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On Great Fields : Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and His Fight to Save the Union PB

Description: On Great Fields: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and His Fight to Save the Union Paperback – November 12, 2024by Ronald C. White (Author) Before 1862, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain had rarely left his home state of Maine, where he was a trained minister and mild-mannered professor at Bowdoin College. His colleagues were shocked when he volunteered for the Union army, but he was undeterred and later became known as one of the North’s greatest heroes: On the second day at Gettysburg, after running out of ammunition at Little Round Top, he ordered his men to wield their bayonets in a desperate charge down a rocky slope that routed the Confederate attackers. Despite being wounded at Petersburg—and told by two surgeons he would die—Chamberlain survived the war, going on to be elected governor of Maine four times and serve as president of Bowdoin College. How did a stuttering young boy come to be fluent in nine languages and even teach speech and rhetoric? How did a trained minister find his way to the battlefield? Award-winning historian Ronald C. White delves into these contradictions in this cradle-to-grave biography of General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, from his upbringing in rural Maine to his tenacious, empathetic military leadership and his influential postwar public service, exploring a question that still plagues so many veterans: How do you make a civilian life of meaning after having experienced the extreme highs and lows of war? Chamberlain is familiar to millions from Michael Shaara’s now-classic novel of the Civil War, The Killer Angels, and Ken Burns’s timeless miniseries The Civil War, but in this book, White captures the complex and inspiring man behind the hero. Heavily illustrated and featuring nine detailed maps, this gripping, impeccably researched portrait illuminates one of the most admired but least known figures in our nation’s bloodiest conflict.

Price: 19.95 USD

Location: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

End Time: 2024-12-08T01:10:31.000Z

Shipping Cost: 5.38 USD

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Narrative Type: Nonfiction

Original Language: English

Book Title: On Great Fields : Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and His Fight to Save the Union

Number of Pages: 512 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

Item Height: 1.3 in

Publication Year: 2024

Topic: United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Educators, Military

Genre: Biography & Autobiography, History

Item Weight: 19.6 Oz

Author: Ronald C. White

Item Length: 9.2 in

Item Width: 6.1 in

Format: Trade Paperback

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