Thomas Allen
Author
Description
As he did in his highly acclaimed George Washington, Spymaster, author Thomas B. Allen digs back through historical records to present a famous historical figure in a new light. Readers discover that Harriet Tubman--well-known to them as an ex-slave who led hundreds of her people to freedom along the Underground Railroad--was also a spy for the Union Army. More specifically she worked behind Confederate lines in South Carolina getting information...
4) George Washington, spymaster: how the Americans outspied the British and won the Revolutionary War
Author
Series
Description
A biography of Revolutionary War general and first President of the United States, George Washington, focusing on his use of spies to gather intelligence that helped the colonies win the war.
6) Caterpillars in the field and garden: a field guide to the butterfly caterpillars of North America
Author
Series
Description
Presents over nine hundred full-color illustrated photos of a number of species of North American caterpillars, and includes complete identification, life cycles, habitat, and tips on butterfly gardening.
7) Going West
Author
Description
Follows a family's emigration by prairie schooner from the East, across the plains to Kansas.
Description
In 1932, in the darkest days of the Depression, unemployed World War I veterans marched on Washington, D.C., looking for an advance on the bonus compensation promised to them years earlier. After camping throughout Washington for two months, the veterans were driven out by force. The U.S. Army, under the command of General Douglas MacArthur and his officers Dwight Eisenhower and George Patton, drove the veterans from Washington and burned their camps...