wyszukanych pozycji: 7
George Henry Thomas: As True as Steel
ISBN: 9780700628995 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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218,21 zł |
The Confederacy's Greatest Cavalryman: Nathan Bedford Forest
ISBN: 9780700608850 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is the best biography of one of the most exciting, colorful, and controversial figures of the Civil War. A renowned cavalryman, Nathan Bedford Forrest perfected a ruthless hit-and-run guerrilla warfare that terrified Union soldiers and garnered the respect of warriors like William Sherman, who described his adversary as "that Devil, Forrest . . . the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side." Historian Bruce Catton rated Forrest "one of the authentic military geniuses of the whole war," but Brian Steel Wills covers much more than the cavalryman's incredible feats on...
This is the best biography of one of the most exciting, colorful, and controversial figures of the Civil War. A renowned cavalryman, Nathan Bedford Fo...
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129,74 zł |
Gone with the Glory: The Civil War in Cinema
ISBN: 9780742545267 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From Birth of a Nation to Cold Mountain, hundreds of directors, actors, and screenwriters have used the Civil War to create compelling cinema. However, each generation of moviemakers has resolved the tug of war between entertainment value and historical accuracy differently. Historian Brian Steel Wills takes readers on a journey through the portrayal of the war in film, exploring what Hollywood got right and wrong, how the films influenced each other, and, ultimately, how the movies reflect America's changing understandings of the conflict and of the nation.
From Birth of a Nation to Cold Mountain, hundreds of directors, actors, and screenwriters have used the Civil War to create compelling cinema. However...
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137,03 zł |
The River Was Dyed with Blood: Nathan Bedford Forrest and Fort Pillow
ISBN: 9780806144535 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The battlefield reputation of Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest, long recognized as a formidable warrior, has been shaped by one infamous wartime incident. At Fort Pillow in 1864, the attack by Confederate forces under Forrest's command left many of the Tennessee Unionists and black soldiers garrisoned there dead in a confrontation widely labeled as a "massacre." In The River Was Dyed with Blood, best-selling Forrest biographer Brian Steel Wills argues that although atrocities did occur after the fall of the fort, Forrest did not order or intend a systematic execution of... The battlefield reputation of Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest, long recognized as a formidable warrior, has been shaped by one infamous... |
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179,60 zł |
The War Hits Home: The Civil War in Southeastern Virginia
ISBN: 9780813940601 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1863 Confederate forces under Lieutenant General James Longstreet, while scouring Southside Virginia for badly needed supplies, threatened the Union garrison in Suffolk. For the residents of surrounding Nansemond, Isle of Wight, and Southampton Counties, the Suffolk campaign followed an exhausting and deadly pattern.
In 1863 Confederate forces under Lieutenant General James Longstreet, while scouring Southside Virginia for badly needed supplies, threatened the Unio...
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218,27 zł |
The River Was Dyed with Blood: Nathan Bedford Forrest and Fort Pillow
ISBN: 9780806168784 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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94,95 zł |
Inglorious Passages: Noncombat Deaths in the American Civil War
ISBN: 9780700625086 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who died in the Civil War, two-thirds, by some estimates, were felled by disease; untold others were lost to accidents, murder, suicide, sunstroke, and drowning. Meanwhile thousands of civilians in both the north and south perished--in factories, while caught up in battles near their homes, and in other circumstances associated with wartime production and supply. These "inglorious passages," no less than the deaths of soldiers in combat, devastated the armies in the field and families and communities at home. Inglorious Passages for the first...
Of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who died in the Civil War, two-thirds, by some estimates, were felled by disease; untold others were lost to ...
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339,34 zł |