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Pub. Date
2003
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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 the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at Appomattox. Packed with drama and analytical insight, the book...
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Revolution trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
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"Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other masterly books about World War II, has long been admired for his unparalleled ability to write deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative history. Now he turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy he tells the story of the first twenty months of the bloody struggle to shake free of King George's shackles. From the battles...
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Outlander novels volume 8
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Clare Randall gets hurled back in time more than two-hundred years to 1743 Scotland. She finds herself caught in an unfamiliar world torn apart by violence, pestilence, and revolution, and haunted by her growing feelings for James Fraser, a young soldier.
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Centennial history of the American Civil War volume 3
American Civil War trilogy volume 3
Centennial history of the Civil War volume 3
American Civil War trilogy volume 3
Centennial history of the Civil War volume 3
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Never Call Retreat (Vol 3): Appomattox; the Vicksburg Campaign; the Battle of Atlanta and the March to the Sea; the assassination of Lincoln.
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Draws on archival material to challenge popular misconceptions about the American belief system about arms rights, tracing "gun fever" to its European origins while documenting the rarity of firearms in early America as well as the technological advances and events that made guns an integral part of American life.
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Plain, independent Lidie Harkness, impatient with the restrictions placed on women in mid-nineteenth century Illinois, jumps at the chance to marry New England abolitionist Thomas Newton and travel with him to the Kansas Territory where they embark on a dangerous quest to stop the spread of slavery.
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Pub. Date
2010.
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"Fascinating.... A major work by a leading historian at the top of his game-at once engaging and tightly argued." -The New York Times Book Review "Dazzling cultural history: smart, provocative, and gripping. It is also a book for our times, historically grounded, hopeful, and filled with humane, just, and peaceful possibilities." -The Washington Post An illuminating and authoritative history of America in the years between the Civil War and World...