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When postwar movie directors went looking for a gritty location to shoot their psychological crime thrillers they found Bunker Hill a neighborhood of fading Victorians flophouses tough bars stairways and dark alleys in downtown Los Angeles Novelist Raymond Chandler had already been there exploring the reallife mean streets that his hardboiled detective Philip Marlowe prowled in the writer s exacting prose But the biggest crime was going on behind the scenes run by the city s power elite And Hollywood just happened to capture it on film Using nearly eighty photos writer Jim Dawson enlarges the record of LA history with this grassroots investigation of a vanished place
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Poet Laureate of Boston wrote this poem in 1875 as part of the Centenary celebration of the Battle of Bunker Hill Two months after Lexington and Concord American forces seized some high ground in Charleston threatening the British fleet and Boston itselfWithin hours the British retaliatedWhile the battle of June 17 1775 was brief the colonials ran out of ammunition and had to retreat it was a very costly victory for the British Army and it confirmed that the skirmishes of April 19th had heralded a true revolution Howard Pyle artist illustrator and author of many bookswas noted for his ability to capture the American spirit in his works
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Boston 1775 A town occupied by General Thomas Gages redcoats and groaning with Tory refugees from the Massachusetts countryside Besieged for two months by a rabble in arms the British decided to break out of town American spies discovered their plans and on the night of June 16 1775 a thousand rebels marched out onto Charlestown peninsula and began digging a redoubt not on Bunker Hill which they had been ordered to fortify but on Breeds Hill well within cannon shot of the British batteries and ships At daybreak HMS Lively began firing It was the opening round of a battle that saw unbelievable heroism and tragic blunders on both sides a battle that marked a point of no return for England and her colonies the beginning of allout war
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By the will of fate I came to play a part in not letting Hitler achieve his final goal of disappearing and turning into a myth I managed to prevent Stalins dark and murky ambition from taking root his desire to hide from the world that we had found Hitlers corpse Elena RzhevskayaA telling reminder of the jealousy and rivalries that split the Allies even in their hour of victory and foreshadowed the Cold War Tom Parfitt The GuardianOn May 21945 Red Army soldiers broke into Hitlers bunker Rzhevskaya a young military interpreter was with them Almost accidentally the Soviet military found the charred remains of Hitler and Eva Braun They also found key documents Bormanns notes the diaries of Goebbels and letters of Magda GoebbelsRzhevskaya was entrusted with the proof of the Hitlers death his teeth wrenched from his corpse by a pathologist hours earlier The teeth were given to Rzhevskaya because they believed male agents were more likely to get drunk on Victory Day blurt out the secret and lose the evidence She interrogated Hitlers dentists assistant who confirmed the teeth were hisElenas role as an interpreter allowed her to forge a link between the Soviet troops and the Germans She also witnessed the civilian tragedy perpetrated by the Soviets The book includes her diary material and later additions including conversations with Zhukov letters of pathologist Shkaravsky who led the autopsy and a new Preface written by Rzhevskaya for the English language editionRzhevskaya writes about the key historical events and everyday life in her own inimitable style She talks in depth of human suffering of bittersweet victory of an authors responsibility of strange laws of memory and unresolved feeling of guilt
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Boston 1775 A town occupied by General Thomas Gages redcoats and groaning with Tory refugees from the Massachusetts countryside Besieged for two months by a rabble in arms the British decided to break out of town American spies discovered their plans and on the night of June 16 1775 a thousand rebels marched out onto Charlestown peninsula and began digging a redoubt not on Bunker Hill which they had been ordered to fortify but on Breeds Hill well within cannon shot of the British batteries and ships At daybreak HMS Lively began firing It was the opening round of a battle that saw unbelievable heroism and tragic blunders on both sides a battle that marked a point of no return for England and her colonies the beginning of allout war
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Let the Bunker Burn examines the events that took place in Philadelphia on May 13 1985 during a confrontation with a cult named MOVE City officials including the mayor approved a police plan to drop a bomb on the MOVE house The explosion caused a raging fire that was allowed to burn out of control until it had consumed 61 homes and 11 MOVE members including several children In the aftermath there were coverups excuses and perjury Bowser reveals disturbing conclusions about how the children were killed why the bomb was dropped and why the fire was permitted to burn unchecked
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You are a Patriot in the American Revolution ready to fight for independence and the right to prosper in this new land OR You are a British soldier sent to fight for England against the American rebels OR You are a Boston civilian trying to make sense of the chaos overtaking your city
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Foreword by Gen Robert W Sennewald USA Ret Evoking all the powerful emotions of a frustrating bitter bloody stalemated Korean War Bill McWilliams takes readers into the trenches and bunkers of Pork Chop Hill with the men of the 7th Infantry Divisions 17th and 32nd Regiments as they withstand repeated assaults by the Chinese in July 1953 Their individual accounts of small victories and defeats fear and valor bring alive the final battle for the hill While a popular movie starring Gregory Peck made Pork Chop Hill a public legend only one other book has been written about the subject and it focuses on earlier assaults This book includes the neverbeforetold stories of the riflemen machine gunners forward observers sergeants platoon leaders and medics whose heroic efforts helped hold the hill and produced two Medals of Honor and ten Distinguished Service Crosses some awarded posthumously The author succeeds at giving the reader both a feeling of being in the midst of the fighting and stepping back to view the bigger picture He blends official documents personal letters interviews oral histories and other sources to acquaint readers with the first three years of the war and prior assaults on Pork Chop and highlights the contributions made by combat support units and others to the mission As the narrative progresses the whys of battlefield decisions become evident with an examination of the influence of national policies protracted truce negotiations a fledgling South Korean democracy and the evolving American military policy of active defense providing painful lessons for Americas future struggles Published in cooperation with the Association of the United States Army the book pays tribute to the greatest testing ground of US soldier resolve since Valley Forge
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Since the 1980s the American M1 Abrams series of tanks has been widely regarded as among the finest main battle tanks in the world This volume is a concise look at the background development and Army and Marine operational history of the Abrams from the 1970s to the present The author who brings a unique perspective and authority as a former M1A1 tank gunner with the United States Armysnbsp 1104th Cavalry was granted behindthescenes access to photograph the US Armys collection of rare tanks at Fort Benning Georgianbsp He also shows the Abrams tanks service in lesser known placesnot just Iraq and Afghanistansuch as Cold War Germany BosniaHerzegovina Somalia and othersnbspPart of the Legends of Warfare series
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Using historical files kept by each of the armed services and nations involved in the Korean War Rottman provides information on unit backgrounds organization manning periods of service insignia weapons casualties and major commands including the Western North Korean Communist Chinese and USSR forcesThe United Nations first military action and Americas first major Cold War action the Korean War frequently called the forgotten war is well documented in studies and reports of specific actions and phases of the war These sources however provide little order of battle information on most of the belligerents particularly the nonUSUN and South Korean forces Using the historical files kept by each armed service and each nation Gordon Rottman provides information on combat units and major commands including both Western forces and North Korean Communist Chinese and USSR forces He has done an invaluable service for scholars and military buffsFilling a void that would not likely have been filled otherwise the book provides information on unit backgrounds organization manning periods of service insignia weapons and casualties The book will be a primary source for anyone scholar or layman interested in researching the Korean War
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