THE CIVIL WAR : A NARRATIVE (3 volumes)
Random House, January 1958. Book Club. Hardcover. 3-Volume Set. Boards in cloth backstrip. Minor shelfwear to jackets (wrapped for protection). More
Random House, January 1958. Book Club. Hardcover. 3-Volume Set. Boards in cloth backstrip. Minor shelfwear to jackets (wrapped for protection). 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
Minton, Balch & Company, 1931. Cloth. Octavo. Black heavily stained/soiled cloth with title plate printed with red & black ink affixed to front panel. Likewise, smaller title plate affixed to spine, heavily chipped and worn at top of plate. Hinge is cracked at gutter on front pastedown. Previous owner's name..... 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
Scribners, January 1945. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. In tattered, torn & marginally darkened dustjacket. Flap is not clipped. Foxing & dust staining DJ verso. Burgundy cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine and front panel. Previous reader's name in in ffep. [322 pages]. More
Bobbs-Merrill, January 1944. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. In brown cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine and front panel. Dustjacket is missing. Light tanning of end pages. Foxing. Dust staining to fore-edge. First Edition. [558 pages]. More
Charles Scribner's Sons, January 1949. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. Heavily edgeworn dustjacket with darkening, soiling & stains. Tears and tape repairs. Flap is not clipped. Grey cloth covered boards with red, black & blue lettering. Previous reader's name in ink on ffep. Boards darkened at edges. Top corners bumped. [387..... More
Penguin Press HC, The, October 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. From the Pulitzer Prize winningauthor of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning withJefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy History has not been kind to Jefferson Davis. Hiscause went down in disastrous defeat and left theSouth impoverished for..... More
Three Rivers Press, December 2003. Trade Paperback. A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War Most Americans consider Abraham Lincoln to be the greatest president in history. His legend as the Great Emancipator has grown to mythic proportions as hundreds of books, a national holiday, and..... 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
Rutledge Hill Press, October 2000. Trade Paperback. True stories of unusual happenings during the civil war. In 1861, Wilmer McLean, distressed that a cannon ball crashed through his home during the battle of Bull Run, moved to a farm where the sound of battle would never again reach him and..... More
The Blue & Grey Press, January 1987. Oversized Hardcover. 10 Volumes in 5. Dust jackets and slipcase. Previous owner's bookplate in all volumes; else, near fine. More
University Press of Kansas, October 2000. Trade Paperback. Had Lee enjoyed the manpower or materiel advantages of Grant, would the South have triumphed? Had Hood possessed strength superior to Sherman's, would he still have lost their encounters in Georgia? Popular sentiment has long bowed to the military leadership 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
Hanover Square Press, April 2022. Hardcover. The enthralling story of the greatest Civil War battle at sea by the award-winning and bestselling historians Phil Keith and Tom Clavin.On June 19, 1864, just off the coast of France, one of the most dramatic naval battles in history took place. On a...... More
Univ Tennessee Press, February 1996. Trade Paperback. In February of 1862, the fall of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson near the Tennessee-Kentucky border forced a Confederate retreat into northern Alabama. After the Southern forces failed that spring at Shiloh to throw back the Federal advance, the controversial General Braxton Bragg..... 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