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  • Gene Kelly

    The Making of a Creative Legend

    by Earl Hess, Pratibha A. Dabholkar ...
    Whether as a curiosity or a beloved idol, Gene Kelly (1912–1996) lives on in our cultural memory as a fantastic dancer in M-G-M musicals, especially Singin’ in the Rain. But dancing, however extraordinary, was only one of his many gifts. This book, for the first time, offers a full picture of Gene Kelly as the Renaissance man he actually was—dancer, yes, but also choreographer, actor, clown, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Civil War Logistics

    A Study of Military Transportation

    by Earl J. Hess ...
    Winner of the Eugene Feit Award in Civil War Studies by the New York Military Affairs SymposiumDuring the Civil War, neither the Union nor the Confederate army could have operated without effective transportation systems. Moving men, supplies, and equipment required coordination on a massive scale, and Earl J. Hess’s Civil War Logistics offers the first comprehensive analysis of this vital process ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Pickett's Charge--The Last Attack at Gettysburg

    by Earl J. Hess ...
    Series series Civil War America
    Sweeping away many of the myths that have long surrounded Pickett’s Charge, Earl Hess offers the definitive history of the most famous military action of the Civil War. He transforms exhaustive research into a moving narrative account of the assault from both Union and Confederate perspectives, analyzing its planning, execution, aftermath, and legacy. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Lincoln Memorial University and the Shaping of Appalachia

    by Earl J. Hess ...
    Located near Cumberland Gap in the rugged hills of East Tennessee, Lincoln Memorial University (LMU) was founded in 1897 to help disadvantaged Appalachian youth and reward the descendents of Union loyalists in the region. Its founder was former Union General Oliver Otis Howard, a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, who made it his mission to sustain an institution of higher learning in the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Civil War Torpedoes and the Global Development of Landmine Warfare

    by Earl J. Hess ...
    Series series War and Society
    Civil War Torpedoes and the Global Development of Landmine Warfare recounts the use of landmines in the American Civil War from their predecessors before 1861 through their legacy in the post-Cold War era. A handful of Confederates pioneered the use of torpedoes, as landmines were commonly called in the 1860s, burying them in front of fortifications, along roads, and as booby traps. Federal troops ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Shattered Courage

    Soldiers Who Refused to Fight in the American Civil War

    by Earl J. Hess ...
    Series series Modern War Studies
    From renowned Civil War historian Earl J. Hess comes a study of Union and Confederate soldiers as never seen before. Shattered Courage examines the experience of the men who refused to fight on the day of battle.When Abraham Lincoln took the oath of presidential office on March 4, 1865, he urged the country to care for those “who shall have borne the battle”—a reference to the Union soldiers who ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Civil War Cavalry

    Waging Mounted Warfare in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Earl J. Hess ...
    The Civil War produced the largest cavalry force ever raised in American history. In Civil War Cavalry, Earl J. Hess examines that force comprehensively and from new perspectives, challenging standard views of the war’s mounted arm. Hess surveys the organization, training, administration, arming, and mounting of cavalry units and examines mounted troops’ tactical formations and maneuvers. He ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Knoxville Campaign

    Burnside and Longstreet in East Tennessee

    by Earl J. Hess ...
    “Hess’s account of the understudied Knoxville Campaign sheds new light on the generalship of James Longstreet and Ambrose Burnside, as well as such lesser players as Micah Jenkins and Orlando Poe. Both scholars and general readers should welcome it. The scholarship is sound, the research, superb, the writing, excellent.” —Steven E. Woodworth, author of Decision in the Heartland: The Civil War in ... Read more

    $22.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Earl J. Hess Fortifications Trilogy, Omnibus E-book

    Includes Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War; Trench Warfare Under Grant and Lee; and In the Trenches at Petersburg

    by Earl J. Hess ...
    Series series Civil War America
    This three-volume Omnibus e-Book set is a collection of Earl J. Hess’s definitive works on trench warfare during the Civil War. The set includes:Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War: The Eastern Campaigns, 1861-1864, covering the eastern campaigns, from Big Bethel and the Peninsula to Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Charleston, and Mine Run;Trench Warfare under Grant and Lee: Field ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Lee's Tar Heels

    The Pettigrew-Kirkland-MacRae Brigade

    by Earl J. Hess ...
    Series series Civil War America
    The Pettigrew-Kirkland-MacRae Brigade was one of North Carolina’s best-known and most successful units during the Civil War. Formed in 1862, the brigade spent nearly a year protecting supply lines before being thrust into its first major combat at Gettysburg. There, James Johnston Pettigrew’s men pushed back the Union’s famed Iron Brigade in vicious fighting on July 1 and played a key role in ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Battle of Ezra Church and the Struggle for Atlanta

    by Earl J. Hess ...
    Series series Civil War America
    Fought on July 28, 1864, the Battle of Ezra Church was a dramatic engagement during the Civil War’s Atlanta campaign. Confederate forces under John Bell Hood desperately fought to stop William T. Sherman’s advancing armies as they tried to cut the last Confederate supply line into the city. Confederates under General Stephen D. Lee nearly overwhelmed the Union right flank, but Federals under ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War

    The Eastern Campaigns, 1861-1864

    by Earl J. Hess ...
    Series series Civil War America
    Earl J. Hess provides a narrative history of the use of fortifications — particularly trenches and other semi-permanent earthworks — used by Confederate and Union field armies at all major battle sites in the eastern theater of the Civil War. Hess moves beyond the technical aspects of construction to demonstrate the crucial role these earthworks played in the success or failure of field armies. A ... Read more

    $18.99 USD