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Language
English
Description
"Part American history, part family saga, part scholarly detective story, a journalist brings to life the little-known story of the First Alabama Cavalry--renegade Southerners who played a decisive role in the Civil War but who were scrubbed from the history books"--
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Diego 'Macho' Callahan, a man tricked into enlisting in the Confederate army, is later thrown into a hellish stockade on desertion charges. He eventually breaks out of the prison camp and sets out to kill Duffy, the man in yellow boots who bamboozled him into signing enlistment papers. However, after accidentally killing a Confederate officer, he finds himself pursued by a gang of vicious bounty hunters intent on collecting the reward put up by the...
10) Invisible generals: rediscovering family legacy, and a quest to honor America's first Black generals
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Invisible Generals, Melville shares his quest to rediscover his family's story across five generations, from post-Civil War America to modern day Asia and Europe. In life, the Davises were denied the recognition and compensation they'd earned, but through his journey, Melville uncovers something greater: that dedication and self-sacrifice can move proverbial mountains-even in a world determined to make you invisible. Invisible Generals recounts...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A fourth-generation soldier tells the story of his father's tank battalion, the "Spearhead," that selflessly led the charge on the front lines from Normandy into Germany--against impossible odds, technologically superior weaponry, and a fanatical enemy on its home turf--and the heroes whose sacrifice won World War II"--
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Series
Publisher
Center of Military History, United States Army
Pub. Date
1996.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiv, 294 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Language
English
Description
Provides an account of the experiences of the African American 24th Infantry Regiment, which was stigmatized for its deficiencies while its accomplishments passed largely into oblivion. The authors reveal that the 24th suffered from a virulent racial prejudice that ate incessantly at the bonds of unit cohesion and that hindered the emergence of effective leadership.
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Series
Publisher
Office of Air Force History
Pub. Date
1977.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (227 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
This book is based upon a Ph.D. dissertation written by an Air Force officer who studied at the University of Denver. Currently an Associate Professor of History at the Air Force Academy, Major Osur's account relates how the leadership in the War Department and the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) tried to deal with the problem of race and the prejudices which were reflected in the bulk of American society. It tells a story of black racial protests and...
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Series
Publisher
U.S. Government Printing Office
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xvii, 512 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Language
English
Description
This volume, covering 1945 to 1992, is the third of three volumes on the role of federal military forces in domestic disorders. Summarizing institutional and other changes that took place in the Army and in American society during this period, it carries the reader through the nation's use of federal troops during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s and the domestic upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s associated with the Vietnam War. The...
Author
Publisher
Westholme Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xix, 332 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Redcoats. For Americans, the word brings to mind the occupying army that attempted to crush the Revolutionary War. There was more to these soldiers than their red uniforms, but the individuals who formed the ranks are seldom described in any detail in historical literature. In Noble Volunteers: The British Soldiers Who Fought the American Revolution, Don N. Hagist brings life to these soldiers, describing the training, experiences, and outcomes of...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 483 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Before 1862, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain had rarely left his home state of Maine, where he was a trained minister and mild-mannered professor at Bowdoin College. His colleagues were shocked when he volunteered for the Union army, but he was undeterred and later became known as one of the North's greatest heroes: On the second day at Gettysburg, after running out of ammunition at Little Round Top, he ordered his men to wield their bayonets in a desperate...
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