Clouds of Glory

Author: Michael Korda
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062116312
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 998

Book Description
New York Times Bestseller "Lively, approachable, and captivating. Like Lee himself, everything about Clouds of Glory is on a grand scale." —Boston Globe Michael Korda, the acclaimed biographer of Ulysses S. Grant and the bestsellers Ike and Hero, offers a brilliant, balanced, single-volume biography of Robert E. Lee, the first major study in a generation Korda paints a vivid and admiring portrait of Lee as a general and a devoted family man who, though he disliked slavery and was not in favor of secession, turned down command of the Union army in 1861 because he could not "draw his sword" against his own children, his neighbors, and his beloved Virginia. He was surely America's preeminent military leader, as calm, dignified, and commanding a presence in defeat as he was in victory. Lee's reputation has only grown in the 150 years since the Civil War, and Korda covers in groundbreaking detail all of Lee's battles and traces the making of a great man's undeniable reputation on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line, positioning him finally as the symbolic martyr-hero of the Southern Cause. Clouds of Glory features dozens of stunning illustrations, some never before seen, including eight pages of color images, sixteen pages of black-and-white images, and nearly fifty battle maps.

Trailing Clouds of Glory

Author: Harold A. Widdison
Publisher: Horizon Publishers & Distributors
ISBN: 9780882907727
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 430

Book Description
A review of LDS doctrinal understanding of permortal existence interspersed with firsthand accounts of premortal life as told by people who have had near-death experiences.

Trailing Clouds of Glory

Author: Felice Flanery Lewis
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817316787
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350

Book Description
This work is a narrative of Zachary Taylor’s Mexican War campaign, from the formation of his army in 1844 to his last battle at Buena Vista in 1847, with emphasis on the 163 men in his “Army of Occupation” who became Confederate or Union generals in the Civil War. It clarifies what being a Mexican War veteran meant in their cases, how they interacted with one another, how they performed their various duties, and how they reacted under fire. Referring to developments in Washington, D.C., and other theaters of the war, this book provides a comprehensive picture of the early years of the conflict based on army records and the letters and diaries of the participants. Trailing Clouds of Glory is the first examination of the roles played in the Mexican War by the large number of men who served with Taylor and who would be prominent in the next war, both as volunteer and regular army officers, and it provides fresh information, even on such subjects as Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant. Particularly interesting for the student of the Civil War are largely unknown aspects of the Mexican War service of Daniel Harvey Hill, Braxton Bragg, and Thomas W. Sherman.

Trailing Clouds of Glory

Author: William Wordsworth
Publisher: Pavilion Books, Limited
ISBN: 9781857936490
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 95

Book Description

Robert E. Lee: A Biography

Author: Emory M. Thomas
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393316319
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 491

Book Description
"The best and most balanced of the Lee biographies."—New York Review of Books The life of Robert E. Lee is a story not of defeat but of triumph—triumph in clearing his family name, triumph in marrying properly, triumph over the mighty Mississippi in his work as an engineer, and triumph over all other military men to become the towering figure who commanded the Confederate army in the American Civil War. But late in life Lee confessed that he "was always wanting something." In this probing and personal biography, Emory Thomas reveals more than the man himself did. Robert E. Lee has been, and continues to be, a symbol and hero in the American story. But in life, Thomas writes, Lee was both more and less than his legend. Here is the man behind the legend.

With the Clouds of Heaven

Author: James M. Hamilton
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830897216
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 265

Book Description
Perceiving a hole in evangelical biblical theology that should be filled with a robust treatment of the book of Daniel, James Hamilton delves into the book's rich contribution to the Bible's unfolding redemptive-historical storyline. This New Studies in Biblical Theology volume addresses key questions and examines the literary structure, visions, heavenly beings and typological patterns.

Clouds of Glory

Author: Bryan Magee
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0712635602
Category : Hoxton (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
Hoxton today is one of the most fashionable parts of inner London, yet within living memory it was the capital's most notorious slum area. In this work, Bryan Magee recalls the vanished world of his childhood living in Hoxton and brings it to life again in all its drama and surprise.

Trailing Clouds of Glory

Author: Madeleine L'Engle
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154

Book Description
Spiritual values in children's literature,

Trailing Clouds of Glory

Author: Douglas Gerwin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936367603
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
From the clear thinking heart of expert on teaching teenagers, Douglas Gerwin, comes this exceptional collection of thought provoking and information-packed series of essays on all the practicalities and mysteries of human sexuality and the coming of puberty. Every parent and every teacher of students from age eleven up needs this book! It fills the imagination with rich and straightforward ways to explain to the young why sexuality os so rewarding and so challenging! Here is a gift for which every recipient will thank you. On experienced high school teacher said, "I so wish I had this book ten years ago!" Every aspect of the mystique of human sexuality is addressed from embryology through to AIDS and same-sex relationships. The book was twelve years in the collecting and assembling, so carefully done and thoughtfully put together it is.

Clouds and Glory

Author: David Adam
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 0819218871
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 159

Book Description
Clouds and Glory is the final volume in a three-volume collection of prayers and other resources based on the New Common Worship Lectionary used widely around the world. Written in the Celtic style for which David Adam is well-known, and linked to the Sunday readings, these prayers and intercessions may be used by congregations for the Prayers of the People, as well as by individuals seeking to supplement their personal devotions.