Michael shay (38 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Zeppelins Over Denver is a Historical novelJuly 1919. Irish immigrant Patrick Hott and U.S. Army nurse Frannie Lee meet on a train going west through Colorado. He's a lung patient headed for the West's healing climate and she's off to an assignment at a new army hospital outside Denver. As they strike up a conversation, neither realizes that the train is hours away from a disaster that will upend their lives and bring them together to face new dangers as America tries to forget The Great War and race into the 'Roaring Twenties.' Inspired by his maternal grandmother's war diary and years of research, Shay gives readers a new look at Colorado's post-war boom that also saw the rise of the KKK, a 'Red Scare' prompted by fear of Bolsheviks, and labor strife fueled by the infamous Ludlow Massacre.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes" remains one of the enduring, and most stirring, quotations of the Revolutionary War, and it was very likely uttered at the Battle of Bunker Hill by General Israel Putnam. Despite this, and Putnam's renown as a battlefield commander and his colorful military service far and wide, Putnam has never received his due from modern historians. In The Whites of Their Eyes, Michael E. Shay tells the exciting life of Israel Putnam.Born near Salem, Massachusetts, in 1718, Putnam relocated in 1740 to northeastern Connecticut, where he was a slaveowner and, according to folk legend, killed Connecticut's last wolf, in a cave known as Israel Putnam Wolf Den, which is on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. During the French and Indian War, Putnam enlisted as a private and rose to the rank of colonel. He served with Robert Rogers, famous Ranger founder and leader, and a popular phrase of the time said, "Rogers always sent, but Putnam led his men to action." In 1759, Putnam led an assault on French Fort Carillon (later Ticonderoga); in 1760, he marched against Montreal; in 1762, he survived a shipwreck and yellow fever during an expedition against Cuba; and in 1763, he was sent to defend Detroit during Pontiac's rebellion.When the Revolutionary War broke out, Putnamwho had been radicalized by the Stamp Actwas among those immediately considered for high command. Named one of the Continental Army's first four major generals, he helped plan and lead at the Battle of Bunker Hill, where he gave the order about "the whites of their eyes" and argued in favor of fortifying Breed's Hill, in addition to Bunker Hill. Most of the battle would take place on Breed's. During the battles for Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Long Island during the summer of 1776, Putnam proved himself a capable and courageous battlefield commander with a special eye for fortifications, but he sometimes faltered in tactical and strategic decision-making. In the fall of 1777, the British outmanned Putnam, resulting in the loss of several key forts in the Hudson Highlands near West Point. Putnam was exonerated by a court of inquiry, butnearly sixty and opposed by powerful political elements from New York, including Alexander Hamiltonhe spent many of the following months recruiting in Connecticut. In December 1779 he was returning to Washington's Army to rejoin his division when he suffered a stroke and was paralyzed.The Whites of Their Eyes recounts the life and times of Israel Putnam, a larger-than-life general, a gregarious tavern keeper and farmer, who was a folk hero in Connecticut and the probable source of legendary words during the Revolutionary Warand whose exploits make him one of the most interesting officers in American military history.…

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Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorMichael Shay is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame (economics), Fairfield University (American studies), and St. Louis University School of Law. He practiced law in Connecticut for thirty years before servin.

Zustand: New. Editor(s): Shay, Michael E. Series: American Military Experience Series. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1KBB; 3JH; BJ; HBJF; HBJK; HBLL; HBW; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454. . 2013. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. illustrated edition. 294 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. new edition. German language. 11.02x8.54x0.43 inches. In Stock.

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Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorMichael E. Shay is a Superior Court Judge of the state of Connecticut. His three previous books include Revered Commander, Maligned General: The Life of Clarence Ransom Edwards, 1859-1931 (University of Missou.

Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | The trees in Michael Shay's garden argue. Despite their moss his garden ornaments remain defiantly unnatural. Michael Shay's work is about experience: home and landscape and family, love and death and memory. It's about falling short and unselfconscious altruism; it describes the weather of the world and self. His clouds are clouds and his rain, rain. But his clouds and rain and summers and autumns are also about renewal.…