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Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Publication Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Language
English
Description
Presents accounts of real-life experiences of American soldiers from the Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Includes a glossary and a list of additional resources.
Author
Publication Date
2017.
Language
English
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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
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
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.
10) Custer
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Publication Date
2012
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harper
Publication Date
2014
Physical Desc
552 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a complete picture of the life of George C. Marshall, from his childhood and military training through his role as chief of staff of the U.S. Army during World War II and his leadership efforts as Secretary of State in rebuilding post-war Europe.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Publication Date
2024.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"A portrait of one of the greatest leaders of modern history, George Catlett Marshall, and a distillation of the essential lessons his formation offers to the leaders of today and tomorrow. George Marshall was a soldier-statesman who guided the Allies to victory during World War II and set Europe on the postwar path to recovery with the plan that bears his name, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953. But how did he become such an effective leader?...
Author
Publication Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A new biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times. Historian T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer's legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer's historical caricature, revealing a volatile, contradictory, intense person--capable yet insecure, intelligent yet bigoted, passionate yet self-destructive, a romantic...
18) Grant
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Language
English
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Description
"Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and inept businessman, or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War. But these stereotypes don't come close to capturing him, as Ron Chernow shows in his masterful biography, the first to provide a complete understanding of the general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency."--Book jacket....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Publication Date
2013
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"The thrilling and definitive biography of George Armstrong Custer's incredible Civil War years and the heroics that made him a legend From George Armstrong Custer's graduation from West Point to the daring cavalry charges that propelled him to the rank of General and national fame to a romance with his wife Libbie Bacon that is unmatched in American history, Custer's exploits are the stuff of legend. Not only did he capture the first Confederate...