General Books


The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage Best Price: $16.19 Mr. Epstein writes a very personal portrayal of the marriage of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd. ...	The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves Best Price: $17.47 This is a superb telling of the story of the Civil War with running commentary in the actual...	This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War Best Price: $13.00 Academic. Readable. Redundant in places. Should have been longer in some ways, and shorter in...	A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - the Last Great Battle of the American West Best Price: $13.70 With so many accolades, it is a challenge to say something to add to the fine reviews preceding...	Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War Best Price: $7.94 As will be the case with all my reviews, I'm going to record my reaction to the book, not...



Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (P.S.) Best Price: $7.74 This book is spellbjnding. the author takes the reader on a wild ride through the backwoods...	Team of Rivals Best Price: $14.91 Team of Rivals starts with following the lives of four different people prior to the 1860...	ONE CONTINUOUS FIGHT: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863 Best Price: $21.92 The Union Army in the Civil War provides a tremendous example of how an institution can survive...	The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (Barnes & Noble Classics Series): An American Slave (Barnes & Noble Classics) Best Price: $1.92 This is one of the most violent books (an autobiography!) I ever read. It illustrates...	The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction Best Price: $16.39 The topic was well covered in an interesting and informative manner, I learned a great deal...



Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words (Vintage) Best Price: $8.94 Author Douglas L. Wilson once again hits the bull's-eye, this time with a painstaking study of...	April 1865: The Month That Saved America (P.S.) Best Price: $5.34 Alot of people assume that the Civil War abruptly ended at Appomattox and that our nation simply...	The Civil War: Strange & Fascinating Facts Best Price: $2.98 I can recommend this book because the facts I found were not only interesting, but also...	Lincoln at Peoria Best Price: $18.62 The blurbs on the dust jacket overhype the book. Albeit a very important speech in American...	Lincoln: Speeches and Writings: Volume 2: 1859-1865 (Library of America) Best Price: $17.99 The Library of America's collection of original Lincoln source documents in two volumes is a...

Eyewitness to the Civil War Best Price: $16.45 Purchased this book as a gift for my husband who has many books on the Civil War. He says this...	Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer (Civil War America) Best Price: $24.90 Wade Hampton III who was born in 1818 and whose life spanned the century (he died in 1902) was...	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: Written by Himself (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $2.69 87 years after the Declaration of Independence, the Emancipation Proclamation was enacted and...	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: Written by Himself (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $2.69 87 years after the Declaration of Independence, the Emancipation Proclamation was enacted and...	Lincoln Unmasked: What You're Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe Best Price: $7.26 Very good reading. It reiterates much of what I had learned in school many years ago, before...

Gettysburg Best Price: $5.39 I'm a layman, and I started reading this to better educate myself about Gettysburg before taking...	The Maps of Gettysburg: The Gettysburg Campaign, June 3 - July 13, 1863 Best Price: $24.89 I can't begin to tell you how many descriptions of Civil War troop movements I've been...	Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural Best Price: $8.87 Stepping into the Lincoln Memorial one can look to the north wall and see the 703 words of...	The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox Best Price: $8.60 This is a most interesting book about the period of reconstruction. The carpetbaggers did not...	The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) Best Price: $8.77 I remember having to memorize The Gettysburg Address in elementary school as part of my history...

The Civil War: A Narrative (3 Vol. Set) Best Price: $49.11 I was initially intimiated about the prospect of launching into just one volume of Foote's...	Battlefields & Blessings: Stories of Faith and Courage from the Civil War (Battlefields & Blessings) Best Price: $10.69 What a great gift for a civil war buff! I purchased this book as a gift for my nephew but ended...	Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields: Discovering America's Hallowed Ground Best Price: $10.68 This is an interesting treatment of Civil War battlefields, providing background, tour...	Nothing Like It In the World : The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 Best Price: $3.47 'Nothing Like it In the World' by Stephen Ambrose As usual, Mr. Ambrose delivers his straight...	Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 1829-1877 Best Price: $20.00 My dictionary defines "throe" as "violent pang, anguish, calamity." In the...

Britannia's Fist: From Civil War to World War: An Alternate History Best Price: $19.77 Once too often in the War Between the States, Great Britain's support for the Confederacy takes...	The Madness of Mary Lincoln Best Price: $17.00 the book is chock full of information about the lady but also about her lesser know role as a...	Lincoln's Assassins: Their Trial and Execution Best Price: $12.26 This text dovetails nicely with Swanson's recent effort "Manhunt", but more from an...	The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion Best Price: $7.34 I had to buy this book for one of my college History classes. The book is very informative, sad,...	Eyewitness: Civil War Best Price: $7.70 My son is a history buff at age 9. So these books are great for him. He loves the pictures. ...

The Civil War Diary Quilt: 121 Stories and The Quilt Blocks They Inspired Best Price: $10.63 This was a very interesting book. I find this time in our history rich. The stories are...	Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 Best Price: $10.50 This exhaustive, comprehensive and completely detailed masterpiece is a complete...	Eyewitness: Civil War Best Price: $7.70 My son is a history buff at age 9. So these books are great for him. He loves the pictures. ...	The Civil War Diary Quilt: 121 Stories and The Quilt Blocks They Inspired Best Price: $10.63 This was a very interesting book. I find this time in our history rich. The stories are...	Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 Best Price: $10.50 This exhaustive, comprehensive and completely detailed masterpiece is a complete...

Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign (Civil War America) Best Price: $23.10 In the spring of 1862, Federal troops under the command of General George B. McClellan launched...	Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad Best Price: $4.99 I'm not a big history fanatic, but I wanted to learn a bit more about how quilts were by slaves....	President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman Best Price: $8.60 First off , Miller writes well. Very well. The voice is conversational. And the insights flow:...	Stealing Lincoln's Body Best Price: $12.49 You can tell by the title that this is going to be a weird book, especially since it's...	Abraham Lincoln : Speeches and Writings 1832-1858 (Library of America) Best Price: $13.24 The writings of Lincoln are pervaded not only by an enormous intelligence and great power and...

For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War Best Price: $10.40 This book is mainly for academics and true historians. It's a short book, which makes it a...	Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution Best Price: $8.00 This well-argued collection of James McPherson's occasional pieces focuses primarily on what the...	If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story Best Price: $3.95 One of my favorite books about WW2 of all time next to With the old Breed and Helmut for my...	The Civil War (American Heritage Books) Best Price: $6.00 From the very beginning, I was enthralled with the PBS series by Ken Burns, The Civil War. So...	The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 3 Red River to Appomattox Best Price: $7.98 Well, Mr. Footes trip tyk has been applauded for many years and most of it is said. Being a...

Lee Best Price: $13.07 Not much is written about Lee, the man, and this book solves that problem. Excellent.	A Short History of Reconstruction Best Price: $8.44 A truly fascinating time in American history, the Reconstruction era (1865-1877) is not...	Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words Best Price: $10.79 Author Douglas L. Wilson once again hits the bull's-eye, this time with a painstaking study of...	Shiloh: A Novel Best Price: $4.49 Shelby Foote's closely fact-based novel Shiloh offers what I have long searched...	Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea Best Price: $23.10 Award-winning Civil War historian Noah Andre Trudeau has written a gripping, definitive new...

The Civil War: A Narrative--Fort Sumter to Perryville, Vol. 1 Best Price: $6.77 Okay, Shelby is great. No question. And his knowledge and grasp aren't just encyclopedic,...

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