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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 2009
ISBN 10: 1603441123ISBN 13: 9781603441124
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Author Roman Popadiuk served in the Bush White House from 1989 to 1992 as deputy assistant to the president and deputy press secretary for foreign affairs. In that capacity, he was closely involved with many of the day-to-day decisions of the administration during a momentous period that saw the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, the rise of a new global coalition, the curbing of a dictators expansionist policies in the Middle East, and shifting domestic, economic, and political currents.In this important volume, Popadiuk examines the ways in which the personal leadership style of George Bush influenced the formation and execution of policy. Popadiuk composes a mosaic of events, quotations, and observations that yield a broad view of the ways in which a presidents personal qualities and philosophies impinge upon leadership options.General readers and public service professionals will find The Leadership of George Bush informative and enlightening, and scholars of the presidency and public policy will discover new avenues for research on both the Bush administration and executive leadership and policy.
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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 1989
ISBN 10: 0890963762ISBN 13: 9780890963760
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A down-to-earth autobiography reveals the domestic side, the on-the-road side, the kids' side, and a wife's perspective of what it is like when family life revolves around the game of baseball.
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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 1585445673ISBN 13: 9781585445677
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ever since the recognition of the Neanderthals as an archaic human in the mid-nineteenth century, the fossilized bones of extinct humans have been used by paleoanthropologists to explore human origins. These bones told the story of how the earliest humansbipedal apes, actuallyfirst emerged in Africa some 6 to 7 million years ago. Starting about 2 million years ago, the bones revealed, as humans became anatomically and behaviorally more modern, they swept out of Africa in waves into Asia, Europe and finally the New World.Even as paleoanthropologists continued to make important discoveriesMary Leakeys Nutcracker Man in 1959, Don Johansons Lucy in 1974, and most recently Martin Pickfords Millennium Man, to name just a fewexperts in genetics were looking at the human species from a very different angle. In 1953 James Watson and Francis Crick first saw the double helix structure of DNA, the basic building block of all life. In the 1970s it was shown that humans share 98.7% of their genes with the great apesthat in fact genetically we are more closely related to chimpanzees than chimpanzees are to gorillas. And most recently the entire human genome has been mappedwe now know where each of the genes on the chromosomes that make up DNA is located on the double helix.In Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us about Ourselves, two of the worlds foremost scientists, geneticist Rob DeSalle and paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall, show how research into the human genome confirms what fossil bones have told us about human origins. This unprecedented integration of the fossil and genomic records provides the most complete understanding possible of humanitys place in nature, its emergence from the rest of the living world, and the evolutionary processes that have molded human populations to be what they are today.Human Origins serves as a companion volume to the American Museum of Natural Historys new permanent exhibit, as well as standing alone as an accessible overview of recent insights into what it means to be human.
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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 1980
ISBN 10: 0890960887ISBN 13: 9780890960882
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Many outlanders think of Texas as a land of cactus flats or High Plains ranches, its landscape broken only by barbed wire fences of perhaps an oil derrick. Texans, of course, know better. Here, in 202 magnificently reproduced, full-color photographs from Texas Highways magazine, the astonishing diversity and beauty of Texas landscapes are splendidly and dramatically displayed.The damp pine forests, shaded lakes, and tangled thickets of East Texas; the fertile fields of the rolling prairies; the vast wheat and cotton farms and rangelands of the Panhandle plains; the rugged peaks rising high over desert flats in the Trans-Pecos; the sun-drenched beaches and citrus groves of the coastlands; and the limestone cliffs, clear streams, and hidden springs of the Hill Country-all are Texas landscapes. These stunning photographs from the states official travel magazine not only reveal the physical beauty of these varied regions, but also tell us something about the culture and heritage of those who live there.In his introduction to this volume, John Graves describes the Texas landscapes as they once were and as they now are, and muses on how man has shaped the land and how, in its turn, the land has shaped man too.
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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 1995
ISBN 10: 0890966419ISBN 13: 9780890966419
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book by Hendrickson, Kenneth E.
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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 1991
ISBN 10: 0890964769ISBN 13: 9780890964767
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. In their willingness to leave home and country to create a new city and a new nation, the first Houstonians were a special breed. They were adventurers and builders; they were citizens of the world. This is the story of these people, their descendants and like-minded successors, and their city, up to the end of the Second World War.It is a history marked by murder, mutiny, and the ironies of war, by comedy and high jinks, by heroism and a remarkable generosity. This fascinating social history grew out of Marguerite Johnston's forty years of friendship with the city and its people. It traces Houston's first families through interlinking marriages, charitable associations, and business partnerships.In this book, Johnston brings to light unpublished letters and diaries from those who served with Perry in Japan, who helped Maximillian design Mexico City, who acted for Woodrow Wilson at Versailles, who helped Roosevelt restore the national economy, and who, by conceiving and negotiating the Marshall Plan, saved Western Europe from collapse. She also sketches in warm detail the gentle life of a Southern town and portrays a people of intellect and a natural elegance.Ima Hogg, Houston philanthropist and patron of the arts, once said that Houston was lucky because the first Houstonians who got rich gave their money for schools, parks, hospitals, and the arts. "This set the pattern," she said. "This is what Houstonians do once they get a little money." Since 1836, their continuing philanthropy has totaled more than a billion dollars, yet remains personal. It has created a lively cultural scene, a prestigious educational establishment, a pace-setting medical center, and a gracious life-style.Old Houstonians rarely speak of themselves as Texans--they are Houstonians. Their story--not without problems, challenges, and conflicts--is the story of people who have shaped a major American city and who from it, have influenced lives around the world.
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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 1980
ISBN 10: 0890960917ISBN 13: 9780890960912
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book by Carter, George F.
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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 1585441627ISBN 13: 9781585441624
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Softcover. Condition: Good. The American Military Experience in the Mexican War.
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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 1995
ISBN 10: 0890966427ISBN 13: 9780890966426
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. In 1542 members of the thriving Caddo Indian culture came face to face with Luis de Moscoso, successor to Hernando de Soto as leader of a Spanish exploration party. That encounter marked a turning point for this centuries-old people, whose history would from then on be dominated by the interaction of the native confederacies with the empires of various European adventurers and settlers.Much has been written about the confrontations of Euro-Americans with Native Americans, but most of it has focused on the Anglo-Indian relations of the eastern part of the continent or on the final phases of the western wars. This thorough and engaging history is the first to focus intensively on the Caddos of the Texas-Louisiana border area. Primarily from the perspective of the Caddos themselves, it traces the development and effect of relations over the three hundred years from the first meeting with the Spaniards until the resettlement of the tribes on the Brazos Reserve in 1854.F. Todd Smith chronicles all three of the Caddo confederacies - Kadohadacho, Hasinai, and Natchitoches - as they consolidated into a single tribe to face the waves of soldiers, traders, and settlers from the empires of Spain, France, the United States, Mexico, and the Republic of Texas. It describes the balance the Caddos struck with the various nations claiming the region and how that gradually evolved into a less beneficial relationship. Caught in the squeeze between Euro-American nations, the Caddos eventually sacrificed their independence and much of their culture to gain the benefits offered by the invaders. Falling victim to swindlers, they at last lost their lands and were moved to a reservation.
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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 1979
ISBN 10: 0890960828ISBN 13: 9780890960820
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. The Gulf of Mexico has inspired countless writers and artists since Cabeza de Vaca first set foot on the Texas shore. Here nine contemporary artists present their vivid and eloquent impressions of the Texas Gulf Coast.Forty-seven stunning color plates reveal the Texas Gulf as seen by these artists---its beaches, marshes, bays and estuaries, its birds and plant life, its ever-changing moods and colors, the boats that ply its waters, the fish and game with which its waters and shores abound.John Guerins brilliant impressionistic paintings, well known to those who frequent leading museums and galleries; Jack Cowans popular hunting and fishing scenes; the ever-appealing water-colors of E.M. Buck Schiwetz and Michael Frary; the stormy oils of Everett Spruce; the haunting dunes, water, and sky by Dan Wingren; Al Barness imaginatively captured boats; Herb Booths landscapes and skies full of birds; and Harold Phenixs charming shore scenes of bait camps, oil rigs, and shrimp ports---all add up to a splendid tribute to the beauty and variety of the Texas Coast.Leon Hales introduction brings alive the history, geography, and folklore of the region, and Ann Holmess foreword looks at the similarities and differences to be found in the artists views of the Coast.For those who know and love the Gulf, there is recognition here. For those who do not, there is discovery.
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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 2005
ISBN 10: 158544426XISBN 13: 9781585444267
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. If you imagine the Texas Hill Country solely as dry limestone slopes of cedar and scrub oak, prepare to have your eyes opened. The Edwards Plateau, upon which the Hill Country sits, is also a land of lush cypress-lined streams, diverse thickets, and shady hardwood bottomlands. Edged by canyonlands and intersected by creeks, these rocky hills support an abundance of trees, shrubs, and vines that provide food and cover for wildlife and create a distinct and durable landscape.In this book, Jan Wrede has compiled a field guide to more than 125 species of mostly native, mostly woody plants of the Texas Hill Country. A thoughtful introduction discusses deer, cedar, water, oak wilt, and invasive speciestimely issues of increasing importance for a growing number of Texas landowners. Plant descriptions contain information about the leaves, flowers, fruit, and bark of each plant and also give insights into the species range and habits. A color photograph accompanies each account.Especially useful is a comprehensive plant chart with tips about color, scent, flowering period, height, site preference, and wildlife and livestock utilization. A recommended reading list, a resource guide, and a glossary round out this information-packed book.
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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 2004
ISBN 10: 1585443395ISBN 13: 9781585443390
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. In a dazzling tribute to the Texas coast, conservationist and lawyer Jim Blackburn has teamed with photographer Jim Olive to give us the most intimate and important portrait yet of Texas bays and of those who work for their wise use and preservation. While giving life and sustenance to plants, animals, and people, the bays and estuaries of Texas have other stories to tellabout freshwater inflows, deep port construction, disappearing oyster beds, beach resorts, industrial pollution, and more. At a certain point, each story brings opposing forces into the courtroom for vigorous debates on the future of some of our most valuable and irreplaceable resources.The Book of Texas Bays is a personal account of legal battles won and lost, but it is also a fine work of natural history by someone who has a deep spiritual connection to the Texas coast and all it has to offer. Jim Olives stunning photographs present us with a dramatic perspective of our relationship with the Gulf and remind us of both the grandness and the fragility of our coastal treasures.
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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 2023
ISBN 10: 1585441872ISBN 13: 9781585441877
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. War is waged not only on battlefields. In the mid-1980s a high-stakes political struggle to redesign the relationships among the president, secretary of defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and warfighting commanders in the field resulted in the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986. Author James R. Locher III played a key role in the congressional effort to repair a dysfunctional military whose interservice squabbling had cost American taxpayers billions of dollars and put the lives of thousands of servicemen and women at risk. Victory on this front helped make possible the military successes the United States has enjoyed since the passage of the bill and to prepare it for the challenges it must still face.Victory on the Potomac provides the first detailed history of how Congress unified the Pentagon and does so with the benefit of an insider's view. In a fast-paced account that reads like a novel, Locher follows the bill through congressional committee to final passage, making clear that the process is neither abstract nor automatic. His vivid descriptions bring to life the amazing cast of this real-life drama, from the straight-shooting chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Barry Goldwater, to the peevishly stubborn secretary of defense, Caspear Weinberger.Locher's analysis of political maneuvering and bureaucratic infighting will fascinate anyone who has an interest in how government works, and his understanding of the stakes in military reorganization will make clear why this legislative victory meant so much to American military capability.
Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 0890967040ISBN 13: 9780890967041
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Subsequent. This expanded edition of Texas A&M University: A Pictorial History gives a panoramic view of Texas A&M, from its infancy as a college with forty-eight agricultural and mechanical (engineering) students to today's diverse campus of more than forty thousand students.Captured in full-color photographs are the modern university, its buildings, its far-reaching programs, and its students. The book is also a gallery of Aggie greatson the battlefields of five wars; on the athletic fields; in industry, agriculture, science, and civic leadership. Historical photos show visits by Presidents William H. Taft, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and George H. W. Bush; preparations for military actions of World Wars I and II; the 1939 national championship football team; and the campus filming of the 1943 World War II movie We've Never Been Licked.From the first day of classes, the A&M College of Texas encountered successes and setbacks that would provide valuable lessons, established traditions that would shape the university and its students, and began its transformation from a frontier educational community to one of the nation's largest and most active teaching and research institutions.Gov. Richard Coke's admonition of October 4, 1876, has governed the school's growth: "Grave responsibilities rest upon you. The excellence of the college will be determined by your progress." As new frontiers beckoned, A&M accepted the challengesexcelling not only in agriculture and engineering but also the sciences, medicine, education, and research relating to space and the sea. A&M's military program received national recognition for providing military leaders during the Spanish-American War, the two world wars, and subsequent conflicts. With growth have come a more diverse student body, administrative reorganizations, and expanded educational programs.
Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 2011
ISBN 10: 1603444343ISBN 13: 9781603444347
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 1991
ISBN 10: 0890964378ISBN 13: 9780890964378
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. The Iron Horse forever changed the American West, from a wild frontier to a network of scattered settlements tied together by steel rails. Behind the romantic image of the galloping Iron Horse, however, lies a rich history of American business activity. Railway giants have dominated this history, but small companies such as the Quanah, Acme & Pacific Railway Company (QA&P), a short line that operated in four counties of northwestern Texas from near the turn of the century into the 1980s, had just as great an impact in their areas of operation as the giants did on the national scene.The QA&P developed in an era when railroads were tightly regulated by the Railroad Commission of Texas and the federal Interstate Commerce Commission. The in-depth historical analysis of an American short line railroad presented here is in essence the study of all such carriers in the era before deregulation. Fully illustrated with photographs and memorabilia, this volume covers the Quanah Route's birth, valiant struggle for life, and eventual demise in a changing regulatory and competitive environment. This then is a history not only of a railroad but also of its service area, particularly during one of the last great railroad construction booms, which took place in West Texas during the 1920s.Through the years of the QA&P's life, energetic men such as Sam Lazarus and Charles Sommer juggled political and financial concerns against the changing times, Lazarus making the deal by which the QA&P became a subsidiary of the St. LouisSan Francisco (Frisco) road. In the end, the "good roads movement," trucking industry, and growing American passion for the private automobile spelled the end of the railroads' golden age as the prime carrier of passengers and products. As traced by Don L. Hofsommer in the full archives of the QA&P, the history of this short line railroad embodies the pulse and pathos of a place through the changing times of the twentieth century.
Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 2005
ISBN 10: 1585444162ISBN 13: 9781585444168
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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 1984
ISBN 10: 0890961786ISBN 13: 9780890961780
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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 2005
ISBN 10: 1585444707ISBN 13: 9781585444700
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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 1998
ISBN 10: 089096825XISBN 13: 9780890968253
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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 1988
ISBN 10: 0890963630ISBN 13: 9780890963630
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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 2005
ISBN 10: 1585443476ISBN 13: 9781585443475
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. On a frigid, stormy day in February of 1686, a small French sailing ship lost control and ran aground in Matagorda Bay. The crew had braved an ocean voyage, attacks by pirates, raids by Native Americans, and ravaging diseases under the command of famed explorer Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, hoping to establish a colony in the New World. Pounded in the Texas bay by gale winds and storm surges, La Belle finally slipped beneath the water and sank to the bottom, where it would remain for centuries.More than 300 years later, Texas Historical Commission archaeologists discovered La Belles resting place. Using cutting-edge technology and scientific innovation, investigators excavated the shipwreck and salvaged from its watery grave more than a million artifacts, including bronze guns, muskets, trade beads, axes, rings, bells, dishes, medicines-everything a new-world colony needed for survival.Authors James E. Bruseth and Toni S. Turner use vivid photographs and engaging descriptions to share the excitement of discovery as they piece together both the ship and its tragic story. For those interested in history, archaeology, or the quest for clues to the past, From a Watery Grave tells a riveting tale of nautical adventure in the seventeenth century and reveals modern scientific archaeology at its best.
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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 1981
ISBN 10: 0890961166ISBN 13: 9780890961162
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Thirteen contemporary Texas artists share their views of the Texas hill country in forty-nine full-color plates of softly wooded hills, lonely farmsteads, rocky running streams, flower-covered prairies, shining lakes, and much more. Included here are watercolors of land and wildlife by Ivan McDougal and Clay McGaughy; the clearly lighted barns and farmhouses of Ancel E. Nunn; impressions of rock and sky, woods and water by Michael Frary and William Hoey; the inimitable watercolors of E. M. "Buck" Schiwetz; the sunlight on water and field of Emily White and William Lester; the unique personal statements of Kelly Fearing; paintings of the works of man by E. Gordon West; and sensitive studies of light and shadow by Woody Gwyn. Together they evoke the charm, the beauty, and the variety of the Texas heartland.
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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0890969345ISBN 13: 9780890969342
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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 1991
ISBN 10: 0890963436ISBN 13: 9780890963432
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Cowboy spurs are a pure form of American folk art. Like the cowboy himself, the way spurs developed was molded by their use and the environment of the range, along with a generous dose of individualism and pride. Cowboy Spurs and Their Makers tells the fascinating story of this western art and the artisans and provides a valuable reference for identifying spurs used by riders of Texas and the Southwest.A visit with contemporary spur maker Jerry Lindley, with pictures of him at work, traces the process and mechanics of hand forging spurs and decorating them by the overlay method. Individual chapters are devoted to the most prominent makers of cowboy spurs-manufacturers Buermann and North & Judd, the spur and bit companies of Crockett, Shipley, and Kelly, and hometown blacksmiths such as Bianchi, Causey, and the Boone clan. In lively detail their histories unfold, along with helpful descriptions of their techniques and most representative spurs.Eighty-five black-and-white photographs and twelve color plates lavishly illustrate the spurs and their makers. An appendix lists many other artisans, past and present, with the locations of their shops and the identifying characteristics of their products. This book will become a standard reference for students, historians, and general readers alike-for everyone who values the important contribution of the cowboy to our cultural heritage and of the blacksmith who shaped the cowboys badge of honor, his spurs.
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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 1994
ISBN 10: 0890965455ISBN 13: 9780890965450
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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0890964327ISBN 13: 9780890964323
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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0890964343ISBN 13: 9780890964347
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. As war spread across the world at the end of 1941, the Soviet Union found itself between a rock known as Nazi Germany and a hard place called imperial Japan. With all its forces battling Germany in the west, the Soviet Union had to keep peace on its isolated and vulnerable eastern borders. To avoid risking its status as a neutral country in the war between the United States and Japan, the Soviet Union interned many American flyers who crashed or made emergency landings in Soviet territory after bombing Japanese targets.This is the long-secret and nearly forgotten story of how the Soviet commissariat for internal affairs interned 291 young Americans in Siberia and, at the risk of war on a second front, eventually smuggled four groups of them (and released another after the wars end) to south central Asia and finally across the Iranian border. In Iran American officials swore the airmen to secrecy and confiscated any items that would indicate they had been in the Soviet Union. Like the oft repeated guideline "Name, rank, and serial number," the brief phrase "in a neutral country" was the only permissible explanation for the flyers whereabouts. Official U.S. military records of the internments, many declassified as recently as 1986, are impersonal and sketchy. To tell the story in its entirety, Otis Hays, Jr., sought out surviving airmen. Some had blotted this secret episode from their memories or found it too painful to relive, but others had smuggled rudimentary diaries out of the Soviet Union and helped piece together the tale.
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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 1994
ISBN 10: 0890966044ISBN 13: 9780890966044
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Published by Brand: Texas AnM University Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0890969000ISBN 13: 9780890969007
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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