The war against Japan: Pictorial record serves as a monumental confluence of visual and literary narratives capturing the multifaceted realities of World War II's Pacific Theater. This collection showcases a rich tapestry of images and writings that collectively depict the harshness, strategy, and enduring human spirit during this intense period of combat. The compendium offers a striking range of styles, from stark documentary photographs to evocative prose descriptions, collectively cons...

An authoritative assessment of the early American republic through the lens of genderWhat does it mean to study early American history through gender? The essays in this collection, written by the best emerging and established historians in the field, bring together women’s history with masculinity studies to showcase the transformative impact of gender history on our understanding of the early American republic. In addition to state-of-the-field historiographical ...

The build-up of the United States Army in the United Kingdom, from January 1942 until June 1944, with the huge amounts of supplies necessary to equip and maintain the forces and to prepare for the invasion of northern Europe was a tremendous undertaking. It involved the transportation of men and supplies across the Atlantic during a time when the German submarine menace was at its peak. The United States Navy played a vital role in transporting men and supplies and in protecting the convoy...

The Bergers have prospered in Bergerton since the day that Jonathan Berger's great-great grandfather refused to move from the very spot where his donkey cart had toppled over on the side of the road. Fortune smiles upon them all—until a catastrophic fire strikes on the night of the annual Feast of Sullivan, and they find themselves lost and scattered to the winds.But despite facing runaway grandchildren, a pitchfork-armed local militia lost to the wars in the north, rival churches,...

The war against Germany and Italy: Mediterranean and adjacent areas is a compelling anthology that explores the multifaceted dimensions of World War II's Mediterranean theater. This collection weaves through a tapestry of strategic developments and intense military operations, examining their impact on the broader dynamics of global conflict. With its varied authorship, the anthology presents an array of narratives and historiographical accounts that encompass military strategies, politica...

**The War Against Germany is the U.S. Army'**s official pictorial record of the Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, and Central Europe campaigns of World War II. It is an impressive compilation of hundreds of the best pictures taken by U.S. armed forces photographers.Apecially selected and captioned by a distinguished team of Army historians. In compelling detail, these photos show the soldiers' living conditions, their training methods, their we...

According to many alleged alien abductees, these experiences are often the few, sparse moments of conscious recall of an abduction. The individual does not know it at the time, but he has been an unwilling participant in an extraordinary event. In such a situation the only real clue would be a quick glance at the time. Our hypothetical hiker looks down at his watch and realizes that over an hour has passed, completely unaccounted for. Abductees and ufo researchers contend that it is within...

In a distant future, a little girl named Anny makes toy mice out of scraps and dust. Anny has never seen a real mouse, just as she’s never seen the planet her family came from many generations ago. All she knows is her home, Tsedt: an isolated village of human colonists’ descendants and their friendly helper robots.But then one day the Amau arrive in Tsedt: plastic people with luminous eyes, intent on taking young humans to the distant city of Harbor to be educated. It’s not long b...

The first of three volumes of poetry published by Yale English literature graduate Kenneth Rand before his untimely death in 1918 by the Great Influenza epidemic as he was trying to serve his country in WW1. Many of the poems within this first volume were reprints of Rand's contributions to the various magazines available during his time at Yale, including the Yale Literary Magazine where he served as chairman of the board. Some of the notable poems within this collection of his early work...