Henry Hitch Adams (1917–2002)
Autore di Italy at War
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(eng) Please don't combine with Henry Adams (also known as Henry Brooks Adams)
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1917-03-26
- Data di morte
- 2002-08-22
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Rose Hill Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA - Istruzione
- University of Michigan (BA)
Columbia University (PhD) - Attività lavorative
- Naval service
professor
travel agent - Organizzazioni
- International Order of Military Historians
- Breve biografia
- Biography of Henry Hitch Adams
Henry Hitch Adams was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan on March 26, 1917. He graduated from the University of Michigan with an A.B. degree in 1939, received his M.A. in 1940, and his Ph.D. in 1942 from Columbia University. After service in the United States Navy during World War II aboard the destroyer escort U.S.S. Owen, Adams served as an instructor in English at Cornell University from 1945 to 1951, as Assistant, Associate, and full Professor at the United States Naval Academy from 1951 until the 1967-1968 academic year, and as Head of the Department of English at Illinois State University beginning in 1968. After retiring in the early 1970's, Adams returned to Annapolis to continue his writing, and subsequently moved to St. Petersburg, Florida and Oklahoma. Henry Hitch Adams died on August 22, 2002.
Professor Adams was author, co-author, or editor of a number of works about the sea. His publications include: 1942: The Year that Doomed the Axis (1967), Dramatic Essays of the Neoclassic Age (1950), English Domestic or Homiletic Tragedy, 1575-1642 (1943), Harry Hopkins: A Biography (1977), Italy at War (1982), Seapower: A Naval History (1960), Techniques of Revision: Perfecting the Theme (1951), Witness to Power: The Life of Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy (1985), Years of Deadly Peril (1969), Years of Expectation: Guadalcanal to Normandy (1973), and Years to Victory (1973). - Nota di disambiguazione
- Please don't combine with Henry Adams (also known as Henry Brooks Adams)
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- Opere
- 12
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 393
- Popolarità
- #61,674
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 4
- ISBN
- 19
- Lingue
- 2