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    Silent World, Book 1

    by Crea Reitan ...
    Narrated by Kevin Earlywine, John Solo, Brent Billings, John Patneaude ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Silent World

    Unabridged

    7 hours 1 min

    Mama said monsters will kill you.My Mama taught me everything she knew right up until the day that monsters killed her and my family, while leaving me and my young cousins alive. The beasts will kill you on sight. Monsters will do far worse.Yet, when a beast gets the best of me and I'm succumbing to its poison, it's a group of monsters that save my life. They show me that maybe Mama didn't know ... Read more

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  • Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life

    by John D. Billings ...
    During the summer of 1881 I was a sojourner for a few weeks at a popular hotel in the White Mountains. Among the two hundred or more guests who were enjoying its retirement and good cheer were from twelve to twenty lads, varying in age from ten to fifteen years. When tea had been disposed of, and darkness had put an end to their daily romp and hurrah without, they were wont to take in charge a ... Read more

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  • Hard Tack and Coffee

    by John D Billings ...
    First published more than 100 years ago, Hard Tack And Coffee is John Billings’ absorbing first-person account of the everyday life of a U.S. Army soldier during the Civil War.Billings attended a reunion of Civil War veterans in 1881 that brought together a group of survivors whose memories and stories of the war compelled him to write this account.It is set in November, 1860.Lincoln has been ... Read more

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  • Hardtack & Coffee Or The Unwritten Story Of Army Life [Illustrated Edition]

    by John D. Billings ...
    Contains over 200 illustrations by Medal of Honor recipient Charles W. Reed"Most histories of the Civil War focus on battles and top brass. Hardtack and Coffee is one of the few to give a vivid, detailed picture of what ordinary soldiers endured every day—in camp, on the march, at the edge of a booming, smoking hell. John D. Billings of Massachusetts enlisted in the Army of the Potomac and ... Read more

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  • 70 Civil War Memoirs of Union Soldiers

    Firsthand Union Accounts of Battle, Prison, Naval Service, Emancipation, and Civil War Memory

    by John D. Billings, Charles W. Reed, William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip Henry Sheridan, Ulysses S. Grant, J. W. Gibson, George Perkins, Henry B. James, Henry Bascom Smith, Henry Martyn Kieffer, Charles A. Fuller, Willard W. Glazier, Joseph Warren Keifer, John McElroy, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, James Madison Page, Alonzo Cooper, Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Louis Richards, S. Emma E. Edmonds, Samuel Scoville, Henry H. Meacham, Frank A. Rollin, Richard Taylor, John Beatty, Leander Stillwell, Charles Anderson Dana, James Harvey Kidd, Jacob D. Cox, Stanton P. Allen, Hampton Sidney Thomas, James Harrison Wilson, Frederick L. Hitchcock, James R. Carnahan, Joseph W. Grant, Richard J. Fulfer, John Lockwood, Henry C. Meyer, D. H. Fletcher, Samuel H. Fletcher, H. Clay Trumbull, James Madison Stone, Allen Ripley Foote, Thomas Kirwan, E. H. Clement, Edward Mott Robbins, Martin A. Haynes, Grenville Mellen Dodge, John G. B. Adams, Ansel D. Nickerson, Warren Olney, Daniel Avery Langworthy, Joshua M. Addeman, Eugene Winslow Watson, Samuel Dana Greene, John Lorimer Worden, H. Ashton Ramsay, Bradford Ripley Jr. Wood, John Watson Foster, R. E. McBride, Charles Carleton Coffin, Wickham Hoffman, George T. Ulmer, William A. Canfield, Abner Doubleday, John M. Batten, Lawrence Van Alstyne, David W. Stafford, Charles C. Nott, John Levi Maile, William N. Tyler, John Azor Kellogg, James Pike, Lot D. Young, Susie King Taylor ...
    70 Civil War Memoirs of Union Soldiers assembles a capacious documentary portrait of the Union war effort, bringing battlefield recollection into conversation with camp life, military command, naval service, imprisonment, medicine, espionage, and emancipation. Its styles range from terse campaign narratives and tactical analyses to reflective autobiographical sketches and vivid eyewitness ... Read more

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  • Hardtack and Coffee

    by John D. Billings, Charles W. Reed ...
    One of the most important memoirs of the American Civil War, this is also one of the few to describe what life was really like for the common soldier. The author, a Union veteran of the Army of the Potomac, tells of how the men enlisted or were conscripted; how they lived in camp and on the march; what they ate and foraged; how they were equipped and provided for; how they lived, amused themselves ... Read more

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  • Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life

    by John D. Billings ...
    Billings was a veteran of the 10th Massachusetts Volunteer Artillery Battery during the Civil War, but he is best known for his 1888 book Hardtack and Coffee, a reference to the most common food and drink given to soldiers during the war. Billings book is not about battles but is instead about everyday life for the Union soldiers of the Civil War, who spent a huge majority of their time in camp ... Read more

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  • Hardtack and Coffee

    The Unwritten Story of Army Life

    by John D. Billings ...
    First published more than 100 years ago, Hardtack And Coffee is John Billings’ absorbing first-person account of the everyday life of a U.S. Army soldier during the Civil War.Billings attended a reunion of Civil War veterans in 1881 that brought together a group of survivors whose memories and stories of the war compelled him to write this account.It is set in November, 1860. Lincoln has been ... Read more

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  • Special Duties Pilot

    The Man who Flew the Real 'Inglorious Bastards' Behind Enemy Lines

    by John M. Billings ...
    If there was ever a man who was born to fly, it is John M. Billings. He took his first plane ride in 1926, began taking piloting lessons in 1938, and joined the US Army Air Force in July 1942. After training he was assigned to fly Consolidated B-24 Liberator long-range bombers. He joined the 825th Bombardment Squadron of the 484th Bombardment Group. After flying fifteen daylight strategic bombing ... Read more

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  • Hardtack and Coffee or The Unwritten Story of Army Life

    by John D. Billings ...
    Hardtack and Coffee or The Unwritten Story of Army Life (1887) is a memoir by John D. Billings. Billings was a veteran of the 10th Massachusetts Volunteer Light Artillery Battery in the American Civil War. Originally published in 1888, Hard Tack and Coffee quickly became a best seller, and is now considered one of the most important books written by a Civil War veteran. "Hard Tack and Coffee" is ... Read more

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  • Hard Tack and Coffee (Illustrated Edition)

    The Unwritten Story of Army Life

    by John D. Billings ...
    Madison & Adams Press presents the Civil War Memories Series. This meticulous selection of the firsthand accounts, memoirs and diaries is specially comprised for Civil War enthusiasts and all people curious about the personal accounts and true life stories of the unknown soldiers, the well known commanders, politicians, nurses and civilians amidst the war. Hard Tack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story ... Read more

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  • Sleepers 10th Massachusetts Battery: The History of the 10th Massachusetts Battery of Light Artillery In the War of the Rebellion

    by John D. Billings ...
    John Billings served in the 10th Massachusetts light artillery battery. After the Civil War, Billings authored Sleepers 10th Massachusetts Battery and Hard Tack and Coffee . Sleepers 10th is a chronological history of the battery during the Civil War, and also includes the roster and roll of the company. A table of contents is included for easier navigation. ... Read more

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