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  • A Single Blow

    The Battles of Lexington and Concord and the Beginning of the American Revolution April 19, 1775

    by Phillip S. Greenwalt, Robert Orrison ...
    Series series Emerging Revolutionary War Series
    A concise history of the "shot heard round the world"—and the dramatic day that began America's war for independence. Includes maps and photos.When shots were fired at Lexington and Concord on a spring day in 1775, few, if any, fully grasped the impact they would ultimately have on the world.This concise book offers not only a guide to the historical sites involved but a lively, readable history ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To Hazard All

    A Guide to the Maryland Campaign, 1862

    by Robert Orrison, Kevin Pawlak ...
    Series series Emerging Civil War Series
    Experience the history of the Maryland Campaign with this Civil War chronicle and guide featuring battlefield information and day-trip itineraries.In the summer of 1862, the world watched anxiously as Confederate armies advanced across a thousand-mile front. Reacting to the Army of Northern Virginia's trek across the Potomac River, George B. McClellan gathered the broken and scattered remnants of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • All That Can Be Expected

    The Battle of Camden and the British High Tide in the South, August 16, 1780

    by Robert Orrison, Mark Wilcox ...
    Series series Emerging Revolutionary War Series
    A history and analysis of the 1780 South Carolina battle that marked the turning point for Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War."An impressive work of collaborative historical research by historians Robert Orrison and Mark Wilcox, this is the newest title in the simply outstanding 'Emerging Revolutionary War' series from Savas Beatie and a welcome, unreservedly recommended pick."— ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Road North

    A Guide to the Gettysburg Campaign, 1863

    by Robert Orrison, Dan Welch ...
    Series series Emerging Civil War Series
    A guide to the Gettysburg Civil War battlefields and their history, featuring lesser-known sites, side trips, and optional stops along the way."I thought my men were invincible," admitted Robert E. Lee.A string of battlefield victories through 1862 had culminated in the spring of 1863 with Lee's greatest victory yet: the battle of Chancellorsville. Propelled by the momentum of that supreme moment, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Want of Vigilance

    The Bristoe Station Campaign, October 9–19, 1863

    by Bill Backus, Robert Orrison ...
    Series series Emerging Civil War Series
    Part of the Emerging Civil War Series, this history covers a crucial clash between the Blue and the Gray that impacted future Union tactics and victories.The months after the Battle of Gettysburg were anything but quiet—filled with skirmishes and cavalry clashes. Nonetheless, Union commander Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade had yet to encounter his Confederate counterpart, Gen. Robert E. Lee, in ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Turning Points of the American Civil War

    by Daniel T. Davis, Stephen Davis, Ryan Longfellow, Gregory A. Mertz, Robert Orrison, Kevin Pawlak, Rea Redd, James A. Morgan III ...
    Series series Engaging the Civil War
    Contributors to this collection, public historians with experience at Civil War battle sites, examine key shifts in the Civil War and the context surrounding them to show that many chains of events caused the course of the war to change: the Federal defeats at First Bull Run and Ball’s Bluff, the wounding of Joseph Johnston at Seven Pines and the Confederate victory at Chancellorsville, the ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • Poor Richard's Women

    Deborah Read Franklin and the Other Women Behind the Founding Father

    by Nancy Rubin Stuart ...
    Meet the overlooked women in history who loved, nurtured, and defended the famed American scientist and founding father.“ . . . highlights a side of Ben Franklin too often ignored by historians . . . and provides a necessary reminder that the women who came into his life are as deserving of our attention as Ben himself.” —Carol Berkin, author of Revolutionary MothersEveryone knows Benjamin ... Read more

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  • Science and the Modern World

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    Alfred North Whitehead (18681-1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known as the defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy, which has been applied to a variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology. He was educated at Cambridge University in England and later became a professor of ... Read more

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  • The Daughters of George III

    Sisters & Princesses

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    An in-depth look into the lives of the six daughters of King George III of England.In the dying years of the 18th century, the corridors of Windsor echoed to the footsteps of six princesses. They were Charlotte, Augusta, Elizabeth, Mary, Sophia, and Amelia, the daughters of King George III and Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Though more than fifteen years divided the births of the eldest ... Read more

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  • In Search of Angels

    Travels to the Edge of the World

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  • Waterloo

    Wellington's Victory & Napoleon's Last Campaign

    by Christopher Hibbert ...
    A portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Duke of Wellington, and the fateful clash of their armies in 1815 from "a remarkably good writer" ( The New York Times). It was the greatest of battles—the defining military engagement of the nineteenth century that forever ended one man's dreams of a European empire unified under his rule. This epoch-defining conflict would ultimately be remembered for the ... Read more

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