MONTE CASSINO The hardest-fought batlle of world war II / PARKER, MATTHEW

Título : MONTE CASSINO The hardest-fought batlle of world war II Tipo de documento: texto impreso Autores: PARKER, MATTHEW Editorial: NEW YORK : DOUBLEDAY Fecha de publicación: 2004 Número de páginas: 414 ISBN/ISSN/DL: 978-0-385-50985-5 Idioma : Inglés (eng) Palabras clave: CASSINO  BATTLE OF  ITALY 1944  WORLD WAR II Clasificación: 940.54 Histoire militaire de la seconde guerre mondiale Resumen: A gripping chronicle of the greatest and most terrible confrontation between Allied forces and the Nazi army, based on groundbreaking archival research and the compelling first-person accounts of four hundred survivors on both sides of the conflict. Before D-Day there was Monte Cassino, the desperate six-month struggle in the mountains of central Italy that left more than 350,000 men dead or wounded. Hitler had declared that the Allied drive toward Rome must be stopped at all costs, and in the winter of 1943–44 the German commander Kesselring chose the fortress-like monastery of Monte Cassino as the centerpiece of the Gustav Line, one of the most impressive feats of defensive engineering ever conceived. With months to prepare his position, Kesselring took advantage of the treacherous terrain to establish a virtually impregnable position. As the Allied forces?which included Americans, British, Canadians, Indians, South Africans, Tunisians, Algerians, Moroccans, Senegalese, Brazilians, and royalist Italians?pushed their way forward, the coldest, rainiest winter in Italian history rendered air and armor power useless, and turned the landscape into a hellish killing ground. The Battle of Monte Cassino is a story of the horrors of war seen from the perspective of the soldiers on the battlefield. Through interviews with hundreds of survivors, as well as wartime letters and diaries, Matthew Parker vividly captures the savagery of conflicts fought with grenades, bayonets, and bare hands. His extensive research in the military archives of the participating nations brings to light how incessant disagreements and backbiting at the Allied command level contributed to the carnage and confusion. The destruction of the fourteenth-century monastery itself becomes a powerful symbol of the toll war takes on history and culture. Monte Cassino was one of the most sacred sites in Christendom and the home to valuable religious artifacts, artworks, and manuscripts. In massive Allied bombings, the building and many of its irreplaceable treasures were reduced to rubble.

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PANAMA FEVER The building of the Panama canal / PARKER, MATTHEW

Título : PANAMA FEVER The building of the Panama canal Tipo de documento: texto impreso Autores: PARKER, MATTHEW Editorial: NEW YORK : DOUBLEDAY Fecha de publicación: 2007 Número de páginas: 530 ISBN/ISSN/DL: 978-0-385-51534-4 Idioma : Inglés (eng) Palabras clave: PANAMA CANAL  PANAMA HISTORY 972.87^PAR Clasificación: 813.5 fICTION AMÉRICANE, 1945-ACTUALITÉ Resumen: The Panama Canal was the costliest undertaking in human history. It literally required moving mountains, breaking the back of the great range that connects North and South America. Begun by the French in 1880, its successful completion in 1914 by the Americans marked the end of the Victorian Age and the beginning of the “American Century.” The building of the Panama Canal was a project whose gestation spanned hundreds of years. Columbus himself searched for a way to get to the Pacific across the narrow isthmus of Central America. For centuries, monarchs, presidents, businessmen, and explorers all struggled to find such a passage, knowing that whoever controlled it would exert unsurpassed control over global trade, and therefore the fate of nations. The first history of this mighty achievement in nearly thirty years, Panama Fever draws on diaries, memoirs, letters, and other contemporary accounts, bringing the experience of those who built the canal vividly to life. The massive project riveted public attention: “Panama Fever” spread throughout the Western world. Politicians and businessmen engaged in high-stakes international diplomacy in order to influence its location, path, ownership, and construction. Meanwhile, ditch-diggers, machinists, drivers, engineers, and foremen from all over the world rushed to take advantage of high wages and the chance to be a part of history. But the grim reality of Panama – searing heat, torrential rains, fatal mud slides, and malarial mosquitoes – soon caught up with them. More than 25,000 of those who enthusiastically signed on as workers succumbed to dysentery, yellow fever, and malaria, giving a fatal twist to the meaning of “Panama Fever.” The truly horrific toll unleashed a second race to find a cure so the canal could be completed. The discoveries of the heroic doctors who battled these diseases would lead to a sea change in the way infectious diseases were treated, thus paving the way for the tremendous medical advances of the twentieth century.

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THE SUGAR BARONS Family,Corruption,Empire and War in the West Indies / PARKER, MATTHEW

Título : THE SUGAR BARONS Family,Corruption,Empire and War in the West Indies Tipo de documento: texto impreso Autores: PARKER, MATTHEW Editorial: NEW YORK : WALKER AND Co Fecha de publicación: 2011 Número de páginas: 446p Idioma : Inglés (eng) Palabras clave: SUGAR PLANTATIONS;WEST INDIES;HISTORY  SUGAR TRADE;GREAT BRITAIN;COLONIES;AMERICA;18th CENTURY;HISTORY;19th CENTURY Resumen: THE DRAMATIC STORY OF THE RISE AND FALL OF THE GREAT CARIBBEAN SUGAR DYNASTIES AND THEIR ENORMOUS INPACT ON WORLD HISTORY.

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