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Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of women serving in the United States military begins before the founding of the country. Though early laws prohibited women from becoming soldiers, they still found ways to serve, even disguising themselves as men in order to participate in active battle. Women Heroes of the US Army chronicles the critical role women have played in strengthening the US Army from the birth of the nation to today. These smart, brave, and determined women...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands follows the lives of General William Tecumseh Sherman and Apache war leader Geronimo to tell the story of the Indian Wars and the final fight for control of the American continent. William Tecumseh Sherman and Geronimo were keen strategists and bold soldiers, ruthless with their enemies. Over the course of the 1870s and 1880s these two war chiefs would confront each other in the final...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents an evocative history of Americans at war through the personal accounts of thirteen remarkable soldiers who fought in major military conflicts, from the Revolutionary War to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Author
Publisher
NAL Caliber
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
vi, 312 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the Purple Heart, and posthumously promoted to Brigadier General by President Truman, Colonel William Darby was an indisputable hero. His elite battalion of Army Rangers paved the way for Ranger success in subsequent wars, and left an unforgettable legacy in its wake. This book takes readers from the beachheads of North Africa to the bloody campaigns of southern Italy, and to Darby's tragic death by German...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
lxxiv, 1068 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"One hundred and thirty-three years after its 1885 publication by Mark Twain, Elizabeth Samet has annotated this lavish edition of Grant's landmark memoir, and expands the Civil War backdrop against which this monumental American life is typically read. No previous edition combines such a sweep of historical and cultural contexts with the literary authority that Samet, an English professor obsessed with Grant for decades, brings to the table."--Amazon.com....
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 460 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
" 'We were as brothers,' Sherman said, describing his relationship to Grant, a friendship forged on the battlefield. They were prewar failures--Grant, forced to resign from the Army because of his drinking, and Sherman, who held four different jobs during the four years before the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter. But heeding the call to save the Union, each struggled to join the war effort. And taking each other's measure at the Battle of Shiloh,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"8 Seconds of Courage tells Flo?s story from his childhood in France to his decision to enlist and the grueling training he underwent at US Army Ranger School. Through trial and error, he learned to be a field commander and on the front lines in Afghanistan formed close and lasting bonds with his fellow soldiers. It was this powerful sense of responsibility that compelled him to take his brave action to save lives, even at the risk of his own."--Amazon.com....
Author
Language
English
Description
From the publisher. In his magisterial bestseller FDR, Jean Edward Smith gave us a fresh, modern look at one of the most indelible figures in American history. Now this peerless biographer returns with a new life of Dwight D. Eisenhower that is as full, rich, and revealing as anything ever written about America's thirty-fourth president. As America searches for new heroes to lead it out of its present-day predicaments, Jean Edward Smith's achievement...
Author
Publisher
Faith Words
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 352, [1] p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Boykin reveals how his military duty worked in tandem with his faith to bring him through the bloody storms of foreign battle-- and through the political firestorm that ambushed him in his own country.
93) Lee: a biography
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xii, 588 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed author of Gettysburg: The Last Invasion--a sweeping, singularly immediate, and intimate biography of the Confederate general and his fateful decision to betray his nation in order to defend his home state and uphold the slave system he claimed to oppose"--
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xxxi, 394 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
General David Petraeus is the most transformative leader the American military has seen since the generation of Marshall. In this book, military expert Paula Broadwell examines Petraeus's career, his intellectual development as a military officer, and his impact on the U.S. military. Afforded extensive access by General Petraeus, his mentors, his subordinates, and his longtime friends, Broadwell embedded with the general, his headquarters staff, and...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 238 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This book tells the story of an inspirational journey from tragedy to triumph. In 2003, at age nineteen, the author was on a routine patrol in Iraq when the Humvee he was driving hit an antitank mine, resulting in severe injuries and burns. Out of that tragedy came an improbable journey of inspiration, motivation, and dreams come true. Raised in Louisiana and Arkansas by a single mother from El Salvador, he was well known for his good looks and his...
96) Lee & Grant
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the lives of Civil War generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee and the campaigns they led. Produced with the cooperation of leading Civil War historian Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump, a personal look at two iconic leaders of the Civil War. Surprising details reveal the bold choices and almost godlike power Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee summoned on decisive battlefields like Vicksburg and Gettysburg that, within days of each...
Author
Publisher
Burford Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
xi, 278 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
As a newly commissioned Captain of a veteran Army regiment, MacDonald's first combat was war at its most hellish -- the Battle of the Bulge. How this green commander gains his men's loyalty in the snows of war-torn Europe is one of the great, true war stories of all time.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
768 pages cm
Language
English
Description
"In this epic biography of Edward Lansdale (1908? 1987), the man said to be the fictional model for Graham Greene?s The Quiet American, best-selling historian Max Boot demonstrates how Lansdale pioneered a "hearts and mind" diplomacy, first in the Philippines, then in Vietnam. It was a visionary policy that, as Boot reveals, was ultimately crushed by America?s giant military bureaucracy, steered by elitist generals and blueblood diplomats who favored...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 438 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Even compared to his fellow founders, George Washington stands tall. Our first president has long been considered a stoic hero, holding himself above the rough-and-tumble politics of his day. Now historian John Ferling peers behind that image, carefully burnished by Washington himself, to show us a leader who was not only not above politics, but a canny infighter--a master of persuasion, manipulation, and deniability. In the War of Independence, Washington...
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