Charlton Ogburn (1911–1998)
Auteur de Railroads: the Great American Adventure
A propos de l'auteur
Notice de désambiguation :
(eng) Both Charlton Ogburns, father and son, wrote anti-Shakespearean books. Senior wrote This Star of England and Renaissance Man of England; Junior wrote the others.
Crédit image: http://www.ogbourne.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/charltono.jpg Ogburn family archives
Œuvres de Charlton Ogburn
The Man Who Was Shakespeare: A Summary of the Case Unfolded in the Mysterious William Shakespeare : The Myth and the… (1995) 20 exemplaires
Big Caesar 7 exemplaires
Shake-speare;: The man behind the name 5 exemplaires
The White Falcon 4 exemplaires
The continent in our hands. 3 exemplaires
The Winter Beach 1 exemplaire
Shakespeare's Self-Portrait 1 exemplaire
"The Passing Of The Passenger Pigeon: These wild birds once inhabited North America by the billions. Yet in three… 1 exemplaire
"The Longest Walk: David Ingram’s Amazing Journey: He was the first Englishman to give a detailed description of the… 1 exemplaire
The Bridge 1 exemplaire
The White Falcon 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Gentlemen, Scholars and Scoundrels: A Treasury of the Best of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the Present (1959) — Contributeur — 55 exemplaires
De grote Ceasar; De tijgerkat; De goden van Hawaii; Diamanten voor Janice — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Ogburn, Charlton
- Nom légal
- Ogburn, Charlton, Jr.
- Date de naissance
- 1911-03-15
- Date de décès
- 1998-10-19
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Savannah, Georgia, USA
New York, New York, USA - Études
- Harvard University
- Professions
- author
bureaucrat
naturalist - Relations
- Ogburn, Charlton Greenwood (father)
Ogburn, Dorothy (mother)
Weidman, Vera M. (wife)
Ogburn, William Fielding (uncle)
Aldis, Will (son)
Aldis, Dorothy (former mother-in-law) - Organisations
- United States Army
United States Department of State - Notice de désambigüisation
- Both Charlton Ogburns, father and son, wrote anti-Shakespearean books. Senior wrote This Star of England and Renaissance Man of England; Junior wrote the others.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 24
- Aussi par
- 6
- Membres
- 587
- Popularité
- #42,723
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 5
- ISBN
- 22
- Langues
- 1
- Favoris
- 2
story of the three battalions of American infantrymen who, in the spring of 1944, marched and fought across six hundred miles of northern Burma to achieve fame as Merrill's Marauders.
Merrill's Marauders were the first American Army infantry unit to fight in the China-Burma-India theater, Because of its courageous actions, the unit received the very rare honor of having every member presented with a Bronze Star for gallantry.
Legends seldom fit the facts comfortably. The military outfit called Merrill's Marauders--3,000 American soldiers who ranged hundreds of miles through the Burmese rain forest fighting vastly superior Japanese forces--stands up admirably to the legend that surrounds it, as veteran Ogburn capably shows. The first American force to fight on the Asian mainland since the Boxer Rebellion, the warriors of Galahad--as the three battalions under General Frank Merrill were code-named--suffered terribly in their long campaign over what Winston Churchill called "the most forbidding fighting country imaginable." Writes Ogburn, not only were they felled by bullets, but they also endured lack of food and supplies, a host of tropical diseases, and exhaustion--and, worse, poor treatment at the hands of commanders and strategists far from the fighting. Even so, they scored some important successes and took their toll on a seasoned enemy, which "had never before come up against another first-class outfit on even terms, and the experience must have left them sore and puzzled." Ogburn's action-filled book merits a place alongside the dispatches of Ernie Pyle and Richard Tregaskis's Guadalcanal Diary as an important firsthand account of the war in Asia. --Gregory McNamee… (plus d'informations)