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War Winners is a fully illustrated description of the impact of science and technology on war from the days of the American Civil War to Vietnam. The rise of the machine-gun and the attempts to counter it with chemical warfare and the tank lead on to the birth of radar and the astonishing Pages:   The American Civil War is filled with fascinating characters.

This collection of biographical essays on the “winners and War winners book of the Civil War covers some of the most intriguing: Ulysses S. Grant, George B. McClellan, Sam Houston, Albert Sidney Johnston, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and William Clarke Quantrill, to name just a : Albert Castel.

The War Planners is the first book in the USA Today bestselling series: From a secretive jungle-covered island in the Pacific, to the sands of the Middle East.

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out of 5 stars 1, Genre/Form: History: Additional Physical Format: Online version: Clark, Ronald William. War winners. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, (OCoLC) War has no winners Genocide, war rape, torture, betrayal, bombing, famine, misery, alienation, trauma, PTSD, being a puppet for the interests of big business.

When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II by. Molly Guptill Manning (Goodreads Author). History of categories. The National Book Awards were first awarded to four publications in May Contrary to that historical fact, the National Book Foundation currently recognizes only a history of purely literary awards that begins in Winners.

In its first 97 years tothe History Pulitzer was awarded 95 times. Two prizes were given in ; none in, and Four people have won two each, Margaret Leech, Bernard Bailyn, Paul Horgan and Alan Taylor. With Americans of Past and Present Days by Jean Jules Jusserand A History of the Civil War, by James Ford Rhodes.

Ask anyone who remembers life on the Home Front during World War II about their strongest memories and chances are they will tell you about rationing. You see, the war caused shortages of all sorts of things: rubber, metal, clothing, etc. But it was the shortages of various types of food that affected just about everyone on a daily basis.

The Newbery Medal was established on Jat the annual conference of the American Library Association (ALA). Proposed by Publishers Weekly editor Frederick Melcher, the proposal was well received by the children's librarians present and then approved by the ALA Executive Board.

The award was administered by the ALA from the start, but Melcher provided funds that paid for the design. The National Book Award–winning classic on the Vietnam War, reissued for the war’s fiftieth anniversary. Based on interviews with both Americans and Vietnamese, Winners and Losers is Gloria Emerson s powerful portrait of the Vietnam War/5(9).

Prize Winners by Year Prize Winners by Category Explore Lists History For a distinguished and appropriately documented book on the history of the United States, Fifteen thousand dollars ($15,). "Wolf in the Snow," illustrated and written by Matthew Cordell is the Caldecott Medal winner.

The book was published by Feiwel and Friends, an Imprint of Macmillan. Four Caldecott Honor Books also were named: "Big Cat, little cat," illustrated and written by Elisha Cooper and published by Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck.

Thanks to the editor of the Yale Book of Quotations, Fred Shapiro, and to the Quote Investigator, Garson O’Toole, for critical research into the central question of this article. Tweet Share. Distinguished Book Awards: Monica Kim, NYU, The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History, Princeton University Press, Geoffrey Robinson, UCLA, The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres,Princeton University Press, Stephen Brumwell, Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty, Yale University Press, "The Good War": An Oral History of World War II () is an oral history of World War II compiled by Studs Terkel.

The work received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. Here are some of the winners and honorees sincepresented in chronological order from most recent to oldest. These rich stories and diverse characters will have teens -- and even their parents -- hooked from the first chapter. For more great teen reads, check out our Teen Books and Romantic Fantasy Books for Teens.

Newbery Honor awards are given to authors of other distinguished children's books that came out that year. Check out our list of recent Newbery-winning books, with the winners listed first. And be sure to check out our list of Caldecott Medal and Honor Books.

The history books we loved most in span centuries, nations and wars. From womanhood to nationhood, they challenge the construction of identity and mythology. A quiet tale of heroic courage set in Afghanistan, ‘The Breadwinner’ is a charming tale that speaks of the horrors of war with a warm dignity.

I have read quite a few books on war, but I don’t think I have read many written for a child.4/5(K). Winners & Losers is not just a book about the American experience, for she writes about the Vietnamese people as well with the same insight and brilliance that characterized her reporting during the war, which held her, and so many others, long after it was s: The Medal of Honor was first awarded in the American Civil ent Abraham Lincoln signed a bill containing a provision for the medal for the Navy on Decem It was "to be bestowed upon such petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and Marines as shall most distinguish themselves by their gallantry and other seamanlike qualities during the present war.".

Man Booker Prize winners get bragging rights to one of the most prestigious literary awards in the English-speaking world. Like the winners of Pulitzer Prizes for Letters and the National Book Award, Man Booker Prize winners also experience a bump in book publicity and generally inlike the Nobel Prize for Literature recipient, the Booker Prize winner (and the winners of .