[PDF] Battle Portraits eBook

Author : Peter Farrugia
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 33,41 MB
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 077486494X

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Portraits of Battle brings together biography, battle accounts, and historiographical analysis to examine the lives of a cross-section of Canadians who served in the First World War. All Canadians are taught about Vimy Ridge, but that celebrated victory was just one battle among many to shape the country’s experience of the war. These portraits of the formerly faceless men and women honoured on war memorials provide a fresh and nuanced perspective on the complex legacy of the Great War in Canadian history.

Author : The W.E.B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 23,5 MB
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1616897775

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The colorful charts, graphs, and maps presented at the 1900 Paris Exposition by famed sociologist and black rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois offered a view into the lives of black Americans, conveying a literal and figurative representation of "the color line." From advances in education to the lingering effects of slavery, these prophetic infographics —beautiful in design and powerful in content—make visible a wide spectrum of black experience. W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits collects the complete set of graphics in full color for the first time, making their insights and innovations available to a contemporary imagination. As Maria Popova wrote, these data portraits shaped how "Du Bois himself thought about sociology, informing the ideas with which he set the world ablaze three years later in The Souls of Black Folk."

Author : Peter Farrugia
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,19 MB
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774864930

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Portraits of Battle brings together biography, battle accounts, and historiographical analysis to examine the lives of a cross-section of Canadians who served in the First World War. All Canadians are taught about Vimy Ridge, but that celebrated victory was just one battle among many to shape the country’s experience of the war. These portraits of the formerly faceless men and women honoured on war memorials provide a fresh and nuanced perspective on the complex legacy of the Great War in Canadian history.

Author : Max Hastings
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,59 MB
Release : 2006-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0307264688

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Heroism in battle has been celebrated throughout history, yet it is one of the least understood virtues. What makes some men and women perform extraordinary deeds on the battlefield? What makes them risk their lives in the pursuit of victory?Max Hastings, one of our foremost military historians, has seen combat up close and written about it for decades. In Warriors, he brings us the experiences of fourteen soldiers who fought in the wars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From an exuberant cavalry officer in Napoleon’s army to an abused orphan who in World War II became America’s youngest general since Custer, to an Israeli officer who recovered from a devastating injury to save his country, each portrait depicts a unique and remarkable story. A tribute to soldierly valor and a deeply insightful study of combat, this is an essential book for anyone who wishes to understand what it means to be at war.

Author : Ben H. Severance
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 13,4 MB
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1557289891

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Tenth volume of acclaimed series

Author : Richard B. McCaslin
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,59 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557288318

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A uniquely rich portrayal of Tennesseans who fought and lost their lives in the Civil War is presented in this collection of stories and portraits that are joined with personal remembrances from recovered letters and diaries and detailed historical background.

Author : Gary Browning
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing Company Incorporated
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 11,34 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781565231696

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Now you can commemorate the scenes and soldiers of the Civil War with the 50-plus patriotic scroll saw patterns found in this book including: General Robert E Lee, General Ulysses S Grant, President Abraham Lincoln, scenes from famous battles and flags from the North and South. Each pattern is full-sized and printed in an easy-to-follow silhouette. Instructions for basic cutting techniques are included as well as information on what type of blade to use, purchasing wood, framing finished projects and much more.