Holding The Line On The River Of Death
Download Holding The Line On The River Of Death full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Holding The Line On The River Of Death ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Holding the Line on the River of Death
Author | : Eric J. Wittenberg |
Publsiher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2018-11-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781611214314 |
Download Holding the Line on the River of Death Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The award-winning Civil War historian examines the actions of Union Cavalry on the first day of the Battle of Chickamauga in this history and tour guide. This volume provides an in-depth study of the two important delaying actions conducted by mounted Union soldiers at Reed’s and Alexander’s bridges on the first day of Chickamauga. Much like Eric J, Wittenberg’s “The Devil’s to Pay”: John Buford at Gettysburg—which won the Gettysburg Civil War Roundtable’s 2015 Book Award—this volume combines engaging military history with a detailed walking and driving tour complete with the GPS coordinates. On September, 18, 1863, a cavalry brigade under Col. Robert H. G. Minty and Col. John T. Wilder’s legendary “Lightning Brigade” of mounted infantry made stout stands at a pair of chokepoints crossing Chickamauga Creek. Minty’s small cavalry brigade held off nearly ten times its number by designing and implementing a textbook example of a delaying action. Their efforts thwarted Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg’s entire battle plan by delaying his army’s advance for an entire day. The appendices of this book include two orders of battle, a discussion of the tactics employed by the Union mounted force, and an epilogue on how the War Department and National Park Service have remembered these events. Complete with more than 60 photos and 15 maps by master cartographer Mark Anderson Moore, Holding the Line on the River of Death is a valuable addition to the burgeoning Chickamauga historiography.
From 1857 until the fire of 1871
Author | : Alfred Theodore Andreas |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 832 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Chicago (Ill.) |
ISBN | : MSU:31293008890992 |
Download From 1857 until the fire of 1871 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
History of Chicago From 1857 until the fire of 1871
Author | : Alfred Theodore Andreas |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 838 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Chicago (Ill.) |
ISBN | : UCBK:C038649426 |
Download History of Chicago From 1857 until the fire of 1871 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Death of a River Guide
Author | : Richard Flanagan |
Publsiher | : Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2014-05-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780802191984 |
Download Death of a River Guide Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
“Death of a River Guide makes good on a truly soaring ambition and flirts with literary greatness. . . . An indelible vision of how surely the history of a land plays its part in shaping the interior landscape of the human beings who occupy it.” —The Chicago Tribune With Death of a River Guide, Richard Flanagan gives us an extraordinary novel as sprawling and compelling as the land and people it describes. Beneath a waterfall on a remote Tasmanian river, Aljaz Cosini is drowning. Beset by visions, he relives not just his own life but that of his family and forebears. He sees his father, Harry, burying his own father, Boy. He sees Boy himself as a young man, and his Auntie Ellie, chased by a cow she believes is a Werowa spirit. In the waters that rush over him Aljaz finds a world where his story connects to family stories that are Aboriginal, Celtic, Italian, English, Chinese, and East European—what he ultimately discovers in the flood of the past is the soul history of his country.
Death on the River
Author | : John Wilson |
Publsiher | : Orca Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2009-10-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781554691111 |
Download Death on the River Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Jake Clay, a Union soldier at the end of the Civil War, journeys through the country to return home, haunted by the thoughts of those who had died so that he could live.
5th SS Wiking at War 1941 1945
Author | : Ian Baxter |
Publsiher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2018-03-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781526721358 |
Download 5th SS Wiking at War 1941 1945 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A photographic documentation of the German foreign volunteer unit—“a valuable addition to any enthusiast’s library of WWII military history books” (Firetrench). Drawing on a superb collection of rare and unpublished photographs, the 5th SS Division Wiking 1941-1945 is the 5th book in the Waffen-SS Images of War Series by Ian Baxter. The book tells the dramatic story of the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking at War. The men of the division were recruited from foreign volunteers in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, the Netherlands and Belgium under the command of German officers. Not all were collaborators—the choice they were all too often presented with was join up or be locked up—or worse. During the course of the war, the division served on the Eastern Front in 1941. It surrendered in May 1945 to the American forces in Austria. “The photos are mostly unpublished before and give an excellent impression of Wiking at war. We see a good variety of conditions over the 5 years of their war, from the height of summer to the depths of winter. We see fine detail of their uniforms and personal equipment as well as the development of larger equipment from motorcycles and early Panzer IVs, to the larger Panthers of the final period. There is also good coverage of anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapons as well as heavier artillery. There is a good spread of detail in here which will interest the historian as well as the reenactors, militaria collectors and modelers alike.”—Military Model Scene
The Lion and the Rose
Author | : Kevin Shannon |
Publsiher | : Fonthill Media |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2017-05-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
Download The Lion and the Rose Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Lion and the Rose tells the story of an infantry battalion in the Great War. Based on many unpublished sources, the book narrates the individual parts played by nearly 2,000 of those who served with the 4th King’s Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment from the day that war was declared in 1914 until the armistice in 1918 and in a few cases, the stories of men whose war continued long afterwards. The battalion first saw action in Festubert in May 1915 and went on to fight on the Somme, the Ypres Salient and Gillemont Farm, though the battalion’s epic stand at Givenchy on 9 April 1918 must rate as one of the greatest defensive actions of the war. Using contemporary combat reports, many of the major actions are described down to individual platoon level. The Lion and the Rose does not just concentrate on the major battles, but also examines everyday life in the trenches. Appendices give the most complete battalion roll to date and list those awarded medals for their bravery and also those nominated unsuccessfully for recognition. Illustrations: 28 black-and-white photographs and 13 in-text maps
United States Army in World War II
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 808 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : PURD:32754060018193 |
Download United States Army in World War II Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle