The War Hits Home: The Civil War in Southeastern Virginia.
by Wills, Brian Steel
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0813920272
- ISBN 13
- 9780813920276
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About This Item
Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 2001. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. 8vo. Pp. xvi, 348. Plus 12 unnumbered pages of illustrations, bound in the text. With illustrated endpapers (map of Suffolk and vicinity), 22 halftone photographic illustrations, 6 halftone maps (some full-page); 5 appendices, notes, bibliography, index. HARDCOVER, blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with pictorial dust-jacket. ~ FIRST EDITION. "An excellent piece of research and writing, among the most significant Confederate home-front studies. Truly original in combining in a single book a substantial military study as well. A lasting contribution to the literature of the Southern people at war and peace." - William C. Davis. Dust jacket with a beautiful battle scene, detail from the original painting by Mort Künstler, "High Tide." Q-3
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- Title
- The War Hits Home: The Civil War in Southeastern Virginia.
- Author
- Wills, Brian Steel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - .
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0813920272
- ISBN 13
- 9780813920276
- Publisher
- Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- CIVIL WAR USA UNITED STATES CONFEDERATE AMERICAN STUDIES WARFARE HISTORY MILITARIA MILITARY OPERATIONS MILITARISM REGIMENTAL HISTORIES POLITICS POLITICAL VIOLENCE ARMED CONFLICTS FORCES NOISBN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Colours and Blood: The American Civil War. New Books;
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