Describes the battle of Gettysburg through the eyes of Robert E. Lee, following that great general from his entry into Pennsylvania to the disastrous conclusion for the Confederate troops.

Three Days with Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg

History

Davis, Paxton

Americas

Encore Editions

Being a Boy

In the days before television and supervised athletics, boys had to create their own amusements. In the Great Depression, when Paxton Davis grew up, this was doubly so.  Davis was born into an enclave of relative prosperity in Winston-Salem. Baseball, Cub Scouts, summer camp, radio serials and newspaper routes were the stuff life was made of. Davis recalls these years with grace and humor. Times and circumstances change, but there is always something to be celebrated in a boyhood fondly remembered, always something to be mourned in its passing.  "A meticulous, loving reconstruction of his early years. A delicate portrait of a vanished age." (Kirkus Reviews)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

John F Blair Pub

A Boy's War

When Paxton Davis and his fellow soldiers returned from WW II, they found a changed America. In A BOY NO MORE, Davis describes the world that awaited them--a world created by the generation that gave us our amazing triumph in WW II and powered our emergence as global superstar.  Davis was typical. He took up schooling at Johns Hopkins, went to work, married and begat. This loving book is among the finest of his creations.  "Readers of this disarming, stylish story will treasure the newspaperman's early experiences." (Publishers Weekly)  A BOY NO MORE completes a trilogy which began with BEING A BOY and continued with A BOY'S WAR.

A Boy No More

In the days before television and supervised athletics, boys had to create their own amusements. In the Great Depression, when Paxton Davis grew up, this was doubly so. Davis was born into an enclave of relative prosperity in Winston-Salem. Baseball, Cub Scouts, summer camp, radio serials and newspaper routes were the stuff life was made of. Davis recalls these years with grace and humor. Times and circumstances change, but there is always something to be celebrated in a boyhood fondly remembered, always something to be mourned in its passing. "A meticulous, loving reconstruction of his early years. A delicate portrait of a vanished age." (Kirkus Reviews)

Blair

In his first book of memoirs, BEING A BOY, we met a young Paxton Davis growing up in North Carolina during the Depression. A BOY'S WAR continues his story as he leaves for college and his "Rat Year" at the Virginia Military Institute. He was going not to prepare for war, but simply to continue a family tradition. 
But this was wartime, and soon the army beckoned. Picked for the medics, Davis describes his odyssey through disease and death. He relates his experiences and shows us how luck, fatigue and fear played leading roles in determining soldier's fates during a war fought mostly by boys, many of whom learned far more than they cared to about life and death before reaching voting age.

When Paxton Davis and his fellow soldiers returned from WW II, they found a changed America. In A BOY NO MORE, Davis describes the world that awaited them--a world created by the generation that gave us our amazing triumph in WW II and powered our emergence as global superstar. Davis was typical. He took up schooling at Johns Hopkins, went to work, married and begat. This loving book is among the finest of his creations. "Readers of this disarming, stylish story will treasure the newspaperman's early experiences." (Publishers Weekly) A BOY NO MORE completes a trilogy which began with BEING A BOY and continued with A BOY'S WAR.

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Three Days with Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg

Being a Boy

A Boy's War

A Boy No More

Being a Boy

A Boy's War

A Boy No More