Days in August: The Story of Stockholm Syndrome

One Day in August

One Day in August

August Storm: The Soviet 1945 Strategic Offensive In Manchuria [Illustrated Edition]

August Storm: The Soviet 1945 Strategic Offensive In Manchuria [Illustrated Edition]

The August Offensive at ANZAC 1915

The August Offensive at ANZAC 1915

August Storm: Soviet Tactical And Operational Combat In Manchuria, 1945 [Illustrated Edition]

August Storm: Soviet Tactical And Operational Combat In Manchuria, 1945 [Illustrated Edition]

The Initial Period of War on the Eastern Front, 22 June - August 1941

The Initial Period of War on the Eastern Front, 22 June - August 1941

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