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By: Abrahams, Peter
Price: $14.95
Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books: 2001
Seller ID: 013139
ISBN: 0345439376
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
An extraordinary novel about the fate of men and women no longer in step with the rhythms of the modern world, marching back into Southern history to make things right, Last of the Dixie Heroes is Peter Abrahams's most dazzlingly original work yet.
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By: Blackman, Ann
Price: $24.00
Publisher: New York, Random House: 2005
Seller ID: 013142
ISBN: 1400061180
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
Drawing on newly discovered diaries and a rich trove of contemporary accounts, Blackman has fashioned a thrilling, intimate narrative that reads like a novel. Wild Rose is an unforgettable rendering of an astonishing woman, a book that will stand with the finest Civil War biographies. [AZ]
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By: Chadwick, Bruce
Price: $29.95
Publisher: New York, Wiley: 2009
Seller ID: 013145
ISBN: 0470185511
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
A good story, well told, of a sliver of life in Richmond, a small, elite-driven capital city in the young nation's most influential state. [Publishers Weekly]
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Price: $24.00
Publisher: New York, Harcourt: 2001
Seller ID: 013136
ISBN: 0151005648
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
A rich canvas of a time of despair and defeat that is exciting and highly readable, a charged tale full of physical adventure and political battle that sweeps from the marble halls of Richmond to a dingy room in a Havana hotel.
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Price: $29.95
Publisher: New York, Free Press: 2002
Seller ID: 013146
ISBN: 0684865858
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
A comprehensive history of the Confederacy moves beyond military events to examine legal structures, politics, social structures, and the economy of the South during the Civil War.[AZ]
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Price: $14.95
Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 2003
Seller ID: 013134
ISBN: 0743254686
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln offers a new perspective on the private life of the Civil War president through an examination of his few friendships and close associations; which were marked by estrangements in the face of political differences.
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By: Garrison, Webb
Price: $12.95
Publisher: USA, Gramercy: 1998
Seller ID: 013143
ISBN: 0517189267
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Questions are presented in categories that make it easy to test your knowledge. Also included are interesting sidebar articles, lists of little-known facts, anecdotes, and over 50 unusual black-and-white photographs. With a thorough index. [AZ]
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By: Groom, Winston
Price: $19.95
Publisher: New York, Atlantic Monthly Press: 1995
Seller ID: 013138
ISBN: 0871135914
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
This well-written narrative makes a revisionist argument that the Confederacy's desperate offensive against Nashville in the winter of 1864-1865 was more than a manifestation of General John Bell Hood's incompetence. Groom argues that Hood took his Army of Tennessee north because President Jefferson Davis demanded an aggressive military policy to avoid the South's being worn down in stages.
Groom's analysis of Union and Confederate strategies is solid, and his sketches of the principal commanders, including less familiar figure...
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By: Hallock Ph.D., Dr. Judith Lee
Price: $12.95
Publisher: Tuscaloosa. AL, University Alabama Press: 2009
Seller ID: 013144
ISBN: 0817355944
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Fine
This sympathetic biography of Bragg gives valuable insight into the workings of the Confederacy in the last two years of its struggle for independence. Along with the military details, the author provides a full accounting of Bragg's fractious relationships with other members of the military, a critical factor in this period for the entire Confederate command.
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By: Henry, Robert Selph; Forward by Douglas Southhall Freeman
Price: $14.95
Publisher: New York, Grossett & Dunlap: 1936
Seller ID: 013247
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
In his foreword to the book, the distinguished historian Douglas Southall Freeman praises this as 'the one book with which to begin one's study of the period it covers and the book to which to return when everything else on the subject has been read.'
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Price: $19.95
Publisher: New York, Free Press: 2000
Seller ID: 013135
ISBN: 0684863650
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
A vividly illustrated chronicle of the Civil War, written by a Union mapmaker who witnessed the worst of the war firsthand, includes his experiences during a two-year stint at the notorious Andersonville prison.
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By: Speer, Lonnie R.
Price: $14.95
Publisher: PA, Stackpole Books: 2002
Seller ID: 013150
ISBN: 0811713881
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
Each chapter of this book undertakes to describe a specific event of retaliatory action. Lonnie Speer takes no sides as he points an accusing finger at both the Union and the Confederacy for their equal parts in treating the prisoners poorly. He explores this little-known wartime violence, focusing on the most notorious and well-documented cases of the practice.
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By: Waugh, John C. ; James M. McPherson (Foreword)
Price: $29.95
Publisher: New York, Grand Central Pub: 1994
Seller ID: 013140
ISBN: 0446515949
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
The ``brothers' fight' of Civil War legend and historical clich is grounded in firm fact: not only did the war split many actual families along partisan lines, but a sizeable number of celebrated officers in blue and in gray had been bosom buddies at West Point and subsequently comrades and mess-mates in the prewar Federal army. In an exceedingly well-written narrative, Waugh tackles this subject head-on. [kirkus]
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