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  • Joshua L. Chamberlain

    The Life in Letters of a Great Leader of the American Civil War

    by Thomas Desjardin, The National Civil War Museum ...
    The largest collection of never-before published letters from and to Civil War hero Joshua Chamberlain provides a foundation for a new look at the life of one of the War's most enduring legends.His life is a remarkable story of perseverance, tragedy and triumph. From an insecure young man with a considerable stutter who grew up in a small town in eastern Maine, Joshua Chamberlain rose to become a ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Through a Howling Wilderness

    Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec, 1775

    by Thomas A. Desjardin ...
    A military history of the 1775 invasion of Quebec by Benedict Arnold and the Continental Army, a narrative of adventure, hardship, and survival.Before Benedict Arnold was branded a traitor, he was one of the colonies' most valuable leaders. In September 1775, eleven hundred soldiers boarded ships in Massachusetts, bound for the Maine wilderness. They had volunteered for a secret mission, under ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Joshua L. Chamberlain

    A Concise Biography of the Iconic Hero

    by Thomas A. Desjardin ...
    Joshua Chamberlain is arguably the most well known figure in Maine history and this highly accessible biography provides a brief look at his life. Covering his early years to his time as a student at Bowdoin, the primary emphasis in on Chamberlain's military career and his heroic actions during the Civil War, for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor. After the war he served as governor of Maine ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Stand Firm Ye Boys from Maine

    The 20th Maine and the Gettysburg Campaign

    by Thomas A. Desjardin ...
    Fought amid rocks and trees, in thick blinding smoke, and under exceedingly stressful conditions, the battle for the southern slope of Little Round Top on July 2, 1863 stands among the most famous and crucial military actions in American history, one of the key engagements that led to the North's victory at Gettysburg. In this powerfully narrated history, Maine historian Tom Desjardin tells the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    These Honored Dead

    by Thomas A. Desjardin ...
    Narrated by Lewis Grenville ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 15 min

    Ever since the guns fell silent in July 1863, the Battle of Gettysburg has emerged as the defining conflict in our nation's history. American memory has established Gettysburg as the most important, most heroic, most savage battle this nation has ever fought. It has become our Waterloo, our battle of Marathon, our siege of Troy. In this riveting historical reappraisal, esteemed Civil War historian ... Read more

    $30.75 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stand Firm Ye Boys from Maine

    The 20th Maine and the Gettysburg Campaign

    by Thomas A. Desjardin ...
    Fought amid rocks and trees, in thick blinding smoke, and under exceedingly stressful conditions, the battle for the southern slope of Little Round Top on July 2, 1863 stands among the most famous and crucial military actions in American history, one of the key engagements that led to the North's victory at Gettysburg. In this powerfully narrated history, Maine historian Tom Desjardin tells the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Passing Through the Fire

    Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in the Civil War

    by Brian F. Swartz ...
    Series series Emerging Civil War Series
    This Civil War biography "draw[s] upon fresh material . . . to offer some important new insights. . . . An outstanding addition." ( NYMAS Book Review)As the brigade he commanded attacked a Confederate battery on a hill outside Petersburg in July 1864, a bursting shell blew Col. Joshua L. Chamberlain from the saddle and wounded his horse. After the enemy battery skedaddled, the brigade took the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Autobiography of Joshua Chamberlain

    by Joshua Chamberlain ...
    Joshua Chamberlain has become a pop culture icon and his regiment is now the most famous small military unit in American history. A major focus of The Killer Angels, the largest selling Civil War novel of all time, save Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and two major motion pictures, “Gettysburg” and “Gods and Generals,” the story of the 20th Maine has become legendary, particularly their effort to defend the ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Turning Points of the American Civil War

    by Daniel T. Davis, Stephen Davis, Ryan Longfellow, Gregory A. Mertz, Robert Orrison, Kevin Pawlak, Rea Redd, James A. Morgan III ...
    Series series Engaging the Civil War
    Contributors to this collection, public historians with experience at Civil War battle sites, examine key shifts in the Civil War and the context surrounding them to show that many chains of events caused the course of the war to change: the Federal defeats at First Bull Run and Ball’s Bluff, the wounding of Joseph Johnston at Seven Pines and the Confederate victory at Chancellorsville, the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Revolutionary Brothers

    Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the Friendship that Helped Forge Two Nations

    by Tom Chaffin ...
    "Chaffin's well-told tale of two revolutions centers on the fascinating, sometimes intersecting careers of Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette." —Peter S. Onuf, coauthor of the New York Times bestseller, Most Blessed of PatriarchsThomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette shared a singularly extraordinary friendship, one involved in the making of two revolutions—and two nations. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • The Cause

    The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783

    by Joseph J. Ellis, Ph.D. ...
    New York Times Book Review — Editors’ Choice • Chicago Tribune — "60 Best Reads for Right Now" • St. Louis Post-Dispatch — "50 Fall Books You Should Consider Reading"Challenging conventional wisdom, The Cause offers a “necessary” (John S. Gardner, Guardian) account of the origins and clashing ideologies of America’s revolutionary era.For Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Joseph J. Ellis, The C... ... Read more

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  • The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

    by Ulysses S. Grant ...
    Series series The Annotated Books
    With kaleidoscopic, trenchant, path-breaking insights, Elizabeth D. Samet has produced the most ambitious edition of Ulysses Grant’s Memoirs yet published.One hundred and thirty-three years after its 1885 publication by Mark Twain, Elizabeth Samet has annotated this lavish edition of Grant’s landmark memoir, and expands the Civil War backdrop against which this monumental American life is ... Read more

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