MacKinlay Kantor
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English
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Recounts the dramatic surrender of General Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in a new, illustrated edition.
From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Andersonville comes the story of an unforgettable moment in American history: the historic meeting between General Robert E. Lee and General Ulysses S. Grant that led to the surrender of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia--and ultimately to the end of the Civil War. MacKinlay Kantor's book for young readers...
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English
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Acclaimed as the greatest novel ever written about the War Between the States, this searing Pulitzer Prize-winning book captures all the glory and shame of America's most tragic conflict in the vivid, crowded world of Andersonville, and the people who lived outside its barricades. Based on the author's extensive research and nearly twenty-five years in the making, MacKinlay Kantor's bestselling masterwork tells the heartbreaking story of the notorious...
4) Valley Forge
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M. Evans and Company
Pub. Date
[1975]
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English
Description
We are taken into the houses, workshops, kitchens and stables of the ordinary citizens during the Revolutionary War.
6) Valedictory
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Publisher
Coward-McCann, Inc
Pub. Date
[1939]
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English
Description
An old school janitor reviews his past in relation to the many pupils he has known.
10) Spirit Lake
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The World Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[1961]
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English
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A novel of Iowa in the 1850's, culminating in the Spirit Lake Massacre of '57--as seen both from the viewpoint of the Dakota Nation and that of the white pioneers.
12) Glory for me
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Coward-McCann, Inc
Pub. Date
1945.
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English
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A novel in verse.
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Random House
Pub. Date
[1948]
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English
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To Western cattle barons in 1899 the encroaching homesteaders were like cinders stinging their eyes. But they were legal. Even the rustlers among them seldom were brought to justice for lack of evidence. There seemed to be only one way to pry loose those on the land, and discourage others from settling: scare them off. To do just that some of the ranchers met in Pearl City in secret conclave. The agreed to hire the most notorious professional killer...
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Forge
Pub. Date
2001.
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English
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If the South Had Won the Civil War originally appeared in the November 22, 1960, issue of Look magazine where it inspired a deluge of correspondence from readers. Published in book form in 1961, the novel is a must-have for Civil War enthusiasts. Out of print for over a decade, MacKinlay Kantor's classic Civil War novel is back, featuring a brand new introduction by Harry Turtledove (author of the bestselling The Guns of the South), new interior art...
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Coward-McCann
Pub. Date
[1940]
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English
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It is a story of the eternal patriotic spirit, as epitomized in the life of a Cuban soldier and dreamer. The principal character is a waif of the 1890's who is adopted by a middle-western regiment and who spends his youth in Calumet, Iowa. Years later his name echoes like a pistol shot through the narrow streets and green cane-fields of his native island. He acts his last dramatic scenes in Havana, in front of President Machado's gangsters, and before...
