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Ski Soldier is a truelife adventure story for readers ages 10 to 14 by noted nonfiction writer Louise Borden It tells the story of Pete Seibert a ski soldier severely wounded in World War II who went on to found the Vail Ski Resort in ColoradoEver since he first strapped on his mothers wooden skis when he was seven Pete Seibert always loved to ski At 18 Pete enlisted in the US Army and joined the 10th Mountain Division soldiers who fought on skis in World War II In the mountains of Italy Pete encountered the mental and physical horrors of war When he was severely wounded and sent home to recover Pete worried that he might never ski again But with perseverance and the help of other 10th Mountain ski soldiers he took to the slopes again and fulfilled his boyhood dreamfounding the famous ski resort in Vail Colorado
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In 1966 a softspoken 32year old man emerged from relative obscurity and humble background to become Nigerias Head of State and CommanderinChief of the Armed Forces His name was Lt Col later GeneralYakubu Gowon He emerged as the compromise candidate following the political crisis that engulfed the country after the July 1966 military coup that had led to the assassination of the countrys first military Head of State General Aguiyi Ironsi At the end of the Civil War in 1970 General Gowons doctrine of No Victor No Vanquished greatly endeared him to many and he was variously dubbed Abraham Lincoln of Nigeria a soft spoken but dynamic leader a real gentleman and an almost faultless administrator However after he was overthrown in a military coup in July 1975 long knives were drawn out for him with the hitherto friendly press and public crying crucify him and now variously vilifying him as weak and of managing a purposeless administration that had led to the drifting of the nation In this book Professor J Isawa Elaigwu attempts a scholarly political biography of someone he believes has rendered great services to the Nigerian nation despite his weaknesses as a leader He rejects the notion that Gowons nine years in office were nine years of failure as the Generals ardent critics posit arguing that if it is possible to identify a number of thresholds in his administration it is also possible to identify the approximate point in time when the strains of his administration became visible to observers and the public in general He poses and methodically seeks answers to a number of fundamental questions Who was Yakubu Gowon Why and how was the reservoir of goodwill and credibility which he had accumulated by the end of the Civil War expended What image of Nigeria did he have when he came into power And did he ever achieve his objectives The book first published in 1986 has been revised and expanded for this edition
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These biographies emphasize the wide diversity of style temperament activity and occupation of frontier soldiers Included are William Clark Stephen H Long William S Harney James Henry Carleton Philip H Sheridan George Armstrong Custer George Crook John G Bourke Benjamin H Grierson Ranald S Mackenzie William B Hazen Nelson A Miles Frank D Baldwin and Charles King
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Bauer assesses Zachary Taylor as a man of limited emotional and intellectual capacity behind a nearly impenetrable mask The mask is lifted only slightly in this new biography Although Bauer purports to show part of Taylors life that shaped his later actions this account adds little to what we already know from Holman Hamiltons twovolume Zachary Taylor 194151 and Hamilton is far better on the White House years But so little Taylor correspondence has survived that he must remain an enigma to any biographer Bauer confirms that he was a competent smallunit army commander a wrongheaded stubborn president and a poor politician For scholars who need a onevolume life Thomas E Schott Office of History Engineering Installation Div Tinker Air Force Base OklaCopyright 1985 Reed Business Information Inc
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Large 8vo 9 10 tall 225 pages HCDJ Snugly bound and very neat in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket Prior owners brief 2 line note on halftitle page commends the quality of the book Otherwise very nearly as new NFNF
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From the War of 1812 to the end of the nineteenth century US Army officers were instrumental in shaping the American West They helped explore uncharted places and survey and engineer its farflung transportation arteries Many also served in the ferocious campaigns that drove American Indians onto reservations Soldiers West views the turbulent history of the West from the perspective of fifteen senior army officersincluding Philip H Sheridan George Armstrong Custer and Nelson A Mileswho were assigned to bring order to the regionThis revised edition of Paul Andrew Huttons popular work adds five new biographies and essays from the first edition have been updated to incorporate recent scholarship New portraits of Stephen W Kearny Philip St George Cooke and James H Carleton expand the volumes coverage of the army on the antebellum frontier Other new pieces focus on the controversial John M Chivington who commanded the Colorado volunteers at the Sand Creek Massacre in 1863 and Oliver O Howard who participated in federal and private initiatives to reform Indian policy in the West An introduction by Durwood Ball discusses the vigorous growth of frontier military history since the original publication of Soldiers West
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