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Languages : en
Pages : 708
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The United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette of the Regular and Volunteer Forces
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Languages : en
Pages : 708
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The Red Cross in Peace and War
Author: Clara Barton
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Category : Voluntary health agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 714
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Category : Voluntary health agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 714
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Grant Under Fire
Author: Joseph Rose
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ISBN: 9781943177004
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Languages : en
Pages : 816
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Grant Under Fire comprehensively dissects the military career of Ulysses S. Grant. Rigorously based on a wealth of primary sources--many not cited before--the book resolves scores of controversies, such as his drunken partying with the enemy on flag-of-truce boats out of Cairo, dishonestly blaming Lew Wallace for the march to Shiloh, pretending that he had the ultimate plan to pass Vicksburg all along, stealing the credit for the charge up Missionary Ridge, and leaving wounded men to suffer and die between the lines at Cold Harbor.Despite his sterling reputation as an officer and a gentleman, he suffered the biggest surprise of the American Civil War, committed the worst official act of anti-Semitism on this nation's soil, and came closest of all Union generals to losing Washington. Defenders rank his generalship above Robert E. Lee's, but to do so, they must ignore his simplistic, aggressive strategies that led to a war of attrition and the amateurish tactics of impetuous, frontal assaults, all along the line and against fortified positions.Grant Under Fire overturns the familiar renditions by detailing Grant's corruption at Cairo, his occupation of Paducah under orders, his incapacity in the Mississippi Delta, and the army's non-triumphal exit from the Wilderness, as well as debunking a host of other oft-told tales and myths.
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ISBN: 9781943177004
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Languages : en
Pages : 816
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Grant Under Fire comprehensively dissects the military career of Ulysses S. Grant. Rigorously based on a wealth of primary sources--many not cited before--the book resolves scores of controversies, such as his drunken partying with the enemy on flag-of-truce boats out of Cairo, dishonestly blaming Lew Wallace for the march to Shiloh, pretending that he had the ultimate plan to pass Vicksburg all along, stealing the credit for the charge up Missionary Ridge, and leaving wounded men to suffer and die between the lines at Cold Harbor.Despite his sterling reputation as an officer and a gentleman, he suffered the biggest surprise of the American Civil War, committed the worst official act of anti-Semitism on this nation's soil, and came closest of all Union generals to losing Washington. Defenders rank his generalship above Robert E. Lee's, but to do so, they must ignore his simplistic, aggressive strategies that led to a war of attrition and the amateurish tactics of impetuous, frontal assaults, all along the line and against fortified positions.Grant Under Fire overturns the familiar renditions by detailing Grant's corruption at Cairo, his occupation of Paducah under orders, his incapacity in the Mississippi Delta, and the army's non-triumphal exit from the Wilderness, as well as debunking a host of other oft-told tales and myths.
Aircraft and Submarines: The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons
Author: Willis John Abbot
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465504923
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465504923
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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The Maine Bugle
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Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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The Life of George Washington
Author: John Marshall
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Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Pages : 544
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The History of Sudbury, Massachusetts. 1638-1889
Author: Alfred Sereno Hudson
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Category : Sudbury (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 770
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Category : Sudbury (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 770
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West Point
Author: Robert Charlwood Richardson
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Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Pages : 448
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Army Engineers in New England
Author: Aubrey Parkman
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Languages : en
Pages : 319
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Pages : 319
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History of Chester County, Pennsylvania
Author: J. Smith Futhey
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Category : Chester County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1250
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Category : Chester County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1250
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