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  • A History of the Civil War

    The Conflict that Defined the United States

    by Professor Brooks Simpson ...
    In this account of the bloodiest war fought on American soil, Brooks Simpson recounts the events of the war from the opening salvo at Fort Sumter through the battlefields of Gettysburg and Shiloh to the Confederate surrender at Appomattox Court House.A History of the Civil War brings to life the realities of the war and the people who lived through it. It explains how the politics around slavery ... Read more

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  • Victors in Blue

    How Union Generals Fought the Confederates, Battled Each Other, and Won the Civil War

    by Albert Castel, Brooks Simpson ...
    Series series Modern War Studies
    Make no mistake, the Confederacy had the will and valor to fight. But the Union had the manpower, the money, the materiel, and, most important, the generals. Although the South had arguably the best commander in the Civil War in Robert E. Lee, the North’s full house beat their one-of-a-kind. Flawed individually, the Union’s top officers nevertheless proved collectively superior across a diverse ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

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  • The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom

    The Civil War Era

    by James M. McPherson ...
    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 the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Civil War, A to Z

    The Complete Handbook of America's Bloodiest Conflict

    Edited by Clifford L. Linedecker ...
    With hundreds of entries, as well as photographs, drawings, and a handy time line of events, Civil War, A to Z encompasses everything about this historic conflict . . . from Appomattox to Zouaves.This encyclopedic illustrated reference features facts both familiar and engagingly new, organized in an easy-to-follow alphabetical format. Ranging from the basic to the bizarre, from secession to spies ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Fall of the House of Dixie

    The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South

    by Bruce Levine ...
    In this major new history of the Civil War, Bruce Levine tells the riveting story of how that conflict upended the economic, political, and social life of the old South, utterly destroying the Confederacy and the society it represented and defended. Told through the words of the people who lived it, The Fall of the House of Dixie illuminates the way a war undertaken to preserve the status quo ... Read more

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  • How the South Could Have Won the Civil War

    The Fatal Errors That Led to Confederate Defeat

    by Bevin Alexander ...
    Could the South have won the Civil War?To many, the very question seems absurd. After all, the Confederacy had only a third of the population and one-eleventh of the industry of the North. Wasn’t the South’s defeat inevitable?Not at all, as acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander reveals in this provocative and counterintuitive new look at the Civil War. In fact, the South most definitely ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Gettysburg

    Two Eyewitness Accounts

    by Frank Haskell, William C. Oates ...
    Series series Eyewitness to the Civil War
    In this unique series the Civil War comes vividly to life. Here an eyewitness accounts--many available for the first time in decades--by generals, journalist, and ordinary foot soldiers, both blue and gray, who relive the conflict in all its terrible glory. Each volume brings you a human perspective on the war--its most decisive battles, its most remarkable personalities. Gettysburg: Two ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Man Who Saved the Union

    Ulysses Grant in War and Peace

    by H. W. Brands ...
    From New York Times bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House.Ulysses Grant rose from obscurity to discover he had a genius for battle, and he propelled the Union to victory in the Civil War. After Abraham Lincoln's assassination and the disastrous brief presidency of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Secret War for the Union

    The Untold Story of Military Intelligence in the Civil War

    by Edwin C. Fishel ...
    "A treasure trove for historians . . . A real addition to Civil War history" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).At the end of the American Civil War, most of the intelligence records disappeared—remaining hidden for over a century. As a result, little has been understood about the role of espionage and other intelligence sources, from balloonists to signalmen with their telescopes.When, at the ... Read more

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  • Don’t Know Much About® the Civil War

    Everything You Need to Know About America's Greatest Conflict but Never Learned

    by Kenneth C. Davis ...
    Series Book 10 - Don't Know Much About Series
    “Highly informative and entertaining…propels the reader light years beyond dull textbooks and Gone with the Wind.”—San Francisco ChronicleIt has been 150 years since the opening salvo of America’s War Between the States. New York Times bestselling author Ken Davis tells us everything we never knew about our nation’s bloodiest conflict in Don’t Know Much About ® the Civil War—another fascinating ... Read more

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  • The Civil War 100

    The Stories Behind the Most Influential Battles, People and Events in the War Between the States

    by Michael Lee Lanning ...
    The Civil War was the defining event in American history.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."Across this easily accessible reference, readers meet notonly such icons as Lincoln and Lee, but also chronic fumblerswhose tarnished reputations have most often sunk beneaththe notice of the ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • To Rescue the Republic

    Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876

    by Bret Baier, Catherine Whitney ...
    Series Book 1 - The Presidential Series
    #1 New York Times BestsellerFox News Channel’s Chief Political Anchor illuminates the heroic life of Ulysses S. Grant"To Rescue the Republic is narrative history at its absolute finest. A fast-paced, thrilling and enormously important book." —Douglas BrinkleyAn epic history spanning the battlegrounds of the Civil War and the violent turmoil of Reconstruction to the forgotten electo... ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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