Author: James L. Stokesbury
Publisher:
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
A Short History of World War II.
Author: James L. Stokesbury
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Mission 66
Author: Ethan Carr
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN: 9781558495876
Category : Landscape design
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the years following World War II, Americans visited the national parks in unprecedented numbers, yet Congress held funding at prewar levels and park conditions steadily declined. Elimination of the Civilian Conservation Corps and other New Deal programs further reduced the ability of the federal government to keep pace with the wear and tear on park facilities. To address the problem, in 1956 a ten-year, billion-dollar initiative titled Mission 66 was launched, timed to be completed in 1966, the fiftieth anniversary of the National Park Service. The program covered more than one hundred visitor centers (a building type invented by Mission 66 planners), expanded campgrounds, innumerable comfort stations and other public facilities, new and wider roads, parking lots, maintenance buildings, and hundreds of employee residences. During this transformation, the park system also acquired new seashores, recreation areas, and historical parks, agency uniforms were modernized, and the arrowhead logo became a ubiquitous symbol. To a significant degree, the national park system and the National Park Service as we know them today are products of the Mission 66 era. Mission 66 was controversial at the time, and it continues to incite debate over the policies it represented. Hastening the advent of the modern environmental movement, it transformed the Sierra Club from a regional mountaineering club into a national advocacy organization. But Mission 66 was also the last systemwide, planned development campaign to accommodate increased numbers of automotive tourists. Whatever our judgment of Mission 66, we still use the roads, visitor centers, and other facilities the program built. Ethan Carr's book examines the significance of the Mission 66 program and explores the influence of midcentury modernism on landscape design and park planning. Environmental and park historians, architectural and landscape historians, and all who care about our national parks will enjoy this copiously illustrated history of a critical period in the development of the national park system. Published in association with Library of American Landscape History: http: //lalh.org/
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN: 9781558495876
Category : Landscape design
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the years following World War II, Americans visited the national parks in unprecedented numbers, yet Congress held funding at prewar levels and park conditions steadily declined. Elimination of the Civilian Conservation Corps and other New Deal programs further reduced the ability of the federal government to keep pace with the wear and tear on park facilities. To address the problem, in 1956 a ten-year, billion-dollar initiative titled Mission 66 was launched, timed to be completed in 1966, the fiftieth anniversary of the National Park Service. The program covered more than one hundred visitor centers (a building type invented by Mission 66 planners), expanded campgrounds, innumerable comfort stations and other public facilities, new and wider roads, parking lots, maintenance buildings, and hundreds of employee residences. During this transformation, the park system also acquired new seashores, recreation areas, and historical parks, agency uniforms were modernized, and the arrowhead logo became a ubiquitous symbol. To a significant degree, the national park system and the National Park Service as we know them today are products of the Mission 66 era. Mission 66 was controversial at the time, and it continues to incite debate over the policies it represented. Hastening the advent of the modern environmental movement, it transformed the Sierra Club from a regional mountaineering club into a national advocacy organization. But Mission 66 was also the last systemwide, planned development campaign to accommodate increased numbers of automotive tourists. Whatever our judgment of Mission 66, we still use the roads, visitor centers, and other facilities the program built. Ethan Carr's book examines the significance of the Mission 66 program and explores the influence of midcentury modernism on landscape design and park planning. Environmental and park historians, architectural and landscape historians, and all who care about our national parks will enjoy this copiously illustrated history of a critical period in the development of the national park system. Published in association with Library of American Landscape History: http: //lalh.org/
Allied and Axis Signals Intelligence in World War II
Author: David Alvarez
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135262500
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The importance of codebreaking and signals intelligence in the diplomacy and military operations of World War II is reflected in this study of the cryptanalysts, not only of the US and Britain, but all the Allies. The codebreaking war was a global conflict in which many countries were active. The contributions reveal that, for the Axis as well as the Allies, success in the signals war often depended upon close collaboration among alliance partners.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135262500
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The importance of codebreaking and signals intelligence in the diplomacy and military operations of World War II is reflected in this study of the cryptanalysts, not only of the US and Britain, but all the Allies. The codebreaking war was a global conflict in which many countries were active. The contributions reveal that, for the Axis as well as the Allies, success in the signals war often depended upon close collaboration among alliance partners.
The Real History of World War II
Author: Alan Axelrod
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 1402740905
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Traces the causes of World War II, explores the motivations of important people involved with it, presents the events of the war grouped by the theater in which they took place, and examines its aftermath.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 1402740905
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Traces the causes of World War II, explores the motivations of important people involved with it, presents the events of the war grouped by the theater in which they took place, and examines its aftermath.
World War 2 In Review No. 66
Author: Merriam Press Press (author)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780359962167
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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ISBN: 9780359962167
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
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The Army Air Forces in World War II: Europe, torch to pointblank, August 1942 to December 1943
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Category : Electronic government information
Languages : en
Pages : 964
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Category : Electronic government information
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals
World War II on Film
Author: United States. National Archives and Records Administration
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Category : Motion picture film collections
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Motion picture film collections
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Air University Periodical Index
Author:
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Category : Aeronautics, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 1264
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Aeronautics, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 1264
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