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William of Tyre

Historian of the Latin East

By: Peter W. Edbury,John Gordon Rowe

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William of Tyre

Historian of the Latin East

By: Peter W. Edbury,John Gordon Rowe

In this study the authors offer the first full-scale study of William of Tyre as a historian.

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204

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CUP Archive

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ISBN 10

0521407281

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9780521407281

Communes and Despots in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

By: John E. Law

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Communes and Despots in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

By: John E. Law

Building on important issues highlighted by the late Philip Jones, this volume explores key aspects of the city state in late-medieval and Renaissance Italy, particularly the nature and quality of different types of government. It focuses on the apparently antithetical but often similar governmental forms represented by the republics and despotisms of the period. Beginning with a reprint of Jones's original 1965 article, the volume then provides twenty new essays that re-examine the issues he raised in light of modern scholarship. Taking a broad chronological and geographic approach, the collection offers a timely re-evaluation of a question of perennial interest to urban and political historians, as well as those with an interest in medieval and Renaissance Italy.

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394

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Routledge

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ISBN 10

1351950355

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9781351950350

Dogfight over Tokyo

The Final Air Battle of the Pacific and the Last Four Men to Die in World War II

By: John Wukovits

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Dogfight over Tokyo

The Final Air Battle of the Pacific and the Last Four Men to Die in World War II

By: John Wukovits

From an expert in the Pacific theater of World War II comes the tragic story of the pilots who fought the last fight of the war during the first hour of peace When Billy Hobbs and his fellow Hellcat aviators from Air Group 88 lifted off from the venerable Navy carrier USS Yorktown early on the morning of August 15, 1945, they had no idea they were about to carry out the final air mission of World War II. Two hours later, Yorktown received word from Admiral Nimitz that the war had ended and that all offensive operations should cease. As they were turning back, twenty Japanese planes suddenly dove from the sky above them and began a ferocious attack. Four American pilots never returned—men who had lifted off from the carrier in wartime but were shot down during peacetime. Drawing on participant letters, diaries, and interviews, newspaper and radio accounts, and previously untapped archival records, historian and prolific author of acclaimed Pacific theater books, including Tin Can Titans and Hell from the Heavens, John Wukovits tells the story of Air Group 88's pilots and crew through their eyes. Dogfight over Tokyo is written in the same riveting, edge-of-your-seat style that has made Wukovits's previous books so successful. This is a stirring, one-of-a-kind tale of naval encounters and the last dogfight of the war—a story that is both inspirational and tragic.

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336

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Da Capo Press

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ISBN 10

0306922045

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9780306922046

Saving Big Ben

The USS Franklin and Father Joseph T. O'Callahan

By: John Satterfield

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Saving Big Ben

The USS Franklin and Father Joseph T. O'Callahan

By: John Satterfield

Father Joe O’Callahan, S.J. was the unlikeliest war hero. A bespectacled math professor from Holy Cross, he became the U.S. Navy’s first Jesuit chaplain in World War II and served in combat operations in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters. Father O’Callahan was on the aircraft carrier Franklin, known as “Big Ben”, in the Okinawa campaign in early 1945 when massive explosions and fire from a kamikaze bomb attack nearly destroyed his ship. Hundreds of sailors died within moments of the attack, and the Franklin, lay dead in the water, drifting toward Japan just 60 miles distant. As flames consumed the carrier, the chaplain organized and led fire-fighting crews and prevented a potentially fatal explosion while ministering to injured, dying and terrified sailors. Father O’Callahan’s deeds were instrumental in saving the Franklin, and he stayed with the ship on its voyage under power to New York Harbor. The carrier’s captain called him “the bravest man I ever saw,” and Father Joe became the first American military chaplain to receive the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest decoration for valor. But the price of glory was high for Father O’Callahan. He suffered a stroke after returning to Holy Cross and spent the rest of his life enduring incapacitating pain. Through it all, the priest displayed the same leadership and strength derived from unwavering faith that enabled him to help save his ship and comrades. The book incorporates primary sources, interviews with Franklin survivors and O’Callahan family members and other materials never before published, including documentation of the Navy’s review of Father O’Callahan’s recommendation of the Medal of Honor and the process leading to the priest’s receipt of the decoration.

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210

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Naval Institute Press

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ISBN 10

1612514022

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9781612514024

Ancient Tiwanaku

By: John Wayne Janusek

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Ancient Tiwanaku

By: John Wayne Janusek

The first major synthesis exploring Tiwanaku civilization in its geographical and cultural setting.

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392

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Cambridge University Press

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0521816351

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9780521816359

Confederate Casualties at Gettysburg

A Comprehensive Record

By: John W. Busey,Travis W. Busey

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Confederate Casualties at Gettysburg

A Comprehensive Record

By: John W. Busey,Travis W. Busey

This reference book provides information on 24,000 Confederate soldiers killed, wounded, captured or missing at the Battle of Gettysburg. Casualties are listed by state and unit, in many cases with specifics regarding wounds, circumstances of casualty, military service, genealogy and physical descriptions. Detailed casualty statistics are given in tables for each company, battalion and regiment, along with brief organizational information for many units. Appendices cover Confederate and Union hospitals that treated Southern wounded and Federal prisons where captured Confederates were interned after the battle. Original burial locations are provided for many Confederate dead, along with a record of disinterments in 1871 and burial locations in three of the larger cemeteries where remains were reinterred. A complete name index is included.

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2370

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McFarland

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ISBN 10

1476624364

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9781476624365

Jerusalem Falls

Seven Centuries of War and Peace

By: John D. Hosler

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Jerusalem Falls

Seven Centuries of War and Peace

By: John D. Hosler

The first full account of the medieval struggle for Jerusalem, from the seventh to the thirteenth century The history of Jerusalem is one of conflict, faith, and empire. Few cities have been attacked as often and as savagely. This was no less true in the Middle Ages. From the Persian sack in 614 through the bloody First Crusade and beyond, Jerusalem changed hands countless times. But despite these horrific acts of violence, its story during this period is also one of interfaith tolerance and accord. In this gripping history, John D. Hosler explores the great clashes and delicate settlements of medieval Jerusalem. He examines the city’s many sieges and considers the experiences of its inhabitants of all faiths. The city’s conquerors consistently acknowledged and reinforced the rights of those religious minorities over which they ruled. Deeply researched, this account reveals the way in which Jerusalem’s past has been constructed on partial histories—and urges us to reckon with the city’s broader historical contours.

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361

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Yale University Press

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0300268696

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9780300268690

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William of Tyre

William of Tyre

Communes and Despots in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

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Dogfight over Tokyo

Dogfight over Tokyo

Saving Big Ben

Saving Big Ben

Ancient Tiwanaku

Ancient Tiwanaku

Confederate Casualties at Gettysburg

Confederate Casualties at Gettysburg

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