Stephen E Ambrose
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River to the Rockies, over the mountains, down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean, and back. Lewis and his partner, Captain William Clark, made the first map of the trans-Mississippi West, provided invaluable scientific data on the flora and fauna of the Louisiana Purchase territory, and established the American claim...
3) Band of brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne : from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's nest
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes E Company's contributions to the campaigns in western Europe.
8) Nixon
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 58
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1970
Language
English
Description
In this classic portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower the soldier, bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose examines the Allied commander’s leadership during World War II.
Ambrose brings Eisenhower’s experience of the Second World War to life, showing in vivid detail how the general’s skill as a diplomat and a military strategist contributed to Allied successes in North Africa and in Europe, and established him as one of the greatest military leaders...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the soldiers of the U.S. Army and U.S. Army Air Forces in the European Theater of Operations in World War II, following their activities from D-Day on June 7, 1944 to Germany's surrender eleven months later on May 7, 1945.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A fictional journal recounting the travels--from 1803 to 1806--of eighteen-year-old George Shannon, the youngest member of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery as they explored the west and sought a water route to the Pacific Ocean.