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Last Chance For Victory

Scott Bowden,Bill Ward
Last Chance For Victory Book PDF

Author : Scott Bowden,Bill Ward
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786730407

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Last Chance For Victory by Scott Bowden,Bill Ward Pdf

Gettysburg is the most written about battle in American military history. Generations after nearly 50,000 soldiers shed their blood there, serious and fundamental misunderstandings persist about Robert E. Lee's generalship during the campaign and battle. Most are the basis of popular myths about the epic fight. Last Chance for Victory: Robert E. Lee and the Gettysburg Campaign addresses these issues by studying Lee's choices before, during, and after the battle, the information he possessed at the time and each decision that was made, and why he acted as he did. Even options open to Lee that he did not act upon are carefully explored from the perspective of what Lee and his generals knew at the time. Some of the issues addressed include:Whether Lee's orders to Jeb Stuart were discretionary and allowed him to conduct his raid around the Federal army. The authors conclusively answer this important question with the most original and unique analysis ever applied to this controversial issue;Why Richard Ewell did not attack Cemetery Hill as ordered by General Lee, and why every historian who has written that Lee's orders to Ewell were discretionary are dead wrong;Why Little Round Top was irrelevant to the July 2 fighting, a fact Lee clearly recognized;Why Cemetery Hill was the weakest point along the entire Federal line, and how close the Southerners came to capturing it;Why Lee decided to launch en echelon attack on July 2, and why most historians have never understood what it was or how close it came to success; Last Chance for Victory will be labeled heresy by some, blasphemy by others, all because its authors dare to call into question the dogmas of Gettysburg. But they do so carefully, using facts, logic, and reason to weave one of the most compelling and riveting military history books of our age.Readers will never look at Robert E. Lee and Gettysburg the same way again.

Two Men and A People

Gregory H. Blake
Two Men and A People Book PDF

Author : Gregory H. Blake
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781644247228

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Two Men and A People by Gregory H. Blake Pdf

Two opposing generals and the people of East Tennessee met in the fall of 1863. For James Longstreet, the commander of the Confederate forces, the campaign for Knoxville and East Tennessee marked the nadir of his military career, which climaxed in December 1863, with him submitting a letter of resignation as commander of the First Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia. For Ambrose Burnside, commander of the Federal forces, the campaign demonstrated his leadership and tactical ability following his December 1862 debacle as commander of the Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia. For the region of East Tennessee and Knoxville, the campaign enabled the people to reach the pinnacle they had aspired to since their settlement of the region. They had escaped economic and religious oppression in Europe, negotiated and fought with the Cherokee Indian Nation, created the State of Franklin (which was denied statehood), saw its political power vanish to Middle Tennessee, and was limited in its economic development by the region's landscape.

Custer at Gettysburg

Phillip Thomas Tucker
Custer at Gettysburg Book PDF

Author : Phillip Thomas Tucker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780811768924

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Custer at Gettysburg by Phillip Thomas Tucker Pdf

“A mosaic of thousands of tiny pieces that, seen whole, amounts to a fascinating picture of what probably was the most important moment of the Civil War.” —Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times bestselling author of The Generals George Armstrong Custer is famous for his fatal defeat at the Little Bighorn in 1876, but Custer’s baptism of fire came during the Civil War. His true rise to prominence began at Gettysburg in 1863. On the eve of the Battle of Gettysburg, Custer received promotion to brigadier general and command—his first direct field command—of the Michigan Cavalry Brigade, the “Wolverines.” Custer did not disappoint his superiors, who promoted him in a search for more aggressive cavalry officers. At approximately noon on July 3, 1863, the melee that was East Cavalry Field at Gettysburg began. An hour or two into the battle, after many of his cavalrymen had been reduced to hand-to-hand infantry-style fighting, Custer ordered a charge of one of his regiments and led it into action himself, screaming one of the battle’s most famous lines: “Come on, you Wolverines!” Around three o’clock, the Confederates led by Stuart mounted a final charge, which mowed down Union cavalry—until it ran into Custer’s Wolverines, who stood firm, breaking the Confederates’ last attack. In a book combining two popular subjects, Tucker recounts the story of Custer at Gettysburg with verve, shows how the Custer legend was born on the fields of the war’s most famous battle, and offers eye-opening new perspectives on Gettysburg’s overlooked cavalry battle. “A thoughtful and challenging new look at the great assault at Gettysburg . . . Tucker is fresh and bold in his analysis and use of sources.” —William C. Davis, author of Crucible of Command

America's Bloody Hill of Destiny

Phillip Thomas Tucker
America s Bloody Hill of Destiny Book PDF

Author : Phillip Thomas Tucker
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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America's Bloody Hill of Destiny by Phillip Thomas Tucker Pdf

"No chapter in the annals of the most important battle of America's national epic has been more celebrated than the key struggle for possession of the rocky hill at the extreme southern flank of the battle line at Gettysburg, Little Round Top. And no contest during the battle of Gettysburg was deadlier or as dramatic as the high stakes showdown for Little Round Top on the afternoon of July 2, 1863. Gettysburg was the decisive turning point of America's history, and Little Round Top was the crucial turning point of that three-day struggle in Adams County, Pennsylvania. Little Round Top was indeed the bloody Hill of Destiny, when the fate of America hung in the balance and was ultimately determined on the most decisive day of the three days at Gettysburg, July 2. However, some of the most important aspects of the famous struggle for Little Round Top have been distorted by misconceptions, myths, and layers of romance. For the first time, this ground-breaking book, America's Bloody Hill of Destiny, A New Look at the Struggle for Little Round Top, July 2, 1863, has presented a fresh and new look at the key leaders and hard-fighting common soldiers on both sides, who played the most important roles during the climactic struggle that decided the fate of America during one of the most pivotal moments in American history."

Pickett's Charge

Phillip Thomas Tucker
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Author : Phillip Thomas Tucker
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781634508025

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Pickett's Charge by Phillip Thomas Tucker Pdf

Main Selection of the History Book Club The Battle of Gettysburg, the Civil War’s turning point, produced over 57,000 casualties, the largest number from the entire war that was itself America’s bloodiest conflict. On the third day of fierce fighting, Robert E. Lee’s attempt to invade the North came to a head in Pickett’s Charge. The infantry assault, consisting of nine brigades of soldiers in a line that stretched for over a mile, resulted in casualties of over 50 percent for the Confederates and a huge psychological blow to Southern morale. Pickett’s Charge is a detailed analysis of one of the most iconic and defining events in American history. This book presents a much-needed fresh look, including the unvarnished truths and ugly realities, about the unforgettable story. With the luxury of hindsight, historians have long denounced the folly of Lee’s attack, but this work reveals the tactical brilliance of a master plan that went awry. Special emphasis is placed on the common soldiers on both sides, especially the non-Virginia attackers outside of Pickett’s Virginia Division. These fighters’ moments of cowardice, failure, and triumph are explored using their own words from primary and unpublished sources. Without romance and glorification, the complexities and contradictions of the dramatic story of Pickett's Charge have been revealed in full to reveal this most pivotal moment in the nation’s life. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Gettysburg's Most Hellish Battleground

Phillip Thomas Tucker
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Author : Phillip Thomas Tucker
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Gettysburg's Most Hellish Battleground by Phillip Thomas Tucker Pdf

During the crucial three days of combat at Gettysburg, the most nightmarish place on the entire battlefield was appropriately named the Devil's Den. This jumble of huge boulders situated at the southern end of Houck's Ridge was truly a hell on earth during the decisive afternoon of July 2, 1863. The tenacious struggle that raged beyond control at the battle-line's southern end was all-important, because the Devil's Den and Houck's Ridge anchored the left flank of the over-extended Union battle-line, before Federal troops occupied Little Round Top to the east. The battle-hardened veterans of Lieutenant General James Longstreet's First Corps captured this vital sector— the first Union left flank—in one of the few Southern successes of the second day, after some of the war's most bitter fighting. Nevertheless, the dramatic story of the successful turning of the first Union left flank has been long overlooked and ignored largely because of the giant historical shadow cast by the more famous struggle at Little Round Top, which was only the second and last fight for the southern flank of both armies on July 2. Therefore, the important contest for possession of the first Union left flank at the Devil's Den and Houck's Ridge was crucial on the bloody afternoon that decided the fate of America. • Includes 22 colour and sepia-tinted photographs

America's Victories

Larry Schweikart
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Author : Larry Schweikart
Publisher : Winged Hussar Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780996365789

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America's Victories by Larry Schweikart Pdf

In America's Victories, Professor Larry Schweikart restores the truth about our amazing military heritage. Just as he did in his acclaimed previous book, A Patriot's History of the United States, Professor Schweikart cuts through the distortions passed along by academia and the media

Gettysburg

Allen C. Guelzo
Gettysburg Book PDF

Author : Allen C. Guelzo
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
ISBN : 9780307594082

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Gettysburg by Allen C. Guelzo Pdf

From the acclaimed Civil War historian, and coinciding with 150th anniversary of the legendary battle: an intimate and richly readable account that draws the reader into the muck and grime of Gettysburg.

Jefferson Davis and His Generals

Steven E. Woodworth
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Author : Steven E. Woodworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015018484488

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Jefferson Davis and His Generals by Steven E. Woodworth Pdf

Jefferson Davis is a historical figure who provokes strong passions among scholars. Through the years historians have place him at both ends of the spectrum: some have portrayed him as a hero, others have judged him incompetent.

Beneath a Northern Sky

Steven E. Woodworth
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Author : Steven E. Woodworth
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742571396

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Beneath a Northern Sky by Steven E. Woodworth Pdf

Of all the places and events in this nation's history, Gettysburg may well be the name best known to Americans. Millions flock each year to the little town in south-central Pennsylvania where more than 135 years ago the largest, bloodiest, and most dramatic battle of the Civil War raged across the now-peaceful hills and meadows. The subject of an epic movie and a best-selling work of fiction, the battle continues to fascinate Americans. Indeed, for most Americans, Gettysburg is the Civil War. In Beneath a Northern Sky, eminent Civil War historian Steven E. Woodworth offers a balanced and thorough overview of the entire battle, its drama, and its meaning. From Lee's decision to take his heretofore successful Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac and into Pennsylvania to the withdrawal of the battle-battered Confederate's back across the river into Virginia, Woodworth paints a vivid picture of this pivotal campaign. In this day-by-day account, he describes the fierce fighting that left 48,000 men dead or wounded at sites that have now become famous: Little Round Top, Cemetery Ridge, Devil's Den. This new book provides a realistic sequence of events surrounding the legendary Pickett's Charge, detailing the Confederate's magnificent display of courage and the Union's stalwart, rock-hard defense. Woodworth describes the strategic and tactical decision making and shows how infighting and disagreements among the leaders on both sides impacted the campaign. He details the mind set and morale of the soldiers, revealing how—surprisingly—Union leaders did not take advantage of their troops' high spirits after their victory to finish off the retreating Confederates. Instead of focusing on only one aspect of the Gettysburg Campaign as most other books do, Beneath a Northern Sky tells the tale of the entire battle in a richly detailed but swiftly moving narrative. This new approach to a defining battle is sure to fascinate Civil War buffs and all those interested in the rich history of the United States.

On to Victory

Mark Zuehlke
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Author : Mark Zuehlke
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1553656199

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On to Victory by Mark Zuehlke Pdf

The eighth Canadian Battle Series volume is the little-told story of the tense final days of World War II, remembered in the Netherlands as “the sweetest of springs,” which saw the country’s liberation from German occupation. The Liberation Campaign, a series of fierce, desperate battles during the last three months of the war, was bittersweet. A nation’s freedom was won and the war concluded, but these final hostilities cost Canada 6,298 casualties, including 1,482 dead. With his trademark “you are there” style that draws upon official records, veteran memories, and a keen understanding of the combat experience, Mark Zuehlke brings to life this concluding chapter in the story of Canada in World War II. May 4, 2010, will mark the 65th anniversary of the Netherlands’ liberation.

The Battle for the Black Ballot

Charles L. Zelden
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Author : Charles L. Zelden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114313401

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The Battle for the Black Ballot by Charles L. Zelden Pdf

The history of voting rights in America is a checkerboard marked by dogged progress against persistent prejudice toward an expanding inclusiveness. The Supreme Court decision in Smith v. Allwright is a crucial chapter in that broader story and marked a major turning point for the modern civil rights movement. Charles Zelden's concise and thoughtful retelling of this episode reveals why. Denied membership in the Texas Democratic Party by popular consensus, party rules, and (from 1923 to 1927) state statutes, Texas blacks were routinely turned away from voting in the Democratic primary in the first decades of the twentieth century. Given that Texas was a one-party state and that the primary effectively determined who held office, this meant the total exclusion of Texas blacks from the political process. This practice went unchecked until 1940, when Lonnie Smith, a black dentist from Houston, fought his exclusion by election judge S. E. Allwright in the 1940 Democratic Primary. Defeated in the lower courts, Smith finally found justice in the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled 8-1 that the Democratic Party and its primary were not "private and voluntary" and, thus, were duly bound by constitutional protections governing the electoral process and the rights of all citizens. While the initial impetus of the case may have been the wish of one man to exercise his right to vote, the real meaning of Smith's challenge to the Texas all white primary lies at the heart of the entire civil rights revolution. One of the first significant victories for the NAACP's newly formed Legal Defense Fund against Jim Crow segregation, it provided the conceptual foundation which underlay Thurgood Marshall's successful arguments in Brown v. Board of Education. It was also viewed by Marshall, looking back on a long and storied career, as one of his most important personal victories. As Zelden shows, the Smith decision attacked the intractable heart of segregation, as it redrew the boundary between public and private action in constitutional law and laid the groundwork for many civil rights cases to come. It also redefined the Court's involvement in what had been a hands-off area of "political questions" and foreshadowed its participation in voter reapportionment cases. A landmark case in the evolution of Southern race relations and politics and for voting rights in general, Smith also provides a telling example of how the clash between national concerns and local priorities often acts as a lightning rod for resolving controversial issues. Zelden's lucid account of the controversies and conflicts surrounding Smith should refine and reinvigorate our understanding of a crucial moment in American history.

Southern Strategies

Christian B. Keller
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Author : Christian B. Keller
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700632183

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Southern Strategies by Christian B. Keller Pdf

Southern Strategies is the first-ever analysis of Confederate defeat using the lenses of classical strategic and leadership theory. The contributors bring over one hundred years of experience in the field at the junior and senior levels of military leadership and over forty years of teaching in professional military education. Well-aware that the nature of war is immutable and unchanging, they combine their firsthand experience of this truth with solid scholarship to offer new theoretical and historical perspectives about why the South failed in its bid for independence. The contributors identify and analyze the mistakes made by the Confederate political and strategic leadership that handicapped the prospects for independence and placed immense pressure on Confederate military commanders to compensate on the battlefield for what should have been achieved by other instruments of national power. These instruments are the diplomatic, informational (including intelligence and public morale), and economic aspects of a nation’s capability to exert its will internationally. When combined with military power, the acronym DIME emerges, a theoretical tool that offers historians and national security professionals alike a useful method to analyze how a state, such as the Union, the Confederacy, or the modern United States, wielded or currently wields its power at the strategic level. Each essay examines how well rebel strategic leaders employed and integrated these instruments, given that the seceded South possessed enough diplomatic, informational, military, and economic power to theoretically win its independence. The essayists also apply the ends-ways-means model of analysis to each topic to offer readers greater insight into the Confederate leadership’s challenges. Southern Strategies confirms the reality that the outcome of the American Civil War cannot be boiled down to one or two simple reasons. It offers fresh and theoretically novel interpretations at the strategic level that open new doors for future research and will increase public interest in the big questions surrounding Confederate defeat.

The Thrill of Victory

Sandra Brown
The Thrill of Victory Book PDF

Author : Sandra Brown
Publisher : Class Ebook Editions Ltd
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781944654184

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The Thrill of Victory by Sandra Brown Pdf

“‘Forget everything you’ve ever heard about technique. Kiss me the way you think a bad girl would and we’ll both have a much better time.’” Sportswriter Judd Mackie has earned fame with his scathing columns. Women’s tennis pro Stevie Corbett is a favorite target of his sarcastic prose. In his view, she’s too focused on being a cute, crowd-pleaser to be taken seriously as an athlete on the court. What Stevie’s nemesis doesn’t know is that she’s suffering a medical condition that’s all too serious and potentially ruinous to her career. When Judd uncovers the sensational story, he recognizes it as one that comes along only once in a lifetime...but telling it would cost him the woman he now doesn’t want to live without.

The Boardgamer Volume 4

Bruce A. Monnin
The Boardgamer Volume 4 Book PDF

Author : Bruce A. Monnin
Publisher : Past Into Print Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-10
Category : Games
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Boardgamer Volume 4 by Bruce A. Monnin Pdf

The Boardgamer magazine was a quarterly magazine devoted primarily, but not exclusively, to the coverage of Avalon Hill / Victory Games titles and to other aspects of the boardgaming hobby. Initially, The Boardgamer’s publication ran concurrently with Avalon Hill’s house magazine, The General, but instead of focusing on new releases, it devoted coverage to those classic, Avalon Hill games which no longer graced the pages of The General. Following the cessation of The General in June 1998, The Boardgamer was the primary periodical dedicated to the titles from AH/VG, until its final issue in 2004. The contents of this volume consists of: Home Fleet - Team Variants & Short Scenario For Atlantic Storm Here Come The Rebels - Scenario 6 - From Frederick To Sharpsburg Guns Of August - A West Front 1914 Scenario Sideshows & Diversions - Article #3 In The Third Reich Workshop Series The British Receding - A 1776 Series Replay Patton’s Other Best - The Saga Of The 2nd Armored Division Avaloncon 1998 - More Returns From The National Championships AREA Ratings Mayhem In Manila - ASL Series Replay Operation Blau - A Variant For Russian Front Alone Against The Blitz - Optional Rules For London’s Burning Honorable Diplomatic Advice - From The 1996 AvalonCon Diplomacy Champion The First Peloponnesian War - A Variant For Peloponnesian War What Do We Do Without Carriers? - A Victory In The Pacific Game Narrative Circus Maximus Chariot Generation - A Non-Random Method To Start Circus Maximus Tournament Bitter Woods - Four December Days in the Ardennes The Rifle Grenade In Up Front - A New Option 1999 Midwest Open - Victory In The Pacific Tournament Crowning Strategies For The British - Strategy In We The People Ghosts Of The Third World War - Tournament Rules and Scenarios for MBT The Heir To The Rex - A Tyranno Ex Variant A Diamond In The Rough - The 1812 Scenario In War & Peace Breakout: Normandy Series Replay, Part 1 - Commentary by German Player and Neutral Commentary Breakout: Normandy Series Replay, Part 2 - Commentary by German Player and Neutral Commentary Katyusha - Russia’s Secret Weapon Against The Blitz Lesser Mortals - Historical Intermediate and Short Games for Successors Warhorses And Nags - The Planes in the Mustangs Stable Attack Sub - Some More Options Fixing Hitler‘s War - Correcting Some of the Obvious Bugs A Difficult Birth In Baltimore - History of the Gamer’s Guide to Third Reich The Editor Went Down To Baltimore - He Was Looking For Some Plaques To Steal