Author : Richard Moe
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,29 MB
Release : 2009-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0873517393
The definitive history of the First Minnesota Volunteers in the Civil War.
Author : Jeff Shaara
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 37,25 MB
Release : 2011-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345438507
In the Pulitzer prize–winning classic The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara created the finest Civil War novel of our time. The Last Full Measure tells the epic story of the events following the Battle of Gettysburg and brings to life the final two years of the Civil War. Jeff Shaara dramatizes the escalating confrontation between Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant—complicated, heroic, and deeply troubled men. For Lee and his Confederate forces, Gettysburg has been an unspeakable disaster, but he is determined to fight to the bitter end; he faces Grant, the decisive, hard-nosed leader the Union army so desperately needs in order to turn the tide of the war. From the costly Battle of the Wilderness to the agonizing seize of Petersburg to Lee’s epoch-making surrender at Appomattox, Shaara portrays the riveting conclusion of the Civil War through the minds and hearts of the individuals who gave their last full measure. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Jeff Shaara's Blaze of Glory.
Author : Abraham Lincoln
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 49,80 MB
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1504080246
The complete text of one of the most important speeches in American history, delivered by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln arrived at the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to remember not only the grim bloodshed that had just occurred there, but also to remember the American ideals that were being put to the ultimate test by the Civil War. A rousing appeal to the nation’s better angels, The Gettysburg Address remains an inspiring vision of the United States as a country “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
Author : Michael Stephenson
Publisher : Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 48,10 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Battle casualties
ISBN : 0307395847
Considers how soldiers through the ages have met their deaths in times of war, covering such subjects as weapons and battlefield strategies while offering insight into cultural differences and the nature of military combat.
Author : Trent Reedy
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 28,96 MB
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0545548799
Trent Reedy brings his action-packed, provocative trilogy about the second American Civil War to a stunning and stirring close in The Last Full Measure. In a YA trilogy like no other, Trent Reedy has raised the most primal questions of our national existence: Do we owe our greatest loyalty to our friends? Our state? Our country? Our party? How do we reconcile our individual rights and common needs? What keeps us all united -- and what happens if we fall apart?Now, in this third book, the Second Civil War has come to an end in Idaho. The Feds have taken the fight to other fronts, and Danny and his friends are free of US dominance. But that freedom comes with considerable costs, from Danny's disturbing flashbacks to the war, to the Brotherhood of the White Eagle, whose "security" for Freedom Lake looks more like outright thuggery. After Danny makes a shocking discovery about the Brotherhood's final aims, he and his friends lead a group of townspeople on a dangerous journey across a ravaged Idaho, hoping to build a better society of their own, and fulfill the dreams they had in what once was the United States.
Author : Michael Shaara
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,21 MB
Release : 2004-11-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0679643249
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “remarkable” (Ken Burns), “utterly absorbing” (Forbes) Civil War classic that inspired the film Gettysburg, with more than three million copies in print “My favorite historical novel . . . a superb re-creation of the Battle of Gettysburg, but its real importance is its insight into what the war was about, and what it meant.”—James M. McPherson In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation’s history, two armies fought for two conflicting dreams. One dreamed of freedom, the other of a way of life. Far more than rifles and bullets were carried into battle. There were memories. There were promises. There was love. And far more than men fell on those Pennsylvania fields. Bright futures, untested innocence, and pristine beauty were also the casualties of war. Michael Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece is unique, sweeping, unforgettable—the dramatic story of the battleground for America’s destiny.
Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 14,27 MB
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1439126453
The power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was asked to memorialize the gruesome battle. Instead, he gave the whole nation "a new birth of freedom" in the space of a mere 272 words. His entire life and previous training, and his deep political experience went into this, his revolutionary masterpiece. By examining both the address and Lincoln in their historical moment and cultural frame, Wills breathes new life into words we thought we knew, and reveals much about a president so mythologized but often misunderstood. Wills shows how Lincoln came to change the world and to effect an intellectual revolution, how his words had to and did complete the work of the guns, and how Lincoln wove a spell that has not yet been broken.
Author : Michael Shaara
Publisher : Civil War Trilogy
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,31 MB
Release : 1999-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345433726
Presents a collection of three novels that present a fictionalized account of the battles of the Civil War.
Author : Trent Reedy
Publisher : Arthur A. Levine Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,22 MB
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Civil war
ISBN : 9780545548786
Trent Reedy brings his action-packed, provocative trilogy about the second American Civil War to a stunning and stirring close in The Last Full Measure
Author : Gabor Boritt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 22,84 MB
Release : 2008-02-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0743288211
Describes the events surrounding Abraham Lincoln's historic speech following the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, how he responded to the politics of the time, and the importance of that speech.
