Published by Britannica Books @ 1962 catalog # 62-10424  .   For us in our time, his greatest importance lies in his dedicated determination to photograph history.   Lots of examples. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

North Carolina

Photographing history Mathew Brady

Geraldine Brooks

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Texas

A Novel

March

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1939 Abraham Lincoln: Volumes II-IV; by Carl Sandburg

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Pennsylvania

Abraham Lincoln: The War Years; Volumes II-IV

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This book is in good vintage condition. Minimal wear to spine and binding, though they are beginning to separate at the bottom. Pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has some tears, particularly at the top, with some mild discoloration and staining on the back cover of the jacket. First Edition, first printing, published in 1973.

". . . a strong and stimulating book. It has no rival in either scope or quality. For libraries, history buffs, and armchair warriors, it is a must. For political science students, career diplomats, and officers in the armed services, its reading should be required." ―History

"A particularly timely account." ―Kansas City Times

"It reads easily but is not a popularized history . . . nor does the book become a history of battles. . . . Weigley's analyses and interpretations are searching, competent, and useful." ―Perspective


Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Minnesota

A history of the United States military strategy and policy

The American Way of War

Some wear on the paper cover, inside pages are near pristine 


Washington

Historical Maps of the Civil War Battlefields 

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Illinois

A Study in Command

A towering landmark in Civil War literature, long considered one of the great masterpieces of military history -- now available in a one-volume abridgment.Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Commandis the most colorful and popular of Douglas Southall Freeman's works. A sweeping narrative that presents a multiple biography against the flame-shot background of the American Civil War, it is the story of the great figures of the Army of Northern Virginia who fought under Robert E. Lee.Dr. Freeman describes the early rise and fall of General Beauregard, the developing friction between Jefferson Davis and Joseph E. Johnston, the emergence and failure of a number of military charlatans, and the triumphs of unlikely men at crucial times. He also describes the rise of the legendary "Stonewall" Jackson and traces his progress in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign and into Richmond amid the acclaim of the South.The Confederacy won resounding victories throughout the war, but seldom easily or without tremendous casualties. Death was always on the heels of fame, but the men who survived -- among them Jackson, Longstreet, and Ewell -- developed as commanders and men.Lee's Lieutenantsfollows these men to the costly battle at Gettysburg, through the deepening twilight of the South's declining military might, and finally to the collapse of Lee's command and his formal surrender in 1865. To his unparalleled descriptions of men and operations, Dr. Freeman adds an insightful analysis of the lessons learned and their bearing upon the future military development of the nation.Accessible at last in a one-volume edition abridged by noted Civil War historian Stephen W. Sears,Lee's Lieutenantsis essential reading for all Civil War buffs, students of war, and admirers of the historian's art as practiced at its very highest level.

Lees Lieutenants 3 Volume Abridged

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Arguing the Case for Southern Secession

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with one another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect of the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation." With these words, thirteen of the British colonies in North America unanimously declared independence from British rule. Eighty-five years later, adhering to principles articulated by their revolutionary forebears, the 11 Confederate States of America seceded from the United States, plunging the country into the bloodiest war of its history. Until the publication of this highly original book, most attempts to explain the origins of the American Civil War relied heavily on regional sympathies and mythology--that the South abandoned the Union to maintain slavery while President Lincoln's primary goal was to preserve the nation. Prominent scholar Charles Adams challenges this traditional wisdom. Using primary documents from both foreign and domestic observers, Adams makes a powerful and convincing case that the Southern states were legitimately exercising their political rights as expressed in the Declaration of Independence. Although conventional histories have taught generations of Americans that this was a war fought for lofty moral principles, Adams' eloquent history transcends simple Southern partisanship to show how the Civil War was primarily a battle over competing commercial interests, opposing interpretations of constitutional rights, and what English novelist Charles Dickens described as "a fiscal quarrel." Working from the premise that "wars have seldom been justified," Adams argues that the Civil War was an avoidable humanitarian disaster that nearly destroyed American democracy. This bold and controversial book will not only change how historians think about the causes of the Civil War bu

When in the Course of Human Events

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Nextext

1860-1865

A work of historical fiction that includes original stories, brief biographies, retellings of classic literature, primary source documents, and literary connections focusing on key people and events of the Civil War.

The Civil War (Three Book Bundle)

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Cokie Roberts

The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868





In this engrossing and informative companion to her New York Times bestsellers Founding Mothers and Ladies of Liberty, Cokie Roberts marks the sesquicentennial of the Civil War by offering a riveting look at Washington, D.C. and the experiences, influence, and contributions of its women during this momentous period of American history.

With the outbreak of the Civil War, the small, social Southern town of Washington, D.C. found itself caught between warring sides in a four-year battle that would determine the future of the United States.

After the declaration of secession, many fascinating Southern women left the city, leaving their friends--such as Adele Cutts Douglas and Elizabeth Blair Lee--to grapple with questions of safety and sanitation as the capital was transformed into an immense Union army camp and later a hospital. With their husbands, brothers, and fathers marching off to war, either on the battlefield or in the halls of Congress, the women of Washington joined the cause as well. And more women went to the Capital City to enlist as nurses, supply organizers, relief workers, and journalists. Many risked their lives making munitions in a highly flammable arsenal, toiled at the Treasury Department printing greenbacks to finance the war, and plied their needlework skills at The Navy Yard--once the sole province of men--to sew canvas gunpowder bags for the troops.

Cokie Roberts chronicles these women's increasing independence, their political empowerment, their indispensable role in keeping the Union unified through the war, and in helping heal it once the fighting was done. She concludes that the war not only changed Washington, it also forever changed the place of women.

Sifting through newspaper articles, government records, and private letters and diaries--many never before published--Roberts brings the war-torn capital into focus through the lives of its formidable women.

Capital Dames

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Friendly Persuasion (This Edition, 1945)

C. Brian Kelly

Outer cover of the book has some creases. Inner book is in excellent condition.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Ohio

Collects 114 stories showing the twists and turns of fate that occured in the time surrounding the Civil War, including the question of who fired the first shot and the tale of Union color-bearer Kady Brownell.

Best Little Ironies, Oddities, and Mysteries of the Civil War

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William C. Davis

Russ A. Pritchard

The Civil War

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Webb Garrison

The book appears to be new and unread.  There are no creases on the cover and pages.  There are no previous owners names or bookplates. 

New York

In this engaging survey of twenty-three battles of the American Civil War, several of these peculiarities are highlighted. These intriguing tales include naval engagements, naval battles against land forces, cover-ups and scapegoats, unexpected combat, and military blunders.

Strange Battles of the Civil War

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#fiction #action #adventure #paperback #dirkpitt #clivecussler #series #thriller #historicfiction #civilwar 

Sahara

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West Virginia

Combat: the Civil War

Benson John Lossing

Matthew Brady

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New Jersey

1861-65 and the Causes That Led up to the Great Conflict

A comprehensive narrative and collection of photographs of the Civil War.

Matthew Brady's Illustrated History of the Civil War

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On her way home to North Carolina after nursing Civil War soldiers in the north, a woman finds herself drawn to a wounded veteran, who becomes her protector when she loses her memory and helps her piece together her past as she creates new memories of love. Original.

Loving Jesse

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Geoffrey C. Ward

Ric Burns

Ken Burns

Louisiana

An Illustrated History

Portrays the lives of politicians, soldiers, and slaves during the Civil War

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Inman, a wounded soldier, walks away from the front during the Civil War to return to his prewar sweetheart, Ada, who desperately works to revive a struggling farm

Cold Mountain

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Massachusetts

The Classic Novel of the Civil War

“My favorite historical novel . . . a superb re-creation of the Battle of Gettysburg, but its real importance is its insight into what the war was about, and what it meant.”—James M. McPherson In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation's history, two armies fought for two conflicting dreams. One dreamed of freedom, the other of a way of life. Far more than rifles and bullets were carried into battle. There were memories. There were promises. There was love. And far more than men fell on those Pennsylvania fields. Bright futures, untested innocence, and pristine beauty were also the casualties of war. Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece is unique, sweeping, unforgettable—the dramatic story of the battleground for America's destiny.

The Killer Angels

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Thomas Cullinan

Michigan

The basis for the major motion picture directed by Sofia Coppola—named best director at the Cannes Film Festival for The Beguiled—and starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Kirsten Dunst, and Elle Fanning “[A] mad gothic tale . . . The reader is mesmerized with horror by what goes on in that forgotten school for young ladies.” —Stephen King, in Danse Macabre Wounded and near death, a young Union Army corporal is found in the woods of Virginia during the height of the Civil War and brought to the nearby Miss Martha Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies. Almost immediately he sets about beguiling the three women and five teenage girls stranded in this outpost of Southern gentility, eliciting their love and fear, pity and infatuation, and pitting them against one another in a bid for his freedom. But as the women are revealed for what they really are, a sense of ominous foreboding closes in on the soldier, and the question becomes: Just who is the beguiled?

The Beguiled (Movie Tie-In)

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Chester G. Hearn

California

Harpers Ferry During the Civil War

Most written accounts of Harpers Ferry, Virginia, during the Civil War era begin and end with John Brown’s raid in 1859 and his subsequent hanging. In Six Years of Hell, Chester G. Hearn recounts in colorful style the harrowing story of Harpers Ferry’s tumultuous war years-during which it changed hands more often than any town but Winchester, Virginia, and was repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt. Relying heavily on records left by the citizens who weathered the war and the soldiers who garrisoned the town, Hearn treats the civilian experience as fully as he does military activities. He introduces the people who attempted to stay in their homes, protect their possessions, and accommodate the soldiers during the conflict. As Hearn clearly demonstrates, for those stouthearted individuals, the Civil War was truly six years of hell.

Six Years of Hell

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The Kent Family Chronicles

North and South

Harriet A. Jacobs

This autobiographical account by a former slave is one of the few extant narratives written by a woman. Written and published in 1861, it delivers a powerful portrayal of the brutality of slave life. Jacobs speaks frankly of her master's abuse and her eventual escape, in a tale of dauntless spirit and faith.

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