America`s Hardscrabble General: Ulysses S. Grant, from Farm Boy to Shiloh, Jack Hurst

Автор: Jack Hurst
Название: America`s Hardscrabble General: Ulysses S. Grant, from Farm Boy to Shiloh
ISBN: 0809338858 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780809338856
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Renowned for his military skill, courage, and indomitability during the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant is considered the saviour of the Union and a model for American generalship. This volume shows how Grant`s humble beginnings shaped his unique military genius.

Автор: Colin Howell
Название: Hardscrabble Diamonds: Postwar Baseball in New England and the Maritimes, 1945-1960
ISBN: 1476690715 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476690711
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Цена: 36960.00 T
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Описание: Part history, part memoir, part statistical analysis, this book tells the remarkable and largely forgotten story of how the baseball hotbed of Canada's northeastern Maritime provinces evolved into "NCAA North" during the 1940s and 1950s. A summer training ground for players from leading U.S. college programs, the region attracted talented players seeking higher salaries than they could get in the American minor league system.

Major league organizations came to scout blue-chip prospects. In this competitive environment, only the best were able to crack the rosters of town teams in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Maine. A Quality of Competition Index for various northeast leagues provides major league equivalencies for selected players.

Автор: Williams Donna E.
Название: Hardscrabble: The High Cost of Free Land
ISBN: 1459708040 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781459708044
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Цена: 21140.00 T
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Описание: A tale of deception and adversity, Hardscrabble tells how unscrupulous politicians, emigration agents, and philanthropists lured impoverished emigrants to farm the Muskoka backwoods in the 1870s. What these new settlers weren`t told was that their land was situated on the rocky Canadian Shield.

Автор: WTIU
Название: Lew Wallace: Shiloh Soldier / Ben-Hur Bard
ISBN: 0253030692 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253030696
Издательство: Marston Book Services
Цена: 31670.00 T
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Описание: Lew Wallace (1827-1905) is one of the most significant Hoosiers in Indiana history. Wallace accomplished many remarkable things in his life, yet today, when people are asked "Who was Lew Wallace?" many respond "Lew Who?"Wallace played a leading role in America’s military, political, diplomatic, and literary affairs during the 19th century. He was passionate about books and combat, and dreamed of fame on the battlefield. He was the youngest major general in the Union Army and had success fighting Confederate forces at Forts Henry and Donelson during the Civil War. Yet, at the Battle of Shiloh, Wallace found himself in controversy that haunted him for the remainder of his life.

Автор: Smith Timothy B.
Название: Shiloh: Conquer or Perish
ISBN: 0700623477 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780700623471
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Описание: Winner of the Richard B. Harwell Award, Tennessee History Book Award and the Doughlas Southall Freeman AwardA critical moment in the Civil War, the Battle of Shiloh has been the subject of many books. However, none has told the story of Shiloh as Timothy Smith does in this volume, the first comprehensive history of the two-day battle in April 1862-a battle so fluid and confusing that its true nature has eluded a clear narrative telling until now.Unfolding over April 6th and 7th, the Battle of Shiloh produced the most sprawling and bloody field of combat since the Napoleonic wars, with an outcome that set the Confederacy on the road to defeat. Contrary to previous histories, Smith tells us, the battle was not won or lost on the first day, but rather in the decision-making of the night that followed and in the next day's fighting. Devoting unprecedented attention to the details of that second day, his book shows how the Union's triumph was far less assured, and much harder to achieve, than has been acknowledged. Smith also employs a new organization strategy to clarify the action. By breaking his analysis of both days' fighting into separate phases and sectors, he makes it much easier to grasp what was happening in each combat zone, why it unfolded as it did, and how it related to the broader tactical and operational context of the entire battle.The battlefield's diverse and challenging terrain also comes in for new scrutiny. Through detailed attention to the terrain's major features-most still visible at the Shiloh National Military Park-Smith is able to track their specific and considerable influence on the actions, and their consequences, over those forty-eight hours. The experience of the soldiers finally finds its place here too, as Smith lets us hear, as never before, the voices of the common man, whether combatant or local civilian, caught up in a historic battle for their lives, their land, their honor, and their homes.""We must this day conquer or perish,"" Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston declared on the morning of April 6, 1862. His words proved prophetic, and might serve as an epitaph for the larger war, as we see fully for the first time in this unparalleled and surely definitive history of the Battle of Shiloh.