100 Turning Points in Military History: The Critical Decisions, Key Events, and Breakthrough Inventions and Discoveries That Shaped Warfare Around the World
Alan Axelrod
100 Turning Points in Military History: The Critical Decisions, Key Events, and Breakthrough Inventions and Discoveries That Shaped Warfare Around the World
Alan Axelrod
Arnold J. Toynbee, the most famous professional historian of the twentieth century, is widely quoted as having declared that History is just one damn thing after another. This book argues that history is not about things at all but is all about turning points-the decisions, acts, innovations, errors, ideas, successes, and failures on which the shape of a nation’s life-our lives-depends. It presents the 100 points at which America’s path decisively turned on its way to where we find ourselves today.
Columbus arrives in the New World
The first slaves arrive in America
Independence is declared
The Indian Removal Act is passed
Female suffragists meet in Seneca Falls
Harpers Ferry is raided
Fort Sumter falls
A transcontinental railroad is completed
Edison lights his first electric lamp
Prohibition makes America a nation of lawbreakers
FDR offers a New Deal
The B-29 Enola Gay drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima
The Supreme Court decides Brown v. Board of Education
Neil Armstrong sets foot on the moon
President Nixon creates the EPA
9/11 … Obama … Sandy Hook … Russian election meddling … the Age of Trump …
These and many more are the crucial plot points in our grand national story, and best-selling historian Alan Axelrod presents them here.
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