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The Civil War, 1861-1865

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  • General Lee's Armyby Joseph Glatthaar

    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 Heartlandby Steven E. Woodworth

    Greenwood Publishing Group 2008; US$ 40.00

    Presenting 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 Heroesby Glenn W. LaFantasie

    Indiana University Press 2008; US$ 21.20

    The 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 Stormby Noah Andre Trudeau

    HarperCollins 2009; US$ 13.99

    Award-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 100by Michael Lanning

    Sourcebooks, Inc. 2007; US$ 14.95

    The Civil War 100 uses a truly novel approach to analyze the respective importance of the events, leaders and battles of America’s most important war. more...

  • Vicksburg, 1863by Winston Groom

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 17.00

    In 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 Quarterby Richard Slotkin

    Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 28.00

    In 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 Grayby Robert E. L. Krick

    The University of North Carolina Press 2003; US$ 56.95

    This 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 Confederateby William L. Barney

    Oxford University Press, USA 2007; US$ 18.99

    Illustrations. 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, 2by William W. Freehling

    Oxford University Press, USA 2007; US$ 18.99

    It 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...