英文简介:When first published in 1953, Bruce Catton, our foremost Civil War historian was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for excellence in nonfiction. This final volume of The Army of the Potomac trilogy relates the final year of the Civil War. 此资源代找服务价格...
Deathsong, the much-anticipated second volume of the acclaimedBeloved Captive trilogy, has just been released. Fans of1883andLonesome Dovewill love this latest page-turner from Texas authorMax McNabb. Inspired by shocking true events, this historical novel continues the story of the last free Apa...
Speaking for myself, it was Catton, not Foote, who drew me to the Civil War (and who, more than that, made me want to write history). From the time I was 12 and discoveredA Stillness at Appomattox, the Pulitzer Prize-winning final volume of his Army of the Potomac trilogy, I read...
Today’s article is about the youngest brigade commander in the Army of the Potomac, Colonel Strong Vincent a twenty-six year old Harvard graduate and citizen soldier. His story is fascinating as well as well as a reminder of the tragic losses brought about by war. His actions and decisions...
We gather from a few things Lucy says that he was probably taken prisoner in the British Army’s retreat from the German blitzkrieg of May-June 1940, but it’s clear that Lucy has given up hope and Rachel is trapped in a limbo of deprivation and neglect. She has a few other children...
And here’s where Grant really shines, because to his credit, where prior commanders of the Army of the Potomac would have turned and run because they just got absolutely manhandled by the bogeyman Robert E. Lee, Grant looks at the carnage, shrugs, and stays where he is because, hey, ...
University of Nebraska June 1997 'The Damned Red Flags of the Rebellion' by Richard Rollins The Confederate Battle Flag at GettysburgThis is the first and foremost book on the subject of the Confederate battle flags. Not only does it provide a very detailed look at the flags lost at Gettysbur...
While only 12% thought he was the best Union army commander other than Grant, most had at least some good things to say about him.SubstackKevin Levin is happy about reading the new Library of America edition of Bruce Catton’s Army of the Potomac Trilogy. Considered a classic of pop...
aircraft to war-torn southern Italy and then met and screened and escorted one thousand (mostly, but not all, Jewish) refugees on a ship called theUSS Henry Gibbinsacross the Atlantic. They were bound for a safe haven in Oswego, NY, a former army base called Fort Ontario, where they ...
aircraft to war-torn southern Italy and then met and screened and escorted one thousand (mostly, but not all, Jewish) refugees on a ship called theUSS Henry Gibbinsacross the Atlantic. They were bound for a safe haven in Oswego, NY, a former army base called Fort Ontario, where they ...