books about: april-june

books about: april-june

books:

April-june

Three Months in the Southern States; April-June 1863

Arthur J. L. Fremantle

BiblioLife, 2008

A different perspective on the civil war.
Lieut. -Col. Arthur Fremantle has not given us in this work a tired and boring look at strategy and tactics. He has also not told us anything new about the leading men of the Confederacy. What the reader will get is an excellent look at day to day life in the ...

German Paratroops in Scandinavia: Fallschirmjager in Denmark and Norway April-June 1940
Oscar Gonzalez

Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2009

The German conquest of Denmark and Norway in spring 1940 presents an interesting study of joint strategy between ground, air, and sea forces. In this campaign, the Germans placed great emphasis on mobility, speed, and surprise. The FallschirmjÃ¤ger of 1940 was a welltrained, highly-motivated force, and their participation in Operation WeserÃ¼bung ...

History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. 7: Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls, June ...

Samuel Eliot Morison

University of Illinois Press, 2001

History as it should be written for the non-historian
This volume is outstanding, and brings the war in the central and north Pacific during the second half of 1942, all of 1943, and the first half of 1944 into clear and exciting focus. Admiral Morison, a distinguished scholar and a true man of the sea has given us the ...

Out of the Storm: The End of the Civil War, April-June 1865

Noah Andre Trudeau

Louisiana State University Press, 1995

It Aint Over, Till It's Over
In School, books, and TV it's ingrained that the Civil War began with the First shot at Fort Sumter, and ended in April of 65 with the surrender of Lee, and the Death of Lincoln. However, at the ending of April and beginning of May the Confederates may have been on the ...

Calendar Boys, Vol. II: April-June

Jamie Craig

Amber Quill Press, LLC, 2008

Calendar Boys
Mason Ritter has a crush. Unfortunately, it's on his boyfriend's sister's fiancée. Luckily his boyfriend's family all live in Mexico and Mason's time around Anton, the man he is finding himself fantasizing about more and more, is limited. When Miguel informs him ...

The Last Citadel: Petersburg, Virginia, June 1864-April 1865

Noah Andre Trudeau

Louisiana State University Press, 1993

Indispensable work pertaining to a much-neglected chapter of the Civil War.
The Siege of Petersburg was the prelude to the final chapter of our Nation's Civil War, but seems to get by-passed by many contemporary historians, as do most of the battles and campaigns following the Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg. "The Last Citadel" fills this ...

Month-by-Month Poetry: March, April, May, June (Grades PreK-2) (Month-By-Month Poetry)

Scholastic, 1999

Month By Month Poetry
This book has been very beneficial for my class. The students enjoy learning about poetry. Since this is month by month poems we all enjoy reading them and using them to learn about poetry. The students have enjoyed this book so much they have started to write their ...

OKINAWA: April - June 1945

Dr Huber

Casemate, 2003

Makes history, in all its gritty reality, truly come alive
Okinawa 1945 by T. M. Huber is an authoritative and detailed recounting of the last campaign of World War II to take place in the Pacific Theatre. This was a battle so brutal that it convinced President Harry Truman to deploy atomic weapons in Japan as a preferable ...

HURRICANES OVER MALTA: June 1940 - April 1942
Brian Cull

Grub Street, 2002

Based on the factual, historical and widely acclaimed 1987 Grub Street publication Malta: The Hurricane Years (still in print), Brian Cull's definitive Hurricanes over Malta is a fully revised and updated account of the gallant band of RAF and Commonwealth pilots who flew Hurricanes in defence of Malta between June 1940 and April 1942, when help ...

Three Months in the Southern States: The 1863 War Diary of an English Soldier: April-June 1863
Arthur J. L. Freemantle

Greenhouse Publishing Company, 1998

Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863

B&R Samizdat Express, 2008

Eyewitness British perspective on the Civil War, by a lieutenant colonel in the Coldstream Guards. According to the Preface: " At the outbreak of the American war, in common with many of my countrymen, I felt very indifferent as to which side might win; but if I had any bias, my sympathies were rather in favour of the North, on account of the ...

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series: Volume 4: 18 June 1811 to 30 April 1812 (Papers of Thomas ...
Thomas Jefferson

Princeton University Press, 2008

Volume Four of this definitive edition of Thomas Jefferson's papers from the end of his presidency until his death includes 581 documents from 18 June 1811 to 30 April 1812. Between these two dates, Jefferson famously declares that, "tho' an old man, I am but a young gardener"; expresses hostility to dogs and joins in a petition for a tax to ...

Back Door to Richmond: The Bermuda Hundred Campaign, April-June 1864

William Glenn Robertson

Louisiana State University Press, 1991

The way all Civil War history should be written!
This is such an outstanding account of a Civil War campaign that I try to reread it every year or two. Aside from being a great account of the Bermuda Hundred Campaign, it is such a welcome change from so mant of the books currently being sold under the description ...