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The Petersburg Campaign
The Western Front Battles, September 1864 – April 1865, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
The wide-ranging and largely misunderstood series of operations around Petersburg, Virginia, were the longest and most extensive of the entire Civil War. The fighting that began in early June 1864 when advance elements from the Union Army of the Potomac crossed the James River and botched a series...
Manassas
A Battlefield Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
This volume is the essential guide to the Manassas battlefields, site of two of the Civil War’s critical campaigns. Ethan S. Rafuse, a distinguished scholar of the Civil War, provides a clearly organized, thorough, and uniquely insightful account of both campaigns, along with expert analysis and...
by Edward Porter Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
In the narrative of the Civil War, Edward Porter Alexander has loomed larger in death than in life. Just 25 years old when the war broke out, Porter Alexander had already served as an engineer and officer in the U.S. Army, but the native Georgian resigned his commission in May 1861 and joined the...
Lee's Lieutenants Third Volume Abridged
A Study in Command
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command is the most colorful and popular of Douglas Southall Freeman's works. A sweeping narrative that presents a multiple biography against the flame-shot background of the American Civil War, it is the story of the great figures of the Army of Northern Virginia who...
by Bruce Catton
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
An incisive look at the turning point of the Civil War, when the great armies of the North and South came to Gettysburg in July 1863—from Pulitzer Prize winner Bruce Catton, one of the great historians of the Civil War.
Engaging and authoritative, Catton analyzes the course of events at Gettysburg,...
This Hallowed Ground
A History of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
The classic one-volume history of the American Civil War simultaneously captures the dramatic scope and intimate experience of that epic struggle, by Pulitzer Prize-winner Bruce Catton.
Covering events from the prelude of the conflict to the death of Lincoln, Catton blends a gripping narrative...
Capital Dames
The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
In this engrossing and informative companion to her New York Times bestsellers Founding Mothers and Ladies of Liberty, Cokie Roberts marks the sesquicentennial of the Civil War by offering a riveting look at Washington, D.C. and the experiences, influence, and contributions of its women during this...
by John Bowers
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Abraham Lincoln (18091865) is one of the most famous Americans in history and one of the countrys most revered presidents. Schoolchildren can recite the life story of Lincoln, the Westerner who educated himself and became a self made man, rising from lawyer to leader of the new Republican Party before...
by Winston Groom
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
A main selection in History Book-of-the-Month Club and alternate selection in Military Book-of-the-Month Club.
In the spring of 1862, many Americans still believed that the Civil War, "would be over by Christmas." The previous summer in Virginia, Bull Run, with nearly 5,000 casualties,...
Bonds of Union
Religion, Race, and Politics in a Civil War Borderland
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
This vivid history of the Civil War era reveals how unexpected bonds of union forged among diverse peoples in the Ohio-Kentucky borderlands furthered emancipation through a period of spiraling chaos between 1830 and 1865. Moving beyond familiar arguments about Lincoln's deft politics or regional commercial...
The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee
The Forgotten Case against an American Icon
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
History has been kind to Robert E. Lee. Woodrow Wilson believed General Lee was a “model to men who would be morally great.” Douglas Southall Freeman, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his four-volume biography of Lee, described his subject as “one of a small company of great men in whom there is...
The Burden of Collective Goodwill
The International Involvement in the Liberian Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The book is the first to discuss in detail the extensive external involvement in the Liberian civil war, a war that claimed up to 200,000 lives, created a massive refuge crisis and brought West Africa to the tribunal of international attention. The book is conceived against the background that the...
The Negro's Civil War
How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
In this classic study, Pulitzer Prize-winning author James M. McPherson deftly narrates the experience of blacks--former slaves and soldiers, preachers, visionaries, doctors, intellectuals, and common people--during the Civil War. Drawing on contemporary journalism, speeches, books, and letters, he...
Cry Havoc!
The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A "compact, engrossing narrative"* that vividly reimagines the events that led to the outbreak of the Civil War
What separates historian Nelson D. Lankford's engaging examination of the causes of the Civil War from other books on the subject is its willingness to consider the alternative...