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Hace 4 días · Memoirs. Military memoirs started to become popular in Britain in the years following the British Civil Wars (1642-51). Over the centuries, their style evolved along with wider changes in society and literary culture.
Hace 4 días · Robert M Gates, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2014. Roznai, Yaniv, "Unamendability and the Genetic Code of the Constitution", New York University Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers. Paper 514, 2015, http://lsr.nellco.org/nyu_plltwp/514.
Hace 5 días · In 1995, he took a stand against his own conduct of the war, confessing in a memoir that it was 'wrong, terribly wrong'." In return, he faced a "firestorm of scorn" at that time. In November 1995, McNamara returned to Vietnam, this time visiting Hanoi.
Hace 3 días · The U.S. Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton, leaked Sherman's memorandum to The New York Times, intimating that Sherman might have been bribed to allow Davis to escape capture by the Union troops. This precipitated a deep and long-lasting enmity between Sherman and Stanton, and it intensified Sherman's disdain for politicians.
Hace 3 días · Two of his most famous works were his six-volume memoir, The Second World War, and the four-volume A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. In recognition of his "mastery of historical and biographical description" and oratorial output, Churchill received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953.
Hace 1 día · Florence Nightingale writing to Sidney Herbert, Secretary at War, during her illness - 1855 On returning to her duties, the exertion of travelling to far-flung field hospitals took its toll on Florence's delicate health.
Hace 5 días · Added to Booklisti.com: My books and my recommended memoirs of the Vietnam War. Including POV by infantry grunts, officers, medics and nurses, pilots – both fixed wing and helicopter, and Navy Brown Water River Rats. The collection offers readers a well-rounded view of the war from those who fought in it. https://booklisti.
