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Author
Series
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
c1987.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
98 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the life of the general who led Allied troops to victory in World War II and became thirty-fourth president of the United States.
12) Grant
Author
Language
English
Description
"Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and inept businessman, or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War. But these stereotypes don't come close to capturing him, as Ron Chernow shows in his masterful biography, the first to provide a complete understanding of the general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency."--Book jacket....
Author
Publisher
Rosen Central Primary Source
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In September, 1781, the young Marquis de Lafayette of France and other leaders of colonial troops prepare to battle British troops led by Lord Charles Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
©2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
104 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 1789, George Washington became the first president of the United States. He has been called the father of our country for leading America through its early years. Washington also served in two major wars during his lifetime: the French and Indian War and the American Revolution"--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Real Custer takes a good hard look at the life and storied military career of George Armstrong Custer-from cutting his teeth at Bull Run in the Civil War, to his famous and untimely death at Little Bighorn in the Indian Wars.
Author James Robbins demonstrates that Custer, having graduated last in his class at West Point, went on to prove himself again and again as an extremely skilled cavalry leader. Robbins argues that Custer's undoing was his...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of Gandhi & Churchill goes beyond the mythologies of the World War II general to illuminate his strengths and weaknesses, placing his career against a backdrop of history while discussing how he shaped his character to meet national needs,"--NoveList.
18) Lee & Grant
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Produced with the cooperation of leading Civil War historian Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump, a personal look at two iconic leaders of the Civil War. Surprising details reveal the bold choices and almost godlike power Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee summoned on decisive battlefields like Vicksburg and Gettysburg that, within days of each other, turned the tide of the war.
Series
Publisher
Cerebellum Corporation
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodiscs (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Feature documentary showcasing Ulysses S. Grant, the man rather than the legend. Within ten years, Grant's life takes a turn from a father struggling to make a living to the general who won the Civil War to becoming the eighteenth president of the United States.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A new biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times. Historian T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer's legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer's historical caricature, revealing a volatile, contradictory, intense person--capable yet insecure, intelligent yet bigoted, passionate yet self-destructive, a romantic...
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