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All for the Union: the Civil War diary and letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
By Elisha Hunt Rhodes, Robert Hunt Rhodes. 1991
Enlisting as a private in the 2nd Rhode Island Infantry, Elisha Hunt Rhodes fought in every major campaign waged by…
the Army of the Potomac, from Bull Run to Appomattox. Here, in his own powerfully moving words, Rhodes reveals why he was willing to die to preserve his beloved Union. 1991.American general: the life and times of William Tecumseh Sherman
By John S. D Eisenhower. 2014
Biography of William Tecumseh Sherman, the Civil War general whose path of destruction cut the Confederacy in two, broke the…
will of the Southern population, and earned him a place in history as “the first modern general”. Eisenhower takes readers from Sherman's Ohio origins and his fledgling first stint in the Army, to his years as a businessman in California and his hurried return to uniform at the outbreak of the war. From Bull Run through the March to the Sea, Eisenhower offers up a fascinating narrative of a military genius whose influence helped preserve the Union - and forever changed war. 2014.Code girls: the untold story of the American women code breakers of World War II
By Liza Mundy. 2017
Thousands of women served as codebreakers in World War II, but a vow of secrecy nearly erased them from history.…
Through interviews with the surviving Code Girls, Liza Mundy brings their courageous stories to life. 2017.Fierce patriot: the tangled lives of William Tecumseh Sherman
By Robert L O'Connell. 2014
America’s first “celebrity” general, William Tecumseh Sherman was a man of many faces. Some of them were exalted in the…
public eye. Others were known only to intimates—his family, friends and lovers, and the soldiers under his command. In this portrait the author captures the man in full: from his early exploits in Florida, to his role in California at the start of the Gold Rush, through his brilliant but tempestuous generalship during the Civil War, and to his postwar career as a key player in the building of the transcontinental railroad. 2014.From romance to reality: Stories Of Canadian Wwii War Brides
By Peggy O'Hara. 1983
Peggy O'Hara, this book's editor, was a so-called war bride, coming to Canada from England after marrying a Canadian serviceman…
during the Second World War. She later wondered about the other thousands of British and Dutch women who had done the same. What uprooted them from family and friends and brought them to a strange, sparsely populated country? She collected their stories, some happy, some sad, in an effort to find out.Hunting the jackal: a CIA ground soldier's 50-year career hunting America's enemies
By Tim Keown, Billy Waugh. 2004
Waugh recalls episodes from Vietnam, Sudan, and Afghanistan, selected from years of combat and intelligence experience in 60 countries. After…
surviving the Vietnam War, he was contracted by the CIA to conduct surveillance on terrorists such as Osama bin Laden and Carlos the Jackal. Waugh recounts tailing them in the early 1990s (ruing that his proposals to kill them weren't accepted) and concludes with his participation - at age 71 - with American special forces in Afghanistan. Strong language, explicit descriptions of violence. 2004.German boy: a child in war (Isis Hardcover Ser.)
By Wolfgang W. E Samuel. 2003
As the Third Reich crumbled in 1945, scores of Germans fled the advancing Russian troops. Among them was a little…
boy named Wolfgang Samuel who left with his mother and sister, ending up in war-torn Strasburg before being forced into a disease-ridden refugee camp. This is the story of their fight for survival, a broken family who suffered arbitrary arrest, rape, hunger and constant fear. Strong language, descriptions of violence and sex. 2003.Generalissimo Churchill
By R. W Thompson. 1973
The author recognizes Churchill's greatness as a national leader in the time of war, but asserts that Churchill's attempts to…
usurp the role of Commander-in-Chief led Britain to the brink of disaster. 1973.Homage to Catalonia (Orwell centenary edition)
By George Orwell. 2003
When George Orwell joined up to fight in the Spanish Civil War, it seemed like the beginning of 'an era…
of equality and freedom'. The text chronicles his experiences: the revolutionary euphoria of Barcelona, the courage of the ordinary Spanish men and women he fought alongside, the terror and confusion of the front, his near-fatal bullet wound and the cynical betrayal of his allies. 2003.A journalist embedded with a marine reconnaissance platoon during the invasion of Iraq in 2003 explains how this generation of…
soldiers differs from their predecessors. Describes cases of collateral damage and the deaths of comrades as American troops entered Baghdad. Some descriptions of sex, explicit descriptions of violence and explicit strong language. 2004.Fisher's face, or, Getting to know the admiral: Or,:getting To Know The Admiral
By Jan Morris. 1995
A biography of Lord Admiral John "Jacky" Fisher, the genius who transformed the Royal Navy into the world's premier sea…
power just in time for World War I. Portrays the enigmatic Fisher as religious, flamboyant, humourous, cruel, and eerily prescient about future wars and warfare. 1995.Flags of our fathers
By James Bradley, Ron Powers. 2000
Recounts the story of the six young Marines who raised the flag at Iwo Jima during fierce combat on the…
obscure Japanese-held island in 1945. Author Bradley, the son of one of the soldiers, recreates his father's experiences as well as those of the five men who fought beside him. Bestseller. 2000.In 1972 the Imperial War Museum set about the momentous task of tracing ordinary veterans and survivors of the First…
World War and interviewing them in detail about their experiences. The Imperial War Museum Sound Archive includes first-hand experiences of British, French, German, American, Canadian and Anzac soldiers and provides a vivid and compelling account of day-to-day life during one of the most harrowing periods of modern history. Now, thirty years on, after unlimited access to the First World War tapes, the author and his researchers have created this landmark history of the First World War - told in the words of the ordinary men and women who experienced it first hand. 2002.Custer
By Larry McMurtry. 2012
McMurtry turns his attention to George A. Custer, a complex man who has captivated historians for over a century. From…
graduating last in his class at West Point to leading the ill-fated 7th Cavalry in the attack at Little Bighorn, Custer forged a legacy - still very much alive today - as one of the West's most enduring historical figures. 2012.Fifteen days: stories of bravery, friendship, life and death from inside the new Canadian Army
By Christie Blatchford. 2007
Blatchford has covered the conflict in Afghanistan as an embedded reporter, and provides observations of military life in the twenty-first…
century. The troops share their accounts of their desire to serve, their willingness to confront fear and danger on the battlefield, their loyalty towards each other and the heartbreak occasioned by the loss of one of their own. Descriptions of sex, explicit descriptions of violence and some strong language. Winner of the 2008 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 2007.Eyes of the blind
By Barth Hoogstraten. 2001
Hoogstraten was a Dutch medical student in 1942 when the Nazis wanted him to sign a loyalty decree to the…
occupying forces. He refused to do so and went into hiding, taking shelter with Ann and Bets Frank, two blind middle-aged music teachers. Some descriptions of sex, descriptions of violence, some strong language. 2001.Falcon's cry: a Desert Storm memoir
By Michael Donnelly, Denise Donnelly. 1998
Memoir of a Persian Gulf War combat pilot who was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease in 1996. Donnelly recounts his…
struggle to force the military establishment to acknowledge a link between his illness and wartime exposure to chemical and biological weapons in Iraq. Some strong language. 1998.Eichmann before Jerusalem: the unexamined life of a mass murderer
By Ruth Martin, Bettina Stangneth. 2014
A total re-assessment of the life of Adolf Eichmann that reveals his activities and notoriety amongst a global network of…
National Socialists following the collapse of the Third Reich, and permanently challenges Hannah Arendt’s notion of the “banality of evil.” Smuggled out of Europe after the collapse of Germany, Eichmann managed to live a peaceful and active exile in Argentina for years before his capture by the Mossad. Though once widely known by nicknames such as “Manager of the Holocaust,” in 1961 he was able to portray himself as an overworked bureaucrat following orders. How was this carefully crafted obfuscation possible? How did a central architect of the Final Solution manage to disappear? And what had he done with his time while in hiding? 2014. Uniform title: Eichmann vor Jerusalem.Duty: a father, his son, and the man who won the war
By Bob Greene. 2000
Based on interviews with his father's hero--the B-29 pilot who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, in August 1945--a…
syndicated columnist delivers a tribute to a passing generation. Explores the values of World War II veterans and their commitment to patriotism, courage, and a sense of duty. Bestseller. 2000.