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Hell in Hürtgen Forest

The Ordeal and Triumph of an American Infantry Regiment

By: Robert Sterling Rush

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Hell in Hürtgen Forest

The Ordeal and Triumph of an American Infantry Regiment

By: Robert Sterling Rush

Some of the most brutally intense infantry combat in World War II occurred within Germany's Hrtgen Forest. Focusing on the bitterly fought battle between the American 22d Infantry Regiment and elements of the German LXXIV Korps around Grosshau, Rush chronicles small-unit combat at its most extreme and shows why, despite enormous losses, the Americans persevered in the Hrtgenwald "meat grinder," a battle similar to two punch-drunk fighters staggering to survive the round. On 16 November 1944, the 22d Infantry entered the Hürtgen Forest as part of the U.S. Army's drive to cross the Roer River. During the next eighteen days, the 22d suffered more than 2,800 casualties-or about 86 percent of its normal strength of about 3,250 officers and men. After three days of fighting, the regiment had lost all three battalion commanders. After seven days, rifle company strengths stood at 50 percent and by battle's end each had suffered nearly 140 percent casualties. Despite these horrendous losses, the 22d Regiment survived and fought on, due in part to army personnel policies that ensured that unit strengths remained high even during extreme combat. Previously wounded soldiers returned to their units and new replacements, "green" to battle, arrived to follow the remaining battle-hardened cadre. The attack halted only when no veterans remained to follow. The German units in the Hrtgenwald suffered the same horrendous attrition, with one telling difference. German replacement policy detracted from rather than enhanced German combat effectiveness. Organizations had high paper strength but low manpower, and commanders consolidated decimated units time after time until these ever-dwindling bands of soldiers disappeared forever: killed, wounded, captured, or surrendered. The performance of American and German forces during this harrowing eighteen days of combat was largely a product of their respective backgrounds, training, and organization. This pre-battle aspect, not normally seen in combat history, helps explain why the Americans were successful and the Germans were not. Rush's work underscores both the horrors of combat and the resiliency of American organizations. While honoring the sacrifice and triumph of the common soldier, it also compels us to reexamine our views on the requisites for victory on the battlefield.

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Hell in Hürtgen Forest

The Ordeal and Triumph of an American Infantry Regiment

By: Robert Sterling Rush

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Neville Chamberlain

A Biography

By: Robert Self

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Neville Chamberlain

A Biography

By: Robert Self

History has not looked kindly upon Neville Chamberlain. Despite a long and distinguished political career, his trip to Munich in 1938 and the 'appeasement' of Hitler have forever overshadowed his many other achievements and blighted his reputation, his name now synonymous with the futility of trying to reason with dictators and bullies. Yet, as this biography shows, there is much more to this complex and intriguing character than is generally supposed, and even the infamous events of 1938 are open to more charitable interpretations than is usually the case. Appeasement brought the British government crucial time in which to rearm, and in particular allowed the RAF to drastically increase the number of fighter aircraft it could muster for the Battle of Britain during the summer of 1940. Based on the study of over 150 collections of private papers on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as exhaustive exploration of British government records held in the National Archives, it is no exaggeration to say that the author has surveyed virtually all the existing archival material written by or to Chamberlain, as well as a high proportion of that referring to him. As such, this volume will no doubt establish itself as the definitive account of Chamberlain's life and career, and provide a much fuller and fairer picture of his actions than has hitherto been the case.

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1351915169

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Reforming Money and Finance

Institutions and Markets in Flux

By: Robert Guttmann

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Reforming Money and Finance

Institutions and Markets in Flux

By: Robert Guttmann

This work provides a guide to money and finance. The second edition highlights the changes that have taken place in the period since 1988, including the banking crises of the early 1990s.

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1315285355

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Palisades

100,000 Acres in 100 Years

By: Robert O. Binnewies

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Palisades

100,000 Acres in 100 Years

By: Robert O. Binnewies

The story of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, founded in 1900 to save the cliffs that border the Hudson River, is told by Binnewies, its former executive director. The work is based on extensive archival research carried out by numerous people associated with the PIPC. The commission became the overseer of many parks as well as several historic sites. The story of the fight to save these areas, with all the negotiations, fundraising, personalities, and political struggle involved is told in a clear and detailed narrative. c. Book News Inc.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823221288

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To Be Loved - an Ms Story

By: Robert L. Sterling

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To Be Loved - an Ms Story

By: Robert L. Sterling

Providing an open wings span of kindness to everyone, TO BE LOVED. Encouraging individuals, families, and friends to understand a DISABLING DIAGNOSIS or INJURY isn't the end of happiness, love, and achievement. DAMARA'S WINGS! "To Be Loved in their story." The most significant impact on my life occurred twice. Once when my firstborn child, my daughter, came into my life. And secondly, she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in her adult years, and I learned of my innate capability to be her Care Provider. The dependent life she came to know prepped me for the most extraordinary task I could ever imagine would come to me. I found a more profound awareness of caring abilities and compassion within myself, I can only attribute To Be Loved.

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1664142908

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Walking to Wachusett

By: Robert M. Young

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Walking to Wachusett

By: Robert M. Young

Join author Robert Young as he walks along the roads traveled by Henry David Thoreau and companion Richard Fuller in 1842. Explore and relive the thrill and the challenge of making the 34 mile journey from Concord, MA to Mt. Wachusett, located in Princeton, MA.

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0615264085

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How Credit-money Shapes the Economy: The United States in a Global System

The United States in a Global System

By: Robert Guttmann

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How Credit-money Shapes the Economy: The United States in a Global System

The United States in a Global System

By: Robert Guttmann

This text examines money, credit, and economic activity in the increasingly integrated global economy. It focuses on the problems afflicting the United States as it adapts to the transformation of the world economy.

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1315485958

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Understanding Audiences

Learning To Use the Media Constructively

By: Robert H. Wicks

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Understanding Audiences

Learning To Use the Media Constructively

By: Robert H. Wicks

Understanding Audiences helps readers to recognize the important role that media plays in their lives and suggests ways in which they may use media constructively. Author Robert H. Wicks considers the relationship between the producers and the receivers of media information, focusing on how messages shape perceptions of social reality. He analyzes how contemporary media--including newspapers, film, television, and the Internet--vie for the attention of the audience members, and evaluates the importance of message structure and content in attracting and maintaining the attention of audiences. Wicks also examines the principles associated with persuasive communication and the ways in which professional communicators frame messages to help audiences construct meaning about the world around them. Among other features, this text: * describes the processes associated with human information processing; * presents an analysis of the principles associated with social learning in children and adults and explores the possibility that media messages may cultivate ideas, attitudes, and criticisms of this perspective; * explains how most media messages are framed to highlight or accentuate specific perspectives of individuals or organizations--challenging the notion of objectivity in media information messages; * considers the effects of media exposure, such as whether the contemporary media environment may be partially responsible for the recent rash of school violence among young people; * analyzes the Internet as an interactive medium and considers whether it has the potential to contribute to social and civic disengagement as it substitutes for human interaction; and * evaluates the principles of the uses and gratifications approach as they apply to the new media environment, including traditional media as well as popular genres like talk shows and developing media systems such as the Internet. Intended for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students who need to understand the nature of the media and how they interact with these messages, Understanding Audiences promotes the development of media literacy skills and helps readers to understand the processes associated with engaging them in media messages. It also offers them tools to apply toward the shaping of media in a socially constructive way.

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1135656274

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Lone Star Lawmen

The Second Century of the Texas Rangers

By: Robert M. Utley

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Lone Star Lawmen

The Second Century of the Texas Rangers

By: Robert M. Utley

Hailed as "a rip-snortin', six-guns-blazin' saga of good guys and bad guys who were sometimes one and the same," Robert M. Utley's Lone Star Justice captured the colorful first century of Texas Ranger history. Now, in the eagerly anticipated conclusion, Lone Star Lawmen, Utley once again chronicles the daring exploits of the Rangers, this time as they bring justice to the twentieth-century West. Based on unprecedented access to Ranger archives, this fast-paced narrative stretches from the days of the Mexican Revolution (where atrocities against Mexican Americans marked the nadir of Ranger history) to the Branch Davidian saga near Waco and the recent bloody standoff with "Republic of Texas" militia. Readers will find in these pages one hundred years of high adventure. Utley follows the Rangers as they pursue bank robbers, bootleggers, moonshiners, and "horsebackers" (smugglers who used mule trains to bring liquor across the border). We see these fearless lawmen taming oil boomtowns, springing the ambush of Bonnie and Clyde, facing down angry lynch mobs, and tracking the "Phantom Killer" of Texarkana. Utley also highlights the gradual evolution of this celebrated force, revealing that while West Texas Rangers still occasionally ride the range on horseback and crack down on smugglers and rustlers, East Texas Rangers--who work mostly in big cities--now ride in high-powered cars and contend with kidnappers, forgers, and other urban criminals. But East or West, today's Rangers have become sophisticated professionals, backed by crime labs and forensic science. Written by one of the most respected Western historians alive, here is the definitive account of the Texas Rangers, a vivid portrait of these legendary peace officers and their role in a changing West.

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Oxford University Press

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0198035160

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Confounding Father

Thomas Jefferson's Image in His Own Time

By: Robert M. S. McDonald

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Confounding Father

Thomas Jefferson's Image in His Own Time

By: Robert M. S. McDonald

Of all the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson stood out as the most controversial and confounding. Loved and hated, revered and reviled, during his lifetime he served as a lightning rod for dispute. Few major figures in American history provoked such a polarization of public opinion. One supporter described him as the possessor of "an enlightened mind and superior wisdom; the adorer of our God; the patriot of his country; and the friend and benefactor of the whole human race." Martha Washington, however, considered Jefferson "one of the most detestable of mankind"--and she was not alone. While Jefferson’s supporters organized festivals in his honor where they praised him in speeches and songs, his detractors portrayed him as a dilettante and demagogue, double-faced and dangerously radical, an atheist and "Anti-Christ" hostile to Christianity. Characterizing his beliefs as un-American, they tarred him with the extremism of the French Revolution. Yet his allies cheered his contributions to the American Revolution, unmasking him as the now formerly anonymous author of the words that had helped to define America in the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson, meanwhile, anxiously monitored the development of his image. As president he even clipped expressions of praise and scorn from newspapers, pasting them in his personal scrapbooks. In this fascinating new book, historian Robert M. S. McDonald explores how Jefferson, a man with a manner so mild some described it as meek, emerged as such a divisive figure. Bridging the gap between high politics and popular opinion, Confounding Father exposes how Jefferson’s bifurcated image took shape both as a product of his own creation and in response to factors beyond his control. McDonald tells a gripping, sometimes poignant story of disagreements over issues and ideology as well as contested conceptions of the rules of politics. In the first fifty years of independence, Americans’ views of Jefferson revealed much about their conflicting views of the purpose and promise of America. Jeffersonian America

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University of Virginia Press

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081393897X

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Statistics of the Colonies of the British Empire in the West Indies, South America, Asia, Austral-Asia, Africa, and Europe

By: Robert Montgomery Martin

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Statistics of the Colonies of the British Empire in the West Indies, South America, Asia, Austral-Asia, Africa, and Europe

By: Robert Montgomery Martin

Reprint of the original, first published in 1839.

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3368754483

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All Things Work Together for Good

By: Robert J. Colpitts

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All Things Work Together for Good

By: Robert J. Colpitts

John thought that his life was finally coming together. He met the woman of his dreams and she helped to turn it all around. For her he was giving up truck driving and settling down. However, he had no idea that the bliss he thought was ahead was nothing of the sort. He would come to find his true strength spiritually, mentally and physically. He would also come to find that true friends come from all kinds of different people, and they all become his most honored advisers, as they fight together for their own reasons against new daily evil in New York City.

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1483603474

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British Capitalism at the Crossroads, 1919-1932

A Study in Politics, Economics, and International Relations

By: Robert W. D. Boyce

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British Capitalism at the Crossroads, 1919-1932

A Study in Politics, Economics, and International Relations

By: Robert W. D. Boyce

This book examines the reconstruction of the British economy in the aftermath of the First World War up until the break of the second. Using a wide range of primary sources, the author presents an account which integrates the economic, political and diplomatic events of the period.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521325358

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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

C. L. Dellums and the Fight for Fair Treatment and Civil Rights

By: Robert L Allen

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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

C. L. Dellums and the Fight for Fair Treatment and Civil Rights

By: Robert L Allen

The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters created a sea of change in labour and race relations in the US. For the first time in US history, a black labour union played a central role in shaping labor and civil rights policy. Based on interviews and archival research, this new book tells the story of the union and its charismatic leader C.L. Dellums, starting from the BSCP's origins as the first national union of black workers in 1925. In 1937, the BSCP made history when it compelled one of the largest US corporations - the Pullman Company - to recognize and negotiate a contract with a black workers' union. C. L. Dellums was a leading civil rights activist as well as a labor leader. In 1948, he was chosen to be the first West Coast Regional Director of the NAACP. This book is an inspiring testament to both him and the unions transformative impact on US society.

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1317262980

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Sovereignty for Survival

American Energy Development and Indian Self-Determination

By: James Robert Allison

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Sovereignty for Survival

American Energy Development and Indian Self-Determination

By: James Robert Allison

In the years following World War II many multi-national energy firms, bolstered by outdated U.S. federal laws, turned their attention to the abundant resources buried beneath Native American reservations. By the 1970s, however, a coalition of Native Americans in the Northern Plains had successfully blocked the efforts of powerful energy corporations to develop coal reserves on sovereign Indian land. This challenge to corporate and federal authorities, initiated by the Crow and Northern Cheyenne nations, changed the laws of the land to expand Native American sovereignty while simultaneously reshaping Native identities and Indian Country itself. James Allison makes an important contribution to ethnic, environmental, and energy studies with this unique exploration of the influence of America’s indigenous peoples on energy policy and development. Allison’s fascinating history documents how certain federally supported, often environmentally damaging, energy projects were perceived by American Indians as potentially disruptive to indigenous lifeways. These perceived threats sparked a pan-tribal resistance movement that ultimately increased Native American autonomy over reservation lands and enabled an unprecedented boom in tribal entrepreneurship. At the same time, the author demonstrates how this movement generated great controversy within Native American communities, inspiring intense debates over culturally authentic forms of indigenous governance and the proper management of tribal lands.

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Yale University Press

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0300216211

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9780300216219

Seize Occupy and Defend

By: Robert Bailey,Katherine Bailey

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Seize Occupy and Defend

By: Robert Bailey,Katherine Bailey

An illegal immigrant-resident alien becomes a national military hero in WWII, awarded the Medal of Honor, and uses his new-found fame to become a civil rights hero. He inspires his entire generation of Mexican Americans to straighten their backs, lift their heads and see new possibilities they were emboldened to pursue. Achievements were attained that have been dismissed by the Black/White Paradigm; hence, comparative analysis between Mexican American and African American civil rights history has been explored and conclusions presented. His military and civil rights legacy is relevant to today's hottest issue, immigration reform.

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1312175680

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Partners in Science

Foundations and Natural Scientists, 1900-1945

By: Robert E. Kohler

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Partners in Science

Foundations and Natural Scientists, 1900-1945

By: Robert E. Kohler

Robert Kohler shows exactly how entrepreneurial academic scientists became intimate "partners in science" with the officers of the large foundations created by John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, and in so doing tells a fascinating story of how the modern system of grant-getting and grant-giving evolved, and how this funding process has changed the way laboratory scientists make their careers and do their work. "This book is a rich historical tapestry of people, institutions and scientific ideas. It will stand for a long time as a source of precise and detailed information about an important aspect of the scientific enterprise. . .It also contains many valuable lessons for the coming years."—John Ziman, Times Higher Education Supplement

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University of Chicago Press

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0226450619

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9780226450612

What Einstein Didn't Know

Scientific Answers to Everyday Questions

By: Robert L. Wolke

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What Einstein Didn't Know

Scientific Answers to Everyday Questions

By: Robert L. Wolke

Presents scientific answers to a series of miscellaneous questions, covering such topics as "Why are bubbles round," "Why are the Earth, Sun, and Moon all spinning," and "How you can tell the temperature by listening to a cricket.

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0486492893

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Fishing the Delaware Valley

By: George Ingram,Robert F. Marler

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Fishing the Delaware Valley

By: George Ingram,Robert F. Marler

Spiced with wit, anecdotes, and recipes, this part travel guide and fishing reference ranges through the 14,000 square miles of the Delaware River watershed, with offshore visits for saltwater fishing along the New Jersey coast. Writing under the premise that fishing is a family fun activity, the authors give directions, comment on each place, and evaluate tackle shops, restaurants, taverns, historical and scenic attractions, and more.

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Temple University Press

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1566396654

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Whitewashed

By: Robert Soper

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Whitewashed

By: Robert Soper

An in depth look at some major events of the modern era that may not be quite what those in power would have us believe. How governments and the Secret Service cover up embarrassing murders and assassinations with hastily convened enquiries that always return the correct verdict. Correct for those in power at the time. How causes celebre are hi-jacked so that even more taxes can be extracted and even more control placed on the population. 9/11, Pearl Harbour, JFK, Princess Diana, Pope John Paul, David Kelly, Global Warming, the Credit Crisis, Terrorism and the Holocaust are all given a close examination. The results may not be what you previously believed.

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1409271633

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