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  1. Big guns
    a novel
    Autor*in: Israel, Steve
    Erschienen: 2018
    Verlag:  Head of Zeus, London

    "When Chicago's Mayor Michael Rodriguez starts a national campaign to ban handguns from America's cities, towns, and villages, Otis Cogsworth, the wealthy chairman and CEO of Cogsworth International Arms worries about the effects on his company. In... mehr

    Stadtbibliothek Braunschweig
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    "When Chicago's Mayor Michael Rodriguez starts a national campaign to ban handguns from America's cities, towns, and villages, Otis Cogsworth, the wealthy chairman and CEO of Cogsworth International Arms worries about the effects on his company. In response he and lobbyist Sunny McCarthy convince an Arkansas congressman to introduce federal legislation mandating that every American must own a firearm. Events soon escalate"--

     

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    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    Format: Druck
    ISBN: 9781788544306
    Auflage/Ausgabe: Paperback edtion
    Schlagworte: Firearms ownership; Gun control; Lobbyists; Firearms
    Umfang: 310 Seiten
  2. Charge!
    History's Greatest Military Speeches
    Autor*in: Israel, Steve
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  Naval Institute Press, New York

    One of the leading voices on national security issues in the U.S. Congress demonstrates how words have been sharp and powerful weapons of victory in this compilation of great military speeches that helped turn the tide of history. Among the dozens of... mehr

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    One of the leading voices on national security issues in the U.S. Congress demonstrates how words have been sharp and powerful weapons of victory in this compilation of great military speeches that helped turn the tide of history. Among the dozens of inspirational speeches featured are: Moses instructing his followers to cross the Jordan River without him. . . Queen Elizabeth pledging to die with her soldiers as they faced the Spanish Armada. . . Patrick Henry choosing between liberty and death. . . Napoleon exhorting his troops as they marched on Egypt. . . Winston Churchill rallying his

     

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    Sprache: Englisch
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    ISBN: 9781591143994
    Umfang: Online-Ressource (321 p)
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    Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: DISTANT ECHOES; Moses: Instructing His People to March Without Him (circa 1260 BCE); Pericles: Reply to Sparta (432 BCE); Pericles: At the Funeral of Fallen Sodiers (431 BCE); Pericles: Lifting the Morale of Athens (430 BCE); Isocrates: On Resisting Persia (380 BCE); Hannibal: To His Soldiers (218 BCE); Catiline: To His Troops (62 BCE); Eleazer ben Yair: Death, Not Slavery (May 73); Empress Theodora: Fight, Not Flight (January 18, 532); St. Bernard: On the Second Crusade (1146); William Shakespeare: Battle of Agincourt (1599)

    Queen Elizabeth I: Supporting Her Troops against the Spanish Armada (July 1588)Frederick the Great: Before Invading Silesia (December 11, 1740); Frederick the Great: Before the Battle of Leuthen (December 3, 1757); Part 2: LIBERTY OR DEATH; John Hancock: On the Boston Massacre (March 5. 1774); Patrick Henry: Liberty or Death (March 23, 1775); George Washington: Calming His Rebellious Troops (March 15, 1783); Napoleon Bonaparte: Speeches of 1796-1815; Before the Italian Campaign (March 1796); Proclamation to the Army (May 1796); On Entering Milan, May 1796

    At the Conclusion of the First Italian Campaign (March 1797)On the Signing of the Treaty of Camp Formio (October 17, 1797); On Embarking for Egypt (June 1798); Before the Battle of Marengo (June 14, 1800); On Presenting the Colors (December 3, 1804); Before the Battle of Austerlitz (December 1, 1805); After the Battle of Austerlitz (December 3, 1805); Before the Battle of Borodino (September 7, 1812); Address to the Guard (April 2, 1814); Farewell Address to the Old Guard (April 20, 1814); On Returning from Exile (March 5, 1815)

    Anniversary Proclamation on the Battles of Marengo and Friedland (June 14, 1815)Giuseppe Garibaldi: Farewel Address: Fight On! (September 1860); Frederick Douglass: Man of Color, To Arms! (March 21, 1863); Abraham Lincoln: Gettysburg Address (November 19, 1863); Abraham Lincoln: To the 166th Ohio Regiment (August 22, 1864); Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address (March 4, 1865); Part 3: SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY; Woodrow Wilson: To the U.S. Naval Academy (June 5, 1914); Woodrow Wilson: War Message to Congress (April 2, 1917); Georges Clemenceau: Defend to the Death (June 4, 1918)

    Marshal Ferdinand Foch: Tribute to Napoleon (May 5, 1921)Winston Churchill: Victory at All Costs (May 13, 1940); Winston Churchill: We Shall Never Surrender (June 4, 1940); Henry Stimson: Asking for Sacrifice (May 6, 1941); Harold Ickes: Impoloring Americans to Fight (May 18, 1941); Vyacheslav Molotov: Responding to Germany's Invasion (June 22, 1941); Josef Stalin: Defend Every Inch (July 3, 1941); Winston Churchill: We Can Take It Again (July 14, 1941); Franklin D. Roosevelt: 9/11 Address (September 11, 1941); Winston Churchill: On Refusing to ""Give In"" (October 29, 1941)

    Franklin D. Roosevelt: Declaring War on Japan (December 8, 1941)