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Fighting Words
Richard F. Miller
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Description for Fighting Words
Hardback. In Fighting Words, award-winning author Richard F. Num Pages: 312 pages, 16-pg b/w photo section. BIC Classification: HBTD; HBW; JWKT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 612.
In Fighting Words, award-winning author Richard F. Miller (In Words and Deeds) looks to some of history's most successful battle speechmakers to answer the age-old question of how did it work? How did Pope Urban II's speech convince tens of thousands of Europeans to wage the First Crusade, a dangerous, and for many, a one-way journey to Jerusalem? How did George Patton's speech transform the green kids of the Third Army into the terror of the Third Reich? How did the words of General David Petraeus resurrect a losing effort in Iraq and in the process, retrain his soldiers for ... Read more
In Fighting Words, award-winning author Richard F. Miller (In Words and Deeds) looks to some of history's most successful battle speechmakers to answer the age-old question of how did it work? How did Pope Urban II's speech convince tens of thousands of Europeans to wage the First Crusade, a dangerous, and for many, a one-way journey to Jerusalem? How did George Patton's speech transform the green kids of the Third Army into the terror of the Third Reich? How did the words of General David Petraeus resurrect a losing effort in Iraq and in the process, retrain his soldiers for ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Savas Beatie United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
El Dorado Hills, United States
ISBN
9781932714784
SKU
V9781932714784
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About Richard F. Miller
RICHARD F. MILLER’s most recent books are In Words and Deeds: Battle Speeches in History, A Carrier at War: On Board the USS Kitty Hawk in the Iraq War, and Harvard’s Civil War: The History of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. He is an independent scholar.
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