Clash of Loyalties: A Border County in the Civil War, Hardcover - John W. Shaffer

Reducere. DescriptionAs a border county in a border state, Barbour County, West Virginia felt the full terror and tragedy of the Civil War. With a meticulous...

Reducere. The bloody Battle of Spotsylvania Court House took place in May 1864. The frantic back-and-forth fighting at an area now called the Bloody Angle wa...

As the Civil War unfolded, Murfreesboro became hotly contested by Confederate and Union forces. Both sides occupied the town for significant period...

Reducere. West Virginia, "Child of the Storm, " was the only state formed as a result of the Civil War. The struggle between eastern and western Virginia ove...

Reducere. Description"United We Stand, Divided We Fall" is Kentucky's motto. Yet the Civil War sharply split the Bluegrass State. Kentuckians fought Kentucki...

The evolution of the battle for true equality in America seen through the men, ideas, and politics behind the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments passe...

More than 150 years after the event, the grand attack against the Union position on Cemetery Ridge still emotionally resonates with Gettysburg enth...

Reducere. Award NamePulitzer PrizeAward categoryGeneral NonfictionDescriptionDrawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of aston...

Reducere. What the Boys in Blue Left Behind is a long overdue pictorial encyclopedia. This book reveals memorabilia which the Civil War veterans left to us. ...

DescriptionIn the 1840s, engineers blasted through 175 feet of earth and bedrock at Allatoona Pass, Georgia, to allow passage of the Western & Atla...

In the long and bitter prelude to war, southern transplants dominated California government, keeping the state aligned with Dixie. However, a murde...

Reducere. Amid the fearsome battles of the Civil War, both Union and Confederate soldiers were urged onward by song. There were songs to wake them up and son...

Reducere. Wyoming attorney John W. Davis retells the story of the West's most notorious range war. Having delved more deeply than previous writers into land ...

December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abra...

Explores the Battle of Gettysburg of the US Civil War. Authoritative text, colorful illustrations, illuminating sidebars, and questions to prompt c...

Reducere. DescriptionClash of Extremes takes on the reigning orthodoxy that the American Civil War was waged over high moral principles. Marc Egnal contends ...

Reducere. The "Civil War Soldiers of Bedford County Pennsylvania" book lists 4, 209 identified Civil War soldiers who lived in Bedford County or an immediate...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From Jeff Shaara comes the riveting final installment in the Civil War series that began with A Blaze of Glory and cont...

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Reducere. In the 1840s, engineers blasted through 175 feet of earth and bedrock at Allatoona Pass, Georgia, to allow passage of the Western & Atlantic Railro...

Reducere. During the 1840s and 1850s, a dangerous ferment afflicted the North-South border region, pitting the slave states of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, ...

The Vietnam War was in many ways defined by a civil-military divide, an underlying clash between military and civilian leadership over the conflict...

About the AuthorBruce L. Brager, a graduate of George Washington University, is a writer who has ghostwritten dozens of books and published numerou...

Reducere. A deep dive into the period after the Civil War, when the country struggled to both heal and find a way forward. An essential read for students age...

Reducere. Slavery on the Periphery traces the rise and fall of chattel slavery on the Kansas-Missouri border from the earliest years of American settlement t...

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Reducere. DescriptionForeward by Gene Smith, author of Lee and Grant An original and deeply human portrait of soldiers and civilians caught in the vortex of ...

The American Civil War lives on in our collective imagination like few other events. The story of the war has been retold in countless films, novel...

Reducere. Lens of War grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph. Each could choose any ...

In 1204, the great Angevin Empire created by the joining of the dynasties of Henry II of England and his queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, was fragmenti...

Reducere. Lew Wallace (1827-1905) won fame for his novel, Ben-Hur, and for his negotiations with William H. Bonney, aka Billy the Kid, during the Lincoln Cou...

Reducere. Destitute Patriots examines the contributions and sacrifices of the citizens of Bertie County in the context of North Carolina's preparations for a...