Books at Brown. Vol. 40

Books at Brown. Vol. 40

Providence, R.I. : Friends of the Library of Brown University, 1998.

vii, 97 p. : port. ; 24 cm.

027.745 B879 1998 v. 40

(OCoLC)40661690

"The Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection ... contains approximately 12,000 printed books, 18,000 albums, sketchbooks ... and over 13,000 individual prints, drawings, paintings ... also a collection of over 3,000 miniature lead soldiers ... presented to Brown University ... This issue of Books at Brown brings together five of these Anne S.K. Brown Memoral Lectures in order to record permanently their contribution to scholarship"--p. vii.
Introduction / Peter Harrington -- Anne S.K. Brown / Peter Harrington -- The Western Front in the First World War / Michael Howard -- Forging a commander: Ulysses S. Grant in the first year of the Civil War / John Y. Simon -- Sitting Bull: the lance and the shield / Robert M. Utley -- WWII - America changed for ever: the impact of the war on American society / Stephen Ambrose -- A peculiar little army: the British army from Waterloo to the Somme / Byron Farwell -- Notes on the contributors -- Recent gifts to the collection -- The Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection committee of management.
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