Author : Russell S. Bonds
Publisher : Westholme Publishing
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 31,89 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN :
Draws on diaries, unpublished letters, and other archival sources to trace the events of the Civil War campaign that sealed the fate of the Confederacy and was instrumental in securing Abraham Lincoln's reelection.
Author : Albert Castel
Publisher :
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 11,16 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN :
Following a skirmish on June 28, 1864, a truce is called so the North can remove their dead and wounded. For two hours, Yankees and Rebels mingle, with some of the latter even assisting the former in their grisly work. Newspapers are exchanged. Northern coffee is swapped for Southern tobacco. Yanks crowd around two Rebel generals, soliciting and obtaining autographs.
Author : Cory Graff
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,74 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 9781616732592
Author : Wilfred Santiago
Publisher : Mad Creek Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 25,58 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780814255483
Graphic depiction of the true story of militant abolitionist John Brown and his rise to infamy in pre-Civil War America.
Author : Martin Caidin
Publisher : ibooks
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 41,50 MB
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0743423976
The key to victory in World War II lay in wresting control of the skies from the Nazis. America's most courageous pilots hurled their underrated P-47 Thunderbolts time and again against the Luftwaffe's over-whelming power, and won. This is the true story of one of the greatest Thunderbolt aces of all, Robert S. Johnson: his training, his early failures, his brushes with death and his 28 kills that helped smash the German juggernaut. Step-by-step, dogfight-by-dogfight, manoeuvre-by-manoeuvre, he details daring aerial exploits against monumental odds with America's fabled 56th Fighter Group, a special breed of men who changed the course of history.
Author : Earl J. Hess
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 28,4 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1469602113
While fighting his way toward Atlanta, William T. Sherman encountered his biggest roadblock at Kennesaw Mountain, where Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee held a heavily fortified position. The opposing armies confronted each other from June 19 to July 3, 1864. Hess explains how this battle, with its combination of maneuver and combat, severely tried the patience and endurance of the common soldier and why Johnston's strategy might have been the Confederates' best chance to halt the Federal drive toward Atlanta.
Author : Steve Zaloga
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,69 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0811704246
• Hundreds of photos, including many never published before with riveting accounts of armored warfare in World War II • Compares the Sherman to other tanks, including the Panther and Tiger • Author is a world-renowned expert on the Sherman tank and American armor Some tank crews referred to the American M4 Sherman tank as a "death trap." Others, like Gen. George Patton, believed that the Sherman helped win World War II. So which was it: death trap or war winner? Armor expert Steven Zaloga answers that question by recounting the Sherman's combat history. Focusing on Northwest Europe (but also including a chapter on the Pacific), Zaloga follows the Sherman into action on D-Day, among the Normandy hedgerows, during Patton's race across France, in the great tank battle at Arracourt in September 1944, at the Battle of the Bulge, across the Rhine, and in the Ruhr pocket in 1945.
Author : E.E. Knight
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 14,71 MB
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1440625735
As the Resistance attempts to overthrow their vampiric alien masters, elite Cat force member David Valentine embarks on a terrifying journey in search of a long-lost weapon that will guarantee their victory-and the end of the Kurian Order's domination of Earth.
Author : Russell S. Bonds
Publisher : Westholme Publishing
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 17,19 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN :
In April 1862, 20 Union soldiers crossed Confederate lines to steal a locomotive called the General and destroy a critical Confederate supply line. In the aftermath half the team was executed; the half that escaped received the newly established Medal of Honor. -- publishers description.
Author : Jonathan Bernstein
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 19,95 MB
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1780960379
The P-47 Thunderbolt, originally designed as a high-altitude interceptor, became the principal US fighter–bomber of World War II. First adapted to the ground attack role by units of the Twelfth Air Force in early 1944, the strength and durability of the P-47 airframe, along with its massive size, earned it the nickname 'Juggernaut', which was quickly shortened to 'Jug' throughout the MTO and ETO. By October 1943, with the creation of the Fifteenth Air Force, nearly half of the Twelfth's fighter groups would be retasked with strategic escort missions, leaving six groups to perform close air support and interdiction missions throughout the entire Mediterranean theatre. The groups inflicted incredible damage on the enemy's transport routes in particular, using rockets, bombs, napalm and machine-gun rounds to down bridges, blow up tunnels and strafe trains. Myriad first-hand accounts and period photography reveal the spectacular success enjoyed by the Thunderbolt in the MTO in the final year of the war.
