Steven E. Woodworth
Steven Woodworth is professor of history at Texas Christian University. Composed almost entirely of Midwesterners and molded into a lean, skilled fighting machine by Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, the Army of the Tennessee marched ... [... more]
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The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall ...
 The War of Northern Aggression as seen from Vietnam.: History is written by men whose accounts reflect the times in which, and through which, they've lived. This is certainly true of Charles Royster's _The Destructive War..._, which is one of the most [... more]
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Stars and Stripes Triumphant
Zzzzzzzzzz: What a disappointing end to this trilogy. I enjoyed the first two books in this series, particularly the first, because the historical twist was quite different from other civil war alternate histories. The first part of this book starts well [... more]
CDN$10.99
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The Yale Book of Quotations
Entertaining as well as Enlightening: During the past 25-30 years, I have purchased and then made frequent use of dozens of anthologies of quotations (including revised and updated editions of Bartlett and Oxford) and consider The Yale Book of Quotations [... more]
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Savannah
The Brannons and the end of the Civil War in the West: "Savannah," Book 9 in The Civil War Battle Series by James Reasoner says true to the earlier volumes in that the titular battle serves as the climax for the narrative. Ironically, Reasoner [... more]
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How the West Was Won (Widescreen)
From Amazon.com: The first feature film to be photographed and projected in the panoramic three-camera Cinerama process, this epic Western is almost as expansive as the West itself, chronicling a pioneering family's triumphs and tragedies in numerous [... more]
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War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars
From Amazon.com: "I've cast out my razor, divorced my soap, buried my manners, signed my socks to a two-year contract, and proved that you don't have to come in out of the rain." So wrote Corporal Thomas P. Noonan from Vietnam, proving that [... more]
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Always Faithful: A Memoir of the Marine Dogs of WWII
WHY CAN'T A SUCCESSFUL ACTIVITY BE CONTINUED?: A pretty crummy title for a very good book...but a there is a reason for it. This is a complete story of the beginning, the middle(WW II), and the end of a project that took a long time to get started and [... more]
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Memoirs of Gen. W. T. Sherman: Volume I
Author: William Tecumseh Sherman Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 355 EAN: 9781582181875 ISBN: 158218187X Number Of Pages: 468 Publication Date: 1999-12 [... more]
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Charles Royster
William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans From the moment the Civil War began, partisans on both sides were calling not just for victory but for extermination. And both sides found leaders who would oblige. In this vivid and ... [... more]
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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45
Tuchman is the best: While you are reading this, you are there. Somehow Tuchman manages to make all of her historical explorations very readable and personal to the reader, not a small feat considering her subject matter. Excellent. The Bafflement and [... more]
CDN$29.95
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On War and Leadership: The Words of Combat Commanders ...
Good, but Could Have Been Better for Its Intended Purpose: A scholar with a military background, Connelly begins with an excellent thumbnail sketch of the changing nature of Western warfare over the past 250 years. This sets up the bulk of the book, [... more]
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