Civil War Period

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385311007Author Shelby FooteFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375702747Author Eric FonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

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Gordon Rhea's gripping fourth volume on the spring 1864 campaign- which pitted Ulysses S. Grant against Robert E. Lee for the first time in the Civil War- vividly re-creates the battles and maneuvers from the stalemate on the North Anna River through the...

Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. FrEmont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, straddling the fur trade era and the age of exploration, he lived the life legends are made of. His...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990412243Author Brad ButkovichFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Historic Imagination LLCPublisher Historic Imagination LLCWeight(grams)...

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" . . . cuts squarely across the accepted tradition . . . Fuller examines these two great soldiers from a fresh viewpoint and refuses to let himself be bound by tradition." -New York Times Book Review" . . . readable, instructive, stimulating, and . . ...

The year 1963 was unforgettable for Americans. In the midst of intense Cold War turmoil and the escalating struggle for Black freedom, the United States also engaged in a nationwide commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Civil War. Commemorative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679738282Author Elisha Hunt RhodesFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

On the evening of April 14, 1865, when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theatre, an entire audience was witness to the tragedy. From diaries, letters, depositions, affidavits, and periodicals, here is a collection of accounts from a...

'No two nations have ever existed on the face of the earth which could do each other so much good or so much harm'President Buchanan, State of the Nation Address, 1859A World on Fire tells, with extraordinary sweep, one of the least known great stories...

'No two nations have ever existed on the face of the earth which could do each other so much good or so much harm'President Buchanan, State of the Nation Address, 1859A World on Fire tells, with extraordinary sweep, one of the least known great stories...

From the author of the popular "Letters from an American" newsletter: a sweeping story of how Northerners, Southerners, and Westerners together created modern America in the years from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore RooseveltA Wall Street Journal...

Born in 1828 near Kelso in the Scottish Borders, Wyllie went to sea as an apprentice seaman in 1852 and quickly rose through the ranks. By 1862 he had gained his masters certificate in Liverpool, and there he took command of his first vessel, the Bonita...

During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers' bodies were transformed into ""dead heaps of ruins,"" novel sights in the southern landscape. How did this happen, and why? And what did Americans-northern and southern, black and white, male...

Offers an engaging account of the experiences of Jewish soldiers in the Union Army during the Civil War What was it like to be a Jew in Lincoln's armies? The Union army was as diverse as the embattled nation it sought to preserve, a unique mixture of...

This study is the first to critically survey the changing and highly controversial historical literature surrounding the American Civil War era, from contemporary interpretations up to the present.. The book analyses both historians attitudes and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743219693Author Bob BrewerFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Who were the greatest commanders of the American Civil War, and what made them so? In The Great Commanders of the American Civil War, the best military leaders of both sides are pitted against each other and their strengths and weaknesses examined -...

In this collection, Civil War historian Gary W. Gallagher examines Robert E. Lee, his principal subordinates, the treatment they have received in the literature on Confederate military history, and the continuing influence of Lost Cause arguments in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639730643Author Jon GrinspanFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

In a beautifully crafted narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-year period in which the United States, Mexico and Canada all transformed themselves into nations. The...

James M. McPherson is acclaimed as one of the finest historians writing today and a preeminent commentator on the Civil War. Battle Cry of Freedom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of that conflict, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593534441Author Allen C. GuelzoFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806543383Author Allen C. GuelzoFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594204876Author Ron ChernowFormat HardbackPage Count 1104Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1480gDimensions(mm) 243mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613822913Author Frederick DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Simon & BrownPublisher Simon & BrownWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

From Simon & Schuster, The Cause of the Civil War is historian Kenneth Stampp's exploration of America's great civil conflict.Was the Civil War inevitable? What really caused it? Drawing on original sources--from Jefferson Davis to Frederick...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525510086Author Ronald C. White, Jr.Format HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

This epic work-named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the New York Times-tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third...

Beneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tunnels of self-taught study, a restless philosophical curiosity, and a profound grasp of the fundamentals of democracy. Now, in Lincoln: A Very Short...

A new edition of the classic African American autobiography, now with with the inclusion of Douglass's other works.The pre-eminent American slave narrative published in 1845, the Narrative powerfully details the life of the abolitionist Frederick...

Take a walk through history with this guide for lifelong learners The American Civil War is one of the most fascinating and impactful periods in American history. Besides bringing about the end of slavery, the war had many important economic and social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394749136Author Shelby FooteFormat PaperbackPage Count 3Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 4207gDimensions(mm) 241mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307338426Author Thomas J. DilorenzoFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 196gDimensions(mm)...

Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award in Nonfiction"Sweeping...A new way to make sense not only of the past, but of the contemporary culture wars." -New York Times Book Review"A provocative culmination of Slotkin's field-defining arguments on the...

The American Civil War was at a turning point in 1863 when Lt. Col. Arthur J. L. Fremantle of the British Coldstream Guards toured the Confederacy. Mildly predisposed toward the Union side because of his dislike of slavery, he was soon awakened to the...

Shot All to Hell by Mark Lee Gardner recounts the thrilling life of Jesse James, Frank James, the Younger brothers, and the most famous bank robbery of all time. Follow the Wild West's most celebrated gang of outlaws as they step inside Northfield's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452010956Author David MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...