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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The discovery of Robert E. Lee's Special Orders No. 191 outside of Frederick, Maryland, on September 13, 1862, is one of the most important and hotly disputed events of the American Civil War. For more than 150 years, historians have debated if George McClellan, commander of the Union Army of the Potomac, dawdled upon receiving a copy of the orders before advancing to challenge Lee's forces at the Battle of South Mountain. In this detailed new study, authors Gene Thorp and Alexander Rossino exhaustively document how 'Little Mac' rapidly reorganized his army, advanced on Frederick with more speed than previously thought, and then moved with uncharacteristic energy to take advantage of Lee's divided forces. These actions enabled McClellan to strike a blow that wrecked Lee's plans for a decisive battle on his own terms and sent the Army of Northern Virginia reeling back toward the Potomac River. The Tale Untwisted: General George B. McClellan, the Maryland Campaign, and the Discovery of Lee's Lost Orders proposes a rich, new interpretation of the fate and impact of the Lost Orders on the history of the 1862 Maryland Campaign. AUTHORS: Born in Baltimore, Gene Thorp is a senior cartographer at the U.S. Department of State, Office of the Geographer. He spent 15 years as an award-winning graphics editor at The Washington Post covering daily stories from the 2000 Bush-Gore election to the rise and fall of the Islamic State. His custom maps can be found in numerous non-fiction books on the New York Times Best-Seller list and throughout museums and parks across America. Award-winning author and historian Alexander B. Rossino resides near Boonsboro, Maryland. He worked at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (1994-2003) and is the author of Hitler Strikes Poland: Blitzkrieg, Ideology, and Atrocity, an acclaimed history of the policies implemented by the Third Reich during its 1939 invasion of the Polish Republic, and more than a dozen scholarly articles and book reviews. Dr. Rossino is also the author of the deeply researched and beautifully written Six Days in September, a novel about Lee's Army in Maryland during the 1862 campaign, as well as Their Maryland: The Army of Northern Virginia from the Potomac Crossing to Sharpsburg in September 1862 (2021), a historical study of the same period. He is currently anticipating the release of The Guns of September: A Novel of McClellan's Army in Maryland, 1862, a companion to Six Days in September. 17 images, 7 maps The discovery of Robert E. Lees Special Orders No. 191 outside of Frederick, Maryland, on September 13, 1862, is one of the most important and hotly disputed events of the American Civil War. This work proposes a rich, new interpretation of the fate and impact of the Lost Orders on the history of the 1862 Maryland Campaign. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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paperback. Condition: Good. Book is indented on the spine, near it's top edge. Dent is causing heavy warping/bending throughout the top of the book. Otherwise book is minimally worn with no cover scuffing and perfect, unmarred pages. Good reading copy.

Paperback. Condition: New. The discovery of Robert E. Lee's Special Orders No. 191 outside of Frederick, Maryland, on September 13, 1862, is one of the most important and hotly disputed events of the American Civil War. For more than 150 years, historians have debated if George McClellan, commander of the Union Army of the Potomac, dawdled upon receiving a copy of the orders before advancing to challenge Lee's forces at the Battle of South Mountain. In this detailed new study, authors Gene Thorp and Alexander Rossino exhaustively document how 'Little Mac' rapidly reorganized his army, advanced on Frederick with more speed than previously thought, and then moved with uncharacteristic energy to take advantage of Lee's divided forces. These actions enabled McClellan to strike a blow that wrecked Lee's plans for a decisive battle on his own terms and sent the Army of Northern Virginia reeling back toward the Potomac River. The Tale Untwisted: General George B. McClellan, the Maryland Campaign, and the Discovery of Lee's Lost Orders proposes a rich, new interpretation of the fate and impact of the Lost Orders on the history of the 1862 Maryland Campaign.…

Paperback. Condition: New. The discovery of Robert E. Lee's Special Orders No. 191 outside of Frederick, Maryland, on September 13, 1862, is one of the most important and hotly disputed events of the American Civil War. For more than 150 years, historians have debated if George McClellan, commander of the Union Army of the Potomac, dawdled upon receiving a copy of the orders before advancing to challenge Lee's forces at the Battle of South Mountain. In this detailed new study, authors Gene Thorp and Alexander Rossino exhaustively document how 'Little Mac' rapidly reorganized his army, advanced on Frederick with more speed than previously thought, and then moved with uncharacteristic energy to take advantage of Lee's divided forces. These actions enabled McClellan to strike a blow that wrecked Lee's plans for a decisive battle on his own terms and sent the Army of Northern Virginia reeling back toward the Potomac River. The Tale Untwisted: General George B. McClellan, the Maryland Campaign, and the Discovery of Lee's Lost Orders proposes a rich, new interpretation of the fate and impact of the Lost Orders on the history of the 1862 Maryland Campaign.…

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Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Illus. , maps; 171 pages.

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Trade paperback. Glued binding. xv, [7], 681, [1] p. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Sources. Index. From Wikipedia: "Lawrence Rush "Rick" Atkinson IV (born November 16, 1952 in Munich) is an American author who has won Pulitzer Prizes in history and journalism. After working as a newspaper reporter, editor, and foreign correspondent for the Washington Post, Atkinson turned to writing Military history. His six books include narrative accounts of four different American wars. His Liberation Trilogy, a history of the American role in the liberation of Europe in World War II, concluded with the publication of The Guns at Last Light in May 2013. In 2010, he received the $100, 000 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. As a result of his time with Gen. Petraeus and the 101st Airborne, Atkinson also wrote In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat. Atkinson was the lead essayist in Where Valor Rests: Arlington National Cemetery, published by the National Geographic Society in 2007." Very good. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Minor edge soiling. Reprint. First Owl Books Edition. Third printing [stated]. Thorp, Gene (Maps) (illustrator). …

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Owl Books Edition, 2003. 681 + 28 pp. A very clean copy with solid and tight binding. Remnant ofa small ink stain on fore edge. Unmarked pages. Gene Thorp (Maps by); Fritz Metsch (Design by) (illustrator).

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Copyright © 2006. 482 pp. Over-sized and/or over weight book; may require extra postage. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur an additional shipping charge. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear. Extensive notes on inside cover board, first front-end page and second front-end page, as well as on half-title page, and on map pages. Corners and edges are slightly worn. Dust jacket shows minor wear around edges. Amanda Dewey (Deisgn); Nicole Laroche (Photo Insert by); Gene Thorp (Maps by) (illustrator).…

Trade paperback. Condition: Good. Later printing. xxii, 681 pages. Maps. Allied Chain of Command, Notes. Sources. Index. Lawrence Rush "Rick" Atkinson IV (born November 15, 1952) is an American author and journalist. After working as a newspaper reporter, editor, and foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, Atkinson turned to writing military history. His eight books include narrative accounts of five different American wars. He has won Pulitzer Prizes in history and journalism. His Liberation Trilogy, a history of the American role in the liberation of Europe in World War II, concluded with the publication of The Guns at Last Light in May 2013. In 2010, he received the $100,000 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 19421943 is a Pulitzer Prizewinning book written in 2002 by long-time Washington Post correspondent Rick Atkinson. The book is a history of the North African Campaign, particularly focused on the role of the United States military. The book follows the early planning stages of the Allied invasion (Operation Torch) of North Africa, the landings in Casablanca, Oran, and Algiers, and finally the back and forth struggle for dominance in Tunisia. Atkinson constructs his narrative from letters, newspaper articles, and personal diaries of commanders, soldiers, and others on the ground in northern Africa. The book discusses the battlefield failings and successes of American troops and their commanders and the larger context of the burgeoning cooperation between the Allied forces in World War II. The book received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for History. An Army at Dawn is the first volume of The Liberation Trilogy. The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 19431944, published in 2007, is the second volume. The third and final volume, The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 19441945, was released on May 14, 2013. Gene Thorp (Maps) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine-. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Henry Holt and Company, LLC, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2002. Sixth (6th) Printing (number line down to 6) of the First (1st) Edition. Fine- condition. No Dust Jacket. Unread. The Text Block is clean, bright white, tight, straight and square with no markings of any kind. The Binding is navy blue quarter cloth to cream colored boards, boards slightly bowed outward, with the author's signature in bright gilt to the front board, bright gilt title, etc., to the spine, unmarked map endpapers showing the "Mediterranean and European Theaters in World War II", and all corners square and sharp. No Jacket. See the photos. xiii, [iii], 681, [i] pages. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2" x 2 1/4". Maps by Gene Thorp. Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for History and the 2003 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award, this book is a history of the North African Campaign of World War Two, particularly focused on the role of the United States military. It is the first volume of The Liberation Trilogy, followed by The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944, and The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945. This is a heavy book, weighing 1,163 grams / 40.9 ounces, and will require extra postage for international shipment. We also have Volume Two, The Day of Battle, for sale. ISBN 10: 0805062882 / ISBN 13: 9780805062885. Maps by Gene Thorp (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. 482 pp. Over-sized and/or over weight book; may require additional postage. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur extra shipping charge for both domestic and/or international shipments. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially flawless copy and dust jacket with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear. Book and dust jacket are essentially flawless. Amanda Dewey (Design); Nicole Laroche (Photo Insert by); Gene Thorp (Maps by) (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 171 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New. In English.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. New condition glossy color photographic softcover wraps. Includes Acclaim for Imperial Life in the Emerald City; About the Author; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote by T.E. Lawrence; Prologue; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes and Index. Illustrated with map. National Book Award Finalist. "Absolutely brilliant. It is eyewitness history of the first order. It should be read by anyone who wants to understand how things went so badly wrong in Iraq." - The New York Times Book Review. "A visceral - sometimes sickening - picture of how the administration and its handpicked crew bungled the first year in postwar Iraq. Often reads like something out of Catch-22 or from M*A*S*H." - The New York Times. "The Green Zone, Baghdad, 2003: in a walled-off compound of swimming pools and luxurious amenities, Paul Bremer and his Coalition Provisional Authority set out to fashion a new, democratic Iraq. Staffed by idealistic aides chosen primarily for their views on issues such as abortion and capital punishment, the CPA spent the crucial first year of occupation pursuing goals that had little to do with the immediate needs of a postwar nation. Rajiv Chandrasekaran, former Washington Post Baghdad bureau chief, gives us an intimate portrait of life inside this Oz-like bubble, which continued unaffected by the growing mayhem outside." - from the rear outer cover. du Cille, Michel (author photograph); Thorp, Gene (map); Gall, John (cover design) (illustrator).…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Fourth Printing [stated]. xiv, 482 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Index. Slight wear and soiling to DJ. This definitive military chronicle of the Iraq war--and a searing judgment on the strategic blindness with which America has conducted it--draws on the accounts of senior military officers giving voice to their anger for the first time. Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post senior Pentagon correspondent Thomas E. Ricks's Fiasco is masterful and explosive reckoning with the planning and execution of the American military invasion and occupation of Iraq, based on the unprecedented candor of key participants. The American military is a tightly sealed community, and few outsiders have reason to know that a great many senior officers view the Iraq war with incredulity and dismay. But many officers have shared their anger with renowned military reporter Thomas E. Ricks, and in Fiasco, Ricks combines these astonishing on-the-record military accounts with his own extraordinary on-the-ground reportage to create a spellbinding account of an epic disaster. Thomas Edwin "Tom" Ricks (born September 25, 1955) is an American journalist who writes on defense topics. He is a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. He has reported on military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, the Balkans, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Ricks is author of four nonfiction books: Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq, The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008, The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today, and Making the Corps. The main points of this hard-hitting indictment of the Iraq war have been made before, but seldom with such compelling specificity. In dovetailing critiques of the civilian and military leadership, Washington Post Pentagon correspondent Ricks (Making the Corps) contends that, under Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Feith, the Pentagon concocted "the worst war plan in American history," with insufficient troops and no thought for the invasion's aftermath. Thus, an under-manned, unprepared U.S. military stood by as chaos and insurgency took root, then responded with heavy-handed tactics that brutalized and alienated Iraqis. Based on extensive interviews with American soldiers and officers as well as firsthand reportage, Ricks's detailed, unsparing account of the occupation paints a woeful panorama of reckless firepower, mass arrests, humiliating home invasions, hostage-taking and abuse of detainees. It holds individual commanders to account, from top generals Tommy Franks and Ricardo Sanchez on down. The author's conviction that a proper hearts-and-minds counterinsurgency strategy might have salvaged the debacle is perhaps naive, and pays too little heed to the intractable ethnic conflicts underlying what is by now a full-blown civil war. Still, Ricks's solid reporting, deep knowledge of the American military and willingness to name names make this perhaps the most complete, incisive analysis yet of the Iraq quagmire. Nicole Larouche (Photo Insert), Gene Thorp (Maps) (illustrator).…

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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Henry Holt & Company LLC, New York, New York, USA, 2007. Second Printing (number line to "2") of First Edition (stated). As New in As New, mylar-protected Dust Jacket. Appears unread. Text Block is clean, white, tight, straight and square without markings of any kind and with endpaper maps showing World War 2 Mediterranean and European Theaters of War. Binding is dark gray quarter cloth to light gray boards (colors uniform throughout) with bright gilt embossed author signature to front cover and bright gilt title, etc., to spine, and all corners square and sharp. the pictorial Dust Jacket is flawless, bright and mylar-protected, with original prices (USA $35.00 Canada $44.00) intact and all corners sharp and square. See photos. xvi, 791, [1] pages, including extensive maps, notes, bibliography, and index, plus 32 unnumbered pages of photographic plates. 6 3/8" x 9 1/2". 1 3/4" thick, may require extra postage. Second Volume of Rick Atkinson's The Liberation Trilogy, following The Army at Dawn and preceding The Guns at Last Light. History of World War 2. Twenty (20) maps produced by Gene Thorp. NOTE: This is a heavy book, weighing 1,325 grams / 2 lb., 14 oz., and will require extra postage for international delivery. ISBN 10: 0805062890 / ISBN 13: 9780805062892. Gene Thorp, maps (illustrator). …

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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. First printing [stated]. xvii, 572 pages. Illustrations. Cast of Characters. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. David Maraniss (born 1949) is an American journalist and author, currently serving as an associate editor for The Washington Post. The Washington Post assigned Maraniss the job of biographer for their coverage of 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama. Maraniss and wife Linda live in Washington, D.C. and Madison, Wisconsin. His son, Andrew Maraniss is also an author and has been on the New York Times best-seller list in 2015. Maraniss has written or co-authored numerous books, most of which are biographies of politicians or athletes, and all of which were published by Simon & Schuster. In this Vietnam War-era history, journalist David Maraniss reports on two out-of-control events that provide a window into the American experience of those times. On October 17, 1967, a squad of American soldiers was ambushed while on routine patrol, resulting in the loss of over 50 lives. On the next day, in Madison, Wisconsin, a student demonstration against Dow Chemical, the manufacturer of napalm, ended in violence, injuring students and police. Maraniss crafts his portraits of the soldiers in the Black Lions rifle squad with care, especially their leader Clark Welch. In his sections on the University of Wisconsin, he captures the feel of campus life. Maraniss reports on the investigations that followed both, and his writing is supported by his prodigious research into sources not available at the time. Maraniss's book illustrates the sentiment expressed back then that there were, indeed, two fronts to the Vietnam War: the war at home and the war abroad. Gene Thorp (Maps) (illustrator).…