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Forgotten Valor: The Memoirs, Journals, & Civil War Letters of Orlando B. Willcox
ISBN: 9780873386289 / Angielski / Twarda / 732 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The papers of Major General Orlando Bolivar Willcox, one of the most prominent division commanders in the Union army, were recently discovered locked in a trunk in a Washington, D.C., attic, virtually untouched since his death nearly a century ago. Editor Robert Garth Scott has sifted through what is arguably the largest collection of Civil War-related material to surface in fifty years. From his childhood in Detroit through his cadetship at West Point, his service in the Mexican, Seminole, and Civil Wars, and his post-Civil War experiences in the West, Willcox's story is published here for...
The papers of Major General Orlando Bolivar Willcox, one of the most prominent division commanders in the Union army, were recently discovered locked ...
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148,24 |
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Major General John Alexander McClernand: Politician in Uniform
ISBN: 9780873386364 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John A. McClernand was a leading Democratic congressman from Illinois who in 1861 became a brigadier general in the Union army. Although a "political general," he proved himself on the battlefield until he ran afoul of Ulysses S. Grant and was relieved of his command of the Thirteenth Corps in 1863 during the Vicksburg campaign. Richard Kiper presents a balanced and sympathetic assessment of this highly controversial individual who served his country as soldier and statesman and sheds new light on the Union command system, providing insight into the politics of war as well as the...
John A. McClernand was a leading Democratic congressman from Illinois who in 1861 became a brigadier general in the Union army. Although a "political ...
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133,04 |
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Ten Months in the "orphan Brigade": Conrad Wise Chapman's Civil War Memoir
ISBN: 9780873386388 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conrad Wise Chapman was born in Washington D.C. in 1842. In 1848, his father left his career in America and took his family to Europe, settling ultimately in Rome. The younger Chapman could have looked forward to a productive life as an expatriate painter in Italy. But, when word of the first battles of the Civil War reached Rome, he ran away to enlist in the Confederate army. Thus began the extraordinary military career of a highly trained and talented painter who would dedicate his heart and soul to the Confederate cause not just until the end of the war but for the rest of his life....
Conrad Wise Chapman was born in Washington D.C. in 1842. In 1848, his father left his career in America and took his family to Europe, settling ultima...
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38,82 |
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Major McKinley: William McKinley & the Civil War
ISBN: 9780873386579 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Civil War was a crucial experience in shaping the character and political life of William McKinley. In this engrossing and well-researched study, William H. Armstrong provides the most thorough treatment of McKinley's military career and shows how his wartime record influenced his emergence as the first modern president. Armstrong is balanced and fair-minded, and his work should become the definitive account of the Civil War years of an important figure of the Gilded Age." --Lewis L. Gould, author of The Presidency of William McKinley Major McKinley is the... "The Civil War was a crucial experience in shaping the character and political life of William McKinley. In this engrossing and well-researched stu... |
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97,10 |
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Sword of the Border: Major General Jacob Jennings Brown, 1775-1828
ISBN: 9780873386593 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jacob Jennings Brown may well be the most successful--yet forgotten--general of his time. Born into a Pennsylvania Quaker family on the eve of the American Revolution, Brown worked as a Quaker schoolteacher and surveyor and was a pioneer settler of northern New York before serving in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812, eventually rising to the highest command. Early in the war he commanded the militia defending 200 miles of the New York--Canadian border. His successful defense of the Lake Ontario naval base at Sackets Harbor in 1813 was rewarded with a regular army commission as... Jacob Jennings Brown may well be the most successful--yet forgotten--general of his time. Born into a Pennsylvania Quaker family on the eve of the ... |
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165,17 |
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Memoir of a Cold War Soldier
ISBN: 9780873386753 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fifty years after America's involvement in the Korean War began, Richard E. Mack's memories of his time spent on the front lines are still strong and clear. In Memoir of a Cold War Soldier, he recalls his service in front-line combat infantry units in Korea and Vietnam as rifle platoon leader, adviser, and battalion commander. His accounts, perceptions, and observations of the military culture are incisive and candid. He discusses the tasks and challenges army platoon leaders faced in Korea, the problems and concerns battalion commanders confronted in Vietnam, and the uncertainty facing all...
Fifty years after America's involvement in the Korean War began, Richard E. Mack's memories of his time spent on the front lines are still strong and ...
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114,03 |
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The Gentle Warrior: General Oliver Prince Smith, USMC
ISBN: 9780873386869 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In November 1950, United Nations forces in Korea were stopped in their advance toward the Yalu River by Chinese Communist forces and were in danger of being overrun. Vastly outnumbered by enemy forces, the First Marine Division was cut off from its base at Wonson. General Oliver Prince Smith, commander of the First Marine Division, is credited with bringing the division and attached army units to safety, leaving no wounded behind and, in the process, destroying the effectiveness of several Chinese units. Using the general's own notes and diaries, Clifton La Bree describes... In November 1950, United Nations forces in Korea were stopped in their advance toward the Yalu River by Chinese Communist forces and were in danger... |
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126,25 |
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No Disgrace to My Country: The Life of John C. Tidball
ISBN: 9780873387224 / Angielski / Twarda / 584 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This exhaustive study chronicles the life of career army officer John C. Tidball, from action in major Civil War battles to postwar service in the West. Beginning with the first Battle of Bull Run, Tidball, saw action in nearly all the major engagements in the Eastern Theater, including Chancellorsville, Yorktown, Williamsburg, Gettysburg, Antietam, and Petersburg. Using previously unpublished wartime letters and memoirs, Eugene C. Tidball captivates the reader with the story of his most famous relative's years in service to his country. Tidball's account extends beyond the... This exhaustive study chronicles the life of career army officer John C. Tidball, from action in major Civil War battles to postwar service in the ... |
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163,63 |
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Winfield Scott and the Profession of Arms
ISBN: 9780873387743 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winfield Scott (1786-1866) was arguably the premier soldier of his era. More than any other, he was responsible for the professionalization of the U.S. Army during his long career (1807-61). He served as general in the War of 1812, commander of the U.S. forces it the final campaign of the war with Mexico, and general in chief at the beginning of the Civil War. Scott was known for his boldness and courage during the War of 1812 and wisdom and caution in his direction of the Mexico campaign. Winfield Scott and the Profession of Arms is a balanced and thorough biography of this long-neglected...
Winfield Scott (1786-1866) was arguably the premier soldier of his era. More than any other, he was responsible for the professionalization of the U.S...
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186,25 |
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The Supply for Tomorrow Must Not Fail: The Civil War of Captain Simon Perkins Jr., Union Quartermaster
ISBN: 9780873387835 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Captain Simon Perkins Jr. and his fellow quartermasters helped make the Union's victory possible by providing the Federal army with clothing and camp equipment, livestock and forage, wagon and railroad transportation, offices, warehouses, and hospitals, despite bad weather, unserviceable railroads, and lack of transportation. "The Supply for Tomorrow Must Not Fail" examines Perkins's responsibilities, the difficult situations he encountered and overcame, and the successes he achieved as part of a team of determined and dependable supply officers, whose duties were critical to successful Union...
Captain Simon Perkins Jr. and his fellow quartermasters helped make the Union's victory possible by providing the Federal army with clothing and camp ...
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140,83 |
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From Rat Pants to Eagles and Tweeds: The Memoirs of a Soldier-Teacher
ISBN: 9780873388009 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Rat Pants to Eagles and Tweeds is a firsthand account of James Morrison's experiences growing up in the segregated South, his attitudes and approaches to the military as a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute, and his years as a history teacher at York College in Pennsylvania. Morrison attended several army service schools; served as a midshipman before and after World War II; completed several overseas tours, including service as an American adviser to a Vietnamese Infantry division in 1964-65; obtained an M.A. in history from the University of Virginia and a doctorate from Columbia...
From Rat Pants to Eagles and Tweeds is a firsthand account of James Morrison's experiences growing up in the segregated South, his attitudes and appro...
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131,11 |
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Most Succinctly Bred
ISBN: 9780873388559 / Angielski / Twarda / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A memoir on being a soldier "At this moment, the nation seems interested in soldiering. Not the politics that complicate the very act of service, but the dirty business of being a soldier. No one, except soldiers, knows much about the aftermath of such service. most succinctly bred opens the experience to those who want to know more without having to sit inside the sweltering temperatures of the tank's turret, without having to face day after day the real threat of dying."--Pat C. Hoy II Like Susan Griffin's A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War,... A memoir on being a soldier "At this moment, the nation seems interested in soldiering. Not the politics that complicate the very a... |
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64,43 |
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Meade's Army: The Private Notebooks of Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman
ISBN: 9780873389013 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman served as Gen. George Gordon Meade's aide-de-camp from September 1863 until the end of the Civil War. Lyman was a Harvard-trained natural scientist who was exceptionally disciplined in recording the events, the players, and his surroundings during his wartime duty. His private notebooks document his keen observations. Published here for the first time, Meade's Army: The Private Notebooks of Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman contains anecdotes, concise vignettes of officers, and lively descriptions of military campaigns as witnessed by this key figure in the Northern... Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman served as Gen. George Gordon Meade's aide-de-camp from September 1863 until the end of the Civil War. Lyman was a Harvard-t... |
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189,86 |
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Dear Poppa: The World War II Berman Family Letters
ISBN: 9780873513586 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. David, Betsy, and Sammy Berman were nine, six, and four years old in May 1943 when the U.S. Army sent their father, Dr. Reuben Berman, to Europe. Over the next two and a half years, the children regularly gathered around their mother, Isabel, in their Minneapolis home while she typed exactly what they wanted to say to their father. This collection of more than 340 letters, selected from more than a thousand exchanged by the Berman family via V-mail, captures the anxiety and loss that children experienced when their fathers left for war.
David, Betsy, and Sammy Berman were nine, six, and four years old in May 1943 when the U.S. Army sent their father, Dr. Reuben Berman, to Europe. Over...
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72,15 |
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Baghdad Express: A Gulf War Memoir
ISBN: 9780873514507 / Angielski / Twarda / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In early summer of 1990, Joel Turnipseed was homeless--kicked out of his college's philosophy program, dumped by his girlfriend. He had been AWOL from his Marine Corps Reserve unit for more than three months, spending his days hanging out in coffee shops reading Plato and Thoreau.
Then Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. Turnipseed's unit was activated for service in Operation Desert Shield. By January of '91, he was in Saudi Arabia driving tractor-trailers for the Sixth Motor Transport Battalion--the legendary "Baghdad Express." The greatest logistical operation in Marine... In early summer of 1990, Joel Turnipseed was homeless--kicked out of his college's philosophy program, dumped by his girlfriend. He had been AWOL from...
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106,24 |
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This Business of War: Recollections of a Civil War Quartermaster
ISBN: 9780873515085 / Angielski / Miękka / 167 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Concerned with the logistical details of supplying the Army of the Potomac as it bogged down during the Peninsula campaign or of commandeering a steamboat to relieve the siege and get food to stranded soldiers at Chattanooga, Le Duc tells his story of mud-choked roads, incompetent commanders, and what he understands as the crucial factor necessary for the Union's success in battle: a well-supplied army. Through his close association with Generals McClellan and Meade, Hooker and Sherman, Le Duc learned to master the army's bureaucracy and overcome the hardships of trying to keep Union supplies...
Concerned with the logistical details of supplying the Army of the Potomac as it bogged down during the Peninsula campaign or of commandeering a steam...
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87,23 |
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Through These Portals: A Pacific War Saga
ISBN: 9780874222555 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through These Portals is the account of one of America's sons whose life was forged in the twin crucibles of the Great Depression and World War II. Mac Gregor writes candidly about struggles and conditions during the Great Depression and of war in the Pacific. With an amazing sense of immediacy, MacGregor describes savage, face-to-face, small-unit infantry actions in 1944-45 in the Mariana Islands, the Philippines, and Okinawa. This gripping memoir depicts war at its worst, and individual soldiers at their best.
Through These Portals is the account of one of America's sons whose life was forged in the twin crucibles of the Great Depression and World War II. Ma...
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82,53 |
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If I Get Out Alive: The World War II Letters and Diaries of William H McDougall JR
ISBN: 9780874808919 / Angielski / Twarda / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1939, William H. McDougall was a newspaperman from Salt Lake City who quit his job and went to work for the Japan Times, an English-language newspaper in Tokyo, and later for the United Press, for which he covered the Japanese occupation of Shanghai and the fall of the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia). When the ship on which he had escaped from Java was sunk, he reached the island of Sumatra, where he was captured and imprisoned by the Japanese until 1945. McDougall's letters to his family offer a rare and detailed look at daily life in Tokyo and in Japanese-occupied Shanghai during the...
In 1939, William H. McDougall was a newspaperman from Salt Lake City who quit his job and went to work for the Japan Times, an English-language newspa...
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58,24 |
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My Life in the Old Army: The Reminiscences of Abner Doubleday from the Collections of the New-York Historical Society
ISBN: 9780875651859 / Angielski / Twarda / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This was the very life I had been desirous of leading. To mix with the Mexican rancheros and see more of their manner of living.
"When the news came that a treaty of peace had actually been signed with Mexico we joyfully turned our face homewards that is towards the sea coast, taking with us the heavy guns which had been an object of so much care and solicitude in the past." Often thought of as the inventor of baseball, Abner Doubleday was first and foremost a soldier. Graduated from West Point in 1842 (where his record characterizes him as "correct in his deportment, social and... "This was the very life I had been desirous of leading. To mix with the Mexican rancheros and see more of their manner of living.
"When the news c... |
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106,24 |
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Black Frontiersman: The Memoirs of Henry O. Flipper, First Black Graduate of West Point
ISBN: 9780875652825 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After graduating as the first black from West Point in 1877, Henry O. Flipper was dismissed from the U.S. Army in 1882 following a financial scandal. He went on to enjoy a career as a land surveyor, scholar of mining and land laws, congressional aide, and writer and translator.
Black Frontiersman is Flipper s account of his service with the Tenth U.S. Cavalry in Texas and Oklahoma and the years that followed. Flipper s memoir was first published in 1963 as Negro Frontiersman, edited by Theodore Harris. For this revised edition, Harris has added a new introduction, expanded... After graduating as the first black from West Point in 1877, Henry O. Flipper was dismissed from the U.S. Army in 1882 following a financial scandal. ...
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77,68 |
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