The American Civil War: A Military History, Paperback

Reducere. "... a major contribution to our knowledge of the place of the Civil War in the history of warfare.... I have long hoped for a sound history of Civ...

Offers a lively military history and overview of Reconstruction that illuminates the new war fought immediately after the American Civil War. This ...

Reducere. During the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln reviewed thousands of wartime military trials, including several cases featured in this bo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Creative ActivitiesThis large8.5 x 11 book of crossword puzzles covers the military history of the western world and would ...

Reducere. Offering a striking and reasonably priced alternative to expensive atlases that focus almost exclusively on military movements, Concise Historical ...

Reducere. Major General J. F. C. Fuller, a pioneer of mechanized warfare in Great Britain, was one of this century's most renowned military strategists and h...

Description☆☆☆ American Civil War ☆☆☆Beginning with the birth of the nation, slavery divided and caused conflict for the United States of America, ...

DescriptionA collection of primary documents that explore the many facets of the American military from the colonial period to the present The seco...

Want to know more about American military history? U.S. Military History For Dummies presents concise and revealing accounts of all of the nation's...

DescriptionThe American Civil War (1861-65) remains a searing event in the collective consciousness of the United States. It was one of the bloodie...

Completed just days before his death and hailed by Mark Twain as "the most remarkable work of its kind since the Commentaries of Julius Caesar, " t...

Contributor(s): Author: Mary L. DudziakIn 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two do...

Reducere. The New York Times bestselling prequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Killer Angels In this brilliantly written epic novel, Jeff Shaara ...

Major new interpretation of the events which continue to dominate the American imagination and identityPublisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s)...

Reducere. Designed to accompany Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War, College Edition, by Elizabeth R. Varon, Sources for Armies of Delivera...

Reducere. DescriptionBushwhackers in the American Civil War operated as guerrillas, outside the normal chain of military command. Like William Clarke Quantri...

Reducere. The Sword of the Lord is the first book to examine military chaplains and the development of the military chaplaincy across history and geography--...

Reducere. Deserve s] a place on every Civil War bookshelf.--New York Times Book Review " Trulock] brings her subject alive and escorts him through a brillian...

James McPherson has emerged as one of America's finest historians. Battle Cry of Freedom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the Civil War, was ...

Reducere. Robert E. Lee was both a military genius and a spiritual leader, considered by many--southerners and nonsoutherners alike--to have been a near sain...

DescriptionThis inspiring anthology is the first to convey the rich experiences and contributions of women in the American military in their own wo...

Reducere. DescriptionAmerican History volume 2 gives a wide overview of America's history from the end of the Civil War era, to the political and cultural st...

Reducere. With a new introduction by Thomas L. Connelly Thomas Jonathan Jackson was the most renowned and skillful commander of Confederate troops in the Civ...

Reducere. During the Civil War, Union and Confederate politicians, military commanders, everyday soldiers, and civilians claimed their approach to the confli...

Reducere. A towering landmark in Civil War literature, long considered one of the great masterpieces of military history -- now available in a one-volume abr...

Reducere. With the onset of the American Civil War, the Federal Government instituted a massive naval blockade of the Confederacy, dubbed "The Anaconda Plan....

Reducere. The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was an all-black battalion of the Woman's Army Corps (WAC). The 6888th had eight hundred and fifty-fi...

Reducere. In Fighting for Citizenship, Brian Taylor complicates existing interpretations of why black men fought in the Civil War. Civil War-era African Amer...

Reducere. DescriptionCentral Missouri possesses a bounty of history regarding brave men and women who have served both state and nation in the armed forces. ...

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...

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...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Indian War of 1864 chronicles one of the bloodiest conflicts between the European settlers and military forces of the United States,...

Reducere. From thunderous broadsides traded between wooden sailing ships on Lake Erie, to the carrier battles of World War II, to the devastating high-tech a...

Winner, 2018, The Douglas Southall Freeman AwardFinalist, 2017-2018 Founders Award, American Civil War MuseumFinalist for Memoir, Historical, 2018,...

Reducere. Controversial and revisionist history of America's first civil war. Published with hugely successful accompanying four-part BBC TV series - written...

Winchester Lever-Action repeating rifles are an integral part of the folklore of the American West. Introduced shortly after the American Civil War...

Richard McMurry compares the two largest Confederate armies, assessing why Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was more successful than the Army of Ten...

Reducere. Beginning with the early interactions between Native Americans and European explorers and settlers, this history traces three and a half centuries ...

new in paperbackSilence on the Mountain is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala's thir...

The only comprehensive account of the Battle of Fort Fisher and the basis for the television documentary Confederate Goliath, Rod Gragg's award-win...

Reducere. In September 1862 the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac conducted one of the truly great campaigns of the Civ...

 The elite French Zouaves, with their distinctive, colorful uniforms, set an influential example for volunteer soldiers during the Civil War and c...

Reducere. Frederick William Benteen (1834-98) was a military officer during the Civil War and the Black Hills War against the Lakotas and the Northern Cheyen...

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

Reducere. In this riveting, character-driven history, one of our most respected historians traces the diseases in the public mind--the distortions of reality...

Since before the Declaration of Independence, poets have shaped a collective imagination of nationhood at critical points in American history. In T...

Reducere. Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command is the most colorful and popular of Douglas Southall Freeman's works. A sweeping narrative that presents a mu...

Reducere. Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confeder...

Reducere. This is the first-ever biography of Emmet Dalton - an American-born Dubliner, Home Ruler, and later Republican - whose extraordinary military caree...

Reducere. DescriptionOn the battlefields of the Crimean War, William Howard Russell described the new weapon in the hands of British troops -- the rifle-musk...

Reducere. The first close examination of how Robert E. Lee's faith shaped his life Robert E. Lee was many things--accomplished soldier, military engineer, co...

Complete facsimile of all the steel-plate engravings, containing 134 maps, colour coded for troop positions, covering campaigns and battles from th...

Reducere. In this inspiring account of the Tuskegee Airmen--the country's first African American military pilots--historian J. Todd Moye captures the challen...

Reducere. In Hidden Heroism, Robert Edgerton investigates the history of Afro-American participation in American wars, from the French and Indian War to the ...

Reducere. In 1863, at the height of the Civil War, Frederick Douglass promised African Americans that serving in the military offered a sure path to freedom....

Reducere. Mud, Blood & Cold Steel: The Retreat from Nashville, December 1864 takes a fresh look, for the first time with campaign and battle maps, at the unp...

Reducere. At the time of his death, Ulysses S. Grant was the most famous person in America, considered by most citizens to be equal in stature to George Wash...

The Art of War by Baron De Jomini was considered by most military experts of the day, at the time of the American Civil War, to be the definitive w...

Reducere. This collection contains the complete poetic works of Paul Laurence Dunbar, who was among the first African Americans to gain wide renown for liter...

General Crook spent his entire military career, with the exception of the Civil War years, on the frontier. Fighting the Indians, he earned the dis...

Title: Thoughts upon the African slave trade.Author: John NewtonPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliog...

Reducere. We seek the establishment of a democracy of individual participation governed by two central aims: that the individual share in those social decisi...

Reducere. DescriptionNOTHING IN AMERICAN HISTORY has ever equaled the death and destruction of the intense and bloody warfare of 1861-1865 between Americans....

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - William Tecumseh Sherman was more than just one of our greatest generals. Fierce Patriot is a bold, revisionist portrait of h...

Reducere. The story of the colonization of Northern New Mexico and one of its leading "parajes" (El Camino Real campsite) will fascinate anyone interested in...

The book's premise is that a 100 Years War started in 1914 that rages ever onward onto the present day. It began as a European Civil War that event...

Reducere. After the Civil War, four geological and geographical surveys, later called the Great Surveys, Undertook the massive task of finding out what lay w...

Reducere. The collapse of the Soviet Union ushered in American global hegemony in world affairs. In the post-Cold War period, both Democrat and Republican go...

Reducere. The Battle of Antietam took place on September 17, 1862, and still stands as the bloodiest single day in American military history. Additionally, i...

DescriptionSince the Battle of Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) has possessed one of the most unique places in American history....