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  • Defining Moments: The Civil War

    by George Grant, Michael Swift ...
    The Civil War—like all civil wars—was divisive, costly, and savage. More Americans died in this war than in World War I and World War II combined. Brother was pitted against brother and neighbor against neighbor. There are no civilians in a civil war and both sides’ scorched earth policies meant that there were significant noncombatant casualties.The Civil War was a defining moment in the history ... Read more

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  • 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 Complete Idiot's Guide to the Civil War, 3rd Edition

    An In-Depth Look at the Dramatic Course of This Conflict

    by Alan Axelrod Ph.D. ...
    A battle ready guide to the deadliest war in American historyCompletely revised for the Sesquicentennial, The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the Civil War, Third Edition is a comprehensive overview of America's bloodiest war. From the first shots fired at Fort Sumter to Lee's surrender at Appomattox, this book embodies the latest scholarship, offering fascinating stories of the men and women who ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • 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

  • The Grand Design

    Strategy and the U.S. Civil War

    by Donald Stoker ...
    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 for the first time a comprehensive and often surprising account of strategy as it evolved between Fort Sumter and Appomattox. Reminding us that strategy is ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Receding Tide

    Vicksburg and Gettysburg: The Campaigns That Changed the Civil War

    by Edwin C. Bearss, J. Parker Hills ...
    It's a poignant irony in American history that on Independence Day, 1863, not one but two pivotal Civil War battles ended in Union victory, marked the high tide of Confederate military fortune, and ultimately doomed the South's effort at secession. But on July 4, 1863, after six months of siege, Ulysses Grant's Union army finally took Vicksburg and the Confederate west. On the very same day, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Amazing Civil War

    by Webb Garrison ...
    An illustrated compendium of obscure facts and little-known wonders from the Civil War Era, a perfect gift for history buffs and Civil war enthusiasts.With three million soldiers scattered along a 10,000-mile front and more than 1,000 engagements, the Civil War was one in which fascinating anecdotes, colorful stories, humorous tales, and unusual coincidences were frequent. Historian Webb Garrison ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • This Great Struggle

    America's Civil War

    by Steven E. Woodworth ...
    Referring to the war that was raging across parts of the American landscape, Abraham Lincoln told Congress in 1862, "We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope on earth." Lincoln recognized what was at stake in the American Civil War: not only freedom for 3.5 million slaves but also survival of self-government in the last place on earth where it could have the opportunity of ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • The Longest Night

    A Military History of the Civil War

    by David J Eicher ...
    A riveting, indispensable history of the Civil War, told chronologically—from the first shots fired at Fort Sumter to the surrender in the summer of 1865—a conflict that James McPherson in the Foreword calls "the most dramatic, violent, and fateful experience in American history."In this compelling account of the American Civil War, noted historian David Eicher gives us an authoritative history of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • A Savage War

    A Military History of the Civil War

    by Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, Williamson Murray ...
    How the Civil War changed the face of warThe Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet despite the revolutionizing aspects of the Civil War, its leaders faced the same uncertainties and vagaries of chance that have vexed ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • If the South Won Gettysburg

    by Mark Nesbitt ...
    Gettysburg: a turning point in the Civil War. It was here that the Confederate "High Tide" failed to brim over the Union defenders. Many historical accounts have been written about the Battle of Gettysburg and the Civil War detailing the technical and humanistic aspects of the soldiers and their leaders. In "If the South Won Gettysburg" author Mark Nesbitt makes a dramatic hypothetical examination ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sherman: Lessons in Leadership

    by Steven E. Woodworth ...
    Series series Great Generals
    Sherman is not only one of the most important generals in the American Civil War, but also one of the most famous commanders in the military annals of the western world. He has become an almost mythical character in popular memory, the embodiment of grim-visaged, implacable war. Legend has him burning a sixty-mile-wide swath of desolation across the South, and southerners still confidently assert ... Read more

    $14.99 USD