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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xviii, 464 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world's greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial portrait. More than two millennia have passed, but Alexander the Great is still a household name. His life was an adventure story and took him to every corner of the ancient world. His memory and glamour persist, and his early death at thirty-three has kept...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1876, Lakota chief Crazy Horse helped lead his people's resistance against the white man's invasion of the northern Great Plains. One of the leaders of the US military forces was Army Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. The men had long been enemies. At the height of the war, when tribalism had reached its peak, they crossed paths for the last time. In this action-packed double biography, S. D. Nelson draws fascinating parallels between Crazy Horse...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A journalist's memoir-plus-reporting about modern-day conflicts over Southern monuments to Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate hero and original leader of the Ku Klux Klan, as well as a personal examination of the legacy of white supremacy through the US today, tracing the throughline from Appomattox to Charlottesville"--
Author
Publisher
WND Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
307 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a history of one of the most dangerous aviation operations during the Vietnam War, call-sign Dust Off, in which air ambulances speaheaded the humanitarian efforts that were being executed during the war.
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xii, 324 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines the history of Texas and Northeastern New Spain under Commandant General Joaquín de Arredondo, a Spanish civil and military authority who employed violence and unconventional means to maintain order against revolutionaries, invaders, pirates, and raiding American Indian tribes during the years of 1811 to 1821.--Provided by publisher.
94) The man who would not be Washington: Robert E. Lee's Civil War and his decision that changed history
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xi, 369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xii, 588 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed author of Gettysburg: The Last Invasion--a sweeping, singularly immediate, and intimate biography of the Confederate general and his fateful decision to betray his nation in order to defend his home state and uphold the slave system he claimed to oppose"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Completed a short time before his death in 1885, the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant is recognized today as one of the most significant American military memoirs of all time. In an honest and intelligent voice, the celebrated Civil War general and former President offers a detailed and intimate telling of the events of the Mexican-American war, and the American Civil War and his role within it as a Union General.
At the time of its publication,...
98) Lee
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
General Robert E. Lee is well known as a major figure in the Civil War. However, by removing Lee from the delimiting frame of the Civil War and placing him in the context of the Republic's total history, Dowdey shows the "eternal relevance" of this tragic figure to the American heritage. With access to hundreds of personal letters, Dowdey brings fresh insights into Lee's background and personal relationships and examines the factors which made Lee...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., a fortunate son who proved himself on the battlefields of two world wars. General Omar Bradley said of him, "I have never known a braver man or a more devoted soldier." But for much of his life, Theodore Roosevelt's son Ted seemed born to live in his father's shadow. With the same wide smile, winning charm, and vigorous demeanor, Ted possessed limitless potential, with even the White House within his reach. In...
100) Alexander the Great
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Children
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
59 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 27 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of the warrior king of Macedonia who conquered and united the known world of his time.
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