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General Lee's Army
Free Press 2008; US$ 20.00"You would be surprised to see what men we have in the ranks," Virginia cavalryman Thomas Rowland informed his mother in May 1861, just after joining the Army of Northern Virginia. His army -- General Robert E. Lee's army -- was a surprise to almost everyone: With daring early victories and an invasion into the North, they nearly managed to convince... more...
Decision in the Heartland
Greenwood Publishing Group 2008; US$ 40.00Presenting the case for the decisiveness of the Civil War's western theater, Woodworth provides a fast-paced overview of the conflict between the Appalachians and the Mississippi. more...
Gettysburg Heroes
Indiana University Press 2008; US$ 21.20The Civil War generation saw its world in ways startlingly different from our own. In these essays, Glenn W. LaFantasie examines the lives and experiences of several key personalities who gained fame during the war and after. The battle of Gettysburg is the thread that ties these Civil War lives together.... more...
Southern Storm
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 13.99Award-winning Civil War historian Noah Andre Trudeau has written a gripping, definitive new account that will stand as the last word on General William Tecumseh Sherman's epic march?a targeted strategy aimed to break not only the Confederate army but an entire society as well. With Lincoln's hard-fought reelection victory in hand, Ulysses S. Grant,... more...
Civil War 100
Sourcebooks, Inc. 2007; US$ 14.95The Civil War 100 uses a truly novel approach to analyze the respective importance of the events, leaders and battles of Americas most important war. more...
Vicksburg, 1863
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 17.00In this thrilling narrative history of the Civil War?s most strategically important campaign, Winston Groom describes the bloody two-year grind that started when Ulysses S. Grant began taking a series of Confederate strongholds in 1861, climaxing with the siege of Vicksburg two years later. For Grant and the Union it was a crucial success that captured... more...
No Quarter
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 28.00In this richly researched and dramatic work of military history, eminent historian Richard Slotkin recounts one of the Civil War?s most pivotal events: the Battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864. At first glance, the Union?s plan seemed brilliant: A regiment of miners would burrow beneath a Confederate fort, pack the tunnel with explosives, and blow... more...
Staff Officers in Gray
The University of North Carolina Press 2003; US$ 56.95This indispensable Civil War reference profiles some 2,300 staff officers in Robert E. Lee's famous Army of Northern Virginia. These men--ordnance officers, engineers, aides-de-camp, and quartermasters, among others--worked at the side of many of the Confederacy's greatest figures, helping to feed and clothe the army, maintain its discipline, and... more...
The Making of a Confederate
Oxford University Press, USA 2007; US$ 18.99Illustrations. Foreword. Acknowledgements. The Lenoir Families. Prologue. One. Dutiful Sons and a Wavering Southerner. Two. Confederate Soldier. Three. Agony at Ox Hill. Four. Mountain Farmer. Five. Unreconstructed Confederate. Six. Land Promoter and Dreamer. Afterword. Recommendations for Further Reading. Index more...
The Road to Disunion, 2
Oxford University Press, USA 2007; US$ 18.99It is one of the great questions of American history--why did the Southern states bolt from the Union and help precipitate the Civil War? Now, acclaimed historian William W. Freehling offers a new answer, in the final volume of his monumental history The Road to Disunion. Here is history in the grand manner, a powerful narrative peopled with dozens... more...









