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Annapolis, Maryland: Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. 0933852401 . Boards show light shelf wear, DJ has short tears, light soiling and light chipping. Rear flap is price-clipped. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; B&W Photographs and maps; 9.90 X 8 X 0.50 inches; 106 pages; "From Fort Sumter to Appomattox, this military history explains the principal campaigns of the Civil War and all the major battles in lively text. A clear, concise and authoritative volume ideal for battlefield tours or classroom studies." .

Knoxville, TN: Univ of Tennessee Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. 0870494252 . Boards and DJ show light shelf wear. Publisher's blue spray discolouration on top page edges. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. B&W illustrations and maps. Stated first edition. ; 9.0 X 6.1 X 1.2 inches; 298 pages; "Describes in detail the Civil War battle at Chattanooga, Tennessee and examines the military strategies of the Union and Confederate leaders. In the wake of the bloodshed at Chickamauga, the struggle for Chattanooga became a decisive engagement of the Civil War. McDonough reconstructs the siege and battles as they appeared to both Rebels and Yankees, giving the reader a front-row seat at one of the major dramas in American history." .

Mason City, Iowa: Savas Publishing. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 1882810384 . Light wear to extremities.; DJ in Mylar. A bright, solid book.; B&W Photographs, graphs; 10 X 6.50 X 1.30 inches; 320 pages; From the DJ flap: "In the midst of America's deadliest war, Lincoln sat the storm center of a hurricane of blood and grief, deciding the fate of men sentenced for crimes including desertion, spying, sabotage, murder, rape - the whole gamut of evil. He balanced sternness and compassion while pressed on one side by weeping relatives begging for mercy, and on the other by military leaders demanding severe discipline for an unruly citizen army. The man many have described as America's greatest president approached his thankless task with a unique blend of humor, compassion, practicality and, as Lowry describes it, "a kind of weary joy." .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1983. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0684178737 . DJ and boards show light shelf wear dustjacket has a few short tears. Price-clipped. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; B&W Illustrations; 8.9 X 7.3 X 1.5 inches; 442 pages; The third in the original classic trilogy, this book follows the path of the commanders during the final decisive campaigns of the Civil War. Like his first two books, it uses photographs taken during the campaign and analyzes them, comparing modern photos of the same sites. .

Richmond VA: EASTERN NATIONAL PARK. Very Good. 1976. Second Printing. Softcover. Light wear. ; A bright, solid book ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 60 pages; A brief account of the last days of the life of General Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson. .

New York: Ecco. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 2005. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0060523336 . DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, short closed tear top foreedge. Corners lightly bumped, remainder mark bottom page edges ; A bright, solid book dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 9.1 X 6.3 X 0.9 inches; 320 pages; "In the autumn of 1864, at the height of the American Civil War, the Confederate raider Shenandoah received orders to "seek out and utterly destroy" the whaling fleets of New England as part of an effort to bleed the Union of its economic strength -- an undertaking that met its greatest success when the raider fell upon a fleet of whalers working the waters near Alaska's Little Diomede Island and sank more than two dozen ships in a frenzy of destruction. Before the Shenandoah's voyage was over, the raider had captured or sunk thirty-eight ships. She also took more than a thousand prisoners and led the best warships of the Union navy on… Read More

Rank and File Publishers. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. 0963899317 . Lightly chipped DJ; A bright, solid book, DJ in Mylar ; 1.19 x 9.32 x 6.35 Inches; 407 pages .

Garden City: Doubleday. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1976. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 0385121482 . Boards show light shelf wear, DJ shows heavier shelf wear with sticker remnants, short tears and light scuffing, light soiling. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 436 pages .

Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 0742543080 . Front flap of DJ creased, light edge wear, small erasure half title page ; A bright, solid book, DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. B&W photos and maps ; The American Crisis Series; 1 x 8.9 x 6.1 Inches; 184 pages; What made Ulysses S. Grant tick? Perhaps the greatest general of the Civil War, Grant won impressive victories and established a brilliant military career. His single-minded approach to command was coupled with the ability to adapt to the kind of military campaign the moment required. In this book, Michael B. Ballard provides a crisp account of Grant's strategic and tactical concepts in the period from the outset of the Civil War to the battle of Chattanooga—a period in which U. S. Grant rose from a semi-disgraceful obscurity to the position of overall commander of all Union armies. The author carefully sifts through diaries and letters of… Read More

New York: Bramhall House. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. [1961] 1981. Reprint. Hardcover. 0517347458 . Edgewear and short tears to DJ, some wear top of book's spine. Pages somewhat tanned ; DJ in Mylar, unclipped. Text unmarked. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 994 pages; This books contains Lee's letters, reports and general orders set out in chronological order. Extensive index. This was originally published in 1961 but was reprinted poss .

New York: Putnam. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2001. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0399147373 . Only slight wear to book and dustjacket. ; A bright, solid book, text unmarked; 9.50 X 6.60 X 1.80 inches; 464 pages; "With My Face to the Enemy is a provocative and wide-ranging anthology of essays on the Civil War-our nation's defining struggle and the first modern war in history. In thirty-five illuminating essays and one hundred and fifty thousand words, it examines the war from the perspectives critical to its outcome-the larger-than-life personalities of the important players from Lincoln to Lee, and the national strategies and key battle tactics that shaped the four-year-long crisis. Contributors include the leading lights of Civil War scholarship: James M. McPherson, Stephen W. Sears, Gary W. Gallagher, David Herbert Donald, and twenty others.James M. McPherson's essays ponder three diverse, yet fascinating subjects: Abraham Lincoln's use of language… Read More