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Joseph E, Johnston: A Civil War Biography
ISBN: 9780393311303 / Angielski / Miękka / 466 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. But Johnston was an enigmatic man. His battlefield victories were never decisive. He failed to save Confederate forces under siege by Grant at Vicksburg, and he retreated into Georgia in the face of Sherman's march. His intense feud with Jefferson Davis ensured the collapse of the Confederacy's western campaign in 1864 and made Johnston the focus of a political schism within the government Now in this rousing narrative of Johnston's dramatic career, Craig L. Symonds gives us the first rounded portrait of the general as a public and private man
But Johnston was an enigmatic man. His battlefield victories were never decisive. He failed to save Confederate forces under siege by Grant at Vicksbu...
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115,61 |
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Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
ISBN: 9780393312560 / Angielski / Miękka / 850 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Regarded by many critics as Edmund Wilson's greatest book, Patriotic Gore brilliantly portrays the vast political, spiritual, and material crisis of the Civil War as reflected in the lives and writings of some thirty representative Americans.
Regarded by many critics as Edmund Wilson's greatest book, Patriotic Gore brilliantly portrays the vast political, spiritual, and material crisis of t...
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161,85 |
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Robert E. Lee: A Biography (Revised)
ISBN: 9780393316315 / Angielski / Miękka / 490 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this probing and personal biography, Emory Thomas reveals more than the man himself did. Robert E. Lee has been, and continues to be, a symbol and hero in the American story. But in life, Thomas writes, Lee was both more and less than his legend. Here is the man behind the legend.
In this probing and personal biography, Emory Thomas reveals more than the man himself did. Robert E. Lee has been, and continues to be, a symbol and ...
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111,56 |
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The Dahlgren Affair: Terror and Conspiracy in the Civil War
ISBN: 9780393319866 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On March 5, 1864, on a daring but failed cavalry raid to free thousands of Union prisoners, the 21-year-old commander of the mission, Ulric Dahlgren, was killed. On his body were found orders purportedly instructing his men to find and execute Jefferson Davis and the rest of the Confederate cabinet. This compelling narrative provides the first full-length analysis of the link between Dahlgren's failed raid and the Confederate campaign of terror. of illustrations.
On March 5, 1864, on a daring but failed cavalry raid to free thousands of Union prisoners, the 21-year-old commander of the mission, Ulric Dahlgren, ...
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92,30 |
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Prince John Magruder: His Life and Campaigns
ISBN: 9780471159414 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. He was one of the most intriguing characters of the Civil War era. As famous for his courage as for his ornate uniforms and flamboyant style, he won intrepid victories on the peninsula of Virginia and successfully defended Texas during the long war's waning days. Now, in the first full-length biography of Major General John Bankhead Magruder, acclaimed historian Paul D. Casdorph has created a brilliant portrait of the Confederate general dubbed "Prince John."
Born in Virginia in 1807, Magruder attended the University of Virginia, where he dined with Thomas Jefferson and his... He was one of the most intriguing characters of the Civil War era. As famous for his courage as for his ornate uniforms and flamboyant style, he won i...
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125,24 |
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The White Tecumseh: A Biography of General William T. Sherman
ISBN: 9780471283294 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Extraordinarily readable." --Paul D. Casdorph, author of Jackson and Lee
Best remembered as the man who burned Atlanta and marched his army to the sea, cutting a swath of destruction through Georgia, William Tecumseh Sherman remains one of the most vital figures in Civil War annals. In The White Tecumseh, Stanley Hirshson has crafted a beautiful and rigorous work of scholarship, the only life of Sherman to draw on regimental histories and testimonies by the general's own men. What emerges is a landmark portrait of a brilliant but tormented soul, haunted by a family legacy of... "Extraordinarily readable." --Paul D. Casdorph, author of Jackson and Lee
Best remembered as the man who burned Atlanta and marched his a... |
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113,42 |
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Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War
ISBN: 9780486227313 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Second only to Mathew Brady as the foremost early American photographer was Alexander Gardner, the one-time manager of Brady's Washington salon and Brady's chief photographer in the field during the early days of the Civil War. Second only to Mathew Brady as the foremost early American photographer was Alexander Gardner, the one-time manager of Brady's Washington salon and... |
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76,88 |
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The Red Badge of Courage
ISBN: 9780486264653 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Small masterpiece set the pattern for the treatment of war in modern fiction. Amid the nighmarish chaos of a Civil War battle, a young soilder discovers courage, humility, and prehaps, wisdom. Widely praised for uncanny re-creation of the sights, sounds, and sense of actual combat. An eduring landmark of American fiction. Reprint of the D. Appleton & Co. New York, 1895 edition.
Small masterpiece set the pattern for the treatment of war in modern fiction. Amid the nighmarish chaos of a Civil War battle, a young soilder discove...
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19,27 |
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Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment
ISBN: 9780521543842 / Angielski / Miękka / 305 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Final Freedom looks at the struggle among legal thinkers, politicians, and ordinary Americans in the North and the border states to find a way to abolish slavery that would overcome the inadequacies of the Emancipation Proclamation. Michael Vorenberg tells the dramatic story of the creation of a constitutional amendment and argues that the crucial consideration of emancipation happened after, not before the Emancipation Proclamation; that the debate over final freedom was shaped by a level of volatility in party politics underestimated by previous historians, and that the abolition of slavery...
Final Freedom looks at the struggle among legal thinkers, politicians, and ordinary Americans in the North and the border states to find a way to abol...
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122,25 |
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The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy Toward Southern Civilians, 1861-1865
ISBN: 9780521599412 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Hard Hand of War explores the Union army's policy of destructive attacks upon Southern property and civilian morale--how it evolved, what it was like in practice. From an initial policy of deliberate restraint, extending even to the active protection of Southerners' property and constitutional rights, Union armies gradually adopted measures that were expressly intended to demoralize Southern civilians and to ruin the Confederate economy. Yet the ultimate "hard war" policy was far from the indiscriminate fury of legend. Union policy makers promoted a program of directed severity, and...
The Hard Hand of War explores the Union army's policy of destructive attacks upon Southern property and civilian morale--how it evolved, what it was l...
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113,02 |
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Corporal Brewer: A Bucktail Survivor
ISBN: 9780595004140 / Angielski / Miękka / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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92,30 |
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I Marched with Sherman: Civil War Memoris of the 20th Illinois Volunteer Infantry
ISBN: 9780595012008 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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49,91 |
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Sherman's March and Vietnam
ISBN: 9780595160709 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,88 |
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Civil War Diaries
ISBN: 9780595215300 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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53,76 |
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From FARB to PARD: A story of Civil War Reenactment
ISBN: 9780595263431 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Down the road a person goes early on a friday morning. He is dressed in a blue woolen uniform that is getting rather warm in the summer air. He stops for gasoline and is asked if he is going to be in a movie. He replies, "That he is off to fight the 133rd battle of Valle Verde." This man is known as a Civil War reenactor and lives for this adventure no matter where the location and state. This is a very fast growing hobby and hundreds make up the fighting men and while thousands of people watch and get thrilled.
Down the road a person goes early on a friday morning. He is dressed in a blue woolen uniform that is getting rather warm in the summer air. He stops ...
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73,03 |
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Cross Over the River: Lives of Stonewall Jackson
ISBN: 9780595317561 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Stonewall Jackson was killed by friendly fire at the height of his greatest victory in 1863, the course of the Civil War and American history was changed. "Cross Over The River," a carefully researched novel, paints a passionate and realistic portrait of the Civil War's most enigmatic and daring general. In private a quiet, loving man, Jackson was a stern Old Testament warrior who took breathtaking chances against terrible odds. He feinted and hid his army, struck like lightning at the Union flank or rear, hammered larger armies, bedeviled Lincoln and lifted Southern morale. His men...
When Stonewall Jackson was killed by friendly fire at the height of his greatest victory in 1863, the course of the Civil War and American history was...
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84,59 |
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Mars Gets New Chariots: The Iron Horse in Combat, 1861-65
ISBN: 9780595368976 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the American Civil War, railroads provided considerable logistical support, but locomotives and rolling stock also served in tactical roles not just in rear areas, but also at the fronts and in veritable no-man's-lands.
"Mars Gets New Chariots" addresses how, after being absent for centuries, fighting vehicles returned to modern warfare. While much of their work was utilitarian, their missions ranged from stealthy reconnaissance to close combat. Riding humble handcars or powerful locomotives and trains, Federals and Confederates alike exploited these new war chariots' speed,... During the American Civil War, railroads provided considerable logistical support, but locomotives and rolling stock also served in tactical roles not...
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84,59 |
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Vermont Hero: Major General Lewis A. Grant
ISBN: 9780595382781 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Major General Lewis A. Grant was one of Vermont's greatest heroes in the Civil War. He organized the Fifth Vermont in 1861 and led the First Vermont Brigade from February 1863 to June 1865. He participated in 22 battles; most notable were Savage's Station in 1862, Marye's Heights and Bank's Ford in 1863, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, and Cedar Creek in 1864, and the breakthrough of the Confederate lines in 1865. He was selected by General Meade to lead the brigade to suppress the Draft Riots in New York after Gettysburg, and also, to defend the Brock Road in the Battle of the...
Major General Lewis A. Grant was one of Vermont's greatest heroes in the Civil War. He organized the Fifth Vermont in 1861 and led the First Vermont B...
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88,44 |
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The Man Who Carried a Drum: 108 War Letters and Love Letters of a Civil War Medic
ISBN: 9780595393442 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,73 |
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Letters to Tobitha: A Personal History of the Civil War
ISBN: 9780595407934 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Letters to Tobitha" is comprised of correspondence from a soldier in the 104th Illinois Infantry telling the personal record of the battles of this unit during the years of 1862 to their final march through the streets of Washington DC in 1864. These letters speak of the harsh living conditions and survival strategies of those involved.
"Letters to Tobitha" is comprised of correspondence from a soldier in the 104th Illinois Infantry telling the personal record of the battles of this u...
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80,73 |
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