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  • New Perspectives on the Union War

    by Michael Caires, Jack Furniss, Jesse George-Nichol, William B. Kurtz, Peter Luebke, Tamika Nunley, Gary W. Gallagher, University of Virginia, Elizabeth R. Varon, University of Virginia ...
    Series series The North's Civil War
    Edited by Gary Gallagher and Elizabeth Varon, two of the most prominent nineteenth-century American historians in the nation, New Perspectives on the Union War provides a more nuanced understanding of what “Union” meant in the Civil War North by exploring how various groups of northerners conceived of the term. The essays in this volume demonstrate that while there was a broad consensus that the ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • The Story of a Thousand

    by Tourgee ...
    Eyewitness Civil War testimony from a major American writerThis facsimile edition of Albion W. Tourgée’s regimental history of the 105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was first published in 1896. Tourgée, a lawyer and outspoken abolitionist from Williamsfield, Ohio, is best known for his semi-fictional novels about the reconstruction of the South following the Civil War, A Fool’s Errand and Bricks ... Read more

    $49.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Grave Misfortune: The USS Indianapolis Tragedy

    The USS Indianapolis Tragedy

    by Richard A. Hulver ...
    Dedicated to the Sailors and Marines who lost their lives on the final voyage of USS Indianapolis and tothose who survived the torment at sea following its sinking. plus the crews that risked their lives in rescue ships.The USS Indianapolis (CA-35) was a decorated World War II warship that is primarily remembered for her worst 15 minutes..This ship earned ten (10) battle stars for her service in ... Read more

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  • Strategy

    by B. H. Liddell Hart ...
    This is the classic book on war as we know it. During his long life, Basil H. Liddell Hart was considered one of the world's foremost military thinkers--a man generally regarded as the "Clausewitz of the 20th century." Liddell Hart stressed movement, flexibilty, surprise. He saw that in most military campaigns dislocation of the enemy's psychological and physical balance is prelude to victory. ... Read more

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  • The Rise of Germany, 1939–1941

    The War in the West

    by James Holland ...
    An account of the early years of World War II based on extensive new research: "A genuinely fresh approach . . . exceptional" (The Wall Street Journal).James Holland, one of the leading young historians of World War II, has spent over a decade conducting new research, interviewing survivors, and exploring archives that have never before been so accessible to unearth forgotten memoirs, letters, and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • U. S. Grant: The Civil War Years

    Grant Moves South and Grant Takes Command

    by Bruce Catton ...
    Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Bruce Catton's acclaimed two-book biography of complex and controversial Union commander Ulysses S. Grant.New York Times BestsellersIn these two comprehensive and engaging volumes, preeminent Civil War historian Bruce Catton follows the wartime movements of Ulysses S. Grant, detailing the Union commander's bold tactics and his relentless dedication to achieving ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Grant Takes Command

    by Bruce Catton ...
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian's New York Times –bestselling biography of Ulysses S. Grant and his leadership during the Civil War."Lively and absorbing." — The New York Times Book ReviewThis conclusion to Bruce Catton's acclaimed history of General Grant begins in the summer of 1863. After Grant's bold and decisive triumph over the Confederate Army at Vicksburg, Pr... ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Grant Moves South

    by Bruce Catton ...
    A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian looks at the complex, controversial Union commander who ensured the Confederacy's downfall in the Civil War.In this New York Times bestseller, preeminent Civil War historian Bruce Catton narrows his focus on commander Ulysses S. Grant, whose bold tactics and relentless dedication to the Union ultimately ensured a Northern victory in the nation's bloodiest ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rebels at the Gate

    Lee and McClellan on the Front Line of a Nation Divided

    by W Hunter Lesser ...
    Rebels at the Gate is the dramatic story of the first Union victories of the Civil War and the events that caused Virginians to divide their state. In a defiant act to sustain President Lincoln's war effort, Virginia Unionists created their own state government in 1861—destined to become the new state of West Virginia. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • General Lee's Army

    From Victory to Collapse

    by Joseph Glatthaar ...
    "You would be surprised to see what men we have in the ranks," Virginia cavalryman Thomas Rowland informed his mother in May 1861, just after joining the Army of Northern Virginia. His army -- General Robert E. Lee's army -- was a surprise to almost everyone: With daring early victories and an invasion into the North, they nearly managed to convince the North to give up the fight. Even in 1865, ... Read more

    $15.99 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

    $15.19 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Crossroads of Freedom : Antietam

    Antietam

    by James M. McPherson ...
    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    The Battle of Antietam fought on September 17 1862 was the bloodiest single day in American history with more than 6000 soldiers killed--four times the number lost on D-Day and twice the number killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks. In Crossroads of Freedom America's most eminent Civil War historian James M. McPherson paints a masterful account of this pivotal battle the events that led ... Read more

    $15.19 USD