Holding The Line On The River Of Death

Author : Eric J. Wittenberg
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611214314

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Holding the Line on the River of Death by Eric J. Wittenberg Pdf

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.

Author : Alfred Theodore Andreas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN : MSU:31293008890992

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From 1857 until the fire of 1871 by Alfred Theodore Andreas Pdf

Author : Alfred Theodore Andreas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN : UCBK:C038649426

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History of Chicago: From 1857 until the fire of 1871 by Alfred Theodore Andreas Pdf

Author : Richard Flanagan
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802191984

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Death of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan Pdf

“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.

Author : John Wilson
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781554691111

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Death on the River by John Wilson Pdf

A young soldier survives a Confederate prison camp during the Civil War.

Author : Ian Baxter
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526721358

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5th SS Wiking at War, 1941–1945 by Ian Baxter Pdf

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

Author : Kevin Shannon
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Lion and the Rose by Kevin Shannon Pdf

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

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PURD:32754060018193

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United States Army in World War II. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Fall River Line
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Steamboat lines
ISBN : HARVARD:HB2B0W

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Fall River Line Journal by Fall River Line Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1318 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11548525

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House documents by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kirk Jenkins
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813128665

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The Battle Rages Higher by Kirk Jenkins Pdf

" The Battle Rages Higher tells, for the first time, the story of the Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry, a hard-fighting Union regiment raised largely from Louisville and the Knob Creek valley where Abraham Lincoln lived as a child. Although recruited in a slave state where Lincoln received only 0.9 percent of the 1860 presidential vote, the men of the Fifteenth Kentucky fought and died for the Union for over three years, participating in all the battles of the Atlanta campaign, as well as the battles of Perryville, Stones River and Chickamauga. Using primary research, including soldiers’ letters and diaries, hundreds of contemporary newspaper reports, official army records, and postwar memoirs, Kirk C. Jenkins vividly brings the Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry to life. The book also includes an extensive biographical roster summarizing the service record of each soldier in the thousand-member unit. Kirk C. Jenkins, a descendant of the Fifteenth Kentucky's Captain Smith Bayne, is a partner in a Chicago law firm. Click here for Kirk Jenkins' website and more information about the 15th Kentucky Infantry.

Author : Gordon A. Harrison
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782894131

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United States Army in WWII - Europe - Cross-Channel Attack by Gordon A. Harrison Pdf

[Includes 4 charts, 31 maps and 62 illustrations] Cross-Channel Attack has been planned and written as the introduction to the history of those campaigns in 1944 and 1945 which led to the destruction of the German armies in the west. It provides necessary background for the study of all the campaigns in the European Theater of Operations. The narrative of operations ends on 1 July 1944, with the Allies firmly established in Normandy. The concluding chapters show the successful fruition of plans and preparations reaching back as far as January 1942; but the seizure of the Norman beaches and the establishment of a lodgment area are only a beginning, a point of departure for the drive to the Elbe and the Baltic. Although Cross Channel Attack includes discussion of certain problems of high command and logistics, a more complete treatment is accorded these subjects in two volumes now under preparation in this series: The Supreme Command and Logistical Support of the Armies. Whether the reader approaches the book with the justified pride that he was a member or supporter of the winning team, or whether he reads to learn, is a matter for him to decide. The victor tends to prepare to win the next war with the same means and methods with which he won the last. He forgets the difficulty of reaching decisions, the planning problems, his faltering, his unpreparedness. The vanquished is wont to search far afield for new and improved methods, means, and equipment. The accomplishments of those who fought in this period were indeed great, as were the sacrifices. But from the national viewpoint it would seem desirable to read this volume with the self-critical eye of the vanquished as well as with the pride of the victor, an approach which the thoughtful reader will not find difficult.

Author : United States. Board of Tax Appeals
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1516 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : UOM:39015076044422

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Reports of the United States Board of Tax Appeals by United States. Board of Tax Appeals Pdf

Author : Alexandrea Weis,Lucas Astor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Family secrets
ISBN : 1944109145

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Death by the River by Alexandrea Weis,Lucas Astor Pdf

SOME TRUTHS ARE BETTER KEPT SECRET. SOME SECRETS ARE BETTER OFF DEAD. Along the banks of the Bogue Falaya River, sits the abandoned St. Francis Seminary. Beneath a canopy of oaks, blocked from prying eyes, the teens of St. Benedict High gather here on Fridays. The rest of the week belongs to school and family--but weekends belong to the river. And the river belongs to Beau Devereaux. The only child of a powerful family, Beau can do no wrong. Handsome. Charming. Intelligent. The star quarterback of the football team. The "prince" of St. Benedict is the ultimate catch. He is also a psychopath. A dirty family secret buried for years, Beau's evil grows unchecked. In the shadows of the ruined St. Francis Abbey, he commits unspeakable acts on his victims and ensures their silence with threats and intimidation. Senior year, Beau sets his sights on his girlfriend's headstrong twin sister, Leslie, who hates him. Everything he wants but cannot have, she will be his ultimate prize. As the victim toll mounts, it becomes crystal clear that someone has to stop Beau Devereaux. And that someone will pay with their life. WARNING: Readers of Death by the River will encounter situations of violence and sexual abuse/rape which could be upsetting.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1130 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B4418326

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North western reporter. Second series. N.W. 2d. Cases argued and determined in the courts of Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin by Anonim Pdf