Back From Battle: The Forgotten Story of Pennsylvania's Camp Discharge and the Weary Civil War Soldiers It Served - Jim Remsen

Reducere. In the final year of the American Civil War, a special Union Army post was constructed just outside Philadelphia to handle a jumble of returning ci...

Description"Mark Obmascik has deftly rescued an important story from the margins of our history--and from our country's most forbidding frontier. D...

Reducere. First-hand accounts that include diary entries and personal letters describe the experiences of boys, sixteen years old or younger, who fought in t...

An anthology of personal essays and short memoirs that span more than 100 years of warfare. It tells the enduring truths of battle, stripping away ...

Reducere. The "Civil War Soldiers of Bedford County Pennsylvania" book lists 4, 209 identified Civil War soldiers who lived in Bedford County or an immediate...

Reducere. Dillon J. Carroll's Invisible Wounds examines the effects of military service, particularly combat, on the psyches and emotional well-being of Civi...

We Also Served is a social history of women's involvement in the First World War. Dr. Vivien Newman disturbs myths and preconceptions surrounding w...

Reducere. In the summer of 1861, Americans were preoccupied by the question of which states would join the secession movement and which would remain loyal to...

In 1643/4 the once-famous Francis Cleyn painted the unhappy young heir of Corfe Castle, John Bankes, and his tutor, Dr Maurice Williams. The painte...

Explores the Battle of Gettysburg of the US Civil War. Authoritative text, colorful illustrations, illuminating sidebars, and questions to prompt c...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Lindsey FitzharrisNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 164 x 242 x 37Cover type: HardbackRe...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is the story of Galicia, once a crown land of the Austrian Empire, located in the center of Europe. Although largely forgotten toda...

Reducere. On July 24, 1915, the SS Eastland, filled to capacity with 2, 500 aboard, capsized in the Chicago River while still moored to the pier. The disaste...

Reducere. DescriptionThe son of an Alabama sharecropper, John Lewis experienced the injustice of segregation early in life. Inspired by the words of Dr. Mart...

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Reducere. On May 4, 1968, Dancer's Image crossed the finish line at Churchill Downs to win the 94th Kentucky Derby. Yet the jubilation ended three days later...

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If you want to discover the captivating history of the Battle of Antietam, then keep reading...On September 17th, 1862, US President Abraham Lincol...

Reducere. From the American Battlefield Trust, the collection of their popular battle maps of the Western Theater of the American Civil War. "I just love tho...

Reducere. In this one-of-a-kind atlas, scores of archival maps and dozens of newly created maps trace the battles, political turmoil, and great themes of Ame...

As well as offering a guide for researchers, this book will provide a narrative of the conflict, case studies of soldiers, and reveal how soldiers'...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is the inspiring story of the first American team to win the Stanley Cup-a feat largely lost to history.In the winter of 1917, as E...

Reducere. DescriptionDuring the Civil War, Mississippi's strategic location bordering the Mississippi River and the state's system of railroads drew the atte...

Reducere. During the Civil War, Union and Confederate politicians, military commanders, everyday soldiers, and civilians claimed their approach to the confli...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. In the summer of 1863, as Union and Confederate armies converged on southern Pennsylvania, the town of Gettysburg found itself thrust onto the cent...

Reducere. One of the Last Great Memoirs of the Greatest Generation: A Tennessee Back-Hills Boy Comes of Age on the Battlefields of Nazi GermanyThis memoir is...

Reducere. On February 19, 1945, nearly 70, 000 American marines invaded a tiny volcanic island in the Pacific. Over the next thirty-five days, approximately ...

Reducere. The basis of the film starring Orlando Bloom and Scott Eastwood, The Outpost is the heartbreaking and inspiring story of one of America's deadliest...

Reducere. The British colony of West Florida--which once stretched from the mighty Mississippi to the shallow bends of the Apalachicola and portions of what ...

Drawing on a wealth of material from the vast Imperial War Museum Sound Archive, this book offers insight into life on the front line: from the day...

Reducere. The Boys of Company K shows how life was for the common soldier on the dangerous western prairies. The men faced the threat of hostile Indians, dis...

Tells the stories of freeborn northern African Americans in Philadelphia struggling to maintain families while fighting against racial discriminati...

A meticulous reconstruction of those three summer days that ignited the Irish Civil War in 1922 - the defining event of modern Irish politics.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Judith M. HeimannNovember 1944: Their B-24 bomber shot down on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast, ...

Reducere. DescriptionNorman tells the dramatic story of fifty women--members of the Army, Navy, and Air Force Nurse Corps--who went to war, working in milita...

When the smoke cleared on Iwo Jima in March 1945, 19, 000 American Marines had been wounded and 7, 000 were dead, a casualty rate of nearly 39 perc...

Reducere. The Kentuckian's of the Confederate ArmyThe Orphan Brigade was the nickname given to the First Kentucky Brigade―the largest brigade to be recruited...

Reducere. Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, s...

Reducere. DescriptionThe bestselling author delves into his past and discovers the inspiring story of his grandmother's extraordinary life She was black and ...

Douglas Smith's The Russian Job tells the captivating story of how American volunteers saved millions of people from starvation in Bolshevik Russia.

Douglas Smith's The Russian Job tells the captivating story of how American volunteers saved millions of people from starvation in Bolshevik Russia.

Reducere. From the events that led to the clash at Gettysburg in July 1863 to the retreat of Robert E. Lee's defeated Confederates, Richard Wheeler uses the ...

In Battle of the Big Hole, noted historian Aubrey Haines has compiled the many written and first-person accounts of this historic moment in the Ind...

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Reducere. John Potts Slough, the Union commander at the Battle of Glorieta Pass, lived a life of relentless pursuit for success that entangled him in the tur...

Reducere. Dead men tell no tales, and the soldiers who rode and died with George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn have been silent statis...

Reducere. A million pages of new World War II codebreaking records have been released by the U.S. Army and Navy and the British government over the last five...