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    By Dallas, Sandra
     2000., Adult, St. Martin's Press Call No: FIC DAL    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Young newlywed Alice Bullock, left on an Iowa farm with only her mother-in-law for company after her husband joins the Union Army, discovers her own hidden strengths and finds unlikely sources of support after she is accused of murder.
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    By Ambrose, Stephen E
     1998, c1997., Adult, Berkley Books Call No: HIST 355 .00973    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Examines the history of American warfare from the Civil War through Vietnam and the Cold War, looking at the experiences of both leaders and the led and how American democracy defines itself through these conflicts.
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    By Beck, Glenn
     2011., Adult, Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts Call No: BIOG 973.4 1 092   Edition: 1st Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts hardcover ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Combining biography and the writings of George Washington with his own insights, comments, and sidebars, Glenn Beck explores the first president of the United States and describes how Washington's beliefs and values are especially important to remember in modern times.
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    By Meltzer, Brad  Mensch, Josh
     2019., Adults, Flatiron Books Call No: HIST 973.4 1092   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "In 1776, an elite group of soldiers were handpicked to serve as George Washington's bodyguards. Washington trusted them; relied on them. But unbeknownst to Washington, some of them were part of a treasonous plan. In the months leading up to the Revolutionary War, these traitorous soldiers, along with the Governor of New York William Tryon and Mayor David Mathews, launched a deadly plot against the most important member of the military: George Washington himself. This is the story of the secret plot and how it was revealed. It is a story of leaders, liars, counterfeiters, and jailhouse confessors. It also shows just how hard the battle was for George Washington--and how close America was to losing the Revolutionary War. Taking place during the most critical period of our nation's birth, The First Conspiracy tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American history that not only reveals George Washington's character, but also illuminates the origins of America's counterintelligence movement that led to the modern day CIA"--
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    By Bradley, James, 1954-
     2004., Adult, Back Bay Books Call No: BIOG 940.54 05 09528   Edition: 1st Back Bay paperback ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Examines the disappearance of eight American airmen shot down and taken prisoner on the remote island of Chichi Jima in World War II and the secrecy that surrounded the events for decades, and discusses the violence inflicted by both sides in the Pacific War.
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    By Chernow, Ron
     2017., Adults, Penguin Press Call No: BIOG 973.8    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefeller, Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and inept businessman, fond of drinking to excess; or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War; or as a credulous and hapless president whose tenure came to symbolize the worst excesses of the Gilded Age. These stereotypes don't come close to capturing adequately his spirit and the sheer magnitude of his monumental accomplishments. A biographer at the height of his powers, Chernow has produced a portrait of Grant that is a masterpiece, the first to provide a complete understanding of the general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency. Before the Civil War, Grant was flailing. His business ventures had been dismal, and despite distinguished service in the Mexican War, he ended up resigning from the army in disgrace amid recurring accusations of drunkenness. But in the Civil War, Grant began to realize his remarkable potential, soaring through the ranks of the Union army, prevailing at the Battle of Shiloh and in the Vicksburg campaign and ultimately defeating the legendary Confederate general Robert E. Lee after a series of unbelievably bloody battles in Virginia. Along the way Grant endeared himself to President Lincoln and became his most trusted general and the strategic genius of the war effort. His military fame translated into a two-term presidency, but one plagued by corruption scandals involving his closest staff. All the while Grant himself remained more or less above reproach. But, more importantly, he never failed to seek freedom and justice for black Americans, working to crush the Ku Klux Klan and earning the admiration of Frederick Douglass, who called him 'the vigilant, firm, impartial, and wise protector of my race." After his presidency, he was again brought low by a trusted colleague, this time a dashing young swindler on Wall Street, but he resuscitated his image by working with Mark Twain to publish his memoirs, which are recognized as a masterpiece of the genre. With his famous lucidity, breadth, and meticulousness, Chernow finds the threads that bind these disparate stories together, shedding new light on the man whom Walt Whitman described as "nothing heroic... and yet the greatest hero." His probing portrait of Grant's lifelong struggle with alcoholism transforms our understanding of the man at the deepest level. This is America's greatest biographer, bringing movingly to life one of our finest but most underappreciated presidents. The definitive biography, Grant is a grand synthesis of painstaking research and literary brilliance that makes sense of all sides of Grant's life, explaining how this simple Midwesterner could at once be so ordinary and so extraordinary"--
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    By Duble, Kathleen Benner
     2011., Young Adult, Scholastic Press Call No: Y DUB   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Fifteen-year-old Noah Garrett, sent to live with his uncle in Camp Hale, Colorado, following the death of his parents in 1944, finds himself struggling between his upbringing as a pacifist, and life on a military base in the middle of World War II.
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    By Lynch, Chris, 1962-
     2014., 5-8, Scholastic Press Call No: FIC LYN   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: World War II   Volume: book oneSummary Note: When the draft board calls on the eve of World War II, Roman leaves behind a career in minor-league baseball to join the army, and finds himself driving a tank in the North African campaign.
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    By Patterson, James, 1947-  Eversmann, Matt  Mooney, Chris  Culp, Jason
     ©℗2021., Adults, 103500., Hachette Audio Call No: AUD 355.0092 PAT    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "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 a rare eye-opening look into what wearing the uniform, fighting in combat, losing friends and coming home is really like." --book jacket.