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"Lovell Harrison Rousseau was a distinguished Union general in the Civil War. Rousseau served as a state legislator in Indiana and Kentucky before the war. After the war, Rousseau served as a congressman before returning to the service in 1867 as a brigadier general. This biography covers Rousseau's childhood challenges, varied career, and ambiguous attitude toward blacks"--Provided by publisher

As the grandson of Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee and the nephew of Robert E. Lee, Fitzhugh Lee-nicknamed "Fitz"-was born into one of Virginia's most distinguished families. Upon graduation from West Point, Fitz Lee served in the U.S. Army until the outbreak of the Civil War, when he joined the Confederate cavalry forces. After participating in the Peninsula Campaign, he rapidly rose in rank, promoted first to brigadier general in July 1862, then to major general in the fall of 1863. Only twenty-seven years old, he commanded with distinction at Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. Severely wounded in 1864, he subsequently returned to service and was promoted to commander of the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia, which he led during the final campaigns of the war. After the war Fitz Lee served as governor of Virginia, commander of the U.S. Volunteers in the Spanish-American War, and postwar occupation commander in Cuba. He also wrote many popular works of military history and biography; his biography of Robert E. Lee is still in print. Acclaimed Civil War author Edward G. Longacre has combed family records, West Point cadet files, and the National Archives to produce a lively biography of one of the South's youngest and ablest cavalry commanders-a man who later became one of America's most distinguished military leaders

Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Daly was a renowned soldier and one of the most influential figures in Australia's military history. As Chief of the General staff during the Vietnam War, he oversaw a reorganisation of the Army. The author shows how Daly prepared himself for the challenges of command in a time of political upheaval

"Carl Phillip Gottleib von Clausewitz (1780-1831), Prussian general and military theorist, is most famous for his book On War, a work that has influenced numerous wartime leaders from Lenin to Henry Kissinger. Parkinson's biography of Clausewitz provides detailed examinations of the Napoleonic battles in which he participated and which shaped his theories of warfare. Parkinson describes Clausewitz's first experiences in combat as a twelve-year-old cadet in battles with France along the Rhine. The biography follows Clausewitz during the years of Napoleon's rise, when, disgusted with the Prussian King's refusal to fight, he joined the Russian army and witnessed Napoleon's defeat following the destruction of Moscow and several harrowing months of battle. The book also includes in-depth descriptions of the battles following Napoleon's return, in which Clausewitz put his theories into practice against Napoleon's marshals."--

Front -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS ILLUSTRATIONS 1. -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER ONE NEW FRONTIERS -- CHAPTER TWO INDIAN AGENT -- CHAPTER THREE SARATOGA -- CHAPTER FOUR MONMOUTH AND LIGHT INFANTRY -- CHAPTER FIVE STONY POINT -- CHAPTER SIX MUTINY -- CHAPTER SEVEN VIRGINIA -- CHAPTER EIGHT YORKTOWN -- CHAPTER NINE MUTINY II -- CHAPTER TEN FORT STANWIX TREATY -- CHAPTER ELEVEN FORT MCINTOSH TREATY -- CHAPTER TWELVE FORT FINNEY TREATY -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN SUPERINTENDENT OF INDIAN AFFAIRS -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN FORT HARMAR TREATIES -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN THE ROAD TO HELL -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN MASSACRE -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN POSTSCRIPT TO TRAGEDY -- APPENDIX A "THE FIGHTING BUTLER BROTHERS" -- APPENDIX B THREE SENECA FRIENDS GUYASUTA -- APPENDIX C ORDINANCE FOR THE REGULATION AND MANAGEMENT OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, 1786 -- APPENDIX D TREATY OF FORT STANWIX, 1784 -- APPENDIX E TREATY OF FORT MCINTOSH, 1785 -- APPENDIX F TREATY OF FORT FINNEY, 1786 -- APPENDIX G TREATY OF FORT HARMAR BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE WYANDOT AND OTHER WESTERN TRIBES [ -- APPENDIX G (2) TREATY OF FORT HARMAR BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE SIX NATIONS [ -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES CHAPTER 1 1. -- BIBLI0GRAPHY MANUSCRIPTS (MICROFILM) -- INDEX

This book, first published in 1984, was the first full biography of Solzhenitsyn. Starting with his childhood, it covers every period of his life in considerable detail, showing how Solzhenitsyn's development paralleled and mirrored the development of Soviet society: ambitious and idealistic in the twenties and thirties, preoccupied with the struggle for survival in the forties, hopeful in the fifties and sixties and disillusioned in the seventies. Solzhenitsyn's life thus serves as a paradigm for the history of twentieth-century Communism and for the intelligentsia's attitudes to Communism. At the same time, this book relates Solzhenitsyn's life to his works, all of which contain a large element of autobiography.

The published collection of documents is devoted to Lieutenant General V.G. Boldyrev, who was one of the major political and military figures of counterrevolution during the Civil War in Russia. The documents are dated November 1922 - August 1923. At that time, Boldyrev was in prison, being arrested by the bodies of the State Political Directorate. The documents contain the information about how and according to what considerations Party and Soviet authorities made decisions concerning the fate of the former Supreme Commander in chief of the anti-Bolshevist camp, who refused to leave Russia and to become an emigrant.