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  • Roughshod Through Dixie

    Grierson’s Raid 1863

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 12 - Raid
    On April 17, 1863 Benjamin Grierson led a force of 1,700 Union cavalrymen across enemy lines into Confederate-held Tennessee in a bold diversionary raid.Over the next seventeen days, Grierson's horsemen caused havoc by destroying railroad lines, attacking outposts, burning military stores and fighting numerous small actions, before breaking back through the lines at Baton Rouge. The raid was a ... Read more

    14,41 €

  • Decatur’s Bold and Daring Act

    The Philadelphia in Tripoli 1804

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 22 - Raid
    On a dark night in 1804, Lt. Stephen Decatur and a team of hand-picked men, slipped into Tripoli harbor in a small boat.Their target was the USS Philadelphia. Captured by the Barbary pirates four months previously, the Philadelphia had been refitted to fight against her former masters. Decatur's mission was to either recapture the ship, or failing that, burn her to the waterline.This book recounts ... Read more

    9,95 €

  • The Capture of U-505

    The US Navy's controversial Enigma raid, Atlantic Ocean 1944

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 58 - Raid
    U-505 was the first enemy warship the US Navy captured at sea since 1812. This is a new account of how Captain Gallery planned and executed the raid on his own initiative, and how his success almost endangered the war against the U-boats.On June 4, 1944 a US Navy antisubmarine task group in the Atlantic captured an enemy U-boat on the high seas. It was not the first time the Allies had taken a ... Read more

    13,24 €

  • Roughshod Through Dixie

    Grierson’s Raid 1863

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 12 - Raid
    On April 17, 1863 Benjamin Grierson led a force of 1,700 Union cavalrymen across enemy lines into Confederate-held Tennessee in a bold diversionary raid. Over the next seventeen days, Grierson's horsemen caused havoc by destroying railroad lines, attacking outposts, burning military stores and fighting numerous small actions, before breaking back through the lines at Baton Rouge. The raid was a ... Read more

    13,45 €

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    The Last Invasion

    by Allen C. Guelzo ...
    Series series Vintage Civil War Library
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  • Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates

    The Forgotten War That Changed American History

    by Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger ...
    “Another blockbuster! Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates reads like an edge-of-your-seat, page-turning thriller. You will love this book and also wonder why so few people know this story. No one captures the danger, intrigue, and drama of the American Revolution and its aftermath like Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger.” —Brad ThorThis is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation ... Read more

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  • Civil War, A to Z

    The Complete Handbook of America's Bloodiest Conflict

    Edited by Clifford L. Linedecker ...
    With hundreds of entries, as well as photographs, drawings, and a handy time line of events, Civil War, A to Z encompasses everything about this historic conflict . . . from Appomattox to Zouaves.This encyclopedic illustrated reference features facts both familiar and engagingly new, organized in an easy-to-follow alphabetical format. Ranging from the basic to the bizarre, from secession to spies ... Read more

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  • Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy

    The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy

    by Ian W. Toll ...
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  • The Shores of Tripoli

    Lieutenant Putnam and the Barbary Pirates

    by James L. Haley ...
    Series Book 1 - A Bliven Putnam Naval Adventure
    The first novel in award-winning historian James L. Haley’s brilliant adventure series featuring young midshipman Bliven Putnam as he begins his naval service aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise.It is 1801 and President Thomas Jefferson has assembled a deep-water navy to fight the growing threat of piracy, as American civilians are regularly kidnapped by Islamist brigands and held for ransom, enslaved, ... Read more

    7,62 €

  • Shiloh, 1862

    by Winston Groom ...
    A main selection in History Book-of-the-Month Club and alternate selection in Military Book-of-the-Month Club. In the spring of 1862, many Americans still believed that the Civil War, "would be over by Christmas." The previous summer in Virginia, Bull Run, with nearly 5,000 casualties, had been shocking, but suddenly came word from a far away place in the wildernesses of Southwest Tennessee of an ... Read more

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  • War of 1812 Land Battles

    by Ronald T. Campbell ...
    Two hundred years later, the War of 1812 has been mostly forgotten. When the United States declared war on England, both sides were unprepared for battle. American troops outnumbered British forces by two-to-one; however, they were led by inexperienced politicians and aging Revolutionary War heroes. Two years later, young and bold U.S. commanders faced hardened veterans of the Napoleonic Wars in ... Read more

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  • Old Ironsides (Mobi Classics)

    by James Fenimore Cooper ...
    IN the course of the events connected with the naval history and the naval glory of the country, this ship has become so renowned by her services and her success as to be entitled to have her biography written, as well as those who have gained distinction on her deck. Half a century has endeared her to the nation, and her career may be said to be coexistent, as well as coequal in fame, with that ... Read more

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