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Arcadia Publishing / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
This descriptive history begins with the battles at Shiloh, Lookout Mountain, Chickamauga, and Stones River and ends with the terrible carnage that was Franklin. The book provides a broad overview of the region�s conflicts and recounts the main battles as well as some of the smaller actions. It was springtime 1861 when the young men marched off to war--many to never return. Relive their tragic days through this look back in time. Magnificent...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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English
Description
Meehan, a career thief staring at life without parole, is awaiting sentencing at the Manhattan Correctional Center when he is called to a meeting by someone masquerading as his lawyer. The man, it turns out, represents the presidential re-election campaign committee -- now finding itself in need of a little professional help. So they "outsource" Meehan in return for a walk from all pending criminal charges. All he has to do is steal a compromising...
3) The retreat
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English
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From the author of The Battle: A novel that brings French history to life as Napoleon moves in on Russia-where the ultimate test awaits. The French army stands at the gates of Moscow. Exhausted and demoralized, Napoleon's men are a mere fraction of the four-hundred-thousand-strong force that crossed the river Niemen in the summer, just three months earlier. Still, the sight of this famous city feels like a triumph and a chance, at last, to enjoy a...
4) Shiloh, 1862
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English
Description
Provides a detailed account of key players and events at Shiloh during the American Civil War in 1862 and discusses the ways in which they influenced the course of the war.
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English
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The United States was creeping ever closer to independence. The shot heard round the world still echoed in the ears of Parliament as impassioned revolutionaries took up arms for and against King and country. In this captivating blend of careful research and rich narrative, Derek W. Beck continues his exploration into the period preceding the Declaration of Independence, just days into the new Revolutionary War. The War Before Independence transports...
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English
Description
As the Afrika Korps withdrew after a bruising defeat at El Alamein, it became apparent that Axis forces would not be able to maintain their hold over Libya. Rommel pulled his troops back to Tunisia, digging in along the Mareth Line, and turned westwards to counter the massive Anglo-American 'Torch' landings in French North Africa. A series of bitter battles in the craggy hills of Tunisia followed - including the legendary struggle for the Kasserine...
Publisher
Worth Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Strangers in Their Own Land tells you what you need to know--before or after you read Arlie Russell Hochschild's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right includes: Historical context Chapter-by-chapter...
10) Hacks: the inside story of the break-ins and breakdowns that put Donald Trump in the White House
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Language
English
Description
The former Democratic National Committee chair presents a revealing look at the 2016 election, discussing the Russian hacking of the DNC and the missteps by the Clinton campaign and Obama administration that enabled a Trump victory.
"Donna Brazile's explosive book is the first insider account of the Russian hacking of the DNC and the missteps by the Clinton campaign and Obama administration that enabled Donald Trump's victory. In June 2016 the Washington...
11) Kemp: The Road to Poitiers: An edge-of-your-seat medieval adventure packed with battle and action
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Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Two kingdoms clash in one of the greatest battles of the Hundred Years War. September 1356. Martin Kemp and his troop of archers ride with the Black Prince’s army as it burns and plunders its way across France. When they find all the bridges across the Loire are destroyed, however, their hopes of uniting with the Duke of Lancaster’s army are dashed, and a hasty retreat is the order of the day. But a French army is closing in fast and Kemp’s...
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Publisher
Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This WWII history examines the most consequential and hard-fought battle between Greek and Italian forces in Albania. On March 9th, 1941, the Italians launched their Spring Offensive, designed to stem four months of humiliating reverses. Watched by Mussolini himself, the operation's objective was a pair of parallel valleys dominated by the Greek-held Hill 731. The Italian Eighth Corps, part of Geloso's 11th Army, had the task of seizing the heights,...
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Publisher
Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
If this doesn’t move you, I suggest you check your pulse.' -John Kay, frontman of Steppenwolf (born in East Prussia in 1944) Told by the children who survived, these stories could well be the last eyewitness report of the aftermath of the Second World War. As the land where they once lived was integrated into the Eastern Bloc, their accounts remained hushed until after the Iron Curtain fell. Now, in The Wolf Children of the Eastern Front, they break...
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Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
On 23 September 1642 Prince Rupert's cavalry triumphed outside Worcester in the first major clash on the English Civil War. Almost precisely nine years later, on 3 September 1651, that war was won by Oliver Cromwell's famous Ironsides outside the same city and in part upon the same ground.Stuart Reid provides a detailed yet readable new military history - the first to be published for over twenty years - of the three conflicts between 1642 and 1651...
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English
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McPherson recounts how the Union navy's blockade of the Confederate coast, leaky as a sieve in the war's early months, became increasingly effective as it choked off vital imports and exports. Meanwhile, the Confederate navy, dwarfed by its giant adversary, demonstrated daring and military innovation.
16) Glory Road
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Series
Army of the Potomac volume 2
Language
English
Description
The riveting saga of a nation at war with itself-from the Union Army's disaster at Fredericksburg to its costly triumph at Gettysburg-by Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War chronicler Bruce Catton In the second book of the Army of the Potomac Trilogy, Bruce Catton-one of America's most honored Civil War historians-once again brings the great battles and the men who fought them to breathtaking life. As the War Between the States moved through its second...
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Series
Publisher
Savas Beatie
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Part of the Emerging Civil War Series, this history covers a crucial clash between the Blue and the Gray that impacted future Union tactics and victories. The months after the Battle of Gettysburg were anything but quiet-filled with skirmishes and cavalry clashes. Nonetheless, Union commander Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade had yet to encounter his Confederate counterpart, Gen. Robert E. Lee, in combat. Lee's army, severely bloodied at Gettysburg, did...
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Series
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Join William C. Connery as he recounts the notable events and battles that occurred in Northern Virginia in 1861 after the firing on Fort Sumter. Beginning in May 1861, both the Confederate and Union armies assembled in Northern Virginia as politicians were deciding how and where the Civil War would be fought. Several months passed as both armies maneuvered and attempted to complete reconnaissance on the other. During this early time, the first officers...
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A thrilling account of the final years of the War Between the States and the great general who led the Union to victory This conclusion of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bruce Catton's acclaimed Civil War history of General Ulysses S. Grant begins in the summer of 1863. After Grant's bold and decisive triumph over the Confederate Army at Vicksburg-a victory that wrested control of the Mississippi River from Southern hands-President Abraham Lincoln...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's acclaimed Civil War history of the complex man and controversial Union commander whose battlefield brilliance ensured the downfall of the Confederacy Preeminent Civil War historian Bruce Catton narrows his focus on commander Ulysses S. Grant, whose bold tactics and relentless dedication to the Union ultimately ensured a Northern victory in the nation's bloodiest conflict. While a succession of Union generals-from...
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