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Burnside by William Marvel 9780807871348
Booksplease Price: £37.24Ambrose Burnside, the Union general, was a major player on the Civil War stage from the first clash at Bull Run until the final summer of the war. He led a corps or army during most of this time and... -
The Confederate Resurgence of 1864 by William Marvel 9780807182437
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £31.14William Marvel's The Confederate Resurgence of 1864 examines a dozen understudied Confederate and Union military operations carried out during the spring of 1864 that, taken cumulatively, greatly... -
A Place Called Appomattox by William Marvel 9781469628394
Booksplease Price: £30.36Although Appomattox Court House is one of the most symbolically charged places in America, it was an ordinary tobacco-growing village both before and after an accident of fate brought the armies of... -
Andersonville: The Last Depot by William Marvel 9780807857816
Booksplease Price: £29.07Between February 1864 and April 1865, 41,000 Union prisoners of war were taken to the stockade at Anderson Station, Georgia, where nearly 13,000 of them died. Most contemporary accounts placed the... -
Mr Lincoln Goes to War by William Marvel 9780618872411
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618872411Author William MarvelFormat PaperbackPage Count 387Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher... -
Lectures on the History of English Literature by William Marvel Nevin 9780461671148
Booksplease Price: £21.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461671148Author William Marvel NevinFormat PaperbackPage Count 530Imprint HardPress LtdPublisher... -
Lee's Last Retreat: The Flight to Appomattox by William Marvel 9780807857038
Booksplease Price: £29.07Few events in Civil War history have generated such deliberate myth-making as the retreat that ended at Appomattox. William Marvel shows that during the final week of the war in Virginia, Lee's... -
Lincoln's Autocrat: The Life of Edwin Stanton by William Marvel 9781469636153
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.42Edwin M. Stanton (1814-1869), one of the nineteenth century's most impressive legal and political minds, wielded enormous influence and power as Lincoln's Secretary of War during most of the Civil... -
The Alabama and the Kearsarge: The Sailor's Civil War by William Marvel 9780807858158
Booksplease Price: £28.09On June 19, 1864, the Confederate cruiser Alabama and the USS Kearsarge faced off in the English Channel outside the French port of Cherbourg. About an hour after the Alabama fired the first shot, it... -
Radical Sacrifice: The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter William Marvel 9781469688435
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469688435Author William MarvelFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint University of North Carolina... -
Radical Sacrifice: The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter by William Marvel 9781469661858
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.26Born into a distinguished military family, Fitz John Porter (1822-1901) was educated at West Point and breveted for bravery in the war with Mexico. Already a well-respected officer at the outset of... -
Lincoln's Mercenaries: Economic Motivation among Union Soldiers during the Civil War by William Marvel 9780807169520
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.95In Lincoln's Mercenaries, renowned Civil War historian William Marvel considers whether poor northern men bore the highest burden of military service during the American Civil War. Examining data on... -
The Fredericksburg Campaign: Decision on the Rappahannock by Gary W. Gallagher 9780807858950
Booksplease Price: £28.09This book describes the antecedents and aftermath of a key campaign.This collection of seven original essays by leading Civil War historians reinterprets the bloody Fredericksburg campaign and places... -
Lee's Last Retreat: The Flight to Appomattox by 9780807866054
Booksplease Price: £54.78Few events in Civil War history have generated such deliberate myth making as the retreat that ended at Appomattox. William Marvel offers the first history of the Appomattox campaign written... -
Andersonville: The Last Depot by 9780807866153
Booksplease Price: £58.98Between February 1864 and April 1865, 41,000 Union prisoners of war were taken to the stockade at Anderson Station, Georgia, where nearly 13,000 of them died. Most contemporary accounts placed the... -
The Last Civil War Veterans: The Lives of the Final Survivors, State by State Frank L. Grzyb 9781476665221
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59It really matters very little who died last,"" wrote Civil War historian William Marvel, ""but for some reason we seem fascinated with knowing."" Drawing on a wide range of sources including... -
The Secret Life of the Otter Andy Howard 9781913207410
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £18.40Among the most popular and endearing of Britain's wild creatures, otters inhabit not only the full length of the British and Irish coasts but also many river systems and lochs. Formerly hunted almost... -
The Romance of Reunion: Northerners and the South, 1865-1900 by Nina Silber 9780807846858
Booksplease Price: £40.03The reconciliation of North and South following the Civil War depended as much on cultural imagination as on the politics of Reconstruction. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Nina Silber documents... -
Captives in Gray: The Civil War Prisons of the Union Roger Pickenpaugh 9780817362362
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.21"This is a vivid description of conditions and events rarely described: the imprisonment of captured Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. Its many parallels to circumstances in Andersonville...