Author | : |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Alternative rock music |
ISBN | : 1442921862 |
Author | : |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Alternative rock music |
ISBN | : 1442921862 |
Author | : Cormac McCarthy |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1995-03-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0679760849 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The second volume of the award-winning Border Trilogy—From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road—fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a classic western and the elegaic power of a lost American myth. In the late 1930s, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a she-wolf that has been marauding his family's ranch. But instead of killing it, he decides to take it back to the mountains of Mexico. With that crossing, he begins an arduous and often dreamlike journey into a country where men meet ghosts and violence strikes as suddenly as heat-lightning—a world where there is no order "save that which death has put there." An essential novel by any measure, The Crossing is luminous and appalling, a book that touches, stops, and starts the heart and mind at once. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.
Author | : David Hackett Fischer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2006-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199756678 |
Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George Washington--and many other Americans--refused to let the Revolution die. On Christmas night, as a howling nor'easter struck the Delaware Valley, he led his men across the river and attacked the exhausted Hessian garrison at Trenton, killing or capturing nearly a thousand men. A second battle of Trenton followed within days. The Americans held off a counterattack by Lord Cornwallis's best troops, then were almost trapped by the British force. Under cover of night, Washington's men stole behind the enemy and struck them again, defeating a brigade at Princeton. The British were badly shaken. In twelve weeks of winter fighting, their army suffered severe damage, their hold on New Jersey was broken, and their strategy was ruined. Fischer's richly textured narrative reveals the crucial role of contingency in these events. We see how the campaign unfolded in a sequence of difficult choices by many actors, from generals to civilians, on both sides. While British and German forces remained rigid and hierarchical, Americans evolved an open and flexible system that was fundamental to their success. The startling success of Washington and his compatriots not only saved the faltering American Revolution, but helped to give it new meaning.
Author | : United States. Department of the Army |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Forest Service |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1010 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas Johnson Michie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1020 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Railroad law |
ISBN | : |
Covers cases decided 1901-1913.
Author | : Illinois. Railroad and Warehouse Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : |
Author | : New York (State). Public Service Commission. First District |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1276 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Electrical engineering |
ISBN | : |