SCHEMMER : Almanac of liberty (fülszöveg)
Milestones in the History of the United States and our Armed Services
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"23 March 1775. 'Give me liberty or give me death!' thundered Patrick Henry in his famous speech before the Virginia Convention. In the speech, Henry urged the union to resist British rule and raise an army."
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"18 March 1974. Navy sweeps mines from Suez Canal. Hours before Secretary of State Henry Kissinger landed in Syria to negotiate a separation of Israeli-Syrian forces in the Golan Heights area, the State Department announced that Navy helicopters and crews would soon depart to Egypt to clear the Suez Canal of mines laid there by both Egypt and Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War."
In the period between these two dates, the United States has fought nine major wars, innumerable Indian campaigns, and has engaged in peace-keeping around the globe. All these events are chronicled here. The Almanac, however, is far from limited to a coverage of purely military anniversaries and highlights. It encompasses the contemporaneous civil life and thought in many fields. There are vignettes of hundreds of personalities; entries on advances and discoveries in medicine, technology, education, science, space exploration, and government; and many other subjects of general interest. All material is reported accurately and without editorializing; it is a long-needed, valuable tool for historians, teachers, libraries, students, as well as a highly readable reference work for everyone interested in our country's heritage.
The arrangement of the volume is ideally suited for reference purposes. There are three main sections: (1) Chronologically by year (and by month and day within the year); (2) Chronologically by month and day; and (3) Alphabetically indexed for names of battles, events, places, personalities, and other proper names. There is also an extensive bibliography, and over 100 photographs, drawings, and engravings, many of them published here for the first time.
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