A Dark and Bloody Ground - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Dark and Bloody Ground write by Darcy O'Brien. This book was released on 2014-07-01. A Dark and Bloody Ground available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An Edgar Award–winning author’s true crime account of a grisly string of killings in Kentucky—and the shocking spectacle of greed that followed. Kentucky never deserved its Indian appellation “A Dark and Bloody Ground” more than when a small-town physician, seventy-seven-year-old Roscoe Acker, called in an emergency on a sweltering evening in August 1985. Acker’s own life hung in the balance, but it was already too late for his college-age daughter, Tammy, savagely stabbed eleven times and pinned by a kitchen knife to her bedroom floor. Three men had breached Dr. Acker’s alarm and security systems and made off with the fortune he had stashed away over his lifetime. The killers—part of a three-man, two-woman gang of the sort not seen since the Barkers—stopped counting the moldy bills when they reached $1.9 million. The cash came in handy soon after when they were caught and needed to lure Kentucky’s most flamboyant lawyer, the celebrated and corrupt Lester Burns, into representing them. Full of colorful characters and desperate deeds, A Dark and Bloody Ground is a “first-rate” true crime chronicle from the author of Murder in Little Egypt (Kirkus Reviews). “An arresting look into the troubled psyches of these criminals and into the depressed Kentucky economy that became fertile territory for narcotics dealers, theft rings and bootleggers.” —Publishers Weekly “The smell of wet, coal-laden earth, white lightning, and cocaine-driven sweat arises from these marvelously atmospheric—and compelling—pages.” —Kirkus Reviews “A fascinating portrait of the mountain way of life and thought that forged the lives of these criminals.” —Library Journal
Dark and Bloody Ground
Dark and Bloody Ground - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dark and Bloody Ground write by Richard Blackmon. This book was released on 2012. Dark and Bloody Ground available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offers a thorough history of an often-neglected part of the American Revolution, the battles among American Indians, Loyalists and colonial soldiers in the Southern Colonies
A Dark and Bloody Ground
A Dark and Bloody Ground - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Dark and Bloody Ground write by Edward G. Miller. This book was released on 2003. A Dark and Bloody Ground available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book examines uncertainty of command at the army, corps, and division levels and emphasizes the confusion and fear of ground combat at the level of company and battalion - "where they do the dying." Its gripping description of the battle is based on government records, a rich selection of first-person accounts from veterans of both sides, and author Edward G. Miller's visits to the battlefield. The result is a compelling and comprehensive account of small-unit action set against the background of the larger command levels. The book's foreword is by retired Maj. Gen. R. W. Hogan, who was a battalion commander in the forest.
A Dark and Bloody Ground
A Dark and Bloody Ground - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Dark and Bloody Ground write by Michael Willever. This book was released on 2014-06-19. A Dark and Bloody Ground available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. THE SAGA CONTINUESPerryville, Kentucky, October 8, 1862. The small town of just under 400 residents has the notable distinction of unwittingly hosting the largest battle ever fought in the State of Kentucky. From before sunrise until well after dark 70,000 soldiers waged war, smashed homes, dismantled fences, trampled crops, shattering the trees and killing one another wholesale. The struggle was, according to one Southern general who was there, the severest and most desperately contested engagement to my knowledge. The reader witnesses this historic carnage through the eyes of eleven different protagonists, both Northern and Southern, both infamous and common. From Brigadier General Phil Sheridan to Private George Kilpatrick and from Brigadier General Pat Cleburne to Private Sam Watkins, the Battle of Perryville is revealed and revered in this strikingly particular fictional narrative.
On Dark and Bloody Ground
On Dark and Bloody Ground - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On Dark and Bloody Ground write by Anne T. Lawrence. This book was released on 2021. On Dark and Bloody Ground available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Oral histories with participants in and observers of the Battle of Blair Mountain and other Appalachian mine wars of the 1920s and 1930s, supplemented with introductory material, maps, and photographs"--
