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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Cavalryman of the Lost Cause is the first major biography in decades of the famous Confederate general J.E.B. Stuart. Based on research in manuscript collections, personal memoirs and reminiscences, and regimental histories, this comprehensive volume reflects outstanding Civil War scholarship. James Ewell Brown Stuart was the premier cavalry commander of the Confederacy. He gained a reputation for daring early in the war when he rode around the Union...
Author
Publisher
Permuted Press, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The first-person account of how a small band of Green Berets used horses and laser-guided bombs to overthrow the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan after 9/11. They landed in a dust storm so thick the chopper pilot used dead reckoning and a guess to find the ground. Welcomed by a band of heavily armed militiamen, they climbed a mountain on horseback to meet the most ferocious warlord in Asia. They plotted a war of nineteenth-century maneuvers...
4) The Perfect Horse: the daring U.S. mission to rescue the priceless stallions kidnapped by the Nazis
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Traces the lesser-known efforts of Hitler to build a master race of the finest purebred horses and the heroic achievements of American soldiers to rescue imperiled stolen equines from a hidden Czechoslovakian farm during a 1945 battle between Third Reich and Allied forces,"--NoveList.
In the chaotic last days of World War II, a small troop of American soldiers captures a German spy and learns that on a secret farm behind enemy lines, Hitler has...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
12 Strong is the dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers who secretly entered Afghanistan following 9/11 and rode to war on horses against the Taliban. Outnumbered forty to one, they pursued the enemy army across the mountainous Afghanistan terrain and, after a series of intense battles, captured the city of Mazar-i-Sharif. The bone-weary American soldiers were welcomed as liberators as they rode into the city. Then the action...
Author
Publisher
Publications International, Ltd
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Butch Cassidy, Killin' Jim Miller, Belle Starr, Calamity Jane, Annie Oakley, Gen. Sam Houston, Chief Crazy Horse, Jim Bridger, Jedediah Smith, James P. Beckwourth, Kit Carson, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Bass Reeves, Bill Tighman, Pat Garrett, Tom Horn, Buffalo Bill Cody, Roy Bean, Bat Masterson, Judge Isaac Parker, Nat Love, Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Charley Parkhurst, Nellie Cashman, Adah Isaacs Menken, Sitting Bull,...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
American soldiers, aided by an Austrian colonel who was both an Olympian and a trainer of Lipizzaners, attempt to kidnap horses that had been taken by Nazis "for the glorification of the Third Reich" and smuggle them to safety.--
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