James Robison

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Texas

Overcoming the Powers of Darkness

Winning the Real War

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Doesn't have dust kacket, shows shelf wear, vol. 2 of series, see photo

Alabama

1944-1945 

European Land Battles (vol.2)

Richard Herman

Book is in great condition with no markings or highlights. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

California

The Peacemakers

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Simon Winchester

Book in excellent readable condition. Where to dust jacket and bending of dust jacket. Tanning pages.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

Atlantic is a biography of a tremendous space that has been central to the ambitions of explorers, scientists, and warriors, and continues profoundly to affect our character, attitudes, and dreams. Simon Winchester makes the Atlantic come vividly alive. Spanning the ocean’s story from its geological origins to the age of exploration—covering the Vikings, the Irish, the Basques, John Cabot, and Christopher Columbus in the north, and the Portuguese and the Spanish in the south—and from World War II battles to today’s struggles with pollution and overfishing, his narrative is epic, intimate, and awe inspiring. More than a mere history, this is an unforgettable journey of unprecedented scope by one of the most gifted writers in the English language.

Atlantic

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Phillip Katcher

Awesome book for Civil War buffs, jam packed with great facts, illustrations, maps, photographs and more.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Maryland

The hardcover reference titles in the Day by Day series examine the evolution of wars in a chronological timeline, from the first skirmish to the last battle and everything in between. These books are a historical companion to each major war in the nineteenth and twentieth century. The fate of soldiers, battalions, armies, can change in the blink of an eye--with this comprehensive book readers can follow the conflicting sides in their strategy, weaponry, and policies.

The Civil War was the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history, claiming the lives of over 600,000 Americans between 1861 and 1865. The Civil War Day by Day is a chronological, month-by-month approach to the conflict, allowing the reader to see at a glance the key battles on land and at sea; bloody engagements such as the First Bull Run, Antietam, Nashville, Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, Cold Harbor and Gettysburg. Illustrated throughout with hundreds of contemporary photographs and illustrations, this book also includes full-color maps of all the major battles and campaigns of the war. Each chapter contains boxes on the weapons that were used by both sides in the war, and the tactics that were employed on the battlefield.

The Civil War Day by Day

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#hardcover #WW2 #juvenile #nonfiction #history #battles 

New Mexico

World War II bundle (4 books)

#paperback #battles #marriage #forbidden #love

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Massachusetts

A Bouquet of Thistles Paying the Piper Battle-Torn Bride

Three couples. Three vows. Three weddings come true.

A Bouquet of Thistles by Lyn Stone
Since they were betrothed as children, John, Lord Greycourt, and Alys of Camoy have not set eyes on one another. Alys is overjoyed when John returns home  -- until she realizes that he has no intention of marriage. This is one battle that she cannot let her warrior win!

Paying the Piper by Gail Ranstrom
Miss Chloe Faraday has been engaged to Captain Sir Anthony Chandler for years, yet she doesn't even know what he looks like. She can't quite recall the dashing officer who proposed to her in a letter. Now the war is over, he expects to claim his bride. But Chloe has a mind of her own, and will not be compelled into marriage.

Battle-Torn Bride by Anne O'Brien
Forbidden to marry the man of her choice, Lady Beatrice Somerton was forcibly wed to another. Now her husband has met his death on the field of battle -- perhaps by the hand of her first and only love. Should she still want such a man?

Broken Vows, Mended Hearts

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A wealth of information about America’s greatest conflict, consisting of interesting facts and figures about the resources, armies, and leaders of the Union and the Confederacy, as well as leading Civil War historians’ examinations of a variety of popular topics, including the war’s most overrated and underrated commanders, top turning points, and most influential women.  An innovative and insightful look at the Civil War—a true collectible for history buffs.

The Civil War Almanac

#hardcover #history #navel #france #18thcentury #battles #historicalfiction 

North Carolina

An Alan Lewrie Navel Adventure 

King, Ship, and sword 

Connecticut

Extraordinary Men of Battle

This book describes the careers of some outstanding characters, introducing the readers to certain aspects of military history with which they may not be familiar. This book includes background information about their campaigns and also sufficient details about the characters to make them come alive.

Military Mavericks

Jacket has some tears - names written on inside cover and page - the book is in good condition 

Diaper Days of Dallas 

Clifford Dowdey

First, volume in a trilogy of works, focusing on the campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia.

The Death of a Nation

Written in Clifford Dowdey?s engaging, sweeping style, Lee and His Men at Gettysburg: The Death of a Nation details the battle from the Confederate point of view. In this first volume in a trilogy of works focusing on the campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia, Dowdey details the disastrous Confederate experience at Gettysburg during those three crucial July days in 1863. Leading up to the climax of Pickett?s Charge, Dowdey?s narrative offers an examination of the reasons for the ultimate defeat of the Army of Northern Virginia. ø Dowdey offers a very clear picture of events, faulting Lee?s command subordinates for failures of reconnaissance and nerve and for disregarding orders. He assesses and probes the personalities and decisions of these chief lieutenants, including Ewell, Stuart, and Longstreet. Lee and His Men at Gettysburg depicts "Lee?s worst-fought battle" in all its agonizing drama.

Lee and His Men at Gettysburg

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"Covers ... the first battle of Megiddo in 1479 B.C. to the fighting in Vietnam during the 1960's." "Accounts of 1,560 battles. Illustrated with maps in two colors."

Dictionary of Battles

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Delaware

A Novel

The Nugget

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Harold Coyle

Poblisher stamp on btm, a few specs on side, see photos

The Soviet invasion of Iran triggers the deployment of American troops and the fury of modern war, but the stakes are raised immeasurably when it is rumored that Iran is building a nuclear device

Sword Point

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Cokie Roberts

Book contains insights, interviews and more. ￼

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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Bernard Cornwell

Louisiana

Agincourt

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Ned Bradford

New York

Firsthand accounts by such leaders as Grant, Beauregard, Longstreet, and McClellan provide a continuous history of the Civil War.

Battles and Leaders of the Civil War

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Wisconsin

Pivotal Battles of the Civil War

Complemented by maps and period photographs, a narrative history of the Civil War focuses on some of the war's most significant battles, including Fort Sumter, through the war's turning point at Gettysburg, to Appomattox. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Fields of Honor

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#paperback #CivilWar #battles #Manassas #BullRun #battlefield
Handling wear only on cover, otherwise like new condition. Questions?? Just ask. Thanks 


Arkansas

National Park Service Historic Handbook Series 

Manassas (Bull Run)

An engaging collection of 23 battles of the American Civil War. #military, #civilwar, #battles, #war #paperback #historical 

Paperback (under 2 lbs)

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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Namina Forna

Minnesota

The start of a bold and immersive West African-inspired, feminist fantasy series for fans of Children of Blood and Bone and Black Panther. In this world, girls are outcasts by blood and warriors by choice. Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in fear and anticipation of the blood ceremony that will determine whether she will become a member of her village. Already different from everyone else because of her unnatural intuition, Deka prays for red blood so she can finally feel like she belongs. But on the day of the ceremony, her blood runs gold, the color of impurity--and Deka knows she will face a consequence worse than death. Then a mysterious woman comes to her with a choice: stay in the village and submit to her fate, or leave to fight for the emperor in an army of girls just like her. They are called alaki--near-immortals with rare gifts. And they are the only ones who can stop the empire's greatest threat. Knowing the dangers that lie ahead yet yearning for acceptance, Deka decides to leave the only life she's ever known. But as she journeys to the capital to train for the biggest battle of her life, she will discover that the great walled city holds many surprises. Nothing and no one are quite what they seem to be--not even Deka herself.

The Gilded Ones

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Jack Coombe

First Naval Actions of the Civil War

On April 12, 1861, the Civil War began when shots were fired on an unfinished fort in Charleston Harbor. From that thunderous opening salvo, the naval battles to control the Atlantic coast that followed-daring, savage, and often deadly-were not only crucial in determining the outcome of the war and the fate of a nation, but would change the face of naval warfare forever. GUNSMOKE OVER THE ATLANTIC Historian Jack D Coombe, author of the critically acclaimed Thunder Along the Mississippi and Gunfire Around the Gulf, combines brilliant research with a novelist's flair for re-creation to put us directly into the action of the Civil War on river, on shore, and at sea. In this vivid account, we experience the soul-gnawing terror of a bombardment, the claustrophobic confines of a still-unproven submarine, and the smoke-choked chaos of a harbor in the grips of a full-bore naval engagement between two desperate enemies. Coombe focuses on the Civil War as it was fought along the Atlantic coast, a fierce contest of blockaders and blockade-runners, ironclads, wood-hulled battleships, land cannon, submarines, and the first underwater antiship weapons. For the North, the challenge was to implement a blockade over 3,500 miles of Confederate coastline, from Virginia to Texas. To do so, they would have to modernize an ineffective and outdated U.S. Navy fallen into incompetence and disrepair. For the South, the challenge was to create a fledgling navy from whatever meager resources were at hand. The Confederacy patched together a navy of river runners and converted battleships, turned cornfields into shipyards, and put the first ironclad battleship into action. And it was the South thatintroduced the new concept of underwater weaponry, sending spar torpedoes, mines, submarines-and a few incredibly brave men willing to deploy them-into battle against the North. Gunsmoke over the Atlantic chronicles the key engagements, from the Monitor" "and the Virginia dueling at Hampton Roads to the ill-fated campaign against Fort Fisher. Along the way, we meet a remarkable cast of naval strategists and warriors on both sides of the battle, witness the crucial, often deadly role played by the weather and the sea itself, and get a vivid view of such important events as the first amphibious landing in history, at Cape Hatteras in 1861. An important work for students of the Civil War and of naval history, this book fills in missing pieces of America's most tragic war and shows why, when the guns finally fell silent, a new era had begun. Four years after the fall of Fort Sumter, a once divided country had the beginnings of the most powerful navy in the world.

Gunsmoke over the Atlantic

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The Peloponnesian War has begun. An army of merciless Spartan invaders have arrived at the gates of Plataea, bent on obliterating the independent city-state and its inhabitants. Plataea's oldest allies, the Athenians, are spread too thin in their own campaigns to send help. Cut off and alone, the Plataeans have dug in behind their high walls for the coming attack, while the tyrannical Spartans prepare to lay siege.

On a rugged mountain road, a young Plataean warrior named Nikias rides to Athens on an urgent quest. He carries with him a bag of ill-gotten gold, hoping to raise an army of mercenaries to help defend his citadel from the Spartan assault. But in the sprawling stronghold of Athens, Nikias encounters perils that prove to be more dangerous than those he has faced on the battlefield.

Noble Smith'sSpartans at the Gates transports us to the dawn of one of history's most famous wars--a fight that would tear apart the great powers of ancient Greece.

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