Thomas A Desjardin

Stand Firm Ye Boys from Maine

The 20th Maine and the Gettysburg Campaign

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A reissued edition of the paperback published by OUP January, featuring a new and a few updated maps and illustrations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Fifteenth Anniversary edition
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 141mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 357g
• ISBN-13: 9780195382310
• ISBN-10: 0195382315
• Artikelnr.: 26570091

Autorenporträt

Thomas A. Desjardin was born and raised in Maine and did his doctoral work in American History at the University of Maine. He has worked as an interpreter, giving programs on the Gettysburg battlefield for the National Park Service. The author of These Honored Dead: How the Story of Gettysburg Shaped American Memory and Through A Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec, 1775, he is working on a TV documentary on Joshua Chamberlain.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Foreword by John Pullen
Introduction
1: North From the Rappahannock
2: The Death-Strewn Slope
3: The Bigger Hill
4: Seared by the Horrors of War
5: In Great Deeds Something Abides
6: American Legend, American Shrine
Twentieth Maine Roster of Participants
Appendix 1: Number of Combatants
Appendix 2: Recollections of the Participants
Appendix 3: 20th Maine Casualties
Appendix 4: 15th Alabama Casualties
Appendix 5: 47th Alabama Casualties
Notes
Bibliography
Index