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Author
Publisher
Adams Media
Pub. Date
c1996.
Language
English
Description
To his admirers, Douglas MacArthur was the greatest soldier in American history; to his critics, he was a five-star fraud. Always colorful, always controversial, MacArthur is one of the dominant characters in American military history.
43) George Washington, spymaster: how the Americans outspied the British and won the Revolutionary War
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Language
English
Description
A biography of Revolutionary War general and first President of the United States, George Washington, focusing on his use of spies to gather intelligence that helped the colonies win the war.
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Language
English
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Traces the story of the mixed-race swordsman and father of novelist Alexandre Dumas, discussing his rise to the French aristocracy, his military triumphs ,and the adventures that inspired such classics as "The Three Musketeers" and "The Count of Monte Cristo."
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Revered by some as the Arab Garibaldi, maligned by others as an intriguer and opportunist, Fawzi al-Qawuqji manned the ramparts of Arab history for four decades. As a young officer in the Ottoman Army, he fought the British in the First World War, and won an Iron Cross. In the 1920s, he mastered the arts of insurgency and helped lead a massive uprising against the French authorities in Syria. A decade later, he reappeared in Palestine, where he helped...
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English
Description
The War of 1812 saw America threatened on every side. Encouraged by the British, Indian tribes attacked settlers in the West, while the Royal Navy terrorized the coasts. By mid-1814, President James Madison's generals had lost control of the war in the North, losing battles in Canada. Then British troops set the White House ablaze, and a feeling of hopelessness spread across the country. Into this dire situation stepped Major General Andrew Jackson....
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of explorer John C. Frémont, including his western expeditions over the Rocky Mountains, mapping California and Oregon, fighting for California's independence, his life as a soldier and politician, and his legacy as the Pathfinder.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
He was short, foul-mouthed, and so constitutionally pugnacious that he once thrashed a Southern train conductor who treated him rudely. He rose from the undistinguished rank of quartermaster to command the Union cavalry at the battles of Yellow Tavern (where he defeated his flamboyant rebel counterpart, J.E.B. Stuart) and Winchester. And when the Civil War was over, General Phil Sheridan continued to fight, whether that meant plunging into the bloody...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
On August 16, 1824, an elderly French gentlemen sailed into New York Harbor and giddy Americans were there to welcome him. Or, rather, to welcome him back. It had been 30 years since the Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de Lafayette had last set foot in the United States, and he was so beloved that 80,000 people showed up to cheer for him. The entire population of New York at the time was 120,000. Lafayette's arrival in 1824 coincided with one of...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A revisionist assessment of the first president reveals how Washington utilized persuasion, manipulation, and deniability throughout the Revolutionary War and his presidency while maintaining a public image of virtue and non-ambitious service.
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Was he a martyr or damned? A hero or a fool? This pictorial biography of George Armstrong Custer explores all facets of the legendary general from his boyhood to West Point, through the Civil War and his earlier battles, to his last stand. It shows Custers family, friends, and associates, military and civilian, white and Indian, at work and at play. More pictures of Custer-related people, places, and artifacts are assembled here than in any...
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Publisher
Macmillan Publishing USA
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A biography focusing on Jackson as an individual as well as a military strategist and general, by one of the country's leading Civil War historians. The passage of 130 years has only deepened the fascination and reverence for Confederate general Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson. He ranks today as among the half-dozen greatest soldiers that America has produced. Military academies in both hemispheres still teach his tactics. Revered by his men,...
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Language
English
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Description
In his magisterial bestseller FDR, Jean Edward Smith gave us a fresh, modern look at one of the most indelible figures in American history. Now this peerless biographer returns with a new life of Dwight D. Eisenhower that is as full, rich, and revealing as anything ever written about Americas thirty-fourth president. As America searches for new heroes to lead it out of its present-day predicaments, Jean Edward Smiths achievement lies...
60) John J. Pershing
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Reviews the life and battles of General "Black Jack" Pershing, who had more than thirty years of field experience when he was tapped to lead the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I.
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