Soldiers in the Shadow: Unknown Heroes Who Changed the Course of History - Hardcover

Weir, William

9781564146298: Soldiers in the Shadow: Unknown Heroes Who Changed the Course of History

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1564146294 ISBN 13: 9781564146298

Publisher: Career Press, 2005

Just about everyone has heard of Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great and Napoleon, three historical figures who, for better or worse, radically changed the world. But what about William Walker, Fred Ward and John Singleton Mosby? They didn't live centuries ago but what they did changed the world we live in. William Walker recruited a handful of barflies in San Francisco and not only conquered a country but frustrated the plans of the world's greatest empire. Fred Ward almost single-handedly dragged the military of the world's largest country into modern times. John Singleton Mosby, Confederate private, carved Mosby's Confederacy out of what is now suburban Washington and prolonged the Civil War at least six months. Captain Jack, a Modoc Indian chief and his handful of followers stymied 100 times their number of US Army troops for months. Not all of the Soldiers in the Shadows are American but each one of the stories, their adventures, are of heroes who deserve to be out of the shadows.

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