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The World War I diary of José de la Luz Sáenz / by Sáenz, José de la Luz,1888-1953,author.(CARDINAL)431999; Maya, Ben,-2012,translator.(CARDINAL)610007; Zamora, Emilio,translator,editor.(CARDINAL)754455;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue -- My personal diary -- Reporting at New Braunfels -- The brigade station -- Camp Travis -- France -- How Carrejo and four others died -- A horrible night in "no man's land" -- Toul, Choloy, and Rampondt -- Moving across the rubble of the battlefield to reach the enemy and occupy the line of fire: Montfaucon and Dead Man's Hill -- Days and nights in a foxhole in Romagne -- How we destroyed Hindenburg's impregnable trenches -- Simón González and others -- Hipólito Jasso receives a shrapnel wound -- Dark night, cold night, horrible night in Villers-devant-Dun -- Armistice day -- Memorable march from Pont-Sassy, France -- Memories of the European War, our last campaign, five days and nights -- Thanksgiving and then to Germany -- In Zeltingen, Alemania, by the Moselle -- Mexican Americans attend school -- The Texans and Oklahomans: an occasion for drawing on a postcard -- Prodding that produces favorable results -- Article of War no. 105 and 2,175 bottles of champagne -- A portrait of Zeltingen -- On the last cattle train and cars 40 and 8 -- The Mongolia, American steamship -- How Boston receives us -- Demobilizing the 90th Division -- Epilogue: the voice of a claim that demands justice -- To the memory of the Mexican American heroes who died in the Great World War defending the democratic principles of the American Union -- List of honor -- Notes.
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Sáenz, José de la Luz, 1888-1953.; United States. Army. Infantry Division, 90th; Civil rights workers; Mexican Americans; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918;
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The comfort of ghosts / by Winspear, Jacqueline,1955-author.(CARDINAL)340635;
"London, 1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion - the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Soon after a demobilized British soldier, ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, takes shelter with the group, Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners. Maisie is deeply puzzled by the children's reticence. Their stories are evasive and, more mysteriously, they appear to possess self-defense skills one might expect of trained adults in wartime. Her quest to bring comfort and the promise of a future to the youngsters and to the ailing soldier brings to light a decades-old mystery concerning Maisie's first husband, James Compton, who was killed while piloting an experimental aircraft. As Maisie picks apart the threads of her dead husband's life, she is forced to examine her own painful past and question beliefs she has always accepted as true. The award-winning Maisie Dobbs series has garnered hundreds of thousands of followers around the world, readers who are drawn to a woman who is of her time, yet familiar in ours - and who inspires with her resilience and capacity for endurance at the worst of times. This final assignment of her own choosing not only opens a new future for Maisie Dobbs and her family, but serves as a fascinating portrayal of the challenges facing the people of Britain at the close of the Second World War"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Dobbs, Maisie (Fictitious character); Women private investigators; Orphans; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Murder;
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Hour of triumph. by Eliot, George Fielding,1894-1971.(CARDINAL)224742;
The people's war -- Practical idealism -- The methods of world police -- The greatest experiment in history -- A United Nations council -- The defeat of Germany -- The defeat of Japan -- The period of demobilization -- The disarmament of the enemy powers -- The beginnings of world police -- The foundations of peace -- America's destiny.
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Old State Library Collection.;
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The Chemical Warfare Service : from laboratory to field / by Brophy, Leo P.(CARDINAL)271633; Miles, Wyndham D.,1916-(CARDINAL)305352; Cochrane, Rexmond C.(Rexmond Canning),1912-1986.(CARDINAL)305351; Center of Military History,publisher.(CARDINAL)162684;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-459) and index.Chapter 1: Research And Supply In World War I -- Committee on noxious gases / National Research Council -- Chemical Warfare Research in the Bureau of Mines -- Medical research -- Research in the AEF -- Centralization of Activities in the Chemical Warfare Service -- Chemical munitions -- Gas defense equipment -- Field testing of chemical munitions -- Demobilization -- Chapter 2: Research And Development In Peace And War -- Peacetime scientific program -- Development procedure -- Laboratories and proving grounds -- Assistance from industries and universities -- Co-operation with the British Commonwealth -- Information from the enemy -- Chapter 3: Toxic Agents -- Phosgene -- Hydrogen cyanide -- Cyanogen chloride -- Mustard gas -- Lewisite -- Nitrogen mustards -- Chloroacetophenone -- Adamsite -- Chapter 4: Protection Against Toxic Agents -- Gas mask -- Collective protectors -- Eyeshields, dust respirators, and individual protective covers -- Protective clothing and impregnites -- Protective ointments -- Medical kits and supplies -- Protection of food and water supplies against toxics -- Treatment of gas casualties -- Chapter 5: Biological Warfare Research -- CWS interest in biological warfare -- WBS Committee and War Research Service -- CWS and the U S Biological Warfare Committee -- Special Projects Division -- Keeping it secret -- Defense against biological attack -- Achievement in Biological Warfare Research -- Chapter 6: Chemical Mortars And Shells -- 4-2 inch chemical mortar -- Mortars of unusual design -- Mortar shells -- Mortar gunboats -- Chapter 7: Flame Throwers -- Portable flame throwers -- One-shot flame throwers -- Medium weight flame throwers -- Main armament mechanized flame throwers -- Main armament flame throwers produced in Hawaii -- Auxiliary mechanized flame throwers -- Auxiliary flame throwers made in Hawaii -- Incendiary projector for airplanes -- Emplaced flame throwers -- Servicing flame throwers -- Toxicology of flame attack -- Chapter 8: Incendiaries -- Incendiary bombs -- Incendiary grenades -- Incendiary shells -- Incendiary rockets -- Chapter 9: Smoke -- White phosphorus -- Smoke pots -- Oil smoke generators -- Airplane smoke tanks -- Colored smoke munitions -- Chapter 10: Peacetime Preparation For Supply -- Planning for mobilization -- Procurement planning -- Chapter 11: Beginnings Of Industrial Mobilization -- Educational order program -- Munitions program -- Appropriations -- Facilities expansion gets under way -- Procurement in the emergency period -- Mobilization of the distribution system -- Chapter 12: More And More Of Everything -- Procurement of service equipment -- Procurement of chemicals -- Estimating requirements in wartime -- Facilities expansion in wartime -- Materiel shortages and imbalances -- Search for suitable contractors -- Inspection of materiel -- Pricing program -- Chapter 13: Balancing Procurement And Distribution -- Developments of early war years -- Advent of the supply control program -- Procurement and distribution of spare parts -- Improved maintenance practices -- Chapter 14: Procurement Of Defensive Materiel -- Gas mask procurement -- Production of impregnite (CC-2) -- Procurement of impregnating plants -- Protective ointment -- Detector kits -- Decontaminating apparatus -- Miscellaneous protective items -- Chapter 15: Procurement Of Offensive Materiel -- Incendiaries -- Procurement of the 4-2 inch mortar -- Procurement of the 4-2 inch mortar shell -- Criminal involvement of mortar shell contractors -- Flame throwers -- Smoke and smoke munitions -- Problem of morale -- Chapter 16: Storage And Distribution -- Growth of CWS storage activities -- Storage and transportation of toxics -- Storage of other CWS items -- Storage of other CWS items -- Packing and packaging -- Distribution -- Lend-lease -- Supplying the ports of embarkation -- Chapter 17: Industrial Demobilization -- Preparations for demobilization -- Disposition of facilities -- Contract terminations -- Property disposal -- To be or not to be? -- Appendix -- A: Status of CWS facilities program -- B: Government investment in facilities, World War II, as of 31 December 1945 -- Bibliographical note -- Glossary -- Index.This volume, the second in a series of three devoted to the Chemical Warfare Service (CWS) in World War II, now the Chemical Corps, covers research, development, procurement, and distribution of chemical warfare materiel. It traces the history of these activities from the World War I period, when the CWS was activated to supervise the offensive and defensive aspects of gas warfare throughout the Army, until the end of World War II. The first volume in the series, "Organizing for War", discusses the development of the CWS organization and mission as well as personnel management and military training. The third volume, entitled "Chemicals in Combat", will deal with the chemical warfare activities in the theaters of operations. In treating research and development, the present volume concentrates on CWS projects that proved of greatest significance to the armed forces during World War II. It attempts to point up the problems that arose in course of research and development and to indicate the solutions which the scientists hit upon. Since research and development in the zone of the interior was closely related to research and development in the theaters of operations, the volume covers activities in both areas. In contrast to research and development, procurement and distribution differed considerably as between the zone of the interior and the theaters of operations; in the theaters these activities were closely associated with the commanders' combat responsibilities. The volume, therefore, confines itself to a review of procurement and distribution in the zone of the interior, leaving narration of theater activities to the volume "Chemicals in combat."
Subjects: United States. Army. Chemical Warfare Service.; Chemical warfare.; World War, 1939-1945;
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Secret soldiers : the story of World War II's heroic army of deception / by Gerard, Philip.(CARDINAL)186430;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Machine generated contents note: ACT I: REHEARSAL -- One: The Swashbuckler-1941-1942 -- Douglas Fairbanks Jr. brings deception to America from Britain. -- Two: Hilton Howell Railey, The P.T Barnum of Deception-1942-1944 -- The discoverer of Amelia Earhart creates a deception lab. -- Three: Casting Call for Camoufleurs-1942-1944 -- Artists and other talented men recruited as camoufleurs at Fort Meade, Maryland. -- Four: Artists of Razzle-Dazzle-January-May 1944 -- Special Troops created at Camp Forrest, Tennessee, and lear tradecraft of deception. -- Five: Deceptive Fidelity-The Sonic Campaign-1944 -- From sonic "bomb" to sound effects at Pine Camp, sonic warriors -- prepare. -- Six: Dress Rehearsal at Stratford-upon-Avon-May-July 1944 -- Special Troops train in England and wait for D-Day. -- ACT II: ONSTAGE -- Seven: Seeing the Elephant-June-July 1944 -- D-Day through the Battle of Normandy, doing it for real. -- Eight: Bad Show at Brest-August 1944 -- First combined deception leads American tanks into a deadly trap. -- Nine: Hold That Ghost Line-September-October 1944 -- Special Troops hold a seventy-mile-long gap in American lines, -- force a German retreat. -- Ten: Can You Hear Me, Luxembourg?-October-November 1944 -- Second troops into Luxembourg-more operations against -- German border. -- Eleven: The Long, Cruel Winter-December 1944-January 1945 -- Battle of the Bulge erupts in the middle of a deception operation- -- winter campaigns with Patton and others to close the bulge. -- Twelve: The Deadliest Show-February-March 1945 -- Luck runs out-German artillery at last finds them, kills and -- wounds seventeen. -- Thirteen: Grand Illusion-March 1945 -- The Rhine ruse succeeds spectacularly-Ninth Army crosses, the -- war is virtually won. -- ACT III: CLOSING THE SHOW -- Fourteen: Striking the Set-April-August 1945 -- Special Troops demobilized after a dramatic hunt for Russian -- fugitives. -- Epilogue: Curtain Call-Fort Drum N.Y., 15 September 2000 -- Veterans assemble at Fort Drum, New York, their old training -- ground, and find they have been erased from history..ACT I: REHEARSAL -- One: The Swashbuckler-1941-1942, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. brings deception to America from Britain -- Two: Hilton Howell Railey, The P.T Barnum of Deception-1942-1944, The discoverer of Amelia Earhart creates a deception lab -- Three: Casting Call for Camoufleurs-1942-1944, Artists and other talented men recruited as camoufleurs at Fort Meade, Maryland -- Four: Artists of Razzle-Dazzle-January-May 1944, Special Troops created at Camp Forrest, Tennessee, and lear tradecraft of deception -- Five: Deceptive Fidelity-The Sonic Campaign-1944, From sonic "bomb" to sound effects at Pine Camp, sonic warriors prepare -- Six: Dress Rehearsal at Stratford-upon-Avon, May-July 1944, Special Troops train in England and wait for D-Day -- ACT II: ONSTAGE -- Seven: Seeing the Elephant-June-July 1944 D-Day through the Battle of Normandy, doing it for real -- Eight: Bad Show at Brest-August 1944, First combined deception leads American tanks into a deadly trap -- Nine: Hold That Ghost Line-September-October 1944, Special Troops hold a seventy-mile-long gap in American lines, force a German retreat -- Ten: Can You Hear Me, Luxembourg? October-November 1944, Second troops into Luxembourg-more operations against German border -- Eleven: The Long, Cruel Winter-December 1944-January 1945 -- Battle of the Bulge erupts in the middle of a deception operation-winter campaigns with Patton and others to close the bulge -- Twelve: The Deadliest Show-February-March 1945, Luck runs out-German artillery at last finds them, kills and wounds seventeen -- Thirteen: Grand Illusion-March 1945, The Rhine ruse succeeds spectacularly-Ninth Army crosses, the war is virtually won -- ACT III: CLOSING THE SHOW -- Fourteen: Striking the Set-April-August 1945, Special Troops demobilized after a dramatic hunt for Russian fugitives -- Epilogue: Curtain Call-Fort Drum N.Y., 15 September 2000, Veterans assemble at Fort Drum, New York, their old training ground, and find they have been erased from history.
Subjects: United States. Army. Headquarters Special Troops, 23rd; Disinformation; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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Behind the fighting / by Cooke, Tim,1961-(CARDINAL)656376;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 108-109) and index.Artists and illustrators -- Camp followers -- Camp life -- Demobilization -- Draft riots -- Espionage and counterespionage -- Flags -- Impressment -- Lost cause -- Mascots -- Medals and honors -- Medicine -- Memorials and souvenirs -- Military academies -- Military bands -- Morale -- Music -- National cemeteries -- Native American participation -- Newspapers and reporters -- Nurses and nursing -- Pacifism -- Payment and pensions -- Photography -- Propaganda -- Public opinion -- Recruitment -- Religion -- Sickness and disease -- Sultana disaster -- Training -- Uniforms -- Glossary."In an alphabetical almanac format, describes the people, attitudes, conditions, and events that were part of a soldier's life beyond the battle field before and after the fighting broke out"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Encyclopedias.; Soldiers;
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Military history of the United States : an annotated bibliography / by Kinnell, Susan K.(CARDINAL)186191; ABC-Clio Information Services.(CARDINAL)168114;
Editors' note -- Foreword -- List of abbreviations -- Historiography, theory, and images of the military -- General military history -- 16th century to 1860. Colonial period to 1787 ; 1787 to 1860 -- 1860-1900. War between the States ; Reconstruction and industrialization -- 1901 to 1945. 1901 to 1914 ; World War I ; 1918 to 1939 ; World War II -- 1945 to 1985. Demobilization and the Cold war, 1945 to 1960. Korean war ; The modern military, 1960 to 1985. Vietnam war -- Subject index -- Author index -- List of periodicals -- List of abstracters.
Subjects: Bibliographies.;
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Alexander at the end of the world : the forgotten final years of Alexander the Great / by Kousser, Rachel,1972-author.(CARDINAL)287216; David Lindroth Inc.,cartographer.(CARDINAL)463210;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-388) and index.Prologue: Alexander's choice -- A city on fire -- The hunt for the great king -- Old friends and new clothes -- Lovers and conspirators -- Epic combat -- Across the Hindu Kush -- Fighting the hydra -- Murder at the feast -- Three banquets and a conspiracy -- Following in the footsteps of the gods -- How to fight an elephant -- Monsoon and mutiny -- The end of the world -- The land of the fish eaters -- A ransacked tomb and a fiery death -- Ninety-two brides -- Demobilization and its discontents -- The death of Patroklos -- Babylon -- Epilogue: Alexander's new world.This biography of Alexander the Great's final years focuses on his seven-year journey through the unknown eastern borderlands of the Persian empire to reach Afghanistan and fulfill his quest to rule the world.
Subjects: Biographies.; Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.; Military history, Ancient.;
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Declarations of dependence : the long reconstruction of popular politics in the South, 1861-1908 / by Downs, Gregory P.(CARDINAL)302270;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Friends unseen : the ballad of political dependency -- Hungry for protection : the Confederate roots of dependence -- Slaves and the great deliverer : freedom and friendship behind Union lines -- Vulnerable at the circumference : demobilization and the limitations of the Freedmen's Bureau -- The great day of acounter : democracy and the problem of power in Republican Reconstruction -- The persistence of prayer : dependency after redemption -- Crazes, fetishes, and enthusiasms : the silver mania and the making of a new politics -- A compressive age : White supremacy and the growth of the modern state -- Coda: Desperate times call for distant friends : Franklin Roosevelt as the last good king?
Subjects: Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Dependency; Patron and client; Political culture; Populism;
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Landing craft and the War Production Board, April 1942 to May 1944 / by Mowry, George E.(George Edwin),1909-1984.(CARDINAL)122365; Fesler, James W.(James William),1911-2005.(CARDINAL)145738; United States.Civilian Production Administration.Bureau of Demobilization.(CARDINAL)300028;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Landing craft.; United States. War Production Board.;
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