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Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
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"José de la Luz Sáenz (1888-1953)--or Luz--believed in fighting for what was right. Although he was born in the United States, he and his family experienced prejudice because of their Mexican heritage. When World War I broke out, Luz volunteered to join the fight. Because of his ability to quickly learn languages, he became part of the Intelligence Office in Europe. However, despite his hard work and intellect, Luz often didn't receive credit for...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
353 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"An intoxicating, singularly illuminating history of the Texas borderlands from their settlement through seven generations of Roger D. Hodge's ranching family. What brought the author's family to Texas? What is it about Texas that for centuries has exerted a powerful allure for adventurers and scoundrels, dreamers and desperate souls, outlaws and outliers? In search of answers, Hodge travels across his home state--which he loves and hates in shifting...
Author
Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
1983
Physical Desc
291 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As a nineteen year old he had heard that one of his brothers had been killed in the Battle of Goliad, an early confrontation in the Texan war of independence with Mexico, and swore to travel West to "take pay of the Mexicans" for his brother's death. In the following years he fought time and again against the Mexicans for the newly formed Republic of Texas and saw action at Salado Creek, Hondo River and during the Mier Campaign. After returning for...
Author
Series
Nathan Hale's hazardous tales volume 6
Language
English
Description
"From Nathan Hale, #1 New York Times bestselling author and Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List maker, comes the definitive graphic novel about the Alamo. Hale relays the facts, politics, military actions, and prominent personalities that defined the Texas Revolution in factual yet humorous scenes that will capture the attention of reluctant readers and fans of history alike. In the early 1800s, Texas was a wild and dangerous land fought over by the...
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the late 1950s, as America prepared for the Civil War centennial, two very old men lay dying. Albert Woolson, 109 years old, slipped in and out of a coma at a Duluth, Minnesota, hospital, his memories as a Yankee drummer boy slowly dimming. Walter Williams, at 117 blind and deaf and bedridden in his daughter's home in Houston, Texas, no longer could tell of his time as a Confederate forage master. The last of the Blue and the Gray were drifting...
Author
Publisher
Crown Trade Group
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the author's visits to key areas in the life of Davy Crockett, including the legendary frontiersman's Tennessee River Valley home and the Alamo site in Texas, exploring Crockett's true life and enduring cultural influence.
An American icon: Pioneer. Congressman. Martyr of the Alamo. King of the Wild Frontier. As with all great legends, Davy Crockett's has been retold many times, repeatedly reinvented by historians and popular storytellers....
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1984
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xviii, 311 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book tells the truth about Vietnam from the black soldiers' perspective. An oral history, it features twenty black men who tell the story of how members of their race were sent off in disproportionate numbers and the special test of patriotism they faced. This work puts the Vietnam experience in historical, cultural, and political perspective.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
lst ed.
Physical Desc
xxi, 356 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenant Philip J. Caputo landed at Danang with the first ground combat unit committed to fight in Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home--physically whole, emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism shattered. A decade later, Caputo would write in A Rumor of War, "This is simply a story about war, about the things men do in war and the things war...
Author
Publisher
Prentice-Hall Press
Pub. Date
[1987]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"First-person narratives of escapes to freedom in the north." Illustrated with unpaged photos and portraits. Includes narratives by Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"In a powerfully written firsthand account of the human costs of conflict, the author challenges Americans to address hard questions about America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,"--NoveList.
A powerfully written firsthand account of the human costs of conflict. J. Kael Weston spent seven years on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan working for the U.S. State Department in some of the most dangerous frontline locations. Upon his return home, while...
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