Man Who Shot The Man Who Shot Lincoln
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The Man Who Shot The Man Who Shot Lincoln
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Author : Graeme Donald
language : en
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Release Date : 2010-10-19
The Man Who Shot The Man Who Shot Lincoln written by Graeme Donald and has been published by Osprey Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-19 with History categories.
We have all heard about the great generals of military history, and those whose heroic deeds changed the course of a war. But what about those, no less significant, behind the front line? This book reveals the stories of 75 of military history's little-known game-changers, including: • Thomas Boston Corbett, the man who shot John Wilkes Booth • Herman Hollerith, who devised the punchcard system used to keep track of prisoners sent to the concentration camps • Hitler's personal pilot, Hanna Reitsch • Major John D Barry, the Confederate who mistakenly shot General Stonewall Jackson • Lee Duncan, the American serviceman who rescued a puppy from the German trenches of World War I and took him back to America, where he became famous as Rin Tin Tin • Lt Col Franz von Hurrach, who supplied the car for Ferdinand at Sarajevo and, from the running boards, gave such confusing directions to the driver that he sent him up the wrong street and straight into the arms of the waiting assassin. This entertaining book provides an offbeat and engaging insight on the annals of war and reveals new aspects to the history we think we know.
Man Who Shot The Man Who Shot Lincoln
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Author : Graeme Donald
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2011-11-22
Man Who Shot The Man Who Shot Lincoln written by Graeme Donald and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-22 with History categories.
A revealing look at history’s most important also-rans, bit-players, and might-have-beens Most people know that Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald, but who shot John Wilkes Booth? The answer: Thomas Boston Corbett, who went mad instead of finding fame and fortune. We know about the great men whose actions changed the course of history, but what about the men whose actions affected those men? This is their book. Offbeat and engaging, The Man Who Shot the Man Who Shot Lincoln reveals the stories of forty-five of history’s most significant but little-known game-changers, including: - Pierre Basile, the crossbowman whose arrow hit Richard I - John Barry, the confederate who mistakenly shot Stonewall Jackson - Lee Duncan, the serviceman who rescued a puppy from the trenches of World War I and brought him home to America, where he became famous as Rin Tin Tin - Hanna Reitsch, Hitler’s personal pilot If you think you know your history, think again.
We Saw Lincoln Shot
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Author : Timothy S. Good
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2009-09-28
We Saw Lincoln Shot written by Timothy S. Good and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-28 with History categories.
On the evening of April 14,1865, when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theatre, an entire audience was witness to the tragedy. From diaries, letters, depositions, affidavits, and periodicals, here is a collection of accounts from a variety of theatergoers—who by chance saw one of the truly pivotal events in US history. Providing minute firsthand details recorded over a span of ninety years, We Saw Lincoln Shot explores a subject that will forever be debated. With a sharp focus upon the circumstances reported by one hundred actual witnesses, We Saw Lincoln Shot provides vivid documentation of a momentous evening and exposes errors that have been perpetuated as the assassination has been rendered into written histories.
The Man Who Killed Lincoln
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Author : Philip Van Doren Stern
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1939
The Man Who Killed Lincoln written by Philip Van Doren Stern and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1939 with United States categories.
The Day Lincoln Was Shot
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Author : Jim Bishop
language : en
Publisher: Gramercy
Release Date : 1984
The Day Lincoln Was Shot written by Jim Bishop and has been published by Gramercy this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with History categories.
This book is a record of the dramatic events that occurred the day President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
The Madman And The Assassin
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Author : Scott Martelle
language : en
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 2015-04-01
The Madman And The Assassin written by Scott Martelle and has been published by Chicago Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-01 with History categories.
As thoroughly examined as the Civil War and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth have been, virtually no attention has been paid to the life of the Union cavalryman who killed Booth, an odd character named Boston Corbett. The killing of Booth made Corbett an instant celebrity who became the object of fascination and of derision. Corbett was an English immigrant, a hatter by trade, who was likely poisoned by mercury. A devout Christian, he castrated himself so that his sexual urges would not distract him from serving God, which he did as a street evangelist and preacher. He was one of the first volunteers to join the US Army in the first days of the Civil War, a path that would in time land him in the notorious Andersonville prison camp. Eventually released in a prisoner exchange, he would end up in the squadron that cornered Booth in Virginia. The Madman and the Assassin is the first full-length biography of Boston Corbett, a man who was something of a prototypical modern American, thrust into the spotlight during a national news event. His story also encompasses tragedy—his wife died when he was young, and he struggled with poverty and his own mental health—as it weaves through some of the biggest events in nineteenth century America. Scott Martelle is a professional journalist and the author of The Admiral and the Ambassador, and Detroit: A Biography, and is an editorial writer for the Los Angeles Times.
American Brutus
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Author : Michael W. Kauffman
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2007-12-18
American Brutus written by Michael W. Kauffman and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with History categories.
It is a tale as familiar as our history primers: A deranged actor, John Wilkes Booth, killed Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre, escaped on foot, and eluded capture for twelve days until he met his fiery end in a Virginia tobacco barn. In the national hysteria that followed, eight others were arrested and tried; four of those were executed, four imprisoned. Therein lie all the classic elements of a great thriller. But the untold tale is even more fascinating. Now, in American Brutus, Michael W. Kauffman, one of the foremost Lincoln assassination authorities, takes familiar history to a deeper level, offering an unprecedented, authoritative account of the Lincoln murder conspiracy. Working from a staggering array of archival sources and new research, Kauffman sheds new light on the background and motives of John Wilkes Booth, the mechanics of his plot to topple the Union government, and the trials and fates of the conspirators. Piece by piece, Kauffman explains and corrects common misperceptions and analyzes the political motivation behind Booth’s plan to unseat Lincoln, in whom the assassin saw a treacherous autocrat, “an American Caesar.” In preparing his study, Kauffman spared no effort getting at the truth: He even lived in Booth’s house, and re-created key parts of Booth’s escape. Thanks to Kauffman’s discoveries, readers will have a new understanding of this defining event in our nation’s history, and they will come to see how public sentiment about Booth at the time of the assassination and ever since has made an accurate account of his actions and motives next to impossible–until now. In nearly 140 years there has been an overwhelming body of literature on the Lincoln assassination, much of it incomplete and oftentimes contradictory. In American Brutus, Kauffman finally makes sense of an incident whose causes and effects reverberate to this day. Provocative, absorbing, utterly cogent, at times controversial, this will become the definitive text on a watershed event in American history.
Our American Cousin
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Author : Tom Taylor
language : en
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-06-25
Our American Cousin written by Tom Taylor and has been published by BoD - Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-25 with Fiction categories.
Our American Cousin is a three-act play written by English playwright Tom Taylor. The play opened in London in 1858 but quickly made its way to the U.S. and premiered at Laura Keene’s Theatre in New York City later that year. It remained popular in the U.S. and England for the next several decades. Its most notable claim to fame, however, is that it was the play U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was watching on April 14, 1865 when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, who used his knowledge of the script to shoot Lincoln during a more raucous scene. The play is a classic Victorian farce with a whole range of stereotyped characters, business, and many entrances and exits. The plot features a boorish but honest American cousin who travels to the aristocratic English countryside to claim his inheritance, and then quickly becomes swept up in the family’s affairs. An inevitable rescue of the family’s fortunes and of the various damsels in distress ensues. Our American Cousin was originally written as a farce for an English audience, with the laughs coming mostly at the expense of the naive American character. But after it moved to the U.S. it was eventually recast as a comedy where English caricatures like the pompous Lord Dundreary soon became the primary source of hilarity. This early version, published in 1869, contains fewer of that character’s nonsensical adages, which soon came to be known as “Dundrearyisms,” and for which the play eventually gained much of its popular appeal.
Man Who Killed Lincoln
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Author : PHILIP VAN DOREN. STERN
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Man Who Killed Lincoln written by PHILIP VAN DOREN. STERN and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
John Wilkes Booth
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Author : Asia Booth Clarke
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
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Features a biographical sketch of the American actor John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865). Notes that Booth shot and killed the U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865.