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Bridging Revolutions: The Lives of Chief Justices Richmond Pearson and John Belton O'Neall Joseph a Ranney 9780820369822
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £34.23Bridging Revolutions examines the lives of North Carolina chief justice Richmond Pearson (1805-1878) and South Carolina chief justice John Belton O'Neall (1793-1863) and their impact on the South's... -
Jefferson, Lincoln, and the Unfinished Work of the Nation by Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler 9780809334902
Booksplease Price: £20.50Although the nation changed quite a bit between the presidential terms of Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, these two leaders shared common interests and held remarkably similar opinions on... -
Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia by Aaron Sheehan-Dean 9780807861844
Booksplease Price: £39.12This title discusses the motivations for continuing the fight. In the first comprehensive study of the experience of Virginia soldiers and their families in the Civil War, Aaron Sheehan-Dean captures... -
A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era by Andrew F Lang 9781469672496
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.66Most mid-nineteenth-century Americans regarded the United States as an exceptional democratic republic that stood apart from a world seemingly riddled with revolutionary turmoil and aristocratic... -
The American Civil War: A Visual History DK 9780241719961
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.65A fully revised and updated guide to America's bloodiest and most divisive conflict - 165 years on.Comprehensive and packed with contemporary paintings, photographs, maps, and important artefacts,... -
The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 by Gary W. Gallagher 9780807859568
Booksplease Price: £27.40This book takes a fresh look at the longest campaign in the region. Generally regarded as the most important Civil War military operation conducted in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, the campaign... -
Camp Chase and the Evolution of Union Prison Policy by Roger Pickenpaugh 9780817359218
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Discusses an important yet often misunderstood topic in American History.Camp Chase, located four miles west of Columbus, Ohio, started, as did so many other prisons, as a training camp for eager... -
Decisions at Kennesaw Mountain: The Eleven Critical Decisions That Defined the Battle by Lawrence K. Peterson 9781621908111
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.44As Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman swept through Georgia in 1864, he fought several small battles against an ever-retreating Gen. Joseph E. Johnston who had replaced the beleaguered Gen. Braxton Bragg... -
The Rebel Killer (Jack Lark, Book 7): A gripping tale of revenge in the American Civil War by Paul Fraser Collard
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26JACK LARK: SOLDIER, LEADER, IMPOSTER.The seventh book in the gripping historical military adventure series for fans of Bernard Cornwell, S.J.A. Turney and Matthew Harffy. 'Brilliant' Bernard Cornwell... -
Island No.10: Struggle for the Mississippi Valley by Larry J. Daniel 9780817308162
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24Between February 1862 and July 1863, the Confederates lost 64,000 troops in defending a mile-long island on the Mississippi River that straddled the boundaries of Tennessee, Missouri and Kentucky... -
Is Davis a Traitor: ...Or Was the Secession of the Confederate States a Constitutional Right Previous to the Civil War of 1861? (Constitutional Commentaries and History) (Hardcover) by Albert Taylor Bledsoe 9780359738007
RRP: £24.88Booksplease Price: £23.44Historian and constitutional scholar Albert Taylor Bledsoe considers whether the secession of the Confederate states was legal under constitutional law. The author poses the question: did Jefferson... -
From Conciliation to Conquest: The Sack of Athens and the CourtMartial of Colonel John B. Turchin by George C. Bradley 9780817357856
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.21In the summer of 1862, the U.S. Army court martialed Colonel John B. Turchin, a Russianborn Union officer, for ""outrages"" committed by his troops in Athens, Alabama. By modern standards, the... -
The True Soldier (Jack Lark, Book 6): A gripping military adventure of a roguish British soldier and the American Civil War by Paul Fraser Collard
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26JACK LARK: SOLDIER, LEADER, IMPOSTER.The sixth book in the dark historical military adventure series for fans of Bernard Cornwell, Ken Follet and Matthew Harffy. 'Brilliant' Bernard Cornwell 'Like... -
Decisions at Antietam: The Fourteen Critical Decisions That Defined the Battle by Michael S. Lang 9781621906148
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.35The Battle of Antietam has long been known as the bloodiest day in American military history with more than twenty thousand soldiers either dead, wounded, or missing. The Confederacy, emboldened... -
The Battle of Peach Tree Creek: Hood's First Effort to Save Atlanta by Earl J. Hess 9781469661490
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.32On July 20, 1864, the Civil War struggle for Atlanta reached a pivotal moment. As William T. Sherman's Union forces came ever nearer the city, the defending Confederate Army of Tennessee replaced its... -
Decisions of the 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign: The Sixteen Critical Decisions That Defined the Operation by Robert Tanner 9781621907695
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47The Shenandoah Valley Campaign, often referred to as Jackson's Valley Campaign, saw Gen. Stonewall Jackson lead fewer than seventeen thousand Confederate soldiers on a 464-mile march that defeated... -
The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War by Howard Bahr 9781504050555
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £16.80A Confederate soldier confronts the horror of battle and the power of grace in this "poignant, haunting, and important" novel of the Civil War (The Tennessean, Nashville). A New York Times Notable... -
Decisions of the Seven Days: The Sixteen Critical Decisions That Defined the Battles by Matt Spruill
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68From June 25 to July 1, 1862, Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia engaged Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac in a series of battles at the end of the Peninsula Campaign... -
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: Religion and the Politics of Race in the Civil War Era and Beyond by Steven L Dundas 9781640124882
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.06Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory is a hard-hitting history of the impact of racism and religion on the political, social, and economic development of the American nation from Jamestown to today, in... -
Decisions at Shiloh: The Twenty-Two Critical Decisions That Defined the Battle by Dave Powell 9781621907527
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47The Battle of Shiloh took place April 6-7, 1862, between the Union Army of the Tennessee under General Ulysses S. Grant and the Confederate Army of Mississippi under General Albert Sidney Johnston... -
Spring 1865: The Closing Campaigns of the Civil War by Perry D. Jamieson 9780803225817
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.37When Gen. Robert E. Lee fled from Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia, in April 1865, many observers did not realize that the Civil War had reached its nadir. A large number of Confederates, from... -
Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters by Elizabeth Brown Pryor 9780143113904
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £24.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Jefferson Davis Book Award and Lincoln Prize and Richard B. Harwell Award.Book InformationISBN... -
Conquered: Why the Army of Tennessee Failed by Larry J. Daniel
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.20Operating in the vast and varied trans-Appalachian west, the Army of Tennessee was crucially important to the military fate of the Confederacy. But under the principal leadership of generals such as... -
Pulpits of the Lost Cause: The Faith and Politics of Former Confederate Chaplains during Reconstruction by Steve Longenecker
Booksplease Price: £47.63A comparison of the faith and politics of former Confederate chaplains with intriguing insights about the evolution of their postwar beliefs and the Lost CausePulpits of the Lost Cause: The Faith and... -
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Freemasonry in the American Civil War by Michael A. Halleran 9780817359874
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47The first in-depth study of the Freemasons during the Civil WarOne of the enduring yet little examined themes in Civil War lore is the widespread belief that on the field of battle and afterward,... -
Lieutenant-General James Longstreet and Innovative Military Strategy in the Civil War: The Most Misunderstood Civil War General by F. Gregory Toretta
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £23.11Lieutenant-General James Longstreet, commander of the First Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia, was a brilliant tactician and strategist. Prior to the Civil War there were many technological... -
Congress of States: Proceedings of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America by David Carlson
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48A comprehensive assembly of public reports documenting the foundation of the Confederate government In 1923, the Southern Historical Society (SHS) published "Proceedings of the Confederate Congress"... -
Congress of States: Proceedings of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America by David Carlson 9780817321659
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £73.60A comprehensive assembly of public reports documenting the foundation of the Confederate government In 1923, the Southern Historical Society (SHS) published "Proceedings of the Confederate Congress"... -
Raising the White Flag: How Surrender Defined the American Civil War by David Silkenat 9781469672519
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.66The American Civil War began with a laying down of arms by Union troops at Fort Sumter, and it ended with a series of surrenders, most famously at Appomattox Courthouse. But in the intervening four... -
It Happened in Vermont: Remarkable Events That Shaped History by Mark Bushnell 9781493041367
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.99From the French and Indian War to the exposure of Maple Corner, thirty-two events that shaped the Green Mountain StateAbout the AuthorMark Bushnell, a former Times Argus editor, is a freelance writer... -
The Star-Spangled Republic: Political Astronomy and the Rise of the American Constellation Eran Shalev 9780813953847
Booksplease Price: £83.93Examining the cosmic conceit at the heart of early American political rhetoric Why does the American flag use stars to represent the states? In The Star-Spangled Republic, Eran Shalev answers this... -
The Star-Spangled Republic: Political Astronomy and the Rise of the American Constellation Eran Shalev 9780813953854
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Examining the cosmic conceit at the heart of early American political rhetoric Why does the American flag use stars to represent the states? In The Star-Spangled Republic, Eran Shalev answers this... -
Cornerstone of the Confederacy: Alexander Stephens and the Speech That Defined the Lost Cause by Keith Hebert
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £31.28Born in early 1812 in Crawfordville, Georgia, Alexander Stephens grew up in an antebellum South that would one day inform the themes of his famous Cornerstone Speech. While Stephens made many... -
She Spied for Freedom: Mary Richards, A Black Civil War Agent by Margaret C. Jones 9781781559192
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £20.86During the American Civil War, an educated Black woman posed as an illiterate slave in the home of the rebel President Jefferson Davis. Spying on the war councils of Davis and his advisers, she... -
The Chardonnay Charade: A Wine Country Mystery by Ellen Crosby 9781501188442
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501188442Author Ellen CrosbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint < -
Decisions at Stones River: The Sixteen Critical Decisions That Defined the Battle by Matt Spruill 9781621903789
Booksplease Price: £20.26From December 31, 1862, to January 2, 1863, the Army of the Cumberland and Army of Tennessee fought a bloody battle along Stones River. Led by Major General William S. Rosecrans, Union forces would... -
The Politics of Dissolution: Quest for a National Identity and the American Civil War by Marshall DeRosa
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £55.28This collection of late antebellum U.S. Senate speeches exemplifies the official statements of the public men from the South, North, and West as they struggled with the questions of national identity... -
Partners In Command by Joseph Glatthaar 9780684863634
Booksplease Price: £14.00Explores the productive friendships of such contrasting personalities as Grant and Sherman and Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, bringing to life the struggle between McClellan and Lincoln and... -
Alabama Off the Beaten Path (R): Discover Your Fun by Jackie Sheckler Finch
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.80Tired of the same old tourist traps? Whether you're a visitor or a local looking for something different, Alabama Off the Beaten Path shows you the Yellowhammer State you never knew existed. ... -
Varina by Charles Frazier 9780062406019
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £19.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062406019Author Charles FrazierFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint