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Free Download Len Shoemaker, William R Kreutzer, "Saga Of A Forest Ranger: A Biography Of William R. Kreutzer, Forest Ranger No. 1"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 125819130X | EPUB | pages: 244 | 3.1 mb
Leonard Calvin (Len) Shoemaker was born in Rosita, Colorado in 1881, and moved to the Glenwood Springs area with his parents in 1886. He worked at numerous jobs-ranch hand, mule skinner, stage driver, carpenter, coal miner, timberman, and many others. His connection with the Forest Service began in 1913 and continued until 1943, during most of which time he was a ranger of the White River and Roosevelt National Forests. He also spent much of this time writing, turnout out articles, stories, poems, radio scripts, and-as assistant in the Denver Branch of Information and Education-publicity releases. Mr. Shoemaker was thus uniquely fitted to write the story of the first United States Forest Ranger, his friend colleague, the late William R. Kreutzer.

Free Download William Tecumseh Sherman, "Memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman (Complete)"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1494845121 | EPUB | pages: 606 | 3.8 mb
Hailed as a prophet of modern war and condemned as a harbinger of modern barbarism, Sherman is the most controversial general of the Civil War. "War is cruelty, you cannot refine it," he wrote in fury to the Confederate mayor of Atlanta, and his memoir is filled with dozens of such wartime exchanges and a fascinating, eerie account of the famous march through the Carolinas. sure the memoirs remained controversial. W. T. Sherman’s memoirs are still controversial, even today. He is either a great general, or an overrated one. He is either "hailed as a prophet of modern war or condemned as a modern barbarism." The historical value of these memoirs is enormous. Sherman contributed a great deal to the war, and was partially responsible for the war ending when it did. He conducted one of the most brilliant military campaigns in modern history (actually, they were three campaigns-Atlanta, Savannah, and the Carolinas) and accomplished what many considered to be the impossible. His policy of total war, applied in the South, was utilized by Sheridan in the Shenandoah, and was later slightly modified to be used against the Indians. Thanks to his memoirs, we have a step-by-step account of how this policy developed. Sherman’s work is engaging and very to the point. He is meticulous almost to a fault in his quest for accuracy and detail. His writing is very, very good, and easy to read. He endeavored to be objective in his evaluations. Quick to give praise and slow to censure, he was not afraid to record the failures of his subordinates. William T. Sherman is a very colorful figure in Civil War history. He may well be one of the most complex and intriguing individuals of the war. To some, he is a barbarian; to others, a deliverer. He is immensely quotable, and was very opinionated and outspoken. If you’re contemplating studying the Civil War, do not be put off by this book’s length. Far from being a dry account of a man’s recollections, this is a very engaging and very worthwhile autobiography, and any student of the war will profit by reading it. Volume 1 covers from 1820 to the Mexican War, Sherman’s recollections of California (and the Godl Rush), his experience in Missouri, Louisiana, New York, and Kansas. Also included: The Battle of Bull Run, Paducah, the Battle of Shiloh, Memphis, Arkansas, Vicksburg, Chattanooga, Knoxville, and the Meridian Campaign. Volume 1 also includes notes by Sherman, the preface to the second edition, and an appendix. Volume 2 covers the Atlanta Campaign (including Nashville, Chattanooga, Kennesaw Mountain, and other battles around Atlanta), the pursuit of General Hood, the "March to the Sea" from Atlanta to Savannah, chapters about Savannah and Pocotaligo, the Campaign of the Carolinas, the end of the war (from Goldsboro to Raleigh and Washington), and military lessons of the war, and the aftermath of the war.

Free Download Garrison Nelson, "John William McCormack: A Political Biography"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1628925418, 1628925167 | EPUB | pages: 848 | 3.0 mb
In the first biography of U.S. House Speaker John W. McCormack, author Garrison Nelson uncovers previously forgotten FBI files, birth and death records, and correspondence long thought lost or buried. For such an influential figure, McCormack tried to dismiss the past, almost erasing his legacy from the public’s mind. John William McCormack: A Political Biography sheds light on the behind-the-curtain machinations of American politics and the origins of the modern-day Democratic party, facilitated through McCormack’s triumphs.

Free Download Clark Davis, "It Starts with Trouble: William Goyen and the Life of Writing"
English | ISBN: 1477310673 | 2015 | 392 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
William Goyen was a writer of startling originality and deep artistic commitment whose work attracted an international audience and the praise of such luminaries as Northrop Frye, Truman Capote, Gaston Bachelard, and Joyce Carol Oates. His subject was the land and language of his native East Texas; his desire, to preserve the narrative music through which he came to know his world. Goyen sought to transform the cherished details of his lost boyhood landscape into lasting, mythic forms. Cut off from his native soil and considering himself an "orphan," Goyen brought modernist alienation and experimentation to Texas materials. The result was a body of work both sophisticated and handmade-and a voice at once inimitable and unmistakable.

Free Download In the Service of the Shogun: The Real Story of William Adams by Frederik Cryns
English | July 6th, 2024 | ISBN: 1789148642 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 6.98 MB
A gripping biography of the English ship pilot who would become one of the most influential Westerners in feudal Japan.

Free Download Barbara Burkhardt, "Conversations with William Maxwell "
English | ISBN: 1617032549 | 2012 | 256 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
Conversations with William Maxwell collects thirty-eight interviews, public speeches, and remarks that span five decades of the esteemed novelist and New Yorker editor’s career. The interviews collectively address the entirety of Maxwel’s literary work―with in-depth discussion of his short stories, essays, and novels including They Came Like Swallows, The Folded Leaf, and the American Book Award-winning So Long, See You Tomorrow―as well as his forty-year tenure as a fiction editor working with such luminaries as John Updike, John Cheever, Eudora Welty, Vladimir Nabokov, and J.D. Salinger. Maxwell’s words spoken before a crowd, some previously unpublished, pay moving tribute to literary friends and mentors, and offer reflections on the artistic life, the process of writing, and his midwestern heritage. All retain the reserved poignancy of his fiction. The volume publishes for the first time the full transcript of Maxwell’s extensive interviews with his biographer and, in an introduction, correspondence with writers including Updike and Saul Bellow, which enlivens the stories behind his interviews and appearances.

Free Download Ken Cuthbertson, "A Complex Fate: William L. Shirer and the American Century"
English | ISBN: 0773545441 | 2015 | 580 pages | AZW3 | 4 MB
William Shirer (1904-1993), a star foreign correspondent with the Chicago Tribune in the 1920s and ’30s, was a prominent member of what one contemporary observer described as an extraordinary band of American journalists, "some with the Midwest hayseed still in their hair," who gave their North American audiences a visceral sense of how Europe was spiralling into chaos and war. In 1937, Shirer left print journalism and became the first of the now legendary "Murrow boys," working as an on-air partner to the iconic CBS broadcaster Edward R. Murrow. With Shirer reporting from inside Nazi Germany and Murrow from blitz-ravaged London, the pair built CBS’s European news operation into the industry leader and, in the process, revolutionized broadcasting. But after the war ended, the Shirer-Murrow relationship shattered. Shirer lost his job and by 1950 found himself blacklisted as a supposed Communist sympathizer. After nearly a decade in the professional wilderness, he began work on The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Published in 1960, Shirer’s magnum opus sold millions of copies and was hailed as the masterwork that would "ensure his reputation as long as humankind reads." Ken Cuthbertson’s A Complex Fate is a thought-provoking, richly detailed biography of William Shirer. Written with the full cooperation of Shirer’s family, and generously illustrated with photographs, it introduces a new generation of readers to a supremely talented, complex writer, while placing into historical context some of the pivotal media developments of our time.

Free Download Peter Holland, "William Shakespeare "
English | ISBN: 019921283X | 2007 | 160 pages | PDF | 6 MB
From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain’s most fascinating historical figures – people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time.

Free Download Mitch R. Murray, "William Gibson and the Future of Contemporary Culture "
English | ISBN: 1609387481 | 2021 | 290 pages | AZW3 | 1325 KB
William Gibson is frequently described as one of the most influential writers of the past few decades, yet his body of work has only been studied partially and without full recognition of its implications for literature and culture beyond science fiction. It is high time for a book that explores the significance and wide-ranging impact of Gibson’s fiction.

Free Download Richard Brooks – The Knight Who Saved England: William Marshal and the French Invasion, 1217
Osprey Publishing | 2014 | ISBN: 1849085501 | English | 348 pages | PDF | 119.12 MB
This is the fascinating story William Marshal who negotiated the brutal realities of medieval warfare and the conflicting demands of chivalric ideals, and who against the odds defeated the joint French and rebel forces in arguably the most important battle in midieval English history – overshadowing even Agincourt.