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Portraits of Lee, Longstreet, and other Civil War leaders are interwoven with historical detail to provide a fictional recreation of the bloody battle at Gettysburg. A superb re-creation of the Battle of Gettysburg, but its real importance is its insight into what the war was about, and what it meant. In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation's history, two armies fought for two dreams. One dreamed of freedom, the other of a way of...
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Civil War trilogy (Jeff Shaara) volume 2
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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “remarkable” (Ken Burns), “utterly absorbing” (Forbes) Civil War classic that inspired the film Gettysburg, with more than three million copies in print—now in a 50th anniversary edition featuring a new introduction by Jeff Shaara
“My favorite historical novel . . . a superb re-creation of the Battle of Gettysburg, but its...
“My favorite historical novel . . . a superb re-creation of the Battle of Gettysburg, but its...
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Project Gutenberg
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"Now this here planet," he said cautiously, "is whacky in a lot of ways. First of all they call it Mert. Just plain Mert. And they live in houses strictly from Dickens, all carriages, no sewers, narrow streets, stuff like that." But that wasn't all . . . . Travis, in reaching Diomed III before any others, found himself waging a one-man fight against more than this; he was bucking the strangest way of life you have ever heard of!
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"Soldier Boy and Five More Stories" by Michael Shaara is a mesmerizing anthology that brings together six captivating tales of science fiction, exploring the depths of human spirit and the unknown realms of the universe. In "SOLDIER BOY," Captain Dylan becomes an unexpected hero on the frontier colony of Lupus V, confronting an alien threat and rediscovering his purpose amidst cosmic peril. "Wainer" tells the poignant story of a marginalized individual...
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Amazing Stories is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are eight stories by Michael Shaara: "Wainer", "Man of Distinction", "Conquest Over Time", "Citizen Jell", "The Book", "Orphans of the Void", "Soldier Boy", and "The Vanisher".
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Amazing Stories Volume 93 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are five short stories: One story by Michael Shaara, "The Sling and the Stone", one story by Willis George Emerson, "The Smoky God, or, A Voyage to the Inner World" , one story by Richard O. Lewis, "Earthmen Die Hard!", one story by Fox B. Holden, "Earthmen Ask No Quarter!", and one story by Evan Hunter, "The Plagiarist From...
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The anthology "The Vanisher & Orphans of the Void" by Michael Shaara immerses readers in gripping tales of science fiction and cosmic exploration. In "The Vanisher," a young officer named Web Hilton is thrust into the unknown on a space mission that challenges his resolve and identity. Amidst Cold War tensions, he encounters an alien presence, becoming the first man to die more than once. Meanwhile, Ivy, a small-town girl on Earth, finds herself entwined...
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It's the last game of the season, Billy Chapel, a seventeen season legend and guaranteed Hall-of famer, has always played for the love of the game, never money nor fame. Now, at the end of an amazing career, he finds himself playing his most crucial game. He has one last chance to prove who he is and what really matters in life. A taut, compelling story of one man's coming of age.
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Civil War trilogy (Jeff Shaara) volume 1
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The Civil War as seen by generals on both sides of the conflict. They are the Confederacy's Lee and Jackson, and the Union's Chamberlain and Hancock. The novel follows them from the start of the war to just before the Battle of Gettysburg. A prequel to The Killer Angels, a 1974 novel by the author's late father.
12) Gettysburg
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On July 1, 1863, more than 150,000 Union and Confederate soldiers were drawn into one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. When it was all over, 50,000 men had paid the ultimate price. Today, Gettysburg is known as the turning point of the war and a pivotal event in American history. Featuring some of the most authentic Civil War battle scenes ever committed to film, and outstanding performances by the cast, "Gettysburg" accurately depicts...
13) They're here!
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Baen Publishing Enterprises
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[2023]
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"THE ALIENS ARE AMONG US! "Where is everybody?" Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi once asked after a discussion about the possibility of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. To sum up the Fermi Paradox, if the billions of stars in our galaxy have planets with intelligent life on them, why hasn't anyone visited us? But maybe they have, and we just haven't noticed-and that's the way they want it. And if they are here in secret, why are...
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2011
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Gettysburg: A fictional account of four days in July, 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg discussing tactics, plans and preparations for battle from both the Northern and Southern points of view.
Gods and generals: Traces the lives, passions, and careers of military leaders Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, Winfield Scott Hancock, Joshua Chamberlain, and Robert E. Lee, who all meet on the same battlefield for the first time at Fredericksburg, where they experience...
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Binge Box
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2023
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Titles included: 42; 61*; For Love of the Game; A League of Their Own; The Rookie.
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17) Vintage Sci-fi 18 - 21 Classic Science Fiction Short Stories From Isaac Asimov, Jack London, H. G
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Vintage Sci-Fi 18 - 21 Classic Science Fiction Short Stories from Isaac Asimov, Jack London, H. G. Wells, H. P. Lovecraft, Harry Harrison and many more
• Goliah by Jack London
• Project Hush by William Tenn
• Homesick by Lynn Venable
• The Incredible Slingshot Bombs by Robert Moore Williams
• The Elf-Trap by Francis Stevens
• The Eel by Miriam Allen DeFord
• Keep Your Shape by Robert Sheckley
• A Moth by H. G. Wells
• Trainee For...
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Random House Publishing Group
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2012
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Michael Shaara reinvented the war novel with his Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece of Gettysburg, The Killer Angels. Jeff Shaara continued his father’s legacy with a series of centuries-spanning New York Times bestsellers. Together at last in eBook form, this volume assembles three Civil War novels from America’s first family of military fiction: Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure.
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