Nurse, Soldier, Spy: The Story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War Hero, Paperback

Reducere. Among the hundreds of women who, in disguise, enlisted to serve as men during the Civil War, only Sarah Edmonds is known to have written a memoir r...

Reducere. Amid the fearsome battles of the Civil War, both Union and Confederate soldiers were urged onward by song. There were songs to wake them up and son...

Reducere. Description1861: as America erupts into civil war, Emma Edmonds is roused to such intense patriotism that she joins the Union army...as a man. Rais...

This is the incredible true story of Sarah Emma Edmonds, who dressed as a man and fought in the Civil War. When she was 19, Sarah cut her hair, don...

Reducere. Seventeen-year-old Ethan Mire is excited when war is declared and is eager to enlist in the Confederate Army. This is the defining moment of his ge...

Reducere. Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and "pioneer of sizzle history" (USA Today), tells the spellbinding t...

Nurse and Spy is a record of events which transpired in the experience of military life in Camp, Field and Hospital during the Civil War. The autho...

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

Reducere. DescriptionOutskirts Press releases new Civil War book by celebrated author Dr. Virginia Lohmann Nodhturft. This is the first and only published bo...

The astonishing story of Henry Coombe-Tennant (1913-89), who served in the British Army in World War II, escaping from a POW camp, joining Special ...

A stunning collection of stoic portraits and intimate ephemera from the lives of Black Civil War soldiers Though both the Union and Confederate arm...

DescriptionWhen Hitler invaded Poland, Virginia Hall was traveling in Europe. Which was dangerous enough, but as fighting erupted, instead of retur...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: MS Sibel D. EdmondsIn this startling new memoir, Sibel Edmonds-the most classified woman in U.S. history-takes us on a surr...

Reducere. A stray dog named Stubby braves the World War I battlefields alongside Private J. Robert Conroy. See the story unfold as this brave little canine m...

Reducere. "I don't know how long before i shall have to go into the field of battle. For my part i don't care. I don't feel afraid to go. I don't believe the...

Reducere. Emil Kapaun priest, soldier and Korean War hero was a rare man. He was awarded posthumously the Medal of Honor, the nation s highest military award...

The never-before-told tale of the German-American who infiltrated New York's Nazi underground in the days leading up to World War II: "Thrilling, w...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is the action-filled biography of Marvin E. Gilmore, Jr., an African-American musician-turned-businessman, the grandson of slaves, ...

Mary Edwards Walker was unconventional for her time: She was one of the first women doctors in the country, she was a suffragist, and she wore pant...

As 1862 dawned, the Civil War, the conflict that had started the year before and that most Americans thought would last only a few months, showed n...

As 1862 dawned, the Civil War, the conflict that had started the year before and that most Americans thought would last only a few months, showed n...

Reducere. The epic life story of a schoolteacher and preacher in Missouri, guerrilla fighter in the Civil War, Congressman, freethinking lecturer and author,...

Reducere. In 1943 a young official from the German foreign ministry contacted Allen Dulles, an OSS officer in Switzerland who would later head the Central In...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Chosen as a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, the Seattle Times, the Washington Indepe...

Reducere. The Gift of Bravery is the story of how an ordinary man was transformed into an extraordinary spy and of the brilliant contributions he made to his...

Reducere. DescriptionMary Bowser and the Civil War Spy Ring introduces an exciting interactive series for middle grade readers--Spy on History, where the rea...

Reducere. This is the second volume of a projected four-volume work. In Volume I the author delineated the uniforms, arms, accouterments, and equipment of th...

Weaves an exceptional and thrilling hidden history of an ordinary girl who became one of the OSS's most daring spies in World War II before marryin...

Reducere. The story of the 'Siren of the Shenandoah' in her own wordsIsabella Maria Boyd (1844-1900) was one of the most famous and notorious female Confeder...

Reducere. A vision of dignity and freedom and a powerful role model for girls and women of all races "This impressive picture book will delight young readers...

Reducere. DescriptionAfter standing for over 7, 000 years, Aleppo's ruin came overnight. Separated from his family during the night the rebels attacked the c...

Reducere. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An incredible story of under-appreciated heroism." - USA Today, Five Books to Read This Week "A compelling biography o...

Reducere. Assassination by crossbow, refueling homemade planes in mid-air, mother and daughter seduction--Allied spy Tommy Sneum did it all during World War ...

Reducere. Leonard investigates why these women chose unconventional ways to help their cause. In doing so, she gives us a striking portrait of the lives wome...

The thrilling story of two Cold War spies, CIA case officer Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko -- improbable friends at a time when they sh...

Reducere. How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S...

This anthology brings together extensive selections of poetry by the five most prolific and prominent women poets of the English Civil War period: ...

Reducere. The story of the 'Siren of the Shenandoah' in her own wordsIsabella Maria Boyd (1844-1900) was one of the most famous and notorious female Confeder...

Madge Addy was a working-class Manchester woman who volunteered to fight Fascism and Nazism in two major wars, her story is a truly remarkable one....

Reducere. Description A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Excellent...This book is as riveting as any thriller, and as hard to put down." -- The New York Times Book...

Reducere. David Perry was an American soldier who fought in the Revolutionary War, which resulted in the founding of the United States - this autobiography r...

Reducere. Considered a failure upon leaving the White House in 1857 and thought to be on his way to a well-deserved obscurity, Franklin Pierce during the Civ...

Reducere. Born into one of the best families of Baton Rouge, Sarah Morgan was not yet twenty when she began her diary in January 1862, nine months after the ...

Reducere. Like a scene from Where Eagles Dare, a small team of American spies parachutes into Italy behind enemy lines. Their orders: link up with local part...

Billy isn't happy with his house or his toys until an enchanted tree takes him on a journey that will forever change the way he views happiness.Tre...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Ben MacintyreNumber of pages: 432Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 3Cover type: Paperback ...