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Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xxii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents the early military career of General Custer, discussing his command of the untried Michigan Cavalry Brigade where his reputation for surging ahead regardless of the odds was established.
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
318 pages (paperback) : 16 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations (chiefly color) , color portraits ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Meredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. She was five years old, her parents had recently split and suddenly she found herself in the care of her grandfather, an eccentric beekeeper who made honey in a rusty old military bus in the yard. That first close encounter was at once terrifying and exhilarating for May, and in that moment she discovered that everything she needed to know about life and family was right before her...
4) Grant
Author
Language
English
Description
"Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefeller, Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most complicated generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and inept businessman, fond of drinking to excess; or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The first major biography of "the Thomas Edison of guns," John Moses Browning, a visionary inventor who designed the modern handgun and whose awe-inspiring array of firearms helped ensure victory in numerous American wars and found an important place in American culture. Few people are aware that John Moses Browning-a tall, humble, cerebral man born in 1855 and raised as a Mormon in the American West-was the mind behind many of the world-changing...
