Author: Stephen W. Sears
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: potomac, army, dispatches, commanders, controversies
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2000-08-10
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0618057064
ISBN-13: 9780618057061
CONTROVERSIES AND COMMANDERS is a fascinating look at some of the most intriguing generals in the Union’s Army of the Potomac and at some of the most extraordinary events of the Civil War, chronicled by one of our leading historians, Stephen W. Sears. Sears investigates the accusations of disloyalty against General Charles Stone; the court-martial of Fitz John Porter; the crisis in army command on the eve of the Antietam battle; the Lost Order of Antietam; the revolt of the Potomac army’s high command; the notorious General Dan Sickles, who had shot his wife’s lover outside t
Author: Josephine F. Pacheco
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Keywords: potomac, escape, slave, failed, pearl
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-02-28
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0807829188
ISBN-13: 9780807829189
In the spring of 1848 seventy-six slaves from the nation’s capital hid aboard a schooner called the Pearl in an attempt to sail down the Potomac River and up the Chesapeake Bay to freedom in Pennsylvania. When inclement weather forced them to anchor for the night, the fugitive slaves and the ship’s crew were captured and returned to Washington. Many of the slaves were sold to the Lower South, and two men sailing the Pearl were tried and sentenced to prison. Recounting this harrowing tale from the preparations for escape through the participants’ trial, Josephine Pacheco provi
Author: Stephen R. Taaffe
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Keywords: war, studies, modern, potomac, army, commanding
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2006-02-23
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0700614516
ISBN-13: 9780700614516
During the Civil War, thirty-six officers in the Army of the Potomac were assigned corps commands of up to 30,000 men. Collectively charged with leading the Union’s most significant field army, these leaders proved their courage in countless battlefields from Gettysburg to Antietam to Cold Harbor. Unfortunately, courage alone was not enough. Their often dismal performances played a major role in producing this army’s tragic record, one that included more defeats than victories despite its numerical and materiel superiority. Stephen Taaffe takes a close look at this command cadre
Author: George Victor
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.
Keywords: paperback, classics, potomac, evil, pathology, hitler
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2007-09-30
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 1597970948
ISBN-13: 9781597970945
In this chilling psychohistory, Dr. George Victor, a distinguished psychotherapist who evaluates personality disorders, examines Hitler’s disturbed psyche. He explains how Hitler forced an entire nation to advance his dark, personal agenda and how his disastrous wartime decisions satisfied his psychological needs. Victor draws surprising new conclusions about a man who came as close as any to being the embodiment of evil.
Author: William L. Smallwood
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.
Keywords: books, warriors, series, potomac, war, flying, gulf, warthog
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2005-09-30
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 1574888862
ISBN-13: 9781574888867
The story of the A-10s unlikely rise to glory in the Gulf Warand what of its like to fly a plane so ugly that it was dubbed "the Warthog."
Author: Russel H. Beatie
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Keywords: command, september, february, takes, mcclellan, potomac, volume, army
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 2004-11-10
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0306812525
ISBN-13: 9780306812521
In this second volume of a multi-volume work, Russel Beatie continues his detailed study of the generals who commanded the Union’s victorious Army of the Potomac. When the first volume appeared, Civil War News commended Beatie’s monumental study, noting that "readers will find its thoroughness and extensive detail useful to their efforts to better understand the Union war effort." This new survey of the war’s first six months of fighting places the command decisions of the army’s senior officers in the social, political, military, and economic context of their day. Th
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