Joseph C Dempsey (42 results)

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. On the night of October 8, 1871, while the nation mourned the Great Chicago Fire, something far worse was happening in the forests of northeastern Wisconsin. A wall of flame stretching horizon to horizon consumed entire communities in hours. Sand melted into glass. Metal liquefied. The air itself became poison. When it was over, more than 1,500 people were dead, possibly 2,500 and almost nothing remained of the town of Peshtigo. America's deadliest wildfire killed more than five times as many people as the Chicago Fire. Yet almost nobody knows its name. *FORGOTTEN INFERNO* tells the full story of the Peshtigo Fire, the drought-baked forests, the logging practices that turned the landscape into a tinderbox, and the terrifying night when ordinary families made impossible choices in total darkness. It follows survivors into the Peshtigo River, where hundreds stood chest-deep in cold water for hours while fire roared overhead. It traces the heartbreaking aftermath: orphaned children, erased families, and a community that rebuilt from literal ash. It also asks an uncomfortable question: why did history choose to remember Chicago and forget Wisconsin? Drawing on survivor testimonies, contemporary newspaper accounts, and fire science, this book restores a forgotten American tragedy to its rightful place and shows why its lessons about wildfire, community resilience, and disaster preparedness matter more today than ever. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. October 1918. Deep in the tangled ravines of the Argonne Forest, 554 American soldiers followed their orders into German-held territory and watched the way back close behind them. For five days, Major Charles Whittlesey and his men, bakers, tailors, dock workers, and immigrants still learning English held a narrow pocket of French woodland against a professional enemy that surrounded them on every side. They had no food. No clean water. No reliable communication with the army behind them. Their own artillery shelled them for two days before a wounded carrier pigeon named Cher Ami delivered the message that stopped it. The Germans sent a formal written ultimatum. Whittlesey refused it. *SURROUNDED* is the definitive narrative account of the Lost Battalion's ordeal told through the voices of the men who endured it. Drawing on military records, survivor testimony, personal correspondence, and the accounts of German officers who faced these men across the wire, author Joseph C. Dempsey reconstructs not just what happened in that ravine, but what it cost the people who lived through it. This is a story about leadership without resources, courage without certainty, and the kind of stubborn human loyalty that no military doctrine can manufacture. It is also an honest account of what those five days did to the men who survived them: the nightmares, the broken marriages, the invisible wounds that followed them home long after the medals were pinned on. The Lost Battalion has been called legendary. This book returns them to what they actually were: ordinary people who discovered, under the worst possible conditions, exactly what they were made of. For readers of Band of Brothers, The Boys in the Boat, Unbroken, and All Quiet on the Western Front. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. They had no army. No uniforms. No official orders. What they had was each other - and that was enough to change the course of the war. When Japan seized the Philippines in 1942, it expected a broken population. Instead, it found something it had never encountered before and never fully understood: an entire nation quietly organized against it. From the rice paddies of Luzon to the fishing villages of Mindanao, ordinary Filipinos built one of the most remarkable intelligence networks in the history of warfare. They called it the Bamboo Telegraph. Farmers observed Japanese troop movements and passed the information to market vendors. Priests embedded military intelligence inside Sunday sermons. Children memorized convoy schedules while appearing to play. Mothers carried coded messages sewn into their clothing through checkpoints that would have meant death if they were discovered. The network fed American submarine commanders real-time intelligence about Japanese shipping. It guided Allied pilots through enemy territory to safety. It mapped Japanese defensive positions before MacArthur's forces ever set foot on the beaches of Leyte. And it did all of this while operating invisibly inside the rhythms of everyday Filipino life, in a language the occupying forces could never read. THE BAMBOO TELEGRAPH tells the story of the men, women, and children who built this network from nothing, maintained it under brutal Japanese reprisals, and kept it running for three years until liberation arrived. Their names appear in no official histories. Their sacrifices earned no medals. But without them, the liberation of the Philippines would have cost far more than it did. This is the story history forgot. It is time to remember it. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In the factories of New Jersey and Connecticut, young women painted luminous watch dials with radium-laced paint, pointing their brushes between their lips hundreds of times each day. Their employers told them it was safe. It was not. GLOWING IN THE DARK tells the full, unsparing story of the Radium Girls - the dial painters who discovered their employer had known about radium's deadly effects for years while watching their workers slowly die. What followed was one of the most consequential workplace safety battles in American history: five ordinary women, ravaged by radiation poisoning, taking on a powerful corporation in open court and winning. This is not just a story about radium. It is a story about corporate deception, scientific suppression, and the moment ordinary working women refused to accept their fate. Their legal victory established the principles that underpin modern occupational safety law, influenced the Manhattan Project's safety protocols, and changed the fundamental relationship between employers and workers - permanently. Written with precision and humanity, GLOWING IN THE DARK restores these women to their rightful place in history. Their names deserve to be remembered. Their fight deserves to be understood. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. On the afternoon of 25th March 1911, a fire broke out on the eighth floor of a garment factory in lower Manhattan. Within twenty minutes, 146 workers were dead. Most were young immigrant women. The doors had been locked from the outside. This is not simply the story of a fire. It is the story of a system, one built on cheap labor, ignored warnings, and the calculated indifference of men who knew the risks and decided those risks belonged to someone else. FLAMES OF INJUSTICE traces the full arc of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory disaster, from the tenement streets where the workers lived, through the smoke-filled stairwells where many of them died, through the courtroom where their employers walked free, and into the legislative chambers where American workers finally won the protections that should have existed all along. It is a story about what happens when profit is placed above human life, and about what ordinary people can force a society to do when they refuse to accept that as inevitable. The Triangle fire changed American labor law forever. The lessons it taught are still being learned. For readers of narrative history, labor studies, and American social reform, this is the definitive account of the disaster that rewrote the rules of the American workplace. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Seventy-six thousand men surrendered on the Bataan Peninsula on April 9, 1942. The march that followed became one of the deadliest forced movements of prisoners in modern military history. This is the story of the men who survived it. Bound by the Same Dust draws on decades of documented survivor testimony, military records, and oral history archives to tell the full human story of the Bataan Death March and its aftermath. It begins in the final months of peace, when American and Filipino soldiers stationed in the Philippines could not have imagined what was coming. It ends long after the war itself concluded, in the living rooms and veterans halls and hospital wards where survivors spent decades trying to make sense of what they had endured and what it had cost them. Between those two points lies one of the most demanding survival stories in the history of armed conflict. The men in these pages walked sixty-five miles under a Philippine sun with no food, almost no water, and guards who treated weakness as an offense punishable by death. They survived starvation camps where disease claimed dozens of lives each day. They crossed the Pacific in the sealed holds of cargo ships never designed to carry human beings. They worked in coal mines and steel foundries in Japan while the war ground slowly toward its conclusion. And when liberation finally came, they faced the quieter but equally demanding challenge of returning to a country that celebrated their survival without understanding what survival had actually required. What kept them alive was not exceptional individual strength. The men who endured longest were those who refused to stop looking out for each other. They shared the last of their water. They carried comrades who could no longer walk. They maintained informal networks of support and mutual care under conditions specifically designed to destroy those bonds. Filipino soldiers and American GIs, officers and enlisted men, soldiers from opposite ends of the country who had never spoken to each other before captivity, found in shared suffering a form of brotherhood that outlasted the war by decades. This book does not treat the Bataan Death March as a footnote to larger Pacific strategy. It treats it as what it actually was: an experience that tested the outermost limits of human endurance and revealed, in the process, something permanent and important about what people are capable of doing for each other when circumstances take everything else away. The history is documented. The suffering was real. The lessons belong to anyone willing to receive them. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Before the mechanical shark terrified a generation of moviegoers. Before Peter Benchley put the world's greatest fear into words. Before the summer of 1975 made ocean swimming feel like a gamble, there was the summer of 1916. And what happened that summer was real. In twelve days along the New Jersey coastline, a marine predator killed four people and wounded a fifth, penetrating eleven miles inland through brackish creek water that everyone assumed was completely safe. Scientists insisted such attacks were impossible. Officials had no protocols to follow because no one had imagined protocols might be needed. Families waded into the Atlantic with complete confidence, and that confidence cost lives. BEFORE JAWS tells the full story of America's first recorded series of fatal shark attacks with the depth, accuracy, and human honesty those events have always deserved. Drawing on newspaper archives, medical records, family histories, and more than a century of subsequent marine research, this book reconstructs not only what happened but why it happened and what it ultimately meant. Meet Charles Vansant, a twenty-three-year-old University of Pennsylvania graduate enjoying a family holiday at Beach Haven who became the first victim on the first day of July. Meet Charles Bruder, a Swiss immigrant bellhop whose death five days later shattered the last illusions of coastal safety. Meet Lester Stillwell, an eleven-year-old boy swimming in a creek eleven miles from the ocean who encountered something that science said could not be there. Meet Stanley Fisher, the twenty-four-year-old dry goods store clerk who dove into that same creek to save Lester knowing full well what lurked beneath the surface, and who paid for that courage with his life. And meet Joseph Dunn, the twelve-year-old boy who went into the water and came back out again, carrying wounds and memories that would stay with him for the remaining fifty-eight years of his life. BEFORE JAWS is also the story of what came after. The scientific revolution that transformed marine biology from an obscure academic specialty into a field with direct consequences for human safety and environmental policy. The media frenzy that established patterns of sensational reporting still recognizable today. The cultural mythology that grew around the events until fact and legend became nearly inseparable. And the long shadow these twelve days cast over American beach culture, ultimately inspiring one of the most commercially successful novels and films in entertainment history. This is the story that started everything. It happened before anyone had the language to describe it, before science had the tools to explain it, and before American society had any framework for understanding that the ocean it had claimed as its summer playground was shared with predators of extraordinary capability. The terror was real. The heroism was real. The transformation was permanent. BEFORE JAWS tells you exactly how it happened, and why more than a century later it still matters. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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