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Author : Robert Cressman
Release : 1992
Genre : Government publications
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Magnificent Fight by : Robert Cressman
Download or read book A Magnificent Fight written by Robert Cressman. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dennis Lewycky
Release : 2019-04-29T00:00:00Z
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 989/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Magnificent Fight by : Dennis Lewycky
Download or read book Magnificent Fight written by Dennis Lewycky. This book was released on 2019-04-29T00:00:00Z. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1919, 30,000 Winnipeg workers walked away from their jobs, shutting down large factories, forcing businesses to close and bringing major industries to a halt. Mounted police and hired security, at the behest of the ruling class, violently ended the protest after six weeks. Two men were killed. What started as trade union revolt, the Winnipeg General Strike became a mass protest and was branded as a revolution. In Magnificent Fight, Dennis Lewycky lays out the history of this iconic event, which remains the biggest and longest strike in Canadian history. He analyzes the social, political and economic conditions leading up to the strike. He also illustrates the effects the strike had on workers, unions and all three levels of government in the following decades. Far from a simple retelling of the General Strike, Magnificent Fight speaks to the power of workers’ solidarity and social organization. And Lewycky reveals the length the capitalist class and the state went to in protecting the status quo. By retelling the story of the Strike through the eyes of those who witnessed it, Lewycky’s account is both educational and entertaining.
Author : Robert Cressman
Release : 1995
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 400/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Magnificent Fight by : Robert Cressman
Download or read book A Magnificent Fight written by Robert Cressman. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author examines the defense plans prepared before the war and how grim necessity compelled the modification of those plans. The central part of the work recounts how the Wake garrison survived nearly daily bombings and repulsed the first Japanese attempt to take the atoll. This small band of defenders consisted of marines from an understrength defense battalion and a composite aviation unit equipped with a dwindling number of fighter planes, augmented by sailors and civilian volunteers.
Author : Robert J. Cressman
Release : 1996-11
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Book Rating : 236/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Magnificent Fight by : Robert J. Cressman
Download or read book A Magnificent Fight written by Robert J. Cressman. This book was released on 1996-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert J Cressman
Release : 2013-09-15
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 305/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Magnificent Fight by : Robert J Cressman
Download or read book A Magnificent Fight written by Robert J Cressman. This book was released on 2013-09-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese land-based bombers pounded Wake Island, the American advanced base that was key to the U.S. Navy’s strategy in the Pacific. Throughout the next two weeks, the Wake Island garrison survived nearly daily bombings and repulsed the first Japanese attempt to take the atoll. The determined defenders provided a badly needed lift to American morale. Cressman was the first to make extensive use of Japanese materials to identify the enemy order of battle and the roles each unit played in the drama to provide a moving account of the heroism of the defenders in the face if tremendous odds.
