A Shower of Stars
Subtitle: The Medal of Honor and the 27th Maine (Thorndike Press Large Print American History Series)
Edition: Lrg edition
Publisher: G. K. Hall & Company
Published: October 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9780783887579
Subjects: Military - United States; United States; Medal of Honor; History: American; History; History - Military / War; United States - General; United States - Civil War; Military - Uniforms; Army; Large print books; Maine Infantry Regiment, 27th (1862-1863)
First sentence: OF ALL THE MEDALS issued by the United States Government there is one which has a somber glory all its own-a luster tinged with the shadow of death-for its recipients in most cases have confronted what a soldier once called the King of Terrors and have either survived or perished while exemplifying the word it bears upon its face, VALOR.