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Montgomery in the Good War

Portrait of a Southern City, 1939-1946

By: Wesley Phillips Newton

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Montgomery in the Good War

Portrait of a Southern City, 1939-1946

By: Wesley Phillips Newton

Montgomery in the Good War is a richly textured account of a southern city and its people during World War II. Using newspaper accounts, interviews, letters, journals, and his own memory of the time, Wesley Newton reconstructs wartime-era Montgomery, Alabama--a sleepy southern capital that was transformed irreversibly during World War II. The war affected every segment of Montgomery society: black and white, rich and poor, male and female, those who fought in Europe and the Pacific and those who stayed on the home front. Newton follows Montgomerians chronologically through the war from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima as they experience patriotism, draft and enlistment, rationing, scarcity drives, and the deaths of loved ones. His use of small vignettes based on personal recollections adds drama and poignancy to the story. Montgomery in the Good War is an important reminder that wars are waged at home as well as abroad and that their impact reverberates well beyond those who fight on the front lines. Those who came of age during the war will recognize themselves in this moving volume. It will also be enlightening to those who have lived in times of relative peace.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817356320

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9780817356323

To Command the Sky

The Battle for Air Superiority Over Germany, 1942-1944

By: Stephen L. McFarland,Wesley Phillips Newton

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To Command the Sky

The Battle for Air Superiority Over Germany, 1942-1944

By: Stephen L. McFarland,Wesley Phillips Newton

This widely praised study draws from both American and German sources to show how the U.S. Army Air Forces cleared the way for the successful Allied invasion of France. In 1944 a revitalized American leadership abandoned the unsuccessful approach of strategic bombing and instead focused on air superiority, practically chasing the enemy out of the sky and eliminating Germany's supply of trained pilots. Examining the people, technologies, command decisions, and key events of the war over Germany, the authors prove conclusively that the winning of air superiority -- not the success of strategic bombing -- played a more essential part in the Allied victory in Europe

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375

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University of Alabama Press

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0817353461

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9780817353469

Education Year Book

By: Addison-Wesley Longman, Limited

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Education Year Book

By: Addison-Wesley Longman, Limited

This aims to provide a comprehensive guide to UK education, containing information on central government, local authority provision, further and higher education bodies and voluntary and charitable organizations. This edition has been updated and revised and includes an expanded grant-maintained section, and sixth-form and FE colleges are separated from LEAs. It also covers educational consultants and privatized inspectors. statutory and volunatary organizations. It allows the reader to reach public and private sector and organizations making provision for special needs. There are also names of key officers in all government and local education departments, together with full details of schools and professional associations, committees and advisory councils, youth services, media and voluntary services. borough belongs to. In addition, there is a resource for teachers which lists organizations who research, supply and are involved in activities ranging from educational travel and holidays to the supply of left-handed equipment. There are also guides to government reports and legislation, educational terminology and educational abbreviations.

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0582091985

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9780582091986

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