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During his life, George S. Patton Jr starred as an Olympic athlete, chased down Mexican bandits, and led tanks into battle in World War I. But he is best remembered for his exploits in World War II. Patton's War follows the general from the beaches of Morocco to the fields of France, right before the birth of Third Army on the continent.

On Tuesday, October 24, 1944, nearly three years after the United States entered World War II, over 2,600 Americans perished--more than on any other single day of the conflict--yet the day remains overshadowed by more widely remembered dates in WWII history. Drawing from the accounts of men from diverse backgrounds who served in the U.S. Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Corps, Rona Simmons offers a gripping retelling of the fateful day, hour by hour and incident by incident. The book begins with Army Private First Class Paul Miller's demise in a prisoner of war camp and ends with the death of Navy Seaman Second Class Wanza E. Matthews after the Japanese submarine I-56 attacked his ship off New Guinea. The sinking of the Japanese "hellship" Arisan Maru--a lesser-known tragedy of the war--looms large, deftly interwoven through each part of the narrative. Perhaps the most compelling aspect of No Average Day is its attention to the human side of conflict, telling the stories of ordinary individuals--clerks, radio operators, cooks, sailors, machinist mates, riflemen, and pilots and their air crews--as they grapple with the horrors of the war. Despite its narrow focus, or perhaps because of it, No Average Day reveals the vastness of World War II through a consideration of the largely overlooked events that unfolded on what, for members of the US Armed Forces, was its deadliest day.

Although the issues and details relate to one region, the shifting rationale for interfering with printed opinion and the mechanisms developed for exercising control have universal implication. Research in this subject by the author led to a vast extent of banned works by the British in India.

Missouri is well-known for its German American heritage, but the story of nineteenth-century German immigrant abolitionists is often neglected in discussions of the state's history. This collection of ten original essays (with a foreword by renowned Missouri historian Gary Kremer), relates what unfolded when idealistic Germans, many of whom were highly educated and devoted to the ideals of freedom and democracy, left their homeland and settled in a pre-Civil War slave state. Fleeing political persecution during the 1830s and 1840s, immigrants such as Friedrich Münch, Eduard Mühl, Heinrich Boernstein, and Arnold Krekel arrived in the area now known as the Missouri German Heritage Corridor in hopes of finding a land more congenial to their democratic ideals. When they witnessed the state of enslaved Blacks, many of them became abolitionist activists and fervent supporters of Abraham Lincoln and the Union in the emerging Civil War. Editor Sydney Norton and the other contributing authors to Fighting for a Free Missouri explore the Germans' abolitionist mission, their relationships with African Americans, and their activity in the radical wing of the Republican Party.

A personal account of her own experiences and the women she met on the way, this text presents stories of those who were active members of the Italian resistance during World War II.

More than a half-century after the death of Kansas City's notorious political boss, Thomas J. Pendergast, the Pendergast name still evokes great interest and even controversy. Now, in this first full-scale biography of Pendergast, Lawrence H. Larsen and Nancy J. Hulston provide a clear look at the life of Thomas J. Pendergast.

Many studies have considered the Bible's relationship to politics, but almost all have ignored the heart of its narrative and theology: the covenant. In this book, Glenn Moots explores the political meaning of covenants past and present by focusing on the theory and application of covenantal politics from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.

Tells the tale of two teams: one the city's lovable losers, the other a formidable dynasty. This is a celebration of the many legendary stars and colourful characters who wore St Louis uniforms and the writers who told their stories.

The Veiled Prophet organisation has been an institution in St Louis for more than a century. Founded in 1878, it was fashioned after the New Orleans Carnival society the Mystick Krewe of Comus. Thomas Spencer explores the social and cultural functions of the organisation's annual celebration and traces the shifts that occurred in its importance.

Unlike the prevailing scholarly narrative that suggests that Tennessee Williams discovered himself artistically and sexually in the deep South and New Orleans, Blue Song reveals that Williams remained emotionally tethered to St. Louis for a host of reasons for the rest of his life.

The format of the book is an homage to the in-depth conversational interviews Hugh Hefner pioneered as the editor and publisher of Playboy magazine. Stuart Brotman conducted in-person interviews with eight persons who in their lifetimes have come to represent a 'greatest generation' of free speech and free press scholars and advocates.

In 1973, Betsy Ann Plank became the first woman to chair the Public Relations Society of America in its twenty-five-year history. This book explores how she managed to navigate the very real barriers of gender-based discrimination that existed in PR at least through the 1970s, and how she ultimately became devoted to PR education.

Autonomy is foundational to journalism. But where does the idea of autonomy come from, and what is it that journalism should be autonomous from? This book presents the genealogy of the idea of journalistic autonomy from the seventeenth century to our contemporary digital age.

A German-born Union officer in the American Civil War, Maj. Gen. Peter Osterhaus served from the first clash in the western theatre until the final surrender of the war. This full-length study of the officer documents how, despite his meteoric military career, his accomplishments were underreported and often misrepresented in the historical record.