wyszukanych pozycji: 41
Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander
ISBN: 9780807847220 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 692 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Originally published by UNC Press in 1989, Fighting for the Confederacy is one of the richest personal accounts in all of the vast literature on the Civil War. Alexander was involved in nearly all of the great battles of the East, from First Manassas through Appomattox, and his duties brought him into frequent contact with most of the high command of the Army of Northern Virginia, including Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and James Longstreet. No other Civil War veteran of his stature matched Alexander's ability to discuss operations in penetrating detail-- this is especially true of...
Originally published by UNC Press in 1989, Fighting for the Confederacy is one of the richest personal accounts in all of the vast literature o...
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155,36 zł |
Stephen Dodson Ramseur: Lee's Gallant General
ISBN: 9780807845226 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Stephen Dodson Ramseur, born in Lincolnton, North Carolina, in 1837, compiled an enviable record as a brigadier in the Army of Northern Virginia. Commissioned major general the day after his twenty-seventh birthday, he was the youngest West Pointer to achieve that rank in the Confederate army. He later showed great skill as a divisional leader in the 1864 Shenandoah Valley campaigns before he was fatally wounded at Cedar Creek on 19 October of that year. Based on Ramseur's extensive personal papers as well as on other sources, this absorbing biography examines the life of one of the South's...
Stephen Dodson Ramseur, born in Lincolnton, North Carolina, in 1837, compiled an enviable record as a brigadier in the Army of Northern Virginia. Comm...
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162,86 zł |
Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War
ISBN: 9781469606835 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. More than 60,000 books have been published on the Civil War. Most Americans, though, get their ideas about the war--why it was fought, what was won, what was lost--not from books but from movies, television, and other popular media. In an engaging and accessible survey, Gary W. Gallagher guides readers through the stories told in recent film and art, showing how these stories have both reflected and influenced the political, social, and racial currents of their times.
More than 60,000 books have been published on the Civil War. Most Americans, though, get their ideas about the war--why it was fought, what was won, w...
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152,25 zł |
Becoming Confederates: Paths to a New National Loyalty
ISBN: 9780820345406 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Becoming Confederates, Gary W. Gallagher explores loyalty in the era of the Civil War, focusing on Robert E. Lee, Stephen Dodson Ramseur, and Jubal A. Early--three prominent officers in the Army of Northern Virginia who became ardent Confederate nationalists. Loyalty was tested and proved in many ways leading up to and during the war. Looking at levels of allegiance to their native state, to the slaveholding South, to the United States, and to the Confederacy, Gallagher shows how these men represent responses to the mid-nineteenth-century crisis. Lee traditionally has been... In Becoming Confederates, Gary W. Gallagher explores loyalty in the era of the Civil War, focusing on Robert E. Lee, Stephen Dodson Ramseur,... |
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200,92 zł |
The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862
ISBN: 9780807857687 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This volume explores the Shenandoah Valley campaign, best known for its role in establishing Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's reputation as the Confederacy's greatest military idol. The authors address questions of military leadership, strategy and tactics, the campaign's political and social impact, and the ways in which participants' memories of events differed from what is revealed in the historical sources. In the process, they offer valuable insights into one of the Confederacy's most famous generals, those who fought with him and against him, the campaign's larger importance in the...
This volume explores the Shenandoah Valley campaign, best known for its role in establishing Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's reputation as the Confede...
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157,69 zł |
The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864
ISBN: 9780807859568 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Generally regarded as the most important of the Civil War campaigns conducted in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, that of 1864 lasted more than four months and claimed more than 25,000 casualties. The armies of Philip H. Sheridan and Jubal A. Early contended for immense stakes. Beyond the agricultural bounty and the boost in morale a victory would bring, events in the Valley also would affect Abraham Lincoln's chances for reelection in the November 1864 presidential canvass.
The eleven original essays in this volume reexamine common assumptions about the campaign, its major... Generally regarded as the most important of the Civil War campaigns conducted in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, that of 1864 lasted more than four...
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157,69 zł |
Three Days at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership
ISBN: 9780873386296 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. No Civil War military campaign has inspired as much controversy about leadership as has Gettysburg. Because it was a defining event for both the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia, the debates began almost immediately after the battle, and they continue today. Three Days at Gettysburg contains essays from noted Civil War historians on leadership during the battle. The contributors to this volume believe there is room for scholarship that revisits the sources on which earlier accounts have been based and challenges prevailing interpretations of key... No Civil War military campaign has inspired as much controversy about leadership as has Gettysburg. Because it was a defining event for both the Ar... |
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207,61 zł |
Two Witnesses at Gettysburg: The Personal Accounts of Whitelaw Reid and A. J. L. Fremantle
ISBN: 9781405181129 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. The two reporters, A.J.L. Fremantle and Whitelaw Reid, one traveling with the Union army and the other with the Confederates, are the authors of these two magnificent firsthand accounts of the battle of Gettysburg in 1863, the pivotal action of the Civil War.
The two reporters, A.J.L. Fremantle and Whitelaw Reid, one traveling with the Union army and the other with the Confederates, are the authors of these...
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109,14 zł |
The Fredericksburg Campaign: Decision on the Rappahannock
ISBN: 9780807858950 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It is well this is so terrible We should grow too fond of it," said General Robert E. Lee as he watched his troops repulse the Union attack at Fredericksburg on 13 December 1863.
This collection of seven original essays by leading Civil War historians reinterprets the bloody Fredericksburg campaign and places it within a broader social and political context. By analyzing the battle's antecedents as well as its aftermath, the contributors challenge some long-held assumptions about the engagement and clarify our picture of the war as a whole. The book begins with... It is well this is so terrible We should grow too fond of it," said General Robert E. Lee as he watched his troops repulse the Union attack at Freder...
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163,13 zł |
Lee and His Army in Confederate History
ISBN: 9780807857694 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Was Robert E. Lee a gifted soldier whose only weaknesses lay in the depth of his loyalty to his troops, affection for his lieutenants, and dedication to the cause of the Confederacy? Or was he an ineffective leader and poor tactician whose reputation was drastically inflated by early biographers and Lost Cause apologists? These divergent characterizations represent the poles between which scholarly and popular opinion on Lee has swung over time. Now, in eight essays, Gary Gallagher offers his own refined thinking on Lee, exploring the relationship between Lee's operations and Confederate...
Was Robert E. Lee a gifted soldier whose only weaknesses lay in the depth of his loyalty to his troops, affection for his lieutenants, and dedication ...
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184,87 zł |
The Confederate War
ISBN: 9780674160569 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. If one is to believe contemporary historians, the South never had a chance. Many allege that the Confederacy lost the Civil War because of internal division or civilian disaffection; others point to flawed military strategy or ambivalence over slavery. But, argues distinguished historian Gary Gallagher, we should not ask why the Confederacy collapsed so soon but rather how it lasted so long. In The Confederate War he reexamines the Confederate experience through the actions and words of the people who lived it to show how the home front responded to the war, endured great...
If one is to believe contemporary historians, the South never had a chance. Many allege that the Confederacy lost the Civil War because of internal di...
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125,55 zł |
Becoming Confederates: Paths to a New National Loyalty
ISBN: 9780820344966 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Becoming Confederates, Gary W. Gallagher explores loyalty in the era of the Civil War, focusing on Robert E. Lee, Stephen Dodson Ramseur, and Jubal A. Early--three prominent officers in the Army of Northern Virginia who became ardent Confederate nationalists. Loyalty was tested and proved in many ways leading up to and during the war. Looking at levels of allegiance to their native state, to the slaveholding South, to the United States, and to the Confederacy, Gallagher shows how these men represent responses to the mid-nineteenth-century crisis. Lee traditionally has been... In Becoming Confederates, Gary W. Gallagher explores loyalty in the era of the Civil War, focusing on Robert E. Lee, Stephen Dodson Ramseur,... |
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737,05 zł |
The Spotsylvania Campaign
ISBN: 9780807871324 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Spotsylvania Campaign was a crucial period in the protracted confrontation between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in spring 1864. Approaching the campaign from a variety of perspectives, the contributors to this volume explore questions regarding high command, tactics and strategy, the impact of continuous fighting on officers and soldiers in both armies, and the ways in which some participants chose to remember and interpret the campaign. They offer insight into the decisions and behavior of Lee and of Federal army leaders, the fullest descriptions to date of the horrific fighting at...
The Spotsylvania Campaign was a crucial period in the protracted confrontation between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in spring 1864. Approaching ...
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157,69 zł |
The American Civil War: The War in the East 1861 - May 1863
ISBN: 9781579583569 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In April 1861 the United States erupted into fighting at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, beginning what would become the most cataclysmic military struggle in the western world between Waterloo and the World War I. This volume focuses on events in the Virginia theatre during the conflict's first two years, highlighting Union and Confederate strengths and weaknesses, leadership and strategy on each side, and the ways in which events on the battlefield influenced politics, diplomacy, and debates about emancipation
In April 1861 the United States erupted into fighting at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, beginning what would become the most cataclysmic military strugg...
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441,69 zł |
The Second Day at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership
ISBN: 9780873384827 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Notable Civil War historians herein continue the evaluation of select commanders begun in The First Day at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership. Using fresh manuscript sources coupled with a careful consideration of the existing literature, they explore issues such as Robert E. Lee's decision to renew the tactical offensive on July 2; James Longstreet's effectiveness in executing Lee's plan; the origin and impact of Daniel E. Sickle's decision to advance his Third Corps, which formed the infamous "Sickle's Salient"; the little-understood role of Henry W Slocum... Notable Civil War historians herein continue the evaluation of select commanders begun in The First Day at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate an... |
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147,43 zł |
Union War
ISBN: 9780674066083 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Even one hundred and fifty years later, we are haunted by the Civil War--by its division, its bloodshed, and perhaps, above all, by its origins. Today, many believe that the war was fought over slavery. This answer satisfies our contemporary sense of justice, but as Gary Gallagher shows in this brilliant revisionist history, it is an anachronistic judgment. In a searing analysis of the Civil War North as revealed in contemporary letters, diaries, and documents, Gallagher demonstrates that what motivated the North to go to war and persist in an increasingly bloody effort was primarily... Even one hundred and fifty years later, we are haunted by the Civil War--by its division, its bloodshed, and perhaps, above all, by its origins. To... |
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138,10 zł |
Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten
ISBN: 9780807866122 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. More than 60,000 books have been published on the Civil War. Most Americans, though, get their ideas about the war--why it was fought, what was won, what was lost--not from books but from movies, television, and other popular media. In an engaging and accessible survey, Gary W. Gallagher guides readers through the stories told in recent film and art, showing how these stories have both reflected and influenced the political, social, and racial currents of their times.
More than 60,000 books have been published on the Civil War. Most Americans, though, get their ideas about the war--why it was fought, what was won, w...
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288,19 zł |
Chancellorsville: The Battle and Its Aftermath
ISBN: 9780807859704 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A variety of important but lesser-known dimensions of the Chancellorsville campaign of spring 1863 are explored in this collection of eight original essays. Departing from the traditional focus on generalship and tactics, the contributors address the campaign's broad context and implications and revisit specific battlefield episodes that have in the past been poorly understood.
Chancellorsville was a remarkable victory for Robert E. Lee's troops, a fact that had enormous psychological importance for both sides, which had met recently at Fredericksburg and would meet again at... A variety of important but lesser-known dimensions of the Chancellorsville campaign of spring 1863 are explored in this collection of eight original e...
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157,69 zł |
The Antietam Campaign
ISBN: 9780807858943 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Maryland campaign of September 1862 ranks among the most important military operations of the American Civil War. Crucial political, diplomatic, and military issues were at stake as Robert E. Lee and George B. McClellan maneuvered and fought in the western part of the state. The climactic clash came on September 17 at the battle of Antietam, where more than 23,000 men fell in the single bloodiest day of the war.
Approaching topics related to Lee's and McClellan's operations from a variety of perspectives, contributors to this volume explore questions regarding military... The Maryland campaign of September 1862 ranks among the most important military operations of the American Civil War. Crucial political, diplomatic, a...
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163,13 zł |
Third Day at Gettysburg and Beyond
ISBN: 9780807847534 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The six essays in this volume testify to the enduring impact of the Civil War on our national consciousness. Covering subjects as diverse as tactics, the uses of autobiography, and the power of myth-making in the southern tradition, they illustrate the rewards of imaginative scholarship--even for the most intensely studied battle in America's history.
The Third Day at Gettysburg and Beyond brings current research and interpretation to bear on a range of pivotal issues surrounding the final day of the battle, July 3, 1863. This revisionist approach begins by expanding our... The six essays in this volume testify to the enduring impact of the Civil War on our national consciousness. Covering subjects as diverse as tactics, ...
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157,69 zł |