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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A study in how governments can self-destruct during wartime. For more than a century, the conventional wisdom has been that the South lost because of overwhelming Union strength and bad luck. The Confederates have been lionized as noble warriors who fought for an honorable cause with little chance of succeeding. But historian Eicher reveals a calamity of political conspiracy, discord, and dysfunction. Drawing on previously unexplored sources, Eicher...
382) Santa Fe trail
Publisher
Vina Distributor
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Follows the lives of Jeb Stuart (Flynn), George Custer (Reagan) and other characters in the years before the Civil War. The West Point graduates must hunt down abolitionist raider John Brown. Their conflict is deepened by their differing views over the issue of slavery and Brown's abolitionist cause. Friendship and dedication to duty carry them through but the storm clouds of Civil War can be seen on the horizon.
383) Stonewall Jackson
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"Davis highlights Stonewall Jackson as a general who emphasized the importance of reliable information and early preparedness (he so believed in information that he had a personal mapmaker with him at all times) and details Jackson's many lessons in strategy and leadership."--From publisher description
384) Where eagles dare
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
An American general is shot down over Germany during WWII and captured. Unknown to the Germans, he has full knowledge of the D-Day operation. British Intelligence puts together a team to rescue him, but an American is in the squad for reasons unknown.
Author
Publisher
Caliber, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A stirring World War II combat story of how the legendary George Patton reinvigorated a defeated and demoralized army corps, and how his men claimed victory over Germany's most-feared general, Erwin Rommel. In March 1943, in their first fight with the Germans, American soldiers in North Africa were pushed back fifty miles by Rommel's Afrika Korps and nearly annihilated. Only the German decision not to pursue them allowed the Americans to maintain...
386) Gods and Generals
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain left behind a quiet life and a career as a college professor to fight for the Union. Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was a man of great religious faith who served in the defense of the Confederacy. And Gen. Robert E. Lee, who led the Confederate army, was a man who was forced to choose between his loyalty to the United States and his love of the Southern states where he was born and raised. As Chamberlain, Jackson,...
387) James Longstreet
Author
Publisher
Blackbirch Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Regnery Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Patton was the most controversial American general in World War II-- and also one of the most successful. In 1945, he was involved in a mysterious car crash that left him partially paralyzed. Two weeks later he was dead. Witness testimony on the crash conflicted, key players in the incident disappeared, official reports vanished-- and there was no autopsy.
Author
Publisher
Villard
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
The diary of General Custer during the last year of his life in which he reflects on his career, the Civil War and his marriage. Also featured are his views on his Indian enemies who were about to cut the diary short at Little Big Horn. A sympathetic portrayal of a controversial historical figure by the author of Dances with Wolves.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Chronicling General Lafayette's years in Washington's army, Vowell reflects on the ideals of the American Revolution versus the reality of the Revolutionary War. Riding shotgun with Lafayette, Vowell swerves from the high-minded debates of Independence Hall to the frozen wasteland of Valley Forge, from bloody battlefields to the Palace of Versailles, bumping into John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Lord Cornwallis, Benjamin Franklin, Marie Antoinette and...
391) America's Wild West
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Uncover the real stories behind the legendary figures whose lives and exploits took center stage in the invention of the mythic Wild West in these eight documentaries.
392) George Washington
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1936
Language
English
Description
A simple biography of Washington, telling of the major events in his life and stressing the upbringing that endowed him with the qualities of leadership.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Using widely scattered and previously unknown primary sources, Parrish's biography of Confederate general Richard Taylor presents him as one of the Civil War's most brilliant generals, eliciting strong performances from his troops in the face of manifold obstacles in three theaters of action.
394) Patton
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
English
Description
A dramatization of the experiences of General George S. Patton during World War II.
396) Deep black: Payback
Author
Series
Deep black volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Word is out to ex-Marine sniper Charlie Dean and his NSA team: infiltrate the highest stratum of Peruvian political power and derail a renegade general from acing an election. All Dean has to do is find a way inside an impenetrable bank vault protected by armed guards round the clock--it's all in a day's work for the men and women of Deep Black. But things get complicated when Dean and company discover the general's second plot. The military madman's...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A journalist's memoir-plus-reporting about modern-day conflicts over Southern monuments to Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate hero and original leader of the Ku Klux Klan, as well as a personal examination of the legacy of white supremacy through the US today, tracing the throughline from Appomattox to Charlottesville"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this new installment in his acclaimed series of novels examining the collisions between Native Americans and European colonizers, William T. Vollmann tells the story of the Nez Perce War, with flashbacks to the Civil War. Defrauded and intimidated at every turn, the Nez Perces finally went on the warpath in 1877, subjecting the U.S. Army to its greatest defeat since Little Big Horn as they fled from northeast Oregon across Montana to the Canadian...