More Civil War. How the Union Waged a Just War, Paperback - D. H. Dilbeck

During the Civil War, Americans confronted profound moral problems about how to fight in the conflict. In this innovative book, D.H. Dilbeck reveal...

Reducere. Some of the most dramatic and consequential events of the Civil War era took place in the South Carolina Lowcountry between Charleston and Savannah...

Reducere. The Negro's Civil War: How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union, Paperback

Reducere. Swashbuckling stories of the Union naval blockade of the Southern states and the blockade runners who smuggled goods to the Confederacy have long b...

Reducere. First-hand accounts that include diary entries and personal letters describe the experiences of boys, sixteen years old or younger, who fought in t...

DescriptionWhen Winston Churchill accepted the position of Prime Minister in May 1940, he insisted in also becoming Minister of Defence. He was not...

The author identifies the most important decisions taken by Churchill between May 1940 and the end of the Second World War.

Reducere. In January 1868, a Union veteran named Gilbert Bates set out from his Wisconsin farm for Vicksburg, Mississippi, to prove a point and win a bet: th...

Reducere. At least 8, 000 Jewish soldiers fought for the Union and Confederacy during the Civil War. A few served together in Jewish companies while most fou...

The American Civil War: A Racial Reckoning provides a concise but comprehensive overview of the American Civil War, placing race at the center of t...

Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Fr mont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward exp...

Reducere. Thomas B. Allen's follow-up to the multi-award-winning George Washington, Spymaster is now available in paperback. This compelling biography tells ...

As 1862 dawned, the Civil War, the conflict that had started the year before and that most Americans thought would last only a few months, showed n...

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncAuthor(s): Sam KleinerIllustration(s): 16 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 304Public...

Publisher: Leonaur LtdAuthor(s): Henry M CistNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 138 x 215 x 16Cover type: Paperback / softbackRe...

Reducere. This book gives you in chronological order all the information needed to realize that the CIA and FBI took control over Scientology since the early...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Second Sino-Japanese War, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: The S...

Reducere. Most Americans believe that the Second World War ended because the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan forced it to surrender. Five Days in August bo...

Reducere. This is the story of a young man with the ambition to crawl his way up in Victorian society by leaving the farm and signing onto a steamboat. After...

Restores the centrality of households to the American Civil War. These essays complicate the standard distinctions between battlefront and homefron...

DescriptionThe Landmark Julius Caesar is the definitive edition of the five works that chronicle the mil-itary campaigns of Julius Caesar. Together...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Winter War, then keep reading...In December 1940, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill m...

Reducere. When the United States was divided by war, future president James Abram Garfield was one of many who stepped forward to defend the Union. While his...

Reducere. DescriptionExplore the Deadliest War in American History No other war in the history of the United States has sparked as much debate and conflict a...

Six-year-old Lia loves to build sandcastles at the beach and her biggest problem is her shyness and quiet, birdlike voice-until prime minister Muss...

Perhaps no topic is more heated, and the sources more tendentious, than that of Civil War prisons and the treatment of prisoners of war (POWs). Thi...

Evidence indicating that the U.S. employed germ weapons in the Korean War and a lively but scholarly skewering of official denials.

Publisher: Leonaur LtdAuthor(s): Richard B IrwinNumber of pages: 420Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 217 x 139 x 26Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

Reducere. In April 1861, Private Webster Colburn enlisted in the Union infantry for three months. President Lincoln believed the war would end within that ti...

Reducere. This book is the product of 23 scholars across various denominations who have collaborated annually for six years to specify the 10 practical steps...

Reducere. If you're looking for a great source of encouragement, read this book. If you have lost hope because you don't think you can start over or overcome...

Reducere. Foote's comprehensive history of the Civil War includes three compelling volumes: Fort Sumter to Perryville, Fredericksburg to Meridian, and Red Ri...

Award NameYalsa Award for Excellence in Non-Fiction for Young AdultsAward categoryYoung Adult NonfictionExcellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults F...

For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have concluded in 1865, with a bitterly won peace and Union soldiers returning triumphantl...

Reducere. More Strange Tales of the Civil War presents readers with more predictions, coincidences, medical oddities, and other bizarre events of the Civil W...

DescriptionAmerica's evolution during the mid-19th century just prior to the Civil War was amazing. The six-fold increase in population from 1800 t...

Reducere. DescriptionPresented in one comprehensive volume, this is the Civil War as it really was-the forces and events that caused it, the soldiers and civ...

Reducere. "The Commentaries on the Gallic War" is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar des...

DescriptionThis fully illustrated study assesses the fighting techniques, armament, and combat record of the Union and Confederate sharpshooters wh...

Reducere. A brilliant evocation of the post-Civil War era by the acclaimed author of Patriots and Union 1812. After Lincoln tells the story of the Reconstruc...

Reducere. Alex and Claire are just friends, despite what anyone around them chooses to think or hope for. From the day Claire nearly breaks Alex's arm when t...

In this ground-breaking and fascinating book, Duncan White illuminates a period in history in which literature became one of the most potent of wea...

Reducere. An introduction to the history of the Civil War for kids ages 6 to 9 The United States was not always united. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina ...

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

Reducere. Was Abraham Lincoln influenced by communism when the Union condemned the rights of Southern states to express their independence? It's shocking to ...

Reducere. On April 16, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln issued a blockade of the Confederate coastline. The largely agrarian South did not have the industrial...

Reducere. The pigpen cipher, the Devil's Coffee Mill, and germ warfare were all a part of the Civil War, but you won't learn that in your history booksDiscov...

Publisher: University of Notre Dame PressAuthor(s): Justus D. DoeneckeIllustration(s): 47 b&w illustrations, 4 mapsNumber of pages: 560Publication ...