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Beschreibung
The Battle of Belleau Wood, stunning in both its concentration and intensity, was the fiery furnace from which the modern United States Marine Corps emerged as America's fiercest and most effective warriors, the world's preeminent fighting elite.
The Battle of Belleau Wood, stunning in both its concentration and intensity, was the fiery furnace from which the modern United States Marine Corps emerged as America's fiercest and most effective warriors, the world's preeminent fighting elite.
Über den Autor
Alan Axelrod is the author of many books on leadership, management, history, military history, corporate history, career, general business, and more. After receiving his Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa in 1979, Axelrod taught early American literature and culture at Lake Forest College (Lake Forest, Illinois) and at Furman University (Greenville, South Carolina). He then entered scholarly publishing in 1982 as associate editor and scholar with the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum (Winterthur, Delaware), an institution specializing in the history and material culture of America prior to 1832. Axelrod was a featured speaker at the 2004 Conference on Excellence in Government (Washington, D.C.), at the Leadership Institute of Columbia College (Columbia, South Carolina), and at the 2005 Annual Conference of the Goizueta School of Business, Emory University (Atlanta), and the 2014 annual conference of Ecopetrol (Bogota, Colombia).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Miracle at Belleau Wood

Table of Contents

Chapter 1
The Woods and the War

Chapter 2
Bellhops and Stevedores

Chapter 3
“A Quiet Sector”

Chapter 4
55th Company, 2d Battalion, 5th Brigade

Chapter 5
Huns

Chapter 6
Teufelhunden

Chapter 7
“Retreat, Hell!”

Chapter 8
A Dark Sullen Mystery

Chapter 9
“Follow Me!”

Chapter 10
“Do You Want to Live Forever?”

Chapter 11
Victory—or Death?

Chapter 12
The Outsider’s View

Chapter 13
Bois de la Brigade de Marine

Chapter 14
“There Aren’t Any More Marines”

Chapter 15
Spartans for a New Thermopylae
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781493032891
ISBN-10: 1493032895
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Axelrod, Alan
Hersteller: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Alan Axelrod
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2018
Gewicht: 0,401 kg
Artikel-ID: 109987821