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The Good Soldiers
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David Finkel |
[From the jacket] What is the true story of [George W. Bush's Iraq] surge? And was it really a success? Those are the questions that … Finkel grapples with in his remarkable report from the fr… |
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God rest ye merry, soldiers
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James McIvor |
Documents an inspiring event just after Christmas in 1862 when closely camped Union and Confederate armies, having endeavored to out-sing one another with contrasting patriotic songs, joined together… |
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The Sherman tour journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge
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Richard Irving Dodge |
"General William Tecumseh Sherman: a flesh-and-blood man obscured by his larger-than-life myth. Here, we have the chance to glimpse the human side of Sherman through the private journals of Colonel R… |
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Home front to battlefront
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Franklin L. Lavin |
"Carl Lavin was a high school senior in Canton, Ohio, when Pearl Harbor was attacked. In his freshman year of college, he joined the reserves, a decision that would take him with the US Army from tra… |
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Freedom journey
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Edythe Ann Quinn |
"The story of thirty-six African American men who drew upon their shared community of The Hills for support as they fought in the Civil War. Through wonderfully detailed letters, recruit rosters, and… |
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The Soldier's Pen
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Robert E. Bonner |
They are all infantrymen; none are commissioned officers. One is a German-speaking artist whose sole record is 19 stunning watercolors that cover a year's enlistment. Another is a free black from Syr… |
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Reminiscences of a soldier's wife
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Ellen McGowan Biddle |
Life of a military wife in Western outposts after the Civil War, including New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Nebraska. Includes many observations and anecdotes regarding Native Americans |
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Yankee Doodle And the Redcoats
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Susan Provost Beller |
Using excerpts from diaries, letters, newspaper articles, and other primary sources, tells of the everyday lives of the soldiers who fought the Revolutionary War, for both the British and for the col… |
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