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  • Mr. Lincoln Goes to War

    An account of how America's greatest crisis began, by "the Civil War's master historical detective" (Stephen W. Sears, author of Chancellorsville).This groundbreaking book investigates the mystery of how the Civil War began, reconsidering the big question: Was it inevitable?The award-winning author of Andersonville and Lincoln's Autocrat vividly recreates President Abraham Lincoln's first year in ... Leer más

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  • Lincoln's Darkest Year

    The War in 1862

    A portrait of a pivotal chapter in the Civil War, "featuring scheming politicians, bumbling generals, and an increasingly disheartened Northern public" (Brooks Simpson, author of Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822–1865).In Mr. Lincoln Goes to War, award-winning historian William Marvel focused on President Abraham Lincoln's first year in office. In Lincoln's Darkest Year, he paints a ... Leer más

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  • Tarnished Victory

    Finishing Lincoln's War

    A "full and insightful" account of the Civil War's final year from the award-winning author of Lee's Last Retreat ( Publishers Weekly).Beginning with the Virginia and Atlanta campaigns of May 1864 and closing with the final surrender of Confederate forces in June 1865, Tarnished Victory follows the course of the Civil War's final year. As the death toll rises with each bloody battle, the home ... Leer más

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  • The Great Task Remaining

    The Third Year of Lincoln's War

    Focusing on the dramatic events of 1863, this is "a well-researched and well-written study that will be a fine addition to Civil War collections" ( Booklist).The Great Task Remaining is a striking, often poignant portrait of people in conflict—not only in battles between North and South, but within and among themselves as the cost of the ongoing carnage sometimes seemed too much to bear.As 1863 ... Leer más

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  • Lincoln's Autocrat

    The Life of Edwin Stanton

    Series series Civil War America
    Edwin M. Stanton (1814–1869), one of the nineteenth century’s most impressive legal and political minds, wielded enormous influence and power as Lincoln’s secretary of war during most of the Civil War and under Johnson during the early years of Reconstruction. In the first full biography of Stanton in more than fifty years, William Marvel offers a detailed reexamination of Stanton’s life, career, ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Lee's Last Retreat

    The Flight to Appomattox

    Series series Civil War America
    Few events in Civil War history have generated such deliberate mythmaking as the retreat that ended at Appomattox. William Marvel offers the first history of the Appomattox campaign written primarily from contemporary source material, with a skeptical eye toward memoirs published well after the events they purport to describe.Marvel shows that during the final week of the war in Virginia, Lee’s ... Leer más

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  • Radical Sacrifice

    The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter

    Series series Civil War America
    Born into a distinguished military family, Fitz John Porter (1822–1901) was educated at West Point and breveted for bravery in the war with Mexico. Already a well-respected officer at the outset of the Civil War, as a general in the Union army he became a favorite of George B. McClellan, who chose him to command the Fifth Corps of the Army of the Potomac. Porter and his troops fought heroically ... Leer más

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  • A Place Called Appomattox

    Series series Civil War America
    Although Appomattox Court House is one of the most symbolically charged places in America, it was an ordinary tobacco-growing village both before and after an accident of fate brought the armies of Lee and Grant together there. It is that Appomattox — the typical small Confederate town — that William Marvel portrays in this deeply researched, compelling study. He tells the story of the Civil War ... Leer más

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  • The Alabama and the Kearsarge

    The Sailor's Civil War

    Series series Civil War America
    On June 19, 1864, the Confederate cruiser Alabama and the USS Kearsarge faced off in the English Channel outside the French port of Cherbourg. About an hour after the Alabama fired the first shot, it began to sink, and its crew was forced to wave the white flag of surrender.Working with personal papers and diaries and contemporary reports, historian William Marvel interweaves the stories of these ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Burnside

    Series series Civil War America
    Ambrose Burnside, the Union general, was a major player on the Civil War stage from the first clash at Bull Run until the final summer of the war. He led a corps or army during most of this time and played important roles in various theaters of the war. But until now, he has been remembered mostly for his distinctive side–whiskers that gave us the term “sideburns” and as an incompetent leader who ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Andersonville

    The Last Depot

    Series series Civil War America
    Between February 1864 and April 1865, 41,000 Union prisoners of war were taken to the stockade at Anderson Station, Georgia, where nearly 13,000 of them died. Most contemporary accounts placed the blame for the tragedy squarely on the shoulders of the Confederates who administered the prison or on a conspiracy of higher-ranking officials. According to William Marvel, virulent disease and severe ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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    Lincoln's Autocrat

    The Life of Edwin Stanton

    Narrado por Norman Dietz ...
    Series series Civil War America

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    27 hora 26 minutos

    Edwin M. Stanton (1814–1869), one of the nineteenth century's most impressive legal and political minds, wielded enormous influence and power as Lincoln's secretary of war during most of the Civil War and under Johnson during the early years of Reconstruction. In the first full biography of Stanton in more than fifty years, William Marvel offers a detailed reexamination of Stanton's life, career, ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD