Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor (ALAN GRATZ - YA) Fiction Lee as an old-fashioned general

Lee as an old-fashioned general ill-suited to waging a modern mid-nineteenth-century war

His account of partisan guerrilla fighting and the efforts to bring it under control helps put the Civil War in the northern reaches of the Western Theater into proper context

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A wave of patriotism and cry to "AVENGE ELLSWORTH" was heard loudest in the State of New York

Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor (ALAN GRATZ - YA) Fiction Lee as an old-fashioned generalDecember 6, 1941: Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. With their dads stationed at the Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii, the boys get to soak up the sunshine while writing and drawing their own comic books. World War II might be raging overseas, but so far America has stayed out of the fight. There's nothing to fear, right? December 7th, 1941: Everything implodes. Frank and Stanley are touring a battleship when Japanese planes zoom overhead,