Whittaker Chambers had just participated in America's trial of the century in which Chambers claimed that Alger Hiss, a full-standing member of the political establishment, was a spy for the Soviet Union. This poetic autobiography recounts the famous case, but also reveals much more. Chambers' worldview--e.g. "man without mysticism is a monster"--went on to help make political conservatism a national force.

    Lincoln's Army/Glory Road/A Stillness at Appomattox

    This fictional re-creation of the battle of Shiloh in April 1862 fulfills the standard set by his monumental history, conveying both the bloody choreography of two armies and the movements of the combatants' hearts and minds.

    Evaluates Lincoln's ability as a director of war and his influence on the development of a modern command system.From the Trade Paperback edition.

    Recommended in Laura Berquist Second Grade Syllabus Author: Edgar D Aulaire Grade: 1-6 Pages: 42, Paperback Publisher: Beautiful Feet Books ISBN: 0-9643803-7-4

    The story of his triumphs, tragedies, successes & failures.

    Here are graphic portrayals of the fortifications, the terrain over which battles were fought, the part that Native Americans played, the technology of gunnery and the hundreds of details that go to make up the broad scope of this epochal struggle that created the United States of America.

    Excellent history based on the author's The Delaware Continentals, 1776-1783.

    The Nez Perce were a peacable and prosperous people who were oppressed, persecuted, misunderstood and badgered, yet avoided war until fateful forces pushed them into it.  McWhorter spent years interviewing, researching, then recording Nez Perce history and legend.

    

    a dark (and most likely not appreciated) nickname that came about in the 1920's after being the scene of a bloody massacre, brutal battles with the Klan, and a fantastic Prohibition war between battling bootleggers. Regardless of how you look at it, the moniker of "Bloody" is something that Williamson County has earned!

    With passion and verve, Joseph Kinsey Howard, author of the best-selling Montana: High, Wide, and Handsome, narrates the tragic story of Riel, the Metis people, and their struggle for a homeland on the plains of the U.S.-Canada border.

    

    Study of how FDR helped cause WWII.

    

    

    

    A sober fifteen-year-old French youth joins an unlikely party of voyageurs bound for the Mississippi boundary of Illinois, to search for a new home for his family and to prove himself to his father.