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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Publication Date
c2012
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
A masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two critical turning points in our history.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Publication Date
2014
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed historian Paul Johnson's lively, succinct biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower explores how his legacy endures today with a focus on Eisenhower's years as a five-star general and his time as the thirty-fourth President of the United States.
Author
Language
English
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America250 Reading List • PBS Books
Salute to Service
Salute to Service (Commemorating Veterans Day)
Salute to Service
Salute to Service (Commemorating Veterans Day)
Description
An "account of the complicated middle years of the American Revolution that shares lesser-known insights into the tragic relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold."--NoveList.
Author
Publication Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Draws on a rich trove of both little-known and newly uncovered letters and diaries to create a marvelously vivid and moving account of the American experience in World War I, with General John Pershing featured prominently in the foreground. Andrew Carroll's intimate portrait of General Pershing, who led all of the American troops in Europe during World War I, is a revelation. Given a military force that, on the eve of its entry into the war, was...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ely S. Parker (1828-1895) is one of the most unique, but little-known figures in US history. A member of the Seneca, an Iroquois nation, Parker was an attorney, engineer, and tribal diplomat. Raised on a reservation but schooled at a Catholic institution, he learned English at a young age and became an interpreter for his people. During the American Civil War, he was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel and was the primary draftsman of the terms...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Publication Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (24 pages) : color illustrations, color map.
Language
English
Description
Examines the life and times of George Washington, discussing America's early colonies, unfair taxation, and the Revolutionary War. Includes illustrations, fact boxes, critical thinking questions, a glossary, and further resources.
Author
Publisher
Portfolio
Publication Date
2013
Physical Desc
xi, 452 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
General Stanley McChrystal, the commanding officer of all U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, frankly explores the major episodes and controversies of his eventful career.
Author
Publication Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Another history pageturner from the authors of the #1 bestsellers George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.
The War of 1812 saw America threatened on every side. Encouraged by the British, Indian tribes attacked settlers in the West, while the Royal Navy terrorized the coasts. By mid-1814, President James Madison’s generals had lost control of the war in the North, losing...
The War of 1812 saw America threatened on every side. Encouraged by the British, Indian tribes attacked settlers in the West, while the Royal Navy terrorized the coasts. By mid-1814, President James Madison’s generals had lost control of the war in the North, losing...
Author
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Publication Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (64 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps.
Language
English
Description
Describes how Henry Knox saved the city of Boston from the British during the American Revolution. Includes a timeline, a glossary, and further resources.
14) Robert E. Lee
Author
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials, Inc
Publication Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (25 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps.
Language
English
Description
Briefly examines the life of Robert E. Lee and his actions as commanding general of the Confederate forces in the American Civil War.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Publication Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
viii, 226 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An impeccably researched, character-driven narrative history recounting the fascinating late-Reconstruction Era mission of General Philip Sheridan, a Union hero dispatched to the South ten years after the Civil War to protect the rights of newly freed black men, who were under siege by violent paramilitary groups like the White League intent on erasing their postwar gains.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Publication Date
c2007
Physical Desc
264 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on Arnold's surviving writings and on the letters, memoirs, and political documents of his contemporaries ... a fascinating portrait of a brilliant man, consistently undervalued by his peers, who made a choice that continues to reverberate through American history."
18) Patton
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Publication Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (171 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Story of General Patton in World War II whose military brilliance was balanced by his inability to deal with the social and political aspects of war, causing him difficulties in his dealings with the War Department.
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date
2014
Physical Desc
276 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Band of Giants brings to life the founders who fought for our independence in the Revolutionary War. Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin are known to all; men like Morgan, Greene, and Wayne are less familiar. Yet the dreams of the politicians and theorists only became real because fighting men were willing to take on the grim, risky, brutal work of war. We know Fort Knox, but what about Henry Knox, the burly Boston bookseller who took over the American...

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