Full name: Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure

Author: William Pittenger Year: 1983 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, War/Military Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780809442201 9781481065900 0809442205 1481065904

First published in 1863, a first-hand account of an episode of the American Civil War. "The expedition, in the daring of its conception, had the wildness of a romance; while in the gigantic and overwhelming results it sought and was likely to accomplish, it was absolutely sublime."--Official Report of Hon. Judge Holt to the Secretary of War. "It was all the deepest laid scheme, and on the grandest scale, that ever emanated from the brains of any number of Yankees combined."--Atlanta "Southern Confederacy" of April 15th, 1862. Similar books: The Boys In The Boat by Daniel James Brown Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell John Adams by David McCullough A Higher Call by Adam Makos American Sniper by Chris Kyle Fearless by Eric Blehm The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom No Easy Day by Mark Owen Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne 13 Hours by Mitchell Zuckoff The Art Of War by Sun Tzu In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick