William C Davis
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Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2005
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Description
At large during the most colorful period in New Orleans' history, from just after the Louisiana Purchase through the War of 1812, privateers Jean and Pierre Laffite made life hell for Spanish merchants on the Gulf. Pirates to the US Navy officers who chased them, heroes to the private citizens who shopped for contraband at their well-publicized auctions, the brothers became important members of a filibustering syndicate that included lawyers, bankers,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
"William C. Davis's Three Roads to the Alamo is far and away the best account of the Alamo I have ever read. The portraits of Crockett, Bowie, and Travis are brilliantly sketched in a fast-moving story that keeps the reader riveted to the very last word." - Stephen B. Oates
Three Roads to the Alamois the definitive book about the lives of David Crockett, James Bowie and William Barret Travis-the legendary frontiersmen and fighters who met their...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Description
When Britain ceded the territory of West Florida-what is now Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida-to Spain in 1783, America was still too young to confidently fight in one of Europe's endless territorial contests. So it was left to the settlers, bristling at Spanish misrule, to establish a foothold in the area. Enter the Kemper brothers, whose vigilante justice culminated in a small band of American residents drafting a constitution and establishing...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
In February 1865, the end was clearly in sight for the Confederate government. Lee's defeat at Gettysburg had dashed the hopes of the Confederate army, and Grant's victory at Vicksburg had cut the South in two. An Honorable Defeat is the story of the four months that saw the surrender of the South and the assassination of Lincoln by Southern partisans. It is also the story of two men, antagonists yet political partners, who struggled during this time...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2002
Description
William C. Davis, one of America's best Civil War historians, here offers a definitive portrait of the Confederacy unlike any that has come before. Drawing on decades of writing and research among an unprecedented number of archives, Look Away! tells the story of the Confederate States of America not simply as a military saga (although it is that), but rather as a full portrait of a society and incipient nation. The first history of the Confederacy...
Author
Publisher
Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
No American president has enjoyed as intimate a relationship with the soldiers in his army as did the man they called "Father Abraham." In Lincoln's Men, historian William C. Davis draws on thousands of unpublished letters and diaries-the voices of the volunteers-to tell the hidden story of how a new and untested president became "Father" throughout both the army and the North as a whole.
How did Lincoln inspire the faith and courage of so many shattered...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
Traces the path of western migration in the early nineteenth century through the lives of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis, and reveals the truth about the legendary men and their participation in the battle of the Alamo.
