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Assessing War
Today's protracted asymmetrical conflicts confuse efforts to measure progress, often inviting politics and wishful thinking to replace objective evaluation. In Assessing War, …
The Civil War: The First Year Told by Those Who Lived It (LOA #212)
After 150 years the Civil War is still our greatest national drama, at once heroic, tragic, and epic-our Iliad, but also our Bible, a story of sin and judgment, suffering and …
Union and Emancipation
In Union and Emancipation, seven leading historians offer new perspectives on the issues of race and politics in American Society from the antebellum era to the aftermath of …
The Civil War in the East
For all the literature about Civil War military operations and leadership, precious little has been written about strategy, particularly in the eastern theater. The Civil War in …
Sherman, Fighting Prophet
"War is hell," said William Tecumseh Sherman. The Union general who is remembered for his devastating march through Georgia during the Civil War is presented in all his passionate …
Civil War: The First Year Told by Those Who Lived It (LOA #212)
With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox
The letters of Theodore Lyman, an aide-de-camp to General George Meade, offer a witty and penetrating inside view of the Civil War. Scholar and Boston Brahmin, Lyman volunteered …
Civil War: The Third Year Told by Those Who Lived It (LOA #234)
The Civil War in the East
This book fills a gap in Civil War literature on the strategies employed by the Union and Confederacy in the East, offering a more integrated interpretation of military operations …
Civil War in the East
This book fills a gap in Civil War literature on the strategies employed by the Union and Confederacy in the East, offering a more integrated interpretation of military operations …
The Civil War: The Third Year Told by Those Who Lived It (LOA #234)
This is the third volume of the ground-breaking eyewitness narrative that has been called a "masterpiece."Spanning the crucial months from January 1863 to March 1864, this third …
The Political Education of Henry Adams
A fresh understanding of Henry Adams' political career is offered with this book. The author argues that Adams sought influence and power, not office, and shows how the young …