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Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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"From the National Book Award-winning and best-selling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishman in nineteenth-century America. The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told throughthe improbable life of one man. A dashing young orator during the Great Famine of the 1840s, in which a million of his Irish countrymen died, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against British...
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Language
English
Description
"On October 3, 2005, Kapacziewski and his soldiers were coming to the end of their tour in Northern Iraq when their convoy was attacked by enemy fighters. A grenade fell through the gunner's hatch and exploded, shattering Kapacziewski's right leg below the knee, damaging his right hip, and severing a nerve and artery in his right arm. He endured more than forty surgeries, but his right leg still wasn't healing as he had hoped, so in March 2007, Kapacziewski...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
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The true story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War. The battlefield odyssey of a maverick U.S. Army officer and his infantry unit as they fought for over five hundred days to liberate Europe; frmo the invasion of Italy to the gates of Dachau.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 393 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Clarence Smoyer began the war as a gentle giant, a factory worker from Pennsylvania coal country reluctant to unleash the power of the Sherman tank he crewed. But as his tank platoon fought its way from Normandy to the Rhine and beyond, and he watched his friends cut down one by one, he learned to kill with deadly accuracy and efficiency. His fight would climax in Cologne, in the shadow of the great cathedral, where he took a shot immortalized by...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 245 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"0900, Thursday, July 25, 2019: President Trump called Ukraine?s President Zelensky, supposedly to congratulate him on his recent victory. In the months that followed, the American public would only learn what happened on that call because Alexander Vindman felt duty-bound to report it up the chain of command: that the President of the United States had extorted a foreign ally to damage a political challenger at home. Vindman?s actions and subsequent...
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Series
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
ix, 426 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Taaffe explores how and why Marshall selected the Army's commander during World War II. He also critiques the performance of these generals during the war, and reveals the extent to which their actions served as stepping stones to advancement.
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xii, 243 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Taking a novel approach to the military history of the post-Civil War West, distinguished historian Robert M. Utley examines the careers of seven military leaders who served as major generals for the Union in the Civil War, then as brigadier generals in command of the U.S. Army's western departments. . . . While some of the book's subjects-notably Generals George Crook and Nelson A. Miles-are well known, most are no longer widely remembered. Yet their...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxv, 542 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) portraits, photographs, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"By the first half of the twentieth century, technology had transformed warfare into a series of intense bloodbaths in which the line between soldiers and civilians was obliterated, resulting in the deaths of one hundred million people. During this period, four men exhibited unparalleled military leadership that led the United States victoriously through two World Wars: Douglas MacArthur, George Patton, George Marshall, and Dwight 'Ike' Eisenhower;...
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 337 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Adapted for young adults from the New York Times bestseller, the true story of a young World War II American tank gunner who meets his destiny in an iconic duel and forges an enduring bond with his enemy."--page 2 of cover.
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