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2008
| With Unknown Soldiers, internationally acclaimed author Joseph E. Garland presents World War II through the eyes of a close-knit infantry platoon--men who braved Nazi fire to stake out the front lines of the Allied campaigns in Sicily, Italy, France, and finally Germany. The book began as Garland's wartime notebooks, and follows his journey from privileged Harvard student to 'dogface' with the 45th Infantry Division on the Winter Line and Anzio Beachhead. During the 1970s, still struggling with ....[more] |
1983
| Lovers of quality will cherish this reprint of Godine's 1983 edition. While bound in paper covers and offset printed the book shows what a fine publisher can do with the modern options (that are so often exploited to spew ugly trash). The topic is another example of fine crafting: the Gloucester fishing schooners, "fastest, leanest, and most challenging working boats ever built" (from the cover). Garland's writing and the assembled photos, charts and drawings do justice to the memory of these no....[more] |
2005
| This informative history, which chronicles the fight for liberty and for control of the New England seaboard during the Revolution, highlights Gloucester's critical role in the action. Garland masterfully tells the story of countless acts of sacrifice for the cause of freedom; the story of the fishing town that took on the Crown. |
2003
| Originally published in two volumes as Boston's North Shore and Boston's Gold Coast, this is Joe Garland's affectionate history of America's most civilized resort in a new one-volume edition with never-before-published maps and photographs. Book jacket. |
1995
| Since the development of photography in the mid-nineteenth century, the camera has been used as a tool of both discovery and preservation. Photographs bring alive our image of the past, and can open a floodgate of memories and nostalgia or inspire curiosity and a sense of history. Originally founded by a fishing company from Dorchester, England, in 1623, Gloucester has always been linked to fishing and the sea. By 1870 Gloucester was the leading fishing port in the Western Hemisphere, and its g....[more] |
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