Oxford University Press, USA, February 1988. Soft Cover. Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded..... More
Harper Perennial, September 2015. Trade Paperback. "Not for nothing has Abbott been called a 'pioneer of sizzle history.' Here she creates a gripping page-turner that moves at a breathtaking clip through the dramatic events of the Civil War." -- Los Angeles Times Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author..... More
Lyons Press, April 2019. Cloth. The most compelling and exciting tales of lost and buried treasures associated with the Civil War have been collected, extensively researched and investigated, and are included in this entertaining book from one of America's foremost treasure hunters. They represent fortunes that have been lost for..... More
Yale University Press, September 1981. First Edition. Cloth. An authorized account of the Civil War, drawn from the diaries of a Southern aristocrat, records the disintegration and final destruction of the Confederacy. First/first. {9 & 1/2' x 6 & 1/2'} In tattered, torn and darkened at spine and margins. Tanned..... More
Folio Society, January 1961. First Thus. Cloth. Octavo. Cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine and gold decoration on front panel. Spine side of cover, navy blue. Fore-edge side of cover, steel blue. Illustrated white on blue map end pages front and rear. Top textblock edge, tinted black. In..... More
Butternut & Blue, January 1995. Hardcover. Still in shrinkwrap. More
Edmonston Pub, January 2003. Hardcover. More
University Press of Mississippi, March 1989. Trade Paperback. Shelby Foote once said that he did not know of anything he had learned about the writing of novels that couldn't also be applied to the writing of history. In his development, the merging of these special talents has made Foote almost..... More
Exposition Press / University Book, 1975. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in mildly foxed/darkened dustjacket. Front flap is not clilpped. Ochre cloth covered boards with gold lettering. Darkening at margins and board edges. Heavy tanning to end pages front and back. Small (one-half inch) split in hinge of front end pages..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, June 1997. Trade Paperback. The life of Robert E. Lee is a story of triumph - triumph in clearing his family name, triumph in marrying properly, triumph over the mighty Mississippi in his work as an engineer, and triumph over all other military men to..... More
Konecky & Konecky, January 1995. Hardcover. Lightly bruised at the ends of the spine. Sunned on the edges of the boards. More
Penguin USA, September 1990. Hardcover. Twenty years after Appomattox, stricken by cancer and facing financial ruin, Ulysses S. Grant wrote his Personal Memoirs to secure his family's future. in doing so, the Civil War's greatest general won himself a unique place in American letters. His character, intelligence, sense of purpose..... More
Free Press, October 1992. Hardcover. This biography of General William Tecumseh Sherman aims to reveal the motives underlying his often controversial actions. As well as Sherman's role in the Civil War, the book covers other aspects of his life - West Point, the Gold Rush, the construction of the transcontinental..... More
Hippocrene Books, November 1996. Hardcover. Critique's the Civil War general's battlefield tactics, strategic vision, staff organization, and logistic planning, looking at his shortcomings in the context of restrictions placed on him by Confederate government interference and weaknesses in the senior levels of Confederate command, and makes a. Spine slanted. Jacket..... More
Bonanza / Crown / A.S. Barnes & Noble Co., December 1988. Cloth. Shelfwear, bookplate page toning; jacket torn. More
Knopf, September 1990. Oversized Hardcover. The complete text of the bestselling narrative history of the Civil War--based on the celebrated PBS television series. This illustrated edition interweaves the author's narrative with the voices of the men and women who lived through that cataclysmic trail of our nationhood, from Abraham Lincoln..... More
Southern Illinois University Press, October 2007. Hardcover. Well Satisfied with My Position offers a first-person account of army life during the Civil War's Peninsula Campaign and Battle of Fredericksburg. Spencer Bonsall, who joined the 81st Pennsylvania Infantry as a hospital steward, kept a journal from March 1862 until March 1863..... More
Charles Scribners Sons, 1930. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. Burgundy cloth covered boards with black lettering. Dustjacket is missing. Previous reader's name in ink ffep. [512 [pages]. More
Houghton Mifflin, August 1996. Hardcover. Many histories of the American Civil War explain victory or defeat in terms of the skill of commanders, the fighting qualities of the troops, and resources in men and material. Intelligence has often been ignored, because at the end of the war most of the..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, October 1992. Book Club. Hardcover. It was a landmark engagement in the history of warfare. It served as the single greatest display of Robert E. Lee's tactical genius and Stonewall Jackson's troop leadership. But while it was the high point of Civil War battlefield success for the..... More
Simon & Schuster, September 1991. Trade Paperback. No single battalion was more feared during the Civil War than the 43rd Battalion of Virginia Cavalry. As one contemporary said, "They had...all the glamour of Robin Hood...all the courage and bravery of the ancient crusaders." Better known as Mosby's Rangers, they were..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, October 1982. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Foxing/dust staining textblock edges. Previous owner's name inked half title page. 4th paperback printing. [592 pp.]. More
Rutledge Hill Pr, July 2005. Book Club. Hardcover. As equally matched in skill as they were opposite in personality, the brash Union Gen. Joseph Hooker boasted of a sure defeat of the reserved Gen. Robert E. Lee. "I've got Robert E. Lee right where I want him, and even God..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, July 2010. Book Club. Hardcover. Despite the abundance of books on the Civil War, not one has focused exclusively on what was in fact the determining factor in the outcome of the conflict: differences in Union and Southern strategy. In The Grand Design, Donald Stoker provides..... More
Simon & Schuster, December 1994. Trade Paperback. General James Longstreet fought in nearly every campaign of the Civil War, from Manassas (the first battle of Bull Run) to Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chickamauga, Gettysburg, and was present at surrender at Appomattox. Yet, he was largely held to blame for the Confederacy's defeat..... More
