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John Keegan The American Civil War was one of the longest and bloodiest of modern wars. It is also one of the most mysterious. This book unpicks the geography, leadership and strategic... | Amanda Foreman As America descended into Civil War, British loyalties were torn between support for the North, which was against slavery, and defending the South, which portrayed itself as bravely fighting for... |
Marshall L. DeRosa Presents an examination of the rise and fall of the Confederate constitution - which championed the decentralization of power - and shows how many of the ideas found within its... | |
Walton Rawls Deals with the dramatic history of the War Between the States. This title includes the biographies of fifty famed commanders from both the Union and the Confederacy, accompanied by lifelike... | James L. Swanson Includes the stories of two fallen leaders counterpoised, their final journeys shaping their legends among a wounded nation and throughout a bloody landscape. |
Ron Field; Peter Dennis In 1864, General Ulysses S Grant decided to strangle the life out of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia by surrounding the city of Petersburg and cutting off General Robert... | Michael J. Varhola The Civil War is a fascinating time period in American history. This book provides readers with facts and statistics about the 1860s from military life to civilian life in both... |
Dan Beattie The road to Gettysburg began at Brandy Station on June 9, 1863. However, the cavalry clash in Culpeper County, Virginia, counts for more than just the opening round of... | David A. Powell Third in a new series of campaign studies that take a different approach toward military history, The Maps of Chickamauga explores this largely misunderstood battle... |
Ron Field The Ironclad was a revolutionary weapon of war, the first modern, armoured, self-propelled warships. Illustrated with digital artwork, photographs and first-person perspective gunsight views, this book allows the reader to... | Abraham Lincoln The Address was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and... |
Bradley M. Gottfried The Maps of Antietam breaks down the entire operation into 21 map sets or action-sectionsA" enriched with 124 full-colour original full-page maps. These spectacular cartographic creations bore down to... | John C. Guntzelman; Bob Zeller Features both well-known & rarely seen images of famous leaders & ordinary soldiers as well as scenes from urban & plantation life. With more than 200 photographs, from the Library... |
Mark Lardas; Adam Hook Ulysses Grant was his country's greatest general since George Washington. Like Washington, Grant's battlefield performance was the only factor standing between the... | Ron Field; Johnny Shumate; Alan... The Harpers Ferry raid confirmed for many Southerners the existence of a widespread Northern plot against slavery. In fact, Brown had raised funds for his raid from... |