Robert Conroy

In 1784, George Washington's attempt to trap the British forces under Cornwallis of Yorktown in catastrophically when the French Fleet is destroyed in the battle of the cakes. The Revolution collapse, and the British begin a bloody reign of terror. Have the Battle of The Capes gone differently, a change, darker, new world would have been forced into existence. But even under those dire circumstances, Liberty - and Liberty - may still find a way

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Virginia

National Bestseller in Hardcover A compelling alternate history novel by the breakout author of WW II era alternate history Himmler’s War and Rising Sun. The British win the American Revolutionary War, and a desperate Washington and the American founders must make a last stand in an enclave called Liberty. In 1781, George Washington's attempt to trap the British under Cornwallis at Yorktown ends catastrophically when the French fleet is destroyed in the Battle of the Capes. The revolution collapses, and the British begin a bloody reign of terror. A group of rebels flees westward and sets up a colony near what is now Chicago. They call it Liberty. The British, looking to finish what they started, send a very large force under Burgoyne to destroy them. Burgoyne is desperate for redemption and the Americans are equally desperate to survive. Had the Battle of the Capes gone differently, a changed, darker, New World would have been forced into existence. But even under those dire circumstances, Liberty may still find a way! About Robert Conroy's Rising Sun: “Conroy extrapolates a new and militarily plausible direction for WWII . . . A thrilling adventure.”—Booklist About Robert Conroy’s Himmler’s War: “[Conroy] adds a personal touch to alternate history by describing events through the eyes of fictional characters serving on the front lines. VERDICT: Historical accuracy in the midst of creative speculation makes this piece of alternate history believable.”–Library Journal About Red Inferno: 1945 “An ensemble cast of fictional characters. . . and historical figures powers the meticulously researched story line with diverse accounts of the horrors of war, making this an appealing read for fans of history and alternate history alike.”—Publishers Weekly “[E]ngrossing and grimly plausible. . .the suspense holds up literally to the last page.”—Booklist About 1945: “ moving and thought-provoking. . .”—Publishers Weekly “Realistic. . .”—Booklist About 1942: “. . .fans of Tom Clancy and Agent Jack Bauer should find a lot to like here.”—Publishers Weekly “A significant writer of alternate history turns here to the popular topic of Pearl Harbor, producing. . . this rousing historical action tale.”—Booklist “A high-explosive what-if, with full-blooded characters.”—John Birmingham, bestselling author of Without Warning About 1901: “. . .cleverly conceived. . .Conroy tells a solid what-if historical.”—Publishers Weekly “. . . likely to please both military history and alternative history buffs.”—Booklist

Liberty: 1784

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Afia Atakora

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Oregon

A Novel

"Conjure Women is a sweeping story that brings the world of the South before and after the Civil War vividly to life. Spanning eras and generations, it tells of the lives of three unforgettable women: Miss May Belle, a wise healing woman; her precocious and observant daughter Rue, who is reluctant to follow in her mother's footsteps as a midwife; and their master's daughter Varina. The secrets and bonds among these women and their community come to a head at the beginning of a war and at the birth of an accursed child, who sets the townspeople alight with fear and a spreading superstition that threatens their newly won, tenuous freedom."--Publisher's description.

Conjure Women

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Patricia C. Clapp

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Utah

Orphaned at thirteen, Rosemary Leigh was transplanted from England to Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1859. Four years later, to distract her from her fear as cannonballs batter the besieged city, Rosemary writes about what she has been through. While she has been growing up, enjoying the social pleasures of a Southern young lady, the tensions between North and South have developed into civil war. Because she is English, Rosemary brings an outsider's perspective to the issues that sparked the conflict, but nonetheless she is torn between her sense of outrage at the very idea of slavery and her feelings for the Southerners she has come to love. For Rosemary, her brother Derek, and their American friends -- old and young, white and black -- the disastrous siege of Vicksburg comes as a crucial test of courage and the will to survive. Once again, Patricia Clapp has created a heroine of wit, charm, and indomitable spirit in a vividly evoked historical setting.

The Tamarack Tree

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Ira Berlin

Steven F. Miller

Barbara Fields

Joseph P. Reidy

Pre-owned library edition with stamps on inside cover and cover. Pages are clear and legible with no writing or highlighting on them. Spine is strong and intact.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Oklahoma

A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War

A collection of letters, personal testimony, transcripts, and various official records documents the effects of Emancipation on blacks and white throughout the Union.

Free at Last

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David Herbert Donald

Found a couple of highlights and a few pencil marks, overall good condition 

Idaho

Draws extensively on Lincoln's personal papers and legal writings to present a biography of the president

Lincoln

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#paperback #fiction #coldmountain #historicalfiction #civilwar #charlesfrazier #firstedition

Ohio

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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Benjamin Ajak

Benson Deng

Alephonsion Deng

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Illinois

The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan

Benjamin, Alepho, and Benson were raised among the Dinka tribe of Sudan. Their world was an insulated, close-knit community of grass-roofed cottages, cattle herders, and tribal councils. The lions and pythons that prowled beyond the village fences were the greatest threat they knew. All that changed the night the government-armed Murahiliin began attacking their villages. Amid the chaos, screams, conflagration, and gunfire, five-year-old Benson and seven-year-old Benjamin fled into the dark night. Two years later, Alepho, age seven, was forced to do the same. Across the Southern Sudan, over the next five years, thousands of other boys did likewise, joining this stream of child refugees that became known as the Lost Boys. Their journey would take them over one thousand miles across a war-ravaged country, through landmine-sown paths, crocodile-infested waters, and grotesque extremes of hunger, thirst, and disease. The refugee camps they eventually filtered through offered little respite from the brutality they were fleeing. In They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky, Alepho, Benson, and Benjamin, by turn, recount their experiences along this unthinkable journey. They vividly recall the family, friends, and tribal world they left far behind them and their desperate efforts to keep track of one another. This is a captivating memoir of Sudan and a powerful portrait of war as seen through the eyes of children. And it is, in the end, an inspiring and unforgettable tribute to the tenacity of even the youngest human spirits.

They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky

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Texas

Blu-ray

Captain America Civil War

The Newbery Award-winning author of Up a Road Slowly presents the unforgettable story of Jethro Creighton--a brave boy who comes of age during the turbulent years of the Civil War.

In 1861, America is on the cusp of war, and young Jethro Creighton is just nine-years-old. His brother, Tom, and his cousin, Eb, are both of fighting age. As Jethro's family is pulled into the conflict between the North and the South, loyalties are divided, dreams are threatened, and their bonds are put to the test in this heart-wrenching, coming of age story. 

"Drawing from family records and from stories told by her grandfather, the author has, in an uncommonly fine narrative, created living characters and vividly reconstructed a crucial period of history."--Booklist

Across Five Aprils

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William Potter

Stephen Lang

The Letters of Stonewall Jackson to His Wife

The great military exploits of Confederate General 'Stonewall' Jackson are studied in military schools the world over. His iron-will and stern self-disciple are legendary. But the real Thomas J.Jackson was also a humble Christian and a loving husband and father. The tender and instructive letters he wrote to his wife Anna are a model of godly leadership and covenantal faithfulness.

Beloved Bride

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#hardcover #civilwar #history #confederate

Kentucky

Mosby’s Rangers 

Maxine Anderson

Offers step-by-step instructions for creating more than thirty Civil War projects, including a periscope, lean-to shelter, signal flag, and patchwork quilt.

Great Civil War Projects You Can Build Yourself

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Robert Hicks

Georgia

Carnton Plantation, 1894: Carrie McGavock is an old woman who tends the graves of the almost 1,500 soldiers buried there. As she walks among the dead, an elderly man appears--the same soldier she met that fateful day long ago. Today, he asks if the cemetery has room for one more. Based on an extraordinary true story, this brilliant, meticulously researched novel flashes back to 1864 and the afternoon of the Civil War. While the fierce fighting rages on Carrie's land, her plantation turns into a Confederate army hospital; four generals lie dead on her back porch; the pile of amputated limbs rises as tall as the smoke house. But when a wounded soldier named Zachariah Cashwell arrives at her house, he awakens feelings she had thought long dead--and inspires a passion as powerful and unforgettable as the war that consumes a nation.

The Widow of the South

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New Jersey

Ireland's Civil War

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used/normal wear. no writing or markings. corners kind of curling on cover and first few pages. see pics. no missing pages. 

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian C. Vann Woodward and Chesnut's biographer Elisabeth Muhlenfeld present here the previously unpublished Civil War diaries of Mary Boykin Chesnut. The ideal diarist, Mary Chesnut was at the right place at the right time with the right connections. Daughter of one senator from South Carolina and wife of another, she had kin and friends all over the Confederacy and knew intimately its political and military leaders. At Montgomery whenthe new nation was founded, at Charleston when the war started, and at Richmond during many crises, she traveled extensively during the war. She watched a world "literally kicked to pieces" and leftthe most vivid account we have of the death throes of a society. The diaries, filled with personal revelations and indiscretions, are indispensable to an appreciation of our most famous Southern literary insight into the Civil War experience. CONDITION – USED

California

The Unpublished Civil War Diaries

The author, a citizen of South Carolina during the Civil War, shares her experiences and opinions about the war, slavery, and the people around her

The Private Mary Chesnut

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Michigan

Charles Frazier

William Swinton

Arizona

Includes the battles of Bull Run, Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Antietam, Murfreesboro, the Monitor and Merrimac, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Wilderness, Atlanta, Nashville, and Five Forks.

Decisive Battles of the Civil War

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Robert E. Lee

Pennsylvania

A novel about love, growing up and the power of books, with an exotic setting -- a great blend for a commerical hit

The Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Vermont

American Civil War Brides

Ursula’s Inheritance

Harriet Stowe

Or, Life among the Lowly

Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Seymour Reit

Maryland

The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War Spy

Recounts the story of the Canadian woman who disguised herself as a man and slipped behind Confederate lines to spy for the Union army.

Behind Rebel Lines

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Rod Gragg

Letters of the Civil War

A young soldier, mortally wounded, pens a last letter to his beloved father from the battlefield. That letter, along with 19 others from the Civil War, are reproduced here in facsimile for readers to open, remove, and read, just as the original recipients did. Conveying the personal drama behind the battles of the Civil War with unrivaled verisimilitude, this unusual volume reveals the triumphs, loneliness, fears, and struggles of ordinary men and women facing their role in history, such as a letter from a former slave to his wife, ringing with hope for a future of freedom together. Renowned Civil War historian Rod Gragg places each letter in its historical context with short essays describing the perspectives of both Confederate and Union troops. He also includes biographical information, when available, about the letter writers themselves. Archival photographs offer portraits of camp life, the soldiers, and the battlefields. An exceptionally compelling and accessible look at Civil War history, From Fields of Fire and Glory recreates the experience of living through this remarkable time and makes both a sound introduction to the era and a fitting complement to any Civil War library.

From Fields of Fire and Glory

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North Carolina

Everything You Need to Know about the Conflict That Divided a Nation

The Everything® Civil War Book, 2nd Edition provides a complete survey of the war that split the nation, including: * Profiles of the Civil War's great leaders * The struggle for African-American freedom * Military strategy and weaponry * Landmark historical documents like the Gettysburg Address The heroic--and tragic--stories of the Civil War come alive in this extraordinary retelling, complete with historical commentary and profiles of the most prominent people of the era. This edition includes completely new material on: * A new focus on the progress of the military aspects of the war * The war in the west * Expanded information on the war off the battlefield AUTHOR: Brooke C. Stoddard (Alexandria, VA) served as the editor of Military Heritage magazine, writing feature stories and editorials on the Civil War. Mr. Stoddard, the son of a southern mother and a northern father, has visited most of the major Civil War battlefields in Virginia and has toured Gettysburg three times, once with Pulitzer Prize winner James McPherson. Daniel P. Murphy, PhD (Louisville, KY), is a history professor at Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana, and the author of numerous articles and book reviews. He is the author of The Everything American Revolution Book, coauthor of The Everything World War II Book, and was a contributing author for The American Presidents.

The Everything Civil War Book

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Robert Conroy

Liberty: 1784

Afia Atakora

Conjure Women

Patricia C. Clapp

The Tamarack Tree

Ira Berlin; Steven F. Miller; Barbara Fields; Joseph P. Reidy

Free at Last

David Herbert Donald

Lincoln

Charles Frazier

Cold Mountain

Benjamin Ajak; Benson Deng; Alephonsion Deng

They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky

Anthony and Joel Russo

Captain America Civil War

Irene Hunt

Across Five Aprils

William Potter; Stephen Lang

Beloved Bride

Jeffrey D. Wert

Mosby’s Rangers

Maxine Anderson

Great Civil War Projects You Can Build Yourself

Robert Hicks

The Widow of the South

Calton Younger

Ireland's Civil War

Mary Boykin Chesnut; C. Vann Woodward (Editor); Elizabeth Muhlenfeld (Editor)

The Private Mary Chesnut

Benjamin Ajak; Benson Deng; Alephonsion Deng

They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky

Charles Frazier

Cold Mountain

William Swinton

Decisive Battles of the Civil War

Robert E. Lee

The Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee

Eileen Charbonneau

Ursula’s Inheritance

Harriet Stowe

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Seymour Reit

Behind Rebel Lines

Rod Gragg

From Fields of Fire and Glory

Brooke C. Stoddard; Daniel P. Murphy

The Everything Civil War Book