Drury, Bob

"The explosive true saga of the legendary figure, Daniel Boone, and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the height of their writing power--Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America's "First Frontier" beyond the Appalachian Mountains engage in a never-ending series of bloody battles. These violent conflicts are waged against the Native American tribes whose lands they covet, The French, and finally against the mother country itself in an American Revolution destined to reverberate around the world. This is the setting of Blood and Treasure and the guide to this epic narrative is none other than America's first and arguably greatest pathfinder Daniel Boone-not the coonskin cap-wearing caricature of popular culture but the flesh-and-blood frontiersman and Revolutionary War hero whose explorations into the forested frontier beyond the great mountains would become the stuff of legend. Now, thanks to painstaking research by two award-winning authors, the story of the brutal birth of the United States is told through the eyes of both the ordinary and larger-than-life men and women, white and Native American, who witnessed it. This fast-paced and fiery narrative, fueled by contemporary diaries and journals, newspaper reports, and eyewitness accounts, is a stirring chronicle of the conflict over America's "First Frontier" that places the reader at the center of this remarkable epoch and its gripping tales of courage and sacrifice"--.

Drawing on a wealth of evidence, including Red Cloud's biography, which was lost for nearly a hundred years, this never-before-told story of the great Oglala Sioux chief - the only Plains Indian to defeat the United States Army in a war - places readers at the center of the conflict over western expansion.

"The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Heart of Everything That Is return with one of the most inspiring--and underappreciated--chapters in American history: the story of the Continental Army's six-month transformation in Valley Forge. On December 19, 1777, some twelve thousand members of America's beleaguered Continental Army staggered into Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, a small encampment twenty-three miles northwest of British-occupied Philadelphia. The starving and half-naked force is reeling from a string of demoralizing defeats at the hands of King George III's army, and are barely equipped to survive the coming winter. Their commander in chief, the focused and forceful George Washington, is at the lowest ebb of his military career. The Continental Congress is in exile and the American Revolution appears to be lost. As the days and weeks passed, however, Washington embarked on a mission to transform his troops from a bobtail army of citizen soldiers into a professional fighting force. Keeping a wary eye out for a British attack, he was aided by a trio of home-grown generals as well as a young coterie of American advisors and foreign volunteers led by Alexander Hamilton, John Laurens, and the Marquis de Lafayette. Within six months Washington had achieved his miracle. Valley Forge is the riveting true story of a nascent United States toppling an empire. Using new and rarely seen contemporaneous documents--and drawing on a cast of iconic characters and remarkable moments that capture the innovation and energy that led to the birth of our nation--Drury and Clavin provide the definitive account of this seminal and previously undervalued moment in the battle for American independence"--.

Presents stories of service dogs.

Biography of the Sioux warrior-statesman Red Cloud, the only American Indian to ever defeat the United States Army in a war.

Tells the story of a daredevil bomber pilot and his crew who fly their lone B-17 into the Japanese Empire in 1943, engaging in the longest dogfight in history, and change the momentum of the War in the Pacific.

Presents the story of a critical battle during the Korean War. Relates how the 246 men of Fox Company fought to hold the Toktong Pass while outnumbered forty to one by the Chinese. Describes how three-quarters of the Fox Company are killed, wounded, or captured, when Lieutenant Colonel Raymond Davis volunteers to lead five hundred men to rescue the Fox Company.

Tells the story of the Oglala Sioux chief Red Cloud, the Indian commander of the Plains who witnessed the opening of the West and forced the American government to sue for peace in a conflict named for him.

Recounts the 1944 ordeal of Admiral William "Bull" Halsey and the crew of the United States 3rd Fleet as they fought a massive typhoon in the South Pacific and struggled to survive while awaiting rescue from Lieutenant Commander Henry Lee Plage and the "USS Tabberer." Includes photographs.

Red Cloud, the Sioux warrior-statesman, was the only Native American in history to defeat the United States Army in a war, forcing the government to sue for peace on his terms. At the peak of his powers, the Sioux could claim control of one-fifth of the contiguous United States.