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Longstreet's Aide: Civil War Letters of Major Thomas J.Goree by Thomas J. Goree 9780813915746
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £17.16One of the Confederacy's most loyal adherents and articulate advocates was Lieutenant Grant James Longstreet's aide-de-camp, Thomas Jewett Goree. Present at Longstreet's headquarters and party to the... -
The Civil War Political Tradition: Ten Portraits of Those Who Formed It by Paul D. Escott 9780813949673
Booksplease Price: £91.68Modeling his latest book on Richard Hofstadter's 1948 classic The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It, the renowned historian Paul Escott has composed ten concise but deeply learned... -
Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies by Sanford Levinson 9780822322047
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.39Is it "Stalinist" for a formerly communist country to tear down a statue of Stalin? Should the Confederate flag be allowed to fly over the South Carolina state capitol? Is it possible for America to... -
The Limits of Loyalty: Ordinary People in Civil War Mississippi by Jarret Ruminski 9781496830791
Booksplease Price: £31.89Jarret Ruminski examines ordinary lives in Confederate-controlled Mississippi to show how military occupation and the ravages of war tested the meaning of loyalty during America's greatest rift. The... -
Joseph E. Johnston: A Civil War Biography by Craig L. Symonds 9780393311303
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.49General Joseph E. Johnston was in command of Confederate forces at the South's first victory-Manassas in July 1861-and at its last-Bentonville in April 1965. Many of his contemporaries considered him... -
Peculiar Democracy: Southern Democrats in Peace and Civil War by Wallace Hettle 9780820340982
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £29.07Too often, Wallace Hettle points out, studies of politics in the nineteenth-century South reinforce a view of the Democratic Party that is frozen in time on the eve of Fort Sumter-a deceptively high... -
Recollections of the Civil War by Charles A. Dana
Booksplease Price: £18.02Early in 1863 General Grant was under a cloud, blamed for heavy Union losses at Shiloh, called an undependable drunkard by his detractors. As Grant moved toward Vicksburg, the Lincoln administration... -
Three Months in the Southern States: April-June 1863 by Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37The 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... -
Placenames of the Civil War: Cities, Towns, Villages, Railroad Stations, Forts, Camps, Islands, Rivers, Creeks, Fords and Ferries by John D. Bennett 9780786470099
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.89Despite the plethora of books about the Civil War, the origins of many of the placenames associated with the conflict remain a mystery. This gazetteer provides information on nearly 1600 sites,... -
Lee and His Generals: Essays in Honor of T. Harry Williams by Lawrence Lee Hewitt
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £33.31A legendary professor at Louisiana State University, T. Harry Williams not only produced such acclaimed works as Lincoln and the Radicals, Lincoln and His Generals, and a biography of Huey Long that... -
Slavery in the United States by Louis Filler
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Slavery in the United States clarifies the institution of slavery in its historical context. Filler avoids the all too prevalent literary attitude of either treating slavery as an unmitigated... -
The Green Line Runner: A Novel of Cyprus by John Stewart 9781476672175
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.44A thriller set in Cyprus is unusual. In 1974 Turkey invaded the island and seized over a third of it, causing innumerable Greek civilians to flee for their lives. A Berlin Wall-like monstrosity... -
Civil War Curiosities: Strange Stories, Oddities, Events, and Coincidences by Webb Garrison 9781558533158
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.44True stories of unusual happenings during the civil war. In 1861, Wilmer McLean, distressed that a cannon ball crashed through his home during the battle of Bull Run, moved to a farm where "the sound... -
The Fifty-Eighth North Carolina Troops by 9780786434381
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59North Carolina contributed more than 70 regiments to Confederate service during the Civil War, but only four of those regiments were permanently assigned to service in the Army of Tennessee. The... -
Dixie Betrayed: How The South Really Lost The Civil War by David Eicher 9780316739054
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £23.70In DIXIE BETRAYED, David Eicher reveals for the first time the story of the political conspiracy, discord and dysfunction in Richmond that cost the South the Civil War. Drawing on a wide variety of... -
All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South by Stephen W. Berry 9780195176285
Booksplease Price: £36.30In May 1861, Jefferson Davis issued a general call for volunteers for the Confederate Army. Men responded in such numbers that 200,000 had to be turned away. Few of these men would have attributed... -
Wisconsin Travel Companion: A Guide to History along Wisconsin’s Highways by Richard Olsenius 9780816636785
Booksplease Price: £16.97The long-awaited republication of this fascinating travel guide to Wisconsin.Due to popular demand, this classic guide to the highways and back roads of Wisconsin is back in print. The unique purpose... -
William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War by Eric H. Walther 9781469628424
Booksplease Price: £51.03William Lowndes Yancey (1814-63) was one of the leading secessionists of the Old South. In this first comprehensive biography, Eric H. Walther examines the personality and political life of the... -
A Place Called Mississippi by Marion Barnwell 9780878059645
Booksplease Price: £27.76Filled with serendipitous connections and contrasts, this volume of Mississippiana covers four hundred years. It begins with a selection from ""A Gentleman from Elvas,"" written in 1541, and ends... -
Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery by Richard Kreitner 9781250419941
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63In Fear No Pharaoh, the journalist and historian Richard Kreitner sets this question at the heart of the Civil War era. He tells the intertwined stories of six American Jews who helped to shape a... -
Papers by Chief John Ross
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £98.55Chief John Ross of the Cherokees held the preeminent political position in his tribe for nearly forty years and served his people in a public capacity for more than fifty. From 1816 to 1866, Ross... -
America's Unending Civil War: The Enduring Conflict from Jamestown through to Recent Elections by William Nester 9781399081184
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.37The Civil War fascinates Americans like no other war in their history. Many Americans are still fighting some of the war's issues in an Odyssey that stretches back to the first settlement and will... -
Sometimes I Never Suffered: Poems by Shane McCrae 9780374602918
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.68Spanning religious, historical, and political themes, the seventh collection from the award-winning poet I think now more than half Of life is death but I can't die Enough for all the life I... -
Yankee Commandos: How William P. Sanders Led a Cavalry Squadron Deep Into Confederate Territory by Stuart Brandes
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.29In June of 1863, Col. William P. Sanders led a cavalry raid of 1,300 men from the Union Army of the Ohio through Confederate-held East Tennessee. The raid severed the Confederate rail supply line... -
Winnie Davis: Daughter of the Lost Cause by Heath Hardage Lee
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.92Varina Anne “Winnie” Davis was born into a war-torn South in June of 1864, the youngest daughter of Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his second wife, Varina Howell Davis. Born only a month... -
Basil Wilson Duke, CSA: The Right Man in the Right Place by Gary Robert Matthews 9780813123752
Booksplease Price: £29.49After practicing law for several years in St. Louis, Basil Wilson Duke (1838--1916) enlisted in the Confederate army in 1861 and was elected first lieutenant of John Hunt Morgan's legendary cavalry... -
The Dogs of War: 1861 by Emory M. Thomas 9780195174700
RRP: £14.49Booksplease Price: £12.80In 1861, Americans thought that the war looming on their horizon would be brief. None foresaw that they were embarking on our nation's worst calamity, a four-year bloodbath that cost the lives of... -
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The Citizen-Soldier: The Memoirs of a Civil War Volunteer by John Beatty 9780803261419 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £1.20When Southerners fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, John Beatty left his bank job in Ohio to answer President Lincoln's call for soldiers. Within a short while he was commanding the Third Ohio... -
Rebel Brass: The Confederate Command System by Frank E. Vandiver 9780807118627
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.55Throughout the years of its existence the Confederacy was caught up in a massive war effort that finally touched all elements of life in the South. In the way it was fought the Civil War was unlike... -
Telling It Like It Wasn't: The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction by Catherine Gallagher
Booksplease Price: £31.37Inventing counterfactual histories is a common pastime of modern day historians, both amateur and professional. We speculate about an America ruled by Jefferson Davis, a Europe that never threw off... -
Oscar Wilde Discovers America by Louis Edwards 9780743236904
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.52From the author of Ten Seconds comes an adventurous blur between fact and fiction following Oscar Wilde and his Black valet and gifted confidant, Traquair, on a whirlwind tour across the United... -
Lincoln and the Court by Brian McGinty 9780674032422
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £33.84In a meticulously researched and engagingly written narrative, Brian McGinty rescues the story of Abraham Lincoln and the Supreme Court from long and undeserved neglect, recounting the compelling... -
The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery by Micki McElya 9780674237421
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £16.51Pulitzer Prize FinalistWinner of the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book PrizeWinner of the Sharon Harris Book AwardFinalist, Jefferson Davis Award of the American Civil War MuseumArlington National... -
The Vicksburg Campaign, March 29-May 18, 1863 by Steven Woodworth
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.70Ulysses S. Grant's ingenious campaign to capture the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River was one of the most decisive events of the Civil War and one of the most storied military... -
Confederate Naval Forces on Western Waters: The Defense of the Mississippi River and Its Tributaries by R.Thomas Campbell 9780786464173
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19No body of water was more vital to the Confederacy's efforts in the Civil War than the Mississippi River and its tributaries. Though the Confederate Congress declared the Mississippi free and open... -
Joseph E. Brown of Georgia by Joseph Howard Parks 9780807124659
Booksplease Price: £32.75Joseph Brown was a pivotal figure in southern history and a prototype of a new breed of southern politician in the mid-nineteenth century-the hill country newcomer who was considered to represent the... -
The Battle of Hanover Court House: Turning Point of the Peninsula Campaign, May 27, 1862 by Michael C. Hardy 9780786469208
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59One year into the Civil War, beset by military and political pressures, General George B. McClellan committed his Army of the Potomac to the Peninsula Campaign, with the capture of Richmond his... -
James F. Jaquess: Scholar, Soldier and Private Agent for President Lincoln by Patricia B. Burnette 9780786473588
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59Tall, handsome and charismatic, James Jaquess impressed men and charmed ladies who knew him as a preacher, a college president or colonel of an Illinois regiment. In 1864 he and James Gilmore talked... -
Devil's Game: The Civil War Intrigues of Charles A. Dunham by Carman Cumming 9780252075193
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.14The first book-length study of one of the Civil War's most outlandish and mysterious charactersDevil's Game traces the amazing career of Charles A. Dunham, Civil War spy, forger, journalist, and... -
Myths and Mysteries of Wisconsin: True Stories Of The Unsolved And Unexplained by Michael Bie 9780762769834
Booksplease Price: £12.07Fourteen Mind-Boggling Tales from the Badger State Was Joe Davis, Civil War veteran and Menominee Indian, really the son of Confederate president Jefferson Davis? What really happened the night that...