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No American president has enjoyed as intimate a relationship with the soldiers in his army as did the man they called "Father Abraham." In Lincoln's Men, historian William C. Davis draws on thousands of unpublished letters and diaries-the voices of the volunteers-to tell the hidden story of how a new and untested president became "Father" throughout both the army and the North as a whole.
How did Lincoln inspire the faith and courage of so many shattered...
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English
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"Walk in my Combat Boots is a powerful collection crafted from hundreds of original interviews by James Patterson, the world's #1 bestselling writer, and First Sergeant US Army (Ret.) Matt Eversmann, part of the Ranger unit portrayed in the movie Black Hawk Down. These are the brutally honest stories usually only shared amongst comrades in arms. Here, in the voices of the men and women who've fought overseas from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan, is...
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2001], c2001
Language
English
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Fusing the drama of history with the intimacy of memoir, a blockbuster anthology of previously unpublished war letters is collected by the dynamic and impassioned editor of the bestselling "Letters of a Nation". Carroll will donate all earnings to veterans' organizations nationwide. of wartime photos & facsimiles of handwritten letters.
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Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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During his five years in the army, Private Edward L. Matthews wrote a series of exceptionally detailed and engaging letters to his family back home in Maryland describing his life in the Arizona and New Mexico Territories. Eddie Matthews's letters, published here for the first time, provide an unparalleled chronicle of one soldier's experiences in garrison and in the field in the post-Civil War Southwest.