Kirk's Civil War Raids Along the Blue Ridge, Paperback - Michael C. Hardy

Reducere. In the Southern Appalachian Mountains, no character was more loved or despised than Union officer George W. Kirk. He led a group of deserters on nu...

Reducere. "First at Bethel, farthest at Gettysburg and Chickamauga and last at Appomattox" is a phrase that is often used to encapsulate the role of North Ca...

Reducere. North Carolina Remembers Gettysburg contains eighty-four letters, originally published in newspapers, by Tar Heel soldiers. Some letters were writt...

DescriptionThey considered themselves "Lee's Body Guard, " cavalrymen specifically recruited to serve as scouts, couriers and guides for General Ro...

Reducere. Places where you won't be able to wipe the wag off your dog's tail...Have you ever considered how far you walk with your dog? If you walk just 15 m...

Reducere. Discover the Best Waterfalls in North Carolina and Virginia Waterfalls are nature's most captivating wonders. These hidden spectacles seem to hold ...

The most famous Civil War name in Northern Virginia, other than General Lee, is Colonel John Singleton Mosby, the Gray Ghost. He stands out among n...

Reducere. This new edition of A Fly Fisherman's Blue Ridge offers readers a chance to revisit a contemporary classic of fly fishing literature, a book that t...

Reducere. Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau played host to some of the most dramatic military maneuvering of the Civil War. Straddling the entire state of Tenne...

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Reducere. On 4 April 1862, Major General George McClellan marched his 121, 500-strong Army of the Potomac from Fort Monroe toward Richmond. Blocking his path...

Reducere. Alabama's role in the Civil War cannot be understated. Union raids into northern Alabama, the huge manufacturing infrastructure in central Alabama ...

In this detailed guide to the best birding localities, Simpson describes more than three hundred sites, including recreation areas, overlooks, camp...

With this "rich, complex, and eloquent" (Drew Gilpin Faust, Atlantic) work, Pulitzer Prize finalist Michael Gorra charts the evolution of an author...

More than 150 years after the event, the grand attack against the Union position on Cemetery Ridge still emotionally resonates with Gettysburg enth...

Reducere. The Blue Ridge Parkway began as a dream in the late 1800s and became reality in 1983 when the 469-mile scenic highway was completed. Construction o...

Was World War II really such a "good war"? Popular memory insists that it was, in fact, "the best war ever." After all, we knew who the enemy was, ...

Reducere. Swashbuckling stories of the Union naval blockade of the Southern states and the blockade runners who smuggled goods to the Confederacy have long b...

Reducere. Out of the ashes of Imperial China arose two new contenders to lead a reformed nation; the Chinese Nationalist Party, the Kuomintang, and the Chine...

Reducere. Meet Gracie - a lovably sweet dog who has a hard time making friends. Join her as she travels in the Blue Ridge Mountains and meets new characters....

Reducere. Meet Gracie - a lovably sweet dog who has a hard time making friends. Join her as she travels in the Blue Ridge Mountains and meets new characters....

Reducere. DescriptionTravelers can follow the routes of both Union and Confederate armies, discover monuments in small towns and appreciate the impact of the...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Michael LynchIllustration(s): Fully illustrated in colour and black and whiteNumber of pages: 144Col...

In the popular imagination, Civil War disability is synonymous with amputation. But war affects the body in countless ways. Sarah Handley-Cousins e...

A fascinating and entertaining anthology about the American Civil War, throwing new light on all aspects of the war, and how it affected America an...

DescriptionThis is the story of 2 Group RAF during World War II. Much of it is told by the men who flew the Blenheim, Boston, Mitchell and Mosquito...

Appointed by Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. Supreme Court during the Civil War, Samuel Freeman Miller (1816--1890) served on the nation's highest trib...

Reducere. More Strange Tales of the Civil War presents readers with more predictions, coincidences, medical oddities, and other bizarre events of the Civil W...

Reducere. Much of New York during the Revolutionary era was frontier wilderness, sparsely populated and bitterly divided. Although the only major campaign in...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Alabama's role in the Civil War cannot be understated. Union raids into northern Alabama, the huge manufacturing infrastructure in central Alabama ...

Reducere. With their families caught on opposite sides of the Civil War, friends Sarah Pierce and James Hood are afraid that everything they know is about to...

Reducere. The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina are the heart of a region where traditional music and dance are performed and celebrated as nowhere else...

Reducere. As you travel along the Blue Ridge Parkway, hike the Appalachian Trail, or visit the national and state parks scattered throughout the Blue Ridge M...

Reducere. In one of the greatest engineering feats of his time, Claudius Crozet led the completion of Virginia's Blue Ridge Tunnel in 1858. Two centuries lat...

Reducere. This groundbreaking history of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) examines, for the first time in any language, how General Francisco Franco and his N...

Reducere. The Indian wars on the Central Plains the area roughly between the Arkansas River to the south and the Platte River to the north " emanates at the ...

Sensational eyewitness accounts from the most heroic and legendary American aviators of World War II, never before published as a book They are voi...

Many Americans tend to think of Pearl Harbor as the only attack on U.S. soil during the Second World War. However, Oregon itself was specifically c...