Ebook {Epub PDF} Personal Memoirs by Ulysses S. Grant

“As the first fully annotated edition of Ulysses S. Grant’s Personal Memoirs, this fine volume leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War. The book is deeply researched, but it introduces its scholarship with a light touch that never interferes with the reader’s enjoyment of Grant’s fluent narrative/5(). The volume was an enormously popular hit upon publication (by Mark Twain, no less), and today Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant ranks among the finest pieces of military autobiography ever written. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. Review. "The /5(K). Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: Ulysses S. Grant: bltadwin.ru: Books. Buy new: $ FREE delivery: Friday, Aug 20 on orders over $ shipped by Amazon. Ships from: bltadwin.ru Sold by: bltadwin.ru List Price: $ Details. Save: $ (39%)/5(K).

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