With unequaled humanity and insight, Pyle tells how people from a cross-section of America—ranches, inner cities, small mountain farms, and college towns—learned to fight a war. The Allied campaign and ultimate victory in North Africa was built on blood, brave deeds, sacrifice and needless loss, exotic vistas, endurance, homesickness, and an unmistakable American sense of humor. It’s all here—the suspenseful landing at Oran; the risks taken daily by fighter and bomber pilots; grim, unrelenting combat in the desert and mountains of Tunisia; a ferocious tank battle that ended in defeat for the inexperienced Americans; and the final victory at Tunis. Pyle’s keen observations relate the full story of ordinary G.I.s caught up in extraordinary times.

    They Call It Pacific is an insightful account of events leading up to the war and beyond from an authority on Japanese-American affairs at the time. It is also a thrilling journal detailing Lee’s unbelievable real-time escape from the Philippine Islands with the help of the Filipino resistance. The book contains extensive accounts of the battle for the Philippines on Bataan and Corregidor, interviews with soldiers including General Douglas MacArthur, talks with Japanese prisoners, and descriptions of combat as the author accompanied Navy pilots such as Swede Larson on flights over Guadalcanal. This new edition of They Call It Pacific has been updated with footnotes and images from the Japanese invasion of the Philippines. *Includes original footnotes. *Includes photographs from World War 2.

    Wiley offers a rare but complete portrait of the ordinary soldier of the Confederacy during the Civil War, via extensive research of letters, newspaper stories, official records, and excerpts from diary entries.

    While there, Hersey observed a small battle upon which Into the Valley is based. While the battle itself was not of great significance, Hersey gives insightful details concerning the jungle environment, recounts conversations among the men before, during, and after battle, and describes how the wounded were evacuated as well as other works of daily heroism.

    

    Four hundred and fifty years of exploration, settlement and cultural development-from Columbus' first voyage until the present day-are the raw material out of which this narrative is made. North and South America are presented as the crucible of a colonizing experiment of unparalleled success. The participants were the Spanish of South America and southern North America, the Portuguese in Brazil, and the English, French, Dutch and Swedes in various sections of North America. As we know, the experiment worked, and it is no small part of Captain Baldwin's task is to have gauged the measure of success achieved by each of the participating nations in the various states that grew out of their efforts. Because-after all-the success was relative, total in some places and far from total in others. That the over all picture is encouraging must be admitted by the most frost bitten enemies of democracy. As he surveys mankind from Hudson Bay to Tierra del Fuego and from Cape Breton to Vancouver Sound. Captain Baldwin finds the unifying bond linking the many countries of the Western Hemisphere has sometimes the thickness of a submarine cable, at other times that of a persistently thickening rope. He finds too, that democracy has as many faces as the states that boast its blessings.

    He tells of his talks with prime ministers and kings, and with teachers, soldiers, librarians, factory workers, and farmers around the world. He reports a great awakening that is going on among the peoples of the world and his deep conviction that the United Nations must learn to work together now, while they fight, if they hope to live together after the war is over.

    Miss Giles, a feature writer for the Boston Globe, sought employment at the General Electric Company, Lyon, Mass, "to write the glamour out of women in war." The book is a collection of daily columns she wrote during the several months she was a "war worker" in a factory that manufactured flight instruments for World War II bombers.

    Originally published in 1943 by UNC Press, The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860 was his first book on the subject. As Franklin shows, freed slaves in the antebellum South did not enjoy the full rights of citizenship. Even in North Carolina, reputedly more liberal than most southern states, discriminatory laws became so harsh that many voluntarily returned to slavery.

    Charles Beard offered, in a synthesis of his life work, a permanent statement on the nature of the American Republic.To carry out his purpose, Beard discusses, among other subjects, the making of one nation out of many peoples and nationalities, the letter and the spirit of the Constitution, the rights and liberties of citizens, the theory of checks and balances, the role of political parties, the Republic in the world of nations, and the coming fate and fortune of America. Above all, he deals philosophically with the eternal conflict between power and freedom, security and liberty.In form, the book is a series of conversations among friends. The author and two public-spirited citizens carry the main burden of the discourse, and other figures are introduced to present special but prevailing points of view. In this way the reader not only feels that he is participating in a search for the truth, but discovers that his own point of view has here an able sponsor. Beard has taken a theme of majestic scope and presented it in terms that are warm and human and immediately relevant.