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4) Glory Road
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Army of the Potomac volume 2
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English
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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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English
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Benson Bobrick, recipient of the 2002 American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, tells the story of Benjamin "Webb" Baker, his great-grandfather. Webb enlisted in the Union Army in 1861 and thereafter suffered through horrid conditions in camp and absolute hell in combat. Benson's fascinating look at the Civil War also contains a heretofore unreleased collection of Webb's letters.
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English
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• Learn about the paper brigade and the battle of Gettysburg in this incredible book
• Includes Gettysburg maps, maps of Antietam, artillery at Gettysburg, and more
• Based on first-hand accounts
Author Bradley M. Gottfried painstakingly pieced together each brigade's experience at the Battle of Gettysburg. This brutal battle lasted for days and left soldiers with boredom and dread of what was to come when the guns stopped firing. Visual resources...
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English
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Written as the memoir of a British lieutenant, and based on real-life events, this historically and psychologically rich thriller perfectly captures the tension as a team of soldiers in Egypt during World War II attempt to assassinate German Field Marshall Rommel, the infamous "Desert Fox."
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Army of the Potomac volume 1
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English
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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...
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The History Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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Dominating the history of the Island of Jersey is the story of its occupation by German forces in World War II. Twenty years earlier, however, another devastating war had struck the Island, affecting the lives and liberties of its people. Central to this story was the Jersey Contingent. In 1915, this band of 300 young men volunteered to fight for King and country in a war beyond the comprehension of most. Feted as heroes, they proudly took their place...
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English
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December 1944: Deep in the Ardennes forest, a platoon of eighteen men under the command of twenty year old lieutenant Lyle Bouck huddle in their foxholes. Under attack and vastly outnumbered, they repulse three German assaults in a fierce day long battle, killing over five hundred Germans. Only when Bouck's men run out of ammunition do they surrender. As POWs, Bouck's platoon experience an ordeal far worse than combat: trigger-happy German guards,...
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Kent State University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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The 27th United States Colored Troops (USCT), composed largely of free black Ohio men, served in the Union army from April 1864 to September 1865 in Virginia and North Carolina. It was the first time most members of the unit had traveled so far from home. The men faced daily battles against racism and against inferior treatment, training, and supplies. They suffered from the physical difficulties of military life, the horrors of warfare, and homesickness...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"Now published for the first time, an eyewitness account of the Civil War by a Union soldier who fought from Bull Run to Knoxville. This remarkable book presents the transcription of some twenty pocket diaries kept throughout the first three years of the Civil War by Charles B. Haydon and sent back one by one to his home in Decatur, Michigan, to be read by his father and brother. As readable as they are lively and informative, they offer a marvelous...
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L. Bill
Pub. Date
1868
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English
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This document, while very lengthy, gives a great amount of detail regarding the state of Connecticut during the Civil War. There is a wealth of information here; in particular, Farmington is mentioned on pages 53, 62, 72-74, 122, 143, 183, 228, 235, 249, 361, 461, and 545.
17) Band of brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne : from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's nest
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1992
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English
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The story of the men who were in Easy Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne during World War II.
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The Kent State University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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An in-depth look at of a vitally important but little-known heavy artillery regiment of the Civil War In early 1864, many heavy artillery regiments in the Civil War were garrisoning the Washington defenses, including the Fifteenth New York. At the same time, newly minted Union general in chief Ulysses S. Grant sought to replenish the ranks of the Army of the Potomac, and the Fifteenth became one of the first outfits dispatched to Major General George...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Obedience to the Führer. Obedience to the death.
Hitler's elite SS bodyguards prided themselves on doing whatever it took, even if death was the price. They called themselves the "old hares", and they left a trail of terror as they butchered their way across Europe. Of the 30,000 soldiers who signed up, only thirty would survive the war.
Some perished in the abortive push on Normandy in 1944, directed by the Führer. Others suffered gruesome deaths...
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The History Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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In the Shadow of Monte Amaro provides a new focus on the famous First Household Cavalry Regiment, the way its mettle was tested to the maximum in action in the mountains of Italy. It reveals and explores this largely undervalued and forgotten part of a costly and complex struggle, where there are lessons to be learned by everyone. We directly experience what it was like to be there. It also has a contemporary relevance to present-day areas of conflict...
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