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2) Custer
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A biography of General George Armstrong Custer and details the history of the Battle of Little Bighorn.
3) Grant
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11 - AR Pts: 56
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Presents a biographical portrait of George Washington, arguing that Washington's carefully cultivated image as a stoic figure of republican virture concealed his burning ambition and his skills in the arts of persuasion, leverage, and deniability.
Author
Language
English
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Description
At times, even his admirers seemed unsure of what to do with General Douglas MacArthur. Imperious, headstrong, and vain, MacArthur matched an undeniable military genius with a massive ego and a rebellious streak that often seemed to destine him for the dustbin of history. Yet despite his flaws, MacArthur is remembered as a brilliant commander whose combined-arms operation in the Pacific, the first in the history of warfare, secured America's triumph...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians of the Revolutionary era. Training his lens on a figure who sometimes seems as remote as his effigy on Mount Rushmore, Ellis assesses George Washington as a military and political leader and a man whose "statue-like solidity" concealed volcanic energies and emotions. Here...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Here is a compelling portrait of the Revolutionary War general whose skills as an engineer and artilleryman played a key role in all of George Washington's battles including the Siege of Boston (where his use of cannons at Dorchester Heights won back the city) and the Battle of Trenton (where he was in charge of Washington's crossing of the Delaware River). Knox became an major advocate of the U.S. Constitution and served as the nation's first Secretary...
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
Presents a comprehensive biography of Civil War General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain who commanded the Twentieth Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment and traces his life and career that included campaigns at Antietam, Fredericksburg, and his brilliant charge on Little Round Top at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ike is acclaimed author Michael Korda's sweeping and enthralling biography of Dwight David Eisenhower, arguably America's greatest general and one of her best presidents-a remarkable man in an extraordinary time, the hero who won the war and thereafter kept the peace.
Author
Language
English
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Description
The definitive account of General Douglas MacArthur's rise during World War II, from the author of the bestseller The Admirals.
World War II changed the course of history. Douglas MacArthur changed the course of World War II. MACARTHUR AT WAR will go deeper into this transformative period of his life than previous biographies, drilling into the military strategy that Walter R. Borneman is so skilled at conveying, and exploring how personality and...
16) Battle ready
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four-star General Wesley K. Clark became a major figure on the political scene when he was drafted by popular demand to run for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 2003. But, this was just one of many exceptional accomplishments of a long and extraordinary career.
Here, for the first time, General Clark uses his unique life experience, from his difficult youth in segregated Arkansas where he was raised by his poor, widowed...
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