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  • New Perspectives on the First World War

    Beyond No Man’s Land

    Edited by Mandy Link, Matthew M. Stith ...
    Taken collectively, the chapters in New Perspectives on the First World War: Beyond No Man’s Land not only illuminate pieces of the Great War that remain in the shadow of the broader narratives, but also, and more importantly, foster new perspectives, pose distinct questions, and suggest fresh directions from which future work might emerge. Transnational approaches, the cultural and environmental ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Hundreds of Little Wars

    Community, Conflict, and the Real Civil War

    by Terry L. Beckenbaugh, Lorien Foote, Dr. Madeleine C. Forrest, Lesley J. Gordon, Barton A. Myers, Dr. Christopher Phillips, Dr. Michael Shane Powers, Dr. Scott Tarnowieckyi, Dr. Eric P. Totten, Dr. Elliott West, T. Michael Parrish, Niels Eichhorn ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    From Texas to Virginia, towns, regions, counties, regiments, prisons, and even refugee camps played a significant role in shaping the contours of the Civil War. According to historian Daniel E. Sutherland, whose many books and essays helped establish the field of community studies, these varied assemblages of individuals experienced and fought the real war. Following his lead, the contributors to ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Beyond the Quagmire

    New Interpretations of the Vietnam War

    Edited by Geoffrey W. Jensen, Matthew M. Stith ...
    In Beyond the Quagmire, thirteen scholars from across disciplines provide a series of provocative, important, and timely essays on the politics, combatants, and memory of the Vietnam War. Americans believed that they were supposed to win in Vietnam. As veteran and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Philip Caputo observed in A Rumor of War, “we carried, along with our packs and rifles, the implicit ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Guerrilla Hunters

    Irregular Conflicts during the Civil War

    by Adam Domby, Andrew Fialka, Scott Thompson, Lisa Tendrich Frank, Joseph Beilein, Earl J. Hess, Laura J. Davis, Andrew F. Lang, Matthew M. Stith, Aaron Astor, Brian Steel Wills, Stephen Rockenbach, Daniel E. Sutherland, Matthew Christopher Hulbert ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    Throughout the Civil War, irregular warfare—including the use of hit-and-run assaults, ambushes, and raiding tactics—thrived in localized guerrilla fights within the Border States and the Confederate South. The Guerrilla Hunters offers a comprehensive overview of the tactics, motives, and actors in these conflicts, from the Confederate-authorized Partisan Rangers, a military force directed to spy ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Extreme Civil War

    Guerrilla Warfare, Environment, and Race on the Trans-Mississippi Frontier

    by Matthew M. Stith ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    During the American Civil War, the western Trans-Mississippi frontier was host to harsh environmental conditions, irregular warfare, and intense racial tensions that created extraordinarily difficult conditions for both combatants and civilians. Matthew M. Stith's Extreme Civil War focuses on Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Indian Territory to examine the physical and cultural frontiers that ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Civil War Guerrilla

    Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth

    by Joseph M. Beilein Jr., Matthew C. Hulbert ...
    Series series New Directions in Southern History
    Civil War historians shed new light on the importance of guerrilla combat across the south in this "useful and fascinating work" ( Choice).Touching states from Virginia to New Mexico, guerrilla warfare played a significant yet underexamined role in the Civil War. Guerrilla fighters fought for both the Union and the Confederacy—as well as their own ethnic groups, tribes, or families. They were ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The History Buff's Guide to the Civil War

    The best, the worst, the largest, and the most lethal top ten rankings of the Civil War

    by Thomas R. Flagel ...
    Series series History Buff's Guides
    Do You Think You Know the Civil War?The History Buff's Guide to the Civil War clears the powder smoke surrounding the war that changed America forever. The perfect guide for anyone looking for great history facts like:What were the best, the worst, the largest, and the most lethal aspects of the conflict?What are the top ten causes?The bloodiest battles?With over thirty annotated top ten lists and ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • For Cause and Comrades

    Why Men Fought in the Civil War

    by James M. McPherson ...
    General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they finally broke through, he marveled, "You couldn't get American soldiers today to make an attack like that." Why did those men risk certain death, ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

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  • For Cause And Comrades : Why Men Fought In The Civil War

    by James M. McPherson ...
    General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they finally broke through, he marveled, "You couldn't get American soldiers today to make an attack like that." Why did those men risk certain death, ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Price's Lost Campaign

    The 1864 Invasion of Missouri

    by Mark A. Lause ...
    Series series Shades of Blue and Gray
    In the fall of 1864, during the last brutal months of the Civil War, the Confederates made one final, desperate attempt to rampage through the Shenandoah Valley, Tennessee, and Missouri. Price’s Raid was the common name for the Missouri campaign led by General Sterling Price. Involving tens of thousands of armed men, the 1864 Missouri campaign has too long remained unexamined by a book-length ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • A Thousand May Fall

    An Immigrant Regiment's Civil War

    by Brian Matthew Jordan ...
    From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a pathbreaking history of the Civil War centered on a regiment of immigrants and their brutal experience of the conflict.The Civil War ended more than 150 years ago, yet our nation remains fiercely divided over its enduring legacies. In A Thousand May Fall, Pulitzer Prize finalist Brian Matthew Jordan returns us to the war itself, bringing us closer than perhaps any ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • African American Faces of the Civil War

    An Album

    by Ronald S. Coddington ...
    Discover the men of color who fought for their freedom during the Civil War through profiles illustrated with original wartime photographs.A renowned collector of Civil War photographs and a prodigious researcher, Ronald S. Coddington combines compelling archival images with biographical stories that reveal the human side of the war. This third volume in his series on Civil War soldiers contains ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus