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Frederick N. Funston (1865 – 1917) of Kansas was a General in the United States Army, best known for his role in the Spanish–American War and the Philippine–American War. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Philippine–American War. He eventually joined the Cuban Revolutionary Army that was fighting for independence from Spain in 1896 after having been inspired to join following a rousing speech given by Gen. Daniel E. Sickles at Madison Square Garden in New York City.When Funston returned to the United States, he was commissioned as a colonel of the 20th Kansas Infantry in the United States Army on May 13, 1898, in the early days of the Spanish–American War. That same year, he landed in the Philippines as part of the U.S. forces that would become engaged in the Philippine–American War.Funston was in command of Kansas troops in various engagements with Filipino nationalists. In April 1899, he took a Filipino position at Calumpit by swimming the Bagbag River, then crossing the Pampanga River under heavy fire. For his bravery, Funston was soon promoted to the rank of Brigadier General of Volunteers and awarded the Medal of Honor on February 14, 1900.Funston played a key role in planning and executing the capture of Filipino President Emilio Aguinaldo on March 23, 1901, at Palanan. The capture of Aguinaldo made Funston a national hero. Shortly before the U.S. entry into World War I, President Woodrow Wilson favored Funston to head any American Expeditionary Force. "Memories of Two Wars" is a narrative of the author's experiences in the Cuban insurrection before the intervention of the United States and his service in the Philippines after Spanish sovereignty terminated. They relate the incidents of the enlisting and landing of several young Americans on Cuban soil and describe the scenes of the siege of Cascorra, the fall of Guaimaro and other of the more thrilling encounters of the latter days of the struggle before the destruction of the Maine. As with many another young man love of adventure and things martial tempted young Funston to line up with the patriots who were striving to bring about more satisfactory conditions in Cuba. The recruit in the Cuban service and a Hotchkiss cannon were landed on Cuban soil from the same boat and the embryo brigadier had his first lessons in the art of war as an artilleryman. Once in the field it developed that for the most part the Americans in the insurgent ranks were in the artillery arm of the service and among them were brothers who wore the sword and shield. Meandering over a wide expanse of partially developed tropical territory as a gunner gave the American insurgent a less romantic view of war as a general proposition and at the same time gave him experience which helped greatly when he served his country in an unbroken country on the other side of the earth. General Funston's account of the Cuban campaign is so exact and complete that one is minded of some of the modern French authors.The Philippine campaign was done under different conditions. As a colonel of volunteers there was a long and trying period of preparation and waiting for Funston before his regiment of Kansas men went forward to occupy the new possessions of the United States. The expedition looked like an excursion with no prospect of real service at the end of the journey. But the pesky Filipino did not want to be assimilated and had to be brought in and Colonel Funston and his men had not only a taste but a sufficiency of the fights they had enlisted for. The capture of the leader of the insurgents was the great event and the telling of it the climax of General Funston's story of adventure as he calls it. Funston's book is a story of adventure and it is a narrative but it is also filled with historical matter which gives it a value which will prevent the volume dropping out of sight after a first reading.

First published in 1878, this is the story of Frederick Burnaby's harrowing thousand-mile winter journey from Constantinople to eastern Turkey. War between Turkey and Russia threatened, and Burnaby was on a mission to discover whether the Turks could resist a potential thrust toward Constantinople by the Russian Empire. This entertaining account, a bestseller of its time, will appeal to armchair travelers, military history buffs, and anyone interested in the history of this fascinating and tumultuous region. British soldier and writer FREDERICK BURNABY (1842-1885) was a member of the Royal Horse Guards, and in 1882, he became the first balloonist to cross the English Channel alone. Three years later, he died from a spear wound sustained in battle in the Sudan. He also wrote A Ride to Khiva (1876).

THE CLASSIC THRILLER FROM #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR FREDERICK FORSYTH“The Day of the Jackal makes such comparable books such as The Manchurian Candidate and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold seem like Hardy Boy mysteries.”—The New York Times The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the world. An assassin with a contract to kill the world's most heavily guarded man.One man with a rifle who can change the course of history. One man whose mission is so secretive not even his employers know his name. And as the minutes count down to the final act of execution, it seems that there is no power on earth that can stop the Jackal.

Eurythmy is an important episode in the history of dance that has been unjustly neglected. Eurythmy is the continuation of an aesthetic revolution that began not in Europe, but in America; the original impulses leading to the "new dance" were deeply spiritual; and there are deep but largely unapprehended between the "new dance" and eurythmy. This counter-narrative about the pre-history of eurythmy within the history of dance should be of particular interest to English-speaking anthroposophists, because it identifies as the all-important context for the development of eurythmy the pioneering work of three American women: Loie Fuller, Isadora Duncan, and Ruth St. Denis. Drawing on extensive historical documentation, Amrine argues that it is eurythmy, rather than modern dance, that is the rightful heir of Fuller, Duncan, and St. Denis.

Frederick Palmer (1873 - 1958) was an American journalist, war correspondent, and writer who wrote about his time in the Klondike reporting on the gold rush.IN the winter of 1897-98 some eighty thousand “pilgrims” turned their steps toward the promised land of the Klondike. Of these eighty thousand about thirtyfive thousand reached Dawson in the spring. In all, the pilgrims spent between $30,000,000 and $40,000,000 on outfits and transportation, by Mr. Palmer's estimate, while the Klondike's gold output for the year was only $11,000,000.These contrasted figures tell in a graphic way the disheartening story of the most impressive migration of its kind for generations, one whose impressiveness suffered popular eclipse owing to absorption of interest in the Spanish war. This is the story of Mr. Palmer's book, beginning not with the pilgrims en masse, but with his personal experiences, when, after being stranded in Dyea by the abandonment of the government relief expedition which he was to have accompanied, he, despite solemn warnings, started out with two companions, in early March, to climb the Chilkoot Pass and to make Dawson by dogs and sleds before the ice went out of the Yukon. This feat he accomplished just in the nick of time, “Cheechawko’’ that he was, “ Cheechawko’ being the Klondike for “tenderfoot.” This part of the story reads like a bit out of Nansen, with its sleeping bags, snow blindness, and dog travel-although, unlike Nansen, Mr. Palmer's party was not reduced to killing some of the dogs to feed the others.Taken as a whole, the book is a most entertaining compilation of fugitive Klondike facts with which newspaper readers are cursorily familiar. Its style is distinctively journalistic, marked by an excess of humorous cynicism. No oddity of type—and odd types are as common in the Klondike as gold nuggets—and no uniqueness of incident or situation escape Mr. Palmer's eye or pen. One concludes it with the feeling that the boasted advantage of civilised over primitive conditions is, after all, debatable. The chapter on the mismanagement of the Dominion Government after the “boom” began, a mismanagement which put a premium on corruption in true Tammany fashion, is peculiarly pertinent now that so much is made of the excellence of any government anywhere that goes by the name of “British.” In fairness it should be added that the story is exceptionally fortunate in its illustration.CONTENTSI. THE START FROM DYEAChoosing Comrades—Jack Beltz and his Dogs—Fritz Gamble—From Sheep Camp to the Summit—Packing over the Chilkoot Pass—The Halt at Lake Linderman—A Night in a Sleeping Bag—Coasting down the Frozen Yukon—Half Way to Dawson II. ON THE TRAILPersonalities—The Forebears of Jack and Fritz—Good Camp Manners —Dog Individuality—Dude—The Team of Huskies—Wayfarers at Five Fingers—Fort Selkirk and Pelly—The Thanksgiving Turkey that Did Not Get to Dawson—A Diet of Flapjacks—Suburbs of the Klondyke Capital—The Passing of the Trail. III. DAWSONIV. THE FIRST DISCOVERIESV. MINERS AND MININGVI. SOME KLONDYKE TYPESVII. GETTING ACQUAINTEDVIII. ARCTIC TRAITSDaily Life in Dawson—Renting a Cabin—Circumventing the Huskies —Joey Boureau and his Restaurant—The Faro Dealer's Wife and her Bakery—The Laundryman and his Claim—Jack Beltz's Schemes—A Pair of Dreamers IX. PILGRIMS' TRAILS AND TRIALSX. PROFITS AND LOSSESXI. GOVERNMENTXII. DOWN THE YUKON AND HOME Good-By to Dawson—The Extinction of the Unfit—Steamboating to St. Michaels—Mosquitoes and Sandbars—Pilgrims by the All-Water Route—Behring Sea—Civilization Once More Kindle republication of 1899 book; may contain occasional imperfection; original spellings kept in place.

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Author Frederick Nohl tells how Luther grew up to live the adventuresome, often dangerous life of a man of God. He became one of those great men whom to know is to gain something unusually worthwhile. Martin Luther still lives on today, for his thoughts and words and actions have helped to make our modern world what it is. The book's cover and interior features 4-color "stills" from the motion picture, "Luther."

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From the grand master of international suspense comes his most intriguing story ever—his own. For more than forty years, Frederick Forsyth has been writing extraordinary real-world novels of intrigue, from The Day of the Jackal on. Whether writing about the murky world of arms dealers or the intricacies of worldwide drug cartels, every plot has been chillingly plausible because every detail has been minutely researched. But what most people don’t know is that some of his greatest stories of intrigue have been in his own life. He was the RAF’s youngest pilot at the age of nineteen, barely escaped the wrath of an arms dealer in Hamburg, got strafed by a MiG during the Nigerian Civil War, landed during a bloody coup in Guinea-Bissau (and has himself been accused of helping fund a 1973 coup in Equatorial Guinea). The Stasi arrested him, the Israelis feted him, the IRA threatened him, and a certain attractive Czech secret police agent, well, her actions were a bit more . . . intimate. And that’s just for starters. Nominated for the Edgar Award for best critical/biographical work of 2015.