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|  | The Donner Party by Scott P. Werther
Description not available.Describes the journey of the ill-fated Donner Party, ninety pioneers who became stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846-47. AUTHOR: Scott P. Werther
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History 
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 | Pioneers of France in the New World by Colin G. Calloway, Francis Parkman
In the sixteenth century, Spain claimed the fabled New World, and a rash of explorers sailed there seeking riches and, most famously, a fountain of youth. Although France made inroads into Florida, ultimately the French, like the Spanish, failed to establish dominion over North America. Francis Parkman tells why. The first part of Pioneers of France in the New World deals with the attempts of the Spanish and the French Huguenots to occupy Florida; the second, with the expeditions of Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain and French colonial endeavors in Canada and Acadia. AUTHOR: Colin G. Calloway, Francis Parkman
PUBLISHER: University of Nebraska Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Road Angels by Kent Nerburn
Driving from Washington State to Southern California, Nerburn revisits his pre-marital haunting grounds and ruminates on all that he encounters along the way. AUTHOR: Kent Nerburn
PUBLISHER: HarperSanFrancisco
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Lee's Last Retreat by William Marvel
Few events in Civil War history have generated such deliberate mythmaking as the retreat that ended at Appomattox. As the popular imagination would have it, Robert E. Lee's tattered, starving, but devoted troops found themselves hopelessly surrounded through no fault of their beloved commander, who surrendered them rather than sacrifice their lives. Victors and vanquished met at Appomattox in a moving surrender ceremony marked by a spirit of mutual regard. According to William Marvel, this tale is a tissue of untruths that sprang from the imaginations of Lost Cause historians and participating generals well practiced in the art of fabricating popular legends. Marvel offers the first history of the Appomattox campaign written primarily from contemporary source material, with a skeptical eye toward memoirs published well after the events they purport to describe. Marvel shows that during the final week of the war in Virginia, Lee's troops were more numerous and far less faithful to their cause than has been suggested. Lee himself made mistakes in this campaign, and defeat wrung from him an unusual display of faultfinding. Finally, Marvel proves accounts of the congenial intermingling of the armies at Appomattox to be shamelessly overblown and the renowned exchange of salutes to be apocryphal. AUTHOR: William Marvel
PUBLISHER: The University of North Carolina Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Unarmed Combat by Steve Crawford
A riveting examination of hand-to-hand combat used by special forces around the world including the U.S. Army, the British Parachute Regiment, and the Russian Spetsnaz. AUTHOR: Steve Crawford
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | El Beisbol Nos Salvo by Dom Lee, Ken Mochizuki, Tomas Gonzalez
The story of a boy named Shorty who is sent, with his family, to an internment camp during World War II. Life in the camp is difficult and bleak. Shorty`s father determines that the internees need some diversion to help the time pass so he establishes a baseball league. Shorty himself has never been a good player, but he is determined to help his team win the championship. This story is based on the true experiences of the author`s parents. This is a Spanish-language version of the book. AUTHOR: Dom Lee, Ken Mochizuki, Tomas Gonzalez
PUBLISHER: Lee & Low Books, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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