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Author
Series
Crimson empire volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
536 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The sequel to Alex Marshall's A Crown for Cold Silver, an outstanding, game-changing epic adventure featuring an unforgettable female warrior. After five hundred years, the Sunken Kingdom has returned, and brought with it a monstrous secret that threatens to destroy every country on the Star. As an inhuman army gathers on its shores, poised to invade the Immaculate Isles, the members of the Cobalt Company face an ugly choice: abandon their dreams...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
c1991
Physical Desc
xii, 231 p. : port. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Of all the heroes produced by the Civil War, Robert E. Lee is the most revered and perhaps the most misunderstood. Lee is widely portrayed as an ardent antisecessionist who left the United States Army only because he would not draw his sword against his native Virginia, a Southern aristocrat who opposed slavery, and a brilliant military leader whose exploits sustained the Confederate cause. Alan Nolan explodes these and other assumptions about Lee...
Author
Series
Jack Reacher volume 8
Language
English
Description
Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier's son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army's brightest stars. But in every cop's life there is a turning point. One case. One messy, tangled case that can shatter a career. Turn a lawman into a renegade. And make him question words like honor, valor, and duty. For Jack Reacher, this is that case.
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"From Bret Baier comes a riveting reassessment of Ulysses S. Grant, arguing that the great Civil War commander's battle to save the Union continued to the very end of his presidency when a crisis threatened to fracture the still fragile nation once again"--
Grant's daring and resolve as a general gained the attention of President Lincoln, then desperate for bold leadership. Appointed as Lieutenant General of the Union Army in March 1864, Grant's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recounts the final months of World War II in Europe and General George Patton's contributions to the Allied victory before his mysterious death in a car collision in December 1945, days before he was to return to the United States.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.7 - AR Pts: 23
Physical Desc
xiv, 320 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Draws on the Washington papers from archives at the University of Virginia to chronicle George Washington's military career and presidential years, discussing his struggle to keep an emerging America united and other accomplishments.
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
c1986
Physical Desc
xxiv, 399 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
James Longstreet stood with Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in the great triumvirate of the Army of Northern Virginia. He fought from First Manassas through Appomattox and served as Lee's senior subordinate for most of that time. In this classic work, first published by UNC Press in 1936, H. J. Eckenrode and Bryan Conrad follow Longstreet from his leading role in the military history of the Confederacy through his controversial postwar career...
Author
Series
McLanahan volume 12
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
345p. 25cm.
Language
English
Description
The destruction of a Russian air base by robotic U.S. warplanes has reawakenedthe bear -- and America must pay a terrible price. In retaliation, Russia's leader launches the most devastating military sneak attack since Pearl Harbor, decimating America's strategic air forces. Now an embattled U.S. president must choose between two horrific scenarios: a cease-fire on the enemy's terms ... or respond with every weapon in the nation's arsenal, possibly...