Barricades: The First African-American West Point Cadets and Their Constant Fight for Survival, Carhart Tom

Автор: Carhart, Tom
Название: Lost Triumph
ISBN: 0425207919 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780425207918
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: "Thanks to Tom Carhart's painstaking and absorbing reconstruction of events, we now have a clear comprehension of what Lee planned for July 3--and why it went wrong."--James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom

This is a fresh and fascinating new look at one of the most pivotal moments in American history: the Battle of Gettysburg, when Union forces repelled the brilliant Robert E. Lee, who had already thrashed a long line of Federal opponents--just as he was poised at the back door of the nation's capital.

Conventional wisdom holds that Lee made one profoundly wrong decision on the last day of the battle--launching "Pickett's Charge" uphill across an open field against the heart of the Union defense. But why would he have employed only a fifth of his forces at such a crucial moment?

Now, Tom Carhart offers a bold thesis--that Lee's heretofore unknown strategy at Gettysburg was to combine Pickett's frontal attack with a daring rear assault by the great Jeb Stuart to break the Union Army in half. Only in the battle's final hours was Stuart stopped by a force half the size of his own, led by a young, unproven general--George Armstrong Custer--who helped turn the tide of the war.

Destined to be controversial, Lost Triumph is a provocative reassessment of this monumental battle and a vivid, indispensable contribution to Civil War literature.

Автор: Carhart Tom
Название: Golden Fleece
ISBN: 1612349102 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781612349107
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In the fall of 1965 West Point cadet Tom Carhart and five of his classmates from the U.S. Military Academy pulled off a feat of extraordinary ingenuity, precision, and raw guts: the theft of the billy goat mascot from their rival, the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, just before the biggest football game of the year. The U.S. forces in Vietnam were then at two hundred thousand and growing, with casualties spiking, and the men in West Point’s class of 1966 were well aware that they would serve, and quite possibly die, in that far-off war. But West Point’s motto, “Duty, Honor, Country,” affirms that its graduates will always obey the decisions of our elected government, and the men of ’66 were dutiful: of the 579 who graduated, 30 died in Vietnam and roughly five times that number were wounded. Since this would be the men’s last Army-Navy football game as cadets, they wanted to go out with a bang, not a whimper. Carhart tells the incredible true story of how, in stealing that Navy goat, the cadets unknowingly reenacted the story of Jason and the Golden Fleece from Greek mythology. The caper is interwoven with an insider’s narrative about the private lives of six West Point cadets in the early 1960s, who, against all odds, hurled their last hurrah of triumph to America before flying off to fight its wretched war in Vietnam. For more information about The Golden Fleece visit carhartthegoldenfleece.com.

Автор: Wesley K. Clark with Tom Carhart; read by the auth
Название: Time to Lead UAB CD
ISBN: 1427202389 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781427202383
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
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Автор: Wesley K. Clark with Tom Carhart; read by the auth
Название: Time to Lead
ISBN: 0792750349 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780792750345
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Автор: Carhart Marie L.
Название: Charlotte at the Pageant: Beauty Unleashed
ISBN: 1982239824 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781982239824
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Описание: Based on a true story, Charlotte sets out on her adventure at the doggie pageant for the pure joy of it and loves every minute. Although Charlotte never loses sight of what's important, Mommy gets a little too wrapped up in winning and brother Ralphie becomes so jealous that he even...well...wait until you see what mischief he gets into But don't worry - Charlotte's family comes to learn what she has known all along: It's all the "little steps" along the way that are a big deal. "Winning" is really just about having fun, sharing good times with family and friends and maybe even making new friends along the way. Now that is a WIN-WIN-WIN