Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 13 results for “robert h ferrell”
Skip side bar filters

  • Harry S. Truman

    A Life

    by Robert H. Ferrell ...
    Series Book 1 - Give ‘em Hell Harry
    Few U.S. presidents have captured the imagination of the American people as has Harry S. Truman, “the man from Missouri.”In this major new biography, Robert H. Ferrell, widely regarded as an authority on the thirty-third president, challenges the popular characterization of Truman as a man who rarely sought the offices he received, revealing instead a man who—with modesty, commitment to service, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Holding the Line

    The Third Tennesse Regiment 1861-1864

    by Barber ...
    FLAVEL C. BARBER’S memoir of his service with the Third Tennessee provides a rare contemporary history of a Confederate regiment. Major Barber’s imprisonment after the surrender of Fort Donelson spurred him to take pen in hand. What began as a way to “while away the tedious hours of imprisonment” on Johnson’s Island in Lake Erie became a poignant, candid, yet unsentimental account of the life of a ... Read more

    $28.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • America's Deadliest Battle

    Meuse-Argonne, 1918

    by Robert H. Ferrell ...
    Series series Modern War Studies
    American fighting men had never seen the likes of it before.The great battle of the Meuse-Argonne was the costliest conflict in American history, with 26,000 men killed and tens of thousands wounded. Involving 1.2 million American troops over 47 days, it ended on November 11—what we now know as Armistice Day—and brought an end to World War I, but at a great price. Distinguished historian Robert ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Monterrey Is Ours!

    The Mexican War Letters of Lieutenant Dana, 1845-1847

    by Napoleon Tecumseh Dana ...
    "Here we are on the banks of the Nueces in the grand camp of the army of occupation." So wrote Lt. Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana when in 1845, not many months before the outbreak of the Mexican War, he joined the white-tented encampment of General Zachary Taylor in Texas. And so he continued writing during the uncertain life of camp and campaign for the better part of the next two years. In these ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Strange Deaths of President Harding

    by Robert H. Ferrell ...
    Available for the first time in paperback, The Strange Deaths of President Harding challenges readers to reexamine Warren G. Harding's rightful place in American history.For nearly half a century, the twenty-ninth president of the United States has consistently finished last in polls ranking the presidents. After Harding's untimely death in 1923, a variety of attacks and unsubstantiated claims ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • Meuse-Argonne Diary

    A Division Commander in World War I

    by William M. Wright ...
    September 13, 1918Got no sleep at all last night.About two o'clock in the morning Col. Heintzelman, chief of staff of the corps, came out and he was much pleased with what the division had accomplished and with the way they had gone through. It was the division's first battle and it played a very important and creditable part. Certain things fell down. . . . The truth of the matter is the troops ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Argonne Days in World War I

    by Horace L. Baker ...
    When he took ship for France in the spring of 1918, Horace Baker was ill prepared for war. A private in the American Expeditionary Forces, the unassuming Mississippi schoolteacher joined the renowned Thirty-second Division and learned his soldiering skills from men who’d already fought in the Aisne-Marne offensive. Before long, he was to put those skills to use in the largest and most costly ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Harry S. Truman and the Cold War Revisionists

    by Robert H. Ferrell ...
    The idea of revising what is known of the past constitutes an essential procedure in historical scholarship, but revisionists are often hasty and argumentative in their judgments. Such, argues Robert H. Ferrell, has been the case with assessments of the presidency of Harry S. Truman, who was targeted by historians and political scientists in the 1960s and ’70s for numerous failings in both ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Collapse at Meuse-Argonne

    The Failure of the Missouri-Kansas Division

    by Robert H. Ferrell ...
    During World War I, the Thirty-fifth Division was made up of National Guard units from Missouri and Kansas. Composed of thousands of men from the two states, the Missouri-Kansas Division entered the great battle of the Meuse-Argonne with no battle experience and only a small amount of training, a few weeks of garrisoning in a quiet sector in Alsace. The division fell apart in five days, and the ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Unjustly Dishonored

    An African American Division in World War I

    by Robert H. Ferrell ...
    Series Book 1 - American Military Experience
    For nearly one hundred years, the 92nd Division of the U.S. Army in World War I has been remembered as a military failure. The division should have been historically significant. It was the only African American division of the American Expeditionary Forces in France. Comprised of nearly twenty-eight thousand black soldiers, it fought in two sectors of the great battle of the Meuse-Argonne, the ... Read more

    Was $23.99 USD Now $21.59 USD

  • Reminiscences of Conrad S. Babcock

    The Old U.S. Army and the New, 1898-1918

    Edited by Robert H. Ferrell ...
    Series series American Military Experience
    The son of an army officer, Conrad S. Babcock graduated from West Point in 1898, just in time for the opening of the Spanish-American War. Because of his father’s position, he managed to secure a place in the force that Major General Wesley Merritt led to Manila to secure the city. The Philippine Insurrection, as Americans described it, began shortly after he arrived. What Babcock observed in ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • In the Company of Generals

    The World War I Diary of Pierpont L. Stackpole

    Edited by Robert H. Ferrell ...
    Pierpont Stackpole was a Boston lawyer who in January 1918 became aide to Lieutenant General Hunter Liggett, soon to be commander of the first American corps in France. Stackpole’s diary, published here for the first time, is a major eyewitness account of the American Expeditionary Forces’ experience on the Western Front, offering an insider’s view into the workings of Liggett’s commands, his day ... Read more

    $30.99 USD