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Author
Publisher
Countryman Press
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
314 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
On the Fourth of July, 1863, reporting on the aftermath of the Civil War’s most crucial battle, the New York Times wrote: “A Vermont brigade held the key position at Gettysburg and did more than any other body of men to gain the triumph which decided the fate of the Union.” The citizen soldiers led by General George J. Stannard helped stabilize the line, and then shattered the right flank of Pickett’s famous charge just when the battle’s...
3) Band of brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne : from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's nest
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Through soldiers' journals and letters, describes Easy Company's contributions to the campaigns in western Europe and recounts their stories of survival.
Author
Series
His The Army of the Potomac volume 1
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1951
Physical Desc
vi, 372 p. maps. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A magnificent history of the opening years of the Civil War by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bruce Catton. The first book in Bruce Catton's Pulitzer Prize-winning Army of the Potomac Trilogy, Mr. Lincoln's Army is a riveting history of the early years of the Civil War, when a fledgling Union Army took its stumbling first steps under the command of the controversial general George McClellan. Following the secession of the Southern states, a beleaguered...
Author
Series
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
"The Rough Riders (1899) is the story of the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, the regiment Roosevelt led to enduring fame in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Roosevelt recounts how the regiment was raised from an unusual mixture of hardened southwestern frontiersmen and privileged northeastern college graduates, and how it trained in Texas and then sailed "southward through the topic seas toward the unknown." Writing at a time when war could still...
Publisher
Images from the Past
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
v. <1 > ill., maps 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of letters written by soldiers fighting in the Union Army during the Civil War that were published in the "Rutland Herald"; includes biographical information about the soldiers.
Author
Series
Bennington Museum volume 1
Publisher
Hadwen
Pub. Date
1977
Physical Desc
25 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
In 2009, Clinton Romesha of Red Platoon and the rest of Black Knight Troop were preparing to shut down Command Outpost (COP) Keating, the most remote and inaccessible in a string of bases built by the United States military in Nuristan and Kunar in the hope of preventing Taliban insurgents from moving freely back and forth between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Three years after its construction, the army was finally ready to concede what the men on the...
Author
Language
English
Description
They came from across the continent and Hawaii. Their parents taught them to embrace both their Japanese heritage and the ways of their American homeland. They faced bigotry, yet they believed in their bright futures as American citizens. But within days of Pearl Harbor, the FBI was ransacking their houses and locking up their fathers. Within months many would themselves be living in internment camps. Facing the Mountain is an unforgettable chronicle...
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