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1861: The Civil War Awakening (Vintage Civil War Library) by Adam Goodheart Publisher Comments An epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields, 1861 is Adam Goodheart’s account of how the Civil War began and a second American revolution unfolded, setting Abraham Lincoln on the path to greatness and millions of slaves on the road to... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper 
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Joshua L. Chamberlain: The Life in Letters of a Great Leader of the American Civil War by Thomas Desjardin Publisher Comments Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain has been a central character in two feature films (Gettysburg and Gods & Generals), a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel (The Killer Angels), and an inspiration for Ken Burns's production of the highly acclaimed PBS series The... (read more) Your price: $25.95 New - Hardcover
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Shiloh, 1862 by Winston Groom Publisher Comments A main selection in History Book-of-the-Month Club and alternate selection in Military Book-of-the-Month Club. In the spring of 1862, many Americans still believed that the Civil War, "would be over by Christmas." The previous summer in Virginia, Bull... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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Oxford History of the United States #06: Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M Mcpherson Publisher Comments Now featuring a new Afterword by the author, this handy paperback edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom is without question the definitive one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The New York Times the Complete Civil War 1861-1865 by Harold Holzer Publisher Comments The Civil War as you've never experienced it before, through original, first-hand reportage of The New York Times, the country's newspaper of record. Available for the first time in a unique book/DVD package The New York Times, established in 1851,... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Era of the Civil War by James M Mcpherson Publisher Comments Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz Publisher Comments When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War by James M Mcpherson Publisher Comments General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson Publisher Comments Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Civil War, Volume 3: Red River to Appomattox (Civil War #03) by Shelby Foote Publisher Comments A stunning literary and historical achievement, the three volumes of Shelby Footes The Civil War vividly bring to life the four years of torment and strife that altered American life forever. Presented in a handsome boxed set, these three beautifully... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $22.00 Used - Hardcover
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Gettysburg (03 Edition) by Stephen W. Sears Publisher Comments Widely regarded as today"s preeminent historian of the Civil War"s eastern theater, Stephen W. Sears has delivered a masterwork in Gettysburg, his single-volume history of that war"s greatest campaign. Sears brings the epic tale of the... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Gray Fox (Classics of War) by Burke Davis Publisher Comments An exciting biography of one of the monumental figures of the Civil War, told in a dramatic narrative that will sweep readers into the flow of history. Maps and 21 photos.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Class of 1846 by John Waugh Publisher Comments No single group of men at West Point--or possibly any academy--has been so indelibly written into history as the class of 1846. The names are legendary: Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, George B. McClellan, Ambrose Powell Hill, Darius Nash Couch... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation by David Goldfield Publisher Comments In this spellbinding history, David Goldfield offers the first major new interpretation of the Civil War era since James M. McPhersons Battle Cry of Freedom. Where other scholars have seen the conflict as a triumph of freedom, Goldfield paints it as... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Day Dixie Died by Gary Ecelbarger Publisher Comments One of the most dramatic and important battles ever to be waged on American soil, the Battle of Atlanta changed the course of the Civil War and helped decide a presidential election. In the North, a growing peace movement and increasing criticism of... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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No Quarter: The Battle of the Crater, 1864 by Richard Slotkin Publisher Comments In this richly researched and dramatic work of military history, eminent historian Richard Slotkin recounts one of the Civil Wars most pivotal events: the Battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864. At first glance, the Unions plan seemed brilliant: A... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Eyewitness to the Civil War by Stephen G Hyslop Publisher Comments At once an informed overview for general-interest readers and a superb resource for serious buffs, this extraordinary, gloriously illustrated volume is sure to become one of the fundamental books in any Civil War library. Its features include a dramatic... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Civil War: An Illustrated History by Geoffrey C Ward Publisher Comments "The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things.... It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads: the suffering, the enormous tragedy of the whole thing."- Shelby... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era) by Earl J. Hess Publisher Comments The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a large number of slaves, stretched 600 miles north to south and 450 miles east to west from the Appalachians to the Mississippi. If the South lost the West... (read more) Your price: $40.00 New - Hardcover
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Civil War in Depth Volume 2 by Bob Zeller Publisher Comments A remarkable addition to the canon of Civil War literature, Civil War in Depth, Volume II, features 170 vivid images, many never previously published. Especially significant is the portfolio of rare, color images. A companion to the perennial Civil War... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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