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1) Shiloh, 1862
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Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1862, many Americans still believed that the Civil War, 'would be over by Christmas.' The losses in Virginia at Bull Run the previous summer, with nearly 5,000 casualties, had been shocking enough, but suddenly came word of an appalling battle in the wildernesses of Southwest Tennessee, Shiloh, that cost 24,000 lives, most of them during a single day. This was more casualties than from all previous U.S. wars combined, including the...
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Series
Major battles and campaigns volume 3
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
1990
Language
English
Description
"The Americans did not simply outlast the British in the Revolutionary War, contends this author in a groundbreaking study, but won their independence by employing superior strategies, tactics, and leadership. Designed for the "armchair strategist" with dozens of detailed maps and illustrations, here is a blow-by-blow analysis of the men, commanders, and weaponry used in the famous battles of Bunker Hill, Quebec, Trenton, Princeton, Saratoga, and...
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Series
Army of the Potomac volume 3
Publisher
Doubleday
Language
English
Description
This final volume of The Army of the Potomac trilogy relates the final year of the Civil War. When it was first published in 1953, the author was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for excellence in nonfiction.
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Series
World War II novels volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Language
English
Description
A fictional account of D-Day and the Allied invasion of Europe chronicles the events of the World War II campaign and the personalities who took part, from the ordinary soldiers on the land and in the air, to such leaders as Dwight Eisenhower, George Patton, and Omar Bradley, as their efforts changed the course of the war.
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet despite the revolutionizing aspects of the Civil War, its leaders faced the same uncertainties and vagaries of chance that have vexed combatants since the days of Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War. A Savage War sheds critical new...
12) Glory Road
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Series
Army of the Potomac volume 2
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
©1952
Language
English
Description
The outcome of the Civil War was determined lby the Army of the Potomac. this is a story of the Army of the Potomac, of the people in it, and of the nation it defended.
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Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
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"In this Civil War love story, inspired by a real-life friendship across enemy lines, the wife of a missing Confederate soldier discovers a wounded Yankee officer and must decide what she's willing to risk for the life of a stranger, from the New York Times bestselling author of such acclaimed historical fiction as Hour of the Witch and The Sandcastle Girls. Virginia, 1864-Libby Steadman's husband has been away for so long that she can barely conjure...
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English
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June 1950. The North Korean army, a formidable force backed by Soviet arms and training, invades South Korea, with the intent of uniting the country under Communist rule. In response, the United States mobilizes a force to defend the overmatched South Korean troops and together they drive the North Koreans back to their border with China. But several hundred thousand Chinese troops have entered Korea, laying massive traps for the Allies. In November...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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On a clear night in June 2005, four Navy SEALs left their Afghanistan base for the Pakistani border on a mission to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader. This is the story of fire team leader Marcus Luttrell and that desperate battle in the mountains. It is the story of the teammates who fought ferociously beside him until he was the last one left. And it is the story of how, badly injured, Luttrell fought off assassins for four days before...
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